My friend’s wife is a baker and I’ve ordered about 2 red velvet cakes for my girlfriend’s birthday for the last 2 years. My birthday was coming up so I requested a s’mores White Pony cake and my god, it was the best cake I’ve ever had.
Long time lurker, big time Deftones fan here! Just wondering if anyone has received their copy of the Deftones Vice magazine at all?
I got the email from them back in January about the lost copies, as well as a response with the same info from a service rep in February. Curious if anyone has actually received their copy since then, because it sort of just feels like a waste of money.
I ordered it the day the pre-order dropped in October as a birthday present to myself. Really bummed I haven’t seen it heard anything about it other than that quick announcement email :/
He just asked me “you listen to Deftones?” and I said yea so he just brought me these, just want to share them with you guys as I think they are amazing, anybody know more about em?
Okay so my journey into deftones continues, after loving white pony for years and discovering diamond eyes and the perfection of KNY recently i decided to listen to Saturday Night Wrist.
My first impression is how impressive that they are exploring and evolving their sound so much i mean this album is very much shoegaze, different from the thickness and riff heavy KNY, it reminds me of smashing pumpkins and slowdive if that makes sense, and thats definitely a sound that i love yet it still feels very much Deftones
My tracks reviews:
Hole in the earth - a riff that engraves itself in your brain, incredible vocals here, perfect start
Rapture- a screaming chino song, reminds me a lot of Poltergeist from KNY, however unlike the former this one has an inspired bridge and chorus, wasted potential here imo, forgettable
Beware- damn. Haunting and dark. When it drops in the “beware the water” part, so cathartic and so satisfying. this part is what deftones is to me. Gets better with every listen. Deep cut that hits hard
Cherry waves- can see why this is the biggest song from the album. Definitely because of the “yououou should stay down beneath”, its insanely catchy and good, shoegazy greatness. The verses in this are mid though imo
Mein- swerve city vibes on the opening riff. Its nice. Has much more potential. lets be real here guys, from a collab between chino and serj i expected wayyy more (think about passenger for example) So overall good song but feels a little lazy to me and unfinished.
UURL interlude- i actually think its really awesome. Like really awesome. Kinda sucks chino doesnt sing on this and it wasnt developed to a song.
Feels like im walking in a forest at night. Reminds me of radiohead so much, sounds like it would fit on hail to the theif. Im not skipping it
Xerces- solid ballad, i can definitely see how this could be someone favorite, its nice but doesnt have that deftones twist. That “ill be waving goodbye” is not memorable for me, feel like this could have been made by another band
Ratsratsrats- wtf. this breaks the flow of the album, very weird choice to include this in this project. Like rusty daggers to the ears, into the bin with this one
Pink cellphone - i realized after i listened to this that this is like an infamous “worst deftones song ever” which i really understand why, mainly because of the last spoken word part. But i really liked it actually lol. I love trip hop and this has massive attack written all over it. I wish i could cut the annoying “butt fucking” monologue at the end, and this will be pretty good imo.
Combat- “which side are you on?????” I liked it a lot. classic screaming chino but this has a good riff, memorable lines and good soft chorus, unlike the previous screaming chino tracks on here. Favorite aggressive song from this project
Kimdracula- wow. Unexpected greatness on the back end of this. How was this not a single? One of the best deftones riffs. Such a hybrid and fluid song, screams and softness, raw and processed. Thick riff on the breakdown at the end. Perfection.
Riviere- first half too slow for my taste, second half is koy no yokan style at its finest and im here for it. Solid closer.
Overall an incredible album. very high highs and some very low lows (rats thats you) Maybe 4 skips for me, and many songs im going to play back over and over.
Favourite has to be Kimdracula, but Beware comes very close, followed by hole in the earth.
What are your favorites on this? Do you agree/disagree with my takes?
I bought it on OLX
In the the photos it was grey and metallic but what i got is something you can see i mean.
I’m looking to sell my limited edition deftones x dickies hoodie, my partner and I both bought one and we only use one, I have a mecari account and was wondering if anyone has any luck with selling merch on there .
Hey everyone! I recently got my copy of B-sides and rarites with the DVD disc and absolutely loved the DVD and how they combined all the videos into one "movie" separated by album and it got me wondering if another B-Sides/compilation record would be possible.
I was thinking back on the track record of releases and saw that there was kind of a pattern
90s - Like Linus mixtapes and other demos (wasn't released under a label so you don't have to count this one), Adrenaline, Around The Fur
2000's- White Pony, Deftones (self titled), B-sides and rarites, Saturday Night Wrist
2010's- Diamond Eyes, Covers (has some bleed over from b-sides, but has some new material), Koi No Yokan, Gore
2020's- Ohms, private music, ?
It seems like the band likes to release 2-3 albums a decade along with a side "album" of sorts, and the 40th anniversary of the bands formation is in a few years, so it would be cool to see another B-Sides with some unreleased music and harder to find songs (boys republic, lovers, teething, etc) that haven't been rereleased on cd or streaming. I'm probably grasping at straws but it's fun to speculate!
Let me know what you guys think!
Mine is probably the chauffeur or teenager idiot version
Now that we only get tickets via the Ticketmaster app, they've sent out commemorative "tickets".
Printed on hard plastic. Looks cool.
Wanted if anyone who owns the CDs can tell me if they’re censored. I’v looked into Discogs and none of the listing say “clean” but still unsure. I’m looking at White Pony and ATF.
A very violent song?
A sad one?
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