with all the bullshit emo revisionism floating around, i realize the disc has taken on a different meaning than it ever really actually had. but the truth is hum were more or less just ripping off the smashing pumpkins....and not doing so particularly well...
everybody that i knew that liked hum was basically clinging on to a style that corgan himself was in the process of discarding. people desperately wanted a new smashing pumpkins record in the classic style. this was the closest thing they could find.
when hum collapsed, they were actually a casualty of alternative rock's fall from the mainstream - they were ten years behind their time, not ten years ahead of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfqGbCCFgKs
