Love Rears Its Ugly Head

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"Love Rears Its Ugly Head"
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Single by Living Colour
from the album Time's Up
Released1991
Recorded1989 - 1990
Genre
Length4:19
Label Epic
Songwriter(s) Vernon Reid
Producer(s) Ed Stasium
Living Colour singles chronology
"Type"
(1990)
"Love Rears Its Ugly Head"
(1991)
"Solace of You"
(1990)

"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. It takes a sample from the song Lush Life by Nat King Cole. The music video features Cynthia Bailey of The Real Housewives of Atlanta fame.[ citation needed ]

The track peaked at number 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, became the band's biggest hit single in the UK, peaking at number 12 on the UK Singles Chart.

Charts

Chart (1991)Peak
position
Australian Singles Chart [2] 10
Dutch Top 40 [3] 16
UK Singles [4] 12
US Billboard Album Rock Tracks [5] 28
US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks [6] 8

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