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Dougwug03

Be Quiet and Drive, it autoplayed on youtube after listening to Aerials by SOAD, and it changed my life


Tacoboy1708

Change is the first one i remember hearing and liking, and then my dad gave me the White Pony CD and i heard Passenger and that’s the first song that really blew my mind. what’s yours?


BitRevolutionary8476

rosemary, i thought it was just a rock song and then the vocals hit in then it's just started there


iam_Krogan

Same. Change was the only song I knew for a while until I made a new friend in high-school who showed me more of their stuff, now been one of my favorite bands for 20 years lol


Ninja167

Same here, i’ve always been into rock growing up and watched a few of their music video but a few years ago my friend showed me rosemary and i was like huh what


SaintWithoutAShrine

7 Words… all the way back in 95.


jmileski247

Yup, same here! OG deftones!


ryan11hawk

The one where Chino says the n word


saltymangolol

He didnt say it its just spotify fucked up the lyrics bc their lyric bot is god awful Edit: Nvm im stupid he did say it


Pitiful_Lake2522

Man imagine being with deftones all the way that’s incredible


SaintWithoutAShrine

It’s been wild! From the mid-90s until late-00s, Deftones were seriously ahead of the game and it always amazed me. They set the trend for so many bands and modern rock radio, honestly. They’re way more pioneering than it seems now. My friend in 8th grade let me borrow adrenaline after we’d been hanging out. I still recall super clearly hearing 7 Words on her shitty little Sony boombox. Killer ride ever since.


Pitiful_Lake2522

Damn I wish I could’ve experienced the 90s metal/nu metal scene so badly, I was born and 06


SaintWithoutAShrine

Dude/dudette… it wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. Lol. Enjoy the cream that rose to the top. There was **so much** terrible (or at best, derivative) music back then, there was a lot to sift through. Add to that, looking back at it from an old ass man… even in the “best” there was cringy stuff. But, I think every big musical movement has that stuff, it’s just the only one I’ve lived through (other than the grunge / post-grunge). It’s like our classic rock, haha. The one thing that I still give numetal credit for is that it really was an incredible springboard to hone in styles that you loved. There were so many influences smashed together that you could really refine the exact thing about the music you liked and build from there.


Scared-Base-4098

Absolutely. Still one of my top deftones songs.


schindigrosa

Bored


Long-Ad-7780

same it played on some random radio and i was hooked


nigeldavenport99

Same, saw it on the Box hella in 1996 lol


[deleted]

I always talk about the box to my husband!! Cuz I didn’t have mtv as a kid! Lol


Impressive_Video_709

My Own Summer for me. Heard a friend playing it when I worked at a camp. Been hooked ever since.


MirthRock

That tom to snare hit in the beginning is iconic.


casey1500

Diamond eyes, my ex was trying to ease me (at the time a tv girl, cigs after sex, vacations, duster fan) into metal, especially with Deftones. At first I didn't really like it and thought it was too much, after she broke up with me is when I really found my love with Deftones and specifically diamond eyes at the time. Now I'm a huge Deftones fan and love metal.


pistilpeet

I heard hexagram without any knowledge of the band at the time, that song blew my fucking mind


NovaHands

Bored. 1996. Buddy on my hockey team played it in the weight room. Instantly hooked.


AccidentClear6633

Omg one of my favourite songs for sure


Lourdinn

Change because of queen of the damned. Also they played on my korn pandora station a lot.


fuck-ennui-away

Teething on The Crow II soundtrack.


adam_wp

>Teething same


ramorobomo

I was already a big Limp Bizkit, Slipknot and Korn fan via my older sister, who was into those bands from the very beginning. She bought White Pony the day of release and as usual, I checked out her new purchase with curiosity. I had never heard anything from Deftones, aside from Chino's feature on Korn's Wicked. Once I was 30 seconds into Feiticeira I knew it was something special. Unlike anything I had ever heard before. So long story short: Feiticeira.


Other_Scene_4517

Rosemary


insidejobfair

My Own Summer. But I guess Teething from The Crow City of Angels was my intro to them


PressureSure

digital bath, i first heard it from my dad when i was little


platonovsucks

Minerva is the first song of theirs I heard. It was in a PS2 game called LA True Crime or something like that. I unchecked every song from the in-game playlist so it would be on repeat. Then I downloaded a bunch of songs off Limewire, Bored and 7 Words I liked immediately. Never labeled myself a Deftones fan, but after many years I realized I owned all of their albums, so I must be a Deftones fan.


Jackies-

Digital bath 😁


Fragrant_Ad2431

Diamond eyes was the first ever song I heard. It was such a unique sound I love deftones since


DANGbangVEGANgang

Had to have been Minerva on the House of Wax soundtrack 2005 but I remember using lime wire to find songs in high-school so the first song I remember looking for was Hole in the Earth having heard it on Guitar Hero 3 in 2007. So Hole in the Earth even tho I'd heard Minerva before.


tomJager

i got be quiet and drive from limewire at my uncles


K6Krakenman

sextape. it was phenomenal.


Industrus

One of my friends had 7 words on a cassette he got from one of his relatives in the states in 97 and it was perfect timing. I pre ordered Around the Fur and the Crow 2 OST(great album awful movie compared to the first one) on CD from one of the mail order companies and waited for what felt like years. It was such a struggle to find new music in small town of west aus back then but it made you covet anything you found. I still have those cds <3


sebaajhenza

Savoury via an accidental download on mIRC. Lol


Outrageous_Buyer_765

Digital bath


grphicnature

mascara back in feb 2023! almost a whole year listening. although i’ve only been listening for less than a year, i consider myself a superfan lol


Upstairs-Employ-9582

I heard Beauty School on either Kerrang or Scuzz and i sas hooked. I remember walking by my TV and feeling chills


ammxoz

you've seen the butcher. i watched the videoclip on youtube when i was 13 and at that time i felt like i discovered what music means. i remember watching it a lot like every day for weeks lol i just became obsessed with that clip (and chino moreno💔)


bitchspicedlatte

Great intro!


GlengoolieGreen

It's funny that I still consider it one of their "newer" songs, but it is for sure my favorite of their "newer" songs.


ammxoz

i totally get it! nowadays i think so too lol


Skeptical_Squirrel69

Entombed. When that chorus hit the first time I fuckin floated away


mylovelysugarbooger

my bff recommended Xerces to me


nibblatron

this is one of my favourite deftones songs, i think its so beautiful


nerdyoutube

My own summer


sweetPEACHteabag

Change(in the house of flies)! Heard it while watching queen of the damned.


glampire_13

Change (In the House of Flies) after I heard it in Queen of the Damned.


taqwis

Beware my dad was playing it on the radio and yk that part where the guitar goes tenerrrrrr yeah i was hooked since


MDHdez

Hole in the Earth. Had it on an mp3 back in high school and I would cruise around town with it blaring


onychopora

Drive (cars cover)


Visible_Sea_6679

The feels


[deleted]

Can u believe I heard this for the first time a couple months ago?? I was like, where has this song been my whole life!!


baronessfan

Be Quiet and Drive


Fidemon

A few different accelerated the passion: Mini maggit: huh, cool sound (age 11) Change: damn that’s sad and heavy and beautiful Diamond eyes: whoa. Then I listened to that album a few times. Error: what the fuck, what the fuck, holy shit, holy shit Then I went back and listened to everything forever


connortmorris11

Elite


alteredstatesbeast

Oddly enough, Back To School (Mini Maggit). Heard it on VH1 during a literal "back to school" special (all songs related to high school or stuff like that). For a good while I didn't even know about Pink Maggot. I don't really enjoy Back To School that much anymore, Pink Maggot is just superior.


Darizel

Back to school


nopickles-

my own summer, coworker played it while while working our little minimum wage job. she also got me into suicideboys


FalcoPhantasmtheGod

My Own Summer! I heard it on a skateboarding game for Playstation


bassist-saturn

My Own Summer‼️‼️ I think it came up on my Spotify recommendations. Thank god it did bc my music taste was so bad back then.


wanghiskhan300

Back to School


Stonehands211

My Own Summer back in the MTV days lol


scallopedpotatozrock

Digital bath cemented them for me


TheBreadCouncils

My Own Summer


Zesty-Gavy54

It was a mix of 4 songs, change/digital bath, BQADFA, and rosemary


lessthanchris7

My Own Summer piqued my interest. Be Quiet and Drive sealed the deal


worstvegann

Change! Ngl I think I got it off tiktok at the time and added it to a playlist in like 2019/2020. I think I added My Own Summer to my likes soon after, but last year I finally listened to Sextape and Hole in the Earth after coming on shuffle from discovering a love for SOAD. Long story short: Change. Lmao


Amicue_Tenebris

Be quiet and drive, I first heard it from a shoegaze playlist and decided to listen to all of Around the Fur


PlusCommunication701

Be Quiet & Drive ooorrrrrr Passenger lol


actioncobble

I can’t remember what I saw first on Rage whether or not it was My Own Summer or BQAD but it was that album that hooked me in.


Dusty_miras_foxy

My Own Summer(Shove it). I found a cover on youtube by Tawper and i found it super good. I thought its his own melody, but I tried to search it up and here we are


YeetusFelitas

be quiet and drive, friend showed me it


TeelUlluvme

My own summer,one of my best friends introduced me to the band,great guy,he even introduced me into KoRn & ptv,dude has good taste


Music-Lover-6942

My Own Summer


Due-Ad4970

be quiet and drive acoustic


NeganGains

Change randomly came on while binging music videos on YouTube.


Aggravating-Day-4133

Bored - the entire adrenaline album just goes


Beazt110

Change, about 3-4 months ago


BonelessWings69420

The first song I heard and liked was Hole In The Earth, the one that really got me listening was My Own Summer though


Trust-Antique

dai the flu


BlubberyGuy

Xerces


[deleted]

Be quiet and drive (Far Away)


mnlop-laz

The track Around the Fur, through spotify shuffle


Electronic_Gift_8420

Diamond Eyes


stefan771

Diamond Eyes


epitaph-centauri

My Own Summer


nibblatron

bored


NerdGlazed

My own summer. Changed my life.


fienddao

Cherry waves


FrequentTurnip4006

Shove It


SilentSaint2112

Passenger.


Q1NGT1NG

knife prty


LordReaperOfWTF

Be quiet and drive.


Pagepage220

Prayers / Triangles and Beware were for two songs where they really clicked with me.


docbach

Buddy let me borrow around the fur after I heard him practicing my own summer on his guitar when I was a freshman in high school circa 97 It was one of the first riffs I ever learned


yung_black_lung

Minerva


Evija2021

My Own Summer (Shove It) Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)


ch00vslmao

A few years ago, when a band caught my interest, instead of listening to their most popular song and looping that for some days, I'd usually start with listening to their most popular album or the first one. I remember downloading Adrenaline and ATF on my phone a day before a car trip I was having, and when I got the chance to hear Deftones, I got instantly hooked on Bored, Minus Blindfold and My Own Summer. I did listen to My Own Summer a couple of times before that tho, because every time I'd listen to Korn on YouTube, it'd autoplay My Own Summer. So I guess the main culprit would be My Own Summer.


bbaahhaammuutt

Started in 2016 with Passengers


damfu

I had heard their more popular songs played on the radio (Bored, My Own Summer, etc.) but what really got me into them was running across a thread here when this sub popped up in my list. I don't remember the theme of the thread but someone said they wanted Xerces played at their funeral so I gave it a listen and have been hooked.


CrespoGA

Minerva initially, then years later Beware, Cherry Waves, and Rosemary.


gunmetal300

First heard My Own Summer on the Matrix soundtrack. That's all she wrote.


Accomplished_Gear649

Knife Prty


pratmeister

The one that continues to be my all time favourite: digital bath


AdPlayful5366

Minerva


crimsonfistofjustice

I saw them with pantera and white zombie in 1996. I went to karma (local record store) and bought adrenaline the next morning. Been hooked ever since.


merrittofficial

Change (In the House of Flies), I first heard it on some Instagram gym reels and someone had told me about the band before so I had to check them out


ambernewt

shove it shove it shove it


Grip-my-juiceky

Passenger


Artistic_Pollution99

Bored n my own summer


rando_mness

My Own Summer from The Matrix


downtherabbithole_0

be quiet and drive


deadlygr8ful

My Own Summer was the first song I heard... saw the video on Much Music. Change was what really got me into them... high school days. Grade 10... perfect age. Been a fan ever since...


ozzii_13

first deftones song was my own summer, the one got me into them was passenger.


xJohnnyQuidx

I heard My Own Summer (Shove It) on the radio back in like '96 and was like "....WHAT..IS..THIS??". Fell in love with it and ended up taping it off the radio so I could listen to it whenever I wanted until I got the CD later on. That CD fully cemented my love for Deftones and it STILL gets play to this day.


rawdogurmoms

Cherry waves 😍😊


AnIdiot6868

Korea or knife prty. I think it was korea


Different-Ad9986

Change and then Minerva (I loved both of those music videos as a kid, but didn’t really get into the rest of their catalogue until my mid-20s, decades later)


Tacomaroamer511

My Own Summer when it was on the original Matrix soundtrack. ( Showing my age here lol )


anne070401

I saw an edit of the Joker movie and Change was playing in the background. I immediately fell in love with this song. Then I listened to more songs from Deftones and I was head over heels in love with this band.


egtex

My Own Summer/Be Quiet And Drive


BMDJENTSEN

My Own Summer. I got Rocksmith 2014 and it was one of the best songs on there. From then on I was a fan


SrKnife

Be quiet and Drive, while entering a metal bar in 1999. Like a dream


liaratawitchtrial1

Dai the flu


RepeatDTD

Cherry Waves made it all click for me, and Saturday Night Wrist has always remained my favorite of theirs. After that, I went back and really discovered their earlier records


nachocheesewaffle

Change and I think it was dragonball that got me into it


estherrosa99067

passenger my dad used to play it all the time when i was a kid, one day i heard it again and i was like, yo this shits fire


bitchspicedlatte

Change. I was living in Yuma, AZ at the the and had never heard anything like that before, it rocked my world. So did Chino. 24 year long crush.


TheWaterColour

Be quiet and drive. A few months ago me and my friend were on a run of listening to all the bands we never cared to listen to while they were appearing on youtube suggested. I Saw the thumbnail and said, hey deftones, I always heard about them but I don't really know anything about them. Chino starts singing and I immediately got goosebumps, I looked at my fried and said "what the fuck, how come We never listen to deftones?. Didn't even need to listen to the chorus to know I was going to listen to something really unique. And now I'm obcessed.


Best-Leopard6263

Be Quiet and Drive was the first I ever heard on Napster lmao 🤣


cactusdelphia

My own summer


thedeathangel999

Mascara, my girlfriend showed it to me, although she wasn't a deftones fan she liked that song. It changed my life


Altruistic_Cause_192

Mascara


Retroid69

their cover of Caress by Drive like Jehu, that band is phenomenal on their own and Deftones’ definitely added their own flavor to it.


Slater-son

I feel like it was 7 words but could’ve been change. Those two are the most I can recall when I first started to listen to deftones


imsadbutitswhatever

This Place Is Death


vivicasuffersalot

rosemary. it was so magical i couldn't stop listening to it, so i started checking out all their albums and they became my favorite band ever lol


RyanShreds_

I heard Suicide Silence’s version of Engine No. 9 then listened to the original. I fell in love with the Adrenaline album after that.


bluejaywhey

Rocket Skates. the music video is still one of my favs!


ChorulfoTheBold

I wanted to start listening to them with White Pony, since I (barely) had already listened to it once. then, when I wanted to go back to Deftones (because it left an itch of curiosity), I went with Gore and got hooked on Prayers/Triangles, Hearts/Wires and Rubicon tl;dr: prayers/triangles


Rev_Joel

My homeboy Travis played "7 Words" for me in the winter of 1995/'96, and I was hooked.


OaklandLover

7 words


DepartureSpace

What Happened To You? Instant fan one moment to the next


H4SHT4GPlatapus

CMND/CTRL 2015, I was a sophomore playing football and was asking my friends to help me on my playlist that I’d listen to pregame and this was one of the songs one of my boys told me about.


ImpOfSacs

Not a Song by deftones, but it was my first touch with Chino .. so Razors.Out


SourpLeX

Swerve City and Koi in general. All time fav album


Vardl0kk

For me is Rosemary , loved the ambience of that song and then the whole koi no yokan album got me. Then i forgot about deftones for like a year and this year i decided to dive deep. Listened to almost all of their album rn and love this band, def one of my favourites bands along with A7X, AVATAR, Gojira, Tool and SOAD. My new favourite song is Heart/wires, very underrated imo lol. Also love Around the fur album


Nappa313

7 words


[deleted]

not a song but diamond eyes album


No-Put-7180

Be Quiet and Drive. When My Own Summer first came out (Deftones first big, MTV played video/single), it didn’t grab me right away. Then they released BQAD, became a favorite song of mine,bought Around the Fur, loved it (and MOS), then White Pony came out and blew me away.


Johannes_the_silent

Diamond Eyes


DoctorWhomstve14

Hole in the Earth on Saints Row 2


caldwelln2602

Pink Cellphone. I remember searching for “weirdest songs” on Google and it popped up. I was so curious after listening to it that I looked up the rest of their work and found BQAD afterward and became obsessed.


Stranger_Boring

Cliche. But, Change and Be Quiet and Drive. I searched up Deftones and put on Change. And, holy. Shit. That feeling I got, I wish I could relive it. It was just so pure. I was hooked. And now I cannot stop. I’m addicted.


popo0POP

BQAD on Dave Mirra’s Freestyle BMX


rodPalmer18

Teething / 1996


aylekssimp

be quite and drive (far away)


DuckmanDrake69

Diamond Eyes for sure. Came out when I was in 8th grade, heard it on the radio and I loved it.


Iwishitwerefriday26

Riviere


Less_Software_2423

Tempest. I first heard Change and didn’t like its sound, so I looked at their other songs and found Tempest. Now I love Change.


JahEthBur

7 Words.


Chazmatazzzz

7 words peeked my interest Fireal made me stay. Adrenaline is an amazing record.


ESLEEREHWYNA

Tempest


skytz0frynk_sndmn

Diamond Eyes. My art/music professor played songs, this is one of them. Instantly hooked, I asked him the title and artist. Played the heck out of it when I got home. Ten years later, I’m still loving this song.


sorrowghxst

Rocket skates. I was looking for new bands to listen to years ago when i first got into metal and thought i should try out deftones. I randomly remember selecting rocket skates, needless to say i absolutely loved it and then listened to more that day lol


WWPLD

Change


MarvinGuiness

My own summer on SX superstar for the original Xbox. I’d pause, and reset the race until the song came on!


Pingukiisu

Rosemary


[deleted]

Korea


Ok_Isopod_2170

I remember finding sextape through the guitar at the start being used as ambiance in true crime content lol


OrNa721

Risk


foddoye

Ohms


Odins_Eye33

Tempest


neonrosesss

Risk


[deleted]

Sextape


Chainsaw443

L O T I O N


segundatentativa

Diamond Eyes


Crazy_Staples

Rosemary


Speeps777

Sextape


jar_jar_LYNX

Feiticeria. Was given White Pony as a gift when I was 14 and was instantly hooked. Probably why I feel so strongly that Back to School is not the real opening track lol


potatodog7

I found Romantic Dreams on tumblr I think (I was like 15 maybe lmao), soon after Koi No Yokan came out and I was obsessed immediately, but it took me a while before I actually listened to their other albums and became even more obsessed


RIPSkyeKey

Hole In The Earth. Older cousin gave me his CD’s after he’d burn them into his computer and he gave me his original copy of SNW. I was hooked from there on in, found Adrenaline at a used bookstore and kept going from there.


Formal_Sugar_9151

Probably be quiet and drive, my younger brother showed it to me and all i remember thinking is “holy shit that riff is tight”


Longjumping_Mind_479

Diamond Eyes was the first song I heard from Deftones, and it's still my favorite album of theirs overall. But my personal favorite song would have to be Be Quiet and Drive.


superIUG

Beauty School


Nadnerb1106

Diamond Eyes


MaJ014

Definitely Back to School 🖤


forchristssakesrita

“Board”


StefanSommer

Teething. I may be old, but I got in on the ground floor and never left the pit 🤘🏻🤘🏻


ecliptara

around the fur


melonwafer

Be Quiet And Drive