lockebox
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Post by lockebox on Sept 21, 2010 20:56:44 GMT -5
Lead single from Helmet's seventh studio album, "Seeing Eye Dog".
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Post by pen on Sept 21, 2010 22:55:42 GMT -5
Helmet is a band I dig on a level where I respect them and they have songs I enjoy, but I don't see their albums ever making a top 50 list of mine and if it gets down to my favorite bands, they'll be somewhere near the bottom of the list. To me they're not the kind of band that has singles. They're the kind of band that's just around.
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Post by jvandyck87 on Sept 21, 2010 23:47:06 GMT -5
They're also a band who's probably a huge influence on a lot of bands you do like, so even if you don't love them, you probably appreciate their innovations that allowed other bands to improve upon Helmet's paradigm. Chevelle, I believe, cites Helmet as a major influence.
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Post by pen on Sept 22, 2010 0:09:59 GMT -5
They're also a band who's probably a huge influence on a lot of bands you do like, so even if you don't love them, you probably appreciate their innovations that allowed other bands to improve upon Helmet's paradigm. Chevelle, I believe, cites Helmet as a major influence. Indeed. I totally appreciate their innovations that allowed other bands to improve upon their paradigm. That paradigm was totally bitchin'. |
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Post by jvandyck87 on Sept 22, 2010 0:20:37 GMT -5
Damn straight. And other bands made it more so.
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Post by Nicholas2.0 on Sept 23, 2010 2:12:30 GMT -5
Helmet is a band I dig on a level where I respect them and they have songs I enjoy, but I don't see their albums ever making a top 50 list of mine and if it gets down to my favorite bands, they'll be somewhere near the bottom of the list. To me they're not the kind of band that has singles. They're the kind of band that's just around. This. The only songs of theirs I really care about are "Unsung" and "Milktoast." Surprise, surprise. I bought a used copy of Meantime in '96 and burned a copy of Betty in '03, but I doubt I've played the former since, like, 1998 maybe, and the latter since 2004. I remember when Aftertaste came out and heard "Exactly What You Wanted" a bit on the radio late at night. I do like a lot of Helmet's song titles quite a bit. There's something that seems really cool about Helmet having an album titled Seeing Eye Dog. Had the chance to rip tracks from Size Matters a few years ago at the local college station. In addition to the awesomely titled "See You Dead," which was the single, I helped myself to "Crashing Foreign Cars," "Drug Lord," "Surgery," "Speak and Spell," and "Throwing Punches" because their titles were too intriguing to pass up. |
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