Xerces

[Juicy Fruit]

As far as the songs on Saturday Night Wrist go, this seems really underrated! It's actually the only one that really stood out to me after my first listen of the album today, I love it. What does everyone else think of it?

[Subliminal]

I love it too, especially when he goes ''I'll be waving'' and as he sings that some weird noise in the background from Frank goes off and it just sounds so fuckin sweet.

[n1njavan1sh]

i think it's badass, it's up there on my top 5 favorite tracks on the album. however, when i asked people what their top 5 were, xerces was not a crowd favorite. alot of people say its boring and uninspirational...but what do they know, right?

[Juicy Fruit]

I love it too, especially when he goes ''I'll be waving'' and as he sings that some weird noise in the background from Frank goes off and it just sounds so fuckin sweet.

Yeah it's just really atmospheric. Especially when the chorus comes in. This is a damn sexy album...

Haha the Mortal Kombat dude in your av is moving in time to Pink Cellphone.

i think it's badass, it's up there on my top 5 favorite tracks on the album. however, when i asked people what their top 5 were, xerces was not a crowd favorite. alot of people say its boring and uninspirational...but what do they know, right?

Boring?! Uninspirational?! Xerces is a total trip, the music is fucking awesome and Chino's voice is just amazing!! I can imagine him singing it to me hehe, aw damn.

[Subliminal]

I love it too, especially when he goes ''I'll be waving'' and as he sings that some weird noise in the background from Frank goes off and it just sounds so fuckin sweet.

Yeah it's just really atmospheric. Especially when the chorus comes in. This is a damn sexy album...

Haha the Mortal Kombat dude in your av is moving in time to Pink Cellphone.

Haha awesome! Yeah Xerces has turned into a great song, especially if you listened to the demo version alot before hand.

[Deftones-88-05-Deftones]

That song was amazing without lyrics and now with lyrics its more amazing I completely love this song.

[Juicy Fruit]

Haha awesome! Yeah Xerces has turned into a great song, especially if you listened to the demo version alot before hand.

I didn't hear any of the demos, I'm just downloading them now actually.

[beaverwithfishyshoes]

When the instrumental version appeared online I immediatly got the idea this was written by Team Sleep but ending up on a Deftones record, like Teenager originally was a Team Sleep track too. And then I read the Kerrang! interview in which Chino indeed says it was written by him and Rick Verrett from Team Sleep. You just hear their style. At least, I do, I adore Team Sleep. It's a great, great track. 

[glassdomino]

Xerces is my least liked track on SNW.  I feel that it's bland/boring and incredibly cheesy.  I can honestly say I'd like this song ten times more if it were released on a Team Sleep record.

[Juicy Fruit]

I don't understand why you're letting something as insignificant as which band it's released by, affect how much you like the song. The same thing happened with Lucky You, even though it's an amazing song (one of the songs that got me into Deftones) everyone seems to have a 'grudge' against it because it's Team Sleep-ish. So what?

And I didn't get the Team Sleep vibe from Xerces at all!

[sleeptraveler]

Wasn't written by Chino and Rick Verrett (Team Sleep bassist)? 

[beaverwithfishyshoes]

http://www.deftonesworld.com/interview-chino-kerrang-2006.htm

it is written by Chino and Rick Verrett from Team Sleep. Check what Chino sais about the song with the weird key-thing (~) title. That is Xerces.

[glassdomino]

Xerces is a Team Sleep song as far as I'm concerned, and that's not a good thing.  There's a reason the bands have different names, and that's because they are two different bands.  I don't want one bleeding into the other.

What pisses me off about Xerces so much is that there could've been a purely Deftones written song in its place that was just as, if not more, melodic and pretty as Xerces is. 

Cherry Waves is so good, it kinda makes Xerces suck.

I like Xerces.  I think it's a nice song.  I just don't like it on SNW.

[beaverwithfishyshoes]

And I didn't get the Team Sleep vibe from Xerces at all!

I have to admit with Chinos vocals it know fits (to me) well on the SNW record and makes it less Team Sleep-like. But instrumentally with the piano stuff it really is like it. Ofcourse it are Abe's drumparts, considering that Team Sleep drummer has a different style and sound.

By the way, Pink Cellphone is very much like Team Sleep's track 'King Diamond'. Also this electronic beat with Chino scatting parts and a girl singing stuff. Really, SNW is Team Sleep inspired, it has this spacey/ambient feel to it. 

[monk]

I don't understand why you're letting something as insignificant as which band it's released by, affect how much you like the song.

well said.

[beaverwithfishyshoes]

well obviously 'glassdomino' know understands why that tracks sounds so werid to him on the record: its not as Deftones as the other ones.

I remember ones noticing Teenager to be a popular worst-Deftones-track on a topic here. It's also a Team Sleep song, originally. So maybe the band should think real good before putting another TS song on their record. (Not that I care, I like Teenager and Xerces).

[garydouglas]

lucky you is the only song on all four of their albums (i havn't heard snw yet) that i skip.  I absolutely love teenager, I think the vocal melody on that song is one of the most beautiful melodies that chino has ever written, and I don't really care if they put ts stuff on deftones, but i just really dont like lucky you

[Corleone]

Xerces is a Team Sleep song as far as I'm concerned, and that's not a good thing.  There's a reason the bands have different names, and that's because they are two different bands.  I don't want one bleeding into the other.

What pisses me off about Xerces so much is that there could've been a purely Deftones written song in its place that was just as, if not more, melodic and pretty as Xerces is. 

Cherry Waves is so good, it kinda makes Xerces suck.

I like Xerces.  I think it's a nice song.  I just don't like it on SNW.

TeamSleep came from Deftones influence, not the other way around.

[glassdomino]

TeamSleep came from Deftones influence, not the other way around.

I understand this, and it is not the first time that the two have sort of fused together (Teenager).

I'll just stick to what I said earlier, "I like Xerces.  I think it's a nice song.  I just don't like it on SNW."

[lungdamage]

xerces owns