System of a Down "Toxicity"

"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.

lol okay I just listened to this entire album for the first time

what the fuck was I waiting for

so awesome

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

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.

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Wtf these results are so boring

― billstevejim, Saturday, August 13, 2011 8:28 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark

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.)

Toxicity
Or aerials. Hard to decide

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.

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.

Deer Dance. 17 years later it still sounds strange.

SOAD politics seemed pretty regular post RATM?

With the benefit of a little more specificity, plus of course all the wacky stuff.

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

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/

Whenever it happens it's gonna rule.

Title track is my least favorite. Top 4 for me are Forest, Atwa, Chop Suey, and Aerials

Caught these guys last night... automatically slotted into my top 5 all-time concerts.

setlist
http://i63.tinypic.com/2qlr5lx.jpg

Would've voted for Needles btw.

holy shit that's a setlist

It woulda been difficult for me to choose between 'Needles', 'Forest', 'ATWA' or 'Psycho' ...

holy shit that's a setlist

― 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.

they're back playing shows? I thought they were feuding again

OCT 17
VALLEY VIEW CASINO CENTER
SAN DIEGO, CA

OCT 19
T-MOBILE ARENA
LAS VEGAS, NV

looks like that's all for now

it's a 5 show tour ending in a festival headline. all out west here. quick cash grab I'm sure.

Yeah, this is a surprise to me too... the last I heard, Daron was ranting that Serj wasn't into doing any new material?

wait the headline show was the sacramento show. yeah they are still beefing but maybe this will help to mend fences who knows.

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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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