# The Best Living Colour Guitar Solos

> The 16 best Living Colour guitar solos, ranked. #1 is Cult of Personality (1988), then Desperate People and Time's Up. Every video starts at the solo.

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Living Colour put Vernon Reid's avant-jazz vocabulary inside arena-sized hard rock, and his solos erupt with shred speed, whammy chaos and free-jazz atonality. Few rock guitarists of the late 1980s were as unpredictable or as technically fearless.

Informed by: [Wikipedia: Living Colour](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Colour), [Wikipedia: Vivid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivid_(Living_Colour_album)), [Wikipedia: Time's Up](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%27s_Up_(Living_Colour_album)), [Wikipedia: Stain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stain_(album))

1. [Cult of Personality](https://greatestsolos.com/song/living-color-cult-of-personality/) — Living Colour · solo by Vernon Reid · 1988
2. [Desperate People](https://greatestsolos.com/song/living-colour-desperate-people/) — Living Colour · solo by Vernon Reid · 1988
3. [Time's Up](https://greatestsolos.com/song/living-colour-time-s-up/) — Living Colour · solo by Vernon Reid · 1990
4. [Type](https://greatestsolos.com/song/living-colour-type/) — Living Colour · solo by Vernon Reid · 1990
5. [Funny Vibe](https://greatestsolos.com/song/living-colour-funny-vibe/) — Living Colour · solo by Vernon Reid · 1988
6. [Middle Man](https://greatestsolos.com/song/living-colour-middle-man/) — Living Colour · solo by Vernon Reid · 1988
7. [Leave It Alone](https://greatestsolos.com/song/living-colour-leave-it-alone/) — Living Colour · solo by Vernon Reid · 1993
8. [Love Rears Its Ugly Head](https://greatestsolos.com/song/living-colour-love-rears-its-ugly-head/) — Living Colour · solo by Vernon Reid · 1990
9. [Pride](https://greatestsolos.com/song/living-colour-pride/) — Living Colour · solo by Vernon Reid · 1990
10. [Open Letter (To a Landlord)](https://greatestsolos.com/song/living-colour-open-letter-to-a-landlord/) — Living Colour · solo by Vernon Reid · 1988
11. [Which Way to America?](https://greatestsolos.com/song/living-colour-which-way-to-america/) — Living Colour · solo by Vernon Reid · 1988
12. [Glamour Boys](https://greatestsolos.com/song/living-colour-glamour-boys/) — Living Colour · solo by Vernon Reid · 1988
13. [Elvis Is Dead](https://greatestsolos.com/song/living-colour-elvis-is-dead/) — Living Colour · solo by Vernon Reid · 1990
14. [Go Away](https://greatestsolos.com/song/living-colour-go-away/) — Living Colour · solo by Vernon Reid · 1993
15. [Ignorance Is Bliss](https://greatestsolos.com/song/living-colour-ignorance-is-bliss/) — Living Colour · solo by Vernon Reid · 1993
16. [Nothingness](https://greatestsolos.com/song/living-colour-nothingness/) — Living Colour · solo by Vernon Reid · 1993

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