Top 10 Greatest Music Albums by BestonyAlbumtano Unknown

I rank all of Deftones's albums listed on this site.
I'll be mentioning a damn lot about imagery in this chart, so at least I guess you can really see what I mean, so expect me more rambly than professional, if anything.

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This is my favorite Deftones album.

Despite the rather long cut(s) of silence at the end which plagued quite a bunch of nu metal albums at the time, this is pretty much perfect.

[i]Around The Fur[/i] sounds like summer and the ocean waters, albeit in the eyes of what would be this LP's demographic; either at the beach enjoying some rowdy surfing and beach sports, at home playing video games with the friends, or jamming hard along the album with those friends. In my opinion, that's the kind of feeling [i]Around The Fur[/i] soundtracks.

[i]My Own Summer (Shove It)[/i] is an excellent kick-off to start the album with a riff that evokes images of a hot-ass sun, indeed. And at the same time it also sounds like water waves, with the menacing tone like a shark's dorsal fin warning you of what's to come. Each time the chorus hits, Chino and Cheng absolutely scream - the shark takes a visceral bite out off ya.

Right after, [i]Lhabia[/i] with the chugging riffs and Chino's whispered rapping sends (me, at least) imagery of driving through a forest. Although the song is probably more about some kind of addiction, the chorus goes, [i]"dying of boredom, I'll try it all"[/i]; Juxtaposed against another menacing riff, combined with the earlier imagery of driving across a forest, I pick more an image of a child on the passenger seat with his portable console picking which cartridge he would play next.

[i]Mascara[/i] slows down the pacing quite a lot, with a more minimal rock setup, despite not being post-rock. I would see a scene of taking a bath, with the water from the shower in slow motion.

The title track also has a wet vibe in my opinion. The album cover resembles this track the most. Heavy chorus guitars once again, thank you! Vocals are great too.

[i]Rickets[/i] attacks with more menacing riffs to start (and for the chorus too), with 5/4 timed whispered verses. Honestly, about that imagery talk, I'll just let it up to you for this album from here (unless otherwise; I run out of words), those first few tracks really hit me hard, is what I'm trying to say (all of the tracks do).

[i]Be Quite and Drive (Far Away)[/i] is the band's first foray into shoegaze territory, and it makes me feel like I'm indeed driving in a sunny afternoon, wind against my hair, glasses on my eyes, my red convertible, no care in the world. This album is absolutely colorful, my man.

[i]Lotion[/i] is one of Deftones's heaviest tracks, period. Very good nu metal track.

[i]Dai The Flu[/i] takes it slower, but not as bare and soft as [i]Mascara[/i]. It's quite beautiful, although this track isn't very visual to me per se.

[i]Headup[/i] featuring Max Cavalera is pretty much the signature rap metal force of the album. Great (sincerely).

To end the normal sleuth of tracks, [i]MX[/i] simply puts me in an unparticular trance.

Skipping the immersion-breaking silence, we get a hidden track called "Bong Hit" and after skipping another length of silence, a second hidden track [i]Damone[/i] is also a very great track for skating.

TL;DR One of the best nu metal albums of all time, and probably the best Deftones album (for me it is). 100/100
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1997
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This is my 2nd favorite Deftones album.

Do you want it darker? This is probably it. I'm by no means the smartest person in regards to music, but Deftones definitely went darker here, sonically. The mixing is more thick and noisy, and the general imagery it gives is nighttime, so maybe that's why. The album cover justifies this somewhat.

To make it easier for me, I'll group the tracks by which phase of the night they sound like to me, I hope you get my drift:
[b]Sunset (6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.)[/b] (think the [i]Weighing Souls With Sand[/i] cover): Hexagram, Minerva, Battle-axe
[b]Nighttime (7:30 p.m. - 11:59 p.m.)[/b] (think the [i]Musick to Play in the Dark[/i] cover): Needles and Pins, Good Morning Beautiful, When Girls Telephone Boys, Bloody Cape
[b]Midnight (12:00 a.m. - 4:00 a.m.)[/b] (think the [i]Punisher[/i] cover, [i]that[/i] cover): Deathblow, Lucky You, Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event, Moana

TL;DR This is a nocturnal album, is what I mean, my good sir. Best listened to in a car. 95/100
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2003
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This is my 3rd favorite Deftones album.

On the other hand, do you want it lighter? This is for you. It's brighter, sweeter, more hopeful, feel-good. The warmest and dreamiest album by Deftones so far. The band stared at their shoes a lot this time. Post-metal, even. Dream pop, if you so insist. A lot of my favorite tracks from here are the ones that are very ambient.

1. [i]Swerve City[/i] comes a-rolling and throwing energy towards anyone it passes through.
2. [i]Romantic Dreams[/i] is a soothing alt-metal track.
3. [i]Leathers[/i] is an optimistic-sounding banger. It's probably about kinks.
4. [i]Poltergeist[/i]: I'm not gonna lie I feel like I'm in Luigi's Haunted Mansion. Probably the first track that resembles an imagery similar to the cover: a room of glass panes with water dripping through them. What do you call those? I actually love them!
5. [i]Entombed[/i] is literally about the gift of birth.
6. [i]Graphic Nature[/i] sounds like the album cover. God forbid you be a track named like this and NOT do so.
7. [i]Tempest[/i] really makes you [b][i]feel[/i][/b] like a tempest. - IGN
8. [i]Gauze[/i] is heavy, for sure. For this album, at least. Actually, just a little bit. Chorus is great.
9. [i]Rosemary[/i] is arguably my favorite Deftones song, I'll tell you that much. Chorus literally puts you in a room of glass with water flowing down ever so gracefully. You're in the album cover now at this point.
10. [i]Good Squad[/i]. At first I felt that this was rather out of place for the album, but now I love this all the same. Woah! (Woah!)
11. [i]What Happened To You?[/i] Something wonderful.

TL;DR Have I mentioned that this album is [b]beautiful[/b]? Yep, that is the word I was looking for. 90/100
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2012
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This is my 4th favorite Deftones album.

This was the first Deftones album that I unironically somewhat anticipated. I saw a leak somewhere, downloaded it somewhat gleefully, thinking to myself, "Let's. F*cking. GOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!"

It was midnight when it finished downloading, it was also a damn good time to go through it.

When I finished, I felt like fireworks. What can I say? Not much, surprisingly. Except for the fact that this album, for me, sounds like a good mix of Diamond Eyes with a tablespoon of Koi No Yokan and a pinch of White Pony. Don't ridicule me, I say what I see with my ears. The album is on the thick side throughout.

85/100
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2020
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This is my 5th favorite Deftones album.

The band's best album, eh? Personally, it feels more like a Jack-of-All-Trades. [i]RX Queen[/i] goes this way, [i]Teenager[/i] goes that way, etc. Every track does something that the rest doesn't, from what I can tell. I like it that way. Although it ends up not punching as hard as the acclaim put it, in my opinion.

Speaking of every track being different, I must definitely say what I see:
1. [i]Feiticeira[/i], as with most of Deftones's openers, is a banger.
2. [i]Digital Bath[/i] is half dreamy dream pop, half soaring alt-metal.
3. [i]Elite[/i] is the dedicated relentless track that probably exhausts Chino Moreno the most.
4. [i]RX Queen[/i] is sort of like post-punk. I hate [b]that[/b] genre, but I like this track.
5. [i]Street Carp[/i] is the heavy, chuggy and steady track.
6. [i]Teenager[/i] is the softest track. Some would argue this is out of place, although I think this is a nice bridge between the tracks before and after it.
7. [i]Knife Prty[/i] is the entrancing shoegazing track. I love this one a lot. I levitate when I have this on while I lie on my bed.
8. [i]Korea[/i] is that one track that hasn't completely abandoned nu metal.
9. [i]Passenger[/i] is the relatively soft track with a feature. I like it, but with tracks like Knife Prty and the next one up, this one somehow holds up.
10. [i]Change (In The House of Flies)[/i] is the metal track with high emotion. My favorite track in this album.
11. [i]Pink Maggit[/i] takes too much damn time to start. Is this what inspired Microphones In 2020?
The first bonus track, [i]Back to School (Mini Maggit)[/i] is another callback to nu metal but with the cleaner sheen the band possesses on this album, which is something I can't find a place to mention anywhere else.
The other bonus track, [i]The Boy's Republic[/i] does a good job of being a cliffhanger for what's to come. That part didn't quite age well though, did it?

TL;DR White Pony has a little something for everyone. 85/100
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2000
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This is my 6th favorite Deftones album.

This is probably the band's most eclectic album in terms of style. All over the place, if you will. Feels trippy and disorienting. It's probably accurate to what a "Saturday night wrist" symbolizes: hangovers. There are bangers, there are floaters, and then there's [i]Pink Cellphone[/i] (I like it, but what the heck?). This is the first album that I've listened to that I would probably call front-loaded. That said, [i]Kimdracula[/i] is my favorite track.

80/100
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2006
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This is my 7th favorite Deftones album.

I'd probably call this their least visual album. I almost don't see anything when I listen to it. Takes nothing away, but is a definite sweet bonus if it was there. That said, this album probably has some of the least recognizable songs. [b]That[/b] said, [i]Royal[/i], [i]CMND/CTRL[/i], [i]You've Seen The Butcher[/i], [i]Prince[/i], and [i]Risk[/i] are the best this album has to offer if you like it hard. I couldn't care too much for the softer tracks, honestly.

75/100
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2010
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This is my 2nd least favorite Deftones album.

Obviously: sketchy (as in a drawing, sketch) kind of beginning, indicated by shameless and gritty nu metal. With a band whose discography went the way it did, this kind of starting point is pretty swell. Not without standouts [i]Bored[/i], [i]7 Words[/i], and [i]Engine No. 9[/i]. The rest is almost forgettable.

70/100
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1995
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This is my least favorite Deftones album, sadly.
The title track is the only song I could actually vibe with so far. The rest feels a bit sluggish. The album overall felt like a hangover of sorts. In the meantime I'll consider this a grower.

60/100
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2016
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This is a Deftones compilation album, but still.

I'm not too hot for the covers (they keep me curious though), although [i]Crenshaw Punch/I'll Throw Rocks at You[/i] is probably the best thing from this compilation. It could've easily fit in the self-titled album.

50/100
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1930s 0 0%
1940s 0 0%
1950s 0 0%
1960s 0 0%
1970s 0 0%
1980s 0 0%
1990s 2 20%
2000s 4 40%
2010s 3 30%
2020s 1 10%
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Deftones 10 100%
Country Albums %


United States 10 100%
Compilation? Albums %
No 9 90%
Yes 1 10%

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bruh its just deftones. add some more stuff
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