“Back to School” by Deftones

"Back to School (Mini Maggit)" is Deftones reworking "Pink Maggit", a song from their third album, White Pony, and it arrived under a cloud. Not long after the album came out in 2000, Maverick reissued it with this new version tacked on, a contentious call by the label, and the track also went out on its own as both a single and an EP.

Singer Chino Moreno has been blunt about the deal. He has said the record the band turned in was the finished album, that they were talked into the reissue, and that while he had nothing against the song itself, he preferred the original running order and came away feeling the band had compromised, a sting he says a lot of fans felt too. Terry Date produced, and the result is rap metal with its chin stuck out.

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