Incubus: Make Yourself

Ever wondered how uncertainty can fuel creativity? Join us as we unravel the fascinating journey of Incubus' iconic album, "Make Yourself," and explore how the band navigated through artistic challenges to craft their groundbreaking sound. We take a nostalgic stroll back to 1999, blending humor and insight, as we discuss how themes of personal growth and self-discovery resonate through the album. From the unique genre fusion of alternative rock, nu-metal, and funk rock to Tim's memorable acoustic rendition of "Drive," this episode promises a celebration of musical innovation.

Get ready for a lively conversation filled with pop culture nods and playful debates. We dive into the band's artistic direction during their third album and reflect on the whirlwind process of its creation. Highlights include humorous tangents about a high school teacher, Mr. T, a mysterious green globule on the album cover, and the influence of Californian culture on their sound. With references to Gene Wilder, Ben Stiller, and Adam Sandler, we infuse the discussion with nostalgic charm while appreciating the contribution of producers like Scott Litt to the album's success.

As we explore the experimental depths of "Make Yourself," we share our top song choices and the dynamic energy they bring. Each track offers a unique experience, from the ambient magic of "The Warmth" to the anthemic vibes of "Nowhere Fast." Listeners are taken on a sonic journey, with tracks that are perfect for parties and unexpected collaborations that surprise and delight. The episode wraps with an engaging critique of karaoke scenes, ensuring a fun and entertaining listening experience for all Incubus fans and music lovers alike.

Transcript

Analyzing Incubus' Album 'Make Yourself

Speaker 1 0:00

See your future, be your future Make.

Speaker 2 0:05

Make, make it, make it, make your future, danny.

Speaker 3 0:08

I'm Alright, thank you for listening to the Greatest Non-Hits. All right, thank you for listening to the Greatest Non-Hits. I'm Chris and playing the guitar. Acoustic version of the song Drive by Incubus is from Incubus' album. Make Yourself is my co-host, tim, and thank you for listening. We're going to listen to this hell of an album, I think the third album by Incubus, recorded on October 26, 1999.

Speaker 3 0:51

This is a band that splits a lot of genres. They're a little bit of alternative rock. They're alternative metal, nu metal, funk rock. They've got a turntable, I think. In my opinion at least, and Tim probably agrees with me they're a little bit of a you know, groundbreaking a little bit. They're sort of a bridge between old metal and what was to come in the 2000s, but super creative young band at the time out of Calabasas, california. The singles from this album are Pardon Me, stellar and Drive, the one that Tim is playing. We're going to, like we always do, we're going to list all the songs on this album. We're going to dialogue, we're going to yuck it up and at the end we're going to give you our top three non-hits. So sit back, relax, enjoy. Excellent album. I love it.

Speaker 3 1:54

It has a number of themes through this album that reflect personal growth, self-discovery, introspection. Many of the songs focus on finding yourself and being true to your own identity. That seems to be a huge theme in today's world. Nowadays it's an expectation In ways. We're kind of fighting over those things. It's more of an internal thing rather than you know, at the time at least, whereas personal, cultural politics, from my point of view, didn't seem to be, as this is more of like an internal thing, particularly for young people at the time. It reflects on the ideas of change internally and externally, like drive. It addresses the uncertainties. Change internally and externally, like drive. It addresses the uncertainties of life and the need to adapt and evolve. So we're gonna listen to some deep and heavy stuff here.

Speaker 3 2:57

Personal struggles, challenges come up all throughout the album. Complexities of relationships, love, longing, challenges of communication. Those are themes expressed in songs like Pardon Me and Stellar Existential reflection. There's a number of elements in terms of contemplation throughout the album where the band reflects on life's meanings, choices, search for fulfillment, all that stuff Underlying message of hope, resilience, persevering through hardships. So I mean it's a multifaceted album through hardships. So I mean it's a multifaceted album and it blends it with diverse musical styles, so it makes it just really interesting to listen to.

Speaker 3 3:55

It was something different for me at the time and yeah, I'm kind of getting older at this point in time in my life, so this is like a more mature thing that I was coming into from what I was going on. So it's really good stuff. So I'd say like, just looking from what I've listened to, like Mr Clean's a good song, that should be a non-hit. Of course there's a few others, but yeah, we're going to gonna. We're gonna dive deep into this um, in terms of the band's die, um the members. Brandon boyd is the singer you've got. Uh, mike einziger, um co-founder, guitarist, does a great job on this album. There's also Jose Paseas, chris Kilmore, nicole Rowe. That's the current lineup right now.

Speaker 3 4:56

Lineup on this album is same guys. I'm pretty sure you can listen to Tim's musings. Dirk Lance is the bass player, I guess DJ Kilmore yeah, he was turntables. He replaced DJ Life on this one. There's a lot of scratching, it was. He does a good job. Then Jose Basias is drums. They all do a hell of a job. Great musicians good look, great drummer shout out to little, nod spinal tap there what the fuck is he talking about? Come on, you know what I'm talking about, man.

Speaker 5 5:48

But anyway, it just was like a flash of green light and that was it.

Speaker 3 6:05

Did you hear the sustain on that? He like, he like, shake the guitar. He did that little, that little reverb. Oh, natural from the acoustic. So great stuff, great, look, good guitarist. The guy behind the guy behind the guy pulls that off. You're going to drop some knowledge on us about this band, pretty much. Aren't you Well like? Like the name? By the way, here's Tim.

Speaker 7 6:32

Tim, how you doing? Hello, doing well, thanks.

Speaker 3 6:34

All right.

Speaker 7 6:34

Yeah, no, I had that tab printed out in my little high school tab book. Shout out to Mr T. Mr. Tab book. Shout out to Mr T. Mr Tambasio, I know you're out there, the T man. I've improved, my friend. I've improved.

Speaker 3 6:53

Okay, well, you're a hell of a teacher.

Speaker 7 6:54

Mr T was right by the smoker's bathroom so people would dip out and he'd be like, oh God, come on guys. But he like didn't care, wouldn't like he, god, come on guys. But he like didn't care, wouldn't like he wouldn't send this down to the office.

Speaker 3 7:07

He was like the cool teacher, but he was like there to keep an eye on you guys.

Speaker 7 7:10

Yeah.

Speaker 3 7:10

Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 4 7:11

What the fuck is he talking about?

Speaker 3 7:12

Yeah, I don't know yeah but He'd never say what the fuck for time.

Speaker 7 7:18

We're off the rails already cover this, this album cover. I don't know what is it like. Uh, it's like a little green globule is it?

Speaker 6 7:24

is it a globule? It's truly did.

Speaker 8 7:25

There's a little green globule on his drum seat yeah, there's something there, it's more of a stain in a globule actually, and there's several, you know dozens of people spontaneously combust.

Speaker 3 7:35

It has like a green light to it, kind of like that little it just was like a flash of green light.

Speaker 7 7:42

Yeah, spontaneous. And that was it. It's all that there is on the album cover, but it's yeah this is genre melding stuff here. It's unclassifiable and maybe that will or did isolate some fans. But I think there's just so much carryover. There's so many groups of different fan groups of different music sets that really have a soft spot in their heart for Incubus and I think they should, because this is a great band. It's good stuff.

Speaker 7 8:23

Great book, there was, yeah there's a lot about how the guitarist and einsinger and boyd were all about, you know, being vulnerable and, uh, also, boyd found out he was getting cheated on on the science tour so he broke up his girlfriend and there's a lot of anguish and heartbreak there, so it was kind of maybe easier for him to write these songs.

Speaker 3 8:51

Um, yeah, 1991 was when they were formed, and it was brandon boyd, mike einzinger and einziger I don't know and jose pacillas. They were all enrolled in calabasas High School at the same time and then they later brought in Alex or Dirk Lance. Wow, dirk Lance is also Alex Katunich, okay, and Gavin DJ Life Koppel. All right, so that guy left after the first two albums and this third album they brought in are.

Speaker 7 9:28

Scratchery yeah, Now they brought in. Are scratchers yeah, Now they formed in high school. Maybe they had their name formatted in high school because if you look up what an incubus is, it is a male demon in human form in folklore that seeks to have sex with sleeping women.

Speaker 3 9:46

I don't know, I don't really understand that.

Speaker 7 9:48

I don't know it's creepy and they were in high school and they're like, yeah, let's just name her being that, that's. You can't get away with that now.

Speaker 3 9:55

That's weird. Yeah, we're incubus, cause this is what this means.

Speaker 7 9:58

So it went over everybody's head, not mine. Yeah yeah, she's no saint.

Speaker 3 10:08

Yeah, well, all right, this is going off the rails. Are you ready to get into the album?

Speaker 7 10:13

It would be a privilege, it would be a privilege, it's not a chore.

Speaker 3 10:16

All right, we're looking for our top three non-hits and away we go.

Speaker 7 10:22

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Speaker 9 10:51

Ha ha ha. I can only show you the door. Maybe if we looked hard enough we could find a back door.

Speaker 5 11:13

I can only show you the door.

Speaker 3 11:16

This seems like a hit. I don't know why Is it? It's a sudden listen. You're the one that has to walk through it. I ain't dragging your feet, you have my silver hand. The day you were born, what did we say? Is it in here? No, no, free your mind. No, this is not it, okay.

Speaker 7 11:51

The man behind the man behind the man Doesn't have a clue why he's waiting or what he's waiting for.

Speaker 9 11:58

Maybe it's me, but I'm sick of wasting energy.

Speaker 7 12:01

Me too yeah.

Speaker 9 12:03

Maybe, if I look in my heart, I could find a back door.

Speaker 5 12:08

I can only show you the door.

Speaker 4 12:16

Find yourself a the door.

Speaker 7 12:18

You know a lot of Matrix for this. I think that applies.

Speaker 3 12:24

I think so too, but you can tell there's a bitterness in his voice. Oh yeah, this is about his ads, right um song facts you're the one that has to walk through it how you doing that

Speaker 7 12:50

we have no idea how you doing that. We have no idea how you doing that. What that is so cool, though I know Scratching is so good. I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 13:23

I see you in my dragon. The scratching is so good. I'm sorry. Yeah, I mean he's just in an ego spot right now. He's just like venting, like after the relationship is over. That's what it sounds like to me, I mean, I think Speaking more generally, but Underneath it all, it's really about the breakup. Yeah.

Speaker 2 13:49

It's.

Speaker 6 13:52

A harmony of mathematical precision, that is your.

Speaker 3 13:58

I like the bass. That is your. It's very Shout out to Katoon and each other.

Speaker 4 14:06

Programs running all over the place.

Speaker 7 14:08

Shout out to the Scratchers out there yeah, and the DJs, chris Kilmore. Yeah, all right, we got noatchers out there, yeah, and the DJs Chris Kilmore, yeah.

Speaker 4 14:13

All right, we've got no way to fast forward.

Speaker 7 14:15

Mad props to the DJs, yeah.

Speaker 3 14:21

It's so acoustic and echoey.

Speaker 7 14:23

I like that. The reverb in this is really good.

Speaker 3 14:26

Yeah, yeah, very good use of reverb. Yeah, very good use of the reverb.

Speaker 7 14:38

It's this kind of thing that appeals to the metalheads the echoiness of the scratching and the sound effects in the beginning, sort of like it walks you into a space and then it pushes you into it.

Speaker 3 14:54

Right, yeah, like the time signature kind of changes or speeds up from what we were just very subtle.

Speaker 7 15:05

We got some Rabe Shankar stuff going on here.

Speaker 2 15:10

What the fuck is he talking about?

Speaker 3 15:11

No, no, it is. Yeah, you're right, it does sound like.

Speaker 1 15:14

Robbie.

Speaker 3 15:20

Yeah, it slows down Nice.

Speaker 6 15:22

Oh wait just a minute.

Speaker 7 15:24

No, I'm a man.

Speaker 2 15:25

I'm a man. I'm a man.

Speaker 7 15:42

No, you won't know, I don't even care I won.

Speaker 9 15:57

Don't tell me you respect wood. Oh, I respect wood, Larry. I respect wood so much that if I had a piece of wood in my hand right now, I'd beat the shit out of you with it, okay.

Speaker 3 16:12

Thanks, Susie. Shout out to Susie. Put Larry in his place.

Speaker 7 16:18

You hear the Jaco Pistorius bass, mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 16:23

Is he?

Speaker 7 16:23

using fretless. Do you think it sounds like?

Speaker 1 16:28

it yeah, right there, yeah, sure, I was about to compliment the drums, but yeah fucking fast get the fuck out of here, alright get out of here fucking fast, alright.

Speaker 7 16:43

So this song is about Brandon and the band not knowing where they're going. Yeah, it's like literally about that and the sound with direction they're going.

Speaker 3 16:59

Maybe that's just the way they felt About what they were doing yeah, would they change directions?

Speaker 1 17:14

No matter what you hear in there, no matter how cruelly.

Speaker 9 17:17

I beg you do not open this door.

Speaker 3 17:24

Was that from Young?

Speaker 7 17:26

Frankenstein.

Speaker 3 17:26

Okay yeah. I knew it was Gene Will. I didn't know if it was from the chocolate factory or not Because, you know, doesn't he have a room that I'm not allowed to go in? But anyway, it's young Frankenstein.

Speaker 7 17:39

I feel like directionally they went into a different room. You know this one, maybe slightly An adjacent room.

Speaker 3 17:52

No, seriously, that's interesting. They were at a point in their career. It was their second album. They're making the third one. They didn't know this at the time when they were recording it.

Speaker 7 18:01

if this is going to be Plus. They did it super quick. Super quick, eight weeks or something like that. Right.

Speaker 3 18:12

So they were sort of blowing into them. Who knows Any little thing could have derailed them, Even though success was so close. They could feel it, but it was dicey. As it panned out, they had a hell of a career right, yeah, they still have small tours, you know.

Speaker 9 18:41

I respect. Yeah, don't tell me you respect Wood, Alright.

Speaker 3 18:47

Is this Consequence?

Speaker 7 18:49

Another non-hit. This is a non-hit. It's very good, this one. Definitely asterisk star for me. Okay, sort of more poppy. Yeah, ah, this couch, it's got like a ecstasy.

Speaker 1 19:32

Ecstasy yeah than a gang of drunken minds. Situation has a stink.

Speaker 7 19:33

that'll clearly be before your son becomes a man. A man, I'm a man, I'm a man.

Speaker 3 19:47

Those two weird guys in the booth.

Speaker 7 19:49

Science on that. Your son becomes a man. I'm a man, I'm a man, I'm a man.

Speaker 8 19:54

I'm a man. I'm a man, everything's been augmented.

Speaker 1 19:58

You've been left so far behind. I think for sure next time you shoot a whereabouts, there are eyes in the back of your head. Consequence you've seen as being stranger than I have a man.

Speaker 7 20:22

I'm a man, hey, fast, fast times oh.

Speaker 2 20:32

I got, you know, Nicolette.

Speaker 7 20:36

These guys have sort of a good California yeah, they're so Cal yeah.

Speaker 2 20:40

They barely get pitted, so pitted.

Speaker 7 20:51

It's bigger than Showing me. You are me. Don't blink, alright. You are me, don't blink with those big eyes.

Speaker 4 21:03

Also, you have like really big eyes.

Speaker 2 21:05

And that freaks me out sometimes. Thank you.

Speaker 3 21:06

Thank you, you are me, you are me, thank you, thank you. They play really well in sync with one another. Impressed.

Speaker 7 21:26

There's a lot of hustle.

Speaker 9 21:30

Attention campers Lunch has been canceled today due to lack of hustle. Deal with it.

Speaker 3 21:46

Is that bad?

Speaker 7 21:46

camp. Yeah, there's a little Ben still right there.

Speaker 2 22:00

Make, make, make, make, make it.

Speaker 7 22:06

Make it All right. What do we got now?

Speaker 8 22:12

This is the warmth.

Speaker 7 22:14

I'm just getting warmed up Weird Pink Floyd-ish. We got some whales.

Speaker 2 22:28

Shout out to the whales on this album. Oh, this couch. I created the Matrix. I've been waiting for you.

Speaker 7 22:59

Oh, man Gets all medley now. Yes, I love this little I-Izinger's.

Speaker 1 23:07

Also, you have like really big eyes. Yeah, nice, i-izinger's so good.

Speaker 7 23:10

He was the producer of this album Also. You have like really big eyes. Yeah, nice, heidzinger is so good, he was the producer of this album.

Speaker 3 23:15

He should have done a really good job too.

Speaker 1 23:18

It's not a breeze Cause it blows hard, yes, and it wants me to Discard and I'll watch the warmth blow away.

Speaker 2 23:32

So don't let the world bring you down.

Speaker 3 23:38

So Scott Litt is the producer. Great job. Did some work with REM in your body.

Speaker 2 23:45

Remember why you came and while you're alive, live.

Speaker 7 24:00

They like spontaneously combusted. It's just so warm the globule was warm Chant with us.

Speaker 1 24:14

Fear and love and throw a wrench in spokes by I'm leaving the air behind me.

Speaker 7 24:24

Great lyrics too. Yeah, don't let the world bring you down.

Speaker 1 24:33

Not everyone here is that fucked up and cold. Get the fuck out of here, all right. You tell them, Susie.

Speaker 2 24:40

Why you came and why you're alive.

Speaker 3 24:45

Experience the world before you grow, and start walking before you grow. This guitar right here is cool.

Speaker 1 25:31

Oh, that you're now.

Speaker 7 25:36

Everything here is fantastic. There's always that one fucked up guy at the party.

Speaker 2 25:51

Back to the the party, ah. Back to the cool pack Drop down, snap Ah.

Speaker 7 25:58

I love this, like animal noises here.

Speaker 2 26:04

Okay, rise and shine campers, what, what?

Speaker 5 26:17

Are you mental?

Speaker 7 26:19

Maybe sit the next couple plays out. You're warm, you're in the forest, you're with Heather Alright.

Speaker 3 26:28

That was a great one attention campers lunch has been cancelled today due to lack of hustle. Alright, this one is called when it comes. Chris Kilcoyne is playing a big part in this one. That you can tell already. Ian Fingers getting in there a heavy riff.

Speaker 8 26:56

Please don't play this game with me. Please don't play this game with me.

Speaker 3 27:02

Casillas is keeping the time down. Brandon's building it up Coming around again.

Speaker 2 27:13

Ow, fuck me in the gutter.

Speaker 7 27:17

Oh, adam Sandler, adam Sandler loves Incubus. I would think so.

Speaker 3 27:25

Ah, you button hooked me. I didn't know you were gonna button hook me.

Speaker 2 27:28

I'm being static.

Speaker 7 27:33

Looks like he's got a nod on your head. He's got a lot to say on this one.

Speaker 3 27:38

Everybody better not mention that again. Good harmony.

Speaker 7 28:11

Argumental I want a little more poppy, a little more raga here, raga metal, if you will, I like it Now there's a lot of raga.

Speaker 3 28:21

See you around it's barbershop. I was going to say the car bounce Are the best part of this.

Speaker 5 28:29

They go they come back, they go around again. They come back, they go around again.

Speaker 1 28:41

They just go around and around A Matador. A Matador, what?

Speaker 3 28:47

He's the bull, she's the Matador, she's controlling him.

Speaker 7 28:55

And there's bullshit. There's the shit too, in the pavilion, I think that's metaphoric as well. Yeah.

Speaker 2 29:14

Are you mental? Oh you fucker.

Speaker 7 29:29

Whoa, all right. Oh, alright Cool.

Speaker 3 29:34

I wonder what ever happened to his ass Like the one this is about. She's like she's. She lost the war.

Speaker 7 29:43

She's working at the local strip club. Yeah, he's like touring, yeah.

Speaker 3 29:50

We're putting our hands together for the lovely Jasmine.

Speaker 7 29:52

She's like tomorrow, and that's tomorrow, tomorrow's Jasmine. Yeah, now yeah.

Speaker 2 30:18

Whoa.

Speaker 1 30:19

Whoa.

Speaker 2 30:21

Get the best barrels ever, dude.

Speaker 3 30:25

We'll do it live yeah all right, so here's our first hit.

Speaker 4 30:36

This is stellar I'll get my space suit we'll get our space suit.

Speaker 7 30:51

watch the earth come up, that's overrated Wait what.

Speaker 3 30:56

What does the earth come up? No, when you stay up all night, oh yeah, talking about it. This is like when this girl said we can do this, Just stay up all night. That's the kind of cool thing to do in your teens with another person, johnny Redknee.

Speaker 9 31:20

Okay, do it, do it, do it, all right.

Speaker 2 31:28

And you oh, he's desperate Do what he say. Do what he say Do what he say Do it, do it, johnny Redknecht.

Speaker 1 31:40

Meet me in outer space.

Speaker 2 31:47

I will hold you close If you're afraid of heights.

Speaker 7 31:53

Shout out to what's that? What's her name? Sandra Bullock Gravity. There we go. Her only good movie, whoa what?

Speaker 1 32:06

You didn't like the blinds Inside you.

Speaker 7 32:10

Yeah, you didn't like the blinds Inside you.

Speaker 1 32:15

Yeah.

Speaker 6 32:17

You didn't like speed.

Speaker 7 32:19

Oh, wait just a minute, nah, no, do it yourself Do you like to do it yourself Sometimes, I mean.

Speaker 9 32:33

Mood, strike Mood strike yourself Sometimes. I mean mood strikes.

Speaker 6 32:37

Mood strikes, how is?

Speaker 2 32:47

the mood striking you now.

Speaker 7 32:52

Yeah, no, he got a new girlfriend. I think this song is about her and how she makes him feel better and he was so down and whatnot. This is definitely a hit. Yeah, yeah, joe, it's about Joe English. Oh, that was her. It's her traditional song.

Speaker 3 33:39

in a way, she was like you lose it in banks.

Speaker 6 33:41

Do it yourself.

Speaker 7 33:44

Yeah, he was done with the just a minute days. Wait just a minute, and then he found Joe.

Speaker 3 33:54

That's right. Make, make, make make it. This one is make yourself all right same as the album this is a hit too right, no, no. It's stellar, hard and new and drip.

Speaker 7 34:24

Drive, yeah, oh. Shout out to the R people. If you let it make you, make you paper mache. Shout out to the art people out there. Paper mache-ers, yeah, whoa, that was.

Speaker 4 34:48

What the fuck is he talking about?

Speaker 7 35:11

Oh crap, yeah, we're all. Just you know frequencies and light beings. Yeah, you know, just maybe green lights, I know.

Speaker 5 35:26

It just was like a flash of green light.

Speaker 7 35:29

And that was it. A lot of people spontaneously combust.

Speaker 3 35:35

Yeah, it's phenomenal.

Speaker 7 35:41

If I hadn't made me. So now I'm like me, I'll wait just a minute.

Speaker 6 35:51

I'll wait, just a minute. I'll wait, just a minute. I'll be in my own way. I'll be in my own way, I'll be in my own way.

Speaker 7 36:12

You shouldn't make comments with you. This is about what? Being celibate or what is this about, I don't know. Yeah, make yourself, you know, really internalize your sexual energy for positivity. Yeah, yes.

Speaker 3 36:51

Okay, wow, all right, here's.

Speaker 6 36:53

Drew, wait just a minute.

Speaker 7 36:55

Get in the car, Shotgun All right. Here's Drunk. Oh wait, just a minute. Get in the car, Shotgun All right.

Speaker 3 37:07

They're very uncertain and unsure about a lot of things.

Speaker 7 37:11

Yeah, makes a good album.

Speaker 1 37:14

Yeah, fear and love.

Speaker 7 37:35

Programs running all over the place. Too much electronics in cars nowadays big driver in the.

Speaker 3 37:46

Yeah big driver but they're talking about driving a car, not. No, but they're talking about driving a car, not a car, no.

Speaker 7 38:13

Open arms, open eyes.

Speaker 1 38:17

So if I decide to waver my chance to be one of the hive.

Speaker 7 38:25

The hive Sounds like a, b, I don't know.

Speaker 1 38:28

Will I choose water over wine and hold my own and drive?

Speaker 7 38:36

Trying to get biblical I don't know what he's trying to do Before. It seems to be the way that everyone else gets around.

Speaker 3 38:50

Lately I've been getting a funny way to not drive myself. Yeah, a lot of analogies here. Yeah, oh fuck.

Speaker 9 39:00

From western Pennsylvania, you probably know my father, tony Berkus Sr, the lighting fixture king. Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there, I'll be there.

Speaker 7 39:23

Good delicate, solo here I like it yeah, peter likes it Everything here is fantastic. Kramer, it's tolerable. Let's try that again, hopefully, if you're driving. Yeah, that's an interesting driving. Yeah, you know that's an interesting line. Yeah, yeah, the harmonics.

Speaker 3 40:15

Here's some raga. I like it. I think it's just Brandon doing this, just his voice overdubbed.

Speaker 7 40:31

Yeah, he's hurt, yeah, he's really.

Speaker 2 40:35

You're're hurt. You're hurt real fucking bad, but you ain't dying that's right, that was good.

Speaker 3 40:42

That was a natural palate cleanser right there, yeah oh, should we do a sponsor? Yeah sure like shout out to you my cocoa why don't you?

Speaker 4 40:51

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Speaker 7 40:59

Wait, do we have one more?

Speaker 6 41:03

Mr Clean, mr Clean.

Speaker 3 41:04

Mr Clean, there we go. All right, this next one is called Clean. Good segue there, bud.

Speaker 6 41:12

Hey.

Speaker 7 41:14

I'll own a day's work here, oh shit.

Speaker 3 41:20

Yeah this is like Starsky and Hutch kind of shit.

Speaker 7 41:23

Kind of like a car chase yeah.

Speaker 2 41:26

Why is everybody so tense?

Speaker 1 41:28

It's a party. It's a party.

Exploring Incubus' Experimental Album Depths

Speaker 7 41:39

I'm scared. I need an adult here. I need Blanket, my blankieie too damn bad. You keep digging we're digging for those hits here, and I'm afraid I just don't listen to metal that much anymore. So listening to this is like it's good, I like it, but it's good, I like it, but it gets you pumped up. It's the most creative of metals, though, so it's tolerable.

Speaker 3 42:15

I like the build-up. It's good, it's going to come back down.

Speaker 7 42:23

What it's ambient kind of it's metal but it's ambient and the DJ Put all this in afterwards, right? You know that With Chris. Yeah, okay, like he wasn't, they wrote these songs first Without him.

Speaker 3 42:38

Yeah, and after we replaced the other guy, yeah, came in and filled in, right.

Speaker 1 42:43

That's just so cool Filled everything on top Wake up fried, filled in Right.

Speaker 7 42:47

That's just so cool. Filled everything on top, wake up fried, do what I say.

Speaker 1 43:03

Do what he says, mr Green, tomorrow, what price will I pay?

Speaker 9 43:13

Cause I make it all up to you by serving coffee, like you in bed, but you then Give me the time of day.

Speaker 1 43:20

I need a map of your head, translated, dancing With a star. I can learn how to make you friends. It's that one he's like.

Speaker 7 43:27

I wish I could just Take all my thoughts to you, A map of your head. It's that one he's like. I wish I could just take all my thoughts, take them out of my brain, scrub my brain. It's like clean my brain or wash my brain.

Speaker 2 43:39

Yeah, I'm gonna hurt you, I'm just gonna bash your brains.

Speaker 3 43:46

I'm gonna bash them right the fuck in. Okay, maybe not that one.

Speaker 7 43:50

Take your brain out of your head and wash it and scrub it and make it clean.

Speaker 4 43:55

Take your brain out of your head and wash it and scrub it and make it clean.

Speaker 7 44:03

Sounds like Wahlberg Little uh yeah, what was that? Um, not Ted. Sounds like a wall burp A little uh yeah, what was that Not Ted? When he's in the other guys, when he's Dirk Diggler.

Speaker 3 44:16

Oh yeah.

Speaker 7 44:18

Boogie Nights, yeah, boogie Nights.

Speaker 2 44:23

I don't remember.

Speaker 3 44:25

After he was just like disgusted by all the things that he did.

Speaker 2 44:28

Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 7 44:32

You can't offend yeah.

Speaker 9 44:38

From Western Pennsylvania. No, you can't never offend.

Speaker 2 44:47

How dirty words come out clean. Hey, hey, hey. Back to the Drop down. Okay, alright, so that was clean. Okay, rise and shine campers.

Speaker 7 45:04

Okay, so this one he was in the hallway, it's called battlestar skrillached. Chris was in the hallway with uh, a chemist and some other dj and they were just shooting the shit, and then they recorded this track on an off day in the recording studio. It's so cool.

Speaker 1 46:00

All the lights. I'm going to show you the light.

Speaker 4 46:05

All right, because the music was so much class Class.

Speaker 7 46:19

Before I haven't done this one.

Speaker 2 46:23

I've got my spacesuit.

Speaker 3 46:29

We're scratching, our back Scratching.

Speaker 6 46:34

A harmony of mathematical precision.

Speaker 8 46:41

I'm just getting warmed up. I created the matrix.

Speaker 2 46:50

I've been waiting for you. Tell me your respect boy.

Speaker 7 47:03

This is wild, yeah, almost.

Speaker 3 47:04

This is wild. Yeah, almost he's doing too much right now.

Speaker 5 47:19

They go around again.

Speaker 7 47:21

They just go around and around. And the band's on it. This part's cool yeah.

Speaker 5 47:35

Johnny Redknecht.

Speaker 2 47:36

Okay, Do it, do it All right.

Speaker 7 47:42

All right, all right.

Speaker 2 47:49

All right, all right, you're hurt.

Speaker 6 47:56

You're hurt.

Speaker 7 47:57

Do it yourself.

Speaker 8 48:00

Do you like to do it yourself? It's tricky. It's tricky. There's a little green blobby one. It's tricky, there's a little green lobby wall.

Speaker 5 48:11

Do it yourself Shiny red meat. Okay, do it, do it.

Speaker 6 48:20

Oh God, oh wait, just a minute.

Speaker 2 48:22

Make, make, make, make, make, make it, make it all right.

Speaker 7 48:37

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Speaker 1 48:39

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Speaker 9 48:40

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Speaker 3 48:50

Is this our last one? There's one after this one.

Speaker 7 48:52

I don't know, man, this might be it.

Speaker 3 48:57

Oh no, no, we got two more after this one, but we're getting close, we're getting there.

Speaker 7 49:05

They're all so short. This is only a 48 minute album, yeah, but it's 13 tracks, that's true. It's a baker's dozen. It's a baker's dozen.

Speaker 1 49:15

Oh, threefold, nope, it's me.

Speaker 7 49:27

This is like a karaoke incubus song.

Speaker 3 49:31

How so, I don't know. You can see like some drunk guy at a bar.

Speaker 7 49:34

Yeah.

Speaker 2 49:36

I would do a surfer. Yeah, for sure. For sure I miss you yeah.

Speaker 3 50:02

I always just feel kind of uncomfortable when the lonely guy at the bar sings a song like this. I'm just sort of like.

Speaker 5 50:07

Maybe sit the next couple plays out.

Speaker 7 50:09

Yeah, like that guy Go cry in the walk-in All right, Take it easy champ. Don't express your emotion.

Speaker 1 50:24

Yeah, what the hell are you doing?

Speaker 3 50:27

Just sitting at the end of the bar with my beer. Ten days Just trying to watch the game.

Speaker 7 50:39

I don't need to hear you blubbering about your girlfriend. Well, she bought you a gun rack. You broke up.

Speaker 4 50:45

Yeah, are you mental?

Speaker 5 50:54

You get upset if someone thinks you live below sunset.

Speaker 7 51:14

Programs running all over the place. Shout out to the oracle.

Speaker 4 51:18

Yes fear and love.

Speaker 3 51:31

All right, that was sweet. Okay, all right, this is Pardon A hit. It's a cool song. It's a lot of scratching, a lot of scratching. A lot of different genres represented into a like a green, a green green globule.

Speaker 7 51:57

Yeah, like a drummer for Spinal Tap it's a little green globule on it pardon me while I thirst.

Speaker 3 52:09

It was just a flash of green light and that was it.

Speaker 5 52:21

He just was like a flash of green light.

Speaker 4 52:30

It happens a lot.

Speaker 2 53:01

Ah 50 drama.

Speaker 3 53:02

Tell the fire department this is out of control. What, what is this? I love scratching, that's.

Speaker 9 53:12

How you doing that.

Speaker 1 53:16

How you doing that that's like all the.

Speaker 7 53:19

People who are like 90 years old.

Speaker 2 53:21

they're like what is that? What is that how you doing that?

Speaker 9 53:27

you're scratching. I've got enough of the world and it's people's mindless game.

Speaker 2 53:39

So pardon me while I burn. It runs above the flame, pardon me, pardon me.

Speaker 3 54:01

I'll never be the same. Never be the same. I had the other bars doing this one. I can't do it. Me too. I don't know Jesse's gonna do Incubus again, jesse okay, whoa whoa hey guys take the mic.

Speaker 7 54:25

I love karaoke, though it's good, take the mic.

Speaker 3 54:28

I love karaoke, though it's good We've got a party going these days.

Speaker 7 54:34

It's a good machine. Yeah, get the Party Rocker Plus yeah.

Speaker 3 54:41

All right. Next up is Robin. She's going to do Dollylly Parton highlight of my life.

Speaker 7 54:51

I would do. What would you do? Tears for Fears Head Over Heels, head Over Heels. Yeah, that's a good one.

Speaker 1 55:01

Yeah.

Speaker 7 55:02

Four Leaf Clover. You know I'm Irish. What's up? Okay, there we go.

Speaker 1 55:08

I know that your now can be what I consider the past, or your now can be what I consider the future, and your now is every bit as valid as my now.

Speaker 4 55:18

Then we learned that the past Nice fade out.

Speaker 3 55:28

Okay, this is the last one Out from Under. Oh gosh, to resist is to piss in the wind. Anyway he does. The imagery is the imagery.

Speaker 2 56:00

Not a fisting. Oh wait, just a minute. Get out from under precipice, I feel like.

Speaker 7 56:16

This is a A resistance song. This is like a.

Speaker 9 56:24

To piss in the wind.

Speaker 3 56:30

So you're going to end up smelling if you resist.

Speaker 1 56:38

I don't understand what the fuck is he talking about?

Speaker 9 56:45

Oh gosh, what the fuck is he talking about? I don't know what you're talking about oh gosh.

Speaker 7 56:54

Don't sell your soul. Spontaneously. Combust before that, if possible. Okay, yeah, that's what I'm getting from that Resist unlearn defile, the horror of it, the mathematical precision.

Speaker 3 57:18

What did this guy do to him? That's what I'm wondering.

Speaker 5 57:26

I can only show you the door.

Speaker 4 57:29

You're the one that has to walk through it. It's getting all trippy in here.

Speaker 3 57:41

Program is running all discreetly that whole.

Speaker 7 57:45

That was like big in the early 2000s A drop, it's like a drop, okay, whoa.

Speaker 2 57:54

You hurt. You hurt real fucking bad, but you ain't dying. I hurt real fucking bad, but you ain't dying.

Speaker 7 58:13

It's back to like this is the heavy metal, yes, heavy metal Lock on, lock on this one. Yeah, see the sky.

Speaker 3 58:45

Oh, wow, okay, Nice Okay. All right, oh wow okay, nice, okay, all right, so we're taking it back to the beginning here, so let's, let's start off on our number three. What do you have?

Speaker 7 58:55

here. Let me see all right we got.

Speaker 3 58:58

Um, oh yeah, let's get back here. Get a list up for us, let's get uh, so, um, I I'm gonna.

Speaker 7 59:11

I know this, that one was tough, but I like its message. You know resist, unlearn, defy.

Speaker 3 59:18

Yeah.

Speaker 7 59:19

I think a lot of uh. Our society needs to do that right now yeah. So, um yeah, get out, see the sky, get the sun in your eyes. All right, huberman Podcast. What's up? Number three Out From Under.

Speaker 3 59:36

Oh wow, the very last one, Okay. Yeah, I thought it might be too heavy for you Sleeper. Sleeper, never too heavy, all right.

Speaker 7 59:41

It's just yeah, I mean it, just let it all out, you All right.

Speaker 4 59:44

It's just.

Speaker 7 59:44

Yeah, I mean it, just let it all out. You know it's very emotional.

Speaker 3 59:46

It was very bold. My number three is going to be Battlestar Skrullactica. Oh wow, you like that one. Yeah, there's a couple more that I like a little bit better, but I liked it. You know, I thought it was unique and I liked yeah, I liked the instrument I liked all the instrumentation.

Speaker 6 1:00:05

So that'll be my number three.

Speaker 7 1:00:07

Yeah, that one honestly, is a cool song to put at a party and it doesn't have to be like. It kind of breaks the mold of this whole album and it was the randomness of the three djs. I wish I could remember the third dj right now uh, our mixer are you setting up your number two? Or yeah, it's my number two battle star oh, this one skirlachtica. Okay, yeah, nice, okay, good, I'm choosing some you're going out, I'm just I'm going out on a limb here.

Speaker 3 1:00:45

Well, uh, you know, there's some really good ones at the beginning too, and I'm gonna say number three, oh man it's number two, I'm sorry nowhere fast is gonna be my number two. Yeah, okay, it's a really good song and uh, um, it was kind of a sleeper for me. I just thought it had its moments, and so that's my number two.

Speaker 7 1:01:09

Yeah, it's my number one.

Speaker 3 1:01:11

Is it.

Speaker 7 1:01:12

It's called Action. I mean shout out to Privilege, and well, no, I take that back. Make Yourself, make Yourself is my number one. Oh yeah, okay, the title track needs to be on there. Okay, it's just message. You know you got to make it.

Speaker 3 1:01:32

You like the message part of it. You got to make it. Make your future. Make your future.

Speaker 7 1:01:37

Just envision it. Look in the mirror in the morning and shit, yeah, yeah. And at night, Okay, all right.

Speaker 3 1:01:45

Yeah, I mean, it was kind of up there All in all, a great album.

Speaker 7 1:01:48

I love this album. Yeah, I do too. It goes by quickly too.

Speaker 3 1:01:51

It's like yeah, my number one is the warmth.

Speaker 6 1:01:55

Nice yeah.

Speaker 3 1:01:56

That that was. I like the ambient feel of it and it felt almost kind of like world music at some points in time. I had like a lot of different types of genres and it it sped up and it slowed down and it went to crescent, crescendos, and so the warmth it's a, it's a great song.

Speaker 6 1:02:16

Yeah.

Speaker 3 1:02:17

Yeah Well, privilege is a privilege is up there for me, Consequence is a good song too.

Speaker 7 1:02:24

So basically what we're saying it was hard to do a top three.

Speaker 3 1:02:27

It was very hard to do a top three but this album. I stand by all three of mine.

Speaker 7 1:02:31

I think the listeners can find their own personal favorites in this one, but yeah, and any given day they can change, for us too. So yeah, exactly so all right Well all.