If you can't tell the difference between shit like "Prove You Wrong" (the only Prong song anyone other than metal mooks ever heard or cared about) and Helmet you are deaf and musically ignorant.
Prong = Just because your singer was the doorman at CBGBs doesn't make you cool. Face it, you're a 4/4 metal band.
― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Sunday, 18 June 2006 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Sunday, 18 June 2006 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link
Prong released three albums prior to Prove You Wrong, all of which pre-date Helmet's debut.
You're still a dingbat and obviously have a hard time admitting when you're out of your depth.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 19 June 2006 01:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 19 June 2006 01:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Monday, 19 June 2006 08:50 (seventeen years ago) link
or..Downtown Juile Brown!
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 19 June 2006 09:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Monday, 17 July 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marty Innerlogic (marty innerlogic), Monday, 17 July 2006 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link
They're playing a local venue here tonight. 14 years ago they played to a place about fifteen times as big not far away. I don't so much feel old as think, "They've reached their best level."
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 23 August 2007 00:37 (sixteen years ago) link
In every old thread dug up Alex is fighting with someone in a new, very entertaining way.
― humansuit, Thursday, 23 August 2007 00:44 (sixteen years ago) link
there are times when i really need a loud, heavy riff-charged assault a la 'meantime'. aside from these times, i don't feel the urge to listen to it all that often.
i'll add that 'i know' from betty is amazing
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 23 August 2007 02:40 (sixteen years ago) link
How many posts and not one mentioning how stunningly beautiful Page Hamilton is?!?!?
― Kevin John Bozelka, Thursday, 23 August 2007 03:35 (sixteen years ago) link
i'd like to think i'm more beautiful
certainly not the reason i listen to helmet
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 23 August 2007 15:38 (sixteen years ago) link
It was kind of weird playing 'Born Annoying' (the song) a few mornings ago, sandwiched in between seeing John Stanier kick my head off two seperate times as Battles drummer. Dude's certainly switched up his style over time
― DJ Mencap, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Helmet's pretty good workout music.
― Bill Magill, Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
'betty' really does dip after the first four tracks (which are awesome). way too many tepid, 'nice-enough' snoozers deflating the energy of the thing.
― Charlie Howard, Friday, 31 August 2007 17:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Love exactly two Helmet songs: Impressionable and the 1st version of Born Annoying. Ha ha part is that both come from a demo that AmRep released against the band's wishes. Oh yeah, and they did a swell cover of Killing Joke's Primitive. Other than that, don't give a shit.
― Bob Standard, Friday, 31 August 2007 17:20 (sixteen years ago) link
'clean' is as good as any of the first four tracks on betty
― 6335, Friday, 31 August 2007 17:27 (sixteen years ago) link
their best song:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y332UtRod_0
― Zeno, Saturday, 6 June 2009 01:00 (fourteen years ago) link
still reppin' for 'clean' in june '09
― 6335, Saturday, 6 June 2009 05:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Still reppin' for Aftertaste which is a pretty underrated record IMHO.
Saw Helmet play last year at the Waldrock-festival (which is the second or third biggest metalfestival in The Netherlands), and they were the best band of the day.
― Marty Innerlogic, Saturday, 6 June 2009 10:28 (fourteen years ago) link
He played on a Wire song from Object 47: "All Fours." Not sure he did anything that someone else couldn't have done, but it's a pretty nice track, although to be fair it sounds like Band of Susans with a different vocalist.
― dlp9001, Saturday, 6 June 2009 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
what am I missing about this band?
― admrl, Friday, 18 June 2010 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4OKQShgiDk#t=6m11s
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 18 June 2010 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
fwd to 6:11http://bit.ly/ajosxb
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 18 June 2010 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
i've played my tape copy of meantime probably 300 times and it still sounds great!
― scott seward, Friday, 18 June 2010 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I just had this memory come back to me that when my family took me to Israel when I was 14 I was playing Meantime over and over again on my walkman and lusting after this girl on the tour bus. Jewish tours suck! Helmet Rules!
― Theodore "Thee Diddy" Roosevelt (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Helmet on a Kibbutz. Helmet at Masada. Helmet at King David's Tomb. It was great.
― Theodore "Thee Diddy" Roosevelt (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Unsung made the top 100 in the current ILM poll!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 4 August 2010 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.drop-d.ie/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/helmet-meantime.jpg
fuckin the best...
― Stormy Davis, Monday, 9 May 2011 05:04 (twelve years ago) link
i would be curious to see a best of poll. listening to "so easy to get bored" over and over today for some reason. still sounds amazing!
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
best of records or best of songs?cause if it's the first the winner is obvious isn't it?
― nostormo, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
― Theodore "Thee Diddy" Roosevelt (Hurting 2), Wednesday, August 4, 2010 11:24 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark
― kkvgz, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
sounds like a line from a Mark Leyner novel.
songs, obv!
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
id vote in that
― Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker, Wednesday, 7 September 2011 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
the problem is i'm lazy.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 7 September 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
are these guys touring again? sure i saw their name on a tokyo listings page.
― sam500, Thursday, 8 September 2011 04:02 (twelve years ago) link
"What people make the mistake of is saying, 'Well, I don't hear jazz.' I'm not playing jazz," he said. "It's not jazz. But I can hear the jazz influences. Name me one other band on the planet that's using a major-7 sharp 11 chord with a 13 in the chorus. None. This is my tuning. None. I guarantee it."
― mookieproof, Saturday, 22 December 2012 05:43 (eleven years ago) link
> Name me one other band on the planet that's using a major-7 sharp 11 chord with a 13 in the chorus
Shudder to Think
― Poliopolice, Saturday, 22 December 2012 06:29 (eleven years ago) link
this is fucking weird but I am listing to do make say think on spotify right now and p sure I just heard that song
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Saturday, 22 December 2012 06:35 (eleven years ago) link
chord I mean
also I bet there's chicago and yes songs with that chord in the chorus
― drunk 'n' white's elements of style (Hurting 2), Saturday, 22 December 2012 06:36 (eleven years ago) link
I dig helmet and all I guess, but claiming ownership of a chord is like some next level shredder asshole nonsense.
― tiniest homeless (jjjusten), Saturday, 22 December 2012 06:41 (eleven years ago) link
Pity he didn't put so much care and thought into his crappy vocal melodies or Helmet would have been much better.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 22 December 2012 09:10 (eleven years ago) link
C'mon, this is just a Foo Fighters song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkFMvststF0
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 12 October 2016 03:42 (seven years ago) link
awful
― Spottie, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 21:03 (seven years ago) link
i'm not gonna listen to that. MEANTIME 4EVER.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 22:47 (seven years ago) link
i got this double band of susans Cd comp thing not long ago and i don't think i knew that there was this weird proto-helmet phase of that band. it's not great stuff and sounds really weird next to older cooler band of susans stuff. which i like a lot.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 22:50 (seven years ago) link
or maybe not even proto-helmet. i never heard the last couple of records and page isn't even on them now that i look. anyway, weird beefy grunge-era band of susans.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 22:52 (seven years ago) link