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Today's Song: Megalomaniac by Incubus

This is one of the songs I downloaded from iTunes recently just to check out the band. Incubus is an alternative band from the era of 1990's nu metal. I'm usually not one to judge a music genre as a whole, but there really are a lot of nu metal bands that I don't care for, even if the genre could probably be said to have started with Tool¹, a band who I like quite a bit. Thankfully most of the others aren't around anymore.² Meanwhile, Incubus is still around, and over the years they have managed to grow and change and become really very good.

So people say. All I know is I decided to try out a track from one of their more recent cds, and it does indeed rock.

Incubus at myspace

Megalomaniac video (contains the f word,³ and views on religeon and politics too I suppose)

1. Okay, Tool is really not the only origin of nu metal. According to the Wikipedia article influences include "the funk influence of Primus,⁴ Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Fishbone,⁵ the hip hop/metal crossover of Rage Against the Machine⁶ and Biohazard, the industrial metal of Nine Inch Nails, Marylin Manson⁷ and Ministry, and the aggressive experimental rock of Faith No More,⁸ Mr. Bungle, Tool, Alice In Chains, and Helmet⁹." I can live with that.

2. Does anyone really mourn the passing of Linkin Park or Limp Bizkit?¹⁰

3. Or as Granny Weatherwax would say, they use Language.¹¹

4. Primus deserves to have influenced something better than nu metal.

5. Who were way better than Red Hot Chili Peppers, and were way more ignored, probably because they were way more black.

6. Who are back together again.¹²

7. Who suck.¹³

8. Who, lest we forget, were featured in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.¹⁴

9. Seriously. Helmet?

10. Mind you, neither of those bands has actually gone away yet.¹⁵

11. When she says it, you can hear the capital L.¹⁶

12. Spelling¹⁷ the demise of Audioslave, of course.¹⁸

13. But probably not as much as Limp Bizkit.

14. Or maybe that was their Bogus Journey.¹⁹

15. But hope springs eternal.

16. We spell love with a capital L, but Kay Starr spells it with a capital you.

17. Speaking of spelling, Cf. footnote #16.

18. But the return of Chris Cornell's solo career.

19. It's been a long time.²⁰

20. Footnote foolery directly inspired by typographer