Knife Prty - Deftones - White Pony (CDr, Album)

Deftones were afforded all of the financial and promotional firepower that could be mustered by a booming major label in , and Maverick decided, in their infinite wisdom, that White Pony was best served by a video treatment that amounts to Never Been Kissed scored by Fred Durst.

It stalled at No. Moreno made this song out of spite, wanting to be contrarian while seeking the approval of authorities and popularity amongst his peers. Dooom album. But of all the influences that came to the fore on White Pony, none was more crucial than cocaine. Deftones had always been a party band, recording Around the Fur while living and getting fucked up together in a Seattle apartment complex.

If you want to be one of the elite, you are". On "Street Carp", after a brief guitar introduction, the band crashes in with full force. The song deals with a youthful romance coming to an end. The opening chords for "Knife Prty" lead into a distorted introduction with a moving bass line and a vocal bridge sung by Getsic in Spanish-Arabic style. People don't tend to like sex mixed with violence. The mid section has amazing vocals from a girl called Rodleen who worked next door to our studio".

We just thought it was some funny stuff. The song is meant to be triumphant. I'm trying to spread a little confidence. Lots of artists try to make songs for the kids who are tormented in school, telling them it's okay to be tormented. But it's not okay. Don't be ridiculed. Become the leader of your surroundings. Confidence is one of the most important things in life. If you are confident, you can do whatever you want". Leading off the reissued version of the album, "Back to School Mini Maggit " is a reinterpretation of the album's closer with additional rap or hip hop influences.

However, there are other meanings for the album name, including a sexual reference, as explained by Moreno:. Crystal methamphetamine use is also commonly referred to as "riding the white pony. Four different editions of the album exist.

On its release date, limited-edition numbered copies were released with solid red and black jewel cases. The two differently colored cases also featured different booklet inserts.

The edition with a gray cover was released as the initial non-limited version of the album and did not include "The Boy's Republic". This, along with the red and black versions, were the properly sequenced version of the album as the band intended. The gray version was later superseded by the current white version, which added "Back to School Mini Maggit " as the first track.

This was only added as a marketing strategy; Moreno stated that he was not happy about it. White Pony was well-received by critics, garnering an aggregate rating of 72 on Metacritic. Billboard gave the album 4 out of 5 stars, though it cautioned that the band's continuous inclination toward a bludgeoning experimental sonic attack and Moreno's violent, impressionistic lyrics made the album a tough pill to swallow for most listeners.

Similarly, BBC Music praised the album while opining: "[The fact] that such a progressive, risk-taking LP wasn't celebrated across the board for its gutsy reinventing of a band thought pigeonholed wasn't that surprising, though — this is a difficult album. In , Jonathan Dick of NPR Music retrospectively praised the album as a watershed moment or turning point, not only in regards to the Deftones' sound but also, more generally, to heavy and experimental music in the new millennium, describing the album as signaling "not only a change for the band but a new trajectory for heavy and experimental music entering the 21st century".

Dick especially noted the album's "shift into the heavy post-rock , shoegaze spectrum" and contended that, within the span of five years from the band's debut album to the release of White Pony , Deftones had distinguished itself as a band "whose sound no longer fit too comfortably under any genre-specific title".

Alternative Press ranked White Pony as the second best album of , and in their September issue, placed it in their list of the "Top 10 Most Influential Albums of ".

UK rock magazine Kerrang! In , Complex Media Network's music website, Consequence of Sound , honored White Pony on a "List 'Em Carefully" installment dedicated to writer David Buchanan's top 13 metal records released between and , noting that Deftones was one of several acts who "helped usher the popularity of complex structure meets MTV audience". Look where we're sitting.

So we were just watching it and the whole thing was rad, just seeing the stuff go down. And all of a sudden they called our name. Moreno and Carpenter occasionally butted heads over the direction of the music, and the band spent a small fortune blowing off studio recording time to play Tony Hawk Pro Skater for hours on end. Her voice is sublime and Satanic in equal measure. Lyrically, White Pony is an album seemingly obsessed with movement. If you had to pick one Tarot card to associate with it, The Chariot fits the bill—a card about drive, overcoming obstacles, and the will to move forward.

In most hard rock of the time, especially in nu-metal, the almost universally male singers played the role of aggressors. They were active and angry and debauched; they expressed their vulnerability through aggression.

Guitarist Stephen Carpenter plays the willing accomplice throughout, slipping between silvery, snaking licks and atonal riffs. Meanwhile, keyboardist Frank Delgado washes it all in ghostly drones and gurgling effects, capturing a mood that ripples between paranoia and euphoria.

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Jun 20,  · Editors’ Notes Sacramento’s Deftones spent most of the ‘90s feverishly navigating the fringes of alt-metal. By ’s White Pony, they had effectively seized that scene, drowning its rage and recklessness in a moody, muddy stew of experimental metal, shoegaze, post-hardcore, and ambient scutunarophprofpul.fundsimpbasranocaguarepapecwicon.co “Back to School (Mini Maggit)”—a tidier rewriting of final track “Pink Maggit.