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The singles slap, but the rest is uninspired formulaic 90s alt rock. I would never say that this is a talented or remarkable group. They got lucky with a few decent songs, that’s all.
Þessi, líkt og sú síðasta, fellur á milli 2 og 3. Hér eru lög sem hljómuðu á X-inu og voru ekki alslæm, og sumt æi soundinu er töff, en alltaf skal distortiona aðeins og mikið inn á milli. Mun aldrei leita þetta uppi, en þetta á sín móment.
Almost nu metal at times but then you also got stuff like drive, and the guy who sings drive. I felt like the vocals really collided with some of the instrumentals on this if I had to use a metaphors it’s like casting Topher Grace to play Venom.
A routine album from a routine band in a routine genre
I came close to bailing halfway through the first track. Horrid, horrid rock music. And then the turntable kicked in. Interesting. I persisted through until the end, ignoring the cock rock posturing, but appreciating the experimentation with the turntable. Not horrid, horrid rock music after all. Just horrid rock music.
27th April 2023 Can't remember what I did on Thursday, back from Albania and can barely remember my own name. Wasn't for me from memory. Gloomy.
Watered down Green Day. One decent song, and I'm probably being overly generous to "Drive" because it reminds me of eating pussy.
Best Song: Drive. The most popular, most chill song on the album. Worst Song: I Miss You. Straight from that era of corny, melodramatic "rock" ballads. I bet if this song has a music video, someone looks forlornly out of a rain-covered window. Overall: Honestly, kind of dull. Doesn't do anything that a dozen other bands don't do better. It's incredibly 90s, so nice for the nostalgia but not much else.
This music feels very calculated and inauthentic to me. It's all very well-produced and performed. All the parts are where hit-song parts should go. There are the typical quiet-loud dynamics and explosive choruses. There are even parts that are kind of cool. But over all, it sounds like something an AI created. Meh.
I don't have an ear for this genre.
OK, but not my favorite genre.
Not really my cup of tea.
Not awful, but it's pretty run of the mill 90s rock, there's that telltale scratching mixed in so its got a touch of nu metal. And there's a big ballad for the radio plays. Very American. Didn't really do much for me.
Look, I'm just not a nu-metal fan and this is a good example of it, one decent song in The Warmth but that's it in a sea of Meh
ekki jafnvoðalegt og ég óttaðist en ekki eitthvað sem ég nenni að hlusta á aftur eða hafði sérstaklega gaman af.
I unfortunately remember this band form when they came out. I struggled through this as to me it is just watered down pap
ew did not like this at all. cringe annoying OOT music. whiney
Ugh, I really really really cannot stand nu metal. This particular record seems to be hopelessly stuck in 1999, and while some of the tracks are catchy enough, it absolutely does not warrant a runtime of almost 50 minutes. I'll give this one a low two as I know that my judgement is clouded. But in my heart this is a 0/5.
Meh
Average generic Nu metal album in my opinion. Can see this dropping off future lists. Wouldn’t have minded this when I was 12 never a band I was into in those days only song i really recognise is drive. & miss you, I have a feeling my wife is a fan of those songs.
Parecidos a Pearl Jam, pero más rollo.
I'm a little surprised that I did not get more into this band at the time. It has a ton of elements that come together from other bands I loved that I should have been obsessed. Some RATM in the guitar playing and bass lines, some Deftones in the harmonies. Brandon's voice rings clear as a bell. The melodies are interesting and emotive when they soar through many of the choruses. Love the dynamics. But, despite an overly large record collection at the time, I never owned this album. But also, despite never owning this album, every song was familiar (except Battlestar - honestly, a great, funky and standout track hearing it now). Assume that's from it being on while hanging out with friends. Maybe that's why I never bought it for myself...I heard enough to get my fill. In writing this, I'm really trying to think why these guys didn't become a favorite. Maybe it's because I was really looking for something different. Trip hop was growing on me, as well as really raw stuff like John Frusciante's solo records. My tastes were changing, maybe? Maybe this era of music had plateaued for me. There's also a nagging feeling that something about the band was gimmicky. "Duh", I guess, right? I'm not a fan of (not sure how to put this) a "hip hop cadence" in rock songs, which this has at times. I've really grown to love hip hop and was a RATM fan from the beginning. There's just times in rock songs where a hip hop cadence (even when sung) sounds awkward and inauthentic. 1 = bad 2 = average 3 = good 4 = great 5 = outstanding
Ah HS memories
PREFS : The Warmth, Battlestar Scralatchtica, Pardon Me MOINS PREF : When It Comes
Quelques rares bouts où je trouvais que l'album se démarquait, mais overall c'est du gros alt metal typique 90s qui est tellement stéréotypé.
Incubus didn’t do much for me at the time. Still doesn’t.
I didn't get much out of this. Musically fine, vocals are flat, scratching is annoying. Mostly forgettable. Fave Songs: Drive, Clean, The Warmth
Lief so durch, ohne bleibende Eindrücke zu hinterlassen.
Not the worst thing I've heard on here.
It was alright until "Battlestar Scralatchtica" Actually, I can't even say that now, cause when I went back to double check the spelling of "Scralatchtica," I noticed I accidentally shuffled the album. So the hope I had from thinking I was almost done is gone. I'm not finishing, cause this is just like listening to any rock station in the 90s.
1 Ok it really suck, but it's not that bad. When they either take it slow or really scream it's pretty ok 2
I am not really a fan of Incubus. The album had some songs that were recognizable, but they aren't that good of songs. I don't need to listen to the album again.
El rock californiano de mediados de los ´90 en adelante no es lo que más entiendo para poder hablar de ésto, me parecen todas esas bandas muy parecidas en el estilo. Sin dudas Incubus suena muy bien, pero es una más de todos esos grupos que suenan muy similares.
It's hard to get over how dated this album sounds, although the instrumental side had some highlights throughout. Nice for a throwback, but would not listen on my own time. I'm sure Incubus will really resonate with some people, but it seems I am not one of them. I'd give it three stars but the lyrics made me grimace at times.
This is that edgy over-produced sound that just has bro time in the Jeep Wrangler off-roading reverberating out of every melody. Not as good as 311 or Daft Punk, but just sort of nipping at their heels.
I didn’t hate this as much as I thought I would. I can see why late 90s, coming-of-age, angsty teens, who rejected the culture of the cools, would be in to this. But at some point in one’s life, the angst should lift, so I don’t see this having lasting power except as a nostalgic experience. Drive isn’t bad. I don’t like the DJ’s scratching, a la Battlestar Scralatchtica. Fuck the screaming on Out From Under. I was prepared to go full STINKUBUS for this review, but I’ll settle on stIncubus.
1999. Drive
If you held on to JNCO's longer than you should, then you are probably still holding on to this album. There are radio hits in this album and Incubus was a top band in nu-metal but something here was rotten from the beginning and is now just washed out bones of a subgenre. Nu-metal's influence lives on even as its founding bands have fallen away because they failed to stay relevant or be outside their moment. Sorry, Incubus, you didn't get to fly away on that UFO that was going to take us all to a peaceful forest to trip out the rest of our days. Hope you aren't still sitting on the beach taking shrooms and waiting.
Пиздец устаревшая штука.
I don't know how this made it onto the list :D I don't mind it, I like some of it, but it's not historic or particularly influential now is it?
This was really underwhelming - I wasn't super excited by the prospect of it, but it's got 2 songs on with 100m+ plays on Spotify so I figured it must have some interest to it. It really doesn't, it's pretty bland, not really sure what the genre is but it's not tuneful enough to be poppy or loud and energetic enough to be rock/metal. And it all sounds more or less the same. Not bad enough for a 1, but not close to getting 3. 2/5.
A pretty standard paint-by-numbers, nü-metal adjacent, late 90s album.
A bit loud but overall good.
Parecidos a Pearl Jam, pero más rollo.
I remember my siblings really liked incubus and I would tell them they were a one hit wonder. 22 years later I think I was right lol. That song drive is something else tho
Was not into Incubus at the time. The sound is that typical 90s cross-over metal that has not aged well. Lyrics idemdito. Some kind of Faith No More-light but without the strong songs.
I really liked their album S.C.I.E.N.C.E, but everything else I've heard from them so far has been underwhelming for me. Clearly talented musicians, but it sounds too clean for me, and the songs are not compelling enough.
I suppose this is the Platonic ideal of a certain class of fin de siecle funk/nu metal. But to this genre non-lover, I hear every song riding the same basic template – big, doofy metal hooks and banks, which drown out the interesting bits (e.g., the lighter, vaguely Indo groove on “Nowhere Fast” and the suggestion of slow burn on “Consequence”). The singer sounds like he’s competing in American Idol or some such, and seeking bonus points for range and emoting. And I’m sure some teenage fanboy (only boys of course) might tell me why this drummer (or bassist or guitarist) is the GOAT. And if I asked to know why and how this combo differs meaningfully from certain hair bands of earlier generations, I’d likely be told that I just don’t understand. Guilty as charged – this is not at all my thing and I just don’t see the case for hearing this urgently or ever.
On first blush, I thought that this was going to be utterly typical numetal pap. After careful listening, I can confirm that this is utterly typical numetal pap. It isn't actively offensive, but it is dull. Meh.
I could maybe appreciate this in a weird ironic/nostalgic way after a few beers? Not that I was into this when it came out - not in the least. But it is very much of its time, and it brings me back in a way that more timeless music of the same era somehow doesn't. The main thing that would get in the way of actually enjoying it on some level are the laughably bad lyrics. Even if I was totally shit faced, I'd still cringe.
Tsja. Mixed feelings. Volgens mij zit het muzikaal best goed in elkaar, maar door de manier van zingen vind ik het toch meer iets voor tieners :)
ok.
rätt jädra kass
Not particularly interested in boring nu-metal or what started the boring nu-metal phase.
meh
Aika turha levy tällä listalla. Oisko tämä sitten joku nu-metallin uranuurtaja vai mikä juttu? Oli metallia ja skrätsäystä. Ja vähän sellainen fiilis, että koitettu tehdä helposti sulatettavaa matskua joka ei niin suututtaisi ketään.
No nyt on kyllä melkoista Nickelbackia. Olisikohan tämä jonkinlainen genren pioneeri, koska mitään muuta meriittiä en keksi. Tämäntyyppinen musiikki on tehty muiden yhteyeiden toimesta paljon tyylikkäämminkin. Ei kuitenkaan ihan ykkösen arvoinen.
It's fine? Don't really know how it ended up on this list.
many people used to try to get me in to incubus back in the day. didn't get it back then. not much has changed, but i did discover they have a weird funk hip hop crossover track with one of the worst names i've ever seen - battlestar scralatchica. you can feel how cool they thought they were when they came up with that piss poor very difficult to pronounce play on words. however its the most interesting thing on the album because its just so out of place. my conclusion is that incubus are limp bizkit for girls.
Oh yeah, I haven't written anything, have I? Ah well, probably no need to.
I was very much into the wave of early 2000s British rock bands that were clearly influenced by Incubus (Biffy Clyro, Reuben, YOURCODENAMEIS:MILO et al) but I could never really get on board with Incubus themselves. They seem to have taken their cues from Grunge, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nu-Metal, none of which are exactly my favourites. And "to resist is to piss in the wind, anyone that does will end up smelling" has got to be in the conversation for worst lyric of all time.
Generic.
Nunca he sido fan de incubus, y este disco no fue la excepción. El estilo del álbum me recordó un poco a Foo Fighters, pero con un tomo más... ácido, creo. No tengo mucho que decir, simplemente no me atrapó.
Generic nu-metal. A couple of hit singles and surely someone's favourite band as a teenager but not sure what they are doing on this list.
Double platinum. I don't know what the sales number needs to be for that but it's a lot of sales. The album is a Pearl Jam 10th anniversary sound alike project. I don't get what the big deal is.
Many reviewers have complained that all the songs sound the same and I can’t disagree. This is fast becoming one of my pet peeves. I understand that bands have a signature sound but can they not mix it up a bit? They just sound like amped up Chili Peppers.
First Listen. Drive is the only song I knew before listening. It seems like a decent album.
I remember when I was about 8 buying an album by Extreme on the basis of catchy 'More than words' to realise they were actually a big shouty band. Which is also Incubus. Some quieter melodic numbers surrounded by noise.
Oof. This late 90s early aughts pop metal is tough to get through. I don't get why an Incubus album is a must listen to when there's only one recognizable song on it. And I don't like that one song. 2.5/5
First Listen. I know one song "Drive". Need to hear more of this one.
Ok, but probably wouldn’t bother with again.
Dated but there are some hooks.
Some ok songs that all sound the same to me.
Really not my thing
Decent funkish (at times) numetal. Very dated sound. Alan Morissette
Only slightly less nauseating than I expected.
Nu metal and/or prog band from an era when the dumbest rock groups hit pay dirt. These guys aren’t dumb. But Brandon Boyd is pretty pretentious — more ego than melody. Which is why “Drive” is such a welcome relief from their post-grunge squal
Not for me
Not so sure about this one. Like Drive a good bit and can see why it got so popular, but everything else is kinda eh. Liked: Drive
Nie
This sound does nothing for me. Nearly every song follows the same formula - start with the quiet part, then loud guitar chords, back to the quiet part, back to the loud part. The best I can say for this is that it doesn't make me want to stick knives in my ears like some music, say Megadeth. 2 stars.
cheesy in all the wrong ways and maybe that’s what this sorta music is supposed to be but I was not in the mood for it - on reflection some of the songs at the end were good but not good enough for a higher rating
annoying
I enjoy Drive but I never found this band particularly interesting back when it was popular and even now
Not my thing. Still can't stand "Drive"
This didn't age well. Its hard to put my finger on why I can't get into this - maybe its too earnest from a time when fake earnesty was the style? Maybe its that the cover looks so 90s snowboard culture. Maybe its that they just sound like they're trying to hard to be offbeat.
Not really my cup of tea, but some interesting moments.
The Warmth is an early high point, and I was surprised how tolerable I found individual songs after my visceral reaction to RHCP. The inclusion of hip-hop scratches comes across as tacky as anything. Stylistically, this just isn't for me: I want something consciously noisier, or at least with the space post-punk tends to have.
Has some quirks but overall it’s just another dull nu-metal album!
This felt like the soundtrack to a group of teenagers who had just discovered distortion pedals and the concept of "deep" lyrics. The musicians clearly know how to play, but the songwriting is stuck somewhere between a high school talent show and a notebook full of angst that probably should've stayed private. The lyrics are especially rough—packed with the kind of pseudo-philosophical musings that sound profound when you're fifteen and unbearable once you're not. Every time I thought a song might go somewhere interesting, it settled back into the same dated alt-rock groove. I get why this album has nostalgic value for people who grew up with it, but nostalgia is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. For me, it was a long 48 minutes of waiting for something memorable to happen. It never really did. I couldn't wait for the album to end, and I have no desire to make myself listen to it again.
utterly pedestrian. I find nothing noteworthy about this album whatsoever. they are trying very hard to be Tool. Reader, they are not Tool. 1/5.
I’ve never been a fan of Incubus. Their style of music has never really done anything for me. They’re often described as an eclectic rock band that blends alternative metal, funk, hip-hop and jazz, and even reading that description makes me think it sounds like a bit of a mess. Unfortunately, listening to Make Yourself did nothing to change my mind. I gave this album two or three listens today, really trying to find something positive to say, but I struggled. Nothing ever truly clicked, and I never found a track that grabbed my attention or made me understand why this album is so highly regarded. My biggest issue is that the album feels completely all over the place. Rather than sounding eclectic in an exciting way, it just feels disjointed and lacking any real cohesion or direction. The constant shifts in style never come together into something compelling for me, and instead the album ends up feeling like a boring, confused mess. This challenge has confirmed something I probably already knew — Incubus and this style of alternative metal just aren’t for me. Favourite tracks: I genuinely couldn’t pick one Least favourite tracks: Honestly, the whole album left me cold Album artwork: I do like the cover — the colours work really well
Nooooooope.
I hated this album for an entirely different reason than I thought I would, largely because I thought Incubus sounded like Linkin Park. I was surprised to find Tool run through a 311 filter. Gross. The album art also offends me.
1/5 - I don't want to listen to this 1 more minute than is required.
An album I did not enjoy at all. It was just the same basic nu metal sound for the whole album, with very little variation. The whiny pop punk lyrics only increased the frustration. If you asked AI to make a nu metal album, it wouldn’t be far off this.
Entering a dark age for music…the age of butt-hurt rock. Not interested.
Went into this with rock bottom expectations - I have the opposite of fond memories of the nu metal fad. Ultimately this is more of an "alternative " rock album, and has many of the awful sonic motifs of so many successful American bands of the late 90s - Zoom pedal guitars, overly twangy bass, and pointless turntables are in aabundance. On top of this, every song is super-boring and the singer has a totally nothing voice. Bloody rubbish.
Oh no. No, no, no. Definitely not.
RATING: 3/10 HIGHLIGHT: Nowhere Fast LOWLIGHT: Pardon Me
I hate nu metal
Vaikka olenkin rockjätkä, niin täytyy sanoa, että on myös olemassa huonoa rockmusiikkia. Incubus on juuri sitä. Se on täysin turhanpäiväistä, sielutonta ja pahimmillaan myötähäpeää aiheuttavaa. Eli todella huono albumi, en keksi mitään kehuja. Tätä ei olisi tarvinnut kuulla ennen kuolemaa. Miksi ihmeessä tällaista on listalla? Aivan tusinatavaraa Amerikan ihmemaasta. 1/5
I can't believe this was the followup to S.C.I.E.N.C.E.. That was such a good album, then they made ... this. I know most bands have a goal to make it big, but when you sacrifice sound for popularity (*cough* Sugar Ray *cough*) you lose me. Enjoy your mediocrity, you could have had something good.
That. Was. Terrible.
Crap rock
Really not my thing, embodies a part of American music which i find bland and whiny. It is quite something that they have 10 million monthly listeners and yet still offer so little in terms of substance or experimentation
nah
Perhaps not as bad as some other nu-metal, but still absolutely not my kind of thing.
Oof.
I could have been worse. I think.
No recuerdo la última vez que escuché un álbum tan malo y no se me ocurre ni una (1) razón por la cual alguien lo pondría en una lista de álbumes que uno debería escuchar antes de morir. No le encuentro ningún aspecto redimible y no entiendo cómo es que tiene un puntaje promedio de 3.08 en esta página. ↑: Stellar, Comfortable Liar ↓: Nowhere Fast, Consequence, Pardon Me, Out from Under
This one almost made me want to quit this whole challenge. Louisiana's Incubus is much better. This album on april 1st? No wonder, this album is a joke
This sounds like beige. There is nothing new or original I could find about this album. It might be the most safe and boring music I have ever heard. Except for a slight change in the start of Track 6 ‘Stellar’, every song sounded pretty much the same.
congrats to incubus for making some of the cringiest music i’ve ever heard
I have a pretty strong distaste for this sort of compressed clean distortion sound on 90s alt rock and nu metal type records. For such an "edgy" attempted image, this shit is too manicured, too controlled. boring and fake. its saved by like 2 decently good songs. drive and pardon me. and also the random hip hop moments which are the best parts of the record.
Whuuuuuuuut?
I feel like this is just everything I don't want in an Alt-Rock album put in an Alt-Rock album. I feel like a lot of the 5 star reviews saying it felt like they were reliving their high/middle school days shows that people only think it's good because they can associate it with something. I had one vague conversation about Incubus with my boyfriend half a year ago and totally forgot about them until I got this album tonight and had to listen to it, so without the nostalgia, it's just really shitty Alt-Rock. It's just way too clean. It feels like Panic! at the Disco learned what swears are and wanted to show their friends. When they're not doing that, it's just Deftones without any of the interesting lyrics, experimentation, Shoegaze-inspired guitar effects, or anything that makes Deftones worth listening to. There's at least a pretty funny irony about the most submissive-sounding rock singer I've ever heard telling everyone to "get out from under them" in the last song. That and a turntable, I guess.
Questionable name, boring and at times annoying music. Nu Metal is absolute gash.
Deeply uninspiring.
It's just so bad.
A mostly average nu-metal album with an extra of shit lyrics. The only songs that feels differents from the others (and the best song on this album) is Drive wich is a very mid and generic acoustic song. Oh and ig there is the worst instrumental of all time on here. No seriously. "To resist is to piss in the wind" wtf are you on.
Wait, what is that? A turntable-scratching evil twin of the Red Hot Chili Peppers going Tool-cover-band-lite, which somehow manages to sound even more pretentious than the sum of its parts? Woah, this is some serious alt-rock/post-grunge/nu-metal schlock of the worst kind. Urgh. I guess you had to be there…??
powerfull
Not for me
Wow, that's awful.
0/10, not metal..
Record scratches, Windows Media Player background album cover, and whiny vocals that show it's ok for "boyz II feel" (as long as the riffs jump the fuck up). The year is 1999, and I am like 3; HOWEVER, Incubus and their ilk would continue to be shape the first few years of the upcoming millennium and considering "Drive" appeared in NHL Hitz 2003 (CTE simulator 2K3 was taken by the NFL), this feels deeply nostalgic. Now, is it a warm nostalgia? One that whisks you away to a time where life seemed simpler as your brain omits any of the challenges of the time? Partially. It's also the kind of nostalgia where you see yourself with a questionable haircut that is now incredibly outdated. It has pangs of joy, but the cringe factor is off the charts. This record is unlistenable in 2026. The childish metaphors in the lyrics read like an emo girl's MSN status, the record scratches kill me slowly each time and the vocals are this whiny alt-rock standard that you'd now hear at a Gen-X second wedding. Think Hinder or Tinder, or whatever those bands are. Staind!!! Memba them? Ugh. Much like frosted tips, this evokes the phrase "you had to be there," because listening to this with today's ears is very reminiscent of looking back upon those iced follicles, fully lamenting the folly of youth. Like playing a classic video game from childhood, and being incredibly embarrassed that you once viewed the graphics as hyper realistic, Incubus has aged like lip filler. NHL Hitz 2003 still rips though. 1-1.5 HIGHLIGHTS: Where does the time go?? Wait, no, life is incredibly long, and the fallacy that it's "short," irks me to no end. Sure, it's short in terms of all time ever, but it's the longest thing you'll ever experience, ya bonehead.
Generic nu metal - nasal, whiny vocals, crispy guitars and a sense that just because they have a DJ quietly scratching in the background, it makes them edgy and modern. Might have been distinctive at the time, but listening to this 26 years on, there were a lot of bands around the time who did this better. And I don't like any of them either, so this had no chance...
When people ask me what kind of music I like I tend to say "all sorts" I think it's probably a rubbish answer, because people like to pick sides and saying I like a bit of everything makes it sound like I'm just not into music rather than being really into music. I think the exception to that might be nu-metal, I think there's the odd song i could listen to and enjoy in a kind of guilty pleasure kind of way. But a whole album is just too much, and this album certainly hasn't changed my mind. So now I'm going to answer what type of music do you like with "not nu-metal" maybe that's better.
Prince must have been so disappointed when he actually went to a party in 1999 and people put this bullshit on.
Tried to keep an open mind. Unbearable
Boring parade of anodyne and generic nu-metal wankfests swinging for unearned drama.
Standard boring late 90s grunge hard rock. What am I missing?
Struggled to get through that
Not what I expected to be listening to this Thursday morning. I remember seeing the music video for “Drive” a lot when I was younger, but that track feels like an outlier for the album. A extra star for the guitar on “Nowhere Fast” and “Consequence.” Minus a star for lyrics that I found to be corny or cringey. And we’re left at one star.
Drive
How is this on the list? I was very aware of Incubus when this album was released. It sucked then, and it continues to suck now.
Atrocious, except for Battlestar Scralatchtica, which I thought was great
Är det Takida?
Varför finns den här musik? För vem finns den här musiken? Försöker det vara hårt? Försöker det vara känslosamt? Inget uppfylls. Allt känns påklistrat. Bara en sak är sämre än musiken; skivomslaget.
Fy fan! Till och med värre än New wave!
Redan efter första riffet vill jag stänga av.
Not a fan
Oof, rough one. These lyrics sound like they were written by a middle schooler and there are no melodies. I remember liking that song megalomaniac, which is not on this album but is the only thing that would’ve salvaged it.
Everything I dont want to hear in an album. Its really just not for me is all.
Drive is good, the rest. Big ole pile of
This shit sucks. It's not remotely good. They have enough of this garbage on here and if the excuse is, oh it was a product of it's time, then why isn't the backstreet boys on this? It's just really dumb and I feel like this is the 5th shitty nu metal album I've gotten. Honestly, it's like C-Tier nu metal.
Meh
There’s the two singles and not much else
Hrrrm derivative NIN
#132/1001. I thought I already listened to the album but shit there is like 6 songs still. Really thought of skipping, but kind of promised I won't because I'm stupid and want to follow orders and please some wanking music journalists/ experts who put this (so far mostly either cliche classics or hit-of-this-year albums) book together. This one is clearly the latter, at least according to some critics who think it was an original (and good idea to put a dj scratching with a band, who sound like a lame version of Faith No More. Worth listening to before I die? Cmon.
Самая легкая 1 во всем списке для меня. Дешевая, слащавая, банальная музыка И лирика. Лучшая песня - Drive.
i can easily see the alternate reality where i have boatloads of nostalgia for this album, but in this reality, having never gone out of my way to listen to incubus, this is just a bucket of melodramatic, vaguely funk inflected nu metal slop that's about 20 minutes longer than it has any right to be. it is kind of fun in a cheesy 90s way but I'd never willingly listen to it again
Just no!
This feels like the twilight soundtrack.
Whatever tomorrow brings ... anything will be better than this!
There’s some nice playing and some OK song writing on here but I hated listening to this. I loved this album when I was a teenager but it’s almost unbearable now. Battlestar scratchlactate is the best song because you don’t have to hear the vocalist. Boyd’s vocals SUUUUUUUUCK and so do his lyrics
Really dumb
nu metal sure
Not for me!
Sigh, another brainless Nu Metal album. I understand this is an awesome album when you’re 13 but it’s time to grow up.
very much 1999 nu metal. not unlistenable, but utterly forgettable. 1
Horrible sound
Hate the vocals. Hate the sound. Love the song Drive; I don’t think it’s a particularly good song but it has something. Hate everything else about this. It was fun to roast with my partner, so we kept ourselves entertained.
Not for me.
Their third album. Rock / Nu Metal. This isn't Grunge nor is it Metal. It's a whiny attempt at nihilism from someone who needs a hug from their Dad. Every song sounds the same. The album doesn't go anywhere. This is one of those cliche 90s sounding albums, a bad mainstream attempt to rock.
Not an Incubus fan.
kedelig, kan ikke lide buzzerlyden der skifter mellem højttalerne.
Meh. Not really interested in listening to it.
- Why.. why ... whydidineedtohearthis? -
Wenn man einer KI sagen würde, erstelle mal ein Nu-Metal Musikalbum was nach Ende der 90er Jahre klingt würde das wohl genauso klingen. Und nackter Oberköper darf nur Iggy Pop.
I'm not sure what the hell this is? Incubus appears to be a metal band, that has some kind of personalty crisis and definitely not in a good way. Each song takes on a different genre/style, with alt-rock, metal overtones on some songs, along with a grungy, poor-man's Pearl Jam thing and to top it off, a sadly awful hip-hoppy number that I thought honestly was a different artist. It ties it altogether for a underwhelming experience of confusion and boredom and I know I've overused the term "generic", but truly this is the real deal. Step aside for some albums that actually deserve to be on this list, please!
Start with the good things about this album. 1. I am finally rid of the expierence of having to listen to such garbage. 2. When the song came out, I briefly liked Drive On to the bad things about this album 1. Privilege 2. Nowhere Fast 3. Concequence 4. The Warmth 5. When it Comes 6. Stellar 7. Make Yourself 8. Drive (I said "breifly" and "liked") 9. Clean 10. Battlestar Scralatchtica 11. I Miss You 12. Pardon Me 13. Out From Under
fuck off 😂
Бе
Ikke rigtig noget specielt, Jesse Pinkman rock, lidt metal men ikke rigtig
I can't listen to it - it doesn't make sense
👌🏻 ….it stinks!
A YouTube commenter said this album helped him detox from fentanyl so at least it did something worthwhile for someone.
I suppose if you came of age musically in the 90s, you might think this album/band something special (‘incredible! Just incredible’! gushed one reviewer😒), but to me, a child of the 60/70s, they just sound like a dozen other bands of the same genre. The lead can sing sort-of, and had an almost-distinctive voice, not quite cos he really sounds like someone else better known, but that's the high point of this sound. One more angst/not angst but cool band doing what they did back then. 2 for the voice and it didn't hurt my ears. Second thoughts, its too teenage male doing what teenage males do, regardless of decade, so 1. I’m not, and never was, a teenage boy.
This is just awful.
This was absolute garbage. I already wasted 48 minutes listening to this, I'm not going to spend any more time talking about it here.
This sucks.
1 Star (2/15)
The musical definition of the phrase “take a chill pill.” Bombastic rap rock by bros that takes themselves way too seriously. One of these songs, with their multi-layered assault of power chords + hip-hop scratching might have been interesting. But a whole album? It all sounds the same — predictable and way too earnest.
I refuse to listen to this. If you're going to do grungey metal, do it properly - this doesn't. Plus, the first minute of the first song gave me a headache.
This streamlined and rather glossy strand of nu-metal aged like milk, even if I readily recognize that the main guitar riff in opener "Privilege" is still ten times better than anything from Linkin Park's *Hybrid Theory*. The thing is, Incubus' music manages to be less offensively risible than Linkin Park only because their melodies are *less* memorable. It's an interesting paradox: would you prefer to have an annoying song stuck in your head all day, or just go through a somewhat bland example of that sort of song and just forget about it right away? As of now, I choose the second option. Not that the vocal lines can't feel hackneyed or pointless in this album: that lead singer, as competent as he is on a "technical" level, is circling around the same bag of tricks most of the time, and therefore going "nowhere fast" indeed. Speaking of that second song in the LP: there are interesting arrangements going out of the usual nu-metal formula in that particular cut, so I can't deny Incubus isn't *trying* hard once in a while. But going through the rest, you can't help lamenting about how ultimately vacuous and devoid of real stakes this sort of music is. Basically put, it's like a nu-metal version of Pearl Jam going through the motions without putting much imagination into the latter. So it's gonna be a one-star review for *Make Yourself" no matter what, even if it's gonna be one less overtly critical than my own review of *Hybrid Theory*. Everyone with an open mind for nineties nu-metal-adjacent music should check out Deftones first (masters of gloomy tones and atmosphere, with a knack for emotional intensity and stellar studio performances -- either vocally and instrumentally). THEN, maybe, you can go through stuff like Incubus. When you attempt to write a list such as the one of the 1001 Albums book, you should indeed first single out acts that sound like no other one on earth, and think about the middle fry later. And this in *any* given genre. 1/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums. 6/10 for more general purposes (5 + 1) Number of albums left to review: around forty, as I've gone over the 1000 line and this generator is including albums from all editions of the book Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 459 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 271 Albums from the list I won't include in mine: 332 (including this one)
this shit was everywhere when i was in junior high - it's honestly much worse than i remember
this was not as bad as the esteem in which i held it from memory, but i really cannot stand the vocal stylings of incubus
A mix of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Faith No More and Limp Bizkit in the worst possible way.
Boring and a bit shit
+: Privilege, When It Comes +-: Nowhere Fast, Consequence, The Warmth, Clean, Battlestar Scralatchica, Pardon Me, Out from Under -: Stellar, Make Yourself, Drive, I Miss You 3,7/10
This was really neat when I was in middle school. What is this list?
y'a de bons riffs, notamment dans Nowhere Fast par exemple, mais je ne suis pas fan. Je ne pense pas réécouter de titre de cet album (même ptet de ce groupe). c'est pas mon truc !
Thanks to the penny arcade podcast I know that Incubus means "to lay on top of" (compare succubus, to lay under). This kind of sucks. I want to give it credit but I can't. I grew more and more annoyed the longer it went on.
I’m not a fan, some of the instrumentation isn’t bad, but the majority of the scratching seems out of place. Overall it’s just not a very compelling album for me.
Pre: is this another nu-metal band? Post: ugh, yes it is. Really glad I was checked out of the metal scene while this phase was happening
Not the worst nu metal ever; a few songs are listenable, but still pretty bad overall. Decent production I guess, but the songs are meh, and the vocals are shrill, and nothing stands out as particularly interesting.
This sounds like Soundgarden, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Korn music was stuck in a blender, fed through a corporate “Edgy” filter at Shithole records and then shat into CD cases for mall kids to listen to. It is quite literally fecal matter for your ears.
I choose die
I hated everything about this record.
Terrible, just terrible.
Boring
Why is this on here it’s just terrible marking the low point that pop grunge brought us to in the 90’s.
Make Yourself combines lots of the elements of late 90s radio rock - the heavy detuned grooves of Nu Metal, the whiney vocals and loud-quiet dynamics of emo, the influence of electronica, the hip hop DJ sounds, the post-grunge mid tempo sludge of butt rock yearning, the handsome guy singer of MTV rock, the DEEP emotional acoustic ballad, the aimless suburban rage of the time. I thought it sucked in the 90s and that their fans were a pathetic combination of frat morons, rollerbladers, and losers who couldn't commit to going full nu-metal goth. The music is maybe a bit better than I initially gave it credit for, but it is so tedious. 311 does the hip hop metal way better, Deftones do the serious emo stuff much better, Korn and Slipknot are way heavier hitting, and as much as they suck Limp Bizkit are more absurd and fun, so what's the point of this?
Nu metal was a disease
didn't listen
I appreciate somebody likes this but I don’t.
prince would've never written "1999" if he knew this was what was coming
The whiny death throes of an angsty 20-something who failed to grow out of his edgelord teenage phase, set to misguided guitar riffs.
The music is very much the reason rock is stalled, boring, and nothing stands out. It's the prototype for Nickelback, it's that post-grunge that is just not good music. The only good thing I have to say about the album, is that it finished.
Feo
A total and utter waste of time!
Ah Incubus, or as i like to call them, shitty SilverChair. I hated them in the late 90s/early 00s and it hasn't aged well since then.
Ich versteh nicht wieso das auf der liste ist Dämliche texte wuhuu make yourself you can do it just do it Ihr wärt so gerne deftones!! Fand ich damals schon schlecht Wenn ich oasis gerade 2 gegeben habe kann ich denen nicht so viele geben..
Definitely could have died without listening to this. I’ve skipped or changed stations more incubus than I’ve ever listened to them. Was hoping the deeper cuts would be at least decent. Nope. The vocalist is terrible, the lyrics are pretentious, everything else is ok at best. What is even the genre, soft Nu-metal? Definitely sounds like a band finding their sound. I think they are still looking 25 years later. To sum up, this sucks hard.
Found this a bit repetitive and bland. Listened in the car and was told to turn it off 'this is awful, why is this on your list?'
Very back loaded, and not with particularly good songs only more recognisable ones. One I wouldnt have been gutted to miss.
nuh uh
I love the one song I know.
not bad
Is this 90s butt rock? Straddling the line between Korn and 311, with a heavy dose of the Toadies. Big “I’m 13 and this is deep” vibes. I can get on board with the anti-conformist anti-capitalist themes. Drive and Pardon me are 90s bangers. The rest is a bit flat. Playlist pic: Battlestar Scralatchtica
I HATED Incubus back in the day. Listening to this 22 years later I'm relieved I hadn't missed anything and they are, indeed, absolute cack. From the opening bar, this annoyed me. The horrible vocal. The lame harmonies. The abysmal lyrics. Grating. A record completely devoid of anything remotely enjoyable or relatable. I will forever be angry that THIS was the type of music that was popular during my university years. Rating: 1/5 Playlist track: Drive Date listened: 14/05/24
Why? Just no
ah yes, this era, with the computer graphics of what could be some kind of insect dragon and the innovative nu-alt-rock stylings that bring together a wide range of influences, from the obnoxious sounds of bad vocal pop to the obnoxious sounds of edgy macho nu-metal dudes. it of course features a song called Battlestar Scralatchtica. it fuckin sucks. Drive was on the radio all the time, and it was probably one of the better things on the radio. it's not good either. it's a funny song for Incubus to have done, and anybody who bought an album off the radio hit must have been surprised. this period for mainstream radio rock music was terrible. it made me feel like I would never enjoy an entire rock song. vocally there's a lot in common with the pop emo that would come a little later, and that was another era that sucked. music: hated. (⌐■_■)
No thank you, I am going to listen to Joan Armatrading again instead. 1/5.
A few cool riffs, but overall I hated it. Especially that voice.
Not my style
This freaking album. I remember when Drive came out I loved it, thought it was amazing. Checked out the rest of the album and hated every second that wasn’t Drive. Talk about a misleading single
music made for and by 13 year olds
not my kind of music
Choppy, very choppy album. Liked two songs; Drive (good), and Battlestar (weird). Felt like the lead singer and the rest of the band were yelling at me for most of the album. Was glad when it was over. (1.5*s)
No my thing. At all. Found the vocals annoying and whiny. Some of the lyrics were laughable. Will not be listening again. Was a bit of a pain to get through, was excited for it to be over. Battelstar scralatchtica was awful. What was that??
There is very little here for me to like. It’s just softer Nu Metal and the record scratching is laughable. As the album went on, my opinion of it just got worse and worse.
Double Platinum? People are deluded.. Bloody racket except the Scratch track.
Couldn't make myself listen the whole album
Someone else called this soul patch rock and I can't unhear that
This sounds like an album that only got picked up and released because of nepotism.
Couldn’t make it through the first track.
OK if you like that sort of thing. I do not like that sort of thing.
Not a fan.
Muistuttaa eilisestä heh.... Tässä Pardon me.. koskettava biisi.. tippaa linssiin.. Aluksi.. Atmosfäärinen aloitus.. Rummut.. kova rytmi... Herkkä ääni..m pardon me... Kitarassa raaka särö joka raapii sydäntä. Sitten Rap herkkä ääni... Taka-wands.. TO MEE SO PARDOON MEEE.... Takes your soul.. Noh en silti viitti tähtilisäystä vaikka noin uskomaton biisi.m pardln me while i burst into flames... SO PARDON MEEE WHILE I BURST INTO FLAMEES!!!!! noh pitää harkita vakavasti 2 star..m uskomaton..
Not good, dude who wrote this book really just added anything to it
No. Sorry, just no. This thing drags like hell, three minutes feels like five. The vocals are annoying, instrumentation is bland, and it is a bit pretentious. Only one ok song here. Will not be coming back to this. I really just don’t like it.
Generic sounding, laughable lyrics, not really got a lot going for it. Terrible.
Miksi bändillä on ummetuslääkkeen kuuloinen nimi, jos ei tee tämän raskaanpaa musiikkia? Hyvin aikansa kuuloista ja paikoin tällaiseksi pätevää, mut esim. Linkin parkilla on kovempi meno. Ja mikä se jazz-numero välissä oli - herätys samankuuloisten biisien välillä? Kärsii levyn pituudesta myös.
Ajavat mauttomasti päin seinää, mutta tekevät sen millintarkasti.
Between the album cover and the album content, this is among the most 90’s albums to ever 90’s.
Bloody hell, a copy of this was in every students bedroom in the early noughties (not mine, I couldn't stand them, but I'll try to keep an open mind 20 years on). I hated Drive so much. It's like a charmless later era Chili Peppers. Which is quite a good description of the whole album. Like emo before it developed ambition and humour. Do I give them credit for letting their drummer and bassist jam with Cut Chemist and Nu Mark on Battlestar Scralatchica? It feels a single bright point on an otherwise dull album. But it feels like giving credit for a feature, which really just says 'these guys had a budget'.
Not what I came for. Lots of similar music might have been saved by nostalgia, but not this one
Not notable
I never liked Incubus but to be fair, I never really gave them a shot besides a song here or a few seconds of a song there. So, I gave them a shot with this album. I still don’t like Incubus.
Terrible
No. Just no.
'American rock band'. Groan
The band has that basic American rock sound that I find boring, uninspiring, and unoriginal. Am I allowed to question this album’s inclusion in this here portfolio?
Shite in 99. Still Shite in 23. Utter Shite really
This is exactly the kind of trite and watered down late 90s early 00's radio metal sound I can't fucking stand.
just couldn’t get into it
huh maybe I only like absolution calling
Awful. I tried to give this a fair shot by listening to every song, but midway through each I skipped to the next because I found bear it. Then I spent the first half of the next song wondering if the one after could be even worse. Dreadful.
Förskräckligt.
I’ll pass on this one.. not my choice
so bad. so so bad.
Maybe in my flannel shirt days....
I hate this band.
Good lord this is terrible. I mean, technically competent - but it's awful, awful, awful. Derivative and of no substance whatsoever. I could imagine the only way you'd like this is if you'd grown up with it. Even then it'd have to be a guilty pleasure, surely.
I though this group was bullshit in 1999 and listening to a full album has not changed my mind. While I could hear an argument that some nu-metal was good or interesting, this watered down wannabe boy band is just crap.
Nu metal genre piece that fails to tick any box of mine
That feeling where you're like, "I know this band, right? I've heard of them, what's their big song?" all throughout the album, and then finally a song starts that you recognize and it sucks
Just awful - the person who created this list has an unhealthy fascination with all forms of metal. Black Sabbath has a lot to answer for.
😑
It's like they combined all the worst bits of grunge, alt rock (for want of a better genre description), industrial and nu metal and made it into an album
Just one
Didn’t like the tone of the vocals- yeah not for me
These cunts sound like they need to have a bath with an out of work clown. That'll show them real misery. Maybe then they can write some better songs. Clown for hire. £20 an hour. Call 07904881209. Tell your friends.
Nu Metal - Nein Danke
Pretty unlistenable.
Awful. Couldn't finish it. Indulgent Cali-rock
why the heck is this on the list?
Whiney yank bollocks
Nah!
Some funky licks aside, I don't understand the appeal of this album.
this aint it
Generic nu metal with emo-inspired vocals. It reminds me of the most skippable NHL '99 tracks. No thanks!
Not my cup o tea
Wasn't very keen to listen to this as didn't think I'd like it& I didn't!
No thank you.
That song Drive was pretty good, but most of this album is awful and I will never want to listen to it again.
c'est trop pour moi
Strongly dislike this album. Super cheesy/cheap and isn't a sound that has aged well after two decades. 1/10
I've a feeling this is not for me! Nope!
What the hell
First album I have got off this list that is absolutely horrible. Most of the album is Nu Metal garbage, uncreative. The single (drive?) seems completely out of place with the album up until that point. It's also one I usually change the station on when it comes on the radio. Battlestar scratchtica is the first one I didn't hate, not bad but not great.
Meh. The singles are ok but it’s just all the same.
No...just no...