Unsung is a single by the alternative metal band Helmet from their 1992 album, Meantime. A music video was produced for the song and found significant airplay on MTV in the early 1990s. “Unsung” is recorded in Drop D tuning on both guitars and bass, and begins with a bass intro. Its stop-and-go dynamics and catchy rhythm made it somewhat of a flagship of the growing 1990s alternative metal scene. In 1991, a full year before the release of Meantime, Amphetamine Reptile records issued the “Unsung” 7″ record (scale 41), featuring an earlier recording of the song. “Unsung” was Helmet’s first single to be released, and was also the lead single to their second album Meantime. The song helped Helmet attain breakthrough success and is their most commercially successful song to date. “Unsung” reached number 29 on the US Alternative Songs chart and number 32 on the US Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. ‘Unsung’ was the second video pulled from Helmet’s second full-length album, Meantime, and quickly became the band’s signature song and an MTV favorite during late 1992.
Tracklist:
- Unsung
- Better
- FBLA (Live)
- FBLA II (Live)
Unsung by Helmet Lyrics
Your contribution left unnoticed some
Association with an image
Just credit time for showing up again
Attention wandered I’m left with it
Gone by sin too slowly
Can’t pass it up
Then I thought nothing is right
I turned it off
To die unsung would really bring you down
Although wet eyes would never suit you
Walk through no archetypal suicide to
Die young is far too boring these days
Your will to speak clearly
Exposed too much
Unsung once too often
Could not rub off
Songwriters: Page Hamilton
Helmet
Page Hamilton: vocals, lead guitar
Peter Mengede: rhythm guitar
Henry Bogdan: bass
John Stanier: drums
