White Pony
by Deftones

White Pony by Deftones
Year: 2000
Release date: 2000-06-20
Overall rank: 431st   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
81/100 (from 563 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 10 albums of 2000 (9th)
Award Top 100 albums of the 2000s (71st)
Award Top 500 albums of all time (431st)

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White Pony is ranked as the best album by Deftones.

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White Pony
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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 85 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 431st | 2000s rank: 71st | 2000 rank: 9th
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2026MusemanTop 100 Music Albums of the 2000s4/10019
2026FlapJackJoeyTop 3 Music Albums of 20003/32
2026Juneof44Top 50 Music Albums of 200041/501
2026chavaloricardinTop 100 Greatest Music Albums48/10053
2026SiromynianTop 100 Music Albums of the 2000s2/10020
2026fabm0List 200044/100 -
2026munsonTop 62 Music Albums of the 2000s49/625
2026vruslovTop 95 Music Albums of 20004/955
2026stareaterogni0nTop 100 Greatest Music Albums24/10077
2026pinkfreud1981Best 100 albums ever. ( 1 per artist)91/100 -
2026wizardalienTop 100 Greatest Music Albums (One Album per Artist)64/100 -
2026 JMGL95Top 42 Music Albums of 200013/424
2026 ExTeaSeaTop 75 Music Albums of 20003/755
2026 JoaoMoreiraTop 7 Music Albums of 20005/72
2026SiromynianTop 29 Music Albums of 20001/295
2026FlapJackJoeyTop 22 Music Albums of the 2000s15/227
2026pinkfreud1981Top 100 Greatest Music Albums77/10024
2026 Graeme2Top 64 Music Albums of 200044/642
2026JaymanthemanTop 30 Music Albums of 200015/303
2026VanillaBeanTop 71 Music Albums of the 2000s3/7119
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 426
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 3,911
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81/100 (from 563 votes)
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85/100
 
4 days ago Graeme2  Ratings distribution  4,89480/100
 
80/100
 
5 days ago melisandre  Ratings distribution  22581/100
 
65/100
 
03/10/2026 01:10 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  8,31670/100
 
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03/01/2026 22:57 snailmail500  Ratings distribution  25682/100
 
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01/30/2026 16:07 Adhura  Ratings distribution  1,47977/100

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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 80.8/100, a mean average of 79.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 80.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.5.

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Rating:  
90/100
From 04/21/2025 03:35 | #308641
Absolutely amazing!
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40/100
From 07/23/2024 04:51 | #304510
Not impressive. Around the Fur considerably better
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Rating:  
80/100
From 04/23/2023 16:31 | #296333
Que poder de mostrar força e emoção!
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Rating:  
75/100
From 02/12/2023 13:32 | #293960
Back when Nu-Metal was a huge thing I always thought the Deftones were a cut above the KORNS of that era and looking back now history hasn’t been kind to that entire genre but Deftones and in particular this album stands shoulders tall
I remember buying ‘White Pony’ on CD sight unheard the year it came out purely on word of mouth and critical praise even though that Nu Metal sound wasn’t (to put it mildly) my thang. So yeah I simply hated it first up but slowly my frost thawed and on the back of the near perfect “side 2” came to realise and appreciate what all the fuss and love was all about. You see, what set Deftones apart was their ability to produce an entire album that from track 1 to the closer flowed cohesively and needed to be heard back to front unlike their contemporaries who were one trick pony’s (pun intended) with a couple of “hits” surrounded by fodder

‘White Pony’ is a tour de force that speaks as loud and clear today as it did 20 years ago. And yes I still have that CD
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Rating:  
50/100
From 02/02/2022 20:39 | #280485
A must-listen for any metal fan. Digital Bath is superb, Passenger and Change not far behind. Also like Knife Prty. A very easy listen.
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Rating:  
75/100
From 08/22/2021 20:05 | #272725
This album has quite a few stand out tracks that are really easy to enjoy. It is also extremely heavy at times and is teeming with energy. There are songs and moments that do feel unnecessary and a little bit like filler. I also find the instrumentation to be quite repetitive as well and I'm not a huge fan of the vocals on the record either. Despite this, there is moments when the guitar solos and drum work is immense and it shows glimpses of the quality of the group. Overall, this is a great album but I wouldn't say it is in contention to be amongst the greatest ever made.
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Rating:  
95/100
From 03/03/2021 11:06 | #266914
Such a special album. Favs are "RX Queen" (highly underrated), "Digital Bath", "Passenger" and "Change" in that order.
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Rating:  
90/100
From 12/04/2020 19:43 | #261970
Fav. Tracks:

- Digital Bath
- Elite
- Passenger
- Change (In The House Of Flies)
- Pink Maggit
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Rating:  
70/100
From 02/05/2020 18:20 | #247519
Glorious, whatever your opinion on nu metal. It's a shame Back To School was only on the re-release.
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Rating:  
100/100
From 11/16/2019 20:55 | #244936
Coke... so much Coke.
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