Deftones Band • Page 166

Man I would pay an obscene amount of money to have a S/T album with a cleaned up version of Lovers on it.

 

It is insane how great that song is.

 

Criminal that it was left off the record

 

I can't believe it's been 20 years. A monumentally important album for me. I saw them on their club tour when this album was released and actually got to go back stage and meet them all. I was a 17 year old kid so I just shook their hands and didn't say much, but they were all so cool to me. Got a pair of drum sticks signed by Abe that I still treasure.

 

Wow. I already own the record, but that is slick.

 

Remastered video released today

Chi :/

 

I have ST on the hot topic exclusive from years ago but I might need that red

 

forever my fav deftones record. sad I have no money to spare rn.

 

Oh man had to snag that. Needles and Pins riff on wax.

 

The facial hair choices from this era are astounding.

 

Revisiting their discography now, and it's always been one of my favorites, but it's definitely top three, maybe top two on a good day. "Bloody Cape" might be their heaviest song after "Elite"

 

now that’s a conversation

 

(Also reasserting that Gore is top five)

 

imo When Girls Telephone Boys is their heaviest song.

 

same

 

Do we forget Rats!Rats!Rats! exists?

 

It's hella sensitive

 

Updating the ol' ranking, which is mostly the same but including Ohms and with Adrenaline up a spot lol

White Pony
Diamond Eyes
Deftones
Koi no Yokan
Gore
Ohms
Around the Fur
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Adrenaline
Saturday Night Wrist

 

Finger of Death is their heaviest, but it never got a proper release, so WGTB it is.

 

Ain't gonna rank, but White Pony through Diamond Eyes is such a stellar run of albums to me.

Since then their albums are harder to digest; it feels like they're not as immediately accessible, and I end up forgetting what I've listened to more readily.

 

There was a little bit of magic that was lost after S/T for me. For one, SNW was sort of cobbled together by the band and then later Chino came on board (although Riviere might be on of their best songs), and then obviously with the loss of Chi things changed up quite a bit.

Still some excellent music post S/T, just has never been the same.

 

they did write Acid Hologram after but I agree

 

That's the other track aside from Riviere that I had in mind. So good.

 

and all of Diamond Eyes

 

I dunno, maybe this is a minority opinion, but I love Saturday Night Wrist. "Hole In The Earth", "Rapture", "Beware", "Cherry Waves", "Xerces", "Kimdracula", all great songs.

I'm not as big on "Mein" though, and I'm not sure what they were thinking having that be the second single from that album.