System of a Down "Toxicity"

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.

Wow, that's a hefty journey!

really love the big singles off this record -- eating seeds as a pastime activity reminds me of 9th grade geometry class

Chop Suey, title track, Aerials, was there a fourth single?

xp sorry markers but title track is my least favorite song on this

"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

"Prison Song" was an airplay-only single with a live video but not a hit like the other 3

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.

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 you went out with Avril Lavigne??!?

SHIMMY SHIMMY SHIMMY TIL THE BREAK OF DAWN YEEEEAWWWWWW

^^ put this album in like once a year, get restless after one or two tracks and have to switch it to this and repeat

blast off, it's party time, and WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU?

this album fucking rules

Pretty fun record. Even the closing instrumental is cool.

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.

SHIMMY SHIMMY SHIMMY TIL THE BREAK OF DAWN YEEEEAWWWWWW

― Peepee Soaked Heckhole (zachlyon), Tuesday, August 9, 2011 12:30 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban 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.

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.

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.

Serj's first solo thing was pretty much shite, though it did gift the world with the excellent song title 'Beethoven's Cunt'.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

software version seven point imo

HOW DO YOU OWN DISORDER

preferring "Toxicity" to "Chop Suey!" is so fucked

Wtf these results are so boring

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)

Does anyone have a link to that amazing "Toxicity" promo poster that lists 9-11-01 as the release date? Someone posted it on here once and I can't find it.

I dunno like 7 people said they loved Shimmy so I assumed it would get more than 1 vote.

"chop suey!" is pretty much permanently tied to that fall for me when i was a freshman in high school

Yes, me too. I remember not liking it at all at first, and I remember the Friday afternoon when my friend turned me around on both "Chop Suey!" and "I'm A Slave 4 U."

markers and i are the same age! huh.

i'm 24

both of us with a nu-metal ditch in our narratives

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, Saturday, August 13, 2011 8:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

guilty as charged, but if you included serj singles i'd throw a bone to Empty Walls

It's not like this is a difficult album to get into... Listen to the non-singles. Every song on this album is good. I promise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgP_2zf0NV8

both of us with a nu-metal ditch in our narratives

― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Sunday, 14 August 2011

aw yeah -- still not 100% out of the ditch (via listening to a little staind earlier)

I can't believe I was the only shimmy vote. :(

markers spending half of his thread posts quoting BYOB should have been a good indication that they're considered a singles band to most people.. I figured ILM knew better. I'm like disappointed n stuff.

shit, this album is some dope shit

many popular bands are considered singles bands to most people who aren't hardcore fans of the band

beyond the singles, i really don't care much about soad

nothing wrong with that, i was just expecting more love for the non-singles.

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

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.

man, i was re-listening to some of these singles and they're so much better than fuckin "b.y.o.b."

"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

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).

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.

Glad they're busting out a lot of Steal This Album tunes, it's really underrated.

totally

i loooove spiders too, classic track

Wouldn't be at all bothered if they never played or mentioned Lonely Day again, however.

This band hits different these days

every System of a Down song is like—

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— mister cries at work (@mistermoviespod) August 12, 2021

That's good

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

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.

"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.

tbh I would pump the mushroom man sound. It sounds dope as fuck.

*song, not sound