| Time's Up | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Living Colour |
| Cover: | Living Colour Time's Up.jpg |
| Released: | August 28, 1990 |
| Recorded: | 1989–1990 |
| Studio: | A&M (Hollywood) RPM (Los Angeles) |
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| Length: | 57:35 |
| Label: | Epic |
| Producer: | Ed Stasium |
| Prev Title: | Vivid |
| Prev Year: | 1988 |
| Next Title: | Biscuits |
| Next Year: | 1991 |
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. 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.
In 2015, Corey Glover explained, "Time's Up was an interesting one, because we spent part of the time making Time's Up in California - we were in LA. We did some of the basic tracks in LA. And that was really weird, because we're New York guys. Hanging out in California and being very 'California' was very strange to us. We were staying in the Valley, and it felt like we were in school, because we had to get up in the morning and I met Will at what felt like the bus stop. It was like, 'OK, we've got to go to work.' And jogging around in California and hanging around in California - and hanging out with the Fishbone guys while we were out there. Just hanging out and trying to dig this California thing, it was very, very interesting. I think it does hold up. With a few exceptions, it might falter, but 'Time's Up' and 'Pride' and the stuff we still play today, I think it still holds up and still works. The song 'Time's Up' is about the environment, and we're still talking about the environment - and the record is 20 years old!"[1]
Time's Up has been described as a hard rock, heavy metal, and funk metal album,[2] with elements of hip hop,[3] [4] jazz,[3] funk,[3] [4] jazz fusion,[4] Delta blues,[4] soul,[4] punk rock,[3] and art rock.
In The Village Voices annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll for the year's best albums, Time's Up finished at number five.[5]
The album came in at #18 on the 1990 top-25 'albums of the year list' in Kerrang!.[6]
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
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