Stereo, start off with “Prison Song” off Toxicity. It’s like the Violent Femmes on speed. The album itself is pretty solid. But of course as with every band, I can see them not being everyone’s cup of tea.
“Deer Dance” is also great, in fact, the first four songs on “Toxicity” are just great. The singles from that album were so-so (I thought Aerials was boring) but the beginning of the album rocks.
this goes out to all the people that said they suck….
have you even listened to their new album?
im guessing not, which leads me to beleve that most of you are morons who have one taste in music, and you dont open your ears to anything new. i fucking hate one-genre people, and how they can tell me how there are all different kinds of genres in their man genre.
and im disapointed sterogum even made this post..
they went platnium, chop suey was a huge hit, and they got famous doing music how they liked to do it.. of course they have fans
Like I suggested earlier, look for their cover of Wu Tang’s Shame on a Nigga.” I found it on the internet. Try to get the original too, just so you can hear the improvement SOAD makes on the original.
I do like the faster SOAD songs, but “Roulette” off of “Steal This Album” is one of those songs that can bring a tear to your eye if you’re in the right mindset. “Marmalade” is another oft-overlooked track, from the “Strangeland” soundtrack. There’s also a 1998 Kid Rock/Eminem song on there as well. Let me know what you think.
I asked myself the same question when I saw that awful performance, I really tried but I kept tuning out, it was so funny. But I guess the question is answered, they DO have fans, who knew?
I kinda feel bad for people who don’t understand what’s good about System of A Down. If I had a really narrow interest in music maybe I wouldn’t like them either.
Personally, I like the prog-classical influence on Toxicity. I think that album is awesome. I even think “Chop Suey” is a great single.
you don’t get it because you don’t have ONE OUNCE OF COOL IN YOU. if you had any taste at all in music or could broaden your mind beyond (i’m guessing brittney spears and jessica simpson) you could appreciate it..
HAVE ANY OF YOU TRASHING SYSTEM NOT HEARD BYOB??? ARE YOU PEOPLE INSANE OR JUST DELUDED? YOU DEPEND ON OUR PROTECTION THEN YOU FEED US LIES FROM THE TABLECLOTH….
SYSTEM FUCKING ROCKS ANYONE WHO SAYS OTHERWISE CAN NEVER CALL THEMSELVES A ROCKER.
Late one night, I turned on the TV and saw band of funny-looking characters doing what I thought was a parody of seventies rock on a talk show. Turned out to be Phish doing what Phish does, straight up. Ouch.
Same thing happened with the Spice Girls on SNL. I’d never heard of them at that point and thought they were a(n intentional) joke.
System of Down couldn’t possibly have been as bad as either Phish and the Spice Girls.
All you people hating on “The Down” are out of your minds!
I truly believe that 99% people slamming them have listened to probably 1/10th of the music they put out. If that’s the case, that’s a bit premature judgement.
Only one person on this thread mentioned “Steal this Album”, their 3rd CD which is a compilation of unreleased songs and B-sides. Until you listen to the tracks on this CD SEVERAL TIMES (one or two listens…..you will not get it), you can’t judge SOAD. The last 1/2 of the cd just blends great track together with great track, and you can’t even tell where one song ends and the next begins (which is weird, since it is a complilation CD). It is a mind-blowing mix of metal, middle eastern music, pop, ballad, with smidgens of jazz and funk thrown in.
It simply kick ass, and there is nothing else to say.
It you can’t take heavy-ish music, then there is plenty of easy listening stuff out there for all.
I LOVE system of a down. They are so much different than every other band out there and that’s what is cool to me. I love how they can take a song and start it very slow and mellow and then change it suddenly back to a fast paced metal song…. not to mention the voices of the singers are so different than other bands also. These two let go rather than hold back as to not startle the crowd with a little variety.
You people are complete idiots. System of a down is the only original work out there right now. The only thing that you foolish retards site is that they are “funny looking.” The problem is that you are all listening the shitty GLAM music that is out now. You know, the music that puts a pretty person in the front of a band/pop group and has shitty pop songs written for them?? Then there are designer “punks” like greenday and blink. The fact that they can look however they want and make it today shows that they have MAD talent.
I came upon this site by accident, excuse my intrusion.
Alot of you people are talking about SOAD as if they were a new band. They’ve been around for several years. Maybe if these people were real music fans they would know about this.
From what I can tell, some of you are pop lovers, that is, people that listen to pop music exclusively. I have no respect for pop lovers, they know nothing of musicianship, or even how a song is played. Being a musician, I respect all forms of music, except maybe hip-hop, rap, and pretty much anything else that is written by a computer and run through so many voice filters that you couldn’t recognize the person’s actual voice from hearing their, “music.”
Also keep in mind that live performances, especially at SNL, tend to sound alot worse than the album.
You also should not judge a band by the way they look. Thats one of the biggest problems in music today. People put too much emphasis on the way an artist looks and not enough on the way they sound.
Whoa, went on a rant there. Excuse the disorganized statements.
Also this is only directed toward some of you, some made much better argumants than I. I had only read about half of the page when I started writing.
well i think System of a Down is the best ever. i love them.
after all we are free to choose what we wanna listen to. and of course 90% just love to be in the mainstream, watching hapl naked girls on MTV every day.
it’s up to you………..
system is awesome..not only is there new single great but so is the new album. there appearences dont mean shit and for those of you who are stuck on that then u obviously never listen to music and you just look at the band. and you know what thats kind of sad! system is a great band
Im not a huge fan of System Of A Down but I have to admit they are heaps better than most of the other mainstream shit these days and they are one of the few nu-metal bands that came up with an original sound. Yeah I know thay aren’t as good as the older metal bands (Iron Maiden, Slayer, Metallica) but seriously, I would rather listen to them than Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Simple Plan or any other pop or rap shit.
system of a down are absolutley amazing because their lyrics dont just talk about love they talk about poverty and other things that are happening in the world. i noticed some people on here are discriminating, as you say ‘you dont want to listen to rap or shit music,’ most music’s origin is underground trance. some put the music into groups e.g punk, glam, goth and pop. this is proven that the people who do that take into account what they look like and not how they sound. i bet most people who do that dont actually listen to the music themselves but depend others out on the street to tell them what they sound like. take ‘goths’ for instence what music would you associate to them… i reckon most of you sitting there reading this think screaming, heavy because the way they dress.
this goes to the people who are discriminating soad show that you listen to 2/10 of their music out
p.s i cant beleive you read throught this shite!!!! lol!
I would like to make a small correction. Nu-metal is essentially rap-rock, at least as I understand it from what I read on wikipedia. System of a Down is not Nu-metal. I don’t like to prescribe to genre classifying, but sometimes you have to.
Some of you people need to learn to not listen to people about music and form your own opinions when you listen to the music.
P.S. to HH
I personally think that their old stuff is better than their newer stuff, of course, their newer stuff is great too, and I haven’t heard mezmerize yet. But if you like the new stuff thats your perogative. Just wanted to voice my opinion on that.
SOAD is my favourite band. Like everyone says, the are an aquired taste. The basic reason behind this is because they are so weird and unique, ie. sound, dress etc. Anywho I can understand why you wouldn’t like them, the whole changing in tempo, singing that is very fast thing and the weirdness facter. But they’ve been doing this for seven years now, and have gotten quite good at it and unlike modern political bands that have sprung up lately they’ve been doing this since their first album and it hasn’t all been about the Armenian genocide, or atleast it isn’t always directly focused on it. All I have to say is that you shouldn’t just judge a book by it’s cover and definatly not by a performance on SNL, I saw that episode with SOAD and I do admit it could have been better.
System of a down are great, people should listen to them before they start talking all this shit, just because you a huge kelly clarckson fan doesnt meen you have to discredit a real talented band. BTW Serj does look like a pirate
Well my fucking bad. i dont get how you guys are all hating the system of a down .. they ROCK. there best song on toxicity is most definately chop suey.its not to hardcore .. its got some soft stuff so its most likely to satisfy the not so hardcore one’s. well im sorry to all them out there that like ricky martin or whatever .. britney spears .. gwen stefani and shit. get a life that music is gay.who wants more of them.these days the music is all same old same old.but yet system of a down . .thats another story .. all there stuffs random and you can mosh hard to it. so go fuck yourselfs [scuse my language]
System of a Down is an awesome band.
After listening their all albums I forgot all other bands I liked. Their music sound (f*cking)good in my ear. Only their music isn’t good, all the band members are cool imo. All their music videos are cool (except “Spiders”, it sucks pretty bad). I don’t see any reason to hate this awesome band.
to all the SOAD haters fuck off! I love System they are favorite band and better than any of the crappy shit you post on this shitty website. This is my first time to ever be on this website and I already think that its viewers are motherfucking assholes who have no taste in music what so ever. To all the SOAD fans out there you guys are all right. I did laugh at some of you guys’ pitiful metaphors attempting to trash system of a down. Let me clue you guys in… They don’t give a shit about you and they could care less what the hell you asswipes think. And Who the fuck cares if they said fuck and it wasn’t bleeped out half of you mofo’s print the f word in your postings anyway why would you care. SO JUST DEAL WITH IT you stupid ass haters out there
2) System of a Down have pointles, crappy lyrics, no recognisable harmony or melody, and no instrumental or vocal talent.
3) System of a Down is a band that relies on “rebellious” teenagers’ fleeting likes; people who like them like them for about a week, then realise just how abysmal they are, and never listen to them again.
4) System of a Down are shit. I don’t give a toss what Avril Lavigne thinks; she’s shit too.
5) In case you haven’t noticed yet, I both think System of a Down are shit, and, yes, shock horror, i like indie and Rock n’ Roll. But what you SOAD fans don’t realise that in 10 years no-one will remember them. They will be lost in a sea of equally shit metal (or whatever they are) bands, forgotten forever. The sign of great bands is that they live on after they die.
“After I heard System of a Down, I thought, I?m actually alive to hear the shittiest band ever. 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.”
He couldn’t have hit the nail on the head any sweeter, or with any bigger a hammer.
To all you “hardcore” SOAD fand out there, i suggest you stop “moshing” and “rocking” for a few seconds and get a grip on your pathetic tastes and understand what music is. It’s not someone playing a guitar at 10000 decibels, and someone screaming “fucking fuck fuckety fuck fuck fuck” into a microphone.
LIAR! Spiders is the best freakin’ video. Just because it’s SLOW and MELODIC and NOT BADASS ENOUGH doesn’t mean it’s inferior. Maybe you’ve headbanged too much to recognize real music.
Just for the record, SOAD is my favourite band too. They are musically intricate and complex, and I’m happy when it’s played loud because it usually drowns out the Avril from next door. As a guitarist, bassist, pianist, drummer, and vocalist, one cannot claim that my musical background is insufficient to justify this claim.
By the way, anyone heard the Avril Lavigne Chop Suey cover? I shat my pants laughing. Possibly the worst recording in the history of music.
system of a down eats bands like oasis in the breakfast takes bands like coldplay like tothpicks and wipes their asses with the rest of shitty british’s bands
fuck you NOEL your vallium shitty band get worths each time
nothing like wonderwall champagne supernova etc etc.
system of a down eats bands like oasis in the breakfast takes bands like coldplay like tothpicks and wipes their asses with the rest of shitty british’s bands
NOEL your vallium shitty band get worths each time
nothing like wonderwall champagne supernova etc etc.
I fucking HATE SOAD. THEIR MUSIC SUCKS. THEIR SINGER SUCKS. THEIR GUITARIST SUCK. THEIR LYRICS SUCK. THEIR RIFFS SUCK. THE POINT SUCKS. I FUCKING HATE THEM. JUST DIE.
WUT IS UP WITH U PEOPLE???? FIRST OF ALL THERE TARGET AGE GROUP IS TEENS NOT SOME FAT GUYS WITH DIRTY T-SHIRTS THAT SHOULD HAVE SOMTHING BETTER IN TERE LIFE THEN CRITICIZE A BAND… besides.. u guys are 2 closed minded.. noone ever said shit about any other “wierdly dressed band” if thats how they wana dress then let them u idiots…. second of all ur music taste is 2 shittiy to like them i listened to system of a down ever since 1998 (so for 7 years) and ive liked every song… for one they mix middle eastern tunes and more of a grunge rock together to make very sweet music… and for the people who r badmouthing there SNL preformance… ive seen about hmm 50 other preformars and they always have the shittyest preformances on Snl…. So go listen to ur gay music noone wants to hear how some old fat guy likes to critisize GOOD music…. (wut idiots)
greatest band to grace the planet earth with their ambience and presence. the politics may not be as outright as rage against the machine but songs like revenga and sugar make you wanna sign up for rugby just to release some pent up rage you’ve had since you were a kid.
I’ve noticed how so many people have been griping about how SOAD looks… so frickin’ what? Since when does one’s fashion choices affect their talent?
Also, why are so many people becoming so rabid about a band? Whether you like ‘em or not is a matter of opinion. Everyone has one, and if yours is different than mine, I shouldn’t tell you you’re wrong. That would be attempting to assimilate you into my way of thinking – and that defeats the idea of individuality.
Also, so many of you seem to have only heard of them on SNL – MTV should not be telling you what to listen to. Hell, they haven’t even played music videos in 10 years or more.
Besides, most everyone sounds like crap on SNL; the sound producers suck, and only popular artists appear on their channel. How often have you seen them introduce a new, never-before-heard band that wasn’t a carbon-copy of another popular group?
Lesson for the Day: don’t judge a band based on popular opinion or MTV play. Grab a few of their songs, listen to ‘em a few times, then make your decision. If you like ‘em, great. Buy their music. If you don’t, big deal. Move on.
First of all, what’s all this shit about the way they look? Since when does EVERY band have to get on stage with a tie and a $200 hair cut. And about the music, if you don’t like hard music, fine. Just say that and move on. But to say that its garbage when every media outlet is bleeding with bubblegum bullshit, whiny self-pity, or random non-sense to the “it never gets old” 4/4 time sig shows how narrow-minded your ear is, as well as the utter insignificance of your opinion. Maybe they ought to turn it down a bit, keep it simple, and add some MIDI so that they sound like every other hip band.
SOAD, like Radiohead and the Mars Volta, is years ahead of its time and probably won’t be fully appreciated for another twenty years. And while they’ll still be selling out massive venues, a lot of you hipsters, will be reminiscing about bands like the Ceasars and the Killers and the Bravery in the same pathetic manner as some might yearn for the days of Erasure, Dexys Midnight Runners, and the God-awful Thompson Twins.
System was taking under the wing of the Fucking King- Rick Rubin. At his stage in his career I dont think that he would work with anyone unless they were the best at what they do. SOAD Rocks
the system rox. i dont care what the fuck any1 else says. my friends ryan and erik r huge fans 2. u gotta admit u will always have a strange but real luv 4 system of a down. it helps u calm down when yur angry and get angry web yur calm.
my friend told me that he watched a documentary on them on either vh1 or mtv and during a concert the one member said “I suck his dick!” to the other. that started many to throw shoes and other shit at them and boo the hell out of them. You all see that or hear that they are gay or anything? i enjoy their music but dont want to think they are a bunch of gay fuckers!
look system are friken kick ass it dosnt matter were ther from what they look like only what ther music sounds like i mean judging a band on ther looks is preety shallow everyone will like them in about 10 years when ppl relize what they wanted to achive
soad is the best band i’ve ever heard and many people can agree on that they are talented up the ass hands down and who ever doesnt agree with me doesnt know what good music sounds like i first heard them in mexico where they have heavy fans..
I dont know much about them.. :’( but still i love them! can anyone tell me about a GOOD website which i can see and learn anything about them… im just new on this, i looove them so much! can someone please tell me about a website which i can learn manything about them..
and please, dont say im a lousy fan… its anyway 3 or 4 weeks i heard about them, and i love them..
I own all of SOAD’s albums, I would consider myself a fan, but at the same time feel like the lead singer is out of his mind. I agree with the “Sesame Street” comment, that’s how I describe it to people. He goes off into a cloud and does opera in a cartoonish voice… It’s very um different then other thrash bands.
I have always liked thrash music, I just never liked the death/devil/etc that went along with it. DRI was awesome but the vocals/lyrics were shit.
Atleast SOAD can sing, most of them can’t.
I can’t believe how many of the fans dislike the thrash metal of it. I wouldn’t buy their next album if they changed it.
Anyways… It took me awhile to get past the vocals, he is getting weirder and crazier in his music but they are good tunes and entertaining. Who says laughing and thrash metal don’t go together? He may be weird but he goes all out with it!
Ok well first off i will mention that yes i am a system fan and of course i am biased but i will explain a bit. First off that SNL showing was their first serious live showing for years you can’t expect them to come out being intensely god like, if you listen to live showings later in the year you will see what i mean.Also about 1/5 of there songs are political the others i find to be philosophical despite a few which have utterly nonsensical lyrics. I myself listen to no British rock, emo , indie, or what not. My musical taste is odd so i cant talk for the majority, but from what i’ve heard System of a down is more talented than the majority of Metal bands. Plus they have been around for a great deal of time, their first albums are quite good too.
Nobody EVER mentions CIGARO???? Why? That is the best song ever! Know why: cause MY COCK IS MUCH BIGGER THAN YOURS AND MY SHIT STINKS MUCH BETTER THAN YOURS!!!!!! LOL SOAD and SLIPKNOT are the BEST metal bands out there!!
I fucking adore system of a down…
we all have our different tastes
personally I think the music itself is amazing. I think every member of the band is excellent.
Alot of my friends think they are getting prentenous now and that they are trying hard too hard to be different …but i dont see it.
I’ve seen them at Download 05 and they were brillient performers
I aint into the fact its political (probaly down to my age (17) ) but It does give them an edge.
Same with rage against the machine but then again rage are alot better.
i admit that acouple of their song’s on the new ablum are weak
but relize you are doing nothing with you life whilest they are living it up
DOING IT ! ! ! !
you live in forums bashing people and music
while they are breaking ground for future metal bands
you don’t like them?then just move on to some other gayass site
im sure thay’re waiting 4 ya ! ! !
anyone else notice on the SNL performance the entire audio cuts out EXCEPT the guitarists vocals for like, 2 seconds ? it appears they were lip synching ? it looks like the guitarist got mad pissed and screamed “FUCK YOU” knowing they wouldnt be prepared to cut it out in time.. just my observance!
As a side note I love Systems music but this was an awful performance!
ya whoever doesnt like SOAD is nuts ur al poser ass bitches who listen to gay ass Blink 182 adn shit if u were real rockers udd like them….”when you lose small mind you free your life”-aerialsSOADroCKSS!SSSSS!!SS!
i dont care what anybody says about system…sure they are all about politics…but its makin us realize the truth a little bit isnt it? i didnt like their first album that much..but toxicity is kick ass along with mezmerize/hypnotize. i suggest listening to soldier side on hypnotize..it might tell you why these guys were pissed about the Armenian Genocide.
ok ur all a bunch of fucking softies who have never heard of hard rock or rock n roll system of a down is amazing ok byob on snl was the worst performance they ever had ever and hell no they werent lip synicing u ass that was just the worst performance and he didnt say fuck you ya dumb bitch he said fuck yeah
they arent bi-polar they just change their music alot. whats wrong with that. i wouldnt do the same exact thing the whole time that would be boring as hell so they change it up so ppl like them and they kicked ass when they did aerials. i saw them in september and they were fucking amazing ya they havent done a concert in years
I recently say system play live and thought they were fucking awesome. Anyone who thinks they suck must be fucking retarded. Why would Ozzy one of the most influential pioneers of metal invite a poser band to playon his tour. Oh I know he wouldn’t. All you people who hate System probably listen to fucking Fall Out Boy and Bowling For Soup. Fuck all SOAD haters.
Gatrios – you are a fucking genius. Arcade Fire are shit. I haven’t heard system of a down – but I will go and buy the albums now. I’ll have to delete some mp3s off my laptop to do it. I think I’ll start with funeral, and their ain’t much chance of survival for the Neon Bible, cos it’s indulgent crap mixed with overrated springsteen rip off. I salute you sir.
I came across this doing a search on why Noel Gallagher said that about SOAD. Huh…I believe the record shows that despite their massive commercial success, Oasis has been a critical failure. I agree. Tons and tons of songs that all sound the same. I hear a System of a Down song and I can fucking name it. SOAD is amazing, creative, and truly unique. I can’t think of any band save for maybe Apex Theory that can be stylistically compared to them.
Oasis = overhyped Mancunian shit + a carton of cowboy-killers a day
And what’s with the Arcade Fire hating? Funeral is one the best albums I’ve ever listened to. If you listen to it, beginning to end, and don’t hear the fucking emotion in the songs, you need to be psychoanalyzed. And *don’t* group them with shit like Death Cab and Bright Eyes who can’t even spell introspection.
All of you who talk shit about system of a down are freakin retarded. System is one of the few mainstream bands doing something different and original. Like Andre 3000 says: “If it dont stank like they stank then they cant swallow it down.” I guess they just dont sound enough like what you think things should sound like, so you dont understand it, and therefore dont like it. They are one of the best bands around right now, hands down.
Yikes! Clearly I struck a nerve. So y’all think I should give SOAD another listen. Anyone wanna suggest best tracks?
I’d be more embarrased to be caught listening to Oasis that I would be System. Wtf is that all about?
Stereo, start off with “Prison Song” off Toxicity. It’s like the Violent Femmes on speed. The album itself is pretty solid. But of course as with every band, I can see them not being everyone’s cup of tea.
“Deer Dance” is also great, in fact, the first four songs on “Toxicity” are just great. The singles from that album were so-so (I thought Aerials was boring) but the beginning of the album rocks.
I would also recommend “Sugar” and “Spiders” from the first record.
“dfa1979 also sucks”
holy shit…are you kidding me?!? Hands down one of the most talented groups in rock right now.
soad has shit on them.
“Sugar” is the way to start… then try on Toxicity
this goes out to all the people that said they suck….
have you even listened to their new album?
im guessing not, which leads me to beleve that most of you are morons who have one taste in music, and you dont open your ears to anything new. i fucking hate one-genre people, and how they can tell me how there are all different kinds of genres in their man genre.
and im disapointed sterogum even made this post..
they went platnium, chop suey was a huge hit, and they got famous doing music how they liked to do it.. of course they have fans
Like I suggested earlier, look for their cover of Wu Tang’s Shame on a Nigga.” I found it on the internet. Try to get the original too, just so you can hear the improvement SOAD makes on the original.
I do like the faster SOAD songs, but “Roulette” off of “Steal This Album” is one of those songs that can bring a tear to your eye if you’re in the right mindset. “Marmalade” is another oft-overlooked track, from the “Strangeland” soundtrack. There’s also a 1998 Kid Rock/Eminem song on there as well. Let me know what you think.
I asked myself the same question when I saw that awful performance, I really tried but I kept tuning out, it was so funny. But I guess the question is answered, they DO have fans, who knew?
i think a lot of people don’t get it. ashley simpson was on snl too.
I kinda feel bad for people who don’t understand what’s good about System of A Down. If I had a really narrow interest in music maybe I wouldn’t like them either.
Personally, I like the prog-classical influence on Toxicity. I think that album is awesome. I even think “Chop Suey” is a great single.
You know what they reminded me of? That “Every Day is Halloween” song by Ministry.
you don’t get it because you don’t have ONE OUNCE OF COOL IN YOU. if you had any taste at all in music or could broaden your mind beyond (i’m guessing brittney spears and jessica simpson) you could appreciate it..
AND ONE MORE THING…
HAVE ANY OF YOU TRASHING SYSTEM NOT HEARD BYOB??? ARE YOU PEOPLE INSANE OR JUST DELUDED? YOU DEPEND ON OUR PROTECTION THEN YOU FEED US LIES FROM THE TABLECLOTH….
SYSTEM FUCKING ROCKS ANYONE WHO SAYS OTHERWISE CAN NEVER CALL THEMSELVES A ROCKER.
Late one night, I turned on the TV and saw band of funny-looking characters doing what I thought was a parody of seventies rock on a talk show. Turned out to be Phish doing what Phish does, straight up. Ouch.
Same thing happened with the Spice Girls on SNL. I’d never heard of them at that point and thought they were a(n intentional) joke.
System of Down couldn’t possibly have been as bad as either Phish and the Spice Girls.
Le Stereogum,
I must state for the record System’s live ’00 performance of ‘Spiders’ on Conan was EMBARRASSING.
Thank you,
The Management
All you people hating on “The Down” are out of your minds!
I truly believe that 99% people slamming them have listened to probably 1/10th of the music they put out. If that’s the case, that’s a bit premature judgement.
Only one person on this thread mentioned “Steal this Album”, their 3rd CD which is a compilation of unreleased songs and B-sides. Until you listen to the tracks on this CD SEVERAL TIMES (one or two listens…..you will not get it), you can’t judge SOAD. The last 1/2 of the cd just blends great track together with great track, and you can’t even tell where one song ends and the next begins (which is weird, since it is a complilation CD). It is a mind-blowing mix of metal, middle eastern music, pop, ballad, with smidgens of jazz and funk thrown in.
It simply kick ass, and there is nothing else to say.
It you can’t take heavy-ish music, then there is plenty of easy listening stuff out there for all.
System of a down fucking rocks, and rocks hard, and anyone that don’t like it can suck my balls!!!!!!!
I LOVE system of a down. They are so much different than every other band out there and that’s what is cool to me. I love how they can take a song and start it very slow and mellow and then change it suddenly back to a fast paced metal song…. not to mention the voices of the singers are so different than other bands also. These two let go rather than hold back as to not startle the crowd with a little variety.
You people are complete idiots. System of a down is the only original work out there right now. The only thing that you foolish retards site is that they are “funny looking.” The problem is that you are all listening the shitty GLAM music that is out now. You know, the music that puts a pretty person in the front of a band/pop group and has shitty pop songs written for them?? Then there are designer “punks” like greenday and blink. The fact that they can look however they want and make it today shows that they have MAD talent.
PS the guy from oasis
#1 is not john lennon
#2 sucks
Support System of a Down – they F’n ROCK!!
Buy ‘Steal This Album’, SOAD Self Titled, ‘Toxicity’ and ‘Mezmerize’(out now!)
On the new album “This Cocaine makes me feel like Im on this Song” is the best track, the whole cd is excellent.
I came upon this site by accident, excuse my intrusion.
Alot of you people are talking about SOAD as if they were a new band. They’ve been around for several years. Maybe if these people were real music fans they would know about this.
From what I can tell, some of you are pop lovers, that is, people that listen to pop music exclusively. I have no respect for pop lovers, they know nothing of musicianship, or even how a song is played. Being a musician, I respect all forms of music, except maybe hip-hop, rap, and pretty much anything else that is written by a computer and run through so many voice filters that you couldn’t recognize the person’s actual voice from hearing their, “music.”
Also keep in mind that live performances, especially at SNL, tend to sound alot worse than the album.
You also should not judge a band by the way they look. Thats one of the biggest problems in music today. People put too much emphasis on the way an artist looks and not enough on the way they sound.
Whoa, went on a rant there. Excuse the disorganized statements.
Also this is only directed toward some of you, some made much better argumants than I. I had only read about half of the page when I started writing.
well i think System of a Down is the best ever. i love them.
after all we are free to choose what we wanna listen to. and of course 90% just love to be in the mainstream, watching hapl naked girls on MTV every day.
it’s up to you………..
system is awesome..not only is there new single great but so is the new album. there appearences dont mean shit and for those of you who are stuck on that then u obviously never listen to music and you just look at the band. and you know what thats kind of sad! system is a great band
Im not a huge fan of System Of A Down but I have to admit they are heaps better than most of the other mainstream shit these days and they are one of the few nu-metal bands that came up with an original sound. Yeah I know thay aren’t as good as the older metal bands (Iron Maiden, Slayer, Metallica) but seriously, I would rather listen to them than Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Simple Plan or any other pop or rap shit.
System of a Down is a great band you dipshits.
I prefer songs like Aerials, Atwa, Chop Suey!…BYOB reminds me of the older stuff which is why I nevered listen to anything they did before Toxicity.
By the way, there’s free download of Cigaro at MP3.com.
Link: http://chkpt.zdnet.com/chkpt/mp3-systemdown-download-click/image.com.com/mp3/images/misc/system_of_a_down_cigaro.mp3
system of a down are absolutley amazing because their lyrics dont just talk about love they talk about poverty and other things that are happening in the world. i noticed some people on here are discriminating, as you say ‘you dont want to listen to rap or shit music,’ most music’s origin is underground trance. some put the music into groups e.g punk, glam, goth and pop. this is proven that the people who do that take into account what they look like and not how they sound. i bet most people who do that dont actually listen to the music themselves but depend others out on the street to tell them what they sound like. take ‘goths’ for instence what music would you associate to them… i reckon most of you sitting there reading this think screaming, heavy because the way they dress.
this goes to the people who are discriminating soad show that you listen to 2/10 of their music out
p.s i cant beleive you read throught this shite!!!! lol!
I would like to make a small correction. Nu-metal is essentially rap-rock, at least as I understand it from what I read on wikipedia. System of a Down is not Nu-metal. I don’t like to prescribe to genre classifying, but sometimes you have to.
Some of you people need to learn to not listen to people about music and form your own opinions when you listen to the music.
P.S. to HH
I personally think that their old stuff is better than their newer stuff, of course, their newer stuff is great too, and I haven’t heard mezmerize yet. But if you like the new stuff thats your perogative. Just wanted to voice my opinion on that.
SOAD is my favourite band. Like everyone says, the are an aquired taste. The basic reason behind this is because they are so weird and unique, ie. sound, dress etc. Anywho I can understand why you wouldn’t like them, the whole changing in tempo, singing that is very fast thing and the weirdness facter. But they’ve been doing this for seven years now, and have gotten quite good at it and unlike modern political bands that have sprung up lately they’ve been doing this since their first album and it hasn’t all been about the Armenian genocide, or atleast it isn’t always directly focused on it. All I have to say is that you shouldn’t just judge a book by it’s cover and definatly not by a performance on SNL, I saw that episode with SOAD and I do admit it could have been better.
System of a down are great, people should listen to them before they start talking all this shit, just because you a huge kelly clarckson fan doesnt meen you have to discredit a real talented band. BTW Serj does look like a pirate
Well my fucking bad. i dont get how you guys are all hating the system of a down .. they ROCK. there best song on toxicity is most definately chop suey.its not to hardcore .. its got some soft stuff so its most likely to satisfy the not so hardcore one’s. well im sorry to all them out there that like ricky martin or whatever .. britney spears .. gwen stefani and shit. get a life that music is gay.who wants more of them.these days the music is all same old same old.but yet system of a down . .thats another story .. all there stuffs random and you can mosh hard to it. so go fuck yourselfs [scuse my language]
SOAD FOREVER
CHE SOAD AND GIVARE ROCK ES HIMARNERI VORA
KUNENK TURKERI MORA
ZHASH TANK NRANTS VORA
KILIKIAI VRICA
HET VERZNENK XARSA
U URISH MNACACA
HAYATAN
System of a Down is an awesome band.
After listening their all albums I forgot all other bands I liked. Their music sound (f*cking)good in my ear. Only their music isn’t good, all the band members are cool imo. All their music videos are cool (except “Spiders”, it sucks pretty bad). I don’t see any reason to hate this awesome band.
to all the SOAD haters fuck off! I love System they are favorite band and better than any of the crappy shit you post on this shitty website. This is my first time to ever be on this website and I already think that its viewers are motherfucking assholes who have no taste in music what so ever. To all the SOAD fans out there you guys are all right. I did laugh at some of you guys’ pitiful metaphors attempting to trash system of a down. Let me clue you guys in… They don’t give a shit about you and they could care less what the hell you asswipes think. And Who the fuck cares if they said fuck and it wasn’t bleeped out half of you mofo’s print the f word in your postings anyway why would you care. SO JUST DEAL WITH IT you stupid ass haters out there
1) System of a Down are shit.
2) System of a Down have pointles, crappy lyrics, no recognisable harmony or melody, and no instrumental or vocal talent.
3) System of a Down is a band that relies on “rebellious” teenagers’ fleeting likes; people who like them like them for about a week, then realise just how abysmal they are, and never listen to them again.
4) System of a Down are shit. I don’t give a toss what Avril Lavigne thinks; she’s shit too.
5) In case you haven’t noticed yet, I both think System of a Down are shit, and, yes, shock horror, i like indie and Rock n’ Roll. But what you SOAD fans don’t realise that in 10 years no-one will remember them. They will be lost in a sea of equally shit metal (or whatever they are) bands, forgotten forever. The sign of great bands is that they live on after they die.
Noel Gallagher said:
“After I heard System of a Down, I thought, I?m actually alive to hear the shittiest band ever. 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.”
He couldn’t have hit the nail on the head any sweeter, or with any bigger a hammer.
To all you “hardcore” SOAD fand out there, i suggest you stop “moshing” and “rocking” for a few seconds and get a grip on your pathetic tastes and understand what music is. It’s not someone playing a guitar at 10000 decibels, and someone screaming “fucking fuck fuckety fuck fuck fuck” into a microphone.
LIAR! Spiders is the best freakin’ video. Just because it’s SLOW and MELODIC and NOT BADASS ENOUGH doesn’t mean it’s inferior. Maybe you’ve headbanged too much to recognize real music.
Just for the record, SOAD is my favourite band too. They are musically intricate and complex, and I’m happy when it’s played loud because it usually drowns out the Avril from next door. As a guitarist, bassist, pianist, drummer, and vocalist, one cannot claim that my musical background is insufficient to justify this claim.
By the way, anyone heard the Avril Lavigne Chop Suey cover? I shat my pants laughing. Possibly the worst recording in the history of music.
for anyone who wants it http://rapidshare.de/files/3364875/soadal.rar.html
system of a down eats bands like oasis in the breakfast takes bands like coldplay like tothpicks and wipes their asses with the rest of shitty british’s bands
fuck you NOEL your vallium shitty band get worths each time
nothing like wonderwall champagne supernova etc etc.
system of a down eats bands like oasis in the breakfast takes bands like coldplay like tothpicks and wipes their asses with the rest of shitty british’s bands
NOEL your vallium shitty band get worths each time
nothing like wonderwall champagne supernova etc etc.
I fucking HATE SOAD. THEIR MUSIC SUCKS. THEIR SINGER SUCKS. THEIR GUITARIST SUCK. THEIR LYRICS SUCK. THEIR RIFFS SUCK. THE POINT SUCKS. I FUCKING HATE THEM. JUST DIE.
What have they done to you, Broken?!
What’s the password for that Avril Lavigne cover RAR ?
WUT IS UP WITH U PEOPLE???? FIRST OF ALL THERE TARGET AGE GROUP IS TEENS NOT SOME FAT GUYS WITH DIRTY T-SHIRTS THAT SHOULD HAVE SOMTHING BETTER IN TERE LIFE THEN CRITICIZE A BAND… besides.. u guys are 2 closed minded.. noone ever said shit about any other “wierdly dressed band” if thats how they wana dress then let them u idiots…. second of all ur music taste is 2 shittiy to like them i listened to system of a down ever since 1998 (so for 7 years) and ive liked every song… for one they mix middle eastern tunes and more of a grunge rock together to make very sweet music… and for the people who r badmouthing there SNL preformance… ive seen about hmm 50 other preformars and they always have the shittyest preformances on Snl…. So go listen to ur gay music noone wants to hear how some old fat guy likes to critisize GOOD music…. (wut idiots)
greatest band to grace the planet earth with their ambience and presence. the politics may not be as outright as rage against the machine but songs like revenga and sugar make you wanna sign up for rugby just to release some pent up rage you’ve had since you were a kid.
I’ve noticed how so many people have been griping about how SOAD looks… so frickin’ what? Since when does one’s fashion choices affect their talent?
Also, why are so many people becoming so rabid about a band? Whether you like ‘em or not is a matter of opinion. Everyone has one, and if yours is different than mine, I shouldn’t tell you you’re wrong. That would be attempting to assimilate you into my way of thinking – and that defeats the idea of individuality.
Also, so many of you seem to have only heard of them on SNL – MTV should not be telling you what to listen to. Hell, they haven’t even played music videos in 10 years or more.
Besides, most everyone sounds like crap on SNL; the sound producers suck, and only popular artists appear on their channel. How often have you seen them introduce a new, never-before-heard band that wasn’t a carbon-copy of another popular group?
Lesson for the Day: don’t judge a band based on popular opinion or MTV play. Grab a few of their songs, listen to ‘em a few times, then make your decision. If you like ‘em, great. Buy their music. If you don’t, big deal. Move on.
/obscenely long post
First of all, what’s all this shit about the way they look? Since when does EVERY band have to get on stage with a tie and a $200 hair cut. And about the music, if you don’t like hard music, fine. Just say that and move on. But to say that its garbage when every media outlet is bleeding with bubblegum bullshit, whiny self-pity, or random non-sense to the “it never gets old” 4/4 time sig shows how narrow-minded your ear is, as well as the utter insignificance of your opinion. Maybe they ought to turn it down a bit, keep it simple, and add some MIDI so that they sound like every other hip band.
SOAD, like Radiohead and the Mars Volta, is years ahead of its time and probably won’t be fully appreciated for another twenty years. And while they’ll still be selling out massive venues, a lot of you hipsters, will be reminiscing about bands like the Ceasars and the Killers and the Bravery in the same pathetic manner as some might yearn for the days of Erasure, Dexys Midnight Runners, and the God-awful Thompson Twins.
open your minds…
Somethingawful.com has an article where several Syndrome Of A Down fans work themselves into a froth defending their band.
Me, I’d be inclined to take them more seriously if “BYOB” weren’t practically a word-for-word ripoff of “War Pigs”.
Well I guess it’s a crime to act like you’re crazy in a band. Ozzie would never do that. Theatre – nahhh – SOAD should just lay there like Lox.
Friggin idiots wouldn’t know good arranged music if it sat on your face.
Now can we please talk about real talent. So what do you think about Britney?
System was taking under the wing of the Fucking King- Rick Rubin. At his stage in his career I dont think that he would work with anyone unless they were the best at what they do. SOAD Rocks
the system rox. i dont care what the fuck any1 else says. my friends ryan and erik r huge fans 2. u gotta admit u will always have a strange but real luv 4 system of a down. it helps u calm down when yur angry and get angry web yur calm.
my friend told me that he watched a documentary on them on either vh1 or mtv and during a concert the one member said “I suck his dick!” to the other. that started many to throw shoes and other shit at them and boo the hell out of them. You all see that or hear that they are gay or anything? i enjoy their music but dont want to think they are a bunch of gay fuckers!
look system are friken kick ass it dosnt matter were ther from what they look like only what ther music sounds like i mean judging a band on ther looks is preety shallow everyone will like them in about 10 years when ppl relize what they wanted to achive
yea oasis has a right to comment being a crappy beatles clone
soad is the best band i’ve ever heard and many people can agree on that they are talented up the ass hands down and who ever doesnt agree with me doesnt know what good music sounds like i first heard them in mexico where they have heavy fans..
I dont know much about them..
:’( but still i love them! can anyone tell me about a GOOD website which i can see and learn anything about them… im just new on this, i looove them so much! can someone please tell me about a website which i can learn manything about them..
and please, dont say im a lousy fan… its anyway 3 or 4 weeks i heard about them, and i love them..
some of u guys are bashing System of a Down. You know what I have to say to that?
bump
FUCK YOU ALL!!!!! YOU GUYS SUCK!!!!!
I own all of SOAD’s albums, I would consider myself a fan, but at the same time feel like the lead singer is out of his mind. I agree with the “Sesame Street” comment, that’s how I describe it to people. He goes off into a cloud and does opera in a cartoonish voice… It’s very um different then other thrash bands.
I have always liked thrash music, I just never liked the death/devil/etc that went along with it. DRI was awesome but the vocals/lyrics were shit.
Atleast SOAD can sing, most of them can’t.
I can’t believe how many of the fans dislike the thrash metal of it. I wouldn’t buy their next album if they changed it.
Anyways… It took me awhile to get past the vocals, he is getting weirder and crazier in his music but they are good tunes and entertaining. Who says laughing and thrash metal don’t go together? He may be weird but he goes all out with it!
Ok well first off i will mention that yes i am a system fan and of course i am biased but i will explain a bit. First off that SNL showing was their first serious live showing for years you can’t expect them to come out being intensely god like, if you listen to live showings later in the year you will see what i mean.Also about 1/5 of there songs are political the others i find to be philosophical despite a few which have utterly nonsensical lyrics. I myself listen to no British rock, emo , indie, or what not. My musical taste is odd so i cant talk for the majority, but from what i’ve heard System of a down is more talented than the majority of Metal bands. Plus they have been around for a great deal of time, their first albums are quite good too.
Nobody EVER mentions CIGARO???? Why? That is the best song ever! Know why: cause MY COCK IS MUCH BIGGER THAN YOURS AND MY SHIT STINKS MUCH BETTER THAN YOURS!!!!!! LOL SOAD and SLIPKNOT are the BEST metal bands out there!!
I fucking adore system of a down…
we all have our different tastes
personally I think the music itself is amazing. I think every member of the band is excellent.
Alot of my friends think they are getting prentenous now and that they are trying hard too hard to be different …but i dont see it.
I’ve seen them at Download 05 and they were brillient performers
I aint into the fact its political (probaly down to my age (17) ) but It does give them an edge.
Same with rage against the machine but then again rage are alot better.
I love S.O.A.D
xxx
i admit that acouple of their song’s on the new ablum are weak
but relize you are doing nothing with you life whilest they are living it up
DOING IT ! ! ! !
you live in forums bashing people and music
while they are breaking ground for future metal bands
you don’t like them?then just move on to some other gayass site
im sure thay’re waiting 4 ya ! ! !
anyone else notice on the SNL performance the entire audio cuts out EXCEPT the guitarists vocals for like, 2 seconds ? it appears they were lip synching ? it looks like the guitarist got mad pissed and screamed “FUCK YOU” knowing they wouldnt be prepared to cut it out in time.. just my observance!
As a side note I love Systems music but this was an awful performance!
http://www.lokeymusic.net
Beep bop the skeet top
Ima about to need a skeet mop
feet stickin to the floor bout every where the skeet drop.
ya whoever doesnt like SOAD is nuts ur al poser ass bitches who listen to gay ass Blink 182 adn shit if u were real rockers udd like them….”when you lose small mind you free your life”-aerialsSOADroCKSS!SSSSS!!SS!
i dont care what anybody says about system…sure they are all about politics…but its makin us realize the truth a little bit isnt it? i didnt like their first album that much..but toxicity is kick ass along with mezmerize/hypnotize. i suggest listening to soldier side on hypnotize..it might tell you why these guys were pissed about the Armenian Genocide.
im out
SYSTEM OF A DOWN ROCKS!!!!!
ok ur all a bunch of fucking softies who have never heard of hard rock or rock n roll system of a down is amazing ok byob on snl was the worst performance they ever had ever and hell no they werent lip synicing u ass that was just the worst performance and he didnt say fuck you ya dumb bitch he said fuck yeah
they arent bi-polar they just change their music alot. whats wrong with that. i wouldnt do the same exact thing the whole time that would be boring as hell so they change it up so ppl like them and they kicked ass when they did aerials. i saw them in september and they were fucking amazing ya they havent done a concert in years
I recently say system play live and thought they were fucking awesome. Anyone who thinks they suck must be fucking retarded. Why would Ozzy one of the most influential pioneers of metal invite a poser band to playon his tour. Oh I know he wouldn’t. All you people who hate System probably listen to fucking Fall Out Boy and Bowling For Soup. Fuck all SOAD haters.
they’re tottally an aquired taste, but i love em … at least they try to be honest and toxicity was awesome
Gatrios – you are a fucking genius. Arcade Fire are shit. I haven’t heard system of a down – but I will go and buy the albums now. I’ll have to delete some mp3s off my laptop to do it. I think I’ll start with funeral, and their ain’t much chance of survival for the Neon Bible, cos it’s indulgent crap mixed with overrated springsteen rip off. I salute you sir.
I came across this doing a search on why Noel Gallagher said that about SOAD. Huh…I believe the record shows that despite their massive commercial success, Oasis has been a critical failure. I agree. Tons and tons of songs that all sound the same. I hear a System of a Down song and I can fucking name it. SOAD is amazing, creative, and truly unique. I can’t think of any band save for maybe Apex Theory that can be stylistically compared to them.
Oasis = overhyped Mancunian shit + a carton of cowboy-killers a day
And what’s with the Arcade Fire hating? Funeral is one the best albums I’ve ever listened to. If you listen to it, beginning to end, and don’t hear the fucking emotion in the songs, you need to be psychoanalyzed. And *don’t* group them with shit like Death Cab and Bright Eyes who can’t even spell introspection.
fuck haters
All of you who talk shit about system of a down are freakin retarded. System is one of the few mainstream bands doing something different and original. Like Andre 3000 says: “If it dont stank like they stank then they cant swallow it down.” I guess they just dont sound enough like what you think things should sound like, so you dont understand it, and therefore dont like it. They are one of the best bands around right now, hands down.