- Pardon Me
Infobox Single
Name = Pardon Me
Artist = Incubus
from Album =Make Yourself
Released =February 29 ,2000
Format =
Recorded = May - June 1999 inLos Angeles, California
Genre =Alternative Rock
Length = 3:44
Label = Epic/Immortal
Writer = Incubus
Producer =Scott Litt
Video director = Steven Murashige
Certification =
Chart position =- USA Modern Rock: #3 (2000) USA Mainstream Rock: #7 (2000)
Reviews =
Last single = "A Certain Shade of Green " (1997)
This single = "Pardon Me" (1999)
Next single = "Stellar" (2000)"Pardon Me" is a song by American
alternative rock band Incubus from their 1999 album "Make Yourself ". It was the first Incubus song to receive a considerable amount of radio airplay, reaching #3 on the BillboardModern Rock Tracks chart.The song describes a state of confusion, with allusions to
spontaneous combustion . Lead singerBrandon Boyd says he was inspired to write the song after making a connection between images of spontaneous combustion in a magazine and "some turmoil in [his] life, both good and bad".Musically, the song combines fast-paced, ambient verses with prominent DJ scratching and a hard-rocking mid-tempo chorus. However, the acoustic version of the song is also well-regarded by fans, and helped the song become a radio hit. Initial radio reception was lukewarm, so Boyd and guitarist
Mike Einziger decided to perform the song acoustically at several radio stations that had been playing the song, includingKROQ , and this acoustic version grabbed the attention of radio programmers and listeners. An acoustic recording of the song was released on the "When Incubus Attacks Volume 1 " EP.
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