"You'd Prefer An Astronaut" and "Downward Is Heavenward" are the most beautiful loud records I have ever heard. And that fact didn't change since more than 10 years, and it probably won't, ever.
I will put this simply and believe me I speak the truth. HUM = all around best band EVER! You'd Prefer An Astronaut = Best Album of all time. This song is excellent and this is an awesome performance. I concour the outro of this song is EPIC to say the least. HUM is a genius mix of rock and melody with poetic lyrics that run the gamut of human emotion. Smashing Pumpkins, good but cannot compare. HUM is sincere, sweet, exciting, and heartbreaking and I will love them forever.
I bought this album at the time really because I was looking for a Smashing Pumpkin/Jane's Addiction type band. (I didn't even hear any of their songs before buying it either. For me they just lacked something. I think the vocals didn't really match the intensity of the music. Though I might dig it out for a listen.
@jacknuts22 Do I detect a note of disapproval from you? I'm sure Hum will forgive me for taking the trouble of actually been one of the few who actually bought the album at the time and gave them a try. In the mid 90's there were alot of bands doing this type of stuff. Some were worse then Hum and some were better. It just happens that way.
@brokenbuzz When I bought their album I also bought Electralux by Monotonic (released by Cargo Records/Headhunter HUK002cd) on the same day. If you heard them blind you could almost mistake them for each other although out of the two Monotonic not Hum was the I kept on my stereo. That was until I bought Swell's 'Too many days without thinking' A real low fi classic album.
I took this video and re-synced the audio to the video so there's no more latency, I got tired of watching them headbang out of time to the song! Also tweaked the audio so it sounds a little better... Enjoy! (Posted it in the video responses)
I'm just lucky enough to have seen them with support by Shiner (and "who are they?" do you ask? even better than Hum at the show actually...) in Seattle in '96 on the Downward torur. I just miss bands actually SOUNDING different, even "heavy guitar/math/prog/whatever" bands, as there were a lot of them in the '90's. It seems like all the indie/alt/whatever bands sound "different", but it's the same 3 or for genres of "weird/dance/electro", "spacy country", "happy pop/high pitched vocals" etc.
@prinznevsky Hum were different, even for the time. and the Whole Pumpkin's comparison only holds up historically. Nobody compared the two at the time, mostly because, nobody really paid attention to Hum
sorry if this doesn't make sense, offends somebody, disagree heavily, etc. but Hum seems like Kurt Cobain wanted Nirvana to be - a kicka** heavy indie band but that remained low-profile/not giving into corporate bs but alas it didn't turn out that way... (note: I am NOT saying one band sounds like the other, although Hum was probably a LITTLE influenced by Nirvana)
Sorry kids. Hum really has nothing to do with Billy Corgan and the gang. In fact, they are kind of opposites. A few similar guitar effects here and there, but Hum wasn't really into the ego/angry/f*ck you thing.
Not that the Pumpkins weren't amazing of course. Gish, Siamese Dream, P. Iscariot, and Mellon collie were brilliant. Corgan started to lose it around the Adore era. Hum NEVER released a mediocre album. pumpkins did.
these guys have a lot more in common w/ Sonic Youth, Pavement than Pumpkins.
everything after adore by SP was crap, i agree. but as far as sound/influence goes, this song totally sounds like "The Sprawl" off of Day Dream Nation by Sonic Youth.
I think the art/music and the "who cares about clothes?" aesthetic are all I miss about the 90's.
People are actually making a Hum and Smashing Pumpkins comparison? Howcome this argument didn't exist back in 1995? *sigh* kids. One thing is for sure. Hum never went Goth to save their career
Wow. The songs the Pumpkins wrote during the Adore/Arising! period was some of the best music the band ever made. Not to mention, Machina is one of the most underapprecaited albums ever - aong with Hum's Downward Is Heavenward. Two great bands. Completely different styles.
great comment, hum was a collective, as bands should be, not a central brain that controls all the pawns (other people in the band) that is how the pumpkins work, Hum changed my life in small ways and they certainly changed my ideas of what music could be, i love the emotional connection they make by making these strange love song that pull you up close and distant space songs that spiral you across a universe we will never understand
@ALT980 I think the Weezer comparison is a bigger offence, at least smashing pumpkins had some Hum inspired material like silverfuck which is an amazing song and holds it's weight with any Hum song.
@DISSODANTS I think Hum was influenced by the Pumpkins. Not the other way around. SP-1988 Hum-1989 Regardless, they're both chicago bands of that era. Great Stuff!! (Weezer too).
@shaggy2time nobody on the east coast cares about chicago, champaign, geneva, st. charles or any other city in Il. That's why we don't know much about your 'region'.
@ALT980 Pumpkins ended up sucking in my opinion once there album with ava adore came out it was over ZERO Bullet and that album is good but otherwise... yea HUMs the shit
@ALT980 well, they do have some similarities in the sound/style department but not enough to say one copied the other...and like you mentioned, the career path is a completely different story.
@ALT980 I saw hum in 95 at summerfest in milwaukee... good band but in nowhere shape or form can they compare to a likes of a smashing pumpkins... I'll compare them to a pavement if anything.. but for me they bring me back to mid 90's when i was still in high school... and even then no one else i know even knew who they were... radio never played them except stars... and hum had much more better songs then that..
nicely put...it gets annoying listening to people compare a band to other bands and argue over who influenced who. just take each band for what they are, and Hum was a great band that deserved a whole lot more respect and attention than they received.
Wow, do you really think the lads in hum heard Smashing Pumps and said Holly shit, lets put some amazing songs together in like a month because Smashing is like so cool. And by the way, who has withstood the test of time? When is the last time you pulled out a Pumpkins cd? And thank god the radio meglalords and other media never vomited Hum's music in a bat of rotation as all the other good music you now can not bear to hear ever again!!
@mikemakesmaps I pull out a Pumpkins CD damn near every day. Just like I pull out a Hum album dam near every day. The Pumpkins and Hum are both greatly influential bands who both deserve credit and respect for the work they've done. Hum and SP play two different types of rock and roll. Everyone needs to get over this shit now.
The "wall of sound" idea is to have many of the same track played simultaniously to create a larger sound. I'm glad Phil Spector is finnaly in jail for killing Lana.
cannot thank you enough for the posts... VERY influential band, sound, lyrics, etc... and im so glad i was IL based to see HUM live on many occassions.
True. So much stuff I've been hearing for the last 5+ years seems to have come from early/mid '90s music. Obviously I agree with your comment above concerning this style of music. Sunny Day Real Estate seem to be a forerunner to 'emo' although they were much better, heh. The Dazzling Killmen were doing stuff like Dillinger Escape Plan, but several years earlier. Just a few examples. But then the styles of some great '90s bands haven't resufaced. Jawbox and Shudder to Think come to mind.
My Bloody Valentine is not My Chemical Romance you ignorant dipshit. They're a highly influential early 90s SHOEGAZE band, not some fucking emo shit. Do some research, learn a thing or two.
If you have the band Disturbed in your profile, you really need help.
Phil Spector came up with it but Brian Wilson was doing something similar also with Pet Sounds. They both often get credited for the term but it really is Phil's.
I agree with you but I would also say that Smashing Pumpkins are Godfathers of "Wall of Sound". If you listen to Siamese Dream. Hum owes a lot to them. I love both.
"A wasted string of years and a wasted string of lies, you're still the same to me...You're a waste of a song...You're a waste of my lungs...It's a waste of a song..."
thanks for posting this up! i was supposed to see them in a small club in '98 but their van with all their gear was wrecked the day before and they never came back. this is the only way i'll ever know the awsomeness that i missed that summer. thanks so much!
I will pay a really good price and/or trade the UK The Pod single with three songs for the Hum CD/single (Puppets/Aphids) if someone is willing to sell/trade it. I really need it for a "master" collection of every Hum album/single I'm trying for...
Yes Glifted is ROCKEN!!!! Also ck out National Skyline the bass player from HUM is on that as well they have a NEW CD on the way but it would be nice to see HUM get back togather and make a new CD as well.
so i was just looking up concerts randomly on ticketmaster and for fun typed in hum, and apparently hum is going to playing a concert in chicago????? am i crazy or is there another band with the same name out?????!!!!
Man, Matt Talbot is a genius. I've always wondered if that geek look was cultivated or was just how he looked... anyway, Centaur's "In Streams" is pretty great... check it out. It's Matt's band after HUM.
Hum was a great band I wish they would get back togather but in the meen time there is National Skyline the bass player form Hum vary cool stuff ck it out.
Totally kickass! The BEST band of the 90s. Wait a minute--there were too many AMAZING bands of that decade. Jesus Lizard, Quicksand, Slowdive, SDRE, Jawbox, Helmet, Shellac, Helmet, Brainiac, Swervedriver, Don Cab etc etc. Now we've got shit sandwiches--sure there's exceptions BUT....
I love the bombast guitars. Matts fat tone with Tim's midrange tone complement each other to create a wall of distortion..very unique in the mid 90's.
This is certainly one of my favorite bands. It's nice when you can tell a group of talented song writers are just as interested in quality tones. I love the way his bass sounds.
Saw them and Mercury Rev at Rockefella's in Columbia, SC. My girlfriend bought the M.R. disc, I bought HUM. Lost the girlfriend, but still loving the cd!!!
they sound AMAZING live :O
metalgrungefan123 4 days ago
The ending of the song moved me to tears.
Cinemaxial 4 days ago
this is so much better than the album version in my opinion, way more energy here
sblakeb90 2 weeks ago
Hum might be working on a new album!
jujuslim 1 month ago
@jujuslim Yea i heard Matt saying in an interview that they might be considering on puttin out another album!
sblakeb90 2 weeks ago
Tim Lash plays the guitar the way it's meant to be fucking played.
Paradis80 2 months ago
I'D LIKE YOUR FACE GONE AND IN IT'S PLACE THE SUN.... AND I CAN BE AN ASTRONAUT
Garkar2006 2 months ago
i really like Hum because they dont dress to impress.they just wanna play some god damn music.
JackoReaper 3 months ago 5
OMG THIS IS FUCKING INCREDIBLE DAMN!!!!!!!
sblakeb90 4 months ago
Anyone have a recording of this that isn't all screwed up?
UrsaMirror 4 months ago
These guys have some crazy time signatures and cuts in their songs. Loving it big time. Thanks for the blast from the past!
CasanovaExchange 4 months ago
"You'd Prefer An Astronaut" and "Downward Is Heavenward" are the most beautiful loud records I have ever heard. And that fact didn't change since more than 10 years, and it probably won't, ever.
rnrdemon 5 months ago 2
Hum is the Sizzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!
spicetwo 5 months ago
you guys totally need to check out jeffs band National Skyline more esp the song "act like we do"
djicey00 5 months ago
i've never seen a strat with fixed bridge before.
gonor 6 months ago
@gonor i dont think its a fender
xane217 6 months ago
fuckin' grunge space rock!!!
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theEndlessDrone 7 months ago
I will put this simply and believe me I speak the truth. HUM = all around best band EVER! You'd Prefer An Astronaut = Best Album of all time. This song is excellent and this is an awesome performance. I concour the outro of this song is EPIC to say the least. HUM is a genius mix of rock and melody with poetic lyrics that run the gamut of human emotion. Smashing Pumpkins, good but cannot compare. HUM is sincere, sweet, exciting, and heartbreaking and I will love them forever.
humpuppets 8 months ago 2
Fucking awesome.
BOYERxBREAKD0WN 8 months ago
I bought this album at the time really because I was looking for a Smashing Pumpkin/Jane's Addiction type band. (I didn't even hear any of their songs before buying it either. For me they just lacked something. I think the vocals didn't really match the intensity of the music. Though I might dig it out for a listen.
mirrorbus 8 months ago
@mirrorbus Before digging it out for a listen, you might try digging your head out from your ass first.
jacknuts22 8 months ago
@jacknuts22 Do I detect a note of disapproval from you? I'm sure Hum will forgive me for taking the trouble of actually been one of the few who actually bought the album at the time and gave them a try. In the mid 90's there were alot of bands doing this type of stuff. Some were worse then Hum and some were better. It just happens that way.
mirrorbus 8 months ago
@mirrorbus None were better. None.
brokenbuzz 7 months ago
@brokenbuzz When I bought their album I also bought Electralux by Monotonic (released by Cargo Records/Headhunter HUK002cd) on the same day. If you heard them blind you could almost mistake them for each other although out of the two Monotonic not Hum was the I kept on my stereo. That was until I bought Swell's 'Too many days without thinking' A real low fi classic album.
mirrorbus 7 months ago
@mirrorbus I will investigate. Until then, I stand by my statement!
brokenbuzz 7 months ago
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dollsindamask 8 months ago
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dollsindamask 8 months ago
B ea u ti f u l
GreenThisBitch 8 months ago
Lovely unpretentious, artistic, jamming Mid-west rock.
buzzcrushtrendkill 8 months ago
Hum, in my mind, was pound for pound the smartest and loudest band of the mid-90's. I still listen to their music when running.
bombednation 8 months ago
This album was brilliant. YPAA is a classic.
jmorris724 10 months ago 2
If you could address the band Hum in one word what would that one would be? ...Intense!
Crackmandan 10 months ago
I took this video and re-synced the audio to the video so there's no more latency, I got tired of watching them headbang out of time to the song! Also tweaked the audio so it sounds a little better... Enjoy! (Posted it in the video responses)
slaughtermaster 10 months ago
Most underrated band in the history of music
MrR1D3R 11 months ago
H*ly F-in sh&t I miss this band!
davehanson11 11 months ago
I'm just lucky enough to have seen them with support by Shiner (and "who are they?" do you ask? even better than Hum at the show actually...) in Seattle in '96 on the Downward torur. I just miss bands actually SOUNDING different, even "heavy guitar/math/prog/whatever" bands, as there were a lot of them in the '90's. It seems like all the indie/alt/whatever bands sound "different", but it's the same 3 or for genres of "weird/dance/electro", "spacy country", "happy pop/high pitched vocals" etc.
prinznevsky 1 year ago
@prinznevsky Hum were different, even for the time. and the Whole Pumpkin's comparison only holds up historically. Nobody compared the two at the time, mostly because, nobody really paid attention to Hum
prinznevsky 1 year ago
@prinznevsky I totally agree. Both are great bands.
ALT980 1 year ago
WHAT A FUCKING BUILDING WRECKING MONSTER!
daylightghost2009 1 year ago
The Drummer goes ape sh*t at the end
guitarheromaster21 1 year ago
It would be so cool if someone put up a live verison of Suicide Machine or I Hate It Too, those are my favorite songs off the record :)
StraightPunkEdge93 1 year ago
sorry if this doesn't make sense, offends somebody, disagree heavily, etc. but Hum seems like Kurt Cobain wanted Nirvana to be - a kicka** heavy indie band but that remained low-profile/not giving into corporate bs but alas it didn't turn out that way... (note: I am NOT saying one band sounds like the other, although Hum was probably a LITTLE influenced by Nirvana)
91nickt 1 year ago 2
@91nickt
As Brian(drummer) explained to me, they just did it and gigs just kept coming.They weren't even really trying from the impression I got from him.
TJMonster51 1 year ago
if you're going to compare any band to Hum it might as well be Failure
TheGreaterGood80 1 year ago 2
Guitarist at 0:04 looks like Colin Greenwood from Radiohead. I have to check out Hum some more.
Zeronautic 1 year ago
@Zeronautic
Its a shadow. But ya he does right that second.
The lead singer looks like a cross between Kurt Cobain and Rivers Cuomo.
RideonRunnersHigh82 1 year ago
So awesome. Haven't seen this in 15 years. This back when you could see music on MTV. Good music sometimes, even!
LordBass 1 year ago 2
Fucking MTV What happened to 120 minutes days?
noiseadicted 1 year ago 9
If the ending of this song doesn't give you goosebumps then your pretty much on life support and they can start digging the hole...
xyz321123 1 year ago 23
Exactly right, Hum was influenced by the heavy prog bands of the 70's like Rush.
This song is heavy progressive rock IMO. But also very indie..
xyz321123 1 year ago 2
@xyz321123 How ironic. First time I heard Hum, I thought they were a cross between grunge and 70s Prog Rock. Love the mutliple time signatures.
xcellken1 1 year ago
@xcellken1 That's what initially grabed me about them.
obscurebandfan 1 year ago
Sorry kids. Hum really has nothing to do with Billy Corgan and the gang. In fact, they are kind of opposites. A few similar guitar effects here and there, but Hum wasn't really into the ego/angry/f*ck you thing.
Not that the Pumpkins weren't amazing of course. Gish, Siamese Dream, P. Iscariot, and Mellon collie were brilliant. Corgan started to lose it around the Adore era. Hum NEVER released a mediocre album. pumpkins did.
And Chamberlain is quite the drummer. Absolutely.
dopebozoish 1 year ago 5
these guys have a lot more in common w/ Sonic Youth, Pavement than Pumpkins.
everything after adore by SP was crap, i agree. but as far as sound/influence goes, this song totally sounds like "The Sprawl" off of Day Dream Nation by Sonic Youth.
I think the art/music and the "who cares about clothes?" aesthetic are all I miss about the 90's.
i wont miss a damn thing about this decade.
f8ckutub 1 year ago 2
Hum always kept it real, they had artistic integrity!
MsPurpleGehanna 1 year ago 2
hum wasnt influenced by the pumpkins, they were influenced by rush and other 70's bands...get your facts straight....I agree w/ ALT980...theses kids!
NDStenger 1 year ago
that. was. %!$@#. awesome.
ianmacsmith 1 year ago
I saw them play this live last night in Chicago, fuck yeah!
ehhhhhhhhhh 1 year ago
best ending to a hum song ever
vibe3eleven 1 year ago
without Walk Mink, there would have been no smashing pumpkins
fiddlerfart 1 year ago
omg so good
StarpilotSinfony 1 year ago
Hum kinda reminds me of a heavier pinkerton era weezer.....
qwerty887 1 year ago
AFter...3:10..yeah they look really LIke the OLD..HOPESFALL!!..Or HOpesFall...LOok like this BAnd!
really Good!....voice..drum guit....Intense!..their young generation was really Nice..thx..90'S....thx for all....1000 times again!
0371998 1 year ago
Great stuff!!!!!
AngelaJane4 1 year ago
Great band, Great song, Stupid fuckin' comments.
Kaligulasucks 1 year ago 7
People are actually making a Hum and Smashing Pumpkins comparison? Howcome this argument didn't exist back in 1995? *sigh* kids. One thing is for sure. Hum never went Goth to save their career
ALT980 2 years ago 83
@ALT980 Right on! This comparison only occurs because Chicago isn't big enough for the both of them!
IrishNotre 2 years ago
Wow. The songs the Pumpkins wrote during the Adore/Arising! period was some of the best music the band ever made. Not to mention, Machina is one of the most underapprecaited albums ever - aong with Hum's Downward Is Heavenward. Two great bands. Completely different styles.
hampsterman22 1 year ago
Are you implying The Smashing Pumpkins are goth?
Differentiate11 1 year ago
great comment, hum was a collective, as bands should be, not a central brain that controls all the pawns (other people in the band) that is how the pumpkins work, Hum changed my life in small ways and they certainly changed my ideas of what music could be, i love the emotional connection they make by making these strange love song that pull you up close and distant space songs that spiral you across a universe we will never understand
bauhausera 1 year ago
I couldnt have said it better
squire456 1 year ago
@ALT980 I think the Weezer comparison is a bigger offence, at least smashing pumpkins had some Hum inspired material like silverfuck which is an amazing song and holds it's weight with any Hum song.
DISSODANTS 1 year ago
@DISSODANTS I think Hum was influenced by the Pumpkins. Not the other way around. SP-1988 Hum-1989 Regardless, they're both chicago bands of that era. Great Stuff!! (Weezer too).
Cheers!
bs1174 1 year ago
@bs1174 actually, hum was from Champaign, it's alright, yr regionally challenged.
shaggy2time 1 year ago
@shaggy2time nobody on the east coast cares about chicago, champaign, geneva, st. charles or any other city in Il. That's why we don't know much about your 'region'.
Il. is Il.
End of That short, wannabe story...
bs1174 1 year ago
@bs1174 I would recommend, then, not citing regions of which you are so apathetic and ignorant.
shaggy2time 1 year ago
@shaggy2time LOL ok douchebag
bs1174 1 year ago
@ALT980 Pumpkins ended up sucking in my opinion once there album with ava adore came out it was over ZERO Bullet and that album is good but otherwise... yea HUMs the shit
Branden1119 1 year ago
@ALT980 well, they do have some similarities in the sound/style department but not enough to say one copied the other...and like you mentioned, the career path is a completely different story.
91nickt 1 year ago
@ALT980 LMFAO AWESOME
heathenbreathinfire 1 year ago
@ALT980 Yeah HUM always did their own thing, Always honest and rocking.
peteaimaro 1 year ago 2
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@ALT980 Yeah HUM always did their own thing, Always honest and rocking.
peteaimaro 1 year ago
@ALT980 yea, and matt talbott didnt go solo and do music for a chicago cop show on fox thats likely to get the axe.
agricola 10 months ago
@ALT980 I saw hum in 95 at summerfest in milwaukee... good band but in nowhere shape or form can they compare to a likes of a smashing pumpkins... I'll compare them to a pavement if anything.. but for me they bring me back to mid 90's when i was still in high school... and even then no one else i know even knew who they were... radio never played them except stars... and hum had much more better songs then that..
jdubs4201 7 months ago
@ALT980 It's just the guitar that sounds like the smashing pumpkins. I think they both have the exact same Effect on. Or very very
LucyWithFur 4 months ago
Between Hum and Sunny Day Real Estate, 120 Minutes was never the same. Phenominal live version!
IrishNotre 2 years ago 2
I'd love to meet the chick that dissed him and see how she feels now!
IrishNotre 2 years ago
everyone is missing the point. it's just great they all exist and that we were witnesses
ising4kings 2 years ago
nicely put...it gets annoying listening to people compare a band to other bands and argue over who influenced who. just take each band for what they are, and Hum was a great band that deserved a whole lot more respect and attention than they received.
W0weeZ0wee 2 years ago
Wow, do you really think the lads in hum heard Smashing Pumps and said Holly shit, lets put some amazing songs together in like a month because Smashing is like so cool. And by the way, who has withstood the test of time? When is the last time you pulled out a Pumpkins cd? And thank god the radio meglalords and other media never vomited Hum's music in a bat of rotation as all the other good music you now can not bear to hear ever again!!
mikemakesmaps 2 years ago
@mikemakesmaps I pull out a Pumpkins CD damn near every day. Just like I pull out a Hum album dam near every day. The Pumpkins and Hum are both greatly influential bands who both deserve credit and respect for the work they've done. Hum and SP play two different types of rock and roll. Everyone needs to get over this shit now.
hampsterman22 2 years ago
who cares, hum wasn't really inspired by smashing pumpkins anyways, they were inspired by dinosaur jr
Cjmcwatters 2 years ago
The Smashing Pumpkins and Hum were playing at the same time.
Smashing pumpkins released their first album "Gish" in 1991, the same year Hum released "Fillet Snow", their first album.
They just have a similar sound, neither of them copped from each other.
dirtyhandgesture 2 years ago 3
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I blame Tim Lash for the breakup of Hum
dhinge 2 years ago
Blame the record company for dropping them.
ThriceDog 2 years ago 2
wall of sound? let's not forget about My Bloody Valentine.
motorhead412 2 years ago 2
wow!!!... they played live so good... i miss their music so much
cflm76 2 years ago
A love left my life hum brought love back for 5 minutes
salazarich 2 years ago 9
The "wall of sound" idea is to have many of the same track played simultaniously to create a larger sound. I'm glad Phil Spector is finnaly in jail for killing Lana.
btc999 2 years ago
cannot thank you enough for the posts... VERY influential band, sound, lyrics, etc... and im so glad i was IL based to see HUM live on many occassions.
getmeadoctor 2 years ago 4
wuts wall of sound music nd dont reject my comment cuz i really wanna kno
sunflowermother 2 years ago
great band..the drummer is really good.
binibiningbruha 2 years ago 2
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They were trying too hard to be 'grunge' at the time, but some of their greatest songs were created then.
ChickenPissInTheRoad 2 years ago
They weren't trying to do anything....this is not grunge. In fact, they are the godfathers of the wall of sound music you hear today.
mesabog2 2 years ago
True. So much stuff I've been hearing for the last 5+ years seems to have come from early/mid '90s music. Obviously I agree with your comment above concerning this style of music. Sunny Day Real Estate seem to be a forerunner to 'emo' although they were much better, heh. The Dazzling Killmen were doing stuff like Dillinger Escape Plan, but several years earlier. Just a few examples. But then the styles of some great '90s bands haven't resufaced. Jawbox and Shudder to Think come to mind.
onesandzeros 2 years ago 3
Yeah. Enlighten us all. What is "wall of sound music"?
titenate 2 years ago
tons of heavily distorted guitars and in your face volume....like a wall of speakers. make sense?
mesabog2 2 years ago 3
actually, no, i believe it was coined by Phil Spector, and meant to have a wider range of sound.
check out a shoegaze band like My Bloody Valentine to hear what it's like.
newusername132 2 years ago
I was talking about more modern rock..these guys were probably the hardest melodic band in during their time
My Bloody Valentine? Dont make me laugh
mesabog2 2 years ago 2
My Bloody Valentine is not My Chemical Romance you ignorant dipshit. They're a highly influential early 90s SHOEGAZE band, not some fucking emo shit. Do some research, learn a thing or two.
If you have the band Disturbed in your profile, you really need help.
newusername132 2 years ago 9
Yea I guess Disturbed is beneath shoegazing elitists..
mesabog2 2 years ago
They actually are, considering they are a ridiculously terrible nu-metal clone with cheesy songs and horrible guitar tone.
newusername132 2 years ago 8
No, they just suck ass. Disturbed is awful, and if you like them, that makes you a slightly dumber person.
oceanic86 2 years ago 6
Check out Desa's first album. Red something. Not exactly shoegaze but not emo either but it is pretty cool stuff. It's kind of shoegaze.
HeyJaw 2 years ago
Phil Spector came up with it but Brian Wilson was doing something similar also with Pet Sounds. They both often get credited for the term but it really is Phil's.
HeyJaw 2 years ago
I agree with you but I would also say that Smashing Pumpkins are Godfathers of "Wall of Sound". If you listen to Siamese Dream. Hum owes a lot to them. I love both.
memphisblues78 2 years ago
Pumpkins took their brand of 'wall of sound' from My Bloody Valentine.
FakeUsername54321 2 years ago 2
Or maybe The Smashing Pumpkins owe a lot to Hum
Glonito 2 years ago
Pumpkins came first
memphisblues78 2 years ago
sounds like as if lou barlow had stayed with dinosaur jr
kerplunk135 2 years ago
it did come from conan i have the tape lol
FFXIScholar 2 years ago
This is from 120 Minutes, you can see the God Damned logo on the TV Screen.
newusername132 2 years ago 6
i miss the 90's
Glonito 2 years ago 34
me too man,.... me too...
PocketThunder 2 years ago 4
@Glonito amen
PowerInMN 1 year ago
this performance on t.v. made me a fan all those years ago
oboybeerz 2 years ago
i could have sworn this came from connan, i have the stars video from it.
FFXIScholar 2 years ago
thanks for the info on this great footage.
GreenThisBitch 2 years ago
holy crap, im foofighters311.. damn i musta been drunk or somthing.. Hum is a gret band. why does this look so SNL ish.. where is this shot?
GreenThisBitch 2 years ago
this was recorded on mtvs '120 minutes' I believe. way back in 1995.
foolsgoldsoma 2 years ago 3
That would be correct sir.
onecnote 2 years ago
Favorites.. all time... HUM had it.. amazing
foofighters311 2 years ago
I wish I could see hum live.
heathenbreathinfire 2 years ago
They usually play live on New Years Eve but I am not sure all members are there. The lead singer is in another band still I think.
kreanth151 2 years ago
play this on a big monitor at my funeral please!
donewellisbetter 2 years ago
LOL my son would probably love the same thing. He turned me on to this band. Love them loads! Wearing out the cds!
Ladydiode 2 years ago
Hum has inspired me so much as a musician. Love the energy in this tune.
spacetronaut 2 years ago
"A wasted string of years and a wasted string of lies, you're still the same to me...You're a waste of a song...You're a waste of my lungs...It's a waste of a song..."
Fucking classic...
braddavery 3 years ago 13
The ultimate "Fuck you" song, and it's so calmly sang.
Brilliant band.
whiteboywithguitar 2 years ago 8
Fucking hell ... that ending rips my face off every single time! Gotta love the wall of Orange amps baby!
deadredeyes 3 years ago 2
thanks for posting this up! i was supposed to see them in a small club in '98 but their van with all their gear was wrecked the day before and they never came back. this is the only way i'll ever know the awsomeness that i missed that summer. thanks so much!
pattycakes0077 3 years ago
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I will pay a really good price and/or trade the UK The Pod single with three songs for the Hum CD/single (Puppets/Aphids) if someone is willing to sell/trade it. I really need it for a "master" collection of every Hum album/single I'm trying for...
braddavery 3 years ago
someone please post the version off the cd!!!
Necronom45 3 years ago 2
Youtube it and its up now :)
Kyeb20 2 years ago
Yes Glifted is ROCKEN!!!! Also ck out National Skyline the bass player from HUM is on that as well they have a NEW CD on the way but it would be nice to see HUM get back togather and make a new CD as well.
vetec4 3 years ago 3
Someone better be filming the New Years Eve/Day shows... I'm going to be checking YouTube religiously to see if any videos show up.
robmac323 3 years ago 2
Probably one of the most underrated bands of the 90s.
foolsgoldsoma 3 years ago 5
wow thats awesome. i used to blast this album as high as the volume could go.
babybabs77 3 years ago 2
I still blast it as high as it goes! :)
foolsgoldsoma 3 years ago 2
so i was just looking up concerts randomly on ticketmaster and for fun typed in hum, and apparently hum is going to playing a concert in chicago????? am i crazy or is there another band with the same name out?????!!!!
grizvi 3 years ago
yeah, they're doing some sort of reunion show for new years, I think.
FunerealGrief 3 years ago
Two shows, 12/31 and 1/1 at the Double Door in Chicago. Openers for both nights are Dianogah and The Life and Times.
thenorthatlantic 3 years ago
Man, Matt Talbot is a genius. I've always wondered if that geek look was cultivated or was just how he looked... anyway, Centaur's "In Streams" is pretty great... check it out. It's Matt's band after HUM.
mchabe 3 years ago
If you haven't heard Tim Lash's side project, Glifted, you should check that out as well. Really cool stuff.
robmac323 3 years ago 2
this was actually recored live from 120 minutes off of mtv. i still have this live segment on vhs. i remember it from the rug on the floor.
sloandj 3 years ago 2
Hum was a great band I wish they would get back togather but in the meen time there is National Skyline the bass player form Hum vary cool stuff ck it out.
vetec4 3 years ago
Totally kickass! The BEST band of the 90s. Wait a minute--there were too many AMAZING bands of that decade. Jesus Lizard, Quicksand, Slowdive, SDRE, Jawbox, Helmet, Shellac, Helmet, Brainiac, Swervedriver, Don Cab etc etc. Now we've got shit sandwiches--sure there's exceptions BUT....
redshaftedflicker 3 years ago 8
hahaha exactly! remember when rolling stone was actually a good magazine?
foolsgoldsoma 3 years ago 2
Hum Reunion shows: 12/31/2009 and 1/1/2009 at the Double Door in Chicago, IL. Tickets for the 1/1/2009 show went on sale today.
GalaxyHex11 3 years ago
Everyone knows that Matt Talbott (lead singer of Hum) produced The Sattlight Years (and he even sang in Escape Pods) right?
CornerBoy 3 years ago
hard core drum! yah !!
0371998 3 years ago
at the End 4:05 until the eND...look the music sound Like the old HopesFall .. you know!! ...me i know you not :)
0371998 3 years ago
this song !! is cool!! hair long... represent Yah! shake the head with music! :P
0371998 3 years ago
I love the bombast guitars. Matts fat tone with Tim's midrange tone complement each other to create a wall of distortion..very unique in the mid 90's.
mesabog2 3 years ago
I... I was talking about how they ARE a very talented band. I really love these guys
suglyfweater 3 years ago
This is certainly one of my favorite bands. It's nice when you can tell a group of talented song writers are just as interested in quality tones. I love the way his bass sounds.
suglyfweater 3 years ago
i must have seen this band live a million times when i was in college back in 1994/95
miss them... if you like hum, then check out matts other projects CENTAUR and HONCHO OVERLOAD
Buddhist2k 3 years ago
holy fucking shit this band was so fucking amazing
thesxpistols 3 years ago
HUM is a great fucking band. one of the most under appreciated bands.
otakukun82 3 years ago 6
Completely under appreciated.
thesxpistols 3 years ago 8
they werent on snl were they? look at all those cymbals. sounds like diamonds.
wowdudethatsawesome1 3 years ago
Nope, not SNL - this was from MTV's "120 Minutes." A really cool show from when "alternative" still meant meant "college radio."
shelato12771 3 years ago
I was at one of Hum's concerts when I was younger, didn't remember much except for the fact that my brother talked to Tim and Bryan.
TheIrishTerrorist 3 years ago
Does anybody know Matt or Tim's guitar set-up?
qwertyis1 3 years ago
i think this is kinda a grunge type form of music...or at least thats how it sounds to me :/ i could be mistaken so yeahh...
XxXJUSTCAUSEXxX 3 years ago
Saw them and Mercury Rev at Rockefella's in Columbia, SC. My girlfriend bought the M.R. disc, I bought HUM. Lost the girlfriend, but still loving the cd!!!
Great 90's band!!!!
dixieken 3 years ago 2
I always loved HUM. They were not the most talentend musicians, but it was always like a wall of music coming at you. just fuckin awesome.