Deftones Band • Page 47

I loved the Team Sleep record, but have never been able to get into Crosses or Palms much.

 

Gonna check all the Deftones side projects over the next few days haha

 

Didn't Chino tease a side project with a member of Bad Brains? Or am I completely making that up...

 

Now that you mention it I do remeber that. I thought they already released a song too...

 

I haven't listened to Team Sleep yet, but Palms and Crosses both did not hold up well over time.

 

crosses is good imo. album would have been better if they'd been more severe about the editing and hadn't included basically every ep track

 

Yeah the album wast pretty much a new ep.

 

Saudade

 

i mean the additional 5 songs are EP 3 and were going to be released as such (and eventually were on 10"), but i would imagine that once Sumerian was involved it made more sense to put them all out together. Would have preferred they kept the original sequencing of the EPs just for chronology and keeping it a true compilation, but I get wanting to make it flow from beginning to end.

 

Diamond Eyes became my favourite album by them today. There was a huge (but peaceful) snowstorm in my town this morning, so I took a walk and gave it a listen, and man, there isn't a song on there that has even a moment I'm not into. Royal, Prince, Rocket Skates and Sextape are all fantastic. A lot of the stuff on here seems lovey-dovey to me, but it's still the Deftones sound, and I love it

 

I've been coming back to Koi No Yokan a lot lately. I originally wrote it off as an inferior Diamond Eyes but I've come to really like it - one of my favorites of theirs.

 

Kny starts off so strong. The first 4-5 tracks are all great.

 

ehh

 

After re visiting it last month I have a new appreciation for it.

 

KNY is not far behind White Pony and Around The Fur to me

 

I think I'm the opposite of most: I loved KNY when it came out and was strongly considering it as possibly being their best, but now it's fallen a few spots down the rankings in hindsight. "Rosemary" is still their best song ever, though.

 

one of my least favorites of the discography, some bangers though

 

That's a killer riff that comes out of Goon Squad, but I hate those echoed screams.

 

Can we all agree that, whether they've put out albums that have differed in quality or not, they've never slacked on having fucking great song titles

 

KNY is nowhere near their best - it might even be their worst - but it's still fucking killer.

And yeah, Chino's the bomb at coming up with song titles.

 

Random thoughts on Gore after revisiting it for the first time since spring: I think it lands in the upper half of their catalog on the merit of the songs, but production holds it back at times. "Acid Hologram" is a great example of a song I feel like I should absolutely love, but the sound is muddy enough to be distracting, unfortunately.

Also, that middle section from "Pittura" to "LMIRL" drags a bit now, even though I initially enjoyed those tracks a lot. Otherwise, some stellar songs here. The title track is really jumping out at me as being surprisingly groundbreaking (and successfully so) for a band with this large of a back catalog.

 

Pittura is top three songs on the record for me. That guitar breakdown with the Bjork-esque vocals... so good.

 

I think KNY is a good one. I came back to it a bit throughout 2016 and still am. I used to think it was an inferior copy to DE, but I think it stands on its own fairly well. Leathers, Entombed, Tempest, Rosemary, and What Happened To You are all great songs, particularly Rosemary which I still think is one of the best songs they've ever written

 

he's the best

 

Yea, the production on Gore is a huge drawback.