TS: Los Lobos vs. Deftones

since i have a serious allergy towards anything even vaguely "roots-rock," i've pretty much avoided los lobos -- perhaps unfairly, but that's the way it is. and since the deftones seem to be one of the few nu-metal groups who've done anything worth listening to (white pony sounds better now than when it was released, and it was pretty good even then), i guess i gotta go with them.

I have never listened to the deftones and am still a little bewildered by some of the overseas critical raves for them as their reputation out here plants them squarely in the meathead limp bizkut bin. This may be unfounded though.

there's this hysterical interview with them in Blender where the writer keeps talking about what a sensitive poet Moreno is, though his every sentence contains the word shit or fuck.

they're easily one of my favorite bands, although i'll freely admit that i'm very much a "roots-rock" person, am swayed by their sentimentality, and David Hidalgo's voice does it for me alone.

one of my favorite songs is "One Time One Night," a Springsteen-without-"Springsteen" (sorta like Spielberg-without-"Spielberg") song that loses Bruce's lyrical craft but comes off more, how you say, authentic (lived-in?) and has a wonderful Chet Atkins-style guitar figure.

i've never really thought of the deftones as "latino rock." while you really can't escape that thought with los lobos

you might like them better if you think of them as just "rock 'n roll" (which may be the same thing as "latino rock"? and that's part of the idea?), of which they are a great exponent. but maybe you don't like "rock 'n roll" that much?

Please to see "One Time One Night" namechecked, as it's probably my favorite Los Lobos song.

Doubtless.