Back when I was a teenager listening to Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park I had some friends into the Deftones but I never got into them, I donāt think I even listened to them much (this was pre streaming and I didnāt want to spend money on something I wasnāt sure of) but I always had the impression they were too heavy / noisy / āout thereā for me.
Have tried to listen to White Pony in recent years because itās so beloved, but I donāt get it. Itās not that itās too heavy / noisy / out there, I just canāt really connect with it. Is there anyone here who didnāt fall in love with it during a young and impressionable phase?
God as if weāre doing one of my favourite albums and bands in one dayā¦
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The self-titled was the first album of theirs that really clicked for me, after that I went back to White Pony. Nothing of theirs before or after those two really does it for me.
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I bought it when it came out, I was in my mid 20ās and it do much for me. I missed the shoutiness of RtF so just ignored it. Went back 10 years later to discover that it is brilliant. But still not as good as Around the Fur.
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Was about to say me but then i was 19 so i donāt think i was particularly out of being impressionable as much as i like to think otherwise!
I can imagine itās a funny LP to go back to now without a foundation of love there
Yes! This is the opinion i want to become canon
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I got into Deftones around the time of Back To School, typically, and pretty much got all three (at the time) albums immediately. As an angsty teenager, I liked White Pony but definitely preferred Around the Fur, arguably even Adrenaline too. But as time has gone on I am stunned by just how good White Pony is every time I listen to it. Itās a perfect album that proved Deftones were way above the nu-metal genre and tag floating around them at time. Itās also largely an album about sex and cocaine, so no wonder I didnāt get it as a teenager 
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Loads of people at my school fucking loved this record when it came out and I was absolutely baffled as to why, and still am when people talk about it here. Just donāt get it.
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itās definitely not perfect but iām giving it a 10 anyway because of how important it was to me at the time. itās kind of the missing link between so many different styles of music that i like and i canāt really imagine life without it.
and just to do my usual bit: mini maggit is NOT on the album.
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See, you walk like a fan, talk like a fan yet canāt even get the tracklist rightā¦ 
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NO MORE TRACKLIST CHAT BEYOND THIS POST
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Would like to hear what others do but it all kind of mushes together to me. Feiticeira is an amazing opener and when people talk so passionately about Deftones and in particular, White Pony, I assume this is what they hear throughout. Gone a 5.
@badmanreturns will be along shortly to tell us he doesnāt like āeliteā
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This is want Iām talking about when Iām talking Deftones
or this much, although the lyrics are pretty 
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This here. Still so good.
When the drums come back in. Crikeyā¦
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And heāll be right to do it. Theyād already recorded Head Up
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i thought you didnāt like deftones 
Would be better without that haunted microphone theyāre using at the beginning of the bit you linked
Iāve got this weird thing where I listen to bands properly before deciding I dislike them. Itās very time consuming.
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Admittedly they then went and did a very similar thing on the next album, but it turns out that thing sounds great and theyāre really good at it, so Iāll allow it.
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