Track Listing 1. Wilma's Rainbow 2. I Know 3. Biscuits For Smut 4. Milquetoast 5. Tic 6. Rollo 7. Street Crab 8. Clean 9. Vaccination 10. Beautiful Love 11. Speechless 12. Silver Hawaiian, The 13. Overrated 14. Sam Hell
| Details | | Playing Time: | 41 min. | | Producer: | Butch Vig, Helmet, T-Ray | | Distributor: | Fontana Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Helmet: Page Hamilton (vocals, guitar); Rob Echeverria (guitar); Henry Bogdan (bass); John Stanier (drums). Engineers: Anton Pukshansky, Martin Bisi, John Siket. Recorded at Soundtrack, Power Station, and Sound on Sound, New York. Guitar thugs Helmet muscled their way into a hefty record-industry bidding war in the early 1990s, boasting an impressive use of negative space within dense guitar structures. Largely due to frontman Page Hamilton's stop/start guitar riffs, Helmet was easily recognizable in a sea of competitors. The group's second major-label album, BETTY, growls and grinds through 14 songs simmering with post-adolescent angst. Tracks like "Biscuits for Smut" and "Overrated" couldn't be better fit for the jaded mid-1990s. Mixing nihilism with a fascination for pop-culture commodity, Hamilton drops words like "cellulite" with "karmic wealth" to create an insightful foray into an over-stimulated culture. A more dynamic outing than the quartet's previous releases, BETTY revealed Helmet as a fascinatingly restless band.
Editorial Reviews ...BETTY, is filled with the crunch based power we've come to expect...a little chancey, yet undeniably Helmet... Alternative Press (09/01/1994)
6 - Good - ...not only does BETTY betray a surprising sleight of hand in its shuffling of familiar components but it also has the sense to lob the odd ringer into the gig... NME (06/25/1994)
Satisfactory - ...This is heavy metal without the theater, headbanging music for people without hair... Spin (08/01/1994)
...BETTY blows the lid off the sucker, using hip-hop, hints of jazz, reams of speaker-altering noise and, unexpectedly, humor. Helmet have de-metallized metal... Musician (07/01/1994)
4 Stars - Excellent - ...Learning from its mistakes, the band has broadened its scope on BETTY, expressing emotional depth and musical wit along with brute strength... Rolling Stone (10/06/1994)
...BETTY blows the lid off the sucker, using hip-hop, hints of jazz, reams of speaker-altering noise and, unexpectedly, humor. Helmet have de-metallized metal... Musician (07/01/1994)
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