Collideøscope

Artist: Living Colour
Label: Silverline
Category: Music

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Format: Enhanced
Media: DVD Audio
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 676628821596
EAN: 0676628821596
ASIN: B0000EM6QQ

Release Date: 2003-11-18

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Tracks:

Song Without sin
A ? Of When
Operation Mind Control
Flying
In Your Name
Back In Black
Nightmare City
Lost Halo
Holy Roller
Great Expectation
Choices Mash Up/ Happy Shopper
Pocket Of Tears
Sacred Ground
Tomorrow Never Knows
Nova

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Customer Reviews:

Very disappointing (2.5 stars).......2006-12-31

After a very long hiatus, Living Colour returned to the music scene in 2003 with their fourth studio album, Collideoscope. During their heyday, the band was a rarity in hard rock as their first two albums, Vivid and Time's Up respectively, were very strong statements both lyrically and musically. The band could add any genre to their brand of music and make it their own. Although their third album, Stain, was a less challenging release and was hampered by a muddy production, the great songs were still intact. During the next 10 years, both the musical climate and the state of the world had changed drastically. When the band released Collideoscope in 2003, longtime fans wondered how interesting the new album would be. Well, the good news was that their social awareness was still intact. The bad news was that the great songs were gone.

The album starts out strong as "Song Without Sin" and "A ? Of When" feature menacing riffs from Vernon Reid and strong vocals from Corey Glover. Unfortunately, the next track, "Operation Mind Control" is very sluggish. The band redeem themselves on "Flying", a graphic tune dealing with the 9/11 tragedy. From here, the album is a mess. While tracks like the rock/reggae of "Nightmare City", the bluesy "Holy Roller", and the funk/rock of "Great Expectation" are decent tunes that grow on you, other songs such as "In Your Name", "Choices Mash Up", "Pocket of Tears", and "Sacred Ground" are hurt by either too many sound effects, bad production, weak lyrics, or unmemorable melodies. Sadly, the rhythm section of Doug Wimbish and Will Calhoun play it pretty safe, as though they were just rushed into the studio to do their parts, rather than leave their unique stamp on them. As for the cover tunes, their version of "Tomorrow Never Knows" is okay while Glover's vocals on "Back in Black" are painfully bad, like the sound of nails on a chalkboard. All told, Collideoscope is a disappointing album that rarely shows the greatness of their previous three albums.

The title sums up the album - its a collision course.......2006-10-30

Realistically Collideoscope feels like seven strong tracks with a bunch of demos to pad it out and while it fits in with Living Colour's back catalogue returning listeners might be disappointed. The band feel inconsistent here, torn between coming back with a strong, traditional sounding album that would match past efforts or continuing from where Stain left off. They opt to take a mixed approach and Collidescope is the uneven result. Musically its a continuation of the style found on Stain heavy muted riffs and dark themes but Stain's bright edge is muted in favour of murkier production which accentuates the dinginess. The strongest tracks are Song Without Sin, which has a similar vibe to Go Away and displays Vernon Reid's fat guitar tone, A ? Of When, which offers thick, atonal riffs paired with a descending bassline, over Corey Glover's and desperate two line chorus and Flying, in the same vein as 'Love Rears Its Ugly Head' from Time's Up, which recounts the point of view of one of the victims who leapt from the burning World Trade Centre. Living Colour's strengths, like Faith No More, are bright pop songs juxtaposed with disturbing lyrics. This is demonstrated nowhere better than on this track, the whimsical chorus is slightly disconcerting, given the subject matter however Vernon Reid's solo is tasteful and eclectic and the rhythm section holds the song together beautifully. Other highlights are: Lost Halo, Holy Roller, Choices Mash Up, and Pocket Of Tears. Of the covers Tomorrow Never Knows is so much better than Back In Black, while the latter was done for fun, the former fits in so much better with the other tracks on the album.
With Collideoscope Living Colour show they've still got the goods so hopefully they'll nail down the vision a bit better on the next album.

Glad I have all their OLD cd's..........2006-10-23

See, M. Bradley "kung fu-ness" 's review- I agree exactly.

Welcome return, if not leaving a little room for improvement.......2006-10-11

After such a long time apart this record for one of my all time favorite bands was very welcome. And in parts it captures the brilliance I'd expect. 'Song without Sin' is probably the best example of the spirit of the band, a great song, and there are a number of other good tracks - 'flying' a standout, the 'Back in Black' cover goes OK in sort of a funny way but they do it musically quite well and a couple of the other tracks are good.

The rest of it is, I would not say poor, but better than they cover a lot of different styles which I found a little harder to get into (eg drum and base etc and some semi industrial stuff which just doesn't nail it for me), and to put it nicely some different produiction techniques.

Overall for the good tracks I am really glad I bought it: probably 5-6 tracks I can repeat over and over - and that's cool. It's not 'Stain' - their masterpeice, but after a long time it's just as valuable and it still shows they can make the same magical tracks they always could, I can't wait for more.

And i USED to be a die-hard fan!.......2006-10-10

All i could do with most of the tracks on this album was shake my head. What a JOKE! I'm down for the cause and will always check out new material from Living Coulour. But i gotta say..i was hugely dissapointed. Oh..don't get me wrong. The (Back in Black) cover was pretty good. And (Flying) is pure inspirational genious. Just Beautiful. But the rest of the album made me want to use the disc as a coaster for my drink. I was especially dissapointed with the Beatles cover..(Tomorrow Never Knows). Now, if a quartet of brotha's can't get that song to come out soundin'as funky as the Beatles did, well....Nuff said. Get back in the woodshed guys. i want something on the level of the first two Living Colour albums. Got it?

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