Fucking LOVE this album. Jet Pilot.
― nate woolls, Sunday, 7 August 2011 07:59 (twelve years ago) link
I think it still holds up extremely well.
― A. Begrand, Sunday, 7 August 2011 08:08 (twelve years ago) link
I am a total dick about nu metal generally, but always thought these guys had enough old school thrash/crossover influence in their sound to make them interesting. Dunno what I'll pick, though, but good album!
― The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 7 August 2011 08:13 (twelve years ago) link
I went with "Deer Dance". Psychotic little tune, that one.
― A. Begrand, Sunday, 7 August 2011 08:15 (twelve years ago) link
Probably the title track but I expect "Chop Suey" will win? FU if u hate these guys btw
― i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 7 August 2011 08:34 (twelve years ago) link
huh. wow. i don't know. "forest"? but then, "needles." huh.
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Sunday, 7 August 2011 08:34 (twelve years ago) link
I would have no problem with any song winning.. they're all fucking awesome.
Chop Suey has the cool subtle instrumentation that I didn't notice the first 40 times I heard it on the radio.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 7 August 2011 08:39 (twelve years ago) link
they're trying to build a prison....
BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM
― some dude, Sunday, 7 August 2011 11:03 (twelve years ago) link
Chop Suey is prob my favorite overall song but I don't wanna be predictable and vote that.
"Needles" because it rocks something fierce.
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 7 August 2011 11:10 (twelve years ago) link
It's a good gym record.
― solfege made me schizophrenic (MaresNest), Sunday, 7 August 2011 11:15 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
i'm with you on that. Toxicity has never been my favorite studio album of theirs.
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 7 August 2011 11:31 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
wheeeeen i became the sun i shone life into the JANSPORT!
― Autism Alamac (some dude), Sunday, 7 August 2011 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha
― markers, Sunday, 7 August 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
blast off, it's party time, and we all live in a fascist nation
― markers, Sunday, 7 August 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
wrong album?
― billstevejim, Monday, 8 August 2011 05:01 (twelve years ago) link
yeah but it's a classic line
― markers, Monday, 8 August 2011 05:19 (twelve years ago) link
Shimmy
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Monday, 8 August 2011 13:32 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
listening to this today
MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCES
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Monday, 8 August 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
This band is doomed to be underrated.
― dlp9001, Monday, 8 August 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
Deer Dance 4EVA! I don't understand why that wasn't the single. Holy mackerel.
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 8 August 2011 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe Prison Song though, great statement of intent.
INDOCTRINATIONOF OUR NATIONINDOCTRINATIONOF OUR NATION
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Monday, 8 August 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
it is like a march with some of the elements subtracted
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Monday, 8 August 2011 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
coda of "psycho" is a fucking spiral
in case you didn't know
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Monday, 8 August 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
Makes you high makes you high makes you really wanna go STOP!
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Monday, 8 August 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Also they're one of the best live bands I've ever seen.
― billstevejim, Monday, 8 August 2011 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, that's a hefty journey!
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Monday, 8 August 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Chop Suey, title track, Aerials, was there a fourth single?
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Monday, 8 August 2011 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
"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 (twelve years ago) link
"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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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
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jon you went out with Avril Lavigne??!?
― his loser, bum of a son, named Jesus Christ (Leee), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 04:25 (twelve years ago) link
SHIMMY SHIMMY SHIMMY TIL THE BREAK OF DAWN YEEEEAWWWWWW
― Peepee Soaked Heckhole (zachlyon), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 04:30 (twelve years ago) link
^^ 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 (twelve years ago) link
blast off, it's party time, and WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU?
― markers, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 04:31 (twelve years ago) link
this album fucking rules
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 04:39 (twelve years ago) link
Pretty fun record. Even the closing instrumental is cool.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 9 August 2011 05:34 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
― 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 (twelve years ago) link
also, jason derulo just released his new single right here at spotify
― (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers), Monday, 15 August 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
markers i think you'll like ATWA
― billstevejim, Monday, 15 August 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
smh markers
― los lowblows (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 15 August 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
"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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
software version 7.0
― markers, Friday, 20 April 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
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 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like I miss these guys a little extra of late. (Also, they were way ahead of the left zeitgeist on the whole prison-abolition tip.)
― Simon H., Saturday, 16 June 2018 15:18 (five years ago) link
ToxicityOr aerials. Hard to decide
― sunburst N snowblind (Ross), Saturday, 16 June 2018 18:46 (five years ago) link
SOAD politics seemed pretty regular post RATM? I'm not sure they were saying anything I wasn't hearing from the anarcho-punks I was hanging out with back then.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 16 June 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
I'd probably throw a boring vote to Toxicity as well. Did anyone figure out what happened to this band, btw? Major breakthrough, big dominant double album, but with a newly dominant voice asserting himself, then nothing... Seems like a good story for a tell all book.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 16 June 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
Deer Dance. 17 years later it still sounds strange.
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 16 June 2018 18:56 (five years ago) link
SOAD politics seemed pretty regular post RATM?
With the benefit of a little more specificity, plus of course all the wacky stuff.
― Simon H., Saturday, 16 June 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
As far as the extended hiatus goes, no idea what that's about. If the Parts Unknown ep is anything to go by, Tankian at least seems like a sweet guy
― Simon H., Saturday, 16 June 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
One of the few times in rock history where a long recording hiatus is literally mostly down to what you might call "creative differences."
https://www.stereogum.com/2005685/system-of-a-down-new-music-explanation/news/
― Simon H., Saturday, 14 July 2018 02:22 (five years ago) link
Whenever it happens it's gonna rule.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 14 July 2018 06:44 (five years ago) link
Title track is my least favorite. Top 4 for me are Forest, Atwa, Chop Suey, and Aerials
― bedraggled vorticist (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 15 July 2018 07:48 (five years ago) link
Caught these guys last night... automatically slotted into my top 5 all-time concerts.
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 17:57 (five years ago) link
setlisthttp://i63.tinypic.com/2qlr5lx.jpg
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
Would've voted for Needles btw.
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 18:06 (five years ago) link
holy shit that's a setlist
― Ross, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
It woulda been difficult for me to choose between 'Needles', 'Forest', 'ATWA' or 'Psycho' ...
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 18:11 (five years ago) link
― Ross, Wednesday, October 17, 2018 11:08 AM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah they just kept rolling out smash after smash. Lonely Day was the only real breather but even it kinda rocked cos everyone was screaming along, never liked that song but it made sense in that setting, the harmonies were so on point.
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
they're back playing shows? I thought they were feuding again
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link
OCT 17VALLEY VIEW CASINO CENTERSAN DIEGO, CA
OCT 19T-MOBILE ARENALAS VEGAS, NV
looks like that's all for now
― Ross, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
it's a 5 show tour ending in a festival headline. all out west here. quick cash grab I'm sure.
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 18:47 (five years ago) link
Yeah, this is a surprise to me too... the last I heard, Daron was ranting that Serj wasn't into doing any new material?
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
wait the headline show was the sacramento show. yeah they are still beefing but maybe this will help to mend fences who knows.
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
acc to that Stereogum story, iirc they don't have much of an issue playing the old stuff live, all the conflict seems to be around new approaches to hypothetical new stuff.
That's a great setlist, nice to see so much from Steal This Album.
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link
Glad they're busting out a lot of Steal This Album tunes, it's really underrated.
― chap, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
totally
i loooove spiders too, classic track
― Ross, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 21:43 (five years ago) link
Wouldn't be at all bothered if they never played or mentioned Lonely Day again, however.
― chap, Wednesday, 17 October 2018 22:03 (five years ago) link
This band hits different these days
― my Least Favorite Writer (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 12 August 2021 15:59 (two years ago) link
every System of a Down song is like—i’m the mushroom man, i’m the mushroom man. oh ho! oh! oh! In June 2003, Amnesty International published reports of human rights abuses by the U.S. military and its coalition partners at detention centers and prisons in Iraq.[26] These inclu-— mister cries at work (@mistermoviespod) August 12, 2021
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 12 August 2021 16:00 (two years ago) link
That's good
― my Least Favorite Writer (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 12 August 2021 16:05 (two years ago) link
In the wake of responses to the Woodstock 99 documentary I wanted to Tweet this:
Nu metal activated my white male rage and me and my bros got in a System of a Down mosh pit and dismantled the prison industrial complex
― my Least Favorite Writer (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 12 August 2021 16:08 (two years ago) link
why is this album so good?
"Toxicity" probably is the strongest overall, "Chop Suey!" maybe the most classic, but also most classically silly, "Forest" and "Science" deserved more love. Also kind of wish the "Chop Suey!"/"Crocodile Rock" mashup was an option.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Thursday, 12 August 2021 16:32 (two years ago) link
"Prison Song" was my first exposure to any discourse on that topic. But the HBO doc would never dare acknowledge anything like that and mess up their entirely logical narrative.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 12 August 2021 16:35 (two years ago) link
tbh I would pump the mushroom man sound. It sounds dope as fuck.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 12 August 2021 16:40 (two years ago) link
*song, not sound
― billstevejim, Thursday, 12 August 2021 16:41 (two years ago) link