Meantime

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Meantime
Meantime cover
Studio album by Helmet
Released June 23, 1992
Recorded December 1991 – February 1992 in New York City
Genre Post-hardcore, Noise rock, Alternative metal
Length 36:56
Label Interscope Records
Producer(s) Helmet
Professional reviews
Helmet chronology
Strap It On
(1990)		 Meantime
(1992)		 Betty
(1994)


Meantime is the second album and major-label debut by Helmet, released in 1992 on Interscope. They had recently signed to Interscope for a reported $1 million.

While the band was never a huge commercial success (Meantime is the only Helmet album to go Gold in the U.S.), the sound of this album, with Page Hamilton's staccato riffs, jazz-influenced chords and solos, and dual-voice singing style, proved influential to both post-grunge bands and later nu metal bands such as the Deftones. "Unsung" remains Helmet's best-known song; its video was aired on MTV in the early 1990s, and it was on the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas soundtrack as well as the PlayStation 2 game Guitar Hero. Music videos were also made for "Give It" and "In The Meantime".

The album may be found with one of two reversely-colored covers; one has a blue background with a white-on-red Helmet logo, the other has a red background with a white-on-blue Helmet logo (pictured at right). The cover image is of a man in a white protective suit shoveling some substance on the ground.

The song "In The Meantime" was recorded by Steve Albini and later remixed by Andy Wallace. The contrast between Wallace's style of mixing, which involves (among other things) triggered samples (leading to the album's distinctive half wood, half metal snare drum sound), and Albini's style of recording, left a bad taste in Albini's mouth. Later, when in negotiations to record Nirvana's In Utero, he stipulated a clause be added to his contract stating that Wallace would not be allowed to remix the album. (Wallace had mixed Nevermind.)

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "In The Meantime" – 3:08
  2. "Ironhead" – 3:22
  3. "Give It" – 4:17
  4. "Unsung" – 3:57
  5. "Turned Out" – 4:14
  6. "He Feels Bad" – 4:03
  7. "Better" – 3:10
  8. "You Borrowed" – 3:45
  9. "FBLA II" – 3:22
  10. "Role Model" – 3:35
(All tracks by Hamilton)

[edit] Chart positions

1992 Meantime     The Billboard 200           No. 68
1992 Meantime     Heatseekers                 No. 1

[edit] Charting singles

1992 "Unsung"       Mainstream Rock Tracks      No. 32
1992 "Unsung"       Modern Rock Tracks          No. 29

[edit] Personnel

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