My favorite band of the late 90's. I wrote them a letter (back then) and 2ish years later I got a letter back that we have been busy but anyone who took the time to write them deserved a personal response. I still have that letter til this day.
My 17 old son was playing this on guitar the other day and it totally made me stop in my tracks with joy. He looks at me and says this album (my original cd) is amazing. Like Looking at my own reflection in the mirror.
Anyone down to start a list of just HOW BAD ASS WE WERE IN THE 90'S????!!!!! BANDS, ALBUMS, SONGS, WHATEVER!!! I'LL START: QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE- "Rated R"" ....WEEZER- "The Blue Album", "Pinkerton",.... BEASTIE BOYS - "Check Your Head", "Ill Communication", CORROSION OF CONFORMITY- "Blind"...... Continue!!!!!!
I love you all. So nice to see people on the same page as me. I have a Rated R tattoo AND a Hum tattoo! Put a big ole smile on my face to see these comments.
This song is flawless. One of the best mixed recordings of the era-everything is loud but no instrument is buried. Warm fuzzy guitar work. Will never stop loving this song
The engineer and mixer of this album is Keith Cleversley. He also worked on the Flaming Lips album Transmissions from the Satellite Heart, which is another fantastic sounding album
1995. On the very first day of summer vacation between my junior and senior years of high school, I rolled out of bed late in the morning. The DJ man on the alternative rock radio station said, "Here's a brand new one from some band called Hum." I thought about how I had nothing to do and no particular place to be. Then I listened to this song all the way through for the first time. It was a good day. A good time to be alive.
Lucky enough to be in the Omaha area in when this came out. My college roommate was dialed in to the great music of the day. This was when and where Saddle Creek Records, Sokol Hall, and the Ranch Bowl all coexised. Commander Venus, 311, Blue Moon Ghetto, Nine Days Wonder were local. You could hear this song on the radio in the summer of 95.
90s were the best. Mid teens to young adult during those years. Lived alot, learned alot, experienced alot. People who didn't experience those yrs will never know how awesome the 90s were. It didn't matter what type of music was being played back then because every genre of music was so good. Probably the last decade of greatness.
The 90s is perhaps the only time period that multiple generations miss equally. It was our last golden age. It was the renaissance. Art, music, film, television all succeeded in endless ways. Our economy was well. The 90s was heavenly
I was just watching a video where Ygg Studio was discussing this song, Aka the person who frequently comments on your channel. Then I come back here, and see you have left a comment less than a month ago, What are the odds of that? Lmao.
This song was one of the last things I heard my fiancé sing, the night before he took his own life at the guilt of his developing drug addiction. He swore he was a burden on me. I tried my best to bring him to therapy and get his life together. It was all too much. He passed away the night of October 2nd, 2021. We were together for about 6 years, and to this day I'm convinced he was my soulmate. He was just 20 years old. You will live on forever in this song to me, my love. I wish I could have saved you. I was always there holding daisies, I was always waiting for you. I wish you could have seen that. Now I sit here counting stars, looking for that train you caught without me
Being someone who is familiar with addiction I have some possible insight for you. If nothing else just consider it a different perspective. Him saying that he was a burden on you was probably right. You said that you wish you could have saved him. I'm sure he knew that you felt obligated to "fix" him. I'm sure he knew that nobody could save him too. Unfortunately he didn't know the one and only person who could. That person was him. Most likely he knew that but didn't believe it. I'm not sure, but the main thing is you couldn't have saved him. From reading your comment I can't help but think you feel somewhat responsible and because of that you carry guilt along with the grief of losing him. That's why I wanted to message you and make sure you know you did the best anyone could do. You didn't give up on him or stop loving him. Feel good about yourself. For only great human beings would do that. As much as we wish for something it's out of our hands when that something is based on another's decision. Anyway, I hope you find peace within. And if you already have then that's awesome. Maybe someone else will come across this at the right time and it'll be helpful. Take care
Do you know how he found this song? I just rediscovered it. It was one of my favorite songs before your fiance's time and I'd love to know how he was introduced to it. Maybe from his parent(s)?
They are from just outside Chicago so there is a lot of the Smashing Pumpkins comparisons though they are different types of music. The guitar riffs are somewhat comparable to old Deftones but the drumming is really where the comparison is favorable between the two.
Fabian Wadle yeah, the White Pony cover art is a tribute to their cover art from You’d Prefer an Astronaut, so Hum is definitely an influence. At the same time though (referring to an above statement) all 3 bands sound distinctly different and are their own bands.
This song epitomizes the 90’s. - listening I can taste 1995. The ninety’s were a great time to be young. No internet, no cell phones everyone was just present in the moment and hanging out. - HUM was/is such an underrated band.
So grateful for all the bands like this I may have overlooked as a kid but my older brother turned me onto. Yr right, this makes me feel like I’m out skating with my friends getting into real shit, being creative, innocently disillusioned. What an era.
A bit personal but fuck it. I was at work, my buddy said, “have you heard this song?” And I listened to it and loved it. He was born in the late 70’s but hit his twenties by the end of the nineties and I was born in the nineties. Not that it’s relevant but he loved this band and it was my first introduction to them. Anyway, after listening to it a second time, I read the lyrics, while still at work mind you, and I wept. I was the guy in this song to my girlfriend. I was so selfish in how I treated her and she put up with me, and to hear someone sing that feeling, that moment when you know you’re close to breaking someone or you’ve already broken them, it made me weep. I knew I was going to destroy this person by the way I was. I left work, still crying, bought her flowers, and we’ve been together going strong 6 years later. Thank you HUM for saving the most important person in my life by making me wake up and realize how shit I was being.
My husband just heard this song for the first time, were both children of the 90’s and he said “How have I never heard this? I’m going to buy this album. Right now. It’s going in my amazon cart.”
If you like those albums, check out The Egg by Shiner as well! Matt Talbott, the vocalist and guitarist for Hum, plays keyboards on it. Downward Is Heavenward is one of the best records of all time.
I actually wore out my original copy of this cd, not scratched, but wore out. As others have said, Downward is Heavenward is amazing but also their earlier two albums are out there on CD if you look, get those and enjoy.
I miss how the 90s *felt*. I know there are still great bands, still bands that make music similar to this, etc. But something about being alive and young during that time, knowing there were people dreaming up and recording this kind of music and just being aware of it all at the time - oof, it clobbers you right in the emotions.
There's a new band named Narrow Head out from Texas that is clearly inspired by Hum and Deftones. Check out their song named "Moments of Clarity" it slaps
For me my own personal heaven would be living in the mid 90s forever. The music, the people I've lost, the internet.. If I could spend eternity in a bubble of about 1996 I would so overjoyed.
I was a little kid when this came out, was never a favorite of mine but when I watch this it brings me right back to those days of being enthralled by MTV and alternative rock back in the early-mid 90s.
agree with you that he was One of the most underrated drummers in the rock world, actually Hum was a was one with the members. i have some underrated bands on my channel look later. see you buddy
I won't lie, I kinda owe it to my dad and the game Saints Row 2. Great song, underrated band, and they unfortunately never got the recognition they deserved
@@radiopadilla lol it's obviously better than creep. That's not very hard, although creep is not a bad song at all like a lot of haters will say. But radiohead are by far one of if not the best band for the last 2 decades
HUM and DIG. 2 very popular altenrative bands back in the day when they were new. Now forgotten and a cult following. Look up Dig Believe, you might recall them. DIG and HUM... 2 band names that are also hard to discover or find later on. They needed different names.
@ J Chappy What? Another album?!?!?!?!? You better not be fucking with me. *off to check* Edit: You're right. It's true. I thought the chances of this ever happening was pretty much 0%. I'm literally a bit choked up right now.
@J Chappy Agreed. They've been a huge part of my life for the last 22 years. I haven't bought any new music in so long that I'm going to have to figure out how soon. Hopefully it's a cd release as well.
This song takes me back to 2005 when I was a little kid discovering all the joys music could give. Just found it again 16 years later. It's a good day.
For anyone who has just now found this gem of the 90s, you need to look up the youtube video of them on the Howard Stern show. It is actually amazing because Howard is such a huge fan of their music and did everything possible to get a live version of the song played in studio, even having the drummer in the hall way (you will see). Also if you turn the intro up for this song in your car, be prepared.
Baneleaf funny I was looking for that video the other day, but could only find an audio version for it. It’s a shame, there was a vid up of the entire interview and performance that was interesting, Fred was making a big stink about the sound the band wanted for the performance, and Howard kept insisting they had a bit of attitude which didn’t seem to be the case to me at all. It was a little bit of a fiasco for sure, but Howard was only familiar with this song, but kept insisting they’d be huge, which just justifies my own surprise over the years that they were never bigger. It’s impossible to know how certain bands can fall through the cracks.
I worked with Tim Lash and his brother at Willys Pizza in Champaign 1990. Tim was about 19, I was 21 so I would buy them beer. Most importantly, they played all kinds of great grunge in the kitchen. They introduced me to Soundgarden, Dinosaur Jr, Naked Ray gun, etc. Amazing times!
I was 17 when I first listened to this in about 95, here i am still thinking this song is still as brilliant as the first day I heard it. This song never got the credit it deserved.
this vid has received over 100k views in the last few months. with a spike of sudden popularity like this, and with more ppl rediscovering/getting into Hum, this will be the first Hum video to have ever reached 1 million views on Yt ever. Its already the first Hum related vid to have reached over 500k views so i can see a mili happening sometime in the future. rlly cool stuff
I just discovered hum. Im hooked! Funny i find them in this surge your talking about. Me and a couple friends might be trying to do a cover of this song. Im pretty pumped about it.
Hum is a great band of wonderful people. Losing a friend and band mate is painful. Rest In Power Bryan. Your musical influence and shared moments lives on in us.
Was he as big of a soul-sucking, emotionally abusive prick as he makes himself out to be in this song? I mean, the music is beyond stellar, but these lyrics make him out to be a self-absorbed narcissistic prick who left his girlfriend so traumatized he admits that he probably *finally broke her*. ffs Chillingly sociopathic.
the 90’s were my junior high and high school years, but somehow I’ve never heard this song before and didn’t know this band existed until this second badass song, I’ve been missing out, thanks RUclips recommendations
This might be my favorite song by any band, ever. The bridge you commented on is why. I call it “The Swirl”. Few bands can achieve it. Hum absolutely nailed it here.
@@Breedlove88yep,that bridge might be my favourite piece of music too. The first bar starts with the basic riff,the second bar overlays that dreamy guitar melody and then culminates in the third bar with the drums intensifying with the crashing cymbals.yeah...i have listened to it a lot.
@@stephenhall2980 Hum songs always have tons of guitar layers, its really cool. You basically hear something new each listen. Ms. Lazarus and I'd Like Your Hair Long have a bunch of hidden guitar parts under the mix, but when you hear them its gorgeous.
Saw HUM open for the Jesus Lizard at a club in the basement of a girls dorm at Carleton College in Nortfield, MN November of '93. Probably the best rock experience of my life.
Saw them at the Main Event in Toledo around 1996. Can confirm. Only show that was louder was Tool at the Sports Arena, who were so loud I had to leave.
WAAF was the station. The grunge era was so awesome! Gen Xers were the last generation that grew up without the screen in our faces 24/7. I'm basically an old man now and I feel the pain, but still glad to be alive in 2024 even though all my closest friends & family are dead and gone. These old songs bring me back like a time traveler. All my memories, good & bad, I wouldn't trade them
Gen x'ers also love trauma dumping on the internet for no reason and shitting on following generations just as much as boomers. which is funny because they're just as bad as boomers but they're drastically less successful!
When my kids “discover” grunge and 90s alt rock - they’ll be listening to nirvana, PJ, Pumpkins etc - then I’ll walk in with this song. The true master of 90s alt rock. And they will understand just how great that era was.
Sometimes, at 4am on a Saturday, I think back with a mix of happiness and sadness. happy memories, even the tough times or the low times, thinking back, there's a happiness. people I went to school with who are now dead, or worse. people who's names i can barely remember, only flashes of memories. listening to cassettes in school, then CDs, then minidiscs, then mp3s, college, jobs, families. years go by in a flash now, and the older you get, the more distant those times feel, even though back then they seemed to go on forever. but occasionally, you'll hear a song from back then. it's more than nostalgia, it's a time travelling trip that a part of your soul goes to, just for a moment, and then the moment's gone. You can never hold on to it. and it gets further away each year. there's a pain in that thought.
I wrote the 'opening line' on the table outside the supermarket I worked for, at that time & when a friend/co-worker heard me play on my college radio show; INSTANTLY called station & 'called me out'!!!!!!!
Hum definitely deserves more than being "one of the bands that inspired Deftones", I've genuinely heard little bands capable of achieving this kind of sound on their records, maybe bands like Failure or even Sunny Day Real Estate at some degree but is just not the same fuzzy, noisy and dreamy yet not totally shoegazy sound Hum manages to produce, i absolutely love this band and it genuinely deserves more recognition
Sunny Day Real Estate was extremely underrated as well. Each album was a new direction, but still true to their original style. They were awesome, and 99.99997% of the humans on this planet have never heard of them.
Actually this video / song had previously been uploaded here by a fan, but the copyright fuzz removed it! Then after it was removed, it reappeared almost instantly - this time through the VEVO people...who were probably the ones who removed it in the first place.
LOL, yeah that was me. Didn't even know they deleted my copy, since RUclips never sent me notice. Incidentally, about a month or two ago I was trying to figure out why I don't take the time to upload more rare, high-quality music videos to RUclips so that the community can enjoy them. I guess I got my answer.
THX for postin Dude! It's a great song / video. People really do appreciate other fans (like yourself) who take the time to post / upload the videos...it sucks the copyright fuzz (arseholes!!!) are always on the lookout to ruin it for everyone. Anyway, I often watched it when you had it uploaded.
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RIP to Bryan St. Pere, their drummer. What a legacy.
No way
no wait no youre joking right no wait..
@@plazmikpond I wish I was. He’s sadly passed away.
@@g.u.959 What happened
His grooves and subtleties under such heavy riffs will be missed.
My favorite band of the late 90's. I wrote them a letter (back then) and 2ish years later I got a letter back that we have been busy but anyone who took the time to write them deserved a personal response. I still have that letter til this day.
Sick🤘
Awesome!
That is awesome
Thats awesome dude, I emailed matt through earth analogue about a year ago and he was nice enough to respond a short and sweet thank you.
I lost my Weezer Letter!
R.I.P. Bryan St. Pere, you're out back counting Stars.
My 17 old son was playing this on guitar the other day and it totally made me stop in my tracks with joy. He looks at me and says this album (my original cd) is amazing. Like Looking at my own reflection in the mirror.
Well done!
This makes me wanna cry, it is so sweet
Tears instantly 😢
That's freaking beautiful 😢
W dad
Jezuz - we had a lot of great music in the 90s didnt we.
You sed it hey zeus
Anyone down to start a list of just HOW BAD ASS WE WERE IN THE 90'S????!!!!! BANDS, ALBUMS, SONGS, WHATEVER!!! I'LL START: QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE- "Rated R"" ....WEEZER- "The Blue Album", "Pinkerton",.... BEASTIE BOYS - "Check Your Head", "Ill Communication", CORROSION OF CONFORMITY- "Blind"...... Continue!!!!!!
Rated R was in 2000 tho
(Still an amazing album)
@@jackfaulkner8385 While the specific album may be in dispute, I certainly recall listening to Queens of the Stone Age in 1999.
I love you all. So nice to see people on the same page as me. I have a Rated R tattoo AND a Hum tattoo! Put a big ole smile on my face to see these comments.
Love that massive 90s guitar tone.
In part that tone is thanks to producer/engineer/mixer Keith Cleversley. He recorded both of my albums and he is a highly underrated studio wizard
Also, what makes it so huge is drop D tuning.
If you love massive 90s guitar tones, you're gonna fucking LOVE Failure
big muff
@@sebp400 probs a Rat actually
That guitar distortion is probably the best I've ever heard.
I wonder if you'd like Swirlies. Their guitar textures are insane.
@@viviondiolinemuch different
@@nacl2858 I am aware of this
Rest in Peace Bryan, monster drummer, sad loss.
What happened to him?
@@chrisschuldt3865 he must have just died. These comments are all new
@@delilasloan8914 What killed him
@@shawnryan2197 thanks.
@@chrisschuldt3865 I read a couple pages on Google and they state Cancer. A few others say Suicide. I don't know which is true.
This song is flawless. One of the best mixed recordings of the era-everything is loud but no instrument is buried. Warm fuzzy guitar work. Will never stop loving this song
Exactly! How can there be so much musician/producer who doesn't see how much quality in mixing or mastering makes all the difference ?!
The second Album is unreal as well.
The engineer and mixer of this album is Keith Cleversley. He also worked on the Flaming Lips album Transmissions from the Satellite Heart, which is another fantastic sounding album
Another Useless Human Not to even mention his work with also under-appreciated Mercury Rev
Analog ftw
If Deftones says you influenced them, you did something incredible and thats what these guys did
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Im here literally for deftones
Hence the sound
@@Chino__Moren0 how dare you.. i came here from beavis and butthead like a true fan
theyre like deftones minus the annoying ''egirl/eboy'' fans from tiktok who only know a couple songs
1995. On the very first day of summer vacation between my junior and senior years of high school, I rolled out of bed late in the morning. The DJ man on the alternative rock radio station said, "Here's a brand new one from some band called Hum." I thought about how I had nothing to do and no particular place to be. Then I listened to this song all the way through for the first time. It was a good day. A good time to be alive.
I was in 9th grade 😂🎉
Lucky enough to be in the Omaha area in when this came out. My college roommate was dialed in to the great music of the day. This was when and where Saddle Creek Records, Sokol Hall, and the Ranch Bowl all coexised. Commander Venus, 311, Blue Moon Ghetto, Nine Days Wonder were local. You could hear this song on the radio in the summer of 95.
90s were the best. Mid teens to young adult during those years. Lived alot, learned alot, experienced alot. People who didn't experience those yrs will never know how awesome the 90s were. It didn't matter what type of music was being played back then because every genre of music was so good. Probably the last decade of greatness.
every generation says this
@@wienergrimaceyeah but the 90s was something beautiful
The 90s is perhaps the only time period that multiple generations miss equally. It was our last golden age. It was the renaissance. Art, music, film, television all succeeded in endless ways. Our economy was well. The 90s was heavenly
And then Osama Bin Laden messed it all up
This aged very well
Most under rated band of the 90s. Way ahead. If this dropped today, it would be 10x the massive banger.
If this "dropped" today it wouldn't even be heard.
@@ge2623yeah sadly thats the truth :(
RIP Mr. Bryan St. Pere
(listens to beginning)
Oh, great. Another sappy guitar ballad
(listens further)
OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOD
Yeah. Love this.
Shock master would be proud of this conmrnt
Truth
Mike Ortman this song is like 20 years old.
Lmao
This song makes me want to hug my friend Stefanie. Miss her a bunch.
The riff at 3:42 is absolutely sick
agreed
Sssssnes drunk
1:51
I was just watching a video where Ygg Studio was discussing this song, Aka the person who frequently comments on your channel. Then I come back here, and see you have left a comment less than a month ago,
What are the odds of that? Lmao.
I had to wait that long for it to get good sadly.
I can't believe that Bryan St. Pere is gone... I still have his drumstick when he played in Lowell back in '98. I'm so heart broken...
Dude, I was at that show. WAAF Big Field Day
people say this sounds like the 90s, but imo this is one of the most timeless styles of rock and roll music. what a great song
Long ago, I worked with a girl from Urbana IL, who claimed that *every* band from there sounded just like this.
My Bloody Valentine, Soundgarden, Hum, Smashing Pumpkins.... 90's had GUITARS
This song was one of the last things I heard my fiancé sing, the night before he took his own life at the guilt of his developing drug addiction. He swore he was a burden on me. I tried my best to bring him to therapy and get his life together. It was all too much. He passed away the night of October 2nd, 2021. We were together for about 6 years, and to this day I'm convinced he was my soulmate. He was just 20 years old.
You will live on forever in this song to me, my love. I wish I could have saved you. I was always there holding daisies, I was always waiting for you. I wish you could have seen that. Now I sit here counting stars, looking for that train you caught without me
Being someone who is familiar with addiction I have some possible insight for you. If nothing else just consider it a different perspective. Him saying that he was a burden on you was probably right. You said that you wish you could have saved him. I'm sure he knew that you felt obligated to "fix" him. I'm sure he knew that nobody could save him too. Unfortunately he didn't know the one and only person who could. That person was him. Most likely he knew that but didn't believe it. I'm not sure, but the main thing is you couldn't have saved him. From reading your comment I can't help but think you feel somewhat responsible and because of that you carry guilt along with the grief of losing him. That's why I wanted to message you and make sure you know you did the best anyone could do. You didn't give up on him or stop loving him. Feel good about yourself. For only great human beings would do that. As much as we wish for something it's out of our hands when that something is based on another's decision. Anyway, I hope you find peace within. And if you already have then that's awesome. Maybe someone else will come across this at the right time and it'll be helpful. Take care
What you said really Touched my heart ❤️ 💯🙏🏻
You did your best. He was a lost cause. He’s in much better place anyways. Hugs x
This hit home.. I'm sorry for your loss ❤
Do you know how he found this song? I just rediscovered it. It was one of my favorite songs before your fiance's time and I'd love to know how he was introduced to it. Maybe from his parent(s)?
Rest in Power Bryan St. Pere. 🙏 Big fan of your band since 1995 - Lew from The Philippines 🙏
So good. I get a smashing pumpkins and deftones vibe from this
They are from just outside Chicago so there is a lot of the Smashing Pumpkins comparisons though they are different types of music. The guitar riffs are somewhat comparable to old Deftones but the drumming is really where the comparison is favorable between the two.
Just read a list where chino from deftones where HUM and this album are like his top 13 albums.
Fabian Wadle yeah, the White Pony cover art is a tribute to their cover art from You’d Prefer an Astronaut, so Hum is definitely an influence. At the same time though (referring to an above statement) all 3 bands sound distinctly different and are their own bands.
Brendan Clauw
great band for sure...But please DO NOT compare them or anyone else to DEFTONES!!
Hummer
That hits hard
This song epitomizes the 90’s. - listening I can taste 1995. The ninety’s were a great time to be young. No internet, no cell phones everyone was just present in the moment and hanging out. - HUM was/is such an underrated band.
So grateful for all the bands like this I may have overlooked as a kid but my older brother turned me onto.
Yr right, this makes me feel like I’m out skating with my friends getting into real shit, being creative, innocently disillusioned. What an era.
Right?! LOL 😆
@Andrew A McGovern MA LPC: 1995 for me was that taste you get in the back of your mouth after dropping good acid.
A little teeny tiny bit of internet was sparking up in ‘95. Mostly just Yahoo!, Excite, Lycos and dancing baby gifs.
In the 90s we had giant brick mobile phones too and beepers lol. Internet was at its primitive stages.
A bit personal but fuck it. I was at work, my buddy said, “have you heard this song?” And I listened to it and loved it. He was born in the late 70’s but hit his twenties by the end of the nineties and I was born in the nineties. Not that it’s relevant but he loved this band and it was my first introduction to them.
Anyway, after listening to it a second time, I read the lyrics, while still at work mind you, and I wept. I was the guy in this song to my girlfriend. I was so selfish in how I treated her and she put up with me, and to hear someone sing that feeling, that moment when you know you’re close to breaking someone or you’ve already broken them, it made me weep. I knew I was going to destroy this person by the way I was. I left work, still crying, bought her flowers, and we’ve been together going strong 6 years later.
Thank you HUM for saving the most important person in my life by making me wake up and realize how shit I was being.
My husband just heard this song for the first time, were both children of the 90’s and he said “How have I never heard this? I’m going to buy this album. Right now. It’s going in my amazon cart.”
Fast as you can, add Downward is Heavenward to your Amazon cart as well. Both albums are fantastic.
Dave Kimball 3$ ON AMAZON!! brand new.
If you like those albums, check out The Egg by Shiner as well! Matt Talbott, the vocalist and guitarist for Hum, plays keyboards on it. Downward Is Heavenward is one of the best records of all time.
Fuck Amazone Buy a CD
I actually wore out my original copy of this cd, not scratched, but wore out. As others have said, Downward is Heavenward is amazing but also their earlier two albums are out there on CD if you look, get those and enjoy.
I miss how the 90s *felt*. I know there are still great bands, still bands that make music similar to this, etc. But something about being alive and young during that time, knowing there were people dreaming up and recording this kind of music and just being aware of it all at the time - oof, it clobbers you right in the emotions.
nostalgia is a hell of a drug
The 90s, the 60s, the 2010s....all of that is irrelevant. You simply miss your youth. You miss being young. We all do.
There's a new band named Narrow Head out from Texas that is clearly inspired by Hum and Deftones. Check out their song named "Moments of Clarity" it slaps
The beauty of no social media or internet. It allowed scenes to blossom in ways you can't have these days
For me my own personal heaven would be living in the mid 90s forever. The music, the people I've lost, the internet.. If I could spend eternity in a bubble of about 1996 I would so overjoyed.
I was a little kid when this came out, was never a favorite of mine but when I watch this it brings me right back to those days of being enthralled by MTV and alternative rock back in the early-mid 90s.
Unbelievable. One of the most underrated drummers in the rock business. Rest in Peace, Bryan.
agree with you that he was One of the most underrated drummers in the rock world, actually Hum was a was one with the members. i have some underrated bands on my channel look later. see you buddy
Jimmy Chamberlain is! These dudes ripped off the Smashing Pumpkins!
i met him at a show in 2003 and we shared a cigarette. .. cool guy :D
@@beanvillen24no, but if they did, they did it better.
Saw them live with Bush and Toadies at the Warfield in San Francisco back in 9/16/1995. Damn, that was one hell of a concert.
Saw them around the same time but No Doubt was also on the tour, so when Gwen met Gavin.
Hey bay area!
That’s a nice lineup!
Toadies were great
Gives me chills
Easily one of the best 90s alternative rock songs. RIP to Bryan, I hope his family is doing OK.
1 million, that's so awesome that they did it. For Bryan, may he rest in peace.
I won't lie, I kinda owe it to my dad and the game Saints Row 2. Great song, underrated band, and they unfortunately never got the recognition they deserved
The main guitar riff for this song deserves to be just as iconic as the little dun-dun right before the chorus of Radiohead's "Creep".
It's a much better song than Creep, although I do love the rest of Radiohead's work.
Vatnos let’s not get ahead of ourselves here.
boontown its pretty obvious this song is better than creep, even radiohead admits its one of their worst songs.
@@radiopadilla lol it's obviously better than creep. That's not very hard, although creep is not a bad song at all like a lot of haters will say. But radiohead are by far one of if not the best band for the last 2 decades
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Their riffs are so incredible.
HUM and DIG. 2 very popular altenrative bands back in the day when they were new. Now forgotten and a cult following. Look up Dig Believe, you might recall them. DIG and HUM... 2 band names that are also hard to discover or find later on. They needed different names.
Hum and Silverchair were way before their time.
3:40 dammit, that riff is so good
agreed
The Pod had a better 1. Agreed though, that shit fucking knocks
fucking legendary
Alexis Maltère isn’t it! 🎧
It's awesome
That breakdown riff is a planet killer
I'm still out back counting stars.
Saw them live with Bush and The Toadies. One of the best concerts ever!
This is not nostalgic for me because I never stopped listening.
i connect with this so much
Holy shit me too! I've burned this CD for so many people back in the day!
J Chappy :o I'll have to check into it.
@ J Chappy What? Another album?!?!?!?!? You better not be fucking with me. *off to check*
Edit: You're right. It's true. I thought the chances of this ever happening was pretty much 0%. I'm literally a bit choked up right now.
@J Chappy Agreed. They've been a huge part of my life for the last 22 years. I haven't bought any new music in so long that I'm going to have to figure out how soon. Hopefully it's a cd release as well.
This song takes me back to 2005 when I was a little kid discovering all the joys music could give. Just found it again 16 years later. It's a good day.
It came out a decade before '05! Believe or not
this is what every indie band should strive for: genuine, emotional, killer hook, great guitar work
They used their powers for good AND for awesome.
For anyone who has just now found this gem of the 90s, you need to look up the youtube video of them on the Howard Stern show. It is actually amazing because Howard is such a huge fan of their music and did everything possible to get a live version of the song played in studio, even having the drummer in the hall way (you will see). Also if you turn the intro up for this song in your car, be prepared.
Baneleaf funny I was looking for that video the other day, but could only find an audio version for it. It’s a shame, there was a vid up of the entire interview and performance that was interesting, Fred was making a big stink about the sound the band wanted for the performance, and Howard kept insisting they had a bit of attitude which didn’t seem to be the case to me at all. It was a little bit of a fiasco for sure, but Howard was only familiar with this song, but kept insisting they’d be huge, which just justifies my own surprise over the years that they were never bigger. It’s impossible to know how certain bands can fall through the cracks.
Love that live version in the Howard studio! Everyone's expecting wild rockstars but they were just kids that play great music
Wow ty! I totally 4got about that and totally rember it now! Hellow 52 lol
I worked with Tim Lash and his brother at Willys Pizza in Champaign 1990. Tim was about 19, I was 21 so I would buy them beer. Most importantly, they played all kinds of great grunge in the kitchen. They introduced me to Soundgarden, Dinosaur Jr, Naked Ray gun, etc. Amazing times!
I was living In Joliet when this song dropped(JJC.) Such a great track. Summer of ‘95 will go down as epitomizing life before tech took over.
Cool story. (not being sarcastic)
i was down there too - so much good music in chambana 90-2000. some of the most memorable shows in someone's basement or garage or a church lol
Hum and Failure-
The kings of 90s celestial rock and roll.
So much good music we can hardly remember all of it.
-Gen X.
Just a moment of immortality.
God what a time to be a teen, sorry kids you missed it
I was a kid in the 1990s 😂 what a time to be a kid
I was 17 when I first listened to this in about 95, here i am still thinking this song is still as brilliant as the first day I heard it. This song never got the credit it deserved.
The mid-90s - When being alive was fun.
I mean sometimes, if you didn't piss off your parents and get the belt
You do realize this music still exists, right?
@@goldenhourkodak No shit Sherlock. It was a comment about a nostalgic time in my life. I had a lot of fun back then. Sorry if you didn't.
There was much less control..and u could've been whatever u want and say whatever u want.
90's time machine...1...2..go!
Word, Im in the back seat...lol...shit lets go back to the 80s even...some good saturday morning cartoons on back then...LOL
*climbs aboard*
this vid has received over 100k views in the last few months. with a spike of sudden popularity like this, and with more ppl rediscovering/getting into Hum, this will be the first Hum video to have ever reached 1 million views on Yt ever. Its already the first Hum related vid to have reached over 500k views so i can see a mili happening sometime in the future. rlly cool stuff
I just discovered hum. Im hooked! Funny i find them in this surge your talking about. Me and a couple friends might be trying to do a cover of this song. Im pretty pumped about it.
How the heck am I just now hearing this???
9,000 away
About 85000 was just me
@@mrk-ph8pu its a mil now love
Hum is a great band of wonderful people. Losing a friend and band mate is painful. Rest In Power Bryan. Your musical influence and shared moments lives on in us.
R.I.P Bryan St. Pere… i’m absolutely devastated. keeping his family in my prayers.
Saw them live when I was a teenager at a small club in socal. I was sitting right next to the lead singer. Awesome
What an amazing story!
Was he as big of a soul-sucking, emotionally abusive prick as he makes himself out to be in this song? I mean, the music is beyond stellar, but these lyrics make him out to be a self-absorbed narcissistic prick who left his girlfriend so traumatized he admits that he probably *finally broke her*. ffs Chillingly sociopathic.
the 90’s were my junior high and high school years, but somehow I’ve never heard this song before and didn’t know this band existed until this second
badass song, I’ve been missing out, thanks RUclips recommendations
It's strange how this song never became a mainstream hit in the 90's.
Shows how good the 90s was
It was a minor/medium sized hit...regular rotation.
Was on regular rotation in Boston, 104.1 WBCN all through 1995/96. Bought it that year with my Christmas money and I've been obsessed ever since.
It was pretty popular.
That massive riff that starts @3:42 .....still one of my favorites to this day.
This might be my favorite song by any band, ever. The bridge you commented on is why. I call it “The Swirl”. Few bands can achieve it. Hum absolutely nailed it here.
@@Breedlove88yep,that bridge might be my favourite piece of music too. The first bar starts with the basic riff,the second bar overlays that dreamy guitar melody and then culminates in the third bar with the drums intensifying with the crashing cymbals.yeah...i have listened to it a lot.
@@stephenhall2980 Hum songs always have tons of guitar layers, its really cool. You basically hear something new each listen. Ms. Lazarus and I'd Like Your Hair Long have a bunch of hidden guitar parts under the mix, but when you hear them its gorgeous.
Saw HUM open for the Jesus Lizard at a club in the basement of a girls dorm at Carleton College in Nortfield, MN November of '93. Probably the best rock experience of my life.
Jesus that is a fucking goooood bill right there.
I still have this cd. One of my first.😊
These guys and failure are amongst the most underrated 90s bands
The Metal band that didnt know they were a Metal band. Love this damn song.
This whole album is classic!! I miss the 90s!
Best intro I’ve ever heard in a grunge song, no question.
God I miss the 90s!!
I'm a geezer (56) and I fucking love this song. Heard it a few times back in the day, but heard it on SiriusXM recently, and I'm like "Fuck YEAH!!"
Holy. I forgot about this song. I probably listened to it on repeat a million times back in the day. Those guitars.
Never thought I would ever see a new Hum album get released after all these years, but it finally happened in 2020
2020 is a shit year but a good year for music
Not a great time to live in but some of the albums that have came out have been pretty great.
@@giselletorres4156 Its a year with nooses in mind, but finding a way to escape them is a good thing
man , this tune reminds me of better days.
Have an even better day tomorrow Bill.
Same. Better simpler exciting days loaded with possibilities and dreams. Makes now that much more depressing.
These folks used to give away earplugs to the audience before concerts. Yep they played loud as heck.
I stood front row at Delmar Hall, my fucking body basically disintegrated
AWESOME!! Now that's MY KIND OF CONCERT!!!
I saw them live in Peoria back in 96. It was my first concert, and still probably the best one I've ever seen.
Saw them at the Main Event in Toledo around 1996. Can confirm. Only show that was louder was Tool at the Sports Arena, who were so loud I had to leave.
saw them in dallas , marshalls on one side & orange stacks on the other : LOUD AS F`IN HELL , HA
Farewell, Bryan. I hope you enjoy that you're out back counting stars at the vast cosmos.
Rediscovered this gem yesterday. Can't listen to it enough. This is a jamming ass song!!!
Wish I could go back to the 90s. Such a simple fun time for kids.
This is one of the most beautiful songs on this planet.
A Beavis and Butthead marathon reminded me of this. I owe those two so much.
That Riff bad ass song
What a fucking masterpiece man holy shit, if I would have only heard this song more when I was a kid in 95 or whatever. Bah..
Don't know how I've not heard this song before, first piece of music in ages that made me feel something. New favourite song, unbelievable
Never too late! Also listen to “green to me” and “the pod”
@@simplyphenomenal695Green to Me is another masterpiece of a song
Then you aren't looking in the right spots
@@chasetackett5605 I’d say so just slipped under my radar, but now I know so win win
@@simplyphenomenal695 Thanks for the recommendation, gave these a listen just after hearing this song 🙌
I feel bad for most people that have not experienced this song. GenX pass it onto your children and grand children.
90'S ALTERNATIVE music best time to be alive , glad I lived thru it.
WAAF was the station. The grunge era was so awesome! Gen Xers were the last generation that grew up without the screen in our faces 24/7. I'm basically an old man now and I feel the pain, but still glad to be alive in 2024 even though all my closest friends & family are dead and gone. These old songs bring me back like a time traveler. All my memories, good & bad, I wouldn't trade them
Gen x'ers also love trauma dumping on the internet for no reason and shitting on following generations just as much as boomers. which is funny because they're just as bad as boomers but they're drastically less successful!
Miss listening to WAAF
Skipping school in the 90s this song and discovering what a gravity bong is.
Nathan D sounds like good times.
Do kids even know what a gravity bong is nowadays?
Big Bob sure do, nobody has the patience to put one together though.
dingleberry liespewer very true man. gravs are more of a novelty in my opinion.
So relatable
When my kids “discover” grunge and 90s alt rock - they’ll be listening to nirvana, PJ, Pumpkins etc - then I’ll walk in with this song. The true master of 90s alt rock. And they will understand just how great that era was.
Эта песня должна нравиться всем! Даже суровым, сибирским трапам!
Rest in peace Bryan ❤️
I miss this part of my life so much
rip bryan, you legend
Sometimes, at 4am on a Saturday, I think back with a mix of happiness and sadness.
happy memories, even the tough times or the low times, thinking back, there's a happiness.
people I went to school with who are now dead, or worse.
people who's names i can barely remember, only flashes of memories.
listening to cassettes in school, then CDs, then minidiscs, then mp3s, college, jobs, families.
years go by in a flash now, and the older you get, the more distant those times feel, even though back then they seemed to go on forever.
but occasionally, you'll hear a song from back then. it's more than nostalgia, it's a time travelling trip that a part of your soul goes to, just for a moment, and then the moment's gone.
You can never hold on to it.
and it gets further away each year.
there's a pain in that thought.
I wrote the 'opening line' on the table outside the supermarket I worked for, at that time & when a friend/co-worker heard me play on my college radio show; INSTANTLY called station & 'called me out'!!!!!!!
Hum definitely deserves more than being "one of the bands that inspired Deftones", I've genuinely heard little bands capable of achieving this kind of sound on their records, maybe bands like Failure or even Sunny Day Real Estate at some degree but is just not the same fuzzy, noisy and dreamy yet not totally shoegazy sound Hum manages to produce, i absolutely love this band and it genuinely deserves more recognition
Sunny Day Real Estate was extremely underrated as well. Each album was a new direction, but still true to their original style. They were awesome, and 99.99997% of the humans on this planet have never heard of them.
Finally, someone uploaded the music video!!
Actually this video / song had previously been uploaded here by a fan, but the copyright fuzz removed it! Then after it was removed, it reappeared almost instantly - this time through the VEVO people...who were probably the ones who removed it in the first place.
LOL, yeah that was me. Didn't even know they deleted my copy, since RUclips never sent me notice.
Incidentally, about a month or two ago I was trying to figure out why I don't take the time to upload more rare, high-quality music videos to RUclips so that the community can enjoy them. I guess I got my answer.
THX for postin Dude! It's a great song / video. People really do appreciate other fans (like yourself) who take the time to post / upload the videos...it sucks the copyright fuzz (arseholes!!!) are always on the lookout to ruin it for everyone. Anyway, I often watched it when you had it uploaded.
Well that was short, i guess i better go home... oh shit theres more. Hell yes.
Oh shit i meant to make that its own comment
I used to listen this album after some siamese dream. Tasty
Best alternative song ever
I admit I was too METAL back when these guys came out. Now, almost 30 years later, I can’t get enough of their music.
Man I can't believe their drummer just passed. What a loss....