DEFTONES

[MirrorProfiles]

They deserve their own thread really.

Digging the new album, although I had pretty high hopes for it and while there’s little too complain about it feels surprisingly safe and fan-appeasing compared to what they sometimes do. I think it’s what people want from them, and releasing good albums 10 albums in is good going no matter how you slice it.

It made me go back and listen to ST, Saturday Night Wrist and Gore. With each of those I didn’t really love them straight away but once I got over what I was expecting them to be, I really got into them.

Kind of feel like in the long run those albums will all hold up better. I also really like Ohms and I’m kind of surprised how it doesn’t really get as much love.

I posted a ranking recently in the Fractal thread, but after going over a few albums I might re-order my list:

- White Pony
- Around The Fur
- Koi No Yokan
- Diamond Eyes
- Gore
- Ohms
- Saturday Night Wrist
- Self Titled
- private music
- adrenaline

There’s very little between them for me, I think my top 3 are fairly fixed but the rest could be in any order. Quite remarkable for them to have done so many solid albums without dropping any major clangers.

Interestingly, I only heard Smile for the first time the other day and it reminded me of their cover of Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want in that I wish I hadn’t heard it.

 

[MirrorProfiles]

oh and because real amps rule supreme:

 

[Whizzinby]

1. Self titled
2. Adrenaline
3. White Pony
4. Koi No Yokan
5. Around The Fur
6. Private Music
7. Saturday Night Wrist
8. Diamond Eyes
9. Ohms
10. Gore

 

[Whizzinby]

Private Music doesn’t really go into new places, but they really nailed so much of what makes them great. Great grooves, great chorus melodies.

To drop that album, 30 years in, is really quite remarkable. They did themselves and their fans proud with this one.

 

[TheTrueZoltan!]

Wow, I'm completely blown away! What an album! I've been listening to nothing else for a week and just can't get enough of it. The band has truly surpassed itself and created a late masterpiece. Grooves as stiff as my dead grandad and melodies as flat as the earth. I mean, track number 10 (‘Metal Dream’) says it all, doesn't it? That's how it's done, exactly like that! Can they please release another album of this quality next week? I want more.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Wow, I'm completely blown away! What an album! I've been listening to nothing else for a week and just can't get enough of it. The band has truly surpassed itself and created a late masterpiece. Grooves as stiff as my dead grandad and melodies as flat as the earth. I mean, track number 10 (‘Metal Dream’) says it all, doesn't it? That's how it's done, exactly like that! Can they please release another album of this quality next week?

Show us on the nu-metal doll.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Private Music is spectacular. It belongs up top with Adrenaline, WP and Around the Fur. Koi No Yokan is excellent and there are some moments on the others but those 4 hit special. Self titled for me was like Deftones uncatchy Black Album. Yuck. I have gotten over it but it really soured me after White Pony. In retrospect, it has some good stuff but nothing I throw on unprompted?

 

[dbagchee]

Going to be stuck on a plane for ~20 hours. Downloading their entire catalog to listen to in high res lossless.

 

[Whizzinby]

Private Music is spectacular. It belongs up top with Adrenaline, WP and Around the Fur. Koi No Yokan is excellent and there are some moments on the others but those 4 hit special. Self titled for me was like Deftones uncatchy Black Album. Yuck. I have gotten over it but it really soured me after White Pony. In retrospect, it has some good stuff but nothing I throw on unprompted?

What’s great about Self Titled is it’s really a gritty and dark album. Aside from Minerva, which I almost never listen to unless forced to live, nothing feels particularly upbeat or pretty. It’s just a darker collection of jams. And it’s the last album they did before Steph found out about Meshuggah (lulz) and started falling back almost exclusively on djent riffs. The Self Titled riffs sound way more “classic” Deftones imo. Chino getting more confident writing guitar parts ended up being a saving grace for them as time went on from this album.

But it’s definitely an album that the vibe either resonates with or not. Not much in between.

 

[dbagchee]

Saw this on Reddit, pretty funny and true.

https://www.reddit.com/r/deftones/s/1W8AB0Xc9o

Been listening to a bunch of albums while traveling - some of these albums are better than I remember - Im actually digging Ohms more than I recall. Probably didn’t give it enough listens the first time around.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Rig rundown

 

[iaresee]

I have been surprised by how much I'm liking Private Music.

 

[JiveTurkey]

I have been surprised by how much I'm liking Private Music.

LOVE it. I need to buy the darn thing at some point.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Steph really talking up the Helix. Great word of mouth for them \m/

 

[dbagchee]

He’s the chillest dude ever. I like how he’s like I just learned the major scale.

 

[JiveTurkey]

He’s the chillest dude ever. I like how he’s like I just learned the major scale.

He was super cool! Great attitude on gear and other players and his own abilities \m/