If the limited editions had Back To School on them, it might be a little more excusable.
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Sure, you can go to all the trouble to use the included software and download Back To School, but that still leaves you without a CD that has all of the songs on it. If you bought the original (silver) White Pony when it came out, you will have to buy two more almost-duplicate albums. Why has Deftones released White Pony in its original version, then with Back To School (Mini Maggit), and then in red and black versions that include The Boy's Republic? In order to get all of the White Pony songs, you have to buy at least two CD's.
Loudwire contributor Jon Wiederhorn is the author of Raising Hell: Backstage Tales From the Lives of Metal Legends, co-author of Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal, as well as the co-author of Scott Ian’s autobiography, I’m the Man: The Story of That Guy From Anthrax, and Al Jourgensen’s autobiography, Ministry: The Lost Gospels According to Al Jourgensen and the Agnostic Front book My Riot! Grit, Guts and Glory.Hmm. alternative chart, “ Change (In the House of Flies),” “ Back to School (Mini Maggit)” and “ Digital Bath.” And while it wasn’t a single, “ Elite” won a Grammy Award For Best Metal Performance in 2001. There were three singles that all hit in the top 20 of the U.S. 3 on the Billboard album chart and went platinum in July, 2002. In addition to being Deftones’ most critically acclaimed album, White Pony is the band’s most successful. But after Chi got into his accident, I guess we all looked at things from a different perspective and realized that there are things way more important than whether we agree on a guitar part or whether a song is heavy enough.” From that point on with every record until we did Diamond Eyes in 2010, there was always some kind of tension going on with the band that made it difficult to make records. There were some parts where I wanted to play guitar and I had written parts for the song and at first, that didn’t sit well with him. “Stephen and I were butting heads a lot on that one. “ White Pony was really tough to make,” Moreno told me in 2011. In the case of White Pony, even when Deftones revel in jaw-dropping musical chemistry, there were times when the members stormed out on each other, didn’t show up to sessions or came moments away from erupting into full-on screaming matches. There’s not always a correlation between how cohesive an album sounds and the spirit of the band members when they recorded in. Everything else was a constant process of evolution.” The only thing that we had on White Pony and stuck with the whole way through was the actual title of the record. “We could try to plan shit out every day of our lives, but it would never matter because one minute we make a plan to do something, and the next minute those plans have changed. “Everything we do is an accident,” Carpenter insisted. Deftones, "Change (In the House of Flies)" Music Video He agreed that the band’s performance was shaped by years of touring and recording together, but denied there was ever a moment when he or Moreno decided to make a more new wave, trip-hop or alt-rock influenced record. Whether aggressively sawing on a six string or strumming melancholy passages or plucking out eerie harmonics, the guitarist gave the music a voice far removed from that of his peers.Īs much as it seems like the band strived to redefine itself with White Pony, Carpenter insists Deftones were just working with whatever crossed their minds and there was no master plan going into the record. Throughout White Pony, vocalist Chino Moreno provided the perfect combination of strength and vulnerability, the band’s late-bassist Chi Cheng offered a solid bottom that adhered to the guitar melodies and drummer Abe Cunningham delivered an array of precision beats that range from frantic and furious to moody and ethereal.īut as much as Moreno’s vocals, it's Carpenter’s guitar playing that gave the band’s music its innovative punch. Whenever there’s a new Meshuggah album coming out, I, like, count the days.” They inspire me to aspire for the best I can do whether it’s heavy or melodic. “But their music is really intelligent, too and it’s like the answer to everything I want to hear when I listen to music. “Through all these years, I’ve been waiting to hear someone that does something more pummeling, and it’s just not coming,” Carpenter said. In some ways, the intense angst and vocal range on the album predated emo, while the crushing guitar parts revealed guitarist Stephen Carpenter’s fascination with Meshuggah, a band he had had recently discovered and which continues to inspire his songwriting.