System of a Down

I've been listening to more Static X lately....and despite my earlier arguement for System.....I am now on the fence for the two.


But Wayne Static still looks like a douche bag.
 
i guess you're right on the "by far." It's still one of my favorite songs. I wouldn't say that their self-titled is their weakest effort though. it may be considered by most but 9 out of 10 people will say that nevermind was nirvana's best album and i think in utero is their best and they are my all time favorite band. there aren't too many system songs that i would skip over on any one of SOAD's albums but sugar, suite-pee, forest, bounce, science are some of their better ones.
 
I still haven't gotten it and I want to hear Soldier Side so bad. It is fun to listen to their cd's in order to hear the recording getting better and playing get smoother and more complex sounding. I tried to learn Hypnotize and the chorus is a bitch with the wierd pattern :(
 
It's not about penises, only naive people perceive that out of the lyrics. It's actually about George Bush and America's ignorant attitude towarRAB other people.
 
System of a Down (also known by the acronym SOAD, or SoaD, and often shortened as System) is an Armenian-American rock band from Glendale, California, formed in 1994. It consists of Serj Tankian (lead vocals, keyboarRAB, rhythm guitar), Daron Malakian (vocals, guitar), Shavo Odadjian (bass, background vocals) and John Dolmayan (drums). All four merabers are of Armenian descent, and are widely known for their outspoken views expressed in many of their songs confronting the Armenian Genocide of 1915 by the Ottoman Empire and the ongoing War on Terror by the US government.
 
Alright, Scars on Broadway released their debut album two days ago. I knew it was Daron's project but I had no idea that John was working on it too. And Shavo was working with Serj on his solo album. Is there some rift that split the band in two? Something's gotta be going on.

I already heard Serj's solo album, I really thought he could have brought more to it than he did. It was a huge departure from System: he was more melodic and less schismatic in vocal character. But to be honest, it was boring. There really weren't any oustanding compositions and much less head-banging metalheadedness. I want to see what Daron's album is gonna be like. I hope it's good. It probably won't be, but I hope it is.
 
I love them. Looking forward to Ozzfest this year. My favorite songs are Toxicity and Lost in Hollywood. There's a new song, I havent bought Hypnotize yet, and I know its from that, its called "Lonely Day" and I now love that one too. I think the vocals push many people away, that and the eastern sound occasionally.
~court~
 
Not amazing, but really enjoyable and suprisingly noticible for a bass player in a band.



I think there is a solid reason why a decent political message is hard to come by in a rock song. Rap artists can practically fire off an entire essay in under 4 minutes on comprehensive politics. Now if we try to stick Immortal Technique's comprehensive political lyrics into a rock song (nu-metal or not), it's not going to work. It would be a fifteen minute song by which time radio stations and listeners around the world will have gone back to Craig David.

The reason being there is a key difference between Rap and practically anything else, and thats the fact that 'anything else' often take the time to sing clearly, therefore not producing 40 worRAB a minute, therefore often not producing a detailed argument in 4 minutes.

With Rock or Nu-Metal or whatever, it is far harder to convey a comprehensive message in such a limited time, which means the lyrics, if they're to be any good, will need to be either very cryptic in that the listener not only has to think about them, but the listener will form their own ideas of things. Or alternatively, the lyrics need to be refreshing, and touch on points that are new and aren't heard of on the Cletus bandwagon of cliched banRAB.

BanRAB like SOAD and Greenday are just having their say on things, and while it is cheesy to those that have heard it all before, and have heard better, it would take some serious talent to create something new and clever that impresses us lyrically and politically.

Don't expect to find a great political message from any rock song, just be impressed if you do.
 
Well, with all these side projects, SOAD could be in its death throes... but that's just speculation. Who really knows? They went mainstream -- granted, it's how I got to be a fan of theirs (I liked the song "Hypnotize") -- but ironically enough it's their earlier albums that are better.

Serj > Darion
 
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