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Rank 'Em: The Incubus Albums

DiRtyFranK38DiRtyFranK38 Posts: 3,131
edited November 2011 in Other Music
another incredible band. recently saw them live and they were fucking flawless. tough to rank...love every album

1.) A Crow Left of The Murder
2.) Morning View
3.) Make Yourself
4.) S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
5.) Light Grenades (the excellent songs here are better than the excellent songs on science, but science is more consistant)
6.) If Not Now When?
7.) Fungus Amongus

at first i hated INNW, but 3/4 of it reaaally grew on me...love all 7 albums
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2008: MSG 1, Hartford, Mansfield 2, Ed Solo NYC 1
2009: London (O2), Philly 1, 2, 3, & 4
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  • GardenpartyGardenparty Posts: 1,910
    1. Crow Left
    2. Morning View
    3. Make Yourseld
    4. SCIENCE
    5. If Not Now
    6. Fungus Amongus
    7. Light Grenades
    “I know this song so well, I can smoke a cigarette, have a drink, brush my teeth, take a shit, and mow the lawn while singing it. But I'll only be doing a couple of those things during this version.”
  • 12345AGNST112345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    1. Crow Left
    2. Morning View
    3. Light Grenades ( do NOT understand the hate for this album. I think its brilliant)
    4. Make Yourself
    5. SCIENCE
    6. Fungus Amongus




    7. If not now, hopefully never

    and from light grenades: favorite track. just flat out incredible and in your face energetic
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWbjk3y4dh8
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  • OlivavuOlivavu Posts: 1,683
    1 - SCIENCE
    2 - Make Yourself
    3 - Morning View
    4 - Fungus Amongus
    ...and then a long way back...
    5 - A Crow Left Of The Murder
    6 - Light Grenades

    I cannot believe people think A Crow... is the best album. It's nowhere near as good as SCIENCE, MY and MV. Or FA.

    It's just boring and the loss of Dirk was massive.
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  • May 30thMay 30th Posts: 1,753
    A crow left of the murder is terrible after Pistola. Awful songs.
  • BinFrogBinFrog Posts: 7,309
    Olivavu wrote:
    1 - SCIENCE
    2 - Make Yourself
    3 - Morning View
    4 - Fungus Amongus
    ...and then a long way back...
    5 - A Crow Left Of The Murder
    6 - Light Grenades

    I cannot believe people think A Crow... is the best album. It's nowhere near as good as SCIENCE, MY and MV. Or FA.

    It's just boring and the loss of Dirk was massive.

    Yup. And the loss of their original DJ (DJ Lyfe) after Science caused the first downhill slide.

    I'd put Enjoy Incubus in there too...probably at #2 behind Science, but your list is spot on.
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  • OlivavuOlivavu Posts: 1,683
    May 30th wrote:
    A crow left of the murder is terrible after Pistola. Awful songs.

    It isn't great before, but it is awful after that song.

    There's no way it's their best album, for me. SCIENCE is a really driven and accomplished (plus original) piece of work.
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  • OlivavuOlivavu Posts: 1,683
    BinFrog wrote:
    Olivavu wrote:
    1 - SCIENCE
    2 - Make Yourself
    3 - Morning View
    4 - Fungus Amongus
    ...and then a long way back...
    5 - A Crow Left Of The Murder
    6 - Light Grenades

    I cannot believe people think A Crow... is the best album. It's nowhere near as good as SCIENCE, MY and MV. Or FA.

    It's just boring and the loss of Dirk was massive.

    Yup. And the loss of their original DJ (DJ Lyfe) after Science caused the first downhill slide.

    I'd put Enjoy Incubus in there too...probably at #2 behind Science, but your list is spot on.

    Yeah, the gradual dismantling of the original band has caused quality control to suffer!

    Have you ever listened to Audiovent? They were ok.
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  • Jason PJason P Posts: 19,138
    1. Make Yourself
    2. Crow Left in the Murder
    3. Light Grenades
    4. Morning View
    5. Science
    6. Fungus Amongus

    I treat If Not Now, When? the same way I treat Rocky V … it never happened.
  • OlivavuOlivavu Posts: 1,683
    Jason P wrote:
    1. Make Yourself
    I treat If Not Now, When? the same way I treat Rocky V … it never happened.

    I've not got it. Don't really want it.
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  • BinFrogBinFrog Posts: 7,309
    Olivavu wrote:
    Yeah, the gradual dismantling of the original band has caused quality control to suffer!

    Have you ever listened to Audiovent? They were ok.


    I just found the earlier stuff much more energetic, original, experiemental, and interesting. Make Yourself and Morning View are good, but not great. To me, Science is f'ing epic.

    I never gave Audiovent much thought. I know they have Incubus ties.

    I saw Incubus a few times in the late 90's, before Pardon Me exploded, and they were awesome.
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  • Johnny AbruzzoJohnny Abruzzo Posts: 11,601
    I lost touch with this band.

    1- Make Yourself
    2- Morning View

    Is SCIENCE really that good?
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  • BinFrogBinFrog Posts: 7,309
    Johnny Abruzzo wrote:
    I lost touch with this band.

    1- Make Yourself
    2- Morning View

    Is SCIENCE really that good?


    Yes.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIBD7L73I4Q
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  • DiRtyFranK38DiRtyFranK38 Posts: 3,131
    Olivavu wrote:
    1 - SCIENCE
    2 - Make Yourself
    3 - Morning View
    4 - Fungus Amongus
    ...and then a long way back...
    5 - A Crow Left Of The Murder
    6 - Light Grenades

    I cannot believe people think A Crow... is the best album. It's nowhere near as good as SCIENCE, MY and MV. Or FA.

    It's just boring and the loss of Dirk was massive.

    i think a crow left is easily their most interesting album. one of my favorite guitar albums ever...so many changes in all the songs
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    2008: MSG 1, Hartford, Mansfield 2, Ed Solo NYC 1
    2009: London (O2), Philly 1, 2, 3, & 4
    2010: Hartford, Boston, MSG 1 & 2
    2011: Ed Solo Hartford
    2012: Philly (MIA Fest)
    2013: Worcester 2, Brooklyn 1 & 2, Hartford
  • pjpitt89pjpitt89 Posts: 1,848
    Make Yourself
    SCIENCE
    Morning View
    INNW
    Light Grenades
    ACLOTM
    Fungus Amungus
    9/1/00, 4/28/03, 7/5/03, 7/6/03, 7/12/03, 10/1/04, 9/28/05, 5/27/06, 5/28/06, 6/1/06, 6/27/08, 6/30/08, 8/7/08 (EV), 6/12/09 (EV), 10/27/09, 10/28/09,10/30/09, 10/31/09, 5/21/10, 6/15/11 (EV), 9/2/12, 7/19/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 10/27/13, 4/28/16, 4/29/16, 8/7/16, 11/4/16 (TOTD), 8/18/18, 8/20/18, 9/24/21 (EV&Earthlings), 9/26/21, 9/11/2022, 9/14/2022, 9/7/2024, 9/9/2024, 9/12/2024
  • Raineman311Raineman311 Posts: 127
    Morning View
    Make Yourself
    Crow
    Light Grenades
    S.C.I.E.N.C.E
    INNW
    Fungus
  • Raineman311Raineman311 Posts: 127
    May 30th wrote:
    A crow left of the murder is terrible after Pistola. Awful songs.

    With the exception of "Leech" Id have to agree with that, but those first 7 songs are amazing enough to rank this album pretty high.
  • pearljamdude420pearljamdude420 Posts: 1,380
    the best album by far is SCIENCE. i saw incubus open for korn on family values tour with that album and the show was so sick and awesome, i again saw incubus 1 more time later on, at their own headlining show around 2007 ish? and the show was no where near as good as the show in 98 on the family values tour. yes the 2007 show was 90mins instead of 45mins, but the new songs are so soft and it completely different style than science, science is a crazy album, it was 1 of my favorite albums ever, but i really do not care for any incubus album after that, espically the last few they have, all their new stuff sounds like pop rock, also the crowd seems completely different too , the 98 family values tour, the crowd seemed to be a bumch of punk rock and metal heads, the newer shows since they gone mainstream seem to have a lot of bozo mainstream fans that just listen to radio hits, and dont know much about music outside of mainstream radio
  • pearljamdude420pearljamdude420 Posts: 1,380
    98 family values the pit was crazy too, in 2007 incubus barely had any pit, a few peole tried to start one and other peple seemed to not be into it. they played mostly new songs though that was way softer than science album
  • pearljamdude420pearljamdude420 Posts: 1,380
    pearl jam needs more bad religion to open their shows again, that is sicko lineup when br opens for pj
  • tbergstbergs Posts: 9,811
    1. Science (Consistent and best musically)
    2. Make Yourself (Solid album, but a bit too poppy)
    3. Morning View (Really good songs and Some mediocre)
    4. Light Grenades
    5. Fungus
    6. A Crow Left of the Murder (Gave up after this album, but glad I finally listened to Light Grenades recently)
    7. INNW (Still can't get in to this one at all)
    It's a hopeless situation...
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