Music Banter - System of a Down

There's not a lot of things you could say or do at this point that would make me not like you.

Not only did you say Mezmerize or Toxicity, which is exactly what I would have say if you had asked me the same question, but you also mentioned Radio/Video and Lost in Hollywood.

screamed my lungs out, when they played Lost in Hollywood live!

Wpnfire

03-10-2014 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Dylstew (Post 1424932)

One of the few Nu Metal bands I like, probably because they're pretty weird/silly. They don't take themselves all too seriously.

Wait what? I don't think that's true at all...

MOST of their music had a very political message. Soldier side, deer dance, Boom!, and Nuguns were all anti-war songs or anti-military.

Yeah some of their songs like radio/video were just silly, but for virtually every "silly" song they do at least two "serious" songs.

Forward To Death

03-10-2014 06:55 PM

Even at their "silliest", SOAD is usually trying to prove a point. I think people get the wrong idea when they listen to select lyrics, along with the tone of Serj's vocals, which are admittedly very eccentric-sounding. I think they definitely take themselves seriously, not that it really makes much of a difference to me.

khfreek

03-10-2014 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Wpnfire (Post 1425546)

I think he meant they had a willingness to show their sense of humor in their music where most metal bands take themselves too seriously.

Wpnfire

03-12-2014 01:45 PM

Hey what do you classify SOAD as genre-wise? I like referring to them as progressive metal, but I really don't know.

They're kind of all over the place...

Dylstew

03-12-2014 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Wpnfire (Post 1426522)

Hey what do you classify SOAD as genre-wise? I like referring to them as progressive metal, but I really don't know.

They're kind of all over the place...

Alternative Metal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcui8qC9D_4
Love the breakdown in the middle.

With silly I meant not only the silly lyricly, but also musicly. His style of singing for example is pretty silly, which adds to the charm. Or what about the intro of this song itself? I do know they have more serious songs though, and that their songs have some underlying seriousness to them.
Just listen to the vocals to this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR2CX3uJzIE

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Originally Posted by khfreek (Post 1425593)

I think he meant they had a willingness to show their sense of humor in their music where most metal bands take themselves too seriously.

This sums it up.

Forward To Death

03-12-2014 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Wpnfire (Post 1426522)

Hey what do you classify SOAD as genre-wise? I like referring to them as progressive metal, but I really don't know.

They're kind of all over the place...

Come on, no odd time signatures, I can't recall any songs that were much longer than 6 minutes in length, and even 5+ is pretty rare for them as I recall. I can't really think of any reason they'd be prog metal.

I just list them as alternative.

FRED HALE SR.

03-12-2014 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Forward To Death (Post 1426550)

I would call them alternative rock also. They played every major festival in sight after Toxicity came out. I saw them at Family Values tour and they played with Limp Bizkit/Filter/Primus/Korn/Method Man/Red Man, so popular/sellout applies also.

Kartoffelbrei

03-12-2014 03:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Wpnfire (Post 1426522)

Hey what do you classify SOAD as genre-wise? I like referring to them as progressive metal, but I really don't know.

They're kind of all over the place...

i'm no music professor, but i think their genre is called "system of a down".

FRED HALE SR.

03-12-2014 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Kartoffelbrei (Post 1426574)

i'm no music professor, but i think their genre is called "system of a down".

I just checked it their genre is officially retired.

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