| Hello Time Bomb | |
| Cover: | Hellotimebomb.png |
| Border: | yes |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Matthew Good Band |
| Album: | Beautiful Midnight |
| Released: | September 1999 |
| Recorded: | February – April 1999 |
| Genre: | Alternative rock |
| Length: | 3:58 |
| Label: | Universal Music Canada (Canada) Atlantic Records (US) |
| Producer: | Warne Livesey |
| Prev Title: | Rico |
| Prev Year: | 1998 |
| Next Title: | Load Me Up |
| Next Year: | 1999 |
Hello Time Bomb is a song by Canadian alternative rock group Matthew Good Band. It was released in September 1999 as the lead single from their third studio album, Beautiful Midnight. The song was voted as the second best song of 1999 by readers of music magazine Chart.[1] The song was nominated for Best Single at the 2000 Juno Awards. It also is the band's highest charting single in the U.S., peaking at 34 on the U.S. Billboard Alternative Airplay.[2] Between 1995 and 2016, it was the fourth most played song by a Canadian artist on rock radio stations in Canada.[3] It is considered to be one of the band's signature songs.
Good mentions that he wrote the song quickly on an old acoustic guitar at a friend's place.
The music video for "Hello Time Bomb" reached #1 on MuchMusic Countdown.[4]
| Chart (1999) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| Canada Rock (RPM)[5] | 3 | |
| Chart (2001) | Peak position | |
| Canada (Nielsen SoundScan)[6] | 26 | |
| US Active Rock (Billboard)[7] | 38 |
"Hello Time Bomb" is featured on MuchMusic's compilation album, Big Shiny Tunes 4. Todd Kerns from The Age of Electric sings backup. In 2009's "Top 200 songs of the 1990s" by 102.1 "The Edge", it was voted #35. The song is on the soundtrack of the 2002 film, Men with Brooms.
