― 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
love agenda and the word and the flesh are still essential though. they sound even better to me now than they did back then.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 12 October 2016 22:53 (seven years ago) link
I've come around on Helmet since 2003, when I posted way upthread about seeing Caspar Brötzmann Massaker open for them. Now I have their first four albums in my iPod. I've still never heard the album Page and Caspar did together. I should get around to that one day.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Thursday, 13 October 2016 00:34 (seven years ago) link
Scott, the last BoS album is pretty great. There's at least one essential song Pardon My French, and I pretty much love the whole thing, though the opening track is on the gothy side (which might not be a problem for many). I'm sure you can find a cheap copy...
― dlp9001, Thursday, 13 October 2016 02:00 (seven years ago) link
i don't think I ever knew Page Hamilton was in Band of Susans
― akm, Thursday, 13 October 2016 05:14 (seven years ago) link