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Incubus - Take Me To Your Leader

This is the band that wrote lyrics like:

What if I was just dreaming?
What if I lived in a pear?
What if I had a mustard drenched cucumber
Tied to my leg and I
Did not want my pants to get dirty?

They may not mean as much as the lyrics on, say, A Crow Left of a Murder, but they were a hell of a lot more fun and backed up by a funk that the band forgot they knew how to play.

The lyrics on Morning View and A Crow Left of a Murder are just as bad/picked-from-a-hat as on S.C.I.E.N.C.E. and Enjoy Incubus, it’s just a different hat.  The pseudo-meaningful grab bag of overused cliches.

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Incubus - Certain Shade of Green

S.C.I.E.N.C.E. is one of the greatest albums in existence. From start to finish, it is an exercise in musical gymnastics. It is all over the place, in a good way. It explores so many styles of music, you have to listen to it for a month at least before you can fully take in all it has to offer.

I love this song because it speaks to the procrastinator in me.

The first time I heard this song was Summer 1996, when I was 14 and had just moved from VA to GA.  My buddy back in VA mailed me a tape of his band and at the end he included this song with a note to check out the rest of the cd if I liked it.

Needless to say, I liked it.

This was my first Incubus album too—Fall semester, freshman year at UGA. It also became a kind of rallying point for the band I was in at the time. It was the one album all five of us agreed was great. Looking back, it’s kind of odd that we never covered any songs off of it—even though we’d play this song at practice.

Ah, that happy time before it was spelled “nu” metal, and when Incubus still sounded like primus/rhcp/mr. bungle.  This was my introduction to them, too.

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Incubus - 2nd Movement of the Odyssey

A follow up to yesterday’s Incubus-fest: The exception to the lack of funk in post-S.C.I.E.N.C.E.-Incubus are the songs they contributed to the Halo 2 soundtrack, of all things.  They’re not great songs by any means, but it’s a funky little suite (4 movements, the first being the only with vocals), but they’re a nice echo of a formerly great band.

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Incubus - Idiot Box

This is a song from S.C.I.E.N.C.E.

I realized long ago that never again will we hear anything from Incubus that sounds like that album, or Enjoy Incubus. That band is long gone. As I said in my review of S.C.I.E.N.C.E:

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Shaft by Incubus

Song of the Day

Remember when Incubus used to rock? Well they did at one point. Then 2001’s Morning View came out. Morning View wasn’t a terrible album but it was no where near their previous outings. And it is what started them on a terrible path that then produced A Crow Left of the Murder… and Light Grenades.

OH HELL YES. I’ve already made it clear how I feel about early Inbcubus v. post- S.C.I.E.N.C.E Incubus.  Anyone who only knows the band from Morning View on needs to listen to this song. Enjoy Incubus is a magical EP.

Love Enjoy Incubus, love S.C.I.E.N.C.E., kinda like Make Yourself, everything else is bland.

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28. bcompton answered: Waking up and not knowing where you are.

And haven’t we all done that before. Some of us more than others. I had a couple of songs about binge drinking in mind for this, but in the end I went with this one, just because the line “I know exactly where were. Where the fuck are we?” is something my old self can truly relate to. Plus, it’s a great song (though it’s a drug song, not a drinking song).

Incubus - Deep Inside

miss u old incubus.

It’s bizarre to me that there’s a fuckyeahincubus.  I’ve been out of love with them since … “Drive”?  They had those few cool songs on the Halo 2 soundtrack, but that’s about it.  S.C.I.E.N.C.E. is still fucking brilliant, tho.  Sounds of summer indeed.

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