OK. Brandon Boyd is a great singer. And I like their sound, especially this album, which is one of my favorites. But sometimes I get tripped up on the stupidity of some of their lyrics. To wit (from the title cut):
If I hadn't made me, I'd have fallen apart by now.
I won't let them make me..It's more than I can allow.
So when I make me, I won't be paper-maiche..
And if I f*** me...I'll f*** me in my own way.
Really? This album, which is all about individuality and responsibility, on the title cut, this is the best you could come up with? "F* me in my own way"? Really. That's your message. See, it kind of puts a damper on the whole thing for me.
Despite the inanity, I still like this album and have listened to it many times. There really isn't a bad song on this disk, and musically it really kicks butt and Boyd's vocals really sparkle, especially in the higher registers. And it starts strong (from "Privilege"):
Find yourself a back door
I see you in line dragging your feet
You have my sympathy
The day you were born you were born free
That is your
That is your privilege
I really like the vocals, for example, on "The Warmth". But then you get some kind of hack lyric like this from "When It Comes" and it almost ruins it:
And it feels like a matador is taunting me with his reddest red cloth and I am the bull.
Yes I feel emphatic about not being static
and not eating the bullshit that's being fed to me no more...
cause' now I'm full.
Anyway, to wrap this up, I think "Drive" is one of the most played songs of the last 10 years (I remember seeing some kids playing it at a high school graduation, ha) and I really, really like "Pardon Me" partially because of this verse:
Not two days ago,
I was having a look
in a book
and I saw a picture of a guy
fried up above his knee.
I said, "I can relate,"
cause lately I've been thinking of combustication
as a welcome vacation from
the burdens of
the planet Earth.
like gravity, hypocrisy,
and the perils of being in 3-D...
but thinking so much differently.
"Combustication" and "the perils of being free". OK, there's some deep thought there after all.
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Awww man! Incubus is like, soooooooooooo through! Did you here that stupid album "a Crow left of the murder' or some stupid, cliche ridden kickapoo road sign every time lets giggle at it, like 'lake tittycaca.' The album "Science" is a better choice because it is more metal influenced and might have some more intriguing lyrical/musicality interpretations. Let's see....I'll pull up some lyrics: Redefine lyrics
Imagine your brain
As a Canister filled with ink
Yeah, now think of your body
As the pen where the ink resides
Fuse the two, KAPOW!
What are you now?
You're the human magic marker
Won't you please surprise my eyes?
It's in your nature
You can paint whatever picture You like
No matter what Ted Koppel says on channel 4 tonight
So modify this third rock from the sun
By painting myriads of pictures
With the colors of one.
[Chorus]:
I'm sick of painting in black and white
My pen is dry, now I'm uptight
So sick of limiting myself
To fit your definition.
ok.......
Uh GOD! If you listen to this song, it is presented in a much more realistic musical environment for the 'dead and crumbly' lyrics. It kinda sounds like a tech happy, wanna be radio friendly 'green day type sell out shit' infused with almost grind, punk influences.
Man, speaking of Green Day, they totally suck now, too! "Dookie" good album, stays true to the 'oh god I'm a really lame pimply 20 year old boy who dosen't know what the hell is going on.' But, I listened to their latest album last year in NM with my Catholic Worker friend, Mariah. AWFUL! It was such a 'wanna be a bad boy anarchist' but they just sell out so quick to THE MAN! Lol
"Know Your Enemy"
Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
Well gotta' know the enemy, ohaooh!
Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
Well gotta' know the enemy, ohaooh!
Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
Well gotta' know the enemy, ohaooh!
Violence is an energy
Against the enemy
Well violence is an energy, right.
Bringing on the fury
The choir infantry
Revolt against the honor to obey (Ohaooh)
Overthrow the effigy
The vast majority
We're burning down the foreman of control (Ohaooh)
Silence is the enemy
Against your urgency
so rally up the demons of your soul (Ohaooh) HAHAH!!
Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
well gotta know the enemy, ohaooh.
Do you know the enemy
Do you know your enemy
well gotta know the enemy, ohaooh.
Insurgency will rise,
When the blood's been sacrificed
Don't be blinded by the lies in your eyes"
Lol.Green Day! I would love to see Armstrong (lead singer with great hair) throw a fuckin' Molotov Cocktail at a poilice line in his pleater bleached hot pants. Oh no, I just think I might have become too cool for my own good.
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