Helmet - Meantime
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Track List: Meantime
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- In The MeantimeDownload & Buy
- IronheadDownload & Buy
- Give ItDownload & Buy
- UnsungDownload & Buy
- Turned OutDownload & Buy
- He Feels BadDownload & Buy
- BetterDownload & Buy
- You BorrowedDownload & Buy
- F.B.L.A. IIDownload & Buy
- Role ModelDownload & Buy
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Album Details: Meantime
- Release Date:
- 06/01/1992
- Label:
- Fontana Interscope
- UPC:
- 606949216221
User Reviews: Meantime
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one of the heaveist alternative metal albums ever!
, March 27, 2006Reviewer:
Jack Alexander - See all Jack Alexander's reviews -
peak of alternative noise rock
, April 25, 2002this album was one of the most influential metal albums, and i agree with comments made before that HELMET were simply ahead of their time with this album. i saw the "unsung" video on mtv's beavis&butthead and i was just impressed, that a band of four guys with short haircuts & collage shirts would make such heavy & groovy music!?! heavy to the bone, innovative & intellectual (even with their sparse liner notes & few infos or even pictures about the band you can HEAR that page hamilton is not one of that tattooed metalheads...) and awesome from top-to-bottom, this album has everything i like about metal (and there IS a lot of things i dislike about metal nowadays). it may may sound homogenic at first, but that's just because helmet had their own and very distinctive sound that set them apart from the rest. the cover is really cool, too. credits for page hamilton for his efforts, just a shame i never saw him in concert.... <sigh> ...
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Pro Reviews: Meantime
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews In 1991, Interscope won a ferocious multi-label bidding war (which according to first-hand accounts, pitted an estimated 18 to 22 different labels against each other) and signed Helmet for a reported cool one million-plus dollars. Under the watchful eye of the record biz, and on the heels of Nirvana's huge commercial breakthrough, Helmet were curiously touted as the next big thing. Unsurprisingly, expectations would never be fully realized. Arguably one of the most influential and overlooked rock records of the '90s, Meantime not only threw the rulebook out the window, it rewrote it, redefined it, and shook it to its core. Led by the classically trained Page Hamilton, Helmet's bludgeoning riffs combined with their noise-like, stop-go-stop-go minimalist attack unknowingly changed the face of aggro-rock as we know it. Its importance cannot be overstated. Relistening to Meantime today it's easy to understand why. From the Steve Albini-produced title track through "Role Model," the band is relentless. On "Give It," Hamilton spews "killing hurts/has to be done/peace and love/who's number one," and later "the right to give/learn to bleed/it's free/pain is outside/lift it up to see." As the hypnotic riff and John Stanier's piccolo snare echo throughout, the band thrashes through the song like a ten-ton hammer. Again, every song is colored by Teutonic riffs with only "Unsung" hinting at a gasp of commercial accessibility. At the end of the day, try to think of one successful aggro-rock band around today that isn't indebted to the N.Y. quartet -- you won't find one. Meantime's influence is alive and well and lives on today in the music of the Deftones, Static X, Korn, Sepultura, and especially Pantera. - John Franck, All Music Guide |
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Like many influential bands, Helmet was born out of an unusual set of influences. Oregon-born guitarist and founder Page Hamilton had actually moved to New York City to study jazz, but found inspiration in the late '80s through post-punk acts Sonic Y...Full Helmet Biography
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This was eccellent by helmet, featuring their first single "unsung".I also like songs "in the meantime", "ironhead", "give it", "better" and "you borrowed".get it now!