S.C.I.E.N.C.E. is the second album by American
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band
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, released on September 9, 1997. It includes an official
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. The album has sold 740,000 copies in the US to date.
The album, Incubus' second, contains some of the band's heaviest and most experimental work with the band dabbling in
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,
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and electronic genres like drum n bass and
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, and is considered by many fans to be the original definition of their sound but shows the band's search for an ambient sound and higher sound quality which is found in many of their later albums. It is a fusion of their various influences and marks both
Mike EinzigerMichael Aaron Einziger is the multi-instrumentalist, co-writer and guitarist of the alternative rock band Incubus, as well as his own side project band, Time Lapse Consortium...
's and Dirk Lance's experimentation with effects in exploring other genres.
S.C.I.E.N.C.E. is the second album by American
alternative rockAlternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s...
band
IncubusIncubus is an American Grammy Award-nominated rock band, from Calabasas, California. Formed in 1991 by vocalist Brandon Boyd, lead guitarist Mike Einziger, and drummer Jose Pasillas while enrolled in high school. The band expanded to include bassist Alex Katunich , and Gavin Koppell...
, released on September 9, 1997. It includes an official
videoVideo is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.-History:...
. The album has sold 740,000 copies in the US to date.
The album, Incubus' second, contains some of the band's heaviest and most experimental work with the band dabbling in
jazzJazz is a musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
,
hip hopHip hop music is a musical genre which developed alongside hip hop culture, and is commonly based on concepts of loop, rapping, freestyle, DJing, scratching, sampling and beatboxing. The music is used to express concerns of political, social, and personal issues...
and electronic genres like drum n bass and
TranceTrance is a style of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between 130 and 155 BPM, short melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and down throughout a track. Trance can be understood as a combination of...
, and is considered by many fans to be the original definition of their sound but shows the band's search for an ambient sound and higher sound quality which is found in many of their later albums. It is a fusion of their various influences and marks both
Mike EinzigerMichael Aaron Einziger is the multi-instrumentalist, co-writer and guitarist of the alternative rock band Incubus, as well as his own side project band, Time Lapse Consortium...
's and Dirk Lance's experimentation with effects in exploring other genres. On songs like "Deep Inside" and "Summer Romance (Anti-Gravity Love Song)" show jazz influences while "Vitamin" , "Glass" and "Magic Medicine" display electronic influences. Songs like Calgone, Redefine, and New Skin show rap metal influences. Much more accessible than their first album,
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, it was not indicative of their slower-tempoed follow-up,
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.
Jeremy Wasser, formerly of
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, is featured on saxophone on "Summer Romance (Anti-Gravity Love Song)".
S.C.I.E.N.C.E. was titled as such because the band felt like they were working on a science project whilst creating the album, as such the acronym has no real meaning. Instead the band has chosen to let people interpret the title as they see fit.
http://www.mrl.nott.ac.uk/~dxl/reviews/NARS/Vol3/incubus-int.html The acronym S.C.I.E.N.C.E. is as enigmatic as the
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man on the cover. The band has given several contradictory meanings for both the album title and the face of "Chuck", whose image also appears on the cover of the
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EP, and inside the jacket of
Make YourselfMake Yourself is the third album by American rock band Incubus, released through Sony on October 26 1999. The album has been certified double platinum in the United States with having three charting singles, "Pardon Me", "Stellar", and "Drive", all of which reached the top three of the Billboard...
. It is also speculated that the face on the cover is their 8th grade middle school science teacher who inspired them.
The first song on the album, "Redefine", can be heard during the trailer for the movie "
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". The second song on the album, "Vitamin" and "New Skin", were featured on the game
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and
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. Vitamin is also featured in the movie
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. "New Skin", track 3 on the album, featured as the theme song for PC game
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.
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of
S.C.I.E.N.C.E. features the video for the song "A Certain Shade of Green". This song could also be interpreted much more simply, as a critique of people unwilling to evolve intellectually, philosophically, emotionally, et cetera; 2012 being a reference to the belief that the world will end according to the
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, and the shade of green is an insinuation to the color for "go" on most street lights.
The enhanced CD features a short maze game in which a character named Soshell must find her way through "Caverns of Phentropa". The ending screen prompts the user to enter the words "I am the vitamin for the hibernating human animal" to get to special European live concert footage.
The sample used in the hidden track after "Calgone" was the demo song on the Casio SK-1, released in the mid 80s.
Track listing
All songs written by B. Boyd, M. Einziger, A. Katunich, G. Koppell, J. Pasillas.
- "Calgone" is 5:13 when separated from the hidden track, "Segue 1."
Personnel
- Brandon Boyd
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- Vocals / DjembeA djembe also known as djimbe, jenbe, jymbe, jembe, yembe, or jimbay, or sanbanyi in Susu; is a skin-covered hand drum shaped like a large goblet and meant to be played with bare hands...
- Mike Einziger
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- Guitar/ Piano
- Dirk Lance - Bass
- Jose Pasillas
José Antonio Pasillas is an American drummer, currently drumming for the rock band Incubus.-Biography:José Pasillas is of Mexican descent. His father is José Pasillas, I. He grew up in Calabasas, California. He began playing drums in 1990...
- Drums
- DJ Lyfe - Turntables
- Charles Waltz - violin
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- Terry Date - mixing
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- Stephen Marcussen - mastering
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- Jim Wirt - producer
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- Ulrich Wild - engineer
- C.J. Eiriksson - engineer
- Donat Kazarinoff - engineer
- Chris McCann - photography
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- Don C. Tyler - digital editing
- Frank Harkins - art direction
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