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Unsung: The Best Of Helmet 1991-1997,Helmet

- Unsung: The Best Of Helmet 1991-1997
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Helmet
Released 2004

Just Another Victim
04:21
9,905 plays

In The Meantime
03:08
4,827 plays

Wilma's Rainbow
03:53
4,637 plays

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- 1
- Repetition
- 03:00
- 3,890 plays

- 2
- FBLA
- 02:40
- 3,382 plays

- 3
- Bad Mood
- 02:15
- 3,695 plays

- 4
- Sinatra
- 04:23
- 3,701 plays

- 5
- In The Meantime
- 03:08
- 4,827 plays

- 6
- Iron Head
- 03:22
- 3,734 plays

- 7
- Give It
- 04:17
- 3,517 plays

- 8
- Unsung
- 03:57
- 21,870 plays

- 9
- Better
- 03:10
- 4,018 plays

- 10
- Just Another Victim
- 04:21
- 9,905 plays

- 11
- Wilma's Rainbow
- 03:53
- 4,637 plays

- 12
- I Know
- 03:41
- 3,405 plays

- 13
- Milquetoast
- 03:53
- 4,432 plays

- 14
- Rollo
- 02:38
- 2,883 plays

- 15
- Overrated
- 02:36
- 4,274 plays

- 16
- Disagreeable
- 03:43
- 2,852 plays

- 17
- Pure
- 03:32
- 3,568 plays

- 18
- Renovation
- 02:55
- 2,915 plays

- 19
- Like I Care
- 03:19
- 3,236 plays

- 20
- Driving Nowhere
- 04:19
- 3,082 plays

- 21
- Exactly What You Wanted
- 02:36
- 3,149 plays

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album review

Four guys who looked like they had just punched out after running the batting cages at Softball City & Put-Putt-a-Rama: that's the type of image Helmet cut on-stage. The noise they generated did not fit the (lack of) image. How could such an unpleasant sound come from people who looked so reasonable? The band spent the early years slumming it with the likes of Unsane and Surgery, fellow New York bands that fit the jockish/bookish postcollegiate look and picked up where Big Black left off. By the time the group began to make an impression on more than the noise rock underground, thanks to what resulted from a major-label deal, their sound had developed from a scummy grind to a very precise and diabolical din -- full of martial barks, jackhammering drums, rumbling bass, and some of the most brilliant IQ-lowering guitar riffs since Black Sabbath's first four albums. In their wake, they left five full-lengths and a legion of bands that decided to make a soufflé with them and the Red Hot Chili Peppers as the primary ingredients. Many of these bands went platinum and wound up on MTV Cribs. So 2004 was a good time as any for a compilation of the group's best work to appear. There are few gripes that can be made about what was selected for inclusion; a handful of tracks come from each of the band's proper studio albums, most of which were patchy but not short on gloriously skull-cracking moments. Longtime followers -- meaning those who bought Meantime after seeing "Unsung" on MTV, went back and bought the uglier old stuff, and then stayed along for the years of decreasing power -- will want this for the reminder and the improved sound. And if a dollar still seems too much to shell out for the Judgment Night and Feeling Minnesota soundtracks, the thriftiness has paid off; while not up with the band's best work, the House of Pain collabo "Just Another Victim" and "Disagreeable" are also included. ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide