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System Of A Down – Fuck the System
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If the title of the song wasn’t clue enough; this song is just a big fuck you to the system.
A lot of the band’s personal work goes toward preventing/spreading awareness of war
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System Of A Down – B.Y.O.B.
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“B.Y.O.B.” (“Bring Your Own Bombs”) is the first single released from American heavy metal band System of a Down’s fourth album Mezmerize.
Like their earlier song “Boom!,” it was
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System Of A Down – Sugar
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Like many System of a Down songs, “Sugar” doesn’t have a specific meaning. The term “sugar” is a well-known euphemism for cocaine, which has even worse addictive effects than sugar
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System of a Down & Wu-Tang Clan – Shame
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System of a Down does a cover of Wu-Tang’s “Shame On a Nigga”, from the classic, highly influential 1993 debut album Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers). The song features RZA with a
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System Of A Down – We Don’t Give a Damn About Your World
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It is a demo version of “A.D.D.”
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System Of A Down – P.I.G.
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“P.I.G.” is the first song of System of a Down’s first demo tape. This song was re-released with heavy changes by the name of “Mr. Jack” on Steal This Album. Only the first verse
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System Of A Down – Aerials
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“Aerials” was released in June, 2002 as the third single from System of a Down’s second album Toxicity, which itself was released in September, 2001. It was critically and
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System Of A Down – Sugar (1995 Demo)
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[Intro: Serj Tankian and Daron Malakian] / The Kombucha mushroom people / Sitting around all day / Sugar / Sugar / [Verse 1: Serj Tankian and Daron Malakian] / I'm not really there
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System Of A Down – Deer Dance
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“Deer Dance” is about police brutality against peaceful protesters who are standing up for what they believe in but to no avail. It also criticizes the tendency of extreme
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System Of A Down – Chop Suey!
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Rick Rubin, who produced Toxicity for System of a Down, cites this song as one of his most important projects. He told Rolling Stone:
This song was originally going to be called “
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System Of A Down – Sad Statue
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“Sad Statue” talks mainly about the government, but it talks about war and history too. It is a anti-government song, like many other SOAD songs, like “B.Y.O.B.” or “F**k the
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System Of A Down – Prison Song
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“Prison Song” is a criticism of the prison-industrial complex, the war on drugs, and the incredibly high rate of incarceration in America compared to other modern nations. The
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System Of A Down – I-E-A-I-A-I-O
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“I-E-A-I-A-I-O” talks about the independence of the United States of America in the System’s style, with sexual tongue twisters, movie references and codes. This song is played in
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System Of A Down – P.L.U.C.K. (1995 Demo)
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[Intro: Serj Tankian] / Elimination, Elimination, Elimination / Die! Why?! Walk down! Walk down! / [Verse 1: Serj Tankian & Daron Malakian] / A whole race; Genocide / Taken away
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System Of A Down – Lost in Hollywood
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“Lost In Hollywood” is a grim illustration of how Hollywood takes normal people looking to fulfill dreams of being an actor, and then viciously changing them into fake people. Fame
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System Of A Down – A.D.D. (American Dream Denial)
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“A.D.D” is also a disorder known as Attention Deficit Disorder. The disorder can cause absent-mindedness, difficulty focusing, forgetfulness, or the combination of all three (plus
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System Of A Down – Mr. Jack
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“Mr. Jack” talks about living within a corrupt police state where those in authority can arrest and condemn whoever they please. System of a Down, in its first demo tape, released
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System Of A Down – ATWA
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“ATWA” stands for “Air, Trees, Water, and Animals.” Which was an ecologist mandate begun by the notorious Charles Manson, whom Malakian has cited several times as an inspiration.
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System Of A Down – Holy Mountains
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“Holy Mountains” references Mount Ararat—an important symbol in Armenian culture—and details that the souls lost to the Armenian Genocide have returned to rest here.
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System Of A Down – Soldier Side
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A song decrying war. Daron said he could strongly relate to mothers whose sons were going out to fight. Based on that emotion, he wrote the song.
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System Of A Down – Hypnotize
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“Hypnotize” is the eponymous debut single of System of a Down’s fifth album. The song was written after the Tienanmen Square protest, but, in general, it talks about how
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System Of A Down (Ft. Arto Tunçboyacıyan) – Science
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This song details the negative effects science has had upon our society. While it is more often than not hailed in a positive ‘omniscient’ light, Serj believes it has robbed us of
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System Of A Down – Needles
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“Needles” is a song that talks about the danger of abusing drugs, more specifically heroin, comparing it to have a parasite in your body; the band advertises everybody, don’t do
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System Of A Down – Metro
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This song is a cover of Berlin’s song “The Metro”, being featured on the soundtracks of Dracula 2000 and Not Another Teen Movie, as well as being on some official releases from the
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System Of A Down – Boom!
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“Boom!” is anti-war and directly related to the declaration of war with Iraq. The video clip was directed by Michael Moore and shows footage of the largest protest in the world
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System Of A Down – Know
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“Know” is the second track from System of a Down’s self-titled album. The song was mainly written around the idea of religion, within the lyrics there are multiple references to
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System Of A Down – Kill Rock ‘n Roll
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“Kill Rock n' Roll” by System of a Down is the third track from the band’s fifth album, Hypnotize. Written by Daron Malakian, “Kill Rock n' Roll” is about a rabbit Daron ran over
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System Of A Down – Chic 'N' Stu
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Now this is how you start an album, especially one titled Steal This Album. It’s like a jab at modern-day consumerism, especially with a chorus that houses this message:
Need
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System Of A Down – Cigaro
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“Cigaro” details the pointless and seemingly endless obsession of ‘Boys and their Toys’, whether it be the explicit concept of penis size or the size of their guns, men are always
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System Of A Down – Bounce
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“Bounce” is the seventh track on System of a Down’s second album Toxicity. Daron said in a concert that the song is about sex, but based on the lyrics, it could be about group sex
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System Of A Down – Forest
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Besides environmental aspects, this song could be viewed as a dialogue between God and Jesus. The line “make the forest turn to wine” certainly alludes to this. When talking about
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System Of A Down – Protect the Land
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Initially intended for the next Scars On Broadway album, “Protect The Land” ended up in System’s hands after Daron—who wrote it—sent the track to his bandmates in System. To the
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System Of A Down – Dreaming
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“Dreaming” talks about the world citizens, and about how they’re, sometimes, careless about what’s around them. The song is based on a poem by vocalist Serj Tankian called “Bottled
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System Of A Down – P.L.U.C.K.
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All the members in System are of Armenian descent and outspoken about their views of the Armenian Genocide of 1915. This song is a giant middle finger to the Turkish government, as
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System Of A Down – Vicinity of Obscenity
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Daron said in an interview that Serj wrote this song and that none of them had any idea whatsoever what it meant, they were just having fun. This is also backed by Serj, who stated
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System Of A Down – War?
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In this song, System of a Down denounces the reason behind every war: power struggles, using the Christian Inquisition and modern warfare on the Middle East as examples. The song
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System Of A Down – Peephole
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The song is considerably less thrash metal oriented than most of the other songs on the record, with the chorus being heavier, and the verses having a more polka oriented sound
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The Exploited – Fuck the System
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It doesn't really matter / What you've got to say / They never fucking listen / To you any way / (Chorus) / So fuck the system / You can bring it down / So fuck the system / We can
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System Of A Down – Mind
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“Mind” talks about government mind control, a recurrent theme by the band. As Serj Tankian says, for the government “Freethinkers are dangerous” and because of it, they brainwash
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System Of A Down – Toxicity
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“Toxicity” is one of System of a Down’s biggest hits, the song reached No. 70 on Billboard Hot 100 and No. 3 on Mainstream Rock chart. During a performance at the 2005 Download
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Clockwork Indigo – System
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The last track featured on the Clockwork Indigo EP.
This beat by the Architect features a sample of System of a Down’s “Soldier Side / Intro 1”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3
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System Of A Down – Side of the Freeway
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This was an unreleased version of “Mr. Jack” from SOAD’s 2002 release of“Steal This Album!.
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System Of A Down – CUBErt
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“CUBErt” talks about how society is becoming dumber every day, everyone is cliche. How we blindly follow authority without question, we just sit back and watch our society crumble
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System Of A Down – Spiders
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“Spiders” is the second single for System of a Down’s debut album. It speaks of June, a girl going through a procedure to insert a v-chip in her brain, controlling her thoughts and
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System Of A Down – Tentative
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“Tentative” is a war stance, in which Serj and Daron sing from the perspective of bombing victims—innocent and vulnerable people, crying out to those in charge to save them.
Serj
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