đŸŽ” How Good Are They Really đŸŽ” System Of A Down

First album is genuinely fucking great. Listened to it last year and was surprised by how bare bones it feels. It was the first album of theirs that I owned and I remember being scared to listen to it without headphones as I thought my parents would hear the lyrics and flip.

Toxicity still holds up but after that it’s a descent into total nonsense. Daron Malakian should never have been allowed sing and ‘Lonely Day’ is one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard.

Has to be an unfortunate 2 out of 5.

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MY COCK IS MUCH BIGGER THAN YOURS
MY SHIT STINKS MUCH BETTER THAN YOURS

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Absolutely gas to me that I own this record.



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Feels like they were an important band for me because I listened to them a lot when I was a teenager but they were the end of a musical cul-de-sac for me and I haven’t listened to them or anything that sounds remotely like them since I was about 15. Expect the first couple of albums still have their moments but when they lost it oh man how they lost it. A 2 because I liked them once but they’re probably an objective 1.

Just remembered the time I was in a family-ish pub in Bristol (you know the sort: massive, terrible food, feels like it should be part of a chain but somehow isn’t) and the tedious edgelord manager put on the song Violent Pornography. Bants.

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Great to see you back ID :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

SOAD: 1/5

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Loved (still love) the first three albums. Not sure I’ve ever heard a band like them, great mix of completely bananas ideas, riffs and serious subject matter. Even the two terrible albums I have a soft spot for because I was the right age when they came out and they are pretty earwormy (still terrible though - cant believe they sidelined Serj in favour of whiny Daron).

Really enjoyed the bit in ‘We are Lady Parts’ where the characters are driving around belting out Toxicity in the car. Got weirdly nostalgic about it.

Gone for a 5 as the first three are almost perfect. (actually switched to a 4 due to the drummers bad egg-ness)

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I think I was probably a bit too old to really like them (I was 18 when their debut came out). They were the best of the bands that were lumped in with the nu-metal lot, even though they weren’t really of that scene and were far too interesting to sit alongside Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park.

It’s an obvious 1, isn’t it

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Really like the guitar sound on the first album

Never listened past toxicity

3 but 5 for this cover

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Also a 5

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Only know Chop Suey. I find it hilariously daft and only ever play it to piss off my teenage daughters who claim it is the worst thing they have EVER heard (tbf, they say that about a lot of things).

I was too old for nu-metal when it happened. All of those bands seem like a joke to me.

2 because at least they’re not Oasis

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I loved the first album in the hazy summer of 1998, think it has some songs which have still held up. Suite Pee, War? and Know are still ragers. Toxicity had some OK moments but I have absolutely no desire to listen to it again and find out.

Saw them at Brixton Academy in 2002 when I was already very over them. The Dillinger Escape Plan were their opener and just blew them away. Not a good live band.

This is good:

2/5

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don’t think i’ve ever heard a track of theirs

I am intrigued to know which pub this is.

Was at this. Couldn’t make out a note of DEP, which was a shame - classic muddy Brixton. Really enjoyed SOAD.

The indie snobs will no doubt make this score below a 3.

An easy 5. Will post more later.

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“Cool Mens Hair dot Com”

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The Hollow Tree in Bradley Stoke (which is now a Marstons, which makes sense). I would not recommend visiting.

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Heard them at Reading as an impressionable 16 year old never having heard a note. Blew me away, hard.

Deer Dance is their best track.

Going for 4 to balance out some unfair 2s, but they haven’t done anything worthwhile since 2001 so can’t really stretch to a 5

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