Flashback Thursday: Helium "XXX"

Unlike other bands of their era, Helium really does not get their due. They fall somewhere between slacker indie and spaced-out shoegaze, made all the more alluring, but the equally hot/mysterious Mary Timony. It's not that the band was better than their peers, but they were a lot more compelling. Pavement just didn't care, Guided By Voices were drunks, and Polvo were pain in the ass artists.

This video is off of the band's '94 debut EP Pirate Prude, and some may remember it being made fun of on Beavis and Butthead. The band would go on to release two more EPs and two albums before disbanding in 1998. Lead singer Mary Timony continues a successful solo career.