White pony

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White pony
Deftones studio album

Publication
(s)

2000

Label (s) Maverick Records

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Alternative metal

Title (number)

  • Normal first edition: 11
  • Limited first edition: 12
  • New edition: 12

running time

  • Normal first edition: ~ 48 min 47 sec
  • Limited first edition: ~ 53 min 25 sec
  • New edition: ~ 52 min 44 sec
occupation

production

Terry Date , Deftones

Studio (s)

The Plant Recording Studios, Sausalito , California , USA

chronology
Around the Fur
(1997) 		White pony Deftones
(2003)

White Pony is the third and most successful album to date by the US metal band Deftones . It was released on June 20, 2000 and is the sequel to Around the Fur .

Music genre

The album is darker and bulkier than its predecessor. The Deftones used different music genres such as industrial , punk and noise . In addition to loud and aggressive tracks, the album also features ballad-like songs like teenagers . There are many tempo changes both between and in the songs. With Passenger there is a duet with the Tool singer Maynard James Keenan on the record. In contrast to its predecessors, White Pony is usually no longer assigned to Nu Metal .

Versions

There are four different versions of White Pony in total . Together with the regular edition, limited editions, each with a red or black cover, booklets and the bonus title The Boy's Republic , were published. In addition, a new edition was published which brought the title Back to School (Mini Maggit) with it, which was a marketing strategy of the label.

" Back to School was a mistake. A calculated song, that had been built up with only one aim in mind: It should be a single. ... Back to School was released because I was an idiot. I wanted to prove something [to the record company]. Months later, after White Pony was released, they wanted us to do a new version of Pink Maggit. They said we lost our heaviness, and there were no more singles on the album. First, I wanted to stick this idea up my ass, but then I thought:, I'm gonna show those fuckers how easy it is to create a hit-single. ' And so I rapped a hip hop part on that song, we shortened it and half an hour later, the hit-single was ready to roll on. "

- Interview with the Deftones

“ Back to School was a mistake. A calculated piece that was made with one goal in mind: It should be a single ... Back to School came out because I was an idiot. I wanted to prove something to [the record company]. Months later, after White Pony was released, they wanted us to play a new version of Pink Maggit . They said we had lost our gravity and that there were no more singles on the album. At first I wanted to push this idea elsewhere, but ended up thinking, 'I'm going to show those asses how easy it is to write a hit single.' And so I rapped a hip hop part on that song, we cut it and half an hour later the hit single was ready to go out. "

In a later interview, Moreno put his opinion on Back to School (Mini Maggit) into perspective and described it as “not a terrible song” that he “doesn't regret” in retrospect.

Song 7 is originally titled Knife Prty , but is often played as Knife Party .

background

White Pony was the first album on which Frank Delgado worked as an official band member. The album was produced by the Deftones in collaboration with Terry Date.

success

The album sold around 180,000 copies in its first week in the US, reaching number 3 on the Billboard charts . By 2003, it had sold more than one million units in the United States. The band received a Grammy for the song Elite included on this album .

The album also found recognition in Europe. Just one year after the release of occupied it in the editorial internal secretion Top 300: The best albums of all time of the Rock Hard Place 205. When choosing among the "150 Albums for eternity" the magazine Visions White Pony reached in 2005, ranking 12. The German magazine Visions had the album in their list of the 66 + 6 best metal albums of the third millennium in spring 2017.

Ben Johnston, drummer for Biffy Clyro , calls White Pony his favorite album.

Track list

Normal first edition

  1. Feiticeira - 3:09
  2. Digital Bath - 4:15
  3. Elite - 4:01
  4. RX Queen - 4:27
  5. Street Carp - 2:41
  6. Teens - 3:20
  7. Knife Prty - 4:49
  8. Korea - 3:23
  9. Passenger - 6:07
  10. Change (In the House of Flies) - 4:59
  11. Pink Maggit - 7:32

Bonus tracks

  • The Boy's Republic - 4:38 (Limited First Edition)
  • Back to School (Mini Maggit) - 3:57 (Reissue)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Visions 250 p. 49
  2. ↑ http://www.deftonesworld.com/secrets.htm#bts
  3. ↑ Deftones - How "White Pony" almost killes us Rocksound.tv
  4. ↑ http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1472109/05282003/martin_ricky.jhtml
  5. ↑ Korn Shuckers ( Memento from May 15, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ http://www.rockhard.de/home.php3?grafik=278&inc=top300.inc
  7. ↑ Visions, Issue 152
  8. ↑ oA: The 66 + 6 best metal albums of the millennium . In: Visions, issue 289, pages 52–66

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