I mean maybe not as good as those albums. But a crow left of the murder*and light grenades are pretty good. It’s hard to make any album better thank the ones preceding those two. That’s asking for a lot.

@@percussionjamz6704 I love make yourself and morning view but aclotm is my favorite and light grenades is great

Or science and fungus amungus

Couldn't, never did, and never will... 😞

speak for yourself. all of incubus' albums are excellent

@@FreakinRican6969 I'm a 90's stoner kid so it's hard for me to agree. I stepped off the train at Make Yourself. But I'm happy you enjoy their new stuff

There is a reason why Incubus refuses to play their older material. It's not because they just dont want to it's because Ben cannot replicate Dirks chops or feel. Both bassists are monster players imo.

He’s inspired thousands of ppl to play bass and his music is still played and covered over 20 yrs later.

@Philip Reed Wallace You are objectively incorrect.

I remember reading a long time ago that GLASS from S.C.I.E.N.C.E. was about him

He doesn't. He's friends w them, but the band mates of the past all say he's the worst.

I'm paraphrasing here but there was some resistance concerning the stylistic approach to the music post Morning View. By then the band had already transformed into different elements compared to their first two recordings. Make Yourself was a big shift in the musical direction but it afforded them a break into the mainstream landing them in the pop charts. I imagine they were becoming too poppy and generic for dirk's talent and ambitions for his place in incubus.

he had problems AND A LOT OF THEM, so time passed and everybody got tired of the attitude (not douche like) but mainly drinking TOOOOO MUCH

SRT_SPORTSWEAR sounds like bullshit. Source?? From what I've heard Brandon wanted to push the band fully into the mainstream spotlight and change the bands style, sound to a more radio friendly version (which they did) and Dirk wasn't on board considering how he cared more about the music rather than the fame and money. Also Brandon is a self absorbed premadonna bitch, sorry but it's true. He wanted the shirtless music videos, sexy ballads and more, it was all extremely evident. Props to Dirk for staying true and recognizing Brandon's bullshit and getting out of dodge before the band crumbled as badly as it did

Evander Christy pretty much said it here himself bud 5:05, he was not focused on shit during morning view.

@@evanderchristy6712 for real. SCIENCE, make yourself, and morning view were the incubus I liked with dirk. they kept getting worse and worse from crow left of the murder onwards, have you heard their new album 8? what a joke. dirk made the right move before they turned into mainsteam hipster bullshit.

It’s an interesting thought. There are some incredible & arguably timeless tracks Incubus have released since parting ways with Dirk. The band clearly wanted to steer away from ‘nu-metal’ and seem very self-conscious of their back catalogue. Mike enrolling at Harvard music school, recruiting Ben Kenney (incredibly talented multi-instrumentalist) & DJ Kilmore taking on Hammond organs & synths, etc etc, are all evidence of this desire to ‘mature’ musically. But I so miss Dirk’s bass work, that tight & silky tonality with incredible finger work that he brought to Incubus’ music and tonality. On the other hand, if personalities clash and their relationships were strained, it would likely be very difficult to evolve collectively as a group. If it meant the band breaking up then it’s perhaps for the best they parted ways. Still, if they could have reconciled, how would things have turned out musically? What if, what if...

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Hope so. I'm sure he does make money because normally song rights go to whoever wrote the melody of the lyrics not even if you wrote the whole song on guitar. But like how lennon/mccartney were credited with any beatles song that was by john or paul, every incubus record that dirk was on and I believe after says "all songs credited to Incubus" or it lists their names