“Be Quiet And Drive” by Deftones

"Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)" was the second single from Around the Fur, Deftones' second album, following "My Own Summer (Shove It)" onto Maverick in 1998. Terry Date produced it, and this is where the nu-metal tag starts to look too small for the band: critics have heard shoegaze and dreamy alternative rock in it, Kerrang! Radio's Brendan Appleton wondered aloud whether it counts as nu metal at all, and Treble's Jeff Terich called it "more shoegaze or Siamese Dream-pop than metal." Wall of Sound's Bob Gulla heard it as a break from the heavier songs around it.

It also gave Deftones their first chart single in the US, peaking at 29 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, and reached 50 in the UK. Frank W. Ockenfels III directed the video, and "Change (In the House of Flies)" came next.

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