Make Yourself and their latest album If Not Now, When? also brought about significant changes in their sound.

Actually, this can apply to all of their albums to a certain degree.

New Sound Album: 'A Crow Left of the Murder' had a new bass player and guitarist Mike Einzinger replacing his high-end guitar rig with old-school vintage gear.

Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly: Incubus fuses a lot of diverse genres.

Metal Scream: Evident in songs like 'Make Yourself', 'Out From Under', 'Light Grenades', and much of the S.C.I.E.N.C.E.

It's also similar to the Italian word for nightmare, 'incubo', of the same origin. The band chose the name on a dictionary and liked it because of the vaguely sexual connotation. Meaningful Name: The Incubus was an ancient Roman demon who gave people nightmares by.having intercourse with them while they slept.Love Hurts: The song of the same name, maybe.

If Not Now, When? makes Morning View sound downright heavy by comparison.Lighter and Softer: Morning View still features some heavy tracks, but the lyrics are PG-rated and there are several more ballads, including the fully acoustic 'Mexico' and the exotic Eastern lullaby 'Aqueous Transmission'.Last-Note Nightmare: 'The Odyssey' ends abruptly with some electronic static-like noise, creating a comparable effect to what you'd find on corrupted MP3 files from file sharing services.The Jimmy Hart Version: Note the similarities between the main riff of 'Zee Deveel' and Pearl Jam's 'Rival'.'Stellar' and ' Anti-Gravity Love Song' are this trope. Intercourse with You: At least once per album.has a rather ridiculous one after 'Calgone'. Greatest Hits Album: Monuments and Melodies.Genre Roulette: A staple of their career post- Make Yourself, but special mention goes to Light Grenades, which Brandon Boyd described as sounding like '13 different bands playing 13 different songs'.Genre Busting: A pretty good description of S.C.I.E.N.C.E.Fungus Humongous: Rather, one of their albums uses the word-play.It's split into 4 parts on the Halo 2 soundtrack.The band is reported to have worked on a 20-minute epic called 'Odyssey' during the sessions for that album, but it didn't make the cut. Epic Rocking: 'Sick Sad Little World' from A Crow Left of the Murder.Also alluded to in 'A Certain Shade of Green' with the lyric 'Are you gonna stand around 'til Two Thousand Twelve AD?'.The End of the World as We Know It: 'Warning'.Brandon Boyd, male, sings an original song from a woman's point of view. The Cover Changes the Gender: Inverted with 'Promises, Promises'.But the band has done many live covers of artists ranging from Soundgarden to Massive Attack to TLC. Cover Version: The only cover that the band has recorded in the studio is Prince's 'Let's Go Crazy'.'Clean' features no swearing in the actual lyrics, but the guy seems to be telling his girl that he'd rather have the Cluster F-Bomb unleashed upon him than get the silent treatment.Cluster F-Bomb: The title track from 'Make Yourself'.Chorus-Only Song: 'Are You In?' is pretty darn close.'Round and round and round and round and ROUND!!!!!!!!' Careful with That Axe: The end of 'Circles'.Another one, not included on that album, is the Make Yourself B-side 'Crowded Elevator'. B-Side: The second disc of the Monuments and Melodies album consists largely of these.Perhaps the most notable example: 'Wish You Were Here', where the chorus consists of 'I wish you were here' repeated four times. Broken Record: Quite a few of their songs feature one line repeated several times in the chorus.Averted when they are played as a single song in concert. Book Ends: Light Grenades has 'Earth to Bella', Parts 1 and 2 (though Part 1 is in the middle of the album instead of at the beginning).Bilingual Bonus: 'Pistola' is Italian slang for 'penis'.Incubus (band) provides examples of the following tropes:

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