I never really liked them much. Then I had some strong edibles (for the first time) and listened to their music for hours and was blown away. Their lesser known stuff is amazing. Some songs aren’t necessarily easy to listen to at first, there’s a lot of complexity.
yeah, they are a great band. No one really sounds like Incubus, but they do have their following...early /mid 90s was great time in music...so many different sounds
They have a crazy good catalog with a lot of different styles. Something like Drive or Wish You Were Here that got crazy radio play are good follow ups to this, but some of their older tracks like Certain Shade of Green or Redefine or New Skin sound like a totally different band. And then jump forward to something like Pistola or Adolescents and it's another totally different sound. Worth exploring all kinds of music from them, hopefully people enjoy and give this reaction some love to get more Incubus into your life!
One of their early songs that sounds way different than the rest of their music is "you will be a hot dancer" its definitely one the odder side of their music, but still pretty awesome
S.C.I.E.N.C.E. is amazing. I love a majority of their music (I have everything from Fungus Amongus through 8) too but I feel their most underrated album is If Not Now, When? In The Company of Wolves is just haunting
This album is from 1999, they are at this point in their career definitely blending hip hop and rock. Now time to hear tracks from their best album SCIENCE. New Skin A Certain Shade of Green Nebula Glass
@@jpace4608 yeah I like most of "Make Yourself" as well but after that I agree with you. should check out their album and EP before SCIENCE, "Fungus Amongus" and "Enjoy Incubus". Way more funky, lots of Mr. Bungle vibes.
INCUBUS have such a deep catalogue of great songs. New Skin - Make Yourself - Circles - Anna Molly - If Not Now, When…. Check out some of the live studio videos, just a crazy tight band.
Incubus has some of my favorite songs ever made. I STILL listen to incubus in the car regularly. It’s just a band that I will personally never be tired of
I still listen to them regularly as well. One of their songs they came out with about 2 years ago is just as great as the others. Always have been and will be amazing.
My second concert but yea I saw them open for 311 as well. Make Yourself had just come out and I bought the album the next day based on hearing them play only 3 songs.
@@reinofkaos dude that's awesome. I love the camaraderie and friendship that those two had together for so long and still do. My show was down here in San Diego at the Chula Vista Amphitheatre Deftones opened up with diamond eyes, it was a freaking amazing
When he says “Rise above the flames” I always took it as being like a Phoenix. They die in flames and are born again in the ashes. So I think the song is about changing yourself for the better and becoming a better person.
Incubus is a strong group. The list is fairly long of great tunes: Drive, Stellar, Warning, Dig, Anna Molly, Megalomanic, Nice to Meet You, Wish You We’re Here. And on and on! Actually this is from the early 2000s
Excellent choice! Such an awesome band with many hits to check. Megalomaniac, A crowd left of the murder, Adolescent, Dig, Drive, Anna Moly...Keep it up!
Killer tune! Amazing band. The whole Make Yourself album is amazing. My wife and I were fortunate enough to see them live in Toronto, Ontario in late 2019 before the plague.
Lex, most of the band members are surfers, so your comment about the songs buoyancy like the ocean swelling is spot on. In some of their videos, are actual clips of them surfing . ✌🏼
Have to echo what others have said "Drive" and "Wish you were here" are solid tracks. Also "Warning" and "Summer Romance". They all sound a bit different stylistically.
First time watching this channel (I like watching reaction videos of my favorite songs/bands). Really impressed with how Lex expressed everything. Buoyancy, surrendering yourself…Good stuff.
I said it 15 years ago and i still stand by what i said: Mike Einziger is an absolute fucking genius when it comes to incorporating effects into his guitar playing. Almost like he knows precisely how to use them to get the perfect sound
Please check out their older stuff from their album S.C.I.E.N.C.E, when they were rlly nu metal, yall would dig 'Redefine' 'Vitamin' 'new skin' that whole album is amazing, 90s gem
@@reanimated Nice! They never played this song when I saw them live. I saw them with Linkin Park at Jones Beach and it rained and thunderstormed over the water in the background and they just kept playing.
Great reaction to one of my favourite bands of all time. I first saw them play Live back in 1997 over here in England, they were supporting Korn at the time. I'd never heard of them before but became an instant fan. Ironically I'm no longer a big fan of Korn, but without them I would never have discovered Incubus. I'd describe the kind of vocals he's doing during the verses as old-skool funk, over a break-beat/drum n' bass/jungle beat...Kind of. At least that's what my old ears hear, lol. In some ways his vocals during that time reminded me a bit of Jay-Kay from Jamiroquai
Yall gotta do more Incubus. A ton of really good songs and they were on top for a really long time. Very poetic. I think Brad would really enjoy their lyrics.
Water bed -- I love it! I think Brandon Boyd (the lead singer/writer) would LOVE to hear that descriptor. He is very artistic and a very deep thinker, and I think would be thrilled with your interpretation.
Thanks for the walk down memory lane! I always interpreted this song as kind of feeling like the world around you is letting you down, and you kind of want off the ride. Not in a dark way so much. More like, escape in a rocket ship before the world chips away at your soul kind of way.
Brad and Lex you struck gold here. They are an amazing band and are all very talented. The lead singer has an amazing voice. You got to do Drive next. Great review 👍👍👍
Great reaction you guys, and Lex- your comparisons to water and waves are way more spot-on than you realize! These guys were my classmates through middle and high school, and the singer Brandon Boyd was(is?) a surfer...maybe other members, too-but Brandon was definitely part of a family surfing tradition. And that sort of disjointedness interspersed with flow...that was just kinda what it was like growing up where we did. We lived on the outskirts of L.A. county, where we had a lot of connection with the mountains and the ocean, but were also always under the shadow of the greed and fakery and elitism and sleaziness of L.A. and Hollywood. Brandon, Mike, and Jose (sorry to leave one out-they were just the ones I knew!) were some of the more sincere and down-to-earth people within the weird landscape we grew up in (and yes, it was enough to make your head explode at times!). It's no wonder that they went on to create really unusual conflicted-sounding music, but they did it in such an original and authentic, brilliant way. (P.S. We grew up in/around Calabasas and Malibu Canyon, CA. At the time, it was kinda rural, and middle-class people could still afford to live there, but before long it became completely taken over by the worst kind of celebrities. I'm ashamed now to say where I'm from. Incubus is perhaps the only source of "hometown pride" I have left!)
Man I hope you guys do some more Incubus, they were my favorite band in college. I'd be curious to see what you think of some of the songs on Morning View because at first when I listened to that album I didn't really care for it, but as I progressed through a few more listens I quickly grew to love it, Morning View is my favorite album from Incubus today. My wife and I actually had the song Echo playing when we walked down the aisle at our wedding, super chill song. I'd also recommend Aqueous Transmission, one of their most chill songs.
Mad jealous if you can sing like Brandon I've been trying to learn how to sing and I definitely would never go to a karaoke I think I would do horrible yeah yeah
My cousin who is a musical genius *literally* introduced me to incubus around 11 years ago and ever since, they’ve been that band to me who sticks out very far away from typical sounds, in the best way. Amazing band i feel has been overlooked
Agree with other sentiments that Incubus has a deep and varied, and extremely talented catalog of music. Their live show at Red Rocks is just ethereal. Check out : Sick Sad Little World from them.
I wish you would look into a few deeper cuts from bands. My friend’s favorite band is incubus. I’d heard a lot of their hits, and I was confused when he told me that incubus is his favorite. He then showed me songs from their album S.C.I.E.N.C.E. and I got a much better idea of why he loves them so much. While hits are good, especially for introducing someone to a band, to REALLY get a feel for a group, some deeper cuts are essential.
So glad to get some of the really good stuff on the off stream uploads. We need to do some 90s-2000s only streams to get all the 80s stuff off the poll! Incubus is awesome.
It's the moment in time when non dual realization occurs.....the big bang.....the repeated reminder returning to your awareness everytime you endure emotional intensity from the events/occurences/daily life ...
Incubus was one of the most seamless and sophisticated mergers of "rap/hip-hop" and rock into one sound. It doesn't sound like a mish-mash, it's one coherent whole.
I graduated in 2000 I saw them on Holloween "98 on the Family Values then in 00" with the Deftones. Amazing time in music and in time to be alive especially at that age.
I saw Incubus when Science was brand new back in…99 I believe. They were touring with Godsmack and Grinspoon. Godsmack had also just put out thier first record at that time. Both bands were kind of unknown at that point. I saw them in Detroit at St. Andrews Hall. What a show!
Ooh listening to Incubus, nice. Love the album Make Yourself and SCIENCE.. and A Crow Left of etc. Not all of the albums, but he's got one of my favourite all time voices when it works. They try a lot of sounds, after escaping the Mike Patton slash nu metal experiments of their beginnings.
They got big in the late 90s and early 2000s. I think this was 98 or 99. One of my favorite bands from that era. They do a lot of interesting things but they're one of those bands that you really need to dive into their non-single tracks to hear their best stuff. "Deep Inside" from their album Science was always a favorite of mine. And "Calgone" that follows it on the album is a trip lol.
Incubus has a strong catalogue, and they are grossly underrated
I never really liked them much. Then I had some strong edibles (for the first time) and listened to their music for hours and was blown away. Their lesser known stuff is amazing. Some songs aren’t necessarily easy to listen to at first, there’s a lot of complexity.
I agree, a great catalogue and the music that didn't become singles are just as good or better.
Hoping they get deeper than the radio stuff
yeah, they are a great band. No one really sounds like Incubus, but they do have their following...early /mid 90s was great time in music...so many different sounds
A Great Song About Spontaneous Combustion, indeed. =)
Please more incubus! Not a lot of reaction channels do a lot of MORE Incubus songs but they have ALOT of good songs you guys would like
This song is from 1999, lol, off of their album “Make Yourself” which is a masterpiece.
Yes sir, pure nostalgia
An absolute masterpiece. Always one of my favorite albums
Agreed
Absolutely!
One of the greatest albums of all time! Incubus best along with Light Grenades.
They have a crazy good catalog with a lot of different styles. Something like Drive or Wish You Were Here that got crazy radio play are good follow ups to this, but some of their older tracks like Certain Shade of Green or Redefine or New Skin sound like a totally different band. And then jump forward to something like Pistola or Adolescents and it's another totally different sound.
Worth exploring all kinds of music from them, hopefully people enjoy and give this reaction some love to get more Incubus into your life!
New Skin is an awesome song!
One of their early songs that sounds way different than the rest of their music is "you will be a hot dancer" its definitely one the odder side of their music, but still pretty awesome
S.C.I.E.N.C.E. is amazing. I love a majority of their music (I have everything from Fungus Amongus through 8) too but I feel their most underrated album is If Not Now, When? In The Company of Wolves is just haunting
Vitamin anyone? A song that basically talks about the matrix before the movie was even created.
@@conradmurphy4239 company of wolves is a great song!
The entire “make yourself” album was fantastic! You have to check out their song “the warmth”
Really good choice!👍👍
I second this!
think they're ready for The Warmth? That's a dead ass good song
No doubt
Beat me to it.
This album is from 1999, they are at this point in their career definitely blending hip hop and rock.
Now time to hear tracks from their best album SCIENCE.
New Skin
A Certain Shade of Green
Nebula
Glass
S.C.I.E.N.C.E. is the only album I have of theirs. Everything after that was too pop for me.
Yup. Awesome cd
@@jpace4608 yeah I like most of "Make Yourself" as well but after that I agree with you. should check out their album and EP before SCIENCE, "Fungus Amongus" and "Enjoy Incubus". Way more funky, lots of Mr. Bungle vibes.
Deep Inside is my favorite. Not just off that album, but any of their albums.
Agreed. SCIENCE was sooooooooo dope.
INCUBUS have such a deep catalogue of great songs. New Skin - Make Yourself - Circles - Anna Molly - If Not Now, When…. Check out some of the live studio videos, just a crazy tight band.
I just saw one of the live studio videos. It blew me away. I had only seen one other of their videos and
I think that I am hooked now.
Incubus has some of my favorite songs ever made. I STILL listen to incubus in the car regularly. It’s just a band that I will personally never be tired of
I go back and listen to Science and fungus at least once a month while Im working. Never gets old
I still listen to them regularly as well. One of their songs they came out with about 2 years ago is just as great as the others. Always have been and will be amazing.
Incubus was my 1st concert they opened for 311 touring this album good times
My second concert but yea I saw them open for 311 as well. Make Yourself had just come out and I bought the album the next day based on hearing them play only 3 songs.
That was a great fuckin' tour.
Their song wish you were here is another great jam!! Very cool band!! ✌🏼
Warning, Stellar, and Anna Molly are my faves.
I was fortunate enough to see them play a show with the Deftones about 4 years ago. What a freaking awesome night of music that was
Funny enough I saw them play with Deftones and Taproot at the Tower Theatre in 2000.
@@reinofkaos dude that's awesome. I love the camaraderie and friendship that those two had together for so long and still do. My show was down here in San Diego at the Chula Vista Amphitheatre Deftones opened up with diamond eyes, it was a freaking amazing
I saw them with Deftones like, 20 years ago at Mercer Arena in Seattle. Along with Taproot.
@@reinofkaos I saw them at that tour but in Seattle!
When he says “Rise above the flames” I always took it as being like a Phoenix. They die in flames and are born again in the ashes. So I think the song is about changing yourself for the better and becoming a better person.
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I was wondering when you'd get around to Incubus! You gotta react to more songs by them. Super underrated band.
My favorite song from them is *Aqueous Transmission.* Its got a beautiful flow... not a "brain scramble." 🤣 All of their albums were great.
One of my favorites too. Morning View and Science are my two favorite albums by them.
Incubus is a strong group. The list is fairly long of great tunes: Drive, Stellar, Warning, Dig, Anna Molly, Megalomanic, Nice to Meet You, Wish You We’re Here. And on and on! Actually this is from the early 2000s
1st it's Nice To Know You and 2nd this is from 1999
Thanks for reacting to this song. Pardon Me is one of my favorite Incubus songs. Next up? Privilege, Stellar, Warning, or Wish You Were Here
Excellent choice!
Such an awesome band with many hits to check.
Megalomaniac, A crowd left of the murder, Adolescent, Dig, Drive, Anna Moly...Keep it up!
Killer tune! Amazing band. The whole Make Yourself album is amazing. My wife and I were fortunate enough to see them live in Toronto, Ontario in late 2019 before the plague.
Lex, most of the band members are surfers, so your comment about the songs buoyancy like the ocean swelling is spot on. In some of their videos, are actual clips of them surfing . ✌🏼
Please do more Incubus! My favorite band due to their diversity.
Great reaction. One of my favourite bands from back in the day. Dive in to their catalogue ... you won’t be disappointed.
Have to echo what others have said "Drive" and "Wish you were here" are solid tracks. Also "Warning" and "Summer Romance". They all sound a bit different stylistically.
First time watching this channel (I like watching reaction videos of my favorite songs/bands). Really impressed with how Lex expressed everything. Buoyancy, surrendering yourself…Good stuff.
My band opened for them one time. The guys are so nice and pleasant. Just THE reason to love them.
I said it 15 years ago and i still stand by what i said: Mike Einziger is an absolute fucking genius when it comes to incorporating effects into his guitar playing. Almost like he knows precisely how to use them to get the perfect sound
Anna Molly is another favorite of mine by Incubus. The whole Make Yourself album is perfection. Love many of their songs.
Yesssssss. Love incubus
Please check out their older stuff from their album S.C.I.E.N.C.E, when they were rlly nu metal, yall would dig 'Redefine' 'Vitamin' 'new skin' that whole album is amazing, 90s gem
Great album 👍
Idiot Box :)
Oh man! science is my absolute favourite ❤
So underrated. I've seen them live twice and they always bring the energy.
The last time I saw them live, this was the encore, wall of flames on the backdrop, and it started raining.
@@reanimated Nice! They never played this song when I saw them live. I saw them with Linkin Park at Jones Beach and it rained and thunderstormed over the water in the background and they just kept playing.
Great reaction to one of my favourite bands of all time. I first saw them play Live back in 1997 over here in England, they were supporting Korn at the time. I'd never heard of them before but became an instant fan. Ironically I'm no longer a big fan of Korn, but without them I would never have discovered Incubus.
I'd describe the kind of vocals he's doing during the verses as old-skool funk, over a break-beat/drum n' bass/jungle beat...Kind of. At least that's what my old ears hear, lol. In some ways his vocals during that time reminded me a bit of Jay-Kay from Jamiroquai
BOUT FREAKING TIME!!! I requested incubus a few months ago! Thank you!!!
One of my favorite bands, you gotta do more I guarantee you’ll love it!
Yall gotta do more Incubus. A ton of really good songs and they were on top for a really long time. Very poetic. I think Brad would really enjoy their lyrics.
He is surrendering his ego to the flames of public scrutiny.
I truly enjoy Lex's analogies...they are off the wall, but always work
Love Incubus! Fell in love with them in high school - all of their music is great
"Drive", "I Wish You Were Here", "Anna Molly" and "Megalomaniac" are all good.
This is off the "Make Yourself" album. My favorite one from them! They're very underrated. They give amazing live performance. Thanks for reacting 💙
I just saw Incubus in concert in September. The only concert I got to see this year! Love them!!
Favourite band, so many styles as the years have passed
Love the way you guys enjoy great music!
This takes me back to high school, saw them live in green bay. Great band with a lot of great songs like this one.
Also, Lex's analogies are amazing. Like a water bed... brilliant! 😁
One of my favorite songs from the CD "Make Yourself". Great upload!
Glad you guys finally got to Incubus. They have quite a few good songs. Happy listening.
Never understood why this band wasn’t huge, great music. More please? 🤞
I used to see them in small venues here in High school before the hit big. Still awesome!! ❤️
"Drive" was another massive hit from them
Man it has been way too long since I listened to Incubus. Thanks for reminding me, I will fix this!
More Incubus please! They have so many hits! I just saw them perform recently too. They've still got it for sure.
Water bed -- I love it! I think Brandon Boyd (the lead singer/writer) would LOVE to hear that descriptor. He is very artistic and a very deep thinker, and I think would be thrilled with your interpretation.
Thanks for the walk down memory lane! I always interpreted this song as kind of feeling like the world around you is letting you down, and you kind of want off the ride. Not in a dark way so much. More like, escape in a rocket ship before the world chips away at your soul kind of way.
Incubus is underrated. Love them
Yes! Incubus! They are awesome. Y'all are awesome keep up the good work. 🤙
Brad and Lex you struck gold here. They are an amazing band and are all very talented. The lead singer has an amazing voice. You got to do Drive next. Great review 👍👍👍
Great reaction you guys, and Lex- your comparisons to water and waves are way more spot-on than you realize! These guys were my classmates through middle and high school, and the singer Brandon Boyd was(is?) a surfer...maybe other members, too-but Brandon was definitely part of a family surfing tradition. And that sort of disjointedness interspersed with flow...that was just kinda what it was like growing up where we did. We lived on the outskirts of L.A. county, where we had a lot of connection with the mountains and the ocean, but were also always under the shadow of the greed and fakery and elitism and sleaziness of L.A. and Hollywood. Brandon, Mike, and Jose (sorry to leave one out-they were just the ones I knew!) were some of the more sincere and down-to-earth people within the weird landscape we grew up in (and yes, it was enough to make your head explode at times!). It's no wonder that they went on to create really unusual conflicted-sounding music, but they did it in such an original and authentic, brilliant way.
(P.S. We grew up in/around Calabasas and Malibu Canyon, CA. At the time, it was kinda rural, and middle-class people could still afford to live there, but before long it became completely taken over by the worst kind of celebrities. I'm ashamed now to say where I'm from. Incubus is perhaps the only source of "hometown pride" I have left!)
Man this was one of my favorites back in the day still love it!
Always loved the change in tempo of this song. Great reaction
Young brad articulatein the same shit I be thinking about songs when I hear them the first time vs hear them again years later.
Man I hope you guys do some more Incubus, they were my favorite band in college. I'd be curious to see what you think of some of the songs on Morning View because at first when I listened to that album I didn't really care for it, but as I progressed through a few more listens I quickly grew to love it, Morning View is my favorite album from Incubus today. My wife and I actually had the song Echo playing when we walked down the aisle at our wedding, super chill song. I'd also recommend Aqueous Transmission, one of their most chill songs.
I go and see Incubus every year with my sister, however covid disrupted that the past 2 years. Great band to see live, love Incubus.
Incubus is a great band. Lots of very good songs and very diverse sounds from song to song.
State of the Art, Sick Sad Little World, A Certain Shade of Green. So many great tracks
My go-to Karaoke song. 😎
Still one of the best songs I've ever heard in my life!!!
Mad jealous if you can sing like Brandon I've been trying to learn how to sing and I definitely would never go to a karaoke I think I would do horrible yeah yeah
redefine , make yourself , 11AM , just a phase , here in my room , a certain shade of green ..... so many great songs !!!
Incubus - Vitamin.
Every one of their albums vibes different. It's a good journey to go down.
Incubus is great. Drive, wish you were here, talk show on mute, black heart inertia are some of my personal favorites
Phenomenal band with a ton of great deep cuts, especially in their earlier stuff.
My cousin who is a musical genius *literally* introduced me to incubus around 11 years ago and ever since, they’ve been that band to me who sticks out very far away from typical sounds, in the best way. Amazing band i feel has been overlooked
Drive, Wish You Were Here and A Certain Shade of Green should definitely be on the list to check out!
late 90s. very late 90s. Great song off a great album. Have seen Incubus live quite a few times. Excellent.
0:16 OH! Thanks Lex! Now I can start my day!
This song is used in the movie "Little Nicky" starring Adam Sandler.....that came out in 2000, so late 90s, roughly
Incubus has so many jams...wish you were here, stellar, drive, black heart inertia, dig
Agree with other sentiments that Incubus has a deep and varied, and extremely talented catalog of music. Their live show at Red Rocks is just ethereal. Check out : Sick Sad Little World from them.
Such a great song and a super underrated band!
I’d love to hear you react to Brand New “The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows”!!!
This whole album is great!
I really wanna see yall get into Muse. Amazing band
I wish you would look into a few deeper cuts from bands. My friend’s favorite band is incubus. I’d heard a lot of their hits, and I was confused when he told me that incubus is his favorite. He then showed me songs from their album S.C.I.E.N.C.E. and I got a much better idea of why he loves them so much. While hits are good, especially for introducing someone to a band, to REALLY get a feel for a group, some deeper cuts are essential.
Top 2 favorite bands of all time. Hope you dive in more because there is a lot to choose from
So glad to get some of the really good stuff on the off stream uploads. We need to do some 90s-2000s only streams to get all the 80s stuff off the poll! Incubus is awesome.
It's the moment in time when non dual realization occurs.....the big bang.....the repeated reminder returning to your awareness everytime you endure emotional intensity from the events/occurences/daily life ...
Yeah, "drive" by them is awesome too (and some others). Great message too
Yes! Please please please do more Incubus!!!
Pretty much ever thing they do is great. Stellar has always been my favorite.
Album released February 2000. Thank God I have great music of the 70's and 80's to listen to.
Saw them open for Korn in the 90s everytime I hear drive always reminds me of my sister
This entire album is gold!
Incubus was one of the most seamless and sophisticated mergers of "rap/hip-hop" and rock into one sound. It doesn't sound like a mish-mash, it's one coherent whole.
I graduated in 2000 I saw them on Holloween "98 on the Family Values then in 00" with the Deftones. Amazing time in music and in time to be alive especially at that age.
I saw Incubus when Science was brand new back in…99 I believe. They were touring with Godsmack and Grinspoon. Godsmack had also just put out thier first record at that time. Both bands were kind of unknown at that point. I saw them in Detroit at St. Andrews Hall. What a show!
Man Incubus is just a vibe every time i listen to their music.
It's my first time hearing this one. I respect the tempo changes; it really gives a vibe.
Incubus is one of those bands that is in like a strange level of extreme success and extreme obscurity at the same time.
Ooh listening to Incubus, nice. Love the album Make Yourself and SCIENCE.. and A Crow Left of etc. Not all of the albums, but he's got one of my favourite all time voices when it works. They try a lot of sounds, after escaping the Mike Patton slash nu metal experiments of their beginnings.
This whole album is good! Every song!
They got big in the late 90s and early 2000s. I think this was 98 or 99. One of my favorite bands from that era. They do a lot of interesting things but they're one of those bands that you really need to dive into their non-single tracks to hear their best stuff. "Deep Inside" from their album Science was always a favorite of mine. And "Calgone" that follows it on the album is a trip lol.
And one of the bands that sounds JUST AS GOOD LIVE as they do in the studio. 🔥🔥👌
I love this band so much.