Back to School (Mini Maggit)

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"Back to School (Mini Maggit)"
Single by Deftones
from the album White Pony (re-release)
Released March 12, 2001
Format CD
Recorded Late 1990s
Genre Nu metal[1][2]
Length 3:57
Label Maverick
Writer(s) Deftones
Producer(s) Terry Date
Deftones singles chronology
"Change (In the House of Flies)"
2000		 "Back to School (Mini Maggit)"
2001		 "Digital Bath"
2001
Alternative cover
EP edition cover

"Back to School (Mini Maggit)" is a song composed by the American alternative metal band Deftones. It is an altered version of the song "Pink Maggit" from the band's album White Pony. The album was re-released with the song shortly after the album's initial release, in a contentious move by the band's label.

"Back to School (Mini Maggit)" was released as both a single and as an EP package; the single was released shortly before the EP.

Vocalist Chino Moreno: "This album right here [the White Pony re-release] is not the album that we turned into the label. As far as we're concerned, the first edition was the record. Done. Then, they talked us into re-releasing it with another song on it, and it's not like I'm against the song or whatever, but I liked the sequence we had when we first turned it in. When this version came out, a little part inside all of us felt like: 'Fuck! We just totally compromised.' And I know that a lot of our fans felt bad about it too."[3]

The band also regrets specifically "Back to School's" presence on the re-release of the album, as Moreno stated in an interview with German rock magazine Visions: "'Back to School' was a mistake. A calculated song, that had been built up with only one aim in mind: It should be a single. ... 'Back to School' was released because I was an idiot. I wanted to prove something [to the record company]. Months later, after White Pony was released, they wanted us to do a new version of "Pink Maggit". They said we lost our heaviness, and there were no more singles on the album. First, I wanted to stick this idea up my ass, but then I thought: 'I'm gonna show those fuckers how easy it is to create a hit-single.' And so I rapped a hip hop part on that song, we shortened it and half an hour later, the hit-single was ready to roll on."[4]

Track listing

Single
No. Title Length
1. "Back to School (Mini Maggit)"   3:57
2. "Nosebleed" (Live) 4:21
3. "Teething" (Live) 3:10
EP
No. Title Length
1. "Back to School (Mini Maggit)"   3:57
2. "Feiticeira" (Live) 3:10
3. "Back to School (Mini Maggit)" (Live) 3:57
4. "Nosebleed" (Live) 4:21
5. "Teething" (Live) 3:10
6. "Change (In the House of Flies)" (Acoustic) 4:59
7. "Pink Maggit"   7:32
8. "White Pony EPK" (Short Version) 8:35

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (November 10th, 2014)
  2. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. May 28th, 2015. Retrieved on September 8th, 2015
  3. ↑ [1][dead link]
  4. ↑ DEFTONESWORLD.com - It's all about the deftones
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