Poll
Question:
Choose your least favorite album
Option 1: White Pony
votes: 25
Option 2: Deftones
votes: 28
Around the Fur was eliminated in round 6.
Feiticeira < Hexagram
Digital Bath < Needles and Pins
Elite > Minerva
Rx Queen > Good Morning Beautiful
Street Carp = Deathblow
Teenager < WGTB
Knife Prty < Battle-Axe
Korea > Lucky You
Passenger < Bloody Cape
Change < Anniversary
Pink Maggit < Moana
7:3 S/T
I accidentally voted for ST when I was going to vote WP. These are my two favorites and I actually have a hard time deciding for myself which I like better, if WP didn't have pink maggit it would be ST for sure. I figure WP will win this so I really wanted to vote against it, that sucks you can't revote.
Feiticeira < Hexagram
Digital Bath < Needles and Pins
Elite > Minerva
RX Queen < Good Morning Beautiful
Street Carp < Deathblow
Teenager < When Girls Telephone Boys
Knife Party > Battle Axe
Korea > Lucky You
Passenger < Bloody Cape
Change > Anniversary
Pink Maggit > Moana
S/T edges out in this manner but screw it I'm voting WP, that album has had just slightly more of an impact on me
What can I say? ST is the best they've ever been.
ATF is my favorite record, coming ever closer is the S/T.
So let's try what this guy suggested
Quote from: illthrowROCKS@U on May 11, 2016, 05:25 PM
giving each individual song a score out of 10 and adding them all up, averaging them out by how many songs there are on the album.
Feiticeira - 7, Hexagram - 9
Digital Bath - 5, Needles and Pins - 8
Elite - 5, Minerva - 5
Rx Queen - 9, Good Morning Beautiful - 7
Street Carp - 8, Deathblow - 8
Teenager - 7, WGTB - 9
Knife Prty - 6, Battle-Axe - 8
Korea - 9, Lucky You - 6
Passenger - 5, Bloody Cape - 10
Change - 6, Anniversary - 7
Pink Maggit - 6, Moana - 10
73:88 S/T wins
average: 6.63 / 8
Feiticeira - 10, Hexagram - 6
Digital Bath - 10, Needles and Pins - 8
Elite - 6, Minerva - 8
Rx Queen - 10, Good Morning Beautiful - 8
Street Carp - 7, Deathblow - 6
Teenager - 10, WGTB - 10
Knife Prty - 10, Battle-Axe - 6
Korea - 10, Lucky You - 8
Passenger - 10, Bloody Cape - 6
Change - 10, Anniversary - 10
Pink Maggit - 10, Moana - 6
Yep, other than Elite and Street Carp, WP is pretty much a perfect album. S/T, other than a couple of amazing songs is fairly weak.
Way too many tens... That's none of my business, I know, but anyway...
For me 10/10 is a song that defines what the Deftones sound is, so there can't be many 10/10 tracks
I don't know how I can go through with rating these songs out of 10 especially since my opinion varies all the time as well as some songs having a dependency on my mood, but I'll try haha. I feel like this out-of-ten system is way more accurate than just comparing the numbered tracks side-by-side. If I'm stuck in between two then I'll just make it more specific with a half point.
Feiticeira - 7.5 | Hexagram - 9
Digital Bath - 10 | Needles and Pins - 8
Elite - 8 | Minerva - 9.5
RX Queen - 8.5 | Good Morning Beautiful - 8
Street Carp - 8 | Deathblow - 9
Teenager - 7 | WGTB - 8.5
Knife Party - 10 | Battle-Axe - 9
Korea - 8.5 | Lucky You - 7
Passenger - 9.5 | Bloody Cape - 9.5
Change - 10 | Anniversary - 9
Pink Maggit - 10 | Moana - 6
- out of 110 -
97 | 92.5
Just for giggles:
Back To School - 6.5 (103.5) | Lovers - 10 (102.5)
Hard, but I voted for self-titled to be eliminated. The two albums are among my favorites from them, but I think that even if self-titled would have won in terms of numbers, that I still would have given the win to White Pony. It just has more of a "complete album feel" in my opinion, in terms of listening to it from front to back. Everything flows smoothly, including with my least favorite song (although I still like it), "Teenager." On self-titled, the transition of "Lucky You" seems a little out of place in between the two powerhouse songs present, although I'm sure some would argue otherwise; such as saying that it calms your nerves a little just so that you'll be ready to explode back up again with "Bloody Cape" - which is completely understandable. The thing is, I feel like "Anniversary.." is the perfect type of song to do that with. Although I actually enjoy "Lucky You," I think it can feel awkward at times and I feel like it rattles the flow of the album. And although "Moana" isn't a bad song, I feel like it's lower-tier on Deftones' standards. In comparison to "Pink Maggit" as a closer, well...in my opinion there is no comparison.
Quote from: krook on May 12, 2016, 11:53 AM
Around the Fur was eliminated in round 6.
I can't believe ATF didn't make it this far! Have to go with White Pony.
White Pony is their best record. Their sound back then was so futuristic. That record is way ahead of its time. S/T is pretty lazy at times. Even the band says this.
Quote from: E-Money on May 12, 2016, 07:08 PM
White Pony is their best record. Their sound back then was so futuristic. That record is way ahead of its time. S/T is pretty lazy at times. Even the band says this.
Precisely this. Except change pretty lazy to "super lazy."
there's no doubt about it, st is the best deftones album
Quote from: cvthedrv on May 12, 2016, 08:41 PM
there's no doubt about it, st is the best deftones album
I voted for White Pony just to be an asshole. ;D
WP was awesome and contains some of their best songs but......
S/T is just something else. That record is just as classic as WP.
This should end in a tie.
Just what Pfly said. A tie but wtvs. Looks like the White Pony beats out the Dark Horse by a long nose.
And I forgot.... DE, I barely recognize it in the race. Don't think I've listened to it since 2011. Love love love TPID though. It's gorgeous. I wish they could have mixed the guitar riff in the background a little louder.
ATF > S/T all day.
Deftones... > white pony...
S/T is the record that really got me into the band and it's still the one that resonates with me the most. Glad to see the appreciation it's been getting here.
Quote from: E-Money on May 13, 2016, 12:39 AM
ATF > S/T all day.
Edit: I realize how ironic this is given my avatar, but I agree.
At the end of the day it doesn't really matters which wins but White Pony is light years better than Self Titled
there is plenty of doubt actually. because white pony is the best deftones album (and my favorite album of all time). but s/t is fucking amazing as well, so good.
If I had entered my vote correctly the true poll would be
White Pony 26
Deftones 27
Way closer than expected, nice to see so many ST fans are out there.
Cant vote on tapatalk...which its a good
thing. For me its hard to decide between the white pony and selftitled...both records are amazing
White pony -Complex, Innovating
Selftitled - Real Power
Quote from: Cullision on May 13, 2016, 12:14 PM
If I had entered my vote correctly the true poll would be
White Pony 26
Deftones 27
Way closer than expected, nice to see so many ST fans are out there.
in here, not as much out there. for it to beat atf just shows this is s/t central HQ inc
i'd say it's my 6th fav deftones album, but it's still great. they all are
ATF
WP
adrenaline
gore
DE
s/t
kny
snw
the underdog s/t gave wp a good fight....didn't expect it. makes me glad though
S/T and Gore are their worst stuff.
Quote from: rainnyx4 on May 13, 2016, 04:29 PM
S/T and Gore are [is] their worst [best] stuff.
Fixed.
Feiticeira < Hexagram
Digital Bath = Needles and Pins
Elite > Minerva
Rx Queen < Good Morning Beautiful
Street Carp > Deathblow
Teenager < WGTB
Knife Prty > Battle-Axe
Korea > Lucky You
Passenger > Bloody Cape
Change > Anniversary
Pink Maggit > Moana
Whoever chose Battle-axe over Knife Prty is on crack.
As much crack as someone who chooses Good Morning Beautiful over RX Queen? At least Battle-Axe never ripped off the riff from a Hum song.
For a long time, Battle-Axe was one of my absolute favorites. Unfortunately, I've played it so much that I can barely listen to it anymore.
Quote from: from_musings on May 13, 2016, 03:19 PM
the underdog s/t gave wp a good fight....didn't expect it. makes me glad though
it's not an underdog on this site whatsoever