Helmet /Page Hamilton : Classic Or Dud, Search & Destroy.

or..Downtown Juile Brown!

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."

In every old thread dug up Alex is fighting with someone in a new, very entertaining way.

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

How many posts and not one mentioning how stunningly beautiful Page Hamilton is?!?!?

i'd like to think i'm more beautiful

certainly not the reason i listen to helmet

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

Helmet's pretty good workout music.

'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.

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.

'clean' is as good as any of the first four tracks on betty

their best song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y332UtRod_0

still reppin' for 'clean' in june '09

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.

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.

what am I missing about this band?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4OKQShgiDk#t=6m11s

fwd to 6:11
http://bit.ly/ajosxb

i've played my tape copy of meantime probably 300 times and it still sounds great!

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!

Helmet on a Kibbutz. Helmet at Masada. Helmet at King David's Tomb. It was great.

Unsung made the top 100 in the current ILM poll!

http://www.drop-d.ie/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/helmet-meantime.jpg

fuckin the best...

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!

best of records or best of songs?
cause if it's the first the winner is obvious isn't it?

Helmet on a Kibbutz. Helmet at Masada. Helmet at King David's Tomb. It was great.

― Theodore "Thee Diddy" Roosevelt (Hurting 2), Wednesday, August 4, 2010 11:24 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

sounds like a line from a Mark Leyner novel.

songs, obv!

id vote in that

the problem is i'm lazy.

are these guys touring again? sure i saw their name on a tokyo listings page.

"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."

> 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

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

chord I mean

also I bet there's chicago and yes songs with that chord in the chorus

I dig helmet and all I guess, but claiming ownership of a chord is like some next level shredder asshole nonsense.

Pity he didn't put so much care and thought into his crappy vocal melodies or Helmet would have been much better.

C'mon, this is just a Foo Fighters song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkFMvststF0

awful

i'm not gonna listen to that. MEANTIME 4EVER.

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.

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.

love agenda and the word and the flesh are still essential though. they sound even better to me now than they did back then.

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.

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...

i don't think I ever knew Page Hamilton was in Band of Susans