The Deftones

Al@metalreviews · **Posted:** Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:37 pm

I intend to review the new Deftones album when I can get my hands on it. Was wondering if anybody else here really liked this band? Also this is a place for all of you who want to flame me for being untr00 can get it out of your system. (Bear in mind I haven't heard the new one yet, it may be utter crap)

I may also do an archive review of White Pony at some point as it's a rather good album. Feel free to get the flaming about that outta your system as well...

Misha · **Posted:** Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:52 pm

I enjoyed the white pony a lot back in the days!

Dago · **Posted:** Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:58 pm

I actually used to like them quite a bit. But when i got to know more bands i just stopped listening to them... Maybe i am going to give the new album a listen..

Legacy Of The Night · **Posted:** Sun Oct 29, 2006 10:02 pm

From what I heard by them, I really like them. I still have yet to get an album, but White Pony is the first on my list.

Adam · **Posted:** Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:33 am

Yeah, I really like the Deftones. Their last album was awesome, although it really had to grow on me.

rio · **Posted:** Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:48 am

I have the S/T. Minerva is a really great song, but I can't get any enjoyment from the rest of it really.

Eyesore · **Posted:** Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:52 am

Solid band. Lots are really cool evolution that I think gets overlooked too much as they're still just considered nu-metal. They're much than that now.

noodles · **Posted:** Mon Oct 30, 2006 3:47 am

I would have enjoyed them a bunch if I'd been introduced to them in the Tool/Nine Inch Nails/Radiohead/Rage Against the Machine phase of my life. Instead my friend lent me White Pony about a month ago and it didn't do anything for me. :unsure:

Eyesore · **Posted:** Mon Oct 30, 2006 3:52 am

noodles wrote:

I would have enjoyed them a bunch if I'd been introduced to them in the Tool/Nine Inch Nails/Radiohead/Rage Against the Machine phase of my life. Instead my friend lent me White Pony about a month ago and it didn't do anything for me. :unsure:

Phase = trend. Cut it out.

noodles · **Posted:** Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:19 am

Eyesore wrote:

noodles wrote:

I would have enjoyed them a bunch if I'd been introduced to them in the Tool/Nine Inch Nails/Radiohead/Rage Against the Machine phase of my life. Instead my friend lent me White Pony about a month ago and it didn't do anything for me. :unsure:

Phase = trend. Cut it out.

Trend = CDs my sister gave me when she didn't like them anymore?

Eyesore · **Posted:** Mon Oct 30, 2006 6:15 am

noodles wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

noodles wrote:

I would have enjoyed them a bunch if I'd been introduced to them in the Tool/Nine Inch Nails/Radiohead/Rage Against the Machine phase of my life. Instead my friend lent me White Pony about a month ago and it didn't do anything for me. :unsure:

Phase = trend. Cut it out.

Trend = CDs my sister gave me when she didn't like them anymore?

I don't buy into this "phase" thing. I go through listening phases; some days I'll be into power metal, it may last for weeks, then I'll switch to maybe acoustic rock or whatever. But if I liked it once, I'll like it always!

I don't get this talk of, "Well, when I was young and dumb I loved that stuff, but not anymore!" I don't get that at all. This isn't food. This isn't something that gave you food poisoning, or a flavor of alcohol that you drank too much of and puked for a week. It's music! It's like a movie! You like it now, you like it later. I've never heard anyone go, "I loved that movie a few years ago, but not anymore!" It's weird.

noodles · **Posted:** Mon Oct 30, 2006 7:53 am

They stopped sending chills down my spine.

Also I wouldn't say its like a movie since you don't watch a movie 100 times over and still find it interesting. Or at least I don't.

Eyesore · **Posted:** Mon Oct 30, 2006 8:35 am

noodles wrote:

They stopped sending chills down my spine.

Also I wouldn't say its like a movie since you don't watch a movie 100 times over and still find it interesting. Or at least I don't.

Same principle, though. Maybe you should quit overdosing on one album.

And I don't hate you, queer!

Radagast · **Posted:** Mon Oct 30, 2006 5:31 pm

The Deftones are awful crap. I just don't get it, any of it. Back in School ranks as one of the worst songs ever, by anyone.

Al@metalreviews · **Posted:** Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:11 pm

Radagast wrote:

The Deftones are awful crap. I just don't get it, any of it. Back in School ranks as one of the worst songs ever, by anyone.

Back in School is crap, but it sounds very little like the rest of their stuff, especailly White Pony onwards. it wasn't even on an album...

Eternal Idol · **Posted:** Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:21 pm

Eyesore wrote:

I don't get this talk of, "Well, when I was young and dumb I loved that stuff, but not anymore!" I don't get that at all. This isn't food. This isn't something that gave you food poisoning, or a flavor of alcohol that you drank too much of and puked for a week. It's music! It's like a movie! You like it now, you like it later. I've never heard anyone go, "I loved that movie a few years ago, but not anymore!" It's weird.

It's a simple concept really. Some people my only like Korn (for example) because it is the only thing they know, through radio exposure or whatever. Once a person is exposed to music outside of the mainstream, they may find music that is far superior and suits their needs better than the bands they knew. Some bands are just sutiable for getting you into a genre, but once you are there you realize how one dimensional that band is.

I'm not saying this is the case with the Deftones.

Eyesore · **Posted:** Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:34 pm

Eternal Idol wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

I don't get this talk of, "Well, when I was young and dumb I loved that stuff, but not anymore!" I don't get that at all. This isn't food. This isn't something that gave you food poisoning, or a flavor of alcohol that you drank too much of and puked for a week. It's music! It's like a movie! You like it now, you like it later. I've never heard anyone go, "I loved that movie a few years ago, but not anymore!" It's weird.

It's a simple concept really. Some people my only like Korn (for example) because it is the only thing they know, through radio exposure or whatever. Once a person is exposed to music outside of the mainstream, they may find music that is far superior and suits their needs better than the bands they knew. Some bands are just sutiable for getting you into a genre, but once you are there you realize how one dimensional that band is.

I'm not saying this is the case with the Deftones.

I understand that, but does that make you then dislike those other bands? I don't understand how that works. Maybe it's just me, but if I liked something in 1987, I like it today.

The_Voice · **Posted:** Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:08 am

They were the first nu-metal band i heard, a friend of mine came to my house one day and he said to me: "Look man you gotta hear this shit, this is the new big thing, metal is back again!", i honestly didnt found it that special, but i can see why a lot pf people likes them, at least they were more original than the rest of the garbage that MTV was playing at the time.

The_Voice · **Posted:** Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:17 am

Eyesore wrote:

Eternal Idol wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

I don't get this talk of, "Well, when I was young and dumb I loved that stuff, but not anymore!" I don't get that at all. This isn't food. This isn't something that gave you food poisoning, or a flavor of alcohol that you drank too much of and puked for a week. It's music! It's like a movie! You like it now, you like it later. I've never heard anyone go, "I loved that movie a few years ago, but not anymore!" It's weird.

It's a simple concept really. Some people my only like Korn (for example) because it is the only thing they know, through radio exposure or whatever. Once a person is exposed to music outside of the mainstream, they may find music that is far superior and suits their needs better than the bands they knew. Some bands are just sutiable for getting you into a genre, but once you are there you realize how one dimensional that band is.

I'm not saying this is the case with the Deftones.

I understand that, but does that make you then dislike those other bands? I don't understand how that works. Maybe it's just me, but if I liked something in 1987, I like it today.

Thats right ken but you are older than the rest of us, i still like most of the stuff i heard in 1989, but i dont like the stuff i used to hear when i was five (do you?), for a lot of people here these bands where their first encounter with music, its just normal that their tastes evolve over time, or the other explanation could be that they didnt like them at all in the first place they were just trying to fit in, something very common among teeneagers, especially with rock music.

Eyesore · **Posted:** Tue Oct 31, 2006 4:48 am

The_Voice wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

Eternal Idol wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

I don't get this talk of, "Well, when I was young and dumb I loved that stuff, but not anymore!" I don't get that at all. This isn't food. This isn't something that gave you food poisoning, or a flavor of alcohol that you drank too much of and puked for a week. It's music! It's like a movie! You like it now, you like it later. I've never heard anyone go, "I loved that movie a few years ago, but not anymore!" It's weird.

It's a simple concept really. Some people my only like Korn (for example) because it is the only thing they know, through radio exposure or whatever. Once a person is exposed to music outside of the mainstream, they may find music that is far superior and suits their needs better than the bands they knew. Some bands are just sutiable for getting you into a genre, but once you are there you realize how one dimensional that band is.

I'm not saying this is the case with the Deftones.

I understand that, but does that make you then dislike those other bands? I don't understand how that works. Maybe it's just me, but if I liked something in 1987, I like it today.

Thats right ken but you are older than the rest of us, i still like most of the stuff i heard in 1989, but i dont like the stuff i used to hear when i was five (do you?), for a lot of people here these bands where their first encounter with music, its just normal that their tastes evolve over time, or the other explanation could be that they didnt like them at all in the first place they were just trying to fit in, something very common among teeneagers, especially with rock music.

Trying to fit in is one thing, that's understandable, but no one is saying that. Even if these are teenagers we're speaking of I still don't get it. Surely I don't expect anyone here to still dig on the Sesame Stree soundtrack.

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