Song · Living Colour
“Type” by Living Colour
From the album Time’s Up (1990)
“Type” by Living Colour appears on 5 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 1990 and 2002. It was first released in 1990 on the album Time’s Up. Its best result is #16 on the 91X Top 91 Songs of 1990. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #35 alternative song of 1990 and #6,965 alternative song of all time.
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"Type" was the opening shot from Time's Up, Living Colour's second album, sent out as its first single on Epic in 1990, and it's funk metal with a chip on its shoulder. Vernon Reid wrote the words and the music on his own. The video drops the band into a battered junkyard outside New York City and floods the screen around them with images of technology, corporate greed, televangelist fundamentalism, politics and poverty, all of it treated as business as usual, while ordinary people scramble after what the rich get handed without trying.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 34 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1990 | 107 |
| 1990 | 16 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1990 | 91 |
| 1990 | 45 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1990 | 105 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 564 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
| 2002 | 1759 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
Also listed as: Type (Everything Is Possible).
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