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Sound Boy

11-28-2006, 04:57 PM

well it came out today. and you know me, any excuse to talk about incubus. mh..i've had it for a week or so now and im pretty used to the tracks. its a really good album but some songs you need to listen to a couple of times.

if you've heard it, what do you think?

Choice Tracks are:
A Kiss to Send Us Off
Dig
Pendulous Threads
Oil and Water
Rogues

JonM

11-28-2006, 05:58 PM

I think it's ****ing goddamn terrible. The tense in which I refer to Incubus as my favorite band is now buried even deeper in the past.

Iai

11-28-2006, 08:42 PM

I quite like it. It's a lot better than ACLOTM at any rate.

Sleeper

11-28-2006, 09:13 PM

This album has some of the most poor drum work i've ever heard from Jose.

Zmev

11-28-2006, 09:15 PM

SCIENCE IS LIKE BETTER

Happymeal

11-28-2006, 09:20 PM

I'll probably d/l it one of these days.

BillCosby

11-28-2006, 09:24 PM

"Dig" is a horrible, horrible song

EinzingerIsGod

11-28-2006, 09:59 PM

I think it's pretty good, but I have a soft spot for Incubus.

BillCosby

11-28-2006, 10:11 PM

"Dig" is a horrible, horrible song

we all have a weakness/but some of ours are easier to identify/look me in the eye/and ask for forgiveness/we'll make a pact to never speak that word again/yes, you are my friend

thats how much it sucks

Kayetan

11-28-2006, 10:22 PM

I would not mind never hearing incubus again.

dei

11-28-2006, 11:00 PM

I hate Incubus.

EightMilesHigh

11-28-2006, 11:15 PM

I would not mind never hearing incubus again.

me too

i never saw their appeal and i listen to ska for gods sake

bleep_bloop

11-28-2006, 11:39 PM

meh they were on the radio when i was like 12 and even then i said "meh"

3074326

11-29-2006, 01:40 AM

LOL this thread is brutal!

I hated it at first, but after a few listens I like it. Oil and Water is my favorite track. There are some baaaad songs on it though.

Doesn't compare to SCIENCE and Make Yourself.

pixiesfanyo

11-29-2006, 03:02 AM

^ what the ****?

you're still around...

3074326

11-29-2006, 03:31 AM

Wouldn't say that. I just came back. I hope to stay around this time, but I've said that before. So no promises. ;)

Zmev

11-29-2006, 03:49 AM

GO USC

3074326

11-29-2006, 04:02 AM

Wonder if we'll repeat inext year.. :D

So how about that first song to the Incubus album..? on.. topic...

mick7

11-29-2006, 05:17 AM

I think Sound Boy was asking what peoples opinions were on Light Grenades but anyways...

I love it, personally not as good as Morning View/Make Yourself but has some great tracks. It'll grow on me!

Kyle

11-29-2006, 09:06 AM

Meh, after giving it a week or so, it kinda sucks. Don't really know what I was expecting to be honest.

Morning View and SCIENCE are pretty good, but I don't ever listen to them.

Zesty Mordant

11-29-2006, 05:11 PM

actually, this album has kinda grown on me a bit. The first time listening I was like "this blows". Now its just decent.

"Dig" , despite its lyrical gayiety, is a pretty good song I think.

Neoteric

11-29-2006, 05:14 PM

Bit of a let down.

turk

11-29-2006, 05:44 PM

I think I'll pass on this Incubus album.

EinzingerIsGod

11-29-2006, 07:49 PM

Wonder if we'll repeat inext year.. :D

So how about that first song to the Incubus album..? on.. topic...

Yeah Quicksand is great.

Krash100

11-30-2006, 03:28 PM

I don't think it's had enough time to fully grow on me, but I'd say it's better than ACLOTM. At this point I think it's what people have come to expect from Incubus. Nothing groundbreaking, but still some good hard rock mixed with medicore sappy ballads.

dei

11-30-2006, 03:33 PM

I expect nothing but the worst music from Incubus.

3074326

12-01-2006, 01:10 AM

^ Thanks for the contribution! :thumb:

"Dig" , despite its lyrical gayiety, is a pretty good song I think.

It could be a very good song, but the lyrics are terrible. So it's just eh.

mick7

12-01-2006, 05:35 AM

I expect nothing but the worst music from Incubus.

Simple.

Don't listen to them and if a future Incubus thread appears. Don't post in it.

Happymeal

12-01-2006, 12:33 PM

I expect nothing but the worst music from Incubus.

That Beulah album blows.

Linkinbassist

12-03-2006, 06:55 PM

Sound Boy

12-03-2006, 10:13 PM

^thanks man :thumb:

d0ped0g

12-03-2006, 10:17 PM

CONTRASTING OPINION!!!

I have loved the music that Incubus writes, be it hard funk or 'new age hippie bullshit' as someone put it. This album is, for me, inspiring lyrically and musically. Dig speaks directly and i like that in a song...It's a great album, and before i heard it i went and got tickets to see the band when they hit the UK in April. I, personally, don't understand the recent hate for this band...They are melodic, soulfull and write from the heart. Just my opinion...

/CONTRASTING OPINION!!!

I don't understand the recent hate either... especially from people who liked the Make Yourself era. I'd say that Anna Molly is probably their most creative single they've brought out since Pardon Me. Not that Pardon Me was particularly good, but its their best post-science single IMO. Not to mention, the album as a whole is far more superior than Make Yourself (although i have abit of a bias against that album) AND A Crow Left Of the Murder.

The only thing disappointing about this album i reckon are the lyrics. I know you say they speak directly, and thats a good thing, but i think if you're gonna do that, you need to do it WELL or else you'll recieve sooo much **** for it. They didnt pull it off is what i'm saying.

Mr. Pickle

12-03-2006, 10:35 PM

"Dig" is probably my favorite song off the album and this is probably one of my favorite albums by them. I do really enjoy "Enjoy Incubus," however.

Hedgedive

12-03-2006, 10:51 PM

Haven't heard it yet, but my best friend is an Incubus freak so I'll likely pick up a burned copy shortly.

Luxor

12-04-2006, 01:10 AM

not a big incubus fan but that single is killer.

Electronic Wolf

12-04-2006, 01:17 AM

That Beulah album blows.

I don't think so. It's not their best (it's Heartstrings), but Coast had some good songs. It's definitely a hell of a lot better than anything Incubus has ever put out. So, um, you might want to stop talking. Thanks.

Happymeal

12-04-2006, 04:12 PM

Thanks for taking that seriously dude.

SailAway

12-05-2006, 10:49 AM

I like the album, its better than Crow, but not any better than their other ones. A kiss to send us off is a cool song.

sexymuffin

12-05-2006, 03:43 PM

ACLOTM was their best album wtf

Subvert_bassist

12-05-2006, 03:49 PM

Like what has already been stated, Light Grenades is better than ACLOTM, but not as good as earlier stuff. I have a particular affinity for "Paper Shoes."

eburton04

12-06-2006, 07:22 PM

What you must realize that this is a band on their 6th major album. To listen and hear how theyve grown musically really amazes me. but thats just something i look at that most people overlook. its a really good album, they just have so much awesome music to compare it to that youve already become attached to that its hard to really hear it sometimes, i guess. i personally dont see anything wrong with the lyrics, and musically i think its great. it doesnt sound like any of their other stuff, yet it still sounds like incubus, ya know? great, great job.

the hot tracks though are definitely the first five. although, maybe i just haven't listened to the back half as much. I don't know why no one's said anything about "Love Hurts," i think its a great song. that, "Dig" and "Anna Molly" are my favorite tracks. "A Kiss to Send Us Off" is rad too. yeah.

JonM

12-06-2006, 09:28 PM

Come on. They've shrunk musically.

Electronic Wolf

12-06-2006, 09:50 PM

I stole an Incubus poster so I could take a dump on it.

eburton04

12-07-2006, 03:17 AM

Come on. They've shrunk musically.

cmon, funk is great. i love it. but to go from sporadic, jam-funk-a-delic type music, to what theyre doing now, and still keep an original style? cmon now, theyre ****in great. you cant make revolutionary music 6 times in a row in consecutive cds. what the ****. theyre growing man. times change. and theyve changed into this. and it doesnt suck, these guys are still the same musicians, and theyre great at what they do. you know that. you all do.

JonM

12-07-2006, 11:07 AM

these guys are still the same musicians.No, their original DJ and bassist are gone and sorely missed. Ben Kenney plays the bass like a guitar, but Incubus already has a good guitar player. His backing "aaahs" are nice, though; I'll give him that. Brandon Boyd is also a different musician. He used to write from a radically subjective, arguably drug-induced but unquestionably unique perspective, and now he writes tired, vague, sappy ballads. The loss of energy in the songwriting has sapped Mike Einziger dynamically, as has having to play duets with the vastly inferior Boyd from time to time.

They are not the same musicians. They're getting too old for their sound, frankly. They never had a sound that would mature much beyond 20. They were pretty far beyond 20 for their last album, and now they're 30. They need to throw in the towel. I think they even know that. I'll leave you with a quote from Brandon Boyd:

On a bad day, I'll be like, 'Yeah, we're probably not relevant any more, whatever. We had a nice run, thank you, how the hell am I going to pay the mortgage now?' Most other days though, I think if anybody likes it then it's a success. In all honesty, the realist in me knows the likelihood of us having a sixth album that did really well on a large scale is astronomically low, and I'm okay with that.

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EinzingerIsGod

12-07-2006, 12:03 PM

I still enjoy this album although it's no where near S.C.I.E.N.C.E. or Make Yourself. Incubus will always be a quality band in my eye.

Sound Boy

12-07-2006, 09:40 PM

well lets see...Light Grenades just made NUMBER 1 on the Billboard top 200 so...i dont think they're slowing down anytime soon

sexymuffin

12-07-2006, 10:21 PM

make yourself is such a snooze fest

EinzingerIsGod

12-07-2006, 10:35 PM

make yourself is such a snooze fest

I beg to differ. It's arguably their best album.

sexymuffin

12-07-2006, 10:38 PM

oh go ahead and argue it, you're still wrong.

honestly when it comes is like the only good song on there.

EinzingerIsGod

12-07-2006, 11:05 PM

I think the album is awesome aside from Drive which was beat into the ground.

sobelecta

12-08-2006, 11:27 AM

Ugh, never liked Incubus.

Sound Boy

12-08-2006, 10:09 PM

Come on. They've shrunk musically.

have you not heard the four movements of the odyssey??
or "Pendulous Threads"??

sexymuffin

12-08-2006, 10:14 PM

movements =/= musical growth

look at greenday. Just unnecissary pretentiousness

JonM

12-08-2006, 11:48 PM

have you not heard the four movements of the odyssey??That was a long time ago, dude. It was pretty cool, but they've had a long time to shrink since then.

Sound Boy

12-09-2006, 12:11 AM

it was like a year ago... maybe a lil longer...it came out around the same time as the Red Rocks DVD,which by itself is another example.

sexymuffin

12-09-2006, 12:33 AM

it came out with halo 2, which has been out for over a year

JonM

12-09-2006, 03:07 AM

it was like a year ago... maybe a lil longer...it came out around the same time as the Red Rocks DVD,which by itself is another example.It came out in 2004, and I listened to it tonight and in retrospect it kind of sucks.

axeslinga_32

12-09-2006, 04:13 PM

pendulous threads, rogues and anna molly are incredible. Diamonds and coal is trash. It's not as good as some of their past stuff, but i love it none the less.

Zesty Mordant

12-09-2006, 04:31 PM

apparently time-lapse consortium is recording a studio album right now so that might be pretty good (or really gay).

JonM

12-09-2006, 04:40 PM

Yeah it will probably have sex with other albums of the same sex.

incubliss

12-25-2006, 07:40 PM

I think it's ****ing goddamn terrible. The tense in which I refer to Incubus as my favorite band is now buried even deeper in the past.
pretty much how i feel.

RunnerUp

12-25-2006, 10:48 PM

this one isnt as good as thier last three, but I think its still really solid.

Anna Molly, Oil and Water, and Paper Shoes are all amazing

ThaFleastyler

12-26-2006, 05:21 AM

As other people have already stated here, I think the lyrics overall are a bit weak on Light Grenades (although, I like the lyrics on "Dig" - good track). But I think the main problem with Grenades is that it is more front-loaded than The Killers' Hot Fuss - after the first 5 or 6 tracks, its all over pretty much; those first 5 or 6 are pretty sweet, but from there its really only just adequate enouh to even be on the album, in my opinion. Although, in saying that, it is a massive improvement from ACLOTM (or even Morning View - never liked that one either), but the truth is these guys peaked around the time of SCIENCE and Make Yourself.

veggie 3.14

12-26-2006, 05:51 AM

From what I've heard of it... it's alright, but I just don't feel it's up to the standards of their earlier albums; there's something missing there, and I can't really define what that is.

Although, Anna Molly does kick ***.

Edit: for the record, my favourite Incubus albums are S.C.I.E.N.C.E and Morning View, with Fungus Amongus a very close second.

RunnerUp

12-26-2006, 01:09 PM

Im kinda surprised with people saying SCIENCE is one of thier best albums. I think their best three are easily Morning View, ACLOTM, and Make Yourself

Dr. Jake Destructo

12-26-2006, 09:28 PM

not a big incubus fan but that single is killer.

I'd agree to this. Anomale/Anna Molly/whatev is a darn solid track. It definitely stands out on the radio.

Agentile1990

12-27-2006, 08:20 PM

You really want to know about the Incubus Album.
I have been an incubus fan for since I have been listening to music. They are the single most versatile group in music today.

The first thing you have to take account for is the producer, Brenden O'Brian. The man is known for capturing the energy in a performence (Rage Against the Machine anyone?) His style of recording an album begins with what the band sounds like live. If you have heard incubus recently in concert, Light Grenades sounds just like youre there. The average music whore today is used to the labratory sterile sound. But if you really take a listen this music has no life, body or soul to it (God Bless James Brown R.I.P). For anybody who really understands tone, this album is real.

The second thing is that incubus is not a rock band. For the die-hard fans from the early ninteies you know what im talking about. Marijuana influenced albums such as Enjoy-EP and Fungus Amungus get down and dirty to that funky rythms. Now I'm sure there are those of you who are saying,"well what about science, their best album ever?" I am a fan of science but its more for your thrash metal crowd that is just inlove with the fast beats and the complexity of the rythms. It has feel but its just a representation of what that band is not capable of.

THis album is not their best album. I agree with you all on that but it is still great to light up and listen to. I think i speak for alot of people who listen to incubus, the band is damn good.