Song · Deftones
“Digital Bath” by Deftones
From the album White Pony (2000)
“Digital Bath” by Deftones appears on 9 radio countdowns from 9 stations in 2001. It was first released in 2000 on the album White Pony. Its best result is #20 on the 89X Top 89 Songs of 2001. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #104 alternative song of 2001.
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"Digital Bath" came out of White Pony, the third Deftones album, in 2000, and it's where the band proved it could unsettle you in a whisper. Critics have heard it as a turning point: a dreamy, drifting thing shot through with trip-hop, new wave and post-punk shadings, the last two traced back to Chino Moreno. He sings as if floating just above the mix, while his and Stephen Carpenter's guitars smear into echo, Chi Cheng's bass pulses underneath, Abe Cunningham keeps the beat taut and restrained, and Frank Delgado's turntables and a scattering of samples add a ghostly shimmer.
Carpenter, Cheng, Cunningham and Moreno wrote it together, and Terry Date produced it with the band and mixed it. Kerrang!'s Sam Law singled it out as the clearest picture of the album's pull between beauty and menace.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 44 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2001 | 106 |
| 2001 | 88 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2001 | 101 |
| 2001 | 72 | K-Rock New York, NY | K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2001 | 93 |
| 2001 | 72 | WFNX Boston, MA | WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2001 | 100 |
| 2001 | 101 | 107.7 The End Seattle, WA | The End Top 107 Songs of 2001 | 107 |
| 2001 | 20 | 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON | 89X Top 89 Songs of 2001 | 89 |
| 2001 | 31 | WCCC The Rock Hartford, CT | WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2001 | 106 |
| 2001 | 95 | 99X Atlanta, GA | 99X Top 99 Songs of 2001 | 99 |
| 2001 | 71 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2001 | 100 |
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