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
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 (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
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― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 05:45 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 12 August 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 13 August 2011 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
software version seven point imo
― (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers), Saturday, 13 August 2011 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
HOW DO YOU OWN DISORDER
preferring "Toxicity" to "Chop Suey!" is so fucked
― some dude, Sunday, 14 August 2011 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
Wtf these results are so boring
― billstevejim, Sunday, 14 August 2011 00:28 (twelve years ago) link
ilx not cool enough to know SOAD past the singles (and even if we did a singles poll those same 3 songs would get almost all the votes)
― some dude, Sunday, 14 August 2011 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
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― 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