Rate Living Colour's Stain (Poll)

[BDG135]

This is an underappreciated 90s album. How would you rate it?
https://youtu.be/OYKxa_22BVk

[JinglesTheChristmasMouse]

Almost good/Good.

[Bono Nettencourt]

Jingles never lies.

[alleyrulez]

the best of the first three, I would say. "Time's Up" comes really close to being at the top of the list, though.

that breakdown in "This Little Pig" is GLORIOUS.

[Bono Nettencourt]

the best of the first three, I would say. "Time's Up" comes really close to being at the top of the list, though.

Yeah, Vivid sucked.

JFC this place...

[alleyrulez]

the best of the first three, I would say. "Time's Up" comes really close to being at the top of the list, though.

Yeah, Vivid sucked.

JFC this place...

"Vivid" definitely didn't suck, but they kept getting better with each album.

for those first three albums, anyway.

[aznsquirt]

It's probably a 3 but I voted 4 to help with my white guilt.

[whiteowl yesterday]

never heard it.

[DemonFilth2001]

Vivid was really good. The second album was completely forgettable. Never listened after that.

[killeverything]

Stain is LC's best album and one of the best rock albums of the 90s.,

[metalnyc]

Stain is LC's best album and one of the best rock albums of the 90s.,

This

[DemonFilth2001]

Stain is LC's best album and one of the best rock albums of the 90s.,

What are the standout tracks? I'll give them a listen!

[BDG135]

Stain is LC's best album and one of the best rock albums of the 90s.,

What are the standout tracks? I'll give them a listen!

Ignorance Is Bliss and Never Satisfied

[VicStelly]

5. One of my top albums ever. Wimbish is sick on this.

[Bono Nettencourt]

Vivid was really good. The second album was completely forgettable. Never listened after that.

Yes. In a non-Sludge world, Vivid was their best. Times Up had some good cuts on it, but it suffered from 75-minute CD syndrome (aka too much filler), as did a lot of records around that time. Stain was a vain attempt at going grunge, which is apparently why Sludge thinks it's the 2nd coming of LZ IV.

[Not Jack Bulter]

5. One of my top albums ever. Wimbish is sick on this.

He's such a monster player. His work on Auslander is worth the price of admission alone.

I'm really not sure how a previous poster said this was an attempt to go grunge. The band has done what they wanted to from day one. Wimbish just added an extra layer.

[killeverything]

Stain is LC's best album and one of the best rock albums of the 90s.,

What are the standout tracks? I'll give them a listen!

Ignorance Is Bliss and Never Satisfied

Also "Nothingness," "This Little Pig," "Postman," "Auslander." I love the whole album.

"Leave It Alone" has the best older LC feel IMO.

[Van Ailin']

3 or 4. It was a big jump up from their 2nd album, which just didn't work for me. And I liked the more "outside" material like Nothingness. But I also thought they really didn't nail that 3-piece rock sound that they did so well on the first album. Was probably wanting at least a little more of that. Their first album was a real moment in time.

[Newsted's FU Money]

Stain was a vain attempt at going grunge

Horrible take. Not true at all.

You're a smart guy. You're better than this.

[skatexedge]

Didn’t like Stain at all. Maybe I’ll give it another listen. It’s been many years since I last heard it.

Time’s Up is their best! Saw them on that tour with Kings X opening. Great show!!

[JizzySynatra]

Used to listen to Stain a lot when it was released. Time's Up is probably a better overall album than Vivid, but didn't have anything close to the singles of Cult Of Personality, Glamour Boys, or Open Letter. Stain is definitely more progressive and heavy than the first two. Go Away is probably Vernon's heaviest.

[alleyrulez]

Stain was a vain attempt at going grunge

Horrible take. Not true at all.

You're a smart guy. You're better than this.

yeah, "Stain" was nowhere near being a Grunge album.

[GreatWhiteSnake]

Never heard it...