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

'''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 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.[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. It is also speculated that the face on the cover is their 8th grade middle school science teacher who inspired them. 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'; 'Social Chronology Includes Everyone: Neanderthals, Cannibals, Everyone'.
The second song on the album, ''Vitamin'', was featured on TNT 4X4, a truck racing videogame for the Sony PSX, and in Final Destination 2.
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.
The sample used in the middle of Calgone was the demo song on the Casio SK-1, released in the mid 80s.

Contents

Track listing

Personnel

Track listing

# "Redefine" – 3:19
# "Vitamin" – 3:13
# "New Skin" – 3:51
# "Idiot Box" – 4:07
# "Glass" – 3:37
# "Magic Medicine" – 3:03
# "A Certain Shade of Green" – 3:11
# "Favorite Things" – 3:11
# "Summer Romance (Anti-Gravity Love Song)" – 4:26
# "Nebula" – 3:50
# "Deep Inside" – 3:55
# "Calgone" – 16:03 "Segue 1" (also known as "Jose Loves Kate Moss, Part 1")

Personnel

★ Brandon Boyd - Vocals / Percussion

★ Mike Einziger - Guitar

★ Dirk Lance - Bass

★ Jose Pasillas II - Drums

★ DJ Lyfe - Turntables

★ Charles Waltz - violin

★ Terry Date - mixing

★ Stephen Marcussen - mastering

★ Jim Wirt - producer

★ Ulrich Wild - engineer

★ C.J. Eiriksson - engineer

★ Donat Kazarinoff - engineer

★ Chris McCann - photography

★ Don C. Tyler - digital editing

★ Frank Harkins - art direction