#21

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 donā€™t think I even listened to them much (this was pre streaming and I didnā€™t want to spend money on something I wasnā€™t sure of) but I always had the impression they were too heavy / noisy / ā€œout thereā€ for me.

Have tried to listen to White Pony in recent years because itā€™s so beloved, but I donā€™t get it. Itā€™s not that itā€™s too heavy / noisy / out there, I just canā€™t really connect with it. Is there anyone here who didnā€™t fall in love with it during a young and impressionable phase?

#22

God as if weā€™re doing one of my favourite albums and bands in one dayā€¦

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#23

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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#24

I bought it when it came out, I was in my mid 20ā€™s 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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#25

Was about to say me but then i was 19 so i donā€™t think i was particularly out of being impressionable as much as i like to think otherwise!

I can imagine itā€™s a funny LP to go back to now without a foundation of love there

#26

Yes! This is the opinion i want to become canon

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#27

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. Itā€™s a perfect album that proved Deftones were way above the nu-metal genre and tag floating around them at time. Itā€™s also largely an album about sex and cocaine, so no wonder I didnā€™t get it as a teenager :sweat_smile:

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#28

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 donā€™t get it.

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#29

itā€™s definitely not perfect but iā€™m giving it a 10 anyway because of how important it was to me at the time. itā€™s kind of the missing link between so many different styles of music that i like and i canā€™t really imagine life without it.

and just to do my usual bit: mini maggit is NOT on the album.

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#30

See, you walk like a fan, talk like a fan yet canā€™t even get the tracklist rightā€¦ :thinking:

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#31

NO MORE TRACKLIST CHAT BEYOND THIS POST

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#32

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.

#33

@badmanreturns will be along shortly to tell us he doesnā€™t like ā€˜eliteā€™

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#34

This is want Iā€™m talking about when Iā€™m talking Deftones

or this much, although the lyrics are pretty :grimacing:

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#35

This here. Still so good.

When the drums come back in. Crikeyā€¦

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#36

And heā€™ll be right to do it. Theyā€™d already recorded Head Up

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#37

i thought you didnā€™t like deftones :thinking:

#38

Would be better without that haunted microphone theyā€™re using at the beginning of the bit you linked

#39

Iā€™ve got this weird thing where I listen to bands properly before deciding I dislike them. Itā€™s very time consuming.

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#40

Admittedly they then went and did a very similar thing on the next album, but it turns out that thing sounds great and theyā€™re really good at it, so Iā€™ll allow it.

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