This one’s for all the criminals, creeps and Republicans — but I repeat myself — who want a last-minute pardon from Donnie Two Scoops.
This is the song that exposed Incubus to a wide audience. The version on the “Make Yourself” LP, released in 1999, is an alt-metal squall of sound that hammers home the chorus, “Pardon me while I burst into flames.” But the single was going nowhere until the band started playing it acoustically, live, in visits to radio studios. Those performances prompted DJs to spin the record, which became the band’s first hit on the Modern Rock charts. Compare and contrast:
The official music video:
An acoustic performance:
