Yes, apparently that reference is more known than the band. I once had someone ask me if I was referring to the demon Incubus from mythology. Just listen to this masterpiece and tell me you don’t feel the calming power of it.ĭespite how I feel, after all these years, what has surprised me the most is how underrated Incubus is. I’ve searched, "Greatest bands ” and have never once seen them come up.Įven in conversations, when I ask people who their favorite bands are, they never say Incubus, and whenever I do, they rarely know who or what I’m talking about. However, years later, now that I have, that’s what those lyrics mean to me.Īnother great song on the album is the last one, titled “Aqueous Transmission.” This is easily one of the most Zen pieces of rock music I’ve ever heard. That’s something I didn’t know at first, not having experienced loss at that time. Life is hard enough, so when you just stop and be in the moment, you remember the person that has gone and wish them back. Those are the times when you are most happy, because they can be the only ones that make sense. The simple ones though, when you can just feel the wind on your face, or put your feet in the sand. Maybe I should hold with care, but my hands are busy in the air.”Īnyone who has experienced loss knows that it’s the moments when everything seems so loud, and out of control, that are so hard to handle. I think it’s a song about loss.Ī few of the lyrics really stand out to me, especially, “The world’s a roller coaster, and I am not strapped in. You could argue it’s a love song, but personally I don’t think it is. The mood of the album really changes though with its third song, “Wish You Were Here”, which might be my favorite. “Nice to Know You” is a great song, but it’s intense and not something everyone could get into.
I had never heard a sound like that before and I couldn’t wait to hear more.Įach song had a different style. Very few things had ever done that to me before.Īs the CD played, the genre was Alternative, but not in a Linkin Park sort of way. I thought about my life, the people in it, the experiences I had, the stuff I needed to do it was crazy. I just listened to those songs in complete silence, every beat of them, and felt the emotion. The whole album made me feel something that I never felt before with music.
I never pretended to be a music buff, but I know what I like and this was unbelievable.
INCUBUS BAND MIKE FULL
Then, it all abruptly stops for one beat, and then Bam!, the song goes full rock. In the background, the wave like sound is faint but never changing. A light drum tempo follows, with a voice scatting to the beat of the drum. I can only describe it as oscillating waves. I don’t know the instrument, or even if it is one, but it’s this sound that lead me to a feeling of calm. It begins with this sound that I can’t quite articulate. The first song on the album, “Nice to Know You”, immediately hooked me. Then one day when I was younger, my family and I were taking a road trip upstate, and my dad played his CD of Morning View, by the band Incubus. I like good songs as much as the next person, but I never felt an “out of body experience” listening to the Spice Girls. I always respected that notion, but didn’t really understand it. I used to hear people say things like, music could make them feel certain ways, or how it could lift them, inspire them, or how music changed their lives. Even if people don’t understand the language that you’re singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.” Singer Lou Rawls once said “Music is the greatest form of communication in the world.
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