14/11/05

DEFTONES / B’SIDES

You’re a successful band, its near Xmas and you get pressure to release a best of compilation but you don’t want to rip off the fans so what do you do, you do what the band have done here and done both.

This comes in two parts, the DVD (no extra cost) with all, yes all the videos on, not sold separately at extra cost, and its filled with loads of extras to keep the fans and label happy and the CD has 14 rare and a few unreleased songs on it that makes this an essential purchase, put it all together in a nice package in a hard back booklet and you have is totally must have item.

Just because the songs were B’Sides and didn’t make the albums proper doesn’t make them second rate either as any or all of them could easily have been included but weren’t for one reason or another. It’s not padded out with live tracks to make up the numbers as others have done and there is a very good hauntingly beautiful acoustic version of "Be Quiet And Drive Far Away" that adds a new dimension to the song plus you have to hear their version of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s "Simple Man and the previously unreleased songs well worth having.

This is a really good package and I salute the band for not giving into commercial pressure, sticking to their guns and holding onto their integrity, nice one guys.

TOTAL PLAYING TIME = 64 mins + 14 TRACKS