Time's Up (Living Colour album)

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Time's Up
Living Colour Time's Up.jpg
Studio album by
Living Colour
ReleasedAugust 28, 1990
Recorded1989–90
StudioA&M Studios, Hollywood, California; RPM Studios, Los Angeles, California
Genre
Length57:35
LabelEpic
ProducerEd Stasium
Living Colour chronology
Vivid
(1988) 		Time's Up
(1990) 		Biscuits
(1991)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic3.5/5 stars[1]
Chicago Sun-Times3.5/4 stars[2]
Chicago Tribune4/4 stars[3]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music4/5 stars[4]
Entertainment WeeklyA[5]
Los Angeles Times3.5/5 stars[6]
Rolling Stone4/5 stars[7]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide4/5 stars[8]
Select4/5[9]
The Village VoiceA−[10]

Time's Up is the second studio album by the band Living Colour, released on August 28, 1990 through Epic Records. It was the follow-up to their successful 1988 album Vivid. Time's Up features a wide range of genres and also includes cameo appearances by Queen Latifah, Little Richard, Doug E. Fresh, Maceo Parker and James Earl Jones. The album reached gold status, peaking at #13 on the Billboard 200, and won a Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance. In The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics poll for the year's best albums, Time's Up finished at #5.[11] It is the final album to feature Muzz Skillings on bass, though it was not his last release with the band (as he appeared on the Biscuits EP). In late February 2014, the album was reissued in Europe by Music On CD and is available once again.

Music[]

Time's Up has been described as a hard rock[5] and funk metal album,[12] with elements of hip hop,[3][13][14] jazz,[3][13] funk,[13][14] jazz fusion,[14] Delta blues,[14] soul,[14] heavy metal,[5] punk rock,[13] and art rock.[10]

Track listing[]

All tracks are written by Vernon Reid, except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Time's Up"Reid, Muzz Skillings, Corey Glover, Will Calhoun3:05
2."History Lesson" 0:52
3."Pride"Calhoun4:55
4."Love Rears Its Ugly Head" 4:19
5."New Jack Theme" 3:30
6."Someone Like You"Skillings3:47
7."Elvis Is Dead" (feat. Little Richard) 3:50
8."Type" 6:26
9."Information Overload" 6:11
10."Under Cover of Darkness" (feat. Queen Latifah)Glover4:17
11."Ology"Skillings1:07
12."Fight the Fight"Calhoun, Glover, Reid, Skillings4:32
13."Tag Team Partners" (feat. Doug E. Fresh)Glover0:48
14."Solace of You"Glover, Reid3:38
15."This Is the Life" 6:23
Bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
16."Final Solution" (Live in Chicago 1990) 5:44
17."Middle Man" (Live in Chicago 1990)Glover, Reid3:40
18."Love Rears Its Ugly Head" (aka Soul Power Mix) 4:05

Banded version[]

A special US advance promo version omitting "History Lesson", "Ology1" and "Tag Team Partners". Along with the CD, it was also pressed on transparent gold vinyl. Catalog number ESK 2171

No.TitleLength
1."Time's Up" 
2."Pride" 
3."Love Rears Its Ugly Head" 
4."New Jack Theme" 
5."Someone Like You" 
6."Elvis Is Dead" 
7."Type" 
8."Information Overload" 
9."Under Cover of Darkness" 
10."Fight the Fight" 
11."Solace of You" 
12."This Is the Life" 

Personnel[]

Living Colour

Guest musicians

Technical Personnel

  • John Aguto - assistant engineer
  • Greg Calbi - mastering
  • Alan Friedman - programming
  • Lolly Grodner - assistant engineer
  • Paul Hamingson - engineer, assistant engineer
  • Jeff Lippay - assistant engineer
  • Ed Stasium - producer, engineer, mixing
  • Lex Van Pieterson - photography

Charts[]

Chart (1990) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[15] 15
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[16] 24
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[17] 56
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[18] 10
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[19] 13
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[20] 11
UK Albums (OCC)[21] 20
US Billboard 200[22] 13

Accolades[]

Grammy Awards

Year Winner Category
1990 Time's Up Best Hard Rock Performance

References[]

  1. ^ Prato, Greg. "Time's Up – Living Colour". AllMusic. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  2. ^ McLeese, Don (September 3, 1990). "Living Colour, 'Time's Up' (Epic)". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on April 1, 2017. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  3. ^ a b c Kot, Greg (August 30, 1990). "Living Colour: Time's Up (Epic)". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  4. ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
  5. ^ a b c Sandow, Greg (September 7, 1990). "Time's Up". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  6. ^ Hochman, Steve (September 9, 1990). "Colourful Anthems to Black-Rock Movement". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  7. ^ Light, Alan (September 6, 1990). "Living Colour: Time's Up". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on August 4, 2009. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  8. ^ Considine, J. D. (2004). "Living Colour". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 491. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  9. ^ Putterford, Mark (October 1990). "Perfect Timing". Select (4): 107.
  10. ^ a b Christgau, Robert (September 25, 1990). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  11. ^ "The 1990 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll". The Village Voice. March 5, 1991. Archived from the original on August 15, 2020. Retrieved January 3, 2021.
  12. ^ "The 25 Best Albums of 1990". Paste. November 11, 2020. Retrieved September 25, 2021.
  13. ^ a b c d Gallucci, Michael (March 3, 2018). "Living Colour Albums Ranked Worst to Best". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
  14. ^ a b c d e Law, Sam (July 8, 2020). "The 50 Best Albums From 1990". Kerrang!. Retrieved September 25, 2021.
  15. ^ "Australiancharts.com – Living Colour – Time's Up". Hung Medien. Retrieved September 23, 2017.
  16. ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – Living Colour – Time's Up" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved September 23, 2017.
  17. ^ "Longplay-Chartverfolgung at Musicline" (in German). Musicline.de. Phononet GmbH. Retrieved September 23, 2017.
  18. ^ "Charts.nz – Living Colour – Time's Up". Hung Medien. Retrieved September 23, 2017.
  19. ^ "Norwegiancharts.com – Living Colour – Time's Up". Hung Medien. Retrieved September 23, 2017.
  20. ^ "Swisscharts.com – Living Colour – Time's Up". Hung Medien. Retrieved September 23, 2017.
  21. ^ "Living Colour | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart. Retrieved September 23, 2017.
  22. ^ "Living Colour Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved September 23, 2017.
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