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Con questo secondo album i deftones si segnalano al mondo come band unica nel panorama nu-metal. Figli del crossover californiano proseguiranno la strada tracciata dai Rage Agains The Machine. In questo lavoro è ancora presente l’influenza dei Korn, ma è già evidente che il quartetto di Sacramento ha personalità e talento da vendere.
Il sound è quello classico del crossover californiano, ma l’hardcore ha il sopravvento sul rap. La grandezza della band sta nel creare un sound potentissimo e martellante, ma allo stesso tempo funzionale ad impeccabili aperture melodiche che non lasciano scampo. “Around the Fur”, “Be Quiet and Drive”,”Lotion “e “Dai the Flu” sono esempi mirabili dell’unicità dei deftones, potenti e perversamente melodiche con la voce devastante di Chino Moreno ora a sussurrare ora a ruggire.
Nell’album sono ancora presenti tracce vagamente trash che disturbano la maliosa bellezza dei brani, tracce che la band cancellerà con l’album successivo “White Pony” che trascenderà il nu-metal e porrà i deftones in un orbita finora inavvicinabile.
Fa sicuramente uno strano effetto vedere una band come i deftones non aver raggiunto un successo almeno pari a gruppi come Korn, ormai alla frutta e Limp Bizkit, alla frutta da sempre, per non parlare di Linkin Park e roba del genere, senza aver mai inciso un’album della bellezza non di “White Pony” ma neanche del lavoro in questione. Ai posteri l’ardua sentenza. Quattro stelle perchè “White Pony” è un capolavoro inarrivabile.
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01 My Own Summer (Shove It) (03:35)
Hey you big star
Tell me when it's over (cloud)
Hey you big moon
Guide me to shelter
Cause I'm through
When the two
Hits the six
And it's summer (cloud)
Come (shove it, shove it, shove it)
Shove (shove it, shove it, shove it)
The sun (shove it, shove it, shove it)
Aside (shove it aside)
I think God is moving it's tongue
There's no crowds in the street
And no sun
In my own summer
The shade is a tool
A device, a savior
See I try and look up
To the sky but my eyes burn
Come (shove it, shove it, shove it)
Shove (shove it, shove it, shove it)
The sun (shove it, shove it, shove it)
Aside (shove it aside)
Come (shove it, shove it, shove it)
Shove (shove it, shove it, shove it)
The sun (shove it, shove it, shove it)
Aside (shove it aside)
I think God is moving it's tongue
There's no crowd in the street
And no sun
In my own summer
Come (shove it, shove it, shove it)
Shove (shove it, shove it, shove it)
The sun (shove it, shove it, shove it)
Aside (shove it aside)
02 Lhabia (04:11)
Somewhere, outside
There are tricks, and evil
Holler, downstairs
While I drive
I want to watch you buttercup coming through the fog
Dying of boredom
I'll try it all
Sixteen, olive
Bound by a voice
I don't want to go but I want it well at least you fucking care
Dying of boredom
I'll try it all
I'll be faint
Like a crook
It looks and feels great but look at what It's doing to you
But that's ok look at how it feels
Dying of boredom
I'll try it all
I'll be faint
Like a crook
It looks and feels great but look at what It's doing to you
But that's ok look at how it feels
03 Mascara (03:45)
I feel soon I will sink into you
What do you think
There's still blood in your hair
Got the bruise of the year
But there's something about her
Long shade eyes
I'm all about her shade tonight
I hate your tattoos
You have weak wrists
But I'll keep you
But there's something about her
Long shade eyes
I'm all about her shade tonight
And it's too bad
And it's too bad
And it's too bad
You're married to me
04 Around the Fur (03:31)
Hey vanity, this vial's is empty
So are you
Hey glamorous this vial's not God
Anymore, yeah
Speak! (speak)
I don't get it
Should I ignore the fashion
Or go by the book?
I don't want it
I just want your eyes fixated on me
Coming back, oh
Coming back around the fur
Prostitute climb back down from the floor
Please don't fuck around and die like this
'Cause I love her
Speak! (speak)
I don't get it
Should I ignore the fashion
Or go by the book?
I don't want it
I just want your eyes fixated on me
Coming back, oh
Coming back around the fur
Speak! (speak)
We're so sad you're bad
I don't want to get dressed over anyway
Come on
Testify
I'm here to say
Don't want your fad, come on
You're a liar, you're a liar
I don't care about
Yeah!
Yeah!
05 Rickets (02:42)
It's so simple to look at every little thing I do wrong
It's so simple to overlook every little thing I do right, right?
I think too much
I feed too much
I'm gone too much
I skate too much
I snore too much
I'm blowin too much
I ate too much
I'm way too much too stuck up
You're probably right
This time, but I don't want to listen
You're probably right
This time, but I don't even care
I dream too much
I think too much
I step too much
Those things too much
I am too much
I'm pissed too much
I need too much
I'm not one to trust
You're probably right
This time, but I don't want to listen
You're probably right
This time, but I don't even care
And if it was mine to say
I wouldn't say it
And if it was mine to say
I wouldn't speak
I'm blowin too much
I think too much
I eat too much
My face too much
I feed too much
I piss too much
I sleep too much
I snap too often
You're probably right
This time, but I don't want to listen
You're probably right
This time, but I don't even care
And if it was mine to say
I wouldn't say it
And if it was mine to say
I wouldn't speak
06 Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) (05:08)
This town don't feel right
I'm fast to get away
Far
I dressed you in her clothes
So drive me
Far away, away, away
It feels good to know you're mine
Now drive with me
Far away, away, away
Far
Away
I don't care where just far
Away
I don't care where just far
Away
I don't care where just far
Away
I don't care
07 Lotion (03:57)
I meant to come back to put out bliss
But the style's crumbling, covered, canned
It was sick and no you don't even know how it comes and
Shifts then gets ruined by you fucking slobs
It's classical, anyway
I can't help it, it makes me so sick
Over and over, it sits stiff
Bound with no heart, fine 'cause this is where the separation starts arising
I can see it coming over your cloud
It's classical, anyway
How cool are you?
I remember
I feel sick
I feel sick
I feel sick
I feel sick
I feel sick
Just a bad call, it's so funny
How you think I'm so serious, but that's not it
The thing is I don't give enough to give a fuck
You're just plain boring and you bore me asleep
It's classical, anyway
How cool are you?
I remember
I feel sick
I feel sick
I feel sick
I feel sick
Feel sickened
Feel sickened
Feel sickened
Feel sickened
Feel sickened
Feel sickened
I feel sick
And who the fuck are you anyway, you fuck?
It's making sick sense seeing how you're sticking out
Hardly and hoping money please arise up off the fucking knees
And hop off the train for a second and try to find your own fucking heart
It's classical, anyway
How cool are you?
I remember
I feel sick
I feel sick
I feel sick
I feel sick
Feel sickened
Feel sickened
Feel sickened
Feel sickened
Feel sickened
Feel sickened
Feel sickened
Feel sickened
I feel sick, in my head
I feel sick, in my head
I feel sick, in my head
I feel sick, in my head
I feel sick, in my head
I feel sick, in my head
I feel sick, in my head
I feel sick
08 Dai the Flu (04:36)
I always wondered why it takes
Fifteen stitches and a soft parody
To make my eyes be like deceit
I believe the sting proves heart to me
Now I know that you love me
Thank God that you love at all
Dislocated at the joint
Timing is everything in the bed
'Cause you'll sleep for hours
To keep away
Then sink the teeth and bat your eyes at
Now I know that you love me
Thank God you love at all
What's the surprise I was right
Here going off and going on
What's the surprise I was right
Here going off and going on
What's the surprise I was right
Here going off and going on
What's the surprise I was right
Here going off and going on
At least now I know that you
Love me, thank God that you love at all
What's the surprise I was right here
Going off going on dai the flu
What's the surprise I was right here
Going off going on dai the flu
What's the surprise I was right here
Going off going on dai the flu
What's the surprise I was right here
Going off going on dai the flu
What's the surprise I was right here
Going off going on dai the flu
09 Headup (05:12)
Got back out back off the forefront
I never said or got to say bye to my boy
But it's often I try I think about how I'd be screaming
And the times would be bumping
All our minds would be flowing
Taking care of shit like hey holmes
What you needing sometimes life will be coming off whack
And will open your eyes
As I proceed to get loose
I feel you next to me fiending
Getting spacey with the common
Love of music think of this as the
Sun and the mind as a tool but we
Could bounce back from this one
With attitude will and some spirit
With attitude will and your spirit
We'll shove it aside
Soulfly
Fly high
So fly
Fly free
Shut your shit please say what you will
I can't think side step around
I'm bound to the freestyle
Push it down to the ground
With a nova dash
But they watch you
Now climb up superslide
Our spirit so low it's coming over you
Soulfly
Fly High
So fly
Fly free
You walk into this world
Walk into this world with your head up high
Walk into this world with your head up high
Walk into this world with your head up high
Walk into this world with your head up high
Head-up
Head-up
Head-up
Head-up
Head-up
Head-up
Head-up
Head-up
Head-up
Head-up
Head-up
Head-up
Head-up
Head-up
Head-up
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Di Divodark
I Deftones sono stati i pionieri del nuovo metallo assieme a gruppi che per la maggiore hanno fatto una gran brutta fine.
Chino canta ed una voce di una ragazza con fare molto sexy intervieni durante le strofe... Bella davvero.
Di (luca)
"Con 'Around The Fur', uno degli album più belli del nu-metal, i Deftones riescono a diventare una delle band dell'odierno heavy metal più interessanti."
"Personalmente ritengo questo il miglior album della band; forse è paragonabile a questo il successivo 'White Pony' in cui i Deftones fanno nuove sperimentazioni."
