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Meantime by Helmet
Meantime is an album by Helmet, released in 1992. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 19 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Unsung”, on 17 lists with a best position of #61.
Meantime, Helmet's second album and first for a major label, landed on Interscope on June 23, 1992, and it hits like a pneumatic drill. The New York band had made their debut, Strap It On, for the indie Amphetamine Reptile; here Page Hamilton and Peter Mengede lock their guitars into clipped, stop-start riffs, Henry Bogdan's bass digs in underneath and John Stanier's drums land like a punch clock. Andy Wallace's production keeps it dry, hard and brutally tight.
"Unsung" was the lead single, a hit on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and still the band's best-known song, and "Give It" and "In the Meantime" got videos too. The album only reached number 68 on the Billboard 200 at first, but it kept on selling, going gold in 1994 and past 2 million copies worldwide, and plenty of the heavy bands that came after took notes.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Meantime on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unsung | 17 | #61 | – | 1992–2023 | |
| 2 | In The Meantime | 1 | #266 | – | 2024 | |
| 3 | Give It | 1 | #1967 | – | 2002 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.