Claude says:Incubus knocked out their Epic debut in six weeks at a small Santa Monica studio, four kids in their early twenties who'd just dropped out of school and bought real instruments with label money. The compressed timeline and dingy rehearsal space didn't matter — they had ideas to burn, and this funk-metal sprawl became the gold-certified proof. You didn't pick it up until 2006, nearly a decade after release, but "A Certain Shade of Green" and "Idiot Box" have stuck around ever since.