Morning View boasted a total of five singles beginning with " Wish You Were Here" released on August 14, 2001. The album also contains an acoustic ballad similar to " Drive" – "Mexico", complete with strings. Boyd joked that the song was intended to make "the listener pee in his/her pants" from relaxation. "Aqueous Transmission" is 7 minutes and 46 seconds long, with the last minute consisting of frogs croaking outside the studio in Malibu. The pipa used on the recording was given to Mike Einziger from Steve Vai. The final song, "Aqueous Transmission", employs the use of Chinese instruments such as the pipa and is accompanied by a Japanese orchestra. We put pressure on ourselves to make a good record because if none of us were happy with it, we'll all be miserable for the next two years while we're on tour." We didn't do anything even remotely close to that. "would've been really easy for us to try to replicate certain songs that did well on our last record, which we didn't do. It has an overall softer sound than previous albums, especially apparent on songs like "Echo" and " Are You In?" however, Incubus's heavier side is still evident on tracks like "Have You Ever" and "Under My Umbrella." Regarding the album's sound, guitarist Mike Einziger notes that it: Morning View features a variety of styles: ambience, aggression, and groove. Every time we'd pull up, DJ Kilmore would be like, 'Ah, Morning View. I got a big creative boner every time I'd show up to the house. Other songs also added to Monuments and Melodies were, Wish You Were Here, Nice to Know You, Warning, Are You In?, and "Mexico" as Greatest hits.įormer bassist Alex Katunich (aka "Dirk Lance") stated that the album's title comes from "the name of the street the house was on where we recorded the album." Boyd notes that "every time we'd pull into the street we had the view of the ocean and Pacific Coast Highway. One of the unreleased songs called "Anything" was later released on the compilation album Monuments and Melodies. Out of the 30 songs the band sketched out for the album, 13 ended up on the final release. It's nice to write music all day and be like, 'I'm going to take a break, see you guys in two hours.'" Vocalist Brandon Boyd stated that the band "needed quick access to the beach because we're kinda spoiled brats sometimes. You could just get up and it was a natural extension of your day." The idea was to not feel as if you were driving to work on a record. When we were getting ready to write this one, we knew that we needed to get into a more creative place. Former bassist Alex Katunich (aka "Dirk Lance") noted that the band had previously "tried to do that for at least the writing portion of Make Yourself, but we didn't have enough clout at the time. To record the album, the band lived in Malibu, California, on a street called "Morning View Drive".