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On June 20, 2000, Deftones released their third studio album, White Pony, whichwas immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece by fans and critics alike. Fueled by thesuccessful singles 'Change (In the House of Flies)' and 'Digital Bath,' the album isthe band's highest selling album and is certified Platinum by the RIAA. The band alsowon the 2001 Grammy for Best Metal Performance for the. Pre-order the White Pony 20th anniversary reissue x Black Stallion remix double album at - Out December 11. 'Knife Prty,' r. Hot off the heels of their Top 5 UK Album ‘Ohms' in September, Deftones release the 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of their seminal album ‘White Pony'. 20 years on from its first release, the set will include the original ‘White Pony' album along with a companion remix album entitled ‘Black Stallion'. This was an idea conceived during the original album's creation but didn. 'Diamond Eyes' release show: White Pony Release Show - 'Internet House Party' The Arcadia Santa Monica, CA USA June 1, 2000 'Whi.

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White Pony was one of the first truly great albums I bought and remains a favourite to this day. My sister introduced me to the Deftones, having bought a copy of Adrenaline on holiday one year, and the release of their third album was big news amongst my friends and I. Hugh and I pre-ordered our limited edition cds (with the bonus track The Boy's Republic and the cd-rom game of Deftones Pac Man) and went to MVC straight after school on the day it came out to pick up our copies. When I was 15 the internet was a very new thing, and if you wanted new music you had to borrow it from your friends or save up and buy the cd yourself; the pool of music available to us was much smaller back then and so we devoured any music we could get our hands on. Naturally then, we played to White Pony to death and listened to those songs in a way I don't have the time to do any more.
It doesn't surprise me that I still love this album, as I remember thinking there was something very special about these songs from the off and somehow both the similarities and the differences to Adrenaline and Around the Fur are what makes it great. Songs like Teenager, Passenger, and Change (in the House of Flies) were so unexpected given the back-catalogue but so brilliantly done you'd be tempted to believe Deftones had never been called a 'nu-metal' band. And those songs in turn made the incredibly heavy Elite look out-of-place. There's quite a mix of styles on White Pony and Feiticeira, Knife Prty and Korea couldn't have nailed it better. I think I instantly fell in love with Passenger (Maynard James Keenan's vocal work perfectly with Chino's) and slow build-up/celebration of Pink Maggit
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, although I could never pick a favourite from these eleven.
A year and a half later I found this double vinyl in Tower Records in Southampton. I'd gone in for a record fair before work, but was early so checked out the high-street record stores beforehand. Tower was pretty expensive in my memory, so £11 for this was definitely a bargain. I didn't have very many records at all by that point, so not only was White Pony one of the first cds I owned, it was also one of the first LPs. It looks great on the gatefold sleeve, and the variation on the cover-art is nice too.
Twelve years later, and I'm still a big fan of the Deftones. I've lost count of the number of times I've seen them but still remember the excitement of the first time - Docklands Arena on the 24th of March 2001 - the first gig I ever went to in London. They had a handful of backdrops that fell as the set went on, and I was so excited when
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Change started and the previously plain-black backing was lit up with hundreds of little lights that looked like stars. I bought the new album (on cd) on Saturday and I've listened to it a bunch of times today. I've not fallen in love with any of their later albums as much as I did with White Pony. I always kinda hoped they'd write another one like it, but they haven't and now I quite like that; all their albums are great, but White Pony stands out as a classic.
Format: 12', gatefold sleeve
Tracks: 11
Cost: £11 new
Bought: Tower Records, Southampton
When: 29/12/01
Colour: Black
Etching: none

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Deftones took a rather winding and deliberate path to greatness, almost sneaking up on music fans who prematurely pegged the Sacramento, California natives as just another nu metal band based on their 1995 debut album, Adrenaline, and overlooked the abundant signs of a singular vision emerging on 1997's still somewhat inconsistent sophomore album, Around the Fur.

But all that would change with the third long-player, White Pony, which arrived in June 2000 and saw the Deftones reaching artistic maturity while simultaneously separating themselves from the already ultra-repetitive nu metal hordes with a range of influences drawn, not purely from metal or even hip hop, but foreign genres like trip-hop, shoegaze, electronica, and even dance music.

A huge fan of Depeche Mode, The Cure, and other emotionally weighty new wave and electronica acts, band frontman Chino Moreno was keen to expand his bandmates' horizons, despite no small resistance from guitarist Stephen Carpenter, in particular.

'We wanted to add some more electronic sounds and [Frank Delgado's] textures were way more prominent on all the songs – he was more of a guest on the first two records, a buddy of ours who was touring with us constantly – and the whole guitar thing with Chino, that was the start of a huge animosity and tension between him and Steph that's been well-publicized over the years. That stemmed from Chino picking up the guitar, but it's also because Stephen kinda left, he moved out, and so we did what we needed to do,' drummer Abe Cunningham recalled in a 2010 interview with Rocksound.TV.

As Carpenter stewed in his new hometown of Los Angeles, the remaining Deftones carried on pre-production with producer Terry Date, himself a former heavy metal purist whose one-track mind had been positively warped by Chino's persistence in making this search for individuality an integral of White Pony's creative process from day one.

Hindi film band baaja baaraat songs free download. Why, even the new album's title and stark cover art, depicting a small galloping horse against a prevailing silver backdrop, came together before the first notes were even recorded, as Moreno told Slamm Magazine: 'The name started out as the graphic itself, the picture of a pony. I thought we should use it as propaganda to represent our individuality, to say, ‘We are the white pony amongst all these other bands,' and we stuck with it.'

The songwriting process slowly started to gel as the band finally found common ground on the brooding, atmospheric, would-be first single called 'Change (In the House of Flies),' which Moreno described thus in a 2000 interview with Alternative Press: 'That was one of those defining songs where we all wrote together … Stephen and I playing guitar and Frank doing his keyboard thing over it. Nobody told anybody else what to do, it all just came out freely. That's when it all started to come together.'

And what came together, against all of those early odds, was a truly focused and unified aesthetic. The quintet painstakingly sculpted layers of Carpenter's down-tuned guitars and Moreno's vocals (ranging from ethereal whispers to syncopated raps to carnivorous howls) into dense arrangements that only revealed their complexities over time and kept stores of pent-up tensions in check until the band was ready to unleash them.

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This approach yielded an almost uninterrupted sequence of powerful standouts in the anxiously hypnotic 'Feiticeira' (which is Portuguese for 'Sorceress'), the spine-chilling 'Digital Bath,' the synth-beat-dominated 'Rx Queen' (featuring uncredited backing vocals from Scott Weiland), the full-blown trip-hopper 'Teenager' (where Chino moans like Radiohead's Thom Yorke), and the epic texture experiments of 'Pink Maggit.'

But it was only when these experiments were intermittently set aside to make way for somewhat 'safer,' riff-oriented, head-bangers like 'Elite,' 'Street Carp,' 'Korea,' and the wonderfully terrifying 'Knife Prty,' that one finally realized the true scope of the Deftones' ambitions, and that brings us to perhaps the most talked-about cut on White Pony: 'The Passenger,' featuring Tool's enigmatic frontman Maynard James Keenan.

A panoramic highlight in an album chock-full of them, the track owes its genesis to Ozzfest 1999, as bassist Chi Cheng (R.I.P.) was quoted by Launch: 'Maynard and Chino were friends, and [he] asked us to come out to L.A. And we weren't going to pass up the opportunity to work with Maynard — he's an amazing artist … Maynard's got a totally different work ethic than us — we're basically lazy drunks, and Maynard's a very stringent, tough cat. I think on the third day, we had already all the music written for ‘Passenger,' but nothing vocally, and Maynard one day just grabbed the mic, and that was it.'

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White Pony was one of the first truly great albums I bought and remains a favourite to this day. My sister introduced me to the Deftones, having bought a copy of Adrenaline on holiday one year, and the release of their third album was big news amongst my friends and I. Hugh and I pre-ordered our limited edition cds (with the bonus track The Boy's Republic and the cd-rom game of Deftones Pac Man) and went to MVC straight after school on the day it came out to pick up our copies. When I was 15 the internet was a very new thing, and if you wanted new music you had to borrow it from your friends or save up and buy the cd yourself; the pool of music available to us was much smaller back then and so we devoured any music we could get our hands on. Naturally then, we played to White Pony to death and listened to those songs in a way I don't have the time to do any more.
It doesn't surprise me that I still love this album, as I remember thinking there was something very special about these songs from the off and somehow both the similarities and the differences to Adrenaline and Around the Fur are what makes it great. Songs like Teenager, Passenger, and Change (in the House of Flies) were so unexpected given the back-catalogue but so brilliantly done you'd be tempted to believe Deftones had never been called a 'nu-metal' band. And those songs in turn made the incredibly heavy Elite look out-of-place. There's quite a mix of styles on White Pony and Feiticeira, Knife Prty and Korea couldn't have nailed it better. I think I instantly fell in love with Passenger (Maynard James Keenan's vocal work perfectly with Chino's) and slow build-up/celebration of Pink Maggit, although I could never pick a favourite from these eleven.
A year and a half later I found this double vinyl in Tower Records in Southampton. I'd gone in for a record fair before work, but was early so checked out the high-street record stores beforehand. Tower was pretty expensive in my memory, so £11 for this was definitely a bargain. I didn't have very many records at all by that point, so not only was White Pony one of the first cds I owned, it was also one of the first LPs. It looks great on the gatefold sleeve, and the variation on the cover-art is nice too.
Twelve years later, and I'm still a big fan of the Deftones. I've lost count of the number of times I've seen them but still remember the excitement of the first time - Docklands Arena on the 24th of March 2001 - the first gig I ever went to in London. They had a handful of backdrops that fell as the set went on, and I was so excited when Change started and the previously plain-black backing was lit up with hundreds of little lights that looked like stars. I bought the new album (on cd) on Saturday and I've listened to it a bunch of times today. I've not fallen in love with any of their later albums as much as I did with White Pony. I always kinda hoped they'd write another one like it, but they haven't and now I quite like that; all their albums are great, but White Pony stands out as a classic.
Format: 12', gatefold sleeve
Tracks: 11
Cost: £11 new
Bought: Tower Records, Southampton
When: 29/12/01
Colour: Black
Etching: none

Deftones White Pony Youtube


mp3s: no


Deftones took a rather winding and deliberate path to greatness, almost sneaking up on music fans who prematurely pegged the Sacramento, California natives as just another nu metal band based on their 1995 debut album, Adrenaline, and overlooked the abundant signs of a singular vision emerging on 1997's still somewhat inconsistent sophomore album, Around the Fur.

But all that would change with the third long-player, White Pony, which arrived in June 2000 and saw the Deftones reaching artistic maturity while simultaneously separating themselves from the already ultra-repetitive nu metal hordes with a range of influences drawn, not purely from metal or even hip hop, but foreign genres like trip-hop, shoegaze, electronica, and even dance music.

A huge fan of Depeche Mode, The Cure, and other emotionally weighty new wave and electronica acts, band frontman Chino Moreno was keen to expand his bandmates' horizons, despite no small resistance from guitarist Stephen Carpenter, in particular.

'We wanted to add some more electronic sounds and [Frank Delgado's] textures were way more prominent on all the songs – he was more of a guest on the first two records, a buddy of ours who was touring with us constantly – and the whole guitar thing with Chino, that was the start of a huge animosity and tension between him and Steph that's been well-publicized over the years. That stemmed from Chino picking up the guitar, but it's also because Stephen kinda left, he moved out, and so we did what we needed to do,' drummer Abe Cunningham recalled in a 2010 interview with Rocksound.TV.

As Carpenter stewed in his new hometown of Los Angeles, the remaining Deftones carried on pre-production with producer Terry Date, himself a former heavy metal purist whose one-track mind had been positively warped by Chino's persistence in making this search for individuality an integral of White Pony's creative process from day one.

Hindi film band baaja baaraat songs free download. Why, even the new album's title and stark cover art, depicting a small galloping horse against a prevailing silver backdrop, came together before the first notes were even recorded, as Moreno told Slamm Magazine: 'The name started out as the graphic itself, the picture of a pony. I thought we should use it as propaganda to represent our individuality, to say, ‘We are the white pony amongst all these other bands,' and we stuck with it.'

The songwriting process slowly started to gel as the band finally found common ground on the brooding, atmospheric, would-be first single called 'Change (In the House of Flies),' which Moreno described thus in a 2000 interview with Alternative Press: 'That was one of those defining songs where we all wrote together … Stephen and I playing guitar and Frank doing his keyboard thing over it. Nobody told anybody else what to do, it all just came out freely. That's when it all started to come together.'

And what came together, against all of those early odds, was a truly focused and unified aesthetic. The quintet painstakingly sculpted layers of Carpenter's down-tuned guitars and Moreno's vocals (ranging from ethereal whispers to syncopated raps to carnivorous howls) into dense arrangements that only revealed their complexities over time and kept stores of pent-up tensions in check until the band was ready to unleash them.

Deftones White Pony Beer

This approach yielded an almost uninterrupted sequence of powerful standouts in the anxiously hypnotic 'Feiticeira' (which is Portuguese for 'Sorceress'), the spine-chilling 'Digital Bath,' the synth-beat-dominated 'Rx Queen' (featuring uncredited backing vocals from Scott Weiland), the full-blown trip-hopper 'Teenager' (where Chino moans like Radiohead's Thom Yorke), and the epic texture experiments of 'Pink Maggit.'

But it was only when these experiments were intermittently set aside to make way for somewhat 'safer,' riff-oriented, head-bangers like 'Elite,' 'Street Carp,' 'Korea,' and the wonderfully terrifying 'Knife Prty,' that one finally realized the true scope of the Deftones' ambitions, and that brings us to perhaps the most talked-about cut on White Pony: 'The Passenger,' featuring Tool's enigmatic frontman Maynard James Keenan.

A panoramic highlight in an album chock-full of them, the track owes its genesis to Ozzfest 1999, as bassist Chi Cheng (R.I.P.) was quoted by Launch: 'Maynard and Chino were friends, and [he] asked us to come out to L.A. And we weren't going to pass up the opportunity to work with Maynard — he's an amazing artist … Maynard's got a totally different work ethic than us — we're basically lazy drunks, and Maynard's a very stringent, tough cat. I think on the third day, we had already all the music written for ‘Passenger,' but nothing vocally, and Maynard one day just grabbed the mic, and that was it.'

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The song was never penciled in as a single, but word-of-mouth quickly traveled nonetheless, accelerating the already sizable and fully justifiable hype surrounding White Pony, certainly contributing to the album's unprecedented success as it became the Deftones' first to break into the upper reaches of the Billboard 200 (peaking at No. 3) and the first to sell over 1 million copies in the U.S.

'I still think that record is our best attempt at trying to meld all the sounds we like into one,' Cunningham concluded in that 2010 interview with Rocksound.TV. Twenty years later, most fans still seem to agree, holding White Pony in the highest regard as the Deftones' visionary peak and the ultimate manifestation of the group's, although not always smooth, but certainly meticulous quest for individuality.

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