Back To School (Mini Maggit)
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| "Back To School (Mini Maggit)" | ||
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| Single by Deftones | ||
| from the album 'White Pony' | ||
| Released | November 2000 | |
| Format | CD | |
| Recorded | 1999 | |
| Genre | Alternative Metal Hard Rock |
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| Length | 3:57 | |
| Label | Maverick Records | |
| Writer(s) | Deftones | |
| Producer(s) | Terry Date | |
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| Deftones singles chronology | ||
| "Change (In the House of Flies)" 2000 |
"Back To School (Mini Maggit)" 2000 |
"Digital Bath" 2001 |
Back to School is a song composed by Deftones. The song is an altered version of the song "Pink Maggit" off the band's White Pony album. The album was re-released with the song shortly after the album's initial release, in a contentious move by the band's label.
Vocalist Chino Moreno elaborates [1]:
"This album right here (White Pony re-release) is not the album that we turned into the label. As far as we're concerned, the first edition was the record. Done. Then they talked us into re-releasing it with another song on it, and its not like I'm against the song or whatever, but I liked the sequence we had when we first turned it in. When this version came out, a little part inside all of us felt like: "Fuck! We just totally compromised." And I know that a lot of our fans felt bad about it too."
The band also regrets specifically Back to School's presence on the re-release of the album, as Chino stated in an interview with German Rock magazine Visions[2]:
"Back To School was a mistake. A calculated song, that had been built up with only one aim in mind: It should be a single."
"Back to School was released because I was an idiot. I wanted to prove something (to the record company). Months later, after White Pony was released, they wanted us to do a new version of Pink Maggit. They said we lost our heaviness, and there were no more singles on the album. First, I wanted to stick this idea up my ass, but then I thought: "I'm gonna show those fuckers how easy it is to create a hit-single". And so I rapped a hip hop part on that song, we shortened it and half an hour later, the hit-single was ready to roll on."
Turntablist/sampler Frank Delgado adds:
"Back to School never belonged on the album. Our record company received White Pony without that song."
[edit] Track Listing
- Back To School (Mini Maggit) - 3:57
- Feiticiera (live) - 3:08
- Back To School (Mini Maggit) (live) - 3:56
- Nosebleed (live) - 4:20
- Teething (live) - 3:11
- Change (In the House of Flies) (acoustic) - 4:58
- Pink Maggit - 4:58
- White Pony EPK
| Deftones |
| Chino Moreno | Stephen Carpenter | Abe Cunningham | Chi Cheng | Frank Delgado |
| Discography |
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| Albums: Adrenaline | Around the Fur | White Pony | Deftones | Saturday Night Wrist |
