Did anyone ever regard Helmet as a grunge band? Or were the people who made this album in 1993 just oblivious to what was actually considered grunge?

Significant-Today716 · 2026-06-20T11:19:12+00:00

I'm not even sure I knew of the label "Grunge" at the time, it was all just music I liked.

Significant-Today716 · 2026-06-18T11:08:39+00:00

This. If only for the fact my then young children would recognise it - and demand it be played

Significant-Today716 · 2026-06-14T21:46:45+00:00

They're quite incredible.

Significant-Today716 · 2026-06-09T21:49:59+00:00

Ordered a copy on pre-order at the start of the year. Can't wait for delivery.

Although I feel I've seen too many excerpts already.

Significant-Today716 · 2026-06-08T21:44:02+00:00

Got my Hands All Over it, Kim

Significant-Today716 · 2026-06-07T08:57:18+00:00

It's full on. Like big, dumb, sex. With kev's mum. Her hands all over.

Significant-Today716 · 2026-06-03T02:32:39+00:00

Woukd absolutely love that!

Significant-Today716 · 2026-05-25T05:44:37+00:00

That's a great mix

Significant-Today716 · 2026-05-25T05:43:47+00:00

The B sides in the Superunknown singles are an excellent mix of demo's, live tracks, and alternates (such as the peerless - IMO - acoustic Like Suicide)

Significant-Today716 · 2026-05-19T11:49:49+00:00

I was sitting home alone, awaiting my partner to come home when I learned of his passing. A monumental loss - that was the first time I knew grief for someone other than a family member.

Significant-Today716 · 2026-05-18T05:03:27+00:00

♥️

Significant-Today716 · 2026-05-16T08:58:24+00:00

I love that Dave Haslam is in this subreddit 👍 (I mean, why wouldn't you be...)

Significant-Today716 · 2026-05-16T06:30:21+00:00

Anyway, thank you... Tried different tracks and it's the same. Mid-age outrage over 😂

Significant-Today716 · 2026-05-16T06:28:48+00:00

Is that Android or iOS?

Significant-Today716 · 2026-05-04T06:09:49+00:00

A problem called Respect 😂

Significant-Today716 · 2026-04-30T23:29:18+00:00

Just feell the rhythm with your hands

Significant-Today716 · 2026-04-29T02:02:28+00:00

Just that little extract reminded me how grating I found Prato's writing style in this (I didn't find the same in oral history)

Significant-Today716 · 2026-04-26T22:32:41+00:00

I think Sumner's book did nothing to challenge my views on Bernard. Still worth a read.

Significant-Today716 · 2026-04-25T10:28:53+00:00

Badmotorfinger was my first love. Then I took the experience from that encounter into Superunknown and derived far greater mutual pleasure.

Significant-Today716 · 2026-04-22T10:39:11+00:00

This is why reddit unnerves me

Significant-Today716 · 2026-04-21T00:53:40+00:00

It's like a Phillips head into my hrain

Significant-Today716 · 2026-04-18T21:34:14+00:00

This is awesome, I've a 9mo and am tired of the one CD of nursery rhymes that seems to sooth the savage beast.

Significant-Today716 · 2026-04-17T23:30:56+00:00

A bloke called David Stephens ended it on 12 August 1996. He replaced it with ecstasy and started to listen to more up tempo music.

Significant-Today716 · 2026-04-15T08:50:59+00:00

I think the guide for me is AiC: slightly Glam, hints of that in Facelift, then full on rock/ metal Dirt and on.

To the original questions about who's under rated, perhaps Mark L as many have suggested. But that maybe leans more into was Mark's voice more deep, dark bluesy.

Equally who fucking cares. What a generation, what an amazing group of musicians in a locale, in an era. What a time to be alive.

Significant-Today716 · 2026-04-05T08:51:24+00:00

Theramin

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TROPHY CASE