Take Me to Your Leader (Incubus song)

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"Take Me to Your Leader"
Gavin Koppell
  • José Pasillas
    • Producer(s)Jim Wirt
    Incubus singles chronology
    "Take Me to Your Leader"
    (1996)     		"A Certain Shade of Green"
    (1997)

    "Take Me to Your Leader" is the debut single by American rock band Incubus, released in 1996. It is a re-recorded version of the original version from their 1995 debut album Fungus Amongus. The song was later re-recorded again for their 1997 EP Enjoy Incubus.

    Music video

    An official music video was made for the song, the band's first music video at that point. The video is a reiteration of the comedy film

    DJ Lyfe in a Volkswagen Beetle (a homage to the same car used by Cheech Marin in the 1987 film Born in East L.A.). Boyd continues to venture through the city as he asks several children where the bottle originated from to no avail. Finally, he makes his way to Los Angeles City Hall, as he and the other band members return to their forest with former city mayor Richard Riordan and several other policitians. Riordan awards Boyd with a Los Angeles Dodgers baseball cap as a small ribbon-cutting celebration takes place before the camera pans out revealing the forest to be in the middle of an on-ramp along Route 101.[2][3] The video can be found on the band's DVD When Incubus Attacks Volume 2.[4]

    Live performance

    The song was a staple in the band's setlist early on, however, along with other funk-based Fungus Amongus songs, it soon vanished from the band's setlist by the end of the 90s. In 2004 the band performed the song live for the first time in 6 years during a concert in London, England, much to fans' delight, with the band going on to play the song 9 times that year. It is to date the last Fungus Amongus/Enjoy Incubus song to be played live.[5]

    Music and lyrics

    The main difference between the 1995 and re-recorded versions is the presence of

    rapping segments which were present in the recorded versions.[6]

    The song's lyrics contain references to cocaine and other drugs.[citation needed]

    Personnel

    Incubus

    Other personnel

    • DJ Lyfe
      – turntables, keyboards on the re-recording

    External links

    References

    1. ^ "Incubus playing Take Me to Your Leader".
    2. ^ "INCUBUS - TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER".
    3. ^ "Incubus - Take Me to Your Leader -IncubusTV".
    4. ^ "When Incubus Attacks, Vol. 2 by Incubus". MTV. 2002-04-15. Retrieved 2013-01-19.
    5. ^ "Take Me to Your Leader by Incubus Song Statistics". setlist.fm. Retrieved 2013-01-19.
    6. ^ Incubus - Take Me To Your Leader Live 2004. YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-11.
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