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 | March 2001 | |
| Format | CD | |
| Recorded | 1999 | |
| Genre | Alternative Metal Experimental 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 |
| White Pony Re-Release track listing | ||
| "Back to School (Mini Maggit)" (Track 1) |
"Feiticeira" (Track 2) |
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"Back to School" is a song composed by Deftones. It is an altered version of the song "Pink Maggit" off the band's album White Pony. 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 elaborated: "This album right here [the 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 it's 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 Moreno stated in an interview with German rock magazine Visions: "'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
[edit] Single
- "Back to School (Mini Maggit") (3:57)
- "Nosebleed" (Live) (4:20)
- "Teething" (Live) (3:11)
[edit] EP
- "Back to School (Mini Maggit") (3:57)
- "Feiticeira" (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" (7:33)
- "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 |
| Singles: 7 Words | Bored | My Own Summer (Shove It) | Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) | Change (In the House of Flies) | Back to School (Mini Maggit) | Digital Bath | Minerva | Hexagram | Hole in the Earth | Mein |
