The Explain Why You Like This Album ('cause i don't understand) Thread

[someonecompletelyrandom]

Yeah, the Enjoy Incubus EP. And that's just about it... I have however heard most of their albums and Light Grenades bores me even to their standards.

[boo boo]

Originally Posted by Sonace

Compelling argument, then again you could probably listen to the Hard Rock albums being shelled out now and it'd have the same effect.


Perhaps the most boring Incubus album ever released. Earth to Bella has got to be the weakest Incubus track I've heard to date.

I'm a hardcore Incubus fan and I just didn't like it, I can't think of many Incubus fans who think highly of it. It's easly their worst album.

Originally Posted by Sonace

Yeah, the Enjoy Incubus EP.

A good EP, but IMO Science, Make Yourself and Morning View is just as good or better.

[someonecompletelyrandom]

Originally Posted by boo boo

A good EP, but IMO Science, Make Yourself and Morning View is just as good or better.

Morning View was just to slow for me. I do however think of S.C.I.E.N.C.E as a pretty underrated album.

[boo boo]

Originally Posted by Sonace

Morning View was just to slow for me. I do however think of S.C.I.E.N.C.E as a pretty underrated album.

I love Morning View even though the older fans like to call it the low point. It's certainly better than Make Yourself, and IMO it's on par with Science even if stylistically it's a very different album.

I think Science is underrated overall, but it's rated very highly among Incubus fans, and among the older fans, I don't think they give Morning View enough credit, though I understand the reason they dislike it is because it marks a major departure from their original style.

But just about every album marks a significant change in one way or another. I certainly don't like the direction they've taken with Light Grenades.

[someonecompletelyrandom]

I just wish they had stuck with the really funky tunes they started out with. I understand that it's good for a group to evolve but I'm just not the biggest fan of what they've turned into. They are still miles above the murk of the modern Alt. Rock genre though.

[Antonio]

man, idk about you guys, but i could never get into Incubus. never really wowed me tbh. but yeah what should i check out to really get them?

[boo boo]

Originally Posted by Sonace

They are still miles above the murk of the modern Alt. Rock genre though.

Without a f*cking doubt.

I know they're not for every taste.

But they take an unfair beating as it is, I don't know why they get all the hate for being a "mainstream radio" band when they're pretty much the only one right now that doesn't make me want to kill myself.

They're the only thing I can even still listen to on modern rock radio.

[FaSho]

Am I the only one who likes A Crow Left of Murder?

[debaserr]

Originally Posted by FaSho

Am I the only one who likes A Crow Left of Murder?

no

[boo boo]

Originally Posted by FaSho

Am I the only one who likes A Crow Left of Murder?

I quite liked it actually. Once again they were trying to do something different, and why I can't say I like all the changes. I do miss Dirk Lance, he was a much better bass player than the guy they have now, and DJ Killmore doesn't really seem to do anything anymore, that and Southern Girl just might be their most cringeworthy song.

But overall I like it, Boyd is a great singer and Einziger is a damn good guitarist, they seem to be having a bit more fun here and are not as subdued as they were on the past two albums.

I mean every album they've done has been radically different from the last, and I think for the most part they have pulled those changes off, and for a band to be able to do that and still maintain commercial success and a loyal fanbase is certainly impressive. So yeah, it really pisses me off when people just write them off as some crappy unoriginal nu metal band while Radiohead get all the praise for changing it up every album.