Light Grenades
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Singles

  • "Anna Molly" - was briefly available online on September 20. It was slated for release on October 16, and debuted at #19 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks
    Modern Rock Tracks
    Alternative Songs is a music chart in the United States that has appeared in Billboard magazine since September 10, 1988. It lists the 40 most-played songs on modern rock radio stations, most of which are alternative rock songs...

     chart. Anna Molly peaked at #1 on the Modern Rock Chart, at #4 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks
    Mainstream Rock Tracks
    Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks is a ranking in Billboard magazine of the most-played songs on mainstream rock radio stations, a category that includes stations that play primarily rock music. Modern rock tracks are counted in the Alternative Songs chart.This chart began with the March 21, 1981, issue...

     Chart and at #66 on the Billboard Hot 100
    Billboard Hot 100
    The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

    . The song is featured in the music video game Guitar Hero: On Tour.

  • "Dig
    Dig (Incubus song)
    "Dig" is the second single released by American alternative rock band Incubus from their sixth studio album Light Grenades . Receiving huge airplay from alternative rock radio stations throughout the United States, "Dig" peaked at number four on the Modern Rock Tracks chart...

    " is the second single from Light Grenades. The video for the single was chosen from a pool of applicants in a fan-film contest. The song is featured in the music video game Lego Rock Band
    Lego Rock Band
    Lego Rock Band is a music video game and part of the Rock Band series developed by Harmonix Music Systems, but also incorporates elements from other Lego video games as developed by Traveller's Tales. The game is published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and MTV Games...

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  • "Love Hurts
    Love Hurts (Incubus song)
    "Love Hurts" is the third Europe single from Incubus' sixth album, Light Grenades, and is the fourth U.S. single . The song received moderate airplay in European countries...

    " was released as the third single in some international markets. It was released as the fourth US single in October 2008, 16 months after "Oil and Water".

  • "Oil and Water
    Oil and Water (song)
    "Oil and Water" is the third single from the album Light Grenades released in the United States by rock group Incubus. The single was released to radio stations June 5, 2007. The song peaked at number eight on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart and number 38 on the Mainstream Rocks Tracks chart....

    " was the third US single. It was released to radio stations on June 5, 2007.

  • "Light Grenades" is used on the soundtrack of the Xbox 360 game Project Gotham Racing 4
    Project Gotham Racing 4
    Project Gotham Racing 4 is the fourth title in the main Project Gotham Racing series, developed by Bizarre Creations and published by Microsoft Game Studios.-Development history:...

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Charts

Album
Year Chart First Week Sales Position
2006 Billboard Top 200 165,000 1


Singles
Year Single Chart Position
2006 "Anna Molly" Billboard Hot 100 66
Modern Rock Tracks 1
Mainstream Rock Tracks 4
Billboard Pop 100 81
2007 "Dig" Billboard Hot 100 94
Canadian Hot 100 72
Modern Rock Tracks 4
Mainstream Rock Tracks 17
Pop 100 96
Adult Top 40 17
"Oil and Water" Modern Rock Tracks 8
Mainstream Rock Tracks 38
2008 "Love Hurts" Modern Rock Tracks 1

Personnel

  • Brandon Boyd
    Brandon Boyd
    Brandon Charles Boyd is an American musician, author, and visual artist. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the American rock band Incubus.-Early Life and Incubus:...

     - Lead vocals, percussion, guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

  • Mike Einziger
    Mike Einziger
    Michael Aaron Einziger is a Grammy-nominated musician known as the co-writer and guitarist of the alternative rock band Incubus. Einziger is widely known as an innovator and enthusiast of the use of pedalboard guitar effects during live concerts, and was voted #41 in Total Guitar's top 100...

     - Lead guitar
    Lead guitar
    Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...

    , Rhodes
    Rhodes piano
    The Rhodes piano is an electro-mechanical piano, invented by Harold Rhodes during the fifties and later manufactured in a number of models, first in collaboration with Fender and after 1965 by CBS....

    , string arrangements, Bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Jose Pasillas
    José Pasillas
    José Antonio Pasillas is an American drummer known as the drummer of alternative rock band Incubus.-Biography:José Pasillas is of Mexican descent. He grew up in Calabasas, California. He began playing drums in 1990...

     - Drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

  • Ben Kenney
    Ben Kenney
    Benjamin Lee Kenney, Sr. , is a musician from Brielle, NJ, and the bassist for the band Incubus.Ben Kenney played guitar for the hip-hop group The Roots before he joined Incubus in 2003 after the departure of bassist and founding member Alex Katunich aka Dirk Lance...

     - Bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , vocals
  • Chris Kilmore
    Chris Kilmore
    Chris Kilmore is an American DJ. He is the turntablist and keyboardist of the rock band Incubus.-References:*...

     - Turntables, Hammond B3
    Hammond organ
    The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond in 1934 and manufactured by the Hammond Organ Company. While the Hammond organ was originally sold to churches as a lower-cost alternative to the wind-driven pipe organ, in the 1960s and 1970s it became a standard keyboard...

    , Moog Voyager
    Minimoog Voyager
    The Minimoog Voyager or Voyager is a monophonic analog synthesizer, designed by Robert Moog and released in 2002 by Moog Music. The Voyager was modeled after the classic Minimoog synthesizer that was popular in the 1970s, and is meant to be a successor to that instrument.-Design:Like the original...

    , Rhodes, piano
    Piano
    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

    , Marxophone
    Marxophone
    The Marxophone is a fretless zither that has four sets of chord strings to be strummed with the left hand and two octaves of double melody strings, which are struck by metal hammers activated by the right hand...

    , theremin
    Theremin
    The theremin , originally known as the aetherphone/etherophone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without discernible physical contact from the player. It is named after its Russian inventor, Professor Léon Theremin, who patented the device...

  • Brendan O'Brien
    Brendan O'Brien (music producer)
    Brendan O’Brien is a record producer, mixer, engineer, and musician.At age 14, O'Brien played guitar for the Atlanta-based cover band Pranks. In the late 1970s, he moved on to writing, performing and recording with the Samurai Catfish band...

     - Producer
    Record producer
    A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

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