As a child and teenager Glamour Boys was one of my favourite songs and videos; "I ain't no Glamor Boy, I'm fierce!". Yeah!
When I got a copy of Vivid in my late teens the slower, more emotive songs bored me silly. I appreciate them more now, but they still sounds like by-the-numbers 80s songs compared to everything else on the album. With the exception of Open Letter (To a Landlord), which resonates with me after decades of renting cheap rooms in run down houses.
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3 years before RATM released Take the Power Back on their self -titled debut;
"The teacher stands in front of the/class
But the lesson plan he can't recall
The student's eyes don't perceive the lies
Bouncing off every fucking wall"
... Cory Glover sang a similar lyric on the 1990 Living Color album Time's Up.;
"History's a lie that they teach you in school."
The influence of 80s radical bands like LC, Bad Brains and Fishbone on 90s bands like RATM music can't be overstated.