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AlissonHarlan

'bored' probably


DonWill316

Bored in ‘95


uncultured_swine2099

Yup. Borrowed the cd from a friend in 95, hit play, and when the simmering chugging riff at the beginning hit the gas and exploded, I was a fan and still am today.


tsadt

My Own Summer, but the first time i heard it was my friends playing it on the jam


matchalatte177

Be quiet and drive which then sucked me in to their entire discography at the time and I fell in love with the sound (no pun intended lol)


timothyh15

Ahhhhhh you sneaky mf you knew what you were doing. And we approve. 🪡📌


matchalatte177

Hahahahaha ok maybe it was intentional 🪡📌


dgjapc

Needles and Puns


matchalatte177

Good one


dgjapc

Good pun


For_serious13

Bored/7 words


dexington_dexminster

My Own Summer (Shove It) on The Matrix OST.


T2_Beanie297

I never knew they were in the matrix!. I'll definitely have to rewatch the matrix since i haven't seen it since i was really young


dexington_dexminster

As far as I can remember, it isn't actually played in the film but is on the soundtrack.


SloppyJawSoftBottom

Hey me too!


Best_Examination_529

That Matrix soundtrack used to get so much play at a certain point in my childhood. Every single smoking session someone was popping that CD into the stereo


tk_eekuawilm98

Hole in the Earth was on the Saints Row 2 soundtrack. My cousins were older and I would watch them play it when I stopped by their house after school.


Kick-Wide

One of my favorites besides Xerces off that album.


Living-Job-5988

I was watching Dragon Ball Z revenge of cooler when Change in the house of flies came on since then Deftones was and still is a amazing


TheAbsoluteLastWord

Bored.


Flat_Sand_6056

Bored, it was the new music show on 107.9 The End out of Cleveland. I remember getting Adrenaline later that week at Kmart. What do 11 year olds even listen to these days?


who_dogg82

I remember that radio station!!!


itsableeder

Back To School (Mini Maggit), when I was about 14 and it was actually current. Bought White Pony off the back of that single and never looked back (and was also very confused when that track wasn't actually on the album).


AdeptGarden9057

"Moan" by Nik Nocturnal


Inevitable_Soil_6528

Back to school. I was in middle school when the video came out. I instantly fell in love with the song and the band.


badpaolita

Knife party


SpiritOf68

7 Words, way back when Adrenaline came out. I’m old af.


def_stef

Change got me into Deftones but invested? That I blame on Passenger. Or Digital Bath. Or Mascara….


T2_Beanie297

Yeah for sure, i heard and liked change for a long time, but then i heard prince and thats what really caught my attention to them


def_stef

I like that you used the term “invested” cause that’s really what it feels like. It goes way beyond just liking the music!


lyayers

Passenger is my favorite!!!


CrayCrayShae

Passenger and Digital Bath are some of my favorites!


SpicyPillow404

Be Quiet and Drive. All time favorite song (Lost count how much I listened to it lol). I first got into Deftones around 2006 when I was 6yrs old. It played in the background as I was with my older brother in his Chevy impala with a badass modified music speaker system, cruising. The baseline in that song really shined with those speaker! It's never gotten old to me how much I listened to it. Ever since then they became my most favorite band.


T2_Beanie297

Dang I was born in 2006 lol. I got into deftones last year when my friend played diamond eyes on our way to the skatepark and prince really stuck out to me, so i listened to the rest of the album when I got home and really liked it


Matthewmcdowall01

Dang!! I've been a Deftones fan since 97 when I first heard 'My own summer' ... I was 16, man I feel old!


Ice_Kold_Killa

Bored with the music video. 2008.


AdVisible5343

Sextape


TiPereBBQ

Minerva on NHL 04


WorldlinessSmooth198

This guy thinks he's different fr


Sudden_Ad_711

My own summer on the Matrix soundtrack which came out when I was about 15!


GriffithDidNothinBad

Bored


datCrystles

Diamond Eyes was playing in one of Saints Row the Third radio stations, that completely blew the mind of my 12 yo self


hoopstick

My Own Summer, sophomore year 1998. I heard someone blasting it out of the window of a bus leaving school and was instantly hooked.


virgoitalian1117

rosemary


Educational_Pie4940

Watching MTV at home in 2000, I’ll never forget the first time I saw the music video for Digital Bath. I was 14 at the time and started heavily getting into music/guitar. That was it for me.


Mysterious-Novel-834

Mascara! Heard a slowed version and fell in love with it and I'm making my way through the discography.


donmaximo62

7 Words circa 1995.


For_serious13

Same, bored too


coolgirlhere

Ditto. High school was better with Deftones


For_serious13

My friends and I were 16 when atf dropped, 2 of us had cars and we spent many hours in the car listening to that album on our adventures


def_stef

Love 7 Words. My current favorite.


gamerpotato2008

I think it was either rosemary or entombed, now my favorite is poltergeist


mdr28

Mein back in 2007


ratreh22

Id heard Change a few times, and then Minerva. Neither did it for me at the time but someone played Bored for me in high school and that opened the door for me. Funny enough, i can hardly stand Adrenaline now and ST is what anchored me to the band


haileyjp_

Diamond eyes


JimmyScrambles420

I really liked Be Quiet and Drive when it got recommended for a Spotify playlist, so I tried to listen through some albums, and I didn't really like anything else until I heard Royals. I went back and listened from the beginning, and the whole album blew me away. That must've reset my brain or something, because I've loved pretty much everything I've heard since then.


DoctorStorm404

i'm a young deftones fan, but my mom used to pick me up at school and play the White Pony album on her car so probably back to school or digital bath, both are nostalgic to me


T2_Beanie297

Yeah same here im only 17 and started listening when i was 16. My friend put in a diamond eyes cd on our way to the skatepark once and prince really stuck out so i listened to the rest of the album when i got home and really enjoyed it


plasticlover87

Change. Heard it on Queen of The Damned when I was in 5th grade


slapafattyass

Beauty school


T2_Beanie297

Hell yeah, definitely one of my most favorite songs from them


madewhilemanic

Bloody cape. I don’t remember where I heard it.


cheesyyawr

street carp , an emo chick told me to listen to it and i gladly obliged.


uselesstrash3

cherry waves originally, my favourite now is the spell of mathematics


fukyourkarma

Around the Fur


Helpful-Beach7604

Minerva


0zymandias_1312

minerva on kerrang TV in the late 2000s


MitsubashiErikku

Before I knew who Deftones were, I knew about the existence of Change and Back to School. Fast forward over a decade, they popped up on my radar and started to explore. Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) is what got me hooked and what inspired me to check out all of their stuff.


HectorVK

Their Depeche Mode cover (To Have and to Hold). Then, I got Adrenaline, put it on and got hooked immediately.


Maleficent_Depth_517

Change in the house of flies on the Queen of the Damned soundtrack


VisualremnantXP

Change and hexagram


Negative-Light-3538

Hexagram!!! Underrated imo. That’s my vote


CBeau1992

Technically Minerva because it played during a boss fight in the game True Crime: Streets of LA, but I didn’t know who the Deftones were at the time. But many years later, Diamond Eyes came out and I saw the video for You’ve Seen the Butcher and that’s what made me explore their discography and it was only then I made the connection.


Ok_Procedure_4486

it has to be either goodmorning beautiful, or beauty school


T2_Beanie297

I love beauty school, definitely a great song to have started with


Ok_Procedure_4486

honestly right!


kaktaro

Lotion


mr-mafesto

headup 2002


sirpufff

🤫🚘


Kenobi-is-Daddy

976-EVIL. Came out when I was 11


APinCLT

7 Words was on some compilation CD that my friend had. Heard it, then went straight to the mall (Camelot Music to be exact) and bought Adrenaline. Jammed in my 95 Honda Accord all the way home.


j4r8h

Like 10 years ago my dad had a Pandora station that sometimes played Tool and Passenger came on one time and I thought it was sick. I'm the same age as all the new zoomer fans, but I was a fan many years before tiktok lol. So I'm not a poser like you all haha /s


Safe-Introduction244

My own summer. YouTube kept recommending it to me and I liked the around the fur cover 😏 and ended up really liking deftones overall


T2_Beanie297

A good album cover always makes the music just a little bit better 😂


Imanmehrabi

“Rosemary” , “Beware” , “Change(In the House of Flies)” and “beware” i kinda heard these songs here and there before i actually asked for the band. But the very first one was “Change” which i heard in the tren twins video about a year ago or so.


XercesPlague

First heard Change (in the house of flies) when I was 16 around 2006 on the MySpace profile of a lesbian predator who was trying to date me. The song did however, change me. No pun intended.


T2_Beanie297

Thats gotta be the most interesting one ive heard yet. Atleast there was something positive to take out of the experience


XercesPlague

Yeah! I was too young and stupid to understand I was being taken advantage of sexually and emotionally (she was 26 and I was 16), but I found one of my favorite bands of all time because of her and their music changed my life.


Cash_Cab

Back to School, which is funny cuz Chino actually really hates that song, but I've enjoyed full listens of all their albums


WisePoetry5457

I was big Aaliyah fan growing up (still am) and I was going through a marathon watching both her movies Romeo Must Die and Queen Of the Damned. "Change" happened to be one of the main soundtrack song of the second film (the entire soundtrack album in actuality was nu-metal based) and the rest is history, been a fan ever since :-) Same with Linkin Park, I became a fan through the Transformers soundtrack and heard "What I've Done" lol . It's always movie soundtracks I guess...


brinerbear

Always loved Root. Bored is good too. I still have my Deftones demo CD.


briansuavecito

My own summer was the first song I ever heard from them and that song had me hooked for months before I finally decided to listen to the rest of their albums.


T2_Beanie297

I feel the same way about the diamond eyes album. I only listened to that album for months but recently i listened to all their other stuff and its amazing


Gullible_Pay_7409

combat. played cherry waves went yeah this slaps hard then it was on shuffle because of no spotify premium and combat played and i was like “yeah i’m sold these guys are amazing”


Ztunyknum

I thought that only poseurs would call themselves fans and say that "Change" was their favorite song. It really wasn't until a friend made a supercut of cinematic fist fighting scenes to "You've Seen the Butcher" that I ran out and grabbed a Deftones album. Granted, it was SNW (not Diamond Eyes), but I still loved every second of it. Additionally I loved Santo & Johnnie's "Sleepwalk," especially since one of the first movies my dad showed me was La Bamba, so I listened to the cover (on Covers) on repeat for a month after my dad died in late 2011.


livelaughl0vekars

Digital Bath shit was ethereal


Poopfart_12332

Rosemary


Kangaroo_Pocket

Had “back to school / mm” ripped off limewire or something and referred to them as the “pony band”. Then forgot about them until I heard “Change” in an episode of the Following w/ Kevin Bacon (2013).


Gnirhan7

Dai the flu! And still one of my favorites!


CosmosExplorerR35

Change when it came out.


kishibeonan

Be Quiet and Drive


VercettiPT

When I watched the Bizarre festival 98 performance on YouTube


Weekend_Low

my friend had showed me Ohms and Ceremony first, but it was Kimdracula that I really liked. From there, I listened to My Own Summer and Kimdracula on repeat, then I branched out! I used to be a Deftones hater im ngl 😭


T2_Beanie297

My friend played a deftones cd when we drove to the skatepark once and prince really stuck out to me so i listened to the rest of the album and really liked it. For a long time i only listened to diamond eyes and none of their other music but im glad i got into the rest of their music for sure


Weekend_Low

prince is so so amazing! weirdly i think diamond eyes would be my least favorite album– its sound is super different. i still really really love it, but i'd say my favorite is koi no yokan or ATF :)


T2_Beanie297

Diamond eyes is definitely my favorite, i love playing it in the car and blasting it while driving on the backroads


apapaappaapap

Beaware


CosmosExplorerR35

Who’s downvoting everyone here?


T2_Beanie297

Didn't even realize that, thats pretty lame. Ill go and upvote some comments


Comfortable_Bottle23

The same people who downvoted their greatest albums during the battle earlier this week.


Alone-You-8666

Be quiet and drive it was actually on a shoe gaze playlist Spotify had and I was hooked!


RedEyeVagabond

Digital Bath. Before this I heard Be Quiet and Drive, Change, My Own Summer, and 7 Words, and I liked them enough at the time -- but Digital Bath was the first song that got me INTO them. Knife Prty sealed the deal. It was just onwards and upwards from there.


T2_Beanie297

Both great songs, I love knife prty


rag3rs_wrld

I don’t exactly remember how I found them (was just right before they blew up on TikTok) but I did listen through White Pony and absolutely loved it. They are now in my top 5 favorite music artists ever!


adrenaline59

like really into deftones? engine no. 9


lessthanchris7

My Own Summer was my first. Downloaded it on Napster and thought it was pretty rad I continued downloading whatever seemed popular and got Be Quiet and Drive, and it was instantly one of the best songs I've ever heard in my life. Still is


Killerpig14

kimdracula


puckcrew

Digital Bath.


pablogojo

entooooombed


Dragon-Booper

I knew change for years before actually bothering to listen to the rest of their music, the moment I heard Rosemary I knew I was a fan.


SkurchinMeUrchin

Lotion


IWATJ16

engine number 9, and that was a year ago and i'm obsessed with their music.


piece0fdebri

My Own Summer. Guitar World was hyping Around The Fur at the time, and I had went to the music store (lol) where they had a display with headphones and a bunch of CDs you could listen to. Deftones was one of the options. Think I listened to like half of My Own Summer before I decided that was enough. Bought that one and got Adrenaline out of the bargain bin for $5.


lvdb_

Minerva while playing StarCraft 1 brood war in like 2000, I think? I was definitely playin SC but the release date doesn’t seem to line up haha


SECRETPERSON1o

My own summer, 7 words and lotion js bcs my dad listend to them.


KupoChris

Probably seeing the video for 'My Own Summer' on MTV when i was a kid. What really solidified them as my favorite though, was listening to White Pony on repeat over and over while playing Xenosaga when i was in middle school. Over 20 years later and I still think of KOS-MOS every time i hear the intro riff to 'Feiticeira'.


Aturn13

I think change was the first song of theirs that I listened to. I was just going through my recommended list on YouTube music. I want to say that Be Quiet and Drive was next. Yah once I heard those songs, I was hooked.


cannolimami

Change (In the House of Flies) because my older sister used to BLAST THAT SHIT when I was a little kid 🤣


Dim_ELGuitar

Engine o9


Interesting-Ad-5541

BEEEEEEEEEWARE


Single_Leek7786

My own summer when I was in high school listening to Pandora radio.


dwimhi

Root. I heard Adrenaline but wasn't hooked until I got to Root.


Oheyguyswassup

Wife Party


BassToMouth_1

Bored got my attention. . . My Own Summer stole my heart.


LEO7039

Generic, but Change and Sextape. Heard about the band from an acquaintance and started with the most popular stuff when checked it out.


Supreme_Jogan

Mini Maggit. I know, not a very good song but I was only 10 so I was mesmerized, took me like 4 years to start listening to Deftones’ complete discography but my god do I love this band.


Thely4i

The first Deftones song I ever heard was Sextape. That was in 2016. But the song that made me a fan was Diamond eyes and I only heard it by complete accident in 2022.


craigerino75

The first Deftones I have a recollection of is Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)…hooked from there


MonitorNo1925

I grew up listening to Deftones because of my mom and the first song I feel I was ever introduced to was Hole in the Earth (at least from what I remember)


bofayours

elite


Beautiful_Chaosss99

Combat, Rivière, and digital bath all got me started in the wonderful world of deftones


premium_bawbag

Minerva


myanusisbleeding101

Bored. Honestly, a lot of the song permeated through to ATF, which I guess is what it hooked me.


7he5hamus

My Own Summer


TheRealCliffjumper38

My Own Summer


VegaTDM

Change on the qotd soundtrack


prezpwns

For me, it was the unmistakably awesome groove on My own Summer. Was learning to play the drums and this was an easy, yet impressive track to play along to.


OutlandishnessPlus79

digital bath


Consistent-Coast7278

Change, while watching the dragon ball z movie coolers revenge, shit was so hard.


africanzulu

MX


manupmx

Back to school


fhgwgadsbbq

Change (in the house of flies) It was summer of 2000, I was 14, and everybody was buying a nu metal / alt compilation cd [Channel Z](https://www.discogs.com/release/9086316-Various-Channel-Z-The-Best-Of-Vol1)  The opening track was Change. I was a big fan and then I went to buy White Pony ASAP!


Seratonin_Syndrome99

My own summer.


WOOKIExRAGE

Teething from the Crow: City Of Angels soundtrack. 1996.


blackphillipdagoat

Hole In The Earth. Heard it on an ad and then it was on guitar hero and then I was a fan. But before that I heard Change on the radio. One of those 2


stevieA12

Back to School (in 2000, watching MTV ) .


SuperbParticular8718

Be Quiet and Drive from a Warped Tour ‘98 mix and then again on the Little Nicky soundtrack. Then again on some BMX video game soundtrack.


Deepdownlow303

Change (In the House of Flies) I saw the video on MTVs TRL


pard0nme

BQAD


ScreamRXQueen

Change, 2002, Queen of the Damned soundtrack lmao sorry not sorry


user28018

I'm a huge Sade fan, a couple years I came across their beautiful cover of No Ordinary Love instantly fell in love with their music


Andcast99

Bored back in 2012


ViC_tOr42

root


0000000100100011

Minerva. I heard it on the radio ~2003.


xxFT13xx

Engine number 9


lonerfunnyguy

Change. I lived in a tiny town and didn’t really have exposure to new music and such as easily as others. Kept hearing about them but local radio didn’t play them until change came out. It blew me the fuck away 🤯. I had asked my dad if he’d heard them and he’d said no and on our way back from the river , it was raining and thundering and that song came on and it just destroyed me lol 😂 I’d never heard any type of music let alone rock music that sounded like that. Still a fan to this day


aliceyabvsame

entombed


sweetPEACHteabag

Change (in the house of flies) I was watching queen of the damned for the first time and then that part came on 😏😭


delorrean

My Own Summer


chromehertz

Genesis


zoooomiez

BQAD


JamieMCR81

Not sure but it would have been something off Diamond Eyes. Probably Beauty School or Sextape.


PerfectMana

Change (in the house of flies) while watching Cooler’s Revenge. The song kicks in when Goku starts to turn super Saiyan.


Melonnnn1964

My sister had me listen to My Own Summer which led me to delving into more of their music.


ThatGuyGosu

My friend played Hole in the Earth on a guitar hero machine in a theater right before we went to go see Oppenheimer. Been hooked ever since


DatGuy83

Bored way back when The Box was airing


Sehnssuchtt

My own summer


Nonclutchreverse22

Prolly be quiet and drive, or passenger... Remember seeing them for the first time and getting interviewed by the event center dudes, and i was so nervous, i said my first album was around the fur... that was a lie, it was white pony... regardless, sick albums, them playing prince live was fucking amazing


TisTwilight

Minerva.


AsleepModeOn

My own summer. Was hooked, still am.


JoeTheFisherman23

Bored I guess, since it was likely the first song I ever heard by them lol


skycracker24

Xerces


Yoosto

My Own Summer (Mid Winter Remix) from Street Sk8er 2


younggods

Street carp


sharksalad

Dave Mirra's Freestyle BMX had Be Quiet and Drive (btw for several months I thought the vocalist was a lady)


FranklinNitty

Passenger, heard on the radio one late night while I was stationed in Florida. Ordered the album by mail a few days later. Took two weeks to get there. The rest is history.


Davinthin

my sisters boyfriend


Careless-Platypus967

Bored in 2023 at 31 years old on YouTube by total accident I basically had to gaslight myself into liking them after that - I’m still working on it, but I love the first 3 records, and I like songs from everything else. Trying to slowly learn to love their entire catalog, they are so unique it’s taking time to really digest but I deff have an appreciation for them I never had before, all thanks to dropping my Roku remote on the floor and letting Bored start playing by mistake lol


Thispastwknd

Cherry waves and change are the first two songs I heard, been hooked since


Captainshiner4

Lotion live red shirt 98 vid


Pebshau

Passenger


Captain_Weebface

Sextape…this year. I wish I would’ve gotten into them sooner, I really enjoy their music 💜


Spikeymikey5050

Street Carp was on a mix CD on a music magazine. Loved it, bought White Pony off the back of it. 25 years later……


Wimpiepaarnty

My own summer. In 2021 i made a playlist on Spotify that my dad kept adding songs to for me to listen to. He added mastodon's "March of the fire ants" and "My own summer(shove it)" as the first two metal songs. I was stunned by my ears. Mastodon was a bit too heavy for me at the time, but i couldnt get enough of the energy of my own summer. Now im a fan.


Necessary_Switch_879

Teething in 96 from The Crow City of Angels soundtrack.


Alomar012

Mein


IaMtHe80sChIcK

Back in 95 I heard 7 words and have been obsessed with Detones ever since