Album - Vivid
Song - Cult of Personality
Date - May 3, 1988
Status - Acquired
Living Color is the prototypical metal band. Great power vocals. Dynamic as hell rhythm section, and a brilliant lead guitarist. 'Cult of Personality' is a blistering track. The opening guitar riff just grabs you and the song keeps pounding away for almost five minutes. And the lyrics are great. It would have been to easy to take a pop shot at conservative America given the political climate. Instead the band aims higher and takes apart the basic myth of leadership. A myth that has poisoned the best intentions of reformist movements across the world.
Its rejection of "leaders" and "causes" is proto-slak.
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