I was a huge Pumpkins fan and saw Hum open up for them in 1998 on the Adore tour. Ended up enjoying Hum's set more, even though I only knew a couple songs. Adore was great and all, but wasn't a fan of that tour in particular... too much twinkley piano and the dual drummers that just sounded off. So, for me, Hum stole the show... I wished they had a longer set.
IVery good band. They sound similar to The Smashing Pumpkins. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are from the same area given that music style had regional sounds back then.
@@sloter21 They were the OG nerdy musician EVEN before Weezer took the scene by storm,. Nothing screams more big bang theory than "I'd like your hair long"
Massive HUM fan here man. I think it's Sickening how underrated they are. Been a fan since the late 90s (thanks to Chino Moreno) the new Album is humongous and amazing...
I've heard of them! My local radio station played their song "Stars". I had to check them out afterwards and now "You'd Prefer an Astronaut" is one of my favorites
Props and Respect 👊👊👊 Bruh! Beautiful Comment, thank you and please know, 100% reciprocated! Favourite band and defo one of the most technically and lyrically advanced groups ever. Certain tracks will put you through every emotion imaginable! Be Well, Everyone! And CRANK IT!
@@nuntissonne3943 I'm just gonna do a big dump of my fav 90s bands: Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, Failure, Tool, Quicksand, Blind Melon, Weezer, Mudhoney, Tad, L7, Helmet, Rollins Band, Primus, Rage Against The Machine, Cake, Radiohead, Pearl Jam, Meat Puppets, and Hum of course lol. There's more too but I can't remember
You listed three of my favorite bands and you are right, they deserved better. I saw Swervedriver and Failure together in 2019. It is awesome that they are still going.
James Paw fucking ruled too. They had some country sounding shit incorporated, and Hum had the melodic shit incorporated. Both legendary bands from the 90’s.
Deftones formed in 88 a year before Hum , they just never came out with an LP till the mid 90's. I'd say if anything Helmet had this sound before anyone else did
Someone tell me how this band slipped under the radar. I’m 35 so is my husband and this is absolutely our type of music. I never ever heard a song on the radio in the 90’s not even stars, never heard that till around 10 years ago when my then fiancée was using aol music on his computer as a pandora-type thing just to get ready in the morning and stuff. My husband had cable all his life (I didn’t till around 1999) and watched mtv all the time and never saw them either. How?? This stuff is amazing!!!! It should have been HUGE!! I spent all last night at work listening to all 4 albums they are all great and I’m going to buy all 4!!
History Eraser Button I’ll check it out. I haven’t felt this need for a band since I heard zero on that Simpson’s episode and got super into pumpkins in like 1997 lol. Good to get the feels again after like 20 years. I’ll def check it out thx!!
Vandy all my band t-shirts are worn out and unwearable when people ask me why i only wear solid color t-shirts nowadays, i just stare into space and this song pops into my head
i remember when this band first came out i was lucky to have an older cousin who was into music stuff too if you ever read those music magazines like hit parader or what, it was before people had internet
Hum were probably one of the first bands to mash shoegaze and metal together. They didn’t put out a ton of music, but they put out 4 amazing albums that mash space rock, alt-metal, shoegaze all together, and it’s sublime.
I know the drummer, Bryan. He used to come into the music store I managed all the time to get his son drum lessons. Guess he didn't have time or patience for teaching. His drumming makes this band, if you ask me.
I'll never forget seeing these guys live, they came out onto the stage and looked like these geek guitar techs or something and everyone was yelling at them to gtfo the stage then the lights went down and they started playing this and everyone was just stunned into silence. Wall of fucking sound. Wall of sound.
I can't even put into words how much I love this album. Meantime by Helmet, Aenima by Tool, and You'd Prefer An Astronaut are the three best albums of the 90s.
The drum performance on this album is still one of my favorites all time. This cd was given to me when I was 13 years old and I swear I had this song and little dipper on repeat for weeks. And then I finally listened to the rest of it. What an album. And then in 2020 they release an album right at the perfect time and it became the soundtrack of the back half of that year. RIP Bryan
The songwriting here is pure genius. The tone of the song is so menacing and angst-ridden. Talbott's scream is the climax. From then on, the band unleashed a distorted yet melodic and even catchy sound. Brutal songwriting.
@@philippedefague3835 Hi there. Well, Talbott has always been cryptic with his lyrics, but I think it's about a couple of drug addicts. That's why they offer one another "one of the billion ways to feel no pain". Greetings, friend.
It’s a solid song, but for me the icing on the cake is the way it transitions into a major key at the end and the distortion slowly fades away, leaving only warm and gentle strumming. They were so creative with their arrangements
Im 63 years old....have all their albums...all good....still go back to them.....off/on.....my son is 30...both of us are connected by this band never old....have yet to find another band that can make the distortion like Hum....then put words to it......they are part of my life.
@@pelly_44 thanks....my son told me....yes new album out...ive listened to the whole thing....definately Hum!....ill take it....gonna pick it up soon...thanks!
I couldnt love Hum more; they have taken my life by storm. I discovered them on Lithium radio, which I listen to 24/7 on my driving job. I was lucky enough to find a copy of this album and it blew me away. Suicide Machine and Songs of Farewell and Departure are so beautiful I cannot use words to describe what they mean to me. I drove 600 miles round trip to see Matt Talbot’s living room show and it was beyond worth it. Just this week I got a Hum tattoo, three green stars.
I'm a huge HUGE HUUUGE fan of the '90 alt rock since I was like 15. Like fucking love deftones, Smashing pumpkins, Failure, Soundgarden, etc. And somehow, today, at 29 years, I heard HUM for the first time. And I loved every second of it. Oh what a time to be alive.
They just re-released all 4 of their albums on vinyl and cd. It’s a good time to become a fan 😈 listen to Electra2000 if you want more really heavy stuff like this. “Downward is heavenward”. To feel like you’re in some ultimate sci-fi summer thrill. And inlet if you want to feel like you’re on top of the world.
it was about the music with these guys, they could care less about look. which unfortunately probably played a part in them not getting the attention they deserved.
Hum,orgy, Deftones,Crossfade,filter,coal chamber,12 stones,p.o.d, and mars Volta are just a few of some of my favorite bands ❤❤❤man I love 90s and early 2000s music it's literally the only kind of music I listen 2
I truly think that You'd Prefer Astronaut is one of those albums that doesn't enough credit. I mean come on, it is definitely an influence on the sound of Deftones more less heavy sound.
This album was played religiously on my Sony Walkman CD player before school everyday my senior year. One of my favorite bands from back then! Cheers to the late 90s, miss those days!🍻
First time listening to this band. The guitar in this is so fucking creative. Not to mention the lyrics/vocals, the drums, the bass. Everything in this is so god damn good. Fuck I love this.
@Mike: With all respect, I totally disagree. The weird thing is that they were so spot on, but didn't get their time in the spotlight anyway. I mean, Pumpkins sold millions and millions of albums, while these guys somehow stayed under the radar. HUM is an alt.rock mystery!
I was this many years old when it finally dawned on me that Hum's You'd Prefer An Astronaut was a concept album. It's the story of a young lad falling in love with a stranded martian girl.
It was early 90's I was 12 years old. HMV used to have CD's you could listen to in their stores. I put-on a set of their headphones and HUM's "I Hate It Too" was the first song that came on. I was HOOKED! HUM is and will always be my favourite band, I own every album and EP they've ever produced. It was I believe 1998 my brother and I had scored tickets to see them play in Toronto, it would be my first time getting to see them live. I was freaking out! They were doing a cross Canada tour if I'm not mistaken. I ended up getting sick and couldn't go to the show. They then were in a car accident following that show, damaged their tour van, and that was it. They never toured in Canada again and I never got to see them. I really wish that one day they would release new music.
Seen these guys in belleville Illinois my home town back in 96 97??small venue...was a fan from the first time I heard them.....was on a road trip and found this tape at a little record store in Peoria il....this album brings back some of the best days of my life
The morning scatters in and I am steady like a drug Feeling out this one She wakes up smashed as hell and steadies her ass against the rail And bends before the pounding rain She had the whitest bright ideas All along about my love And I need this fucking fix and I beg her to pick from One of the billion ways to feel no pain The morning after bends reflected and I can hardly stand The way this whole thing makes me seem She climbs out from her dream with lungs hardly as she screams a stereo scream And bends before astounding rain She's got a system made of metal And magnet bits inside her brain And she opens her box of tricks and begs me to pick from One of a billion ways to feel no pain She had the whitest bright ideas That all the world would sleep away until the nightmare ends, everyone is on Wait, wait on the end Hold me uptight, let me breathe now And hold me upright, let me breathe now
I have been trying to figure out where this video was filmed, and I'm pretty sure it's the sunken gardens at Allerton Park, Monticello, IL. Pretty awesome.
1995 summer before my Jr. year HS, I was visiting my grandparents. Well, sent there to be lectured for getting caught smoking trees. I was sitting in Grandpas recliner watching 120mins late one night eating goldfish. Stars came on and I just sat there asking who the fuck is this. I always hear a song and forget the name and band before buying it. Not this time. I wrote down HUM and Stars. Got to Hastings as fast as I could next few days and bought You'd Prefer An Astronaut. Brought that CD back to Oklahoma with me and it instantly created dozens of HUM fans when they heard it.
I love how endless music discovery is, especially when we’re talking about past decades. For me, my introduction to the 90s was obviously through popular groups like Nirvana, RHCP, and the like. And then, you really dig deep into the other stuff going on from that era-Hum, Failure, anything indie (MBV, Pavement)…God, music is an endless, beautiful scavenger hunt (as I always say).
Matt is not fake, he is real in everything he does, his heart comes through in everything he does and frankly I'm glad there wasn't a ton of fame from Hum because it might have killed him! I love Matt.
Lyrics: (Corrected) Morning scatters in and I am steady like a drug Feeling out this one She wakes up smashed as hell and steadies her ass against the rail And bends before the pounding rain She had the widest bright ideas all along about my love And I need this fucking fix and I beg her to pick from One of a million ways to feel no pain The morning after bends reflected in and I can hardly stand The way this whole thing makes me seem She climbs out from a dream with lungs hardening She screams a stereo scream And bends before astounding rain She's got a system made of metal with magnet bits inside her brain She opens her box of tricks and begs me to pick from One of a billion ways to feel no pain She had the widest bright ideas That all the world would sleep away until the nightmare ends Everyone is on Wait Wait on the end Hold me up tight, let me breathe now She had the widest bright ideas That all the world would sleep away until the nightmare ends Everyone is on Wait Wait on the end Hold me up right, let me breathe now!!!!!
They are an underrated band. Who knows why! They make alot of sense to me with what they do. And Inlets is great. It seems to pick up right where Downward left off. An unmistakable sound! Love it!!!!
Been a fan since the beginning...I'm 40 and when I listen to him I feel like I'm with 5 friends rolling deep in a fat 76 Lincoln continental ... obviously up to no good
I am so thankful that I am one of the blessed few to know about this band! They were awesome then, now, and forever! I was in a Virgin Record Mega store when their first CD was playing, and at the kiosk where one could listen before buying, which I did, and I love this CD to this day! Found out today that the drummer, Bryan St. Pere, passed away at only 52. R,I,P.
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Deftones. Hum. Narrow head. Team sleep. Helmet. Pumkins. Its gonna be a great summer.
I was a huge Pumpkins fan and saw Hum open up for them in 1998 on the Adore tour. Ended up enjoying Hum's set more, even though I only knew a couple songs. Adore was great and all, but wasn't a fan of that tour in particular... too much twinkley piano and the dual drummers that just sounded off. So, for me, Hum stole the show... I wished they had a longer set.
My exact rotation rn you got that right brother
Check out title fight and citizen if you haven’t heard of them!
At 42'still jamming this
@@joshuabell5847Same brother 🤘
I have never listened to something so chill and so fucking heavy at the same time 🤯
You can hear the influence they had on Deftones
Hum, Failure, and Local H are 3 great bands. So underated
Salute to you my friend!! U couldn't have said it any better.. ☮️👍💯
Yes!!! I love these bands too
Local H only has like one hitter tho. But Hum rocks
Listen to Local H's catalogue. So many songs could've been hits
@@RicoLee27 I used to think this until I heard their first couple records. They’re really good
Band was ahead of their time. Period
IVery good band. They sound similar to The Smashing Pumpkins. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are from the same area given that music style had regional sounds back then.
@@sloter21 They were the OG nerdy musician EVEN before Weezer took the scene by storm,. Nothing screams more big bang theory than "I'd like your hair long"
Hum and Helmet. Two of the most underrated bands that needs more recognition.
absolutely!
Fuck yeah helmet rocks
And Quicksand!
Guess that explains why I like both of those bands.
@@jackattack7940 Was just gonna say Quicksand til I saw your comment
Forever HUM fan. It’s sick how nobody has heard of them. These guys are melodic distortion geniuses
I was obsessed with their music in the mid 90s. If it was possible to wear out a CD, I was certainly making an effort.
Thanks to skateboarding videos, back in the day, I listen/ed to bands like this. Hum is a great band
Massive HUM fan here man. I think it's Sickening how underrated they are. Been a fan since the late 90s (thanks to Chino Moreno) the new Album is humongous and amazing...
Love Hum
I've heard of them! My local radio station played their song "Stars". I had to check them out afterwards and now "You'd Prefer an Astronaut" is one of my favorites
Only real music heads understand how great this band is. I love every single person here for knowing bout this band
We Never Forgot....🙏😎
Props and Respect 👊👊👊 Bruh! Beautiful Comment, thank you and please know, 100% reciprocated!
Favourite band and defo one of the most technically and lyrically advanced groups ever. Certain tracks will put you through every emotion imaginable!
Be Well, Everyone! And CRANK IT!
Ive been listening to everything by HUM last few months, what a fucking amazing and underrated band
Dude thats actually so true i find the band excellent and i love their sound so much
The coolest part of about discovering awesome 90s bands/songs in 2020 is that you can pretend we're still in the 90s and this is new music!
Recommend me some awesome 90s bands please!
Buddy you missed a hell of a time :)
Hey man try Dry riser by kerbdog!
Similar sounds...
I don’t have Facebook, I’m happy 😆
@@nuntissonne3943 I'm just gonna do a big dump of my fav 90s bands: Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, Failure, Tool, Quicksand, Blind Melon, Weezer, Mudhoney, Tad, L7, Helmet, Rollins Band, Primus, Rage Against The Machine, Cake, Radiohead, Pearl Jam, Meat Puppets, and Hum of course lol. There's more too but I can't remember
A terrible loss today, an amazing musician.
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Yes :(
Dude's dead?
Brian died. Oh man.
No please no...why the fuck cant good musicans just stay alive ?
Fan since early 90s. Unbelievable they weren't bigger along with bands like Failure and Swervedriver. None of them got their due.
You listed three of my favorite bands and you are right, they deserved better. I saw Swervedriver and Failure together in 2019. It is awesome that they are still going.
THE most overlooked band of true 90's grunge.
Devon Speas ok
Devon Speas nope. Most definitely paw
All I can say is... THANK DOG!!! IT'S 2020 AND THEY STILL HUMMMMM!!!!
James Paw fucking ruled too. They had some country sounding shit incorporated, and Hum had the melodic shit incorporated. Both legendary bands from the 90’s.
@Aaron Ceravolo Even Helmet got some radio play back in the day.
I cannot get enough of this song. That reverse intro is so trippy and the whole song slaps
absolutely the most underrated band ever, they're one of my favorite bands ever with Deftones
You can see where Deftones got their style from.
YES. me too man!
Deftones formed in 88 a year before Hum , they just never came out with an LP till the mid 90's. I'd say if anything Helmet had this sound before anyone else did
Deftones copied a lot from them.
@@steviemac2377 Chino Moreno said that HUM inspired a lot of the alternative sound of Deftones
Someone tell me how this band slipped under the radar. I’m 35 so is my husband and this is absolutely our type of music. I never ever heard a song on the radio in the 90’s not even stars, never heard that till around 10 years ago when my then fiancée was using aol music on his computer as a pandora-type thing just to get ready in the morning and stuff. My husband had cable all his life (I didn’t till around 1999) and watched mtv all the time and never saw them either. How?? This stuff is amazing!!!! It should have been HUGE!! I spent all last night at work listening to all 4 albums they are all great and I’m going to buy all 4!!
History Eraser Button I’ll check it out. I haven’t felt this need for a band since I heard zero on that Simpson’s episode and got super into pumpkins in like 1997 lol. Good to get the feels again after like 20 years. I’ll def check it out thx!!
Good luck trying to find a physical copy of fillet show and electra 2000
Welcome. I saw them open for Helmet in the 1990's and was blown away. I caught a Hum t-shirt! Still have it. Incredibly underrated band indeed.
Vandy all my band t-shirts are worn out and unwearable
when people ask me why i only wear solid color t-shirts nowadays, i just stare into space and this song pops into my head
i remember when this band first came out
i was lucky to have an older cousin who was into music stuff too
if you ever read those music magazines like hit parader or what,
it was before people had internet
this is like the perfect mesh between heavy metal, psychedelic rock, thrash and shoegaze.. this is off the charts good!
OMG, I totally forgot about the term shoegaze, that's awesome!
Hum were probably one of the first bands to mash shoegaze and metal together. They didn’t put out a ton of music, but they put out 4 amazing albums that mash space rock, alt-metal, shoegaze all together, and it’s sublime.
Thrash!?
Where do you get thrash from?
Thrash??
"Stars" was great but this was the real gem of the album.
40 year old black man, primarily into 80s r&b......I STILL remember this song. Remembered it today and looked it up today.
And what do want a medal
Must be a Charles thing. 👏👏👏
@@joekerry741 If that's what I wanted....I would have asked for one.
@Charlesbjtown sound like you want some kind of acknowledgement or reward
@@joekerry741 and what is it you want?
Rest in Power Bryan St. Pere. 🙏 Big fan of your band since 1995 - Lew from The Philippines 🙏
I know the drummer, Bryan. He used to come into the music store I managed all the time to get his son drum lessons. Guess he didn't have time or patience for teaching. His drumming makes this band, if you ask me.
I have loved this band since You'd Prefer an Astronaut, and only recently have I really begun to appreciate how spot on the drumming is.
Isn't their drummer the guy from Shiner now? (local Kansas City band)
Mr. Brad!!!
That's actually kind of sad - To have a killer drummer for a dad and not be able to learn from him.
Even Brad is in here. That's what I'm talking about.
I’ll never forget my late homie Josh showed me this song a long time ago. Rip Josh and Stuart
I'll never forget seeing these guys live, they came out onto the stage and looked like these geek guitar techs or something and everyone was yelling at them to gtfo the stage then the lights went down and they started playing this and everyone was just stunned into silence. Wall of fucking sound. Wall of sound.
That's amazing
Badass
Even after 31 years still get chills up my spine every time I listen to this album!!
The newest album is so good! YES, I SAID NEW ALBUM!! HUM 2020!
Shapeshifter is one of my favorite closing tracks of all time. Start to finish that record is amazing.
Shapeshifter is one of my favorite closing tracks of all time. Start to finish that record is amazing.
I know, it's just pure rock and roll!
It's weird but so good!! Heavy, but not heavy at all. Just what you'd expect from Hum.
No fuckin way dude they dropped another album!!!!??? Oh shit I gotta check it out!!!
Feedback noise solo at 3:01 is so killer...the BEST!!
Love this song, makes me feel like i'm going back in time to the 90s.
I can't even put into words how much I love this album. Meantime by Helmet, Aenima by Tool, and You'd Prefer An Astronaut are the three best albums of the 90s.
Hum - a sonic punch in the face
Have been a big fan since '95 when I heard 'Stars' during my 20's in New Zealand
'Inlet' is absolutely epic
She had the wildest bright ideas.... everyone would sleep away until the nightmare ends....
This is ahead of its time for 1995...sounds like early 2000s. Very Deftones like with guitar tone.
RIP Bryan. So bummed out.
Facts. Every drum track was a clinic. 🎉
"One billion ways to feel no pain" Amen!
The drum performance on this album is still one of my favorites all time. This cd was given to me when I was 13 years old and I swear I had this song and little dipper on repeat for weeks. And then I finally listened to the rest of it. What an album. And then in 2020 they release an album right at the perfect time and it became the soundtrack of the back half of that year. RIP Bryan
props to folks who recognize the drum performance on this record. A huge inspiration for me.
That live version of stars = drumblisseargasm
one of my favorite albums ever
same it's 11/10
The songwriting here is pure genius. The tone of the song is so menacing and angst-ridden. Talbott's scream is the climax. From then on, the band unleashed a distorted yet melodic and even catchy sound. Brutal songwriting.
It's about heroin right?
@@philippedefague3835 Hi there. Well, Talbott has always been cryptic with his lyrics, but I think it's about a couple of drug addicts. That's why they offer one another "one of the billion ways to feel no pain". Greetings, friend.
It’s a solid song, but for me the icing on the cake is the way it transitions into a major key at the end and the distortion slowly fades away, leaving only warm and gentle strumming. They were so creative with their arrangements
They just give such a full and brutal sound that is also calming and enjoyable
Im 63 years old....have all their albums...all good....still go back to them.....off/on.....my son is 30...both of us are connected by this band never old....have yet to find another band that can make the distortion like Hum....then put words to it......they are part of my life.
Hey not sure if you know or not but they just released a new album a few weeks ago!
@@pelly_44 thanks....my son told me....yes new album out...ive listened to the whole thing....definately Hum!....ill take it....gonna pick it up soon...thanks!
I couldnt love Hum more; they have taken my life by storm. I discovered them on Lithium radio, which I listen to 24/7 on my driving job. I was lucky enough to find a copy of this album and it blew me away. Suicide Machine and Songs of Farewell and Departure are so beautiful I cannot use words to describe what they mean to me. I drove 600 miles round trip to see Matt Talbot’s living room show and it was beyond worth it. Just this week I got a Hum tattoo, three green stars.
a shame that Lithium only knows one of their songs.
So saith the Hum Fan. You truly are one
Atmosphere and extraordinary breakdowns!!
They remind me of Helmet and Failure. What a great band! Just discovered them and can't stop listening to their songs.
I'm a huge HUGE HUUUGE fan of the '90 alt rock since I was like 15. Like fucking love deftones, Smashing pumpkins, Failure, Soundgarden, etc.
And somehow, today, at 29 years, I heard HUM for the first time. And I loved every second of it.
Oh what a time to be alive.
They just re-released all 4 of their albums on vinyl and cd. It’s a good time to become a fan 😈 listen to Electra2000 if you want more really heavy stuff like this. “Downward is heavenward”. To feel like you’re in some ultimate sci-fi summer thrill. And inlet if you want to feel like you’re on top of the world.
Green to me
Just discovered this band today after hearing “stars” on XM and they’re freakin awesome. New favorite band!
AMAZING Band. Enjoy 😊😊
Right? I found them through Stars too but its so awesome that they've got a whole lot more good ones than stars
Those glasses though! He's actually more in style now, than back then lol
Fax haha
it was about the music with these guys, they could care less about look. which unfortunately probably played a part in them not getting the attention they deserved.
I love nerds that can rock out with their cock out 🔊😍🕪
Trevor Horn from The Buggles had bigger, thicker glasses in the early 80s.
milo aukerman look
The guitar at the end!!! Wow
My English teacher showed us this song in my 11th grade year of high-school. I graduated 4 years ago In 2019. Good times
2023 HUM songs are still bangers !!’
Hum,orgy, Deftones,Crossfade,filter,coal chamber,12 stones,p.o.d, and mars Volta are just a few of some of my favorite bands ❤❤❤man I love 90s and early 2000s music it's literally the only kind of music I listen 2
2019 and this band still has not got the credit they deserve
The mic running up on Matt......Priceless!
I wish I would have listened to Hum more in the nineties def have some catching up to do looking forward to it
Still have my original cd from 1995. Fond memories listening to this album. 🙏
I saw Bush, Hum, and Toadies. I've seen a lot. This was a high light.
I remember seeing this video on 120 minutes on MTV, back when they played music. I love this band and am so glad others enjoy them the way I do.
This was my favorite band in highschool,Hum Failure and Stabbing Westward! Tool n Deftones of course!!
I truly think that You'd Prefer Astronaut is one of those albums that doesn't enough credit. I mean come on, it is definitely an influence on the sound of Deftones more less heavy sound.
This album was played religiously on my Sony Walkman CD player before school everyday my senior year. One of my favorite bands from back then! Cheers to the late 90s, miss those days!🍻
Man how time flies. I was 20 when this came out. Me and my friends couldn't stop listening to it all summer. What a great time and album!
I had been chasing the Siamese Dream sound for years. HAD is the key word.
One of the anthems of my youth. 25 years later and I still love it. That's gotta be worth something. Hum, wherever you are: Thank you.
First time listening to this band. The guitar in this is so fucking creative. Not to mention the lyrics/vocals, the drums, the bass. Everything in this is so god damn good. Fuck I love this.
Hum was 90s alternative for us kids who needed it heavier
Facts!
Love this band! Greetings from. Uruguay 🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾
@ 50+ yrs old, still love this band!
This band was at least 7-10 years ahead of their time.
How is that? They were really great. But their sound was VERY MUCH of its time.
@Mike: With all respect, I totally disagree. The weird thing is that they were so spot on, but didn't get their time in the spotlight anyway. I mean, Pumpkins sold millions and millions of albums, while these guys somehow stayed under the radar. HUM is an alt.rock mystery!
Absolutely! I remember and loved them then too!
I was this many years old when it finally dawned on me that Hum's You'd Prefer An Astronaut was a concept album. It's the story of a young lad falling in love with a stranded martian girl.
now we know where deftones got their such good guitar tone
Fender Prodigy
“I thought she’d be there holding daisies, she always waits for me.”
Man, that outro. Love it.
It was early 90's I was 12 years old. HMV used to have CD's you could listen to in their stores. I put-on a set of their headphones and HUM's "I Hate It Too" was the first song that came on. I was HOOKED! HUM is and will always be my favourite band, I own every album and EP they've ever produced. It was I believe 1998 my brother and I had scored tickets to see them play in Toronto, it would be my first time getting to see them live. I was freaking out! They were doing a cross Canada tour if I'm not mistaken. I ended up getting sick and couldn't go to the show. They then were in a car accident following that show, damaged their tour van, and that was it. They never toured in Canada again and I never got to see them. I really wish that one day they would release new music.
@@esstan7720 I love the new album!!
Most underrated band of the 90s
Bought this record a couple weeks after it came out. Listened to it so much.
Best garage band ever discovered - I love this album.
Seen these guys in belleville Illinois my home town back in 96 97??small venue...was a fan from the first time I heard them.....was on a road trip and found this tape at a little record store in Peoria il....this album brings back some of the best days of my life
The morning scatters in and I am steady like a drug
Feeling out this one
She wakes up smashed as hell and steadies her ass against the rail
And bends before the pounding rain
She had the whitest bright ideas
All along about my love
And I need this fucking fix and I beg her to pick from
One of the billion ways to feel no pain
The morning after bends reflected and I can hardly stand
The way this whole thing makes me seem
She climbs out from her dream with lungs hardly as she screams a stereo scream
And bends before astounding rain
She's got a system made of metal
And magnet bits inside her brain
And she opens her box of tricks and begs me to pick from
One of a billion ways to feel no pain
She had the whitest bright ideas
That all the world would sleep away until the nightmare ends, everyone is on
Wait, wait on the end
Hold me uptight, let me breathe now
And hold me upright, let me breathe now
I have been trying to figure out where this video was filmed, and I'm pretty sure it's the sunken gardens at Allerton Park, Monticello, IL. Pretty awesome.
1995 summer before my Jr. year HS, I was visiting my grandparents. Well, sent there to be lectured for getting caught smoking trees. I was sitting in Grandpas recliner watching 120mins late one night eating goldfish. Stars came on and I just sat there asking who the fuck is this. I always hear a song and forget the name and band before buying it. Not this time. I wrote down HUM and Stars. Got to Hastings as fast as I could next few days and bought You'd Prefer An Astronaut. Brought that CD back to Oklahoma with me and it instantly created dozens of HUM fans when they heard it.
Love that this video is filmed at Allerton. This band is so Central Illinois.
damn, how did you figure that out?
I live nearby, just recognized the statues of koi in the courtyard.
I love how endless music discovery is, especially when we’re talking about past decades. For me, my introduction to the 90s was obviously through popular groups like Nirvana, RHCP, and the like. And then, you really dig deep into the other stuff going on from that era-Hum, Failure, anything indie (MBV, Pavement)…God, music is an endless, beautiful scavenger hunt (as I always say).
Hum is one of my favorite bands can't go a day without one of their songs going through my head
I love how Matt Talbot's voice elevates at the end with his yell.
sends shivers
I used these same Orange amps in his studio in Tolono Il back in 2002- best day ever.
Matt is not fake, he is real in everything he does, his heart comes through in everything he does and frankly I'm glad there wasn't a ton of fame from Hum because it might have killed him! I love Matt.
👏👏👏
Love how this songs fades out acoustically
i’m still in shock. i can’t believe he’s gone. R.I.P Bryan St. Pere.
😞
I love this 90s melancholy spirit.
Seriously. These Guys changed my life, and perception of Music. They should be HUGE!!!!
Saw these dudes in Buffalo Ny,97?..loudest band I ever saw live..it was great..The power of sound they made was ya know.. awesome...
Rest in peace, Bryan St. Pere.
Dude I will never get tired of this song or this band. EVER
Lyrics: (Corrected)
Morning scatters in and I am steady like a drug
Feeling out this one
She wakes up smashed as hell and steadies her ass against the rail
And bends before the pounding rain
She had the widest bright ideas all along about my love
And I need this fucking fix and I beg her to pick from
One of a million ways to feel no pain
The morning after bends reflected in and I can hardly stand
The way this whole thing makes me seem
She climbs out from a dream with lungs hardening
She screams a stereo scream
And bends before astounding rain
She's got a system made of metal with magnet bits inside her brain
She opens her box of tricks and begs me to pick from
One of a billion ways to feel no pain
She had the widest bright ideas
That all the world would sleep away until the nightmare ends
Everyone is on
Wait
Wait on the end
Hold me up tight, let me breathe now
She had the widest bright ideas
That all the world would sleep away until the nightmare ends
Everyone is on
Wait
Wait on the end
Hold me up right, let me breathe now!!!!!
Hum was dope.
They are an underrated band. Who knows why! They make alot of sense to me with what they do. And Inlets is great. It seems to pick up right where Downward left off. An unmistakable sound! Love it!!!!
I search desperately for all of the Hum albums- such a great solid band, and definitely one of my favorites.
Been a fan since the beginning...I'm 40 and when I listen to him I feel like I'm with 5 friends rolling deep in a fat 76 Lincoln continental ... obviously up to no good
I wanna do a cover of this song one day
RIP Bryan St. Pete. Such a great drummer we lost.
😔
Cracked drummer
I am so thankful that I am one of the blessed few to know about this band! They were awesome then, now, and forever! I was in a Virgin Record Mega store when their first CD was playing, and at the kiosk where one could listen before buying, which I did, and I love this CD to this day! Found out today that the drummer, Bryan St. Pere, passed away at only 52. R,I,P.
This band is criminally underrated it's not fair
Bought this album in the 90's!
Same here!
I didn't prefer an astronaut I actually liked the zebra.
RIP Bryian. My favorite drummer
Great production, guitars sound heavy.👌
This song is sick. Zilla is a gonna murder this beat