So I was thinking about this recently; looking back on the first Deftones album I bought in 99 (Around the fur) up until the most recent (Diamond Eyes) I realized that the albums really captured a certain period of my life. I don't know if this is going to make any sense (or has already been discussed, and if it has delete this thread mod lol) but 3 of their albums really stand out to me because of what memories I can draw from that time around the albums release.
White Pony, actually the summer after it came out which would also be the year I graduated high school and started partying is something I'll always remember. Mainly digital bath and change, I feel like nearly everyday during the summer of 2001 when one of us would crack a beer or roll a joint I'd hear one of those two songs, and the funny thing (that im still proud) is those people who remain close friends of mine weren't even Deftones fans until that summer. That summer was just a big, long, party (and judging by the Entertain Me leak the guys were indulging just as much as we were) that I'll never forget.
Self titled hit me at a darker period, like the guys I was coming out of a bad relationship and a period of bouncing from girl to girl that eventually lead to depression where I was drinking heavily. The three songs from that album are Deathblow, Girls Telephone, and Battleaxe....they are dark, desperate sounding songs and I couldn't describe where I was mentally any better than Chino does through his lyrics. I love that album but it still reminds me of some pretty depressing times in my life, luckily it's something I can still go back and listen to while appreciating the art of the music instead of harking on the past.
And finally Diamond Eyes; as we know that leaked in late March, I remember coming home one night and logging onto this forum to get the lyrics for the song diamond eyes and soon realized there was a thread for lyrics for the entire album meaning it had sprung a leak. About 20 minutes later I was on my porch with my headphones and ipod listening to the new album in its entirety. That album brought such joy to me as I got really excited hearing Royal (especially Chino's screams at the end) for the first time but also sadness as my aunt who was only 48 was about to lose her battle with breast cancer. I still remember sitting there in the rain and hearing "Sextape" for the first time, I know the song has nothing to do with losing someone but once the chorus hit I just started crying, call it whatever you want I just had a lot of emotions overwhelming me (I was also about to propose to my gf at the time) and was ready to explode, so I exploded at 2am while listening to my favorite band in the world in the rain with some whiskey. A year and a half after Diamond Eyes I still draw so many good and bad memories upon hearing it.
Sorry if this was boring or long winded, figured this being a Deftones forum it would be the best place for it. Do any of you guys/girls have any memories/stories to their albums?
well, for starters, im 29---first time i heard the opening riff to my own summer was probably in 1997 shortly after the album was released. i had been somewhat familiar with adrenaline tracks like bored/7words, but from that very first second of my own summer, deftones had become my favorite band of all time and that record changed my life forever.
I'm also 29 and My own summer was my first exposure to the band as well, i think the song was played during the credits of the Matrix movie. I went to the record store about a week later looking for thealbum that song was one. I got exposed to Adrenaline couple months after that, maybe November of 99.
ATF, WP and SNW capture a time for me along with a lot of other albums by other artists.
Their other albums were released when I wasn't paying that much attention to my life so they didn't really attach as much.
Quote from: nineteen on Oct 17, 2012, 06:55 PM
ATF, WP and SNW capture a time for me along with a lot of other albums by other artists.
Their other albums were released when I wasn't paying that much attention to my life so they didn't really attach as much.
You werent paying attention or nothing notable was happening? Not paying attention sounds troubling lol
Was kind of weird for me as i am only young so the first time i heard the Deftones was when they played change on my local radio station I loved it and looked up the rest of their stuff and was blown away and annoyed i hadn't found them earlier,also for the moment in time thing although i found them all at the same they all sort of represented my different weird teenage emotions, like when i was feeling like an angry teen it was adrenaline and ATF, then when i was depressed it was WP and ST,that's what i loved about them they seem to have a song for every mood unlike some bands who you only listen to if your'e in the right mood.
Quote from: xLhabiax on Oct 17, 2012, 07:21 PM
Quote from: nineteen on Oct 17, 2012, 06:55 PM
ATF, WP and SNW capture a time for me along with a lot of other albums by other artists.
Their other albums were released when I wasn't paying that much attention to my life so they didn't really attach as much.
You werent paying attention or nothing notable was happening? Not paying attention sounds troubling lol
ha - I guess nothing notable was happening. Bad choice of words on my part!
The albums I didn't mention remind me of a time obviously but they didn't have as much impact at the time. Great albums though.
I know this sounds weird, but their music transcends associations to various periods in my life. I just generally "feel" when I listen to Deftones rather than associate it with a particular moment or time.
Quote from: nicklav on Oct 17, 2012, 07:48 PM
I know this sounds weird, but their music transcends associations to various periods in my life. I just generally "feel" when I listen to Deftones rather than associate it with a particular moment or time.
Yeah i think it's just sort of memories that had that album as the soundtrack , like when i first got Diamond Eyes me and my Mates went away to the beach for new years and i played it the whole time so it reminds me of that.
Quote from: DeftonesNZ on Oct 17, 2012, 07:32 PM
Was kind of weird for me as i am only young so the first time i heard the Deftones was when they played change on my local radio station I loved it and looked up the rest of their stuff and was blown away and annoyed i hadn't found them earlier,also for the moment in time thing although i found them all at the same they all sort of represented my different weird teenage emotions, like when i was feeling like an angry teen it was adrenaline and ATF, then when i was depressed it was WP and ST,that's what i loved about them they seem to have a song for every mood unlike some bands who you only listen to if your'e in the right mood.
I agree they can cover every mood with a song, sometimes more than one song for love, fear, anger etc which you def dont get with a lot of bands/musicians. I find it interesting you tied depression to White Pony as i found that to be one of there most upbeat albums. I'm not saying you are wrong your emotions are your emotions, I'm sure some people will think I'm ridiculous for relating a song like "sextape" to a family on death's bed. I think it's cool how we relate songs to our lives.
When i say WP i mainly listened to Knife Party,Change, Digital Bath and Pink Maggit alot ,I agree the rest of the album is uplifting but for some reason i really connected with those songs still probably my top 4
i remember waiting so long for WP to finally drop and downloading cuts from napster labled as WP tunes that weren't...i believe i downloaded a track called Korea, but it was actually some papa roach song---but only the intro and for weeks i thought it was korea. meh.
First saw the Change video on MTV back in '00. I was like "Who's this big Mexican gothic-lookin dude with the ridiculously high pitched voice... huh... this song's kinda catchy... kinda dark too... ALL THESE FEELS OMG."
But I more or less forgot about them until a good 6 years later when I borrowed ATF and WP from my brother in law. Sitting alone in my room listening to those two albums nonstop, or while going through the hell of high school. They were just the perfect companions.
Then I got SNW for christmas and that solidified them as my favorite band forever.
I traded a friend my copy of "The Sickness" by Disturbed for the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4 Soundtrack, which had "Headup" on it. I unknowingly loaded it onto my 64MB RCA Lyra mp3 player, which I loved so much at the time (it could hold 10 songs!). Walking back from the bus in the approaching summer in grade 9 (2001), the riff started and it stopped me in my tracks. I had to look and see just exactly who was responsible for the coolest riff I've ever heard.
The first time I spun my copy of White Pony, 'early' in the 'morning' (for me at the time) which I had purchased the night before at the tail end of a class trip to Ottawa. I listened to it while I made breakfast. I got to enjoy the omelette by the time "Passenger" came on - and it tasted so bad (must have put too much spice in there or something) that I couldn't listen to "Passenger" without thinking of or tasting that horrible horrible yellow 'egg' atrocity.
SNW era was my most destructive ,drugs were really fucking me up and that album takes me back to good times and the horror of playing with my life constantly :-[
Quote from: NicholasHume on Oct 17, 2012, 10:36 PM
I traded a friend my copy of "The Sickness" by Disturbed for the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4 Soundtrack, which had "Headup" on it. I unknowingly loaded it onto my 64MB RCA Lyra mp3 player, which I loved so much at the time (it could hold 10 songs!). Walking back from the bus in the approaching summer in grade 9 (2001), the riff started and it stopped me in my tracks. I had to look and see just exactly who was responsible for the coolest riff I've ever heard.
The first time I spun my copy of White Pony, 'early' in the 'morning' (for me at the time) which I had purchased the night before at the tail end of a class trip to Ottawa. I listened to it while I made breakfast. I got to enjoy the omelette by the time "Passenger" came on - and it tasted so bad (must have put too much spice in there or something) that I couldn't listen to "Passenger" without thinking of or tasting that horrible horrible yellow 'egg' atrocity.
So White Pony brings back memories of, well, an omelette? lol
I knew I was aboard after Adrenaline but especially when ATF dropped (that day). Knew I was a lifer when ST dropped and I had the bandaged love tatted on my forearm that week with my brother who is now gone. That record finally got him to understand how incredible they are too....that's where u find me constantly defending that one all the time here as well. 8)
I am very, very late in discovering Deftones compared to the rest of SL. I started listening to them at the end of 2011. Diamond Eyes was my first Deftones album.
Since then, I've learned a lot about Deftones through spare time research, and I also got Adrenaline, White Pony, and the S/T.
So I still need ATF, SNW, and KNY when it comes out. (I've heard a good number of songs off of ATF, SNW, and the current singles for KNY)
Anyway, December 2011 is how far back Diamond Eyes takes me.
Quote from: deftones47 on Oct 19, 2012, 01:46 AM
I am very, very late in discovering Deftones compared to the rest of SL. I started listening to them at the end of 2011. Diamond Eyes was my first Deftones album.
Since then, I've learned a lot about Deftones through spare time research, and I also got Adrenaline, White Pony, and the S/T.
So I still need ATF, SNW, and KNY when it comes out. (I've heard a good number of songs off of ATF, SNW, and the current singles for KNY)
Anyway, December 2011 is how far back Diamond Eyes takes me.
Should hit up spotify the all deftones albums are on there to listen to for free
White Pony and S/T are the two that really hit home for me for years, because Ive heard a majority of the songs from both so many times and those were really the first two that I was completely in depth with, all the others I had only heard bits and pieces from when I was way younger (because of my sister who listened to Deftones pretty much from the start), until about two years ago when I discovered I could use the internetz to my advantage to uncover all the seemingly ominous facets of my favorite band. :P
I remember I bought a compilation CD named Wired Up somewhere in the early '00s and it had the song 'Change' on it.
I was around 13/14 years old and I always thought that song sounded sexy. But I never thought 'hmm these Deftones guys are pretty cool, let's check out the rest of their music'.
But in 2005 I met a guy at school who was a huge Deftones fan. We started chatting on MSN(gee I'm old) and he sent me some songs and eventually gave me some albums for me to borrow. I developed a crush on him along the way and he told me he liked me. He lied, as so I learned from others, the next day..
Gladly, no Deftones song reminds of that guy and the whole fiasco(although Knife Party reminds me of that year), but not long after that I stopped listening to Deftones.
It was until SNW was released I got back into Deftones and this time it sticked for good.
I think that's my most played Deftones record. I don't associate it with anything though.
'Rocket Skates' reminds me of the summer of 2010, and their gig in Amsterdam I attended in June that year. My first ever Deftones gig.
:)Nice thread, can't b ruined like the others...
Seen the BQAD video on mtv in 98 and dug it a fair bit, but not enough to check anything out. My next deftones encounter wasnt until the change video which i also seen on mtv. I fucking loved it. I was at my music store the next day and bought white pony. A few weeks after that was fully absorbed I went back and bought ATF then Adrenaline. Bought s/t, snw and de all on release day and sat in high anticipation for each. KNY is no exception. In fact, this is maybe my most anticipated deftones record other than s/t.
Quote from: nineteen on Oct 18, 2012, 07:46 AM
Quote from: NicholasHume on Oct 17, 2012, 10:36 PM
I traded a friend my copy of "The Sickness" by Disturbed for the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4 Soundtrack, which had "Headup" on it. I unknowingly loaded it onto my 64MB RCA Lyra mp3 player, which I loved so much at the time (it could hold 10 songs!). Walking back from the bus in the approaching summer in grade 9 (2001), the riff started and it stopped me in my tracks. I had to look and see just exactly who was responsible for the coolest riff I've ever heard.
The first time I spun my copy of White Pony, 'early' in the 'morning' (for me at the time) which I had purchased the night before at the tail end of a class trip to Ottawa. I listened to it while I made breakfast. I got to enjoy the omelette by the time "Passenger" came on - and it tasted so bad (must have put too much spice in there or something) that I couldn't listen to "Passenger" without thinking of or tasting that horrible horrible yellow 'egg' atrocity.
So White Pony brings back memories of, well, an omelette? lol
Yes but not just any omelette - the worst omelette in all of history. Retrospectively, I was its Passenger.
Quote from: quietcolor on Oct 17, 2012, 06:20 PM
well, for starters, im 29---first time i heard the opening riff to my own summer was probably in 1997 shortly after the album was released. i had been somewhat familiar with adrenaline tracks like bored/7words, but from that very first second of my own summer, deftones had become my favorite band of all time and that record changed my life forever.
While I now love My Own Summer, my initial memory of it was when I was 18 and in the army. My roommate at the time had that as his alarm in the morning super loud. While it's an awesome song, it's not exactly pleasing to the ear at 5 in the morning when you are awakened from a good night's sleep. Anyway, that was my introduction to Deftones and I didn't really like them at the time. Amazing how just a couple of years later they became my favorite band and that album is one of my favorites as well as that song.
Never listened to the Deftones until around the time Diamond Eyes was released, and my friend recommended that I start listening to one of their more ground breaking albums, White Pony. I listened, and I was blown away by how unique and intriguing the sound was. I bought their entire discography, and I have to say that SNW was the album that REALLY shook me. It was during a time when I thoroughly listened to it that me and my girlfriend of 4 years broke up. The entire album spoke to me, its haunting melodies (Cherry Waves) and beautiful sounding guitar riffs (Xerces).
First time i heard deftones was on Musique Plus, a french canadian music channel, they played the video of bored during their heavy metal show. I remember thinking it was SUPER cool but never gave them a chance. 2 years later i saw the video of Change, without knowing it was from the same band. I disliked the song at first but at the same time i was really curious about it, something was special and different about it. When i discover a couple months later both songs were from the same band i got REALLY curious and bought adrenaline atf and white pony on the same day. I liked adrenaline a lot better at first, then i discovered White pony and was blown away by it and it changed my music taste forever. It took a year before i started becoming a fan of ATF. Damn those were the days.
Im 24 now, and when i was about 12 i saw Be Quiet and Drive on MTV2 and was instantly hooked, and not too long after White Pony was released and Change was playing on the VH1 Rock Show at midnight....i had no internet and satellite tv in those days so it was so exciting for me! Then i guess when i became to love them Minerva was released and then i just went and bought Adrenaline, Around the Fur, White Pony and then the self title was imminent. SNW helped me through my college days a lot too, and all the arty hot girls were into that record as well haha
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A good friend got me around the fur for my birthday when I was 12.I never heard them before but I was hooked.I thought it was the heaviest,craziest shit I heard in my life.it was the soundtrack to my life doing the stupid shit I did back then.
Then white pony came out.I get dirty looks everytime I've ever said this,but here goes.I heard change and was like"what the hell is this shit,this guy is just yawning,what the fuck?,I'm not buying this"I ignored white pony for a couple years.then I started smoking weed and I heard knife prty on the radio(yeah radio kicked ass at one point kids),immeditlly grabed white pony at this point and it just clicked,even change(one of my favs now)its a very chill,yet pretty aggresive.I guess when it came out I was into nothing but agro shit,slipknot and all that stuff and was to dumb to understand WP at the time.when the time was right though,it just worked its way into my life.ever since then deftones have been a huge part of my life through the highs,and the lows.every album reminds me of a time in my life,from being a dumb kid to being a semi-functional adult.and all the shit inbetween.
Quote from: scatterbrain on Oct 25, 2012, 08:39 AM
A good friend got me around the fur for my birthday when I was 12.I never heard them before but I was hooked.I thought it was the heaviest,craziest shit I heard in my life.it was the soundtrack to my life doing the stupid shit I did back then.
Then white pony came out.I get dirty looks everytime I've ever said this,but here goes.I heard change and was like"what the hell is this shit,this guy is just yawning,what the fuck?,I'm not buying this"I ignored white pony for a couple years.then I started smoking weed and I heard knife prty on the radio(yeah radio kicked ass at one point kids),immeditlly grabed white pony at this point and it just clicked,even change(one of my favs now)its a very chill,yet pretty aggresive.I guess when it came out I was into nothing but agro shit,slipknot and all that stuff and was to dumb to understand WP at the time.when the time was right though,it just worked its way into my life.ever since then deftones have been a huge part of my life through the highs,and the lows.every album reminds me of a time in my life,from being a dumb kid to being a semi-functional adult.and all the shit inbetween.
Deftones was the same for me except they were the catalyst for me listening to softer and more experimental stuff before that it was Pantera and Metallica I always felt there was something missing in that kind of metal music then i heard Change and was like this is whats been missing it blew my mind hadn't heard anything like it at the time haha it really shocked me i was like hes singing so softly and sweetly but the guitar is so dark and heavy that shouldn't work but it does, soundtrack to my life lol
Hmmm.
Adrenaline and Around the Fur remind me of high school, more specifically summer. I'd pop them into my tape player (hey I was a poor kid!) jump on my bike and meet my friends. Bullshit around town, cause random trouble, wash rinse repeat. I first discovered Damone the night a girlfriend and I broke up. I fuckin RAGED on that shit. That same summer is when I first witnessed their awesomeness at Ozzfest. Jesus. Felt like they destroyed my proverbial feminine virginal cherry. I was like, yep, these fuckers are better live!
The Linus demos remind me of when I moved into my moms house. I decorated and unpacked listening to it. Windows open, spring air in the midst. It felt good.
I remember being "grounded" the day White Pony came out lol. I still went out and bought it and got in a huge fight about it. I was like, so I came back didn't I? Not like I went and partied it up.
The Self Titled album... not really. I remember driving around with a friend bumping that shit.
Saturday Night Wrist. Oh boy... yea this is a biggie for me. It was my 2nd relapse and I was on a rampage. This album resonated everything I was feeling. I honestly hated my friends cuz they were trying to do the right thing, but I was so messed up, they were the enemy. My world was upside down and the only things that made sense were more drugs and more music. Probably why I feel this album is an underdog so much is because when it came out, it was the perfect soundtrack to my life.
Diamond Eyes. This album reminds me of my old job and the girl that went along with it lol. I had this shit on my iPod when it leaked and played it for like 2 weeks straight. Then I saw them play a solo show right after the release. Good times. :)
Wow perfect timing for SNW to come out for you Hole in the earth must of resonated with you in a big way.
i may not have great stories like you guys but deftones has helped throughout my years ..im still a teenager i just turned 18 yesterday .. but the first time i ever heard deftones was back in 06 .. i was in the 6th grade and i got home one day and nobody was home so i turned on my speakers up loud and put on sirius xm liquid metal .. they were putting on some great music and then all of a sudden an unknown song came on that ive never heard before ... it was a new sound for me and i had goosebumps all over my body ..that song was knife party .. i listened to it and went crazy all over my house .. and then the song was over and i was so amazed i kept rewinding it on my dvr over and over again.. after awhile i looked up deftones on youtube and listened to bqad and my god .. i was amazed .. and ill never forget those amazing moments.. when i do hear songs from them though i remember many things .. like break ups and shit like that .. but throughout all those times deftones always seemed to find me my inner peace ...when i listen to them .. all my feeelings come out and at the end.. im so much better.. deftones, i love you
Quote from: gwenudo666 on Oct 25, 2012, 03:00 PM
i may not have great stories like you guys but deftones has helped throughout my years ..im still a teenager i just turned 18 yesterday .. but the first time i ever heard deftones was back in 06 .. i was in the 6th grade and i got home one day and nobody was home so i turned on my speakers up loud and put on sirius xm liquid metal .. they were putting on some great music and then all of a sudden an unknown song came on that ive never heard before ... it was a new sound for me and i had goosebumps all over my body ..that song was knife party .. i listened to it and went crazy all over my house .. and then the song was over and i was so amazed i kept rewinding it on my dvr over and over again.. after awhile i looked up deftones on youtube and listened to bqad and my god .. i was amazed .. and ill never forget those amazing moments.. when i do hear songs from them though i remember many things .. like break ups and shit like that .. but throughout all those times deftones always seemed to find me my inner peace ...when i listen to them .. all my feeelings come out and at the end.. im so much better.. deftones, i love you
Im the same as you i am 18 aswell didn't have anything to major just the usual teenage problems but just the day to day help i get from their music like ill listen to deftones before i have big uni exam and go in calm as anything, im one of those people who listens to music all day im not really shy but i can't be fucked making fake small talk with people so i escape into the music instead. I was real late to the party aswell because of my age and being at the bottom of the world in New Zealand i hadn't heard the deftones till Diamond Eyes came out but since then i've soaked everything up spent lots of nights when i couldn't get to sleep trawling through all the youtube vids about the deftones and have retained alot of it lol so much easier to remember stuff im interested in it not like Uni work
Quote from: DeftonesNZ on Oct 25, 2012, 03:08 PM
Quote from: gwenudo666 on Oct 25, 2012, 03:00 PM
i may not have great stories like you guys but deftones has helped throughout my years ..im still a teenager i just turned 18 yesterday .. but the first time i ever heard deftones was back in 06 .. i was in the 6th grade and i got home one day and nobody was home so i turned on my speakers up loud and put on sirius xm liquid metal .. they were putting on some great music and then all of a sudden an unknown song came on that ive never heard before ... it was a new sound for me and i had goosebumps all over my body ..that song was knife party .. i listened to it and went crazy all over my house .. and then the song was over and i was so amazed i kept rewinding it on my dvr over and over again.. after awhile i looked up deftones on youtube and listened to bqad and my god .. i was amazed .. and ill never forget those amazing moments.. when i do hear songs from them though i remember many things .. like break ups and shit like that .. but throughout all those times deftones always seemed to find me my inner peace ...when i listen to them .. all my feeelings come out and at the end.. im so much better.. deftones, i love you
Im the same as you i am 18 aswell didn't have anything to major just the usual teenage problems but just the day to day help i get from their music like ill listen to deftones before i have big uni exam and go in calm as anything, im one of those people who listens to music all day im not really shy but i can't be fucked making fake small talk with people so i escape into the music instead. I was real late to the party aswell because of my age and being at the bottom of the world in New Zealand i hadn't heard the deftones till Diamond Eyes came out but since then i've soaked everything up spent lots of nights when i couldn't get to sleep trawling through all the youtube vids about the deftones and have retained alot of it lol so much easier to remember stuff im interested in it not like Uni work
Haha that scrolling through youtube part made me remember how i was xD i spent sleepless summer nights just jammin to all of their live stuff from old school to the new stuff and i was just so amazed!! Amazing story though its pretty awesome how us the younger ones can relate to our stories of deftones, unlike the older people on here that have been there with deftones since day one, i idolize those people for being so lucky to be with them the whole ride. Great story though it remembered me alot of me :) and btw im from texas, so cheers from texas!
Adreanaline ..early university
Around the fur ..too
White pony ..the 2000s
Deftones self titled..my only trip to USA
S. N. W.. not sure
D.E 2010
K.Y.N ..my 30 s
Adrenaline reminds me of late college only because I would play that disc constantly. Walking to class, walking to my apartment, getting ready to meet my friends in the city.. great times. It's not my favorite record by the group but it was the one that fit best for that moment of my life. Heavy as fuck with those screams, great lyrics at times, smooth ass half rapped vocals, and those guitar riffs. No real responsibilities yet, late nights with friends, and a bunch of aggression. Adrenaline and various punk rock albums were my bread and butter.
Team sleep and SNW are dearest to my heart because those albums came out during some of the worst and best times of my life in college. After that would be ST, that album is when I really started to love the band. Started listening to them in 2001 with white pony though.
So i had reflected a lil bit about my experiences with the earlier records the other day, but after reading some of the other responses and listening to snw earlier today for the first time in a longtime it reminded me of my dark time during that time.Ill try to keep it short here.I was in the midst of some trouble with the law at that point.Two days before release date,I found out due to some,misunderstandings,I more than likely had a warrant out for my arrest.SNW came out that Tuesday,Halloween I picked it up and as soon as I got home,my lawyer called me up telling me I need to turn myself in,in the morning.So I headed over to my weed mans crib.Usually there was a lot of people there,but it was Halloween,so there was only bout 5 people there,all spread out in this 7 bedroom house..Me and him were in the backroom taking rips,listening to SNW waiting for the re-up.Just chilling smoking shake and breaking down the new album.He was going through a new connect for the first time.Dude delivered,it looked real good,I guess it was too good,lol.he got a pound for real cheap,and was really excited like he just made a great business move.He was just bout to bag mine up and burn one,but first he had some business in the living room.
So he's serving, bullshiting,excited about the new batch then all of a sudden,the door flies open and there's four fucking guys in skl-masks with fucking guns."give up the p homie",aw fuck man.A roommate upstairs heard the noise and came down the stairs locked and loaded,only to get smacked in the face with the butt of a gun by 3 more guys who entered in the back of the house.There's another guy,who was shitting at the time,ran out the bathroom and tried to tackle one of the guys,only to get a 3 inch gash in the back of his head.They fired a shot through the ceiling and demanded all the dope in the house,and ran every ones pockets.Garbed the drugs(he threw,A lil under the couch)some random shit lying around,and took off.I had to drive the two of them to the hospital for there head wounds,lie to the police about there injuries,then turn myself into jail the next morning,sober.served like 20 something days,got credited for time served and got out the morning the tones came to town,meet chino that night and smoked a joint with him.that's how snw relates to a part of my life.Or more or less,that's what it reminds me of.
I first heard Adrenaline, I was in college and actually had asked to borrow my friend's copy of Korn's debut. I was 16 and just discovering Korn so when he gave me Adrenaline as well, which I hadn't asked for, because it was so different to what I was wanting to listen to right then I actually took it out of the CD player after a few songs. I think I remember being a little unimpressed by the production and 'normality' in comparison to 'Korn' so I just gave it back without having listened to it much.
A few months later White Pony comes out and I hear it through another friend and I was all over it, especially because of Pink Maggit. Given my age at the time my tastes were rapidly maturing and I quickly switched from Korn to Deftones. So order wise I went (brief flirt with Adrenaline)-White Pony-Adrenaline/Around The Fur. Fell in love with the band. These albums are pretty much about the 2 years I was in college with them, mostly WP. I don't really associate Adrenaline or ATF with a time period because of the order and how I got into them, I listen to those two albums in a very abstract way, they're largely removed from personal experience.
Then S/T came out and it was so different to WP I didn't know what to think. I'd left college and the social circle I'd come to know, was pretty much on my own at home and nursing a broken heart (from aforementioned social circle). Eventually came to love it as their best offering. I feel as though I was in the perfect mindset to get the album and that I kind of went through the shit with the band.
SNW came out and I hated it. I associate it with my first major admin job and then later seeing Deftones for the first time live on their 07 UK tour.
Diamond Eyes I heavily associate with my second major job and becoming familiar with a big city and feeling as though adulthood was cemented and the world had opened up, seeing all the women everywhere, bachelor fantasies, late 20s and visions of BDSM behind closed doors in apartments, high rise buildings, high street, dealing with the corporate reality, that type of thing. American Psycho period. LOL
Things are different, been with someone for a year and I imagine that Koi No Yokan is actually going to feel 'vulnerable' and somewhat 'innocent' and 'bruised' like S/T again.
Longest post on SL. I was probably 15 (2009) when I first heard deftones. I was talking to this guy I liked and he had great taste in music he got me into bad brains, the cure and all this other stuff before deftones. Minerva was the first song I heard and I didn't think much of it. Around that time I was into metalcore and all that crap so Minerva didn't really appeal to me that's the only tones song I had in my ipod for about a year until I watched the movie Manic in one scene they go crazy to "headup" and I reeeally liked it and looked it up and to my surprise it was by Deftones I was like wut. So I downloaded a few songs, I remember seeing the song titles and thinking "wtf kind of names are these". I gave them a listen and Around the fur (song) caught my attention because he screamed yet had a really nice soft voice..it was a pretty voice not like those bands that sound the same with predictable melodies(the kind of bands I listened to then) Looking back its kinda hard to believe I hadn't heard anything like that before. Beware was another one... I loved how it was so unpredictable and the end just blew my mind. I fell in love with Damone aswell. One afternoon I was listening to sirius xm and Passenger came on and that's when I knew, I downloaded their discography and fell in love with them that summer of 2010. I had never wanted to see a band live so bad until that summer and immediatley bought tickets to see them with AIC. My first concert. They've really changed my taste in music. I went through depression my junior and senior year of highschool and I always found peace while listening to them, it sounds emo as hell but the only thing that kept me from killing myself sometimes was wanting to hear new music and experiencing it live. Diamond eyes had already been out when they really grew on me so this is my first time waiting for a deftones album. I know KNY is going to be special to me, and the meaning of the album title came at the right time in my life, I knew id fall in love when I first saw my ex and I did, we fell in love. But shit happens and this is the first time I go through this seems like I'm going back in that depression but I know this album will help me, I hope. Haha and I introduced him to Deftones :'(
Oh and in a moment that's going to make me sound like an emo dork, after a long long relationship (we werent dating, i should just call her a friend with benefits that i wanted to murder/fuck...not in that order though....ok that sounded weird lol) with this chic i took the stupid teddy bear she bought me for our first valentines day and set it on fire at the little park next to my house in south jersey....while listening to "fist". i became obsessed with that song around the time we went south for good and happened to have my cd player (shutup it was like 2002 cd players were on their last leg ) on me late one night, and a water bottle full of gatorade and vodka and decided to drink then set the fucker on fire to solidify our end....again i know it was very emo pussy of me but hell i was 19, drunk, and confused
To keep it simple, there are three albums that impacted me the most for specific reasons :
White Pony : this album came to me at a point in my life when everything was changing ...those last couple of years of high school. I just didn't know it yet.
S/T : A point in time when I reflected on the changes that had taken place over the previous 3 years, and not yet willing to accept it. And struggling to find myself.
SNW: Probably some of the darkest moments in my life - I think the reason it means so much to me is because I could see that the album was written from that same dark space. It resonated...not just the music, but the background to it as well.
Diamond Eyes didn't do anything for funnily enough.
S/T is definitely for me right now. Going through a pretty bad break up. Ex; When Girls Telephone Boys: "I hope we never do meet again!"
White Pony - Amazing times, jamming this in the hallways of highschool. Don't know jackshit about life, don't really care. Crazyness.
S/T - Life starting to change, still having good times. Still fucking crazy.
SNW - Life was amazing, I felt like I was in my prime at this point in my life and then it all changed. Enter The Dark Ages.
DE - Life was back to being awesome, found myself and I seemed to find my musical niche at this point.
And now I wait patiently for KNW. Never felt better than I have now. Bring it the fuck on.
around the fur (dai the flu & mascara): really introduced me to them. was in high school 1999.
white pony: still in high school... experiencing the new aspect of life... love... music everything...
deftones: college life...trying to find that true love... etc.. this album till this day... its the most amazing thing ever created by a human! XD
saturday night wrist: another masterpiece...
diamond eyes: around the time when i got married & divorced... i remember when it got leaked.. that i called my ex wife.. screaming! its out!!! i fuckin love u blah blah...! then i remember listening to 976-Evil and battle axe from deftones... when i was getting divorce...
koi no yokan: so far... new experiences... dedicated rosemary to my current girlfriend... fuckin loved it...
to be exact... deftones music.. really changed everything around all of us... dunno how to explain it... its like when im in a bad mood, feel sad, happy whatever.. i need to listen to deftones...
What a great thread. I'm 24 and I first heard them at 15. I heard my own summer on my high schools radio station and I was hooked, but I couldn't find out who the band was. A year later after me and my friend got our licenses, we were driving in his lifted yota and he pops in a cd he got from his brother. It was white pony. I finally realized that was the band that had that badass song on the radio. Though, that song was not on that album, I absolutely loved it. I started downloading as many songs as I could find and loved them all. Those years are really rough for a teenaged kid and dating. I was the only one I knew that loved the band and they helped me get through all the bad times and enhanced the good times. My most fond memory of the music is me and my friend with our trucks at the river with our girlfriends in the middle of the night (back when two-three week relationships were common) and I had my rear spider window open with deftones playing. I don't remember all the songs I had but needles, bloody cape and pink magget were on there. It was just a beautiful summer night ill never forget. Some other songs like teething, root and deathblow remind me of one particular girl I was pretty much in love with from the time I was 17 until I was almost 21. I had relationships with other girls but never could get her off my mind. I never did win her over either. There was always some hiccup on my end or hers. I drove a 66 jeep J-3000 pickup back then and that was a love by itself. I always associated my jeep with her and her with deftones.