Morning View flows through my bloodstream and I will love any variation of it for the rest of time! Just like how I will love any variation of you and the guys for the rest of time!
This version of Echo is incredible! I’m so glad you guys decided to record it that way. To think that there’s a whole album of these coming our way is beyond exciting! I have the utmost faith in you guys to perform justice to every song on the grand album that is Morning View. It’s a really brave thing to do as a band to re-record an album that fans have had, and listened to over and over, for so many years, and I admire that. I’m proud to be a fan of a band that has such a big heart and soul <3
Oh. My. God. Happy tears started flowing as I listened to you! Echo is one of my FAVORITE songs, it's impossible to choose just one favorite with Incubus music because every song is beautiful and special...but for me, Echo is definitely up there. There's something so comforting, soothing, and magical in both your voice and Mike's guitar melodies. I listen to it while drawing, I love to sing it, and it helps me calm down if I'm having bad anxiety. And that outro, just...WOW! So gorgeous! So incredibly powerful!! I would loooove to see this live someday. You and your beautiful voice just made my morning wonderful. Thank you for that 💖
Morning View is the album that got me into your music in the first place, so it has a special place in my heart: I can sing every single song on it! When the original release came out, I was just a tiny little thing and not even two years old yet. The process of re-recording these songs must be a strange one for you, some kind of mix of nostalgic, fun, and curious.
Now, at 23 years old and being a fangirl since I was a tiny little thing, I LOVE hearing and seeing all of you evolve as both musicians and people in general. I love it that you're always growing! As soon as Morning View XXIII comes out, you bet I'm gonna be cranking it up and belting it out at the top of my lungs 😼 (by the way, next time I cross paths with you and the guys, I hope I can sing for you a bit if I work up the courage, hehe).
Thank you for sharing this...both your amazing writing and your lovely singing. You've made me smile. And thank you for just...for being YOU. For being such a talented, kind, inspirational, selfless person and one I'm grateful to call my hero.
Love and hugs from foggy and rainy Washington State 💖
Morning view is the embedded sound of my lifetime. I feel so blessed to be able to follow you, and hear your thoughts here on sub-stack and other platforms. I’m always blown away.
Thank you for this glimpse into the process! I love the idea of it being a modern take. And the reality is that the original still exists out there too, so we get the best of both worlds and you guys get to have your piece of it too. I love hearing these songs live and I’m excited to hear it all put together when it comes out ❤️
My biggest fear will be the rescue of me. But for the new Morning View recording, I will risk it. Thank you for this gift, mesmerizing to watch you interact with your old friend 💕
Super cool! Can't wait! I love when artists breathe new life into their music.
Honestly I feel like many of the Incubus albums would be incredible to remix or record similar to the kick-ass live versions. Like the live version of Dig, the slowed down breakdown on Circles, or this alternate ending on Echo.
Honestly, imagine how hard SCIENCE would rock if Skrillex put the same hard-punching pixie dust he put on 8.
I remember listening to Morning View every morning before school after discovering the album in my family’s CD case. I would try and hit the notes to every song but to no avail (due to my prepubescent vocals and obvious lack of talent) but I sang anyways. And when the 20th anniversary livestream happened, listening to those same songs reimagined was something I didn’t think I needed. Seeing everyone 20 years older and realizing that me, myself, had aged as well brought it all into perspective that things can change with us; not just music but movies, books, etc. We remember them a certain way from when we first experienced them and we expect them to always give us that same feeling as it did all those years ago. But I enjoy re-experiencing these things as a grown man now. Morning View re recorded doesn’t feel like a betrayal but a welcomed snapshot of who we all are now. Certain songs mean differently to me than they did and I honestly, the added breakdowns and vocals are beautiful. The added guitar break at the beginning of Circles, the huge breakdown at the end of Echo, the softer outro to Blood on the Ground, the higher vocals in Under my Umbrella… it all just makes sense to me and I appreciate these songs now just as much as I did when I would learn the words on my way to school. Thank you for sharing your feelings on this album and I can’t wait to play it everywhere I go!
That was so beautiful. Thank you for sharing this with us! 🖤 I’m super excited to hear Morning View XXIII when it comes out, and this sneak peek only made me more excited!
Now listen, I’m not in a world famous band, nor a well-known artist or writer, but I totally get what you’re saying. The poetry I wrote in my late teens and twenties is not at where I’m at now…closing in on 40. Some of that poetry, was based on all consuming lovesickness, that—I think most of us hopeless romantics—imagine will always be there.
Then it isn’t. You live. People die. We experience so many vast heights and, hopefully for just a spell, wallowing in the the molasses that are the lows.
I couldn’t write or paint what I did then-it’s just not the path I’m on anymore. Which has been an unexpected, but fabulous journey thus far—and those old roads taught us so much about ourselves.
Suffice to say, sometimes it is fun to take a peek into the past, often times with rose-colored glasses. Trying to remember those feelings the you felt so deeply, that are now faded scars. Oftentimes I exclaim to myself, “Where the fuck was my head at?”
Other times, it’s a little flutter of heat in my chest.
Anyways, I can only imagine what it was like to be in your shoes(or lack thereof) and dip back into that pivotal time for you and your band in 2001! What cool fucking insight!
That album holds a special place in my soul—I remember asking my OMG CRUSH to borrow his handmade electric guitar to learn ‘Echo.’ All the while he had no idea I’d be playing and thinking of him, hah!
Spoiler alert-20 years later, after we’d stayed great friends, but separately built our lives…we actually reconnected and got married a few years ago🥰 L’amour! The guitar hangs in our living room today.
That was a novella! I guess your post really caused my brain to vomit memories and love.
Stay well! ☮️ 🐸 🍄
Krissy
PS- Let Sarah know I’ll always keep warm, under-boob edibles for her when you all are back in New England 😘
PPS-I read ‘Jitterbug Perfume’ recently—what a fucking trip! ‘Existence can be rearranged. A man can be many things. I am special and free.’
Got me stoked for this album now. I hate when band's listen to fans, so I'm just gonna add that what y'all did for the outro of Blood on the Ground on the MV stream was such a nice, sugary touch.
Morning View flows through my bloodstream and I will love any variation of it for the rest of time! Just like how I will love any variation of you and the guys for the rest of time!
This version of Echo is incredible! I’m so glad you guys decided to record it that way. To think that there’s a whole album of these coming our way is beyond exciting! I have the utmost faith in you guys to perform justice to every song on the grand album that is Morning View. It’s a really brave thing to do as a band to re-record an album that fans have had, and listened to over and over, for so many years, and I admire that. I’m proud to be a fan of a band that has such a big heart and soul <3
Oh. My. God. Happy tears started flowing as I listened to you! Echo is one of my FAVORITE songs, it's impossible to choose just one favorite with Incubus music because every song is beautiful and special...but for me, Echo is definitely up there. There's something so comforting, soothing, and magical in both your voice and Mike's guitar melodies. I listen to it while drawing, I love to sing it, and it helps me calm down if I'm having bad anxiety. And that outro, just...WOW! So gorgeous! So incredibly powerful!! I would loooove to see this live someday. You and your beautiful voice just made my morning wonderful. Thank you for that 💖
Morning View is the album that got me into your music in the first place, so it has a special place in my heart: I can sing every single song on it! When the original release came out, I was just a tiny little thing and not even two years old yet. The process of re-recording these songs must be a strange one for you, some kind of mix of nostalgic, fun, and curious.
Now, at 23 years old and being a fangirl since I was a tiny little thing, I LOVE hearing and seeing all of you evolve as both musicians and people in general. I love it that you're always growing! As soon as Morning View XXIII comes out, you bet I'm gonna be cranking it up and belting it out at the top of my lungs 😼 (by the way, next time I cross paths with you and the guys, I hope I can sing for you a bit if I work up the courage, hehe).
Thank you for sharing this...both your amazing writing and your lovely singing. You've made me smile. And thank you for just...for being YOU. For being such a talented, kind, inspirational, selfless person and one I'm grateful to call my hero.
Love and hugs from foggy and rainy Washington State 💖
Why are you the most beautiful human [inside and out] that’s ever lived? 😍😍😍🩷
Morning View is a part of my soul, getting goosebumps just thinking about reliving it.
I'm so excited for this! Morning View is one of my favorite incubus albums I know it's going to sound amazing! Thanks for sharing
Morning view is the embedded sound of my lifetime. I feel so blessed to be able to follow you, and hear your thoughts here on sub-stack and other platforms. I’m always blown away.
Thank you for this glimpse into the process! I love the idea of it being a modern take. And the reality is that the original still exists out there too, so we get the best of both worlds and you guys get to have your piece of it too. I love hearing these songs live and I’m excited to hear it all put together when it comes out ❤️
My biggest fear will be the rescue of me. But for the new Morning View recording, I will risk it. Thank you for this gift, mesmerizing to watch you interact with your old friend 💕
It's amazing and perfect. I loved this song so much for so long. But I think I just fell in love with it all over again.
Super cool! Can't wait! I love when artists breathe new life into their music.
Honestly I feel like many of the Incubus albums would be incredible to remix or record similar to the kick-ass live versions. Like the live version of Dig, the slowed down breakdown on Circles, or this alternate ending on Echo.
Honestly, imagine how hard SCIENCE would rock if Skrillex put the same hard-punching pixie dust he put on 8.
I remember listening to Morning View every morning before school after discovering the album in my family’s CD case. I would try and hit the notes to every song but to no avail (due to my prepubescent vocals and obvious lack of talent) but I sang anyways. And when the 20th anniversary livestream happened, listening to those same songs reimagined was something I didn’t think I needed. Seeing everyone 20 years older and realizing that me, myself, had aged as well brought it all into perspective that things can change with us; not just music but movies, books, etc. We remember them a certain way from when we first experienced them and we expect them to always give us that same feeling as it did all those years ago. But I enjoy re-experiencing these things as a grown man now. Morning View re recorded doesn’t feel like a betrayal but a welcomed snapshot of who we all are now. Certain songs mean differently to me than they did and I honestly, the added breakdowns and vocals are beautiful. The added guitar break at the beginning of Circles, the huge breakdown at the end of Echo, the softer outro to Blood on the Ground, the higher vocals in Under my Umbrella… it all just makes sense to me and I appreciate these songs now just as much as I did when I would learn the words on my way to school. Thank you for sharing your feelings on this album and I can’t wait to play it everywhere I go!
That was so beautiful. Thank you for sharing this with us! 🖤 I’m super excited to hear Morning View XXIII when it comes out, and this sneak peek only made me more excited!
Now listen, I’m not in a world famous band, nor a well-known artist or writer, but I totally get what you’re saying. The poetry I wrote in my late teens and twenties is not at where I’m at now…closing in on 40. Some of that poetry, was based on all consuming lovesickness, that—I think most of us hopeless romantics—imagine will always be there.
Then it isn’t. You live. People die. We experience so many vast heights and, hopefully for just a spell, wallowing in the the molasses that are the lows.
I couldn’t write or paint what I did then-it’s just not the path I’m on anymore. Which has been an unexpected, but fabulous journey thus far—and those old roads taught us so much about ourselves.
Suffice to say, sometimes it is fun to take a peek into the past, often times with rose-colored glasses. Trying to remember those feelings the you felt so deeply, that are now faded scars. Oftentimes I exclaim to myself, “Where the fuck was my head at?”
Other times, it’s a little flutter of heat in my chest.
Anyways, I can only imagine what it was like to be in your shoes(or lack thereof) and dip back into that pivotal time for you and your band in 2001! What cool fucking insight!
That album holds a special place in my soul—I remember asking my OMG CRUSH to borrow his handmade electric guitar to learn ‘Echo.’ All the while he had no idea I’d be playing and thinking of him, hah!
Spoiler alert-20 years later, after we’d stayed great friends, but separately built our lives…we actually reconnected and got married a few years ago🥰 L’amour! The guitar hangs in our living room today.
That was a novella! I guess your post really caused my brain to vomit memories and love.
Stay well! ☮️ 🐸 🍄
Krissy
PS- Let Sarah know I’ll always keep warm, under-boob edibles for her when you all are back in New England 😘
PPS-I read ‘Jitterbug Perfume’ recently—what a fucking trip! ‘Existence can be rearranged. A man can be many things. I am special and free.’
Got me stoked for this album now. I hate when band's listen to fans, so I'm just gonna add that what y'all did for the outro of Blood on the Ground on the MV stream was such a nice, sugary touch.
This might be the most exciting thing I've heard since October 23rd, 2001 <3