Hello Time Bomb is a song by Canadian

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group

Matthew Good Band Matthew Good Band was a Canadian alternative rock band formed in Coquitlam, British Columbia in 1995. The band consisted of singer-songwriter/guitarist Matthew Good, guitarist/keyboardist Dave Genn, drummer Ian Browne and bassist Geoff Lloyd. Ll ...

. It was released in September 1999 as the lead single from their third studio album, ''

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''. It was nominated for Best Single at the

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and is one of the band's

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s. Between 1995 and 2016, Hello Time Bomb was the fourth most played song by a Canadian artist on rock radio stations in Canada.

Song information

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mentions that he wrote the song quickly on an old acoustic guitar at a friend's place.

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Trivia

*The song is featured on

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's compilation album, ''

Big Shiny Tunes 4 ''Big Shiny Tunes 4'' is the fourth edition of the MuchMusic compilation series, '' Big Shiny Tunes''. Like the previous edition of ''Big Shiny Tunes'', fans were allowed to vote for which songs were to be on the album. Commercial performance T ...

''. *In a 2009 list of the "Top 200 songs of the 1990s" by

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(102.1 "The Edge"), "Hello Time Bomb" was voted #35. *The song is featured on the

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of the 2002 film ''

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''. *

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from

The Age of Electric The Age of Electric is a Canadian rock band founded in 1989 with members from Lanigan and Regina, Saskatchewan. The members are Todd Kerns (vocals/guitar), Ryan Dahle (guitar/backing vocals), John Kerns (bass), and Kurt Dahle (drums/backing voca ...

is a featured background vocalist in the song.

References

External links

* 1999 singles Matthew Good Band songs 1999 songs Universal Records singles Songs written by Dave Genn Songs written by Matthew Good {{1990s-rock-song-stub