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
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
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.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 14 August 2011 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
I dunno like 7 people said they loved Shimmy so I assumed it would get more than 1 vote.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 14 August 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
"chop suey!" is pretty much permanently tied to that fall for me when i was a freshman in high school
― (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers), Sunday, 14 August 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
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."
― billstevejim, Sunday, 14 August 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
markers and i are the same age! huh.
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Sunday, 14 August 2011 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
i'm 24
― (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers), Sunday, 14 August 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
both of us with a nu-metal ditch in our narratives
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Sunday, 14 August 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
― 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
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 14 August 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 14 August 2011 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgP_2zf0NV8
― billstevejim, Sunday, 14 August 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Sunday, 14 August 2011
aw yeah -- still not 100% out of the ditch (via listening to a little staind earlier)
― (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers), Sunday, 14 August 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
I can't believe I was the only shimmy vote. :(
― ladies love draculas like children love stray dogs (ENBB), Sunday, 14 August 2011 20:18 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:17 (twelve years ago) link
shit, this album is some dope shit
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
many popular bands are considered singles bands to most people who aren't hardcore fans of the band
― (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers), Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
beyond the singles, i really don't care much about soad
― (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers) (markers), Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
nothing wrong with that, i was just expecting more love for the non-singles.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 14 August 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
"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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
the only other single off the first album was "Spiders," which is good if not great
― some dude, Monday, 15 August 2011 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Oldie but goodie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daJm1-oIheg
― his loser, bum of a son, named Jesus Christ (Leee), Monday, 15 August 2011 03:53 (twelve years ago) link
― 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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve 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