“ Change (In the House of Flies) ” sometimes abbr. " Change " ( Russian Transformation (In the house of flies) ) is the debut single of the American alternative metal band Deftones from their third studio album White Pony . The single was released on May 20, 2000 . This song remains the most commercially successful to this day; the song took 3rd place on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks [2] and 53rd in the UK Singles Chart [3] . The song entered the tracklist of the rock collection Big Shiny Tunes of the Canadian music and television station MuchMusic .
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| Single Deftones from the album White Pony | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Side B | "Crenshaw" "No Ordinary Love" | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Released | May 20, 2000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Format | CD single , maxi CD | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Recorded by | 1999 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Alternative rock [1] nu metal | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 5:05 (full version) 3:55 (radio version, video) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Producer | Terry Date | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Songwriter | Chino Moreno , Stephen Carpenter , Chi Cheng , Frank Delgado , Abe Cunningham | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Label | Maverick | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Video clip
The video clip for the song was directed by an American clip maker , producer and director Liz Friedlander [4] . In the video, it was shot how the group performs the song “ Change ” at a party where there are a lot of people in animal masks and with an indifferent look. The video was shot for two days from May 30 to May 31, 2000 in Hollywood , California [5] .
List of Songs
All lyrics are written by Chino Moreno , all music is written by the Deftones , with the exception of those noted.
| No. | Title | Author | Duration |
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| one. | “Change (In the House of Flies)” | 4:58 | |
| 2. | "Crenshaw" | 4:49 | |
| 3. | No Ordinary Love ( Sade cover) | Shade Adu , Stuart Matthewman | 5:32 |
Other versions
In MTV's The Return of the Rock, Vol. 2 , as well as in the collection of the group B-Sides & Rarities there is an acoustic version of the song.
Cover versions
- Canadian electro-industrial group Ayria recorded a cover song for the song, which was included in the bonus disc of the fifth studio album called Hearts for Bullets [6] .
- American rock band Breaking Benjamin (along with vocalist and rhythm guitarist Sean Morgan of African rock band Seether and solo guitarist Barry Stoke of Canadian rock band Three Days Grace ) performed a cover version of the song during a spring 2008 joint tour [7] .
- African rock band Seether performed an acoustic version of the song on SiriusXM in 2014 [8]
In popular culture
The song was used in the films Queen of the Damned , Nikki the Devil Jr. , the animated film Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge , the television series The Spy , Wolf Lake , Followers , American Dad , Particularly Serious Crimes "And in the trailer for the seventh season of " Dexter ".
Notes
- ↑ The Top 20 Deftones Songs . Consequence of Sound . Date of appeal April 16, 2016.
- ↑ Billboard.com - Artist Chart History - Deftones: Singles . Billboard.com . Date of treatment December 23, 2007.
- ↑ UK Singles Top 75 - Music Charts . Navigate to appropriate week . acharts.us. Date of treatment December 23, 2007.
- ↑ B-Sides & Rarities liner notes .
- ↑ Making the video “Change” - Behind the Scenes
- ↑ Ayria - Hearts For Bullets official tracklist . www.ayria.com. Date of treatment September 11, 2008. Archived September 13, 2008.
- ↑ "Change (In the House of Flies)" - Breaking Benjamin 2/21/08 - YouTube
- ↑ Seether "Change (In The House of Flies)" Deftones Cover // Octane // SiriusXM . Date of treatment December 21, 2016.