be quiet and drive is their best song ever, my favourite is when girls telephone boys but that's only because i dig that styling so hard and they have never really done it since

I'd argue their riff/scream-based stuff peaked on the s/t, Hexagram and WGTB are both total face-melters.

Album Rating: 4.0

Around the Fur

White Pony

Diamond Eyes

Album Rating: 4.5

Even those rap-ish songs aren't v nu metal on atf

Album Rating: 4.0

White Pony, self titled and KNY. DE has always been my number three, but the fact that KNY contains Leathers, Rosemary, Tempest and Entombed puts it over DE.

Album Rating: 4.0

white pony will always be their best, everything else has cool ideas but that's such an amazingly complete record (2)



Though I’d say the other albums have more than just cool ideas, they’re pretty much all fucking classics. But WP just has that X factor, feels the most complete and just carries this aura, this haunting quality and tone it maintains from front to back.

Album Rating: 4.0

be quiet and drive is their best song eveR (2)



I think I like you.

ATF doesn't sound like Limp Bizkit or anything but I feel it was extremely informed by the nu-metal ethos. It's very aggro and angsty in a very specifically late-90s way imo

Album Rating: 3.0

Take out the stories

They've put into your mind

And brace for the glory

As you stare into the sky

The skyy

Album Rating: 4.0

beneeeeeaaaath



also "Be quiet..." is a tad overrated imo

Album Rating: 3.5

"ATF doesn't sound like Limp Bizkit or anything but I feel it was extremely informed by the nu-metal ethos. It's very aggro and angsty in a very specifically late-90s way imo"

ATF getting pigeonholed as nu-metal is one of the best things that happened to them considering it pushed them so far from the whole thing

Album Rating: 4.0

ATF getting pigeonholed as nu-metal is one of the best things that happened to them considering it pushed them so far from the whole thing

interesting theory

Album Rating: 4.5

they turned down a tour with Korn and Limp Bizkit at their peak in order to not get pigeonholed as nu-metal. Seemed crazy at the time, worked out extremely well for them in the long run.

Album Rating: 3.5

them turning down Korn tours is practically a tradition by this point

Album Rating: 3.5

probably don't need to tour with either of them when you got that DBZ money rolling in, in any case

Album Rating: 4.0

ironically, I discovered Deftones (as a former diehard Korn fan) through the Family Values Tour live cd 2004 or something. There are 2 songs by Deftones on it: Nosebleed and My Own Summer. both total ownage

Album Rating: 4.0

also "Be quiet..." is a tad overrated imo



I don’t think so at all, but it’s the song that got me into Deftones and, since I heard it when ATF was released and BQAD was released as a single, I had no barometer. I didn’t know who they were and the song completely fucking blew me away.



But I can see how someone could find it overrated if they’re getting into Deftones later on and are told it’s one of their best songs before hearing it for the first time.

Album Rating: 3.0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seLWVDsy6W8



Music video for 976-EVIL with footage from the movie Drive.

Album Rating: 4.0

976-Evil is such an underrated Deftones song. One of their best.

Album Rating: 3.0

That video wasn't bad either. That guy has been making videos like that for a bit. I'm subscribed hoping he starts doing more and better videos.