Deftones Band • Page 196

Even Bored is a great opener

 

Hole in the Earth makes me feel like I’m walking on air, supremely perfect opener and maybe a top 5 most quintessential Deftones song

 

They really do have the all-time best openers. Bored, My Own Summer, Feiticeira (even though I grew up hearing Back To School first), Hexagram, Hole In the Earth, Diamond Eyes, Swerve City, Prayers/Triangles, Genesis.

that’s unreal.

 

The most frustrating thing about them is Damone hasn't been separated from MX on ATF--obv that's a label thing vs them but still. That song is such a banger. Also, Lovers still not on streaming.

 

I've probably waxed poetic in here about the band before, but I really have them to credit for expanding my horizons beyond what was on the radio. I was 12, and was listening to Creed, Default, Hoobastank, and Audioslave, and whatever else was on the alt-rock radio station at the time. My older brother's best friend had a HUGE binder full of CDs (that's how I measured how cool someone was) and one day he let me pick out an album to borrow. I have no idea why I picked White Pony, or maybe he nudged me towards it, but that's what I chose.

I always went to my grandparent's house for a week in the summers, and I remember being bored and looking through my CDs and trying to decide what to listen to. For some reason, White Pony was the answer that day, and I thought it was... odd. I hadn't heard anything like it, and wasn't sure if I liked it, but SOMETHING kept me coming back. My first couple times giving it a shot, I don't think I made it to the back half of the album, but the first time I heard Passenger, it blew my mind. I remember listening to it on repeat that week, just with my clip-on headphones hooked up to my portable CD player. Looking back on it now, I think it's the first time I ever let an album "grow" on me, and didn't listen based on first impressions alone. It truly shaped my entire relationship with music, and I really don't think I'd have the music tastes I have today if it wasn't for that guy giving me White Pony back in '03.

 

shout out to the little pony maze game on the enhanced CD

 

They have the greatest B-Sides too.

The Boys Republic is consistently one of my favorite songs of theirs.

 

always assumed the cover of the edition with "Boy's Republic" on it, with the track lengths but no titles, was a cute and sly Hum reference.