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“Minerva” by Deftones

From the album Deftones (2003)

“Minerva” by Deftones appears on 16 radio countdowns from 16 stations in 2003. It was first released in 2003 on the album Deftones. Its best result is #20 on the 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 50 Songs of 2003. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #40 alternative song of 2003 and #389 of the '00s.

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Deftones - Minerva (Official Music Video) [HD Remaster]

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"Minerva" led off the campaign for Deftones' self-titled fourth album in 2003, and it's the band at their most soaring: a huge, uplifting alternative metal surge with a haze of shoegaze fuzz hanging over it. Terry Date produced it with the band, then engineered and mixed it himself, and every guitar sounds like a slow-motion tidal wave.

It went to number nine on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks, number 16 on the Mainstream Rock chart and number 15 in the UK. Paul Fedor's video, shot near the Salton Sea in the middle of a sandstorm, plants the band in the desert surrounded by amps in a nod to Pink Floyd's Live at Pompeii. The sand wrecked the gear and the shoot ran 22 hours, and the band complained about it, though Chi Cheng admitted he liked the trippy result.

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
2003	37	KROQ Los Angeles, CA	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2003	107
2003	89	91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana	91X Top 91 Songs of 2003	91
2003	28	Live 105 San Francisco, CA	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2003	106
2003	41	Q101 Chicago, IL	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2003	101
2003	50	WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD	WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2003	100
2003	55	K-Rock New York, NY	K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2003	92
2003	49	WFNX Boston, MA	WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2003	100
2003	34	89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON	89X Top 89 Songs of 2003	89
2003	69	Y100 Philadelphia, PA	Y100 Top 100 Songs of 2003	100
2003	49	CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON	CFNY Top 102 Songs of 2003	102
2003	30	The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC	The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2003	99
2003	67	WCCC The Rock Hartford, CT	WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2003	106
2003	59 (tie)	WBER Rochester, NY	WBER Listener Countdown 2003	196
2003	20	88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH	88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 50 Songs of 2003	50
2003	66	103.1 The Buzz West Palm Beach, FL	Buzz 103.1 Top 103 Buzz Cuts of 2003	103
2003	48	Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart)	Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2003	100

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