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List Price: $7.99 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 7168
Released: November 20, 2001 |
| Our Price: $4.74 |
| Used Price: $2.72 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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S.C.I.E.N.C.E. Track Listing:
1. Redefine
2. Vitamin
3. New Skin
4. Idiot Box
5. Glass
6. Magic Medicine
7. Certain Shade of Green
8. Favorite Things
9. Summer Romance (Anti-Gravity Love Song)
10. Nebula
11. Deep Inside
12. Calgone
S.C.I.E.N.C.E. Reviews:
science is sick 
2009-09-08 - picked this up at best buy the other day and I can't stop listening to it...it's that good. I can't believe I have missed out on this gem for so long. If you are a fan of the band this is a must own. Easily the best work they have done to date, although I am a huge fan of their recent, more refined albums as well. it's funky, metalic, original, and addicting. buy it now.
Technicality overshadows feeling 
2009-06-20 - 2 1/2
Although hitting with a consistent adolescent angst showcasing the band's funk-metal skills and certainly hinting at promising things to come, without impending melodics they would develop next, Incubus's sophomore sounds little more than glorified local music dated to when biscuits were limp.
Incubus, "harder" 
2009-02-02 - I have every Incubus album, and this one sounds the hardest rocking of them all. If you like mellow Incubus, this album probably isn't for you, but if you appreciate the band's harder songs, this could be one of your favorite albums.
How many albums begin with the lyric "Imagine your brain as a canister filled with ink"? 5 stars all the way!
2008-10-31 - Although I normally start with a band's earlier stuff when getting into a new musical artist, I, like many other people, got itno Incubus with their "Morning View" album some odd years ago. There was some great stuff on that album and I still love it to this day, but "S.C.I.E.N.C.E." has for me what I fantasize about as a music lover and as a musician.
S.C.I.E.N.C.E. presents Incubus in a heavier, jazzier, more experimental stage of their history. Before they made it big, they made it bizarre. Before making the Top 40 rise with their songs, they made eyebrows rise with their unusual songs.
When it gets right down to it, S.C.I.E.N.C.E. is a true masterpiece in its own way. It's got basically everything a whacked-out album could have: weird guitar chords, funky basslines, versatile and exciting drums, great and unique vocals, strange musical sounds, and overall awesome talent.
Incubus prove they can hold their ground with all these elements. For example "A Certain Shade of Green" combines hardcore guitar riffs with odd, melodic soloing. "Redefine" and "Vitamin" are also hard-rockers but with a strong funk element and great basslines. "Magic Medicine" also showcases some cool drumming, sound effects and odd phrases that occasionally repeat. Then there's a personal favorite, "Nebula", which combines super-heavy riffs with beautiful, surreal melody, vocals and feel.
On the other side, we get some great jazz fusion going on, from the sexy, romantic "Summer Romance (Anti-Gravity Love Song)" to the happy, mellow hum-a-long "Deep Inside", which ironically also contains some great, metal riffs. And Mike's guitar work, along with the rest of the band's talent, shines all the way through.
So throughout the entire album, Incubus is able to combine funk, metal, jazz fusion, progressive and alternative styles into a truly unique and one-of-a-kind work of art. Lots of great experimentation, songwriting, and fun, and this album definitely gets five stars. I kinda wish Incubus was still making music like this, but it's still fun to blast "Anna Molly" on my iPod every now and then!
So if you already know some of Incubus's more, shall we say, mainstream, work, but you want to know what they'd sound like in their early days, give this a spin! It's an album I can't get enough of, and for sure one of my "desert island albums". Happy rockin'! Thanks for the time, and peace.
Redefine!
2008-09-05 - This is classic Incubus. I actually wish they still sounded more like this, though I do love their new material as well. The first few times I listened, I mostly paid attention to the music, which I love, especially while I go running. Then I checked out the lyrics and realized how profound this album really is. Full of energy, anger, insight, and ultimately, screams for society to transform itself through individual effort. Brilliant.
