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Saturday, October 3, 2009 - 20:26
Cool online Incu-articles
I was browsing around the net today looking for Incubus stuff, and I found some really good links to share. Some very interesting stuff here, a lot of it direct quotes from the guys themselves. Check 'em out and enjoy:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brandon_Boyd
http://www.geocities.com/elleopal/quotes.html
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5934212/one_night_of_sin_with_inc...
A really well-written, in-depth review of Light Grenades:
http://www.epinions.com/review/Light_Grenades_by_Incubus_Rock_8287683852...
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Thanks Leah! I wonder what he meant by the band having a personal connection to Life Rolls On. Anyone know?
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ccjar
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Great Interview with Jake, the man who basically manages Make Yourself Foundation. Check it out! http://www.whatgives.com/2009/11/19/incubus-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving/
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kill your doubt.. with the coldest of weapons.. confidence
ahhhh...I love that song.
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ccjar
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Thanks for the link Jackie!
Here's one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqaNTh5Di3c
And an Interview with Mike!
http://www.chartattack.com/features/73057/incubus-arent-ready-for-state-...
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Here ladies...video sucks but the audio is great...just close your eyes and imagine...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8oKBWj6lYg&feature=PlayList&p=F09C73D72E...
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ccjar
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Agreed Chydie...their best love song! *sigh* Have it on again right now...
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ccjar
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oh god, i wish they would play Echo as well.
i wanna hear that live so bad. i think it beats I Miss You and all.
to me it's their best love song. anyways, i agree with Suz.
ACLOTM is my fav as well. but i love 'em all for sure! haha.
I love Echo! It's one of my favorites. It would have been so great to hear them do it at RC. But hey, I'm not complaining!
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And he can still sing those songs and sing them great. I wish I could ask them why they don't play Echo more often. That is my absolute favorite song. I listen to it over and over...right now as a mtter of fact! haha
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ccjar
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I know, it's really such a (nice) shock when you start with their last CD and work your way backwards to something like S.C.I.E.N.C.E, which is so radically different but yet still so...them. I love S.C.I.E.N.C.E. and I really love watching them perform in those early days on old vids. Makes me wish I could have been there to see them live back then. Absolutely incredible energy. Thing is, they STILL have that phenomenal creative and physical energy, it's just being channeled differently, and that is what makes them so great.
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I lean against the wind, pretend that I am weightless, and in this moment I am happy...
I got LG first and then I think Make Yourself and then the Look Alive dvd. I heard Redefine for the first time on the dvd and loved it. Needless to say, when I bought S.C.I.E.N.C.E I was like---whoa! what is this?! Now the cd version of Redefine and New Skin are two of my favorite songs.
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ccjar
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Yep, Renee, that's totally the way it goes amongst us, just amazing and cool.
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'cuz wihout love I won't survive
Whereas I LOVE Monuments and Melodies! To me, it's so poignant and heart-rending. And Mikey's guitar solo towards the end is just gorgeous in its simplicity, just the way Brandon's voice is. For me, the pacing is just perfect, for a song whose beauty is so raw and personal and revealing. It's like looking into someone's secret heart.
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I lean against the wind, pretend that I am weightless, and in this moment I am happy...
It's amazing to me that we all love Incubus but have different likes/not likes among their songs. Goes to show how wide their range is - I absolutely love Pendulous Threads - I love the beginning, I can hear Mike's chords building under Jose's drumming and I just love it. I have a really tough time with Monuments & Melodies though, I want it to speed up and can hardly stand the draginess. And so it goes....
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'cuz wihout love I won't survive
Couldn't have said it better myself Renee
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Totally agree with you, Suz. They have not in any way sold out or lost their sound. Granted, LG is light-years away from S.C.I.E.N.C.E., but that is precisely because they have grown and evolved and NOT stayed stuck in the same groove all these years. Really, how absurd would it be if they were still churning out funk a la S.C.I.E.N.C.E, which I happen to really love as an album but which is their far past by now. True fans will always stick by them and give their new stuff a fair chance, and we will always see the good in what they do-- because it's there, not because we want it to be there!
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I lean against the wind, pretend that I am weightless, and in this moment I am happy...
Yeah, I totally agree that not everyone will like everything. But for those of us who did like Incubus, maybe not as far back as Fungus Amongus (I actually really don't like the songs on there either, just not my taste) but say S.C.I.E.N.C.E., then LG is WAAAAAAAAAY different. However, I do not agree that they have lost their sound or have sold out. I continue to love them and admire them for making amazing music and like I said, hardcore incubus fans will force themselves to like a song because they made it, take for example me with BHI or you with pendulous threads.
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LG was my first too. I kind of worked my way backwards from there to Fungus Amongus, downloading like crazy to make up for lost time! I love LG. Not every single track (I've said before that the Earth to Bellas are not favorites for me, and it took a long time before I would even really listen to Pendulous Threads because of the very beginning being so hard to sit through, and I think Diamonds and Coal is a bit too mainstream and not very interesting musically), but I think the rest of it is really amazing. And I respect the band so much for doing things their own way, no matter what anybody else thinks. They will continue to grow and explore and make their own brand of music and along the way, not everyone will like everything, but that's okay.
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I lean against the wind, pretend that I am weightless, and in this moment I am happy...
LG was my first so I have a special place in my heart for it. I love the whole thing...
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ccjar
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While it is a harsh review, I have to agree with the fact that I only really like a handful of songs on there (quicksand/aktsuo, pendulous threads, rogues, lg). I actually did think that the whole album was very "pop"ish and was even a little disappointed. Same thing happened to me with BHI. Of course if you're a hardcore Incubus fan, the songs eventually grow on you and you accept all their musical flaws. But, I do have to admit, out of all their albums, LG is lower on my favorite list.
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I couldn't bring myself to read it. I know the bad reviews are out there, but they make me very defensive. haha
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ccjar
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Wow, Chydie, that review is HARSH. And it is so completely opposite to what I think about LG. I am surprised she even gave it three stars. From what she said, I would have expected a minus three! Nice to know she found some redeeming features anyway.
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awww. i have a special place in my heart for LG. the first incubus song that i heard was Dig, and i fell in love right then and there. It was the second album of theirs that i purchased, first was Morning View.
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sing this song, remind me that we'll always have each other... when everything else is gone.
me thinks this is an interesting point of view of LG.
http://www.amazon.com/review/RDNO0B8RHC4QP
oh thanks, Leah! i've been wondering where that pic came from.
apparently it came along with an article. sweet! i like his hat collection =)
uuu.. Elijah Wood looks good on the cover of the mag. hahahaha.
Check out this article from Corduroy magazine!
http://www.corduroymag.com/magazine/behind-the-scenes-brandon-boyd
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Leah: I have had the same experience with their music. It has affected me very deeply and profoundly, and continues to do so every day. I too am hugely grateful. The arts in all their forms have always been very important in my life, both doing them and appreciating what others do. So I am in complete awe of people like Brandon and bands like Incubus, who really live their creative dreams through their work, and make what they're doing every day really count in the wider world. Their influence is huge, and they use it to make the world a better place through the MYF and living by example, something Brandon, in particular, actually DOES. So-- wow. I am in awe.
Rosario: Agreed, the creative impulse and process are very spiritual things, probably one of the highest forms of spirituality, because you have to be deeply in touch with yourself in order to create. I love that Brandon has nurtured that part of himself so devotedly, and remains firmly skeptical of conventional, established institutions like religion, preferring to set down his own boundaries. (Don't mean to offend anyone by saying that.)
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I lean against the wind, pretend that I am weightless, and in this moment I am happy...
Yepp Chydie. The locked in the room one. It cracks me up. Brandon can act so funny, dorky and sophisticated at the same time!
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Alyssa, are you talking about when he said Britney should be
locked inside a dark room filled with spiders? that one?
and yeah, i agree that CauseCast interviews are fantastic.
you guys should read other interviews by all the leaders
and organizations in the site. there's one guy i like.
his name is Roko Belic and he makes documentaries.
i love what he would do to Britney Spears!
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Great Interview......those were really intelligent questions to which Brandon gave really thoughtful, heart felt answers to, answers that make you think about what your own personal social contributions are.
And I agree with him when he said that art, the impulse to create it, the process of creating it... is as close to spirituality as you can get.
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In an interview with CauseCast they asked Brandon: So how would you say that your consciousness affects your art, and in turn, your art then affects someone else’s consciousness?
BB: Riiight…I don’t know exactly how it affects people’s consciousness, but I know that I have been affected by art and by music my whole life. It has shaped my life in a lot of ways, and it made me want to do what I do. So, if what I put into the world can have even the slightest bit of effect on a small group of people, I think that’s wonderful...
The effect that Incubus has had on my life is tremendous, and I will be forever grateful! I know I am not alone when I say... Thank You Incubus!!!
Full article: http://www.causecast.org/news_items/9087-brandon-boyd-teams-up-with-toms...
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kill your doubt.. with the coldest of weapons.. confidence
I think he would be totally amazed, elated, and blown away by how many people he really has touched with his words-- both his lyrics and in his books-- and his art.
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Abso-f***ing-lutely!!!
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See...we understand, right Rosario?! We get it BB!! lol
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ccjar
my biggest fear will be the rescue of me...
LOL! Aint that the Truth!!!
And it's also true that misery can sometimes yield the most beautiful of artistic expressions. Maybe that's because all those negative feelings and experiences can cause you to detach yourself from the outside world for a time while you ruminate over and analyize the s*** out of why it is you are so unhappy.
But I also have to say that while Brandon may not believe that writing is an easy feat while being happy, he has written some pretty amazing lyrics while being just that.....happy.
Oh and one of my favorite quotes from that excerpt that Jackie mentioned is one tiny line written off to the side and in parenthesis, a tiny little plea.
(You won't understand.....
If you don't, could you please just try.)
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Me too. Active imaginations are really hell sometimes! LOL
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I lean against the wind, pretend that I am weightless, and in this moment I am happy...
Jackie, i remember that from his book. so true.
if there is a middle ground, i'd like to find it too.
but if there isn't, then i shall be miserable for the sake of art. haha.
Renee, that is a sweet image.. hmm.. jeepers.. i'm drooling.. XD
Interesting, last night I was watching a YT vid of an interview with Brandon where he talks about this very thing. He said that most inspiration tends to come from negative experiences, because when he's happy, all he wants to do is run around naked on the beach with his dog. (sweet image, right?
) But he said that the band's true goal is to create music from joy.
If you look at their songs, though, it seems that despite this goal, some of their best songs are the product of the tough, painful experiences.
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I lean against the wind, pretend that I am weightless, and in this moment I am happy...
Brandon wrote in White Fluffy Clouds...
"Why is it easier to write when I'm not happy? Why is dilema the afrodisiac of the writer? I want to be happy. But I want to write. I am finding that when I am content I have less to write about. Why is this? PARADOX! Can there be a middle ground? And if so, will I find it?"
All artists work better when they are not happy! lol
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ccjar
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