The cover artwork for the "Green To Me" promotional CD single.

The two "Suggested Callout Hook..." tracks on the disc are deliberately chosen / curated snippets from "Green To Me" that various radio stations (circa spring of '98) would use to either promote, entice, or to otherwise gauge interest in the song from their demographic audiences.

The single for "Green To Me", along with its accompanying video, was ostensibly HUM's last official release on RCA. Consider, if you will, the nature and context of their first release - one made with friends, recorded by friends, and released on a label born and helmed by their friends - a kind of spontaneous, earnest, wild adventure that arose, perhaps, from equal measures of boredom and excitement.

That kind of joyful, carefree headspace where, for example, the band affably bitches about Bryan's jocular protesting in the liner notes to, just shy of a decade later, a reality where mere seconds from a humble rock song are extracted out, corporately analyzed, and then calculatingly presented in such a way as to try and compete within an increasingly busy, compressed, signal-to-noise ratio amongst perceptually waning time and attention, with no room to breathe and be genuinely heard.

Across an ever-shifting, if not capricious sonic landscape, the prevailing winds were glacially changing once again, blowing back out to an unknown sea of unrealized formation, with longing for some distant, nameless, fomenting charge. At the time, much had been seen, a great deal had been gone through, and even more so - felt - since Nevermind once burst forth from the waves, jubilant, primordial, and free.

To this listener, it was a genuine watershed moment, heralding and birthing a fresh, uncharted journey forward for the ever-evolution of love and passion - as was the pummeling blast of the opening to "Stars", sounding outward into the cosmos - once again changing everything.