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“My Own Summer (Shove It)” by Deftones
From the album Around the Fur (1997)
“My Own Summer (Shove It)” by Deftones appears on 13 radio countdowns from 9 stations between 1997 and 2026. It was first released in 1997 on the album Around the Fur. Its best result is #5 on the WBER Listener Countdown 1997. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #135 alternative song of 1997 and #5,244 alternative song of all time.
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"My Own Summer (Shove It)" was the first single from Around the Fur, the second Deftones album, released on Maverick in 1997, and it's the sound of a band discovering that holding back can hit harder than flooring it. Terry Date produced it with the group and mixed it with Ulrich Wild, and the track runs on pressure: Stephen Carpenter's guitar, Chi Cheng's bass and Abe Cunningham's drums coil and snap while Chino Moreno slides from whispers smeared with distortion into sudden, lung-busting roars.
Critics keep circling back to that tension. A Rolling Stone writer called the song a master class in how to build it, Metal Hammer's Stephen Hill said the band pushed its dynamics to the breaking point, and Kerrang! heard a quiet-loud attack with a line running back to Nirvana.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 51 | 97.1 The Eagle Dallas-Fort Worth, TX | KEGL The Eagle's Top 97 Songs of 1997 | 97 |
| 1997 | 20 | KISW Seattle-Tacoma, WA | KISW Top 25 Songs from 1997 | 25 |
| 1997 | 5 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 1997 | 99 |
| 1998 | 80 | DC101 Washington, D.C. | DC101 Top 101 Songs of 1998 | 101 |
| 1999 | 92 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1999 | 106 |
| 1999 | 87 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1999 | 100 |
| 1999 | 85 | 107.7 The End Seattle, WA | The End Top 107 Songs of 1999 | 107 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 535 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1077 |
| 2009 | 64 | Studio Brussel | Studio Brussel De Zwaarste Lijst (2009) | 70 |
| 2010 | 67 | Studio Brussel | Studio Brussel De Zwaarste Lijst (2010) | 70 |
| 2011 | 64 | Studio Brussel | Studio Brussel De Zwaarste Lijst (2011) | 70 |
| 2022 | 490 | X96 | X96 Top 500 Alternative Songs of All Time | 500 |
| 2026 | 61 | Studio Brussel | Studio Brussel De Zwaarste Lijst (2026) | 66 |
Also listed as: My Own Summer.
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