S.C.I.E.N.C.E.

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S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
S.C.I.E.N.C.E. cover
Studio album by Incubus
Released September 9, 1997
Recorded May - June 1997 at 4th Street Recording, Santa Monica, California
Genre Alternative Rock
Experimental rock
Funk Metal
Length 55:50
Label Sony
Producer(s) Jim Wirt
Professional reviews
Incubus chronology
Enjoy Incubus
(1997)		 S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
(1997)		 Make Yourself
(1999)


S.C.I.E.N.C.E. is an Enhanced CD album by the rock band Incubus, released on September 9 1997. It includes an official video. The album has sold 740,000 copies in the US to date.

The album, Incubus' second, contains some of the band's heavier work, and is considered by many fans to be the original definition of their sound. It is a fusion of their various influences and is characteristic of their experimental tendencies. Much more mainstream-sounding than their first album, Fungus Amongus, it was not indicative of their slower-tempoed follow-up, Make Yourself, which is referred to in many reviews as having been the band's peak in terms of performance.

Jeremy Wasser (ex-Hoobastank) 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 intepret the title as they see fit.[3] The acronym S.C.I.E.N.C.E. is as enigmatic as the moustachioed 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 Enjoy Incubus EP. Some of the definitions given are: 'Sailing Catamarans Is Every Nautical Captain's Ecstasy'; 'Smoke Cannabis It Exists Naturally Credit Earth'; 'Southern California's Incubus Enters Nevada Carrying Enstruments'.

The 7th song, "A Certain Shade of Green", could be interpreted as an open invitation to join magical orders, especially if the lyrics are connected with those from the 11th song on "Morning View", "Are you in?", which includes the text passage, "it's so much easier when sea-foam green is in fashion".The second song on the album "Vitamin" was featured on TNT 4X4 ,a truck racing videogame for the PSX. The Enhanced CD 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 Maya calendar, and the shade of green is an insinuation to the color for "go" on most street lights.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Redefine" – 3:19
  2. "Vitamin" – 3:13
  3. "New Skin" – 3:51
  4. "Idiot Box" – 4:07
  5. "Glass" – 3:37
  6. "Magic Medicine" – 3:03
  7. "A Certain Shade of Green" – 3:11
  8. "Favorite Things" – 3:11
  9. "Summer Romance (Anti-Gravity Love Song)" – 4:26
  10. "Nebula" – 3:50
  11. "Deep Inside" – 3:55
  12. "Calgone" – 16:03
    • Contains the hidden track "Segue 1" also known as "Jose Loves Kate Moss, Part 1"

[edit] Personnel

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Incubus
Brandon Boyd | Mike Einziger | Jose Pasillas | DJ Chris Kilmore | Ben Kenney
Alex Katunich | Gavin Koppell
Discography
Studio albums: Fungus Amongus | S.C.I.E.N.C.E. | Make Yourself | Morning View | A Crow Left of the Murder... | Light Grenades
Live albums: Live at Lollapalooza 2003 | Live in Japan 2004 | Live in Sweden 2004 | Live in Malaysia 2004
DVDs: When Incubus Attacks Volume 2 | Morning View Sessions | Alive at Red Rocks
EPs: Enjoy Incubus | When Incubus Attacks Volume 1
Singles: "A Certain Shade of Green" | "Pardon Me" | "Stellar" | "Drive" | "Wish You Were Here" | "Warning" | "Nice to Know You" | "Are You In?" | "Circles" | "Megalomaniac" | "Talk Shows on Mute" | "Agoraphobia" | "Make a Move" | "Anna-Molly" | "Dig" | "Love Hurts"
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