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Here's one from the "Black folk have been TELLING us y'all" files. This is the title track of Living Colour's second album "Time's Up", released in 19-freaking-90, sounding the climate alarm at top volume:

Time's up / The rivers have no life
Time's up / The world is full of strife
Time's up / The Sky is falling
Time's up / The Lord is calling

How you gonna stop the clock
When the well runs dry
All the rivers have died
Moment by moment, day by day
The world is just slipping away
Your future won't save your past
The time is now, it won't last
The time is nigh
Time to do or die

Time waits for no one
If you want to go on
Leave me something to grow on
The forests, the trees, the rivers, the seas
All die of this disease

Time ain't on your side
Don't sit idly by
You've got to just try!

“Open Letter (To A Landlord)” by Living Colour (1988)

youtu.be/6V5VkMqM07s?si

A stunning debut record, yet one I seldom see mentioned among the Led Zeppelins, Van Halens, and Appetite For Destructions.

Completely stopped me in my tracks hearing this for the first time in high school, probably on MTV.

The second single, “Cult Of Personality”, had the same affect on me that others would attribute to “Smells Like Teen Spirit” just a couple years later.

#WMPG has some great DJs. Just heard this classic on the show "Fugue State" with DJ Evan!

"I sell the things you need to be
I'm the smiling face on your TV
Oh, I'm the cult of personality
I exploit you, still you love me
I tell you one and one makes three
Oh, I'm the cult of personality

Like Joseph Stalin and Gandhi
Oh, I'm the cult of personality
The cult of personality
The cult of personality"
- #CultOfPersonality, #LivingColour, 1988

youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs

#ASongForYou (9/15/23)

“Time’s Up” by #LivingColour

youtu.be/0YAA7nivQng

NOTE: Rumor had it that Living Colour started out as a Bad Brains cover band and while that was not true, “Time’s Up” obviously has that feel. It’s such a great song, one of the best on the album of the same name.

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