Love Rears Its Ugly Head

"Love Rears Its Ugly Head"
Single by Living Colour
from the album Time's Up
Released 1990
Format CD, Vinyl
Recorded 1989 - 1990
Genre Funk metal, funk rock, blues rock
Length 4:19
Label Epic
Writer(s) Vernon Reid
Producer(s) Ed Stasium
Living Colour singles chronology
"Type"
(1990)
"Love Rears Its Ugly Head"
(1990)
"Solace of You"
(1990)
Time's Up track listing
"Pride"
(Track 3)
"Love Rears Its Ugly Head"
(Track 4)
"New Jack Theme"
(Track 5)

"Love Rears Its Ugly Head" is a single released by Living Colour in 1990 from their second album Time's Up.

It is in the style of most of the group's previous singles, a rock song with touches of R&B, especially in the vocals. It is most noted for its funk-style guitar parts that permeate throughout the entire song.

Although the song did not reach the Billboard Hot 100 chart, it peaked at #8 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart in the United States and, in a heavily remixed form with re-recorded vocals and less of a rock influence, was the band's biggest hit single in the UK, peaking at #12 on the UK Singles Chart.

An unrelated song with the same title was released by Tim Christensen on his 2008 album Superior. According to Christensen: "While I sat with an acoustic guitar and was looking for lyrics to a song hook, I got to sing it. When I had to write "real" lyrics to the song, I could not find anything that could beat it. So I borrowed the title "Love Rears Its Ugly Head" but I had forgotten it was also the title of one of Living Colours' biggest hits."[1]

Charts

Chart Peak
U.S. Billboard Modern Rock 8 [2]
Australian Album Chart 10 [3]
UK Singles 12 [4]
Dutch Top 40 16 [5]
U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock 28 [6]

References

  1. Gonzalez, Michael Jose (25 November 2011). Tim Christensen: Jeg har lånt fra Pantera (I have borrowed from Pantera). GAFFA. (Danish)
  2. Billboard.com, single charts for Living Colour
  3. , Australia charts for Living Colour
  4. , an archive containing all UK charting singles
  5. , Dutch charts for Living Colour
  6. Billboard.com single charts for Living Colour

External links


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