Artist	Song
Red Hot Chili Peppers	Under the Bridge
from Red Hot Chili Peppers: Greatest Hits (2003)
The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Purple Haze
from Experience Hendrix - The Best of Jimi Hendrix (2010)
Rage Against the Machine	Killing In the Name
from Rage Against the Machine (1992)
Led Zeppelin	Immigrant Song
from Mothership (Remastered) (2007)
Jane's Addiction	Jane Says
from Nothing's Shocking (2010)
Beastie Boys	Sabotage
from Ill Communication (1994)
Jeff Buckley	Last Goodbye
from Grace (1994)
Faith No More	Ricochet
from King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime (2006)
Phish	Down With Disease
from (Hoist) (2005)
Primus	Electric Uncle Sam
from Antipop (1999)
The Who	I Can See for Miles
from The Ultimate Collection (2009)
Soundgarden	Black Hole Sun
from Superunknown (1994)
The Police	Message In a Bottle
from Every Breath You Take - The Classics (1995)
Steve Vai	For the Love of God
from Passion and Warfare (1991)
Mr. Bungle	None of Them Knew They Were Robots
from California (2010)

Comment:

Like the band's mythological namesake, an evil spirit that devoured a vast variety of innocently sleeping figures, Incubus developed their far-flung sound by attacking an array of ripe and ready influences. You simply couldn't grow up in Southern California, as they did, without memorizing the gaunt, angelic ballad "Under the Bridge." From the Chili Peppers, Incubus developed a knack for fusing fat-bottom funk with achingly gorgeous melodies. But the five-piece also knew how to raid their parents' crates, headbanging alongside the Viking crunch of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song"; fact is, a quick skim of guitarist Mike Einziger's mile-high guitar lines reveals a childhood spent poring over every guitar magazine with Jimmy Page on the cover. Nor is it easy to ignore the impact of the grunge godfathers who preceded them — particularly Soundgarden, with their dazed and disoriented anthem "Black Hole Sun." But that's Incubus, fusing the best parts of classic rock, '90s alternative, and nü-metal into a post-modern package that boasts everything from timeless rock gods, like The Who and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, to such funk-fortified institutions as Primus and Mr. Bungle . . . and so much more.

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