Album · Living Colour
Stain by Living Colour
Stain is an album by Living Colour, released in 1993. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 5 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Bi”, on 1 list with a best position of #49.
Stain, Living Colour's third album, hit the racks on Epic on March 2, 1993, and it's the sound of the New York band scowling. Doug Wimbish had just stepped in for Muzz Skillings on bass, and his arrival comes with a darker, heavier record: Ron Saint Germain produced, Vernon Reid's guitar comes out sharpened and splintering, and Corey Glover sings over grooves that grind where Vivid once strutted.
It's funk metal with the brakes cut, still roaming across styles but with a pessimistic streak running through it, and "Nothingness" and "Bi" show how wide the swings go. "Leave It Alone" earned a Grammy nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance in 1994, losing to Stone Temple Pilots' "Plush". Then the record nearly vanished: a lawsuit from Jon Stainbrook of the band the Stain forced Sony to stop making it, and it stayed out of print for years until a 2013 reissue. Time has been kind, and it has since come to be seen as a dark horse of '90s hard rock.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Stain on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bi | 1 | #49 | – | 1993 | |
| 2 | Leave It Alone | 1 | #1316 | – | 2002 | |
| 3 | Nothingness (remix) | 1 | #71 | – | 1993 | |
| 4 | Nothingness | 2 | #80 | – | 1993–2002 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.