Should I listen through the Deftones discography? It probably wouldn’t hurt. My knowledge on the group is limited. I know the band members names through Wiki searches, and I only know a few songs of theirs through seeing some of their music videos on MTV2 while growing up. Saturday Night Wrist was released around the time that I had started secondary school, so I remember ‘Hole in the Earth’ showing up a few times whenever I came back home or was getting ready to leave in the morning. That song’s pretty good. It was months later that ‘Mein’ followed as the album’s second single, and I distinctly remember saying to myself, “That was a weird song” after seeing its video for the first time. I was 11, it was different to anything I’d heard before.

Fourteen years have passed. During that time, I’ve been on the Internet like many a person. When I’ve listened to the song online and seen comments about it, two things are usually a common occurence. One, that fans of Deftones don’t hold Saturday Night Wrist in the highest of regards. I don’t have an opinion on that; I’ve never listened through it. And two, ‘Mein’ isn’t considered to be that good of a song by the band. Now, I probably couldn’t have an opinion that holds that much weight on that too. But seeing as this post is on here, you can probably tell that I think this track is great. I like the kind of wall of sound guitars and the chord progression in the verses matched with Chino Moreno’s vocal melody. I think the drumming on this majestic, especially during the breakdown ending. What I thought was weird all that time ago was how the verses suddenly jerk into the chorus. I also did think that how the track ended was quite strange too. And who expected Serj Tankian from System of a Down to randomly show up in the bridge? You know, this track is still weird, but I can’t say it’s a boring listen.

Below’s a video of guitarist Stephen Carpenter giving a lowdown on the song. He demonstrates the songs chords and everything.