tbh i prefer Mezmerize and the self-titled album, not very into stuff like "Toxicity" and "Aerials"
― some dude, Sunday, 7 August 2011 11:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm with you on that. Toxicity has never been my favorite studio album of theirs.
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 7 August 2011 11:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
ToxicityNot just because my friend told me it was 'cider! cider! the soiiiiiderrrr!' the first time I heard it.
― kinder, Sunday, 7 August 2011 17:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
wheeeeen i became the sun i shone life into the JANSPORT!
― Autism Alamac (some dude), Sunday, 7 August 2011 17:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
hahaha
― markers, Sunday, 7 August 2011 17:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
blast off, it's party time, and we all live in a fascist nation
― markers, Sunday, 7 August 2011 17:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
wrong album?
― billstevejim, Monday, 8 August 2011 05:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah but it's a classic line
― markers, Monday, 8 August 2011 05:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Shimmy
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Monday, 8 August 2011 13:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
I haven't heard this album for ever. The girl I was dating when this album was fresh out did an awesome "Chop Suey" at karaoke.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 8 August 2011 13:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm totally burned out on "Chop Suey", guys. Like, maybe permanently.
Still tons of great songs on here. I'm voting either "Forest" or "Needles", but "Atwa", "Shimmy", "Aerials", and "X" I like almost as much...
― standards r. poor (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 8 August 2011 15:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's a good gym record.
My thoughts exactly.Can't help but associate Avril Lavigne's "Chop Suey" cover with this, though I do remember enjoying it. Crazy that this is gonna be 10 years old.
― frogbs, Monday, 8 August 2011 17:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
listening to this today
MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCES
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Monday, 8 August 2011 20:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
This band is doomed to be underrated.
― dlp9001, Monday, 8 August 2011 20:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Deer Dance 4EVA! I don't understand why that wasn't the single. Holy mackerel.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 8 August 2011 20:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
I cannot choose, this album is amazing. All the songs sound a bit the same, but somehow SOAD make that into a plus point.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Monday, 8 August 2011 21:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
Maybe Prison Song though, great statement of intent.
INDOCTRINATIONOF OUR NATIONINDOCTRINATIONOF OUR NATION
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Monday, 8 August 2011 21:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
you know i might vote "forest" or "atwa" but i am now most moved by the wild insistent stomping of the title track
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Monday, 8 August 2011 21:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
it is like a march with some of the elements subtracted
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Monday, 8 August 2011 21:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
coda of "psycho" is a fucking spiral
in case you didn't know
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Monday, 8 August 2011 21:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Makes you high makes you high makes you really wanna go STOP!
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Monday, 8 August 2011 21:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
Noel Gallagher: "Do you ever look at the sky and think, I'm glad I'm alive? After I heard System of a Down, I thought, I'm actually alive to hear the shittiest band of all time. Which is quite something when you think about it. Of all the bands that have gone before and all the bands that'll be in the future, I was around when the worst was around."
This made me love System even more.
― billstevejim, Monday, 8 August 2011 21:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
Also they're one of the best live bands I've ever seen.
― billstevejim, Monday, 8 August 2011 21:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
That Noel Gallagher quote is amazing, he should stop making music and concentrate on just giving interviews. And yes System of a Down were spectacular live. I drove from Cardiff to London on the spur of the moment to see them and they totally made it worth the journey.
― nate woolls, Monday, 8 August 2011 22:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wow, that's a hefty journey!
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Monday, 8 August 2011 22:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
really love the big singles off this record -- eating seeds as a pastime activity reminds me of 9th grade geometry class
― markers, Monday, 8 August 2011 22:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Chop Suey, title track, Aerials, was there a fourth single?
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Monday, 8 August 2011 22:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
xp sorry markers but title track is my least favorite song on this
― standards r. poor (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 8 August 2011 22:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Deer Dance" otoh--I had forgotten about that song, but that song is f'in killer!!! and the way it segues into "Jet Pilot" is brilliant
― standards r. poor (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 8 August 2011 22:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Prison Song" was an airplay-only single with a live video but not a hit like the other 3
― some dude, Monday, 8 August 2011 22:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
I hated Chop Suey for the first 20 times I heard it - generally on MTV - but then I kinda gave in to the awesome video and the next 200 listens were awesome. Good album.
― kraudive, Monday, 8 August 2011 23:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
I haven't heard this album for ever. The girl I was dating when this album was fresh out did an awesome "Chop Suey" at karaoke.― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, August 8, 2011 6:42 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, August 8, 2011 6:42 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
jon you went out with Avril Lavigne??!?
― his loser, bum of a son, named Jesus Christ (Leee), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 04:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
SHIMMY SHIMMY SHIMMY TIL THE BREAK OF DAWN YEEEEAWWWWWW
― Peepee Soaked Heckhole (zachlyon), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 04:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
^^ put this album in like once a year, get restless after one or two tracks and have to switch it to this and repeat
― Peepee Soaked Heckhole (zachlyon), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 04:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
blast off, it's party time, and WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU?
― markers, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 04:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
this album fucking rules
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 04:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Pretty fun record. Even the closing instrumental is cool.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 9 August 2011 05:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
Have you guys all heard Steal This Album? It's remarkably good for a bits n bobs album, on some days it's my favourite of theirs.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 05:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Peepee Soaked Heckhole (zachlyon), Tuesday, August 9, 2011 12:30 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 05:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
Can't be said enough imo.
Is Shimmy gonna win? I might go with ATWA.
I also like System of a Down more because Pitchfork didn't put them in the P2K best of the decade thing.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 11 August 2011 01:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
of course they didn't.
i listened to this album today, was better than i remember. i love how everything zips by so fast that "Aerials" feels like this long drawn out epic when it's actually less than 4 minutes long.
― dogps (some dude), Thursday, 11 August 2011 02:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
btw apparently SOAD played some shows together recently, for the first time in like 5 years! i had no idea! no confirmation that they'll be making a new album or anything, but it's still really encouraging to hear, they're one of those bands that i love but i just can't stand any of the offshoot bands or solo projects.
― dogps (some dude), Thursday, 11 August 2011 02:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Serj's first solo thing was pretty much shite, though it did gift the world with the excellent song title 'Beethoven's Cunt'.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Thursday, 11 August 2011 08:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 12 August 2011 23:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 13 August 2011 23:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
software version seven point imo
― (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers), Saturday, 13 August 2011 23:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
HOW DO YOU OWN DISORDER
preferring "Toxicity" to "Chop Suey!" is so fucked
― some dude, Sunday, 14 August 2011 00:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
beyond the singles, i really don't care much about soad
― (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers), Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
nothing wrong with that, i was just expecting more love for the non-singles.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
wonder how many ppl have heard the non-singles -- i think there's a copy of this record in my house somewhere, but i don't even know if i ever listened to the entire thing
― (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers), Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
Didn't see the poll. But I love this record! Glad to see ILM giving it what it deserves. Too bad they were never able to come close to it again.
― Helping 3 (Hurting 2), Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
man, i was re-listening to some of these singles and they're so much better than fuckin "b.y.o.b."
― (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers), Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
"byob" and "question!" were the only singles from mezmerize and that's weird to me because over half of that album is like TREMENDOUS HOOKS COMING YOUR WAY WATCH OUT
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
well, there were only 6 months between it and the next album, so they only had time for two singles cycles. but yeah that album totally should've had more singles (and maybe something besides "question!" for the 2nd).
― some dude, Monday, 15 August 2011 02:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
were there any notable singles between "sugar" (when i first heard of the band probably, on 107.3 waaf iirc) and "chop suey!"?
― (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers), Monday, 15 August 2011 02:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
the only other single off the first album was "Spiders," which is good if not great
― some dude, Monday, 15 August 2011 02:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
i remember the high school friend i worked summer jobs with from 98 to 2000 was really pumped about "Sugar" and turned me onto that first SOAD album. he was also the first person who played Aquemini for me. he wasn't one of my cool music nerd friends but in retrospect he was pretty on point.
― some dude, Monday, 15 August 2011 02:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
i just listened to "spiders" and don't know if i've ever heard it before, but it's not bad -- really can't remember having heard anything but "sugar" pre-toxicity though
― (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers), Monday, 15 August 2011 02:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
i do, however, recall my freshman year geometry teacher saying "eating seeds as a past time activity" in class
― (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers), Monday, 15 August 2011 02:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
the first SOAD album was a real sleeper hit, took two years to go gold and neither of the singles got into the top 20 of the rock charts, but then "Chop Suey!" blew up and their fanbase gave them a #1 album. it's kinda badass when a band goes from cult act to big deal kind of instantaneously like that.
― some dude, Monday, 15 August 2011 02:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oldie but goodie:
― his loser, bum of a son, named Jesus Christ (Leee), Monday, 15 August 2011 03:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
I can't believe I was the only shimmy vote. :(
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Sunday, August 14, 2011 4:18 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark
could've sworn i voted! i wouldn't even consider another song, tho there are some great ones.
― Peepee Soaked Heckhole (zachlyon), Monday, 15 August 2011 04:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
well, there were only 6 months between it and the next album, so they only had time for two singles cycles.
totally makes sense yeah but i'm extra-bitter because i don't care for either of the hypnotize singles
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Monday, 15 August 2011 05:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Lonely Day" is terrible but "Hypnotize" is of their best songs ever imo. i basically think that SOAD have 4 classic singles and they're the lead single from each album, the follow-ups always pale in comparison.
― some dude, Monday, 15 August 2011 11:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
^i would disagree with that assertion (though Toxicity is like my second least favorite song on here)
anywyaz, wow these results are awful!
― los lowblows (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 15 August 2011 13:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
I should get this album, huh
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Monday, 15 August 2011 13:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
yes!
― forkshighwaytopoopon (some dude), Monday, 15 August 2011 13:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
I mean, I know I would love it, I love pretty much every SOAD song I've ever heard; I just have been lazy about getting around to it (ditto Deftones, actually)
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Monday, 15 August 2011 13:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
xp "Spiders" usually makes the cut for my Halloween mixes.
― billstevejim, Monday, 15 August 2011 17:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm listening to this all the way through right now, and in my not really paying attention state i can definitively say that, as of :37 seconds into "bounce," the non-singles aren't as good as the singles
― (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers), Monday, 15 August 2011 17:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
also, jason derulo just released his new single right here at spotify
― (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers), Monday, 15 August 2011 17:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
markers i think you'll like ATWA
― billstevejim, Monday, 15 August 2011 17:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
smh markers
― los lowblows (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
listened to the whole thing. i've heard at least some of the non-singles before, but none of them stood out to me enough that i'm remembering them over an hour later. to their credit, though, the big three singles are very much tied to a time in my life and it would be harder for me to feel attached to the other songs even if they were better than they are
― (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
another reason i like the big three singles is because they don't seem as overtly heavy-handed lyrically as something like "prison song" or "b.y.o.b."
they could still be heavy-handed -- i have no idea what "eating seeds as a past time activity" means or what a lot of the other stuff they're saying means, and i haven't sat down to try and parse the lyrics -- but they don't jump out to me in a bad way
― (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Lonely Day" is terrible but "Hypnotize" is of their best songs ever imo.
agreed on how "lonely day" is ugh jesus why, but i think "hypnotize" would be great if i didn't feel like it were in search of a chorus.
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Monday, 15 August 2011 19:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
also markers offtm right now, listen to the record again dude
"Hypnotize" is of their best songs ever imo.
I agree with this, so dynamic. Especially the instrumental folky middle eight bit.
Also, Radio/Video should've been the second single off Mesmerize.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Monday, 15 August 2011 23:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol okay I just listened to this entire album for the first time
what the fuck was I waiting for
so awesome
― now I have to imagine your penis (DJP), Friday, 26 August 2011 16:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
I am listening to this whole album again for the second time
it's basically a gigantic reminder that yes, I am capable of liking loud guitar music
― I need new, hip khakis (DJP), Friday, 20 April 2012 17:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
heard "Sugar" on the radio today and it was a gigantic reminder that i love SOAD
it bums me out that they did some shows together last year but this year Serj is back to another stupid solo record. imo SOAD are one of the most extreme cases of the solo/side projects being not that different from the main band but somehow not 1% as good, those guys really need each other.
― some dude, Friday, 20 April 2012 20:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
software version 7.0
― markers, Friday, 20 April 2012 20:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wtf these results are so boring
― billstevejim, Saturday, August 13, 2011 8:28 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark
― billstevejim, Friday, 11 May 2012 06:48 (1 year ago) Permalink