Love Rears Its Ugly Head
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| 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 | |||||||||
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"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 | |
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| 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
- ↑ Gonzalez, Michael Jose (25 November 2011). Tim Christensen: Jeg har lånt fra Pantera (I have borrowed from Pantera). GAFFA. (Danish)
- ↑ Billboard.com, single charts for Living Colour
- ↑ , Australia charts for Living Colour
- ↑ , an archive containing all UK charting singles
- ↑ , Dutch charts for Living Colour
- ↑ Billboard.com single charts for Living Colour