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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 – 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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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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System Of A Down – Psycho
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“Psycho” is a song that talks about heavy metal and all the things around this music genre. Groupies, a kind of people that tries to be in a relationship with a band member. Being
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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 – 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 – 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 – Shimmy
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“Shimmy” talks, basically, about the mind control of the people. For example, Serj just screams orders in the imperative mood, inducing the people’s mind control. The bridge
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System Of A Down – Lonely Day
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“Lonely Day” is a song by System of a Down, from Hypnotize. Contrary to popular belief, this song is not about Daron Malakian’s brother, because he is an only child. He wrote this
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System Of A Down – Honey
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“Honey” is a rare demo off System of a Down’s second demo tape, which also features another rarity, “Temper”, and the demo version for “Soil”. It was written and performed prior to
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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 – X
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“X” (Multiply) is a song about immigration, overpopulation, and the Armenian Genocide of 1915 (a topic that is touched on in many of SOAD’s songs). The 2006 movie Screamers, which
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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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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 – Roulette
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This song’s composition is very atypical for a SOAD song; definitely not metal, and hardly rock. Additionally, the lyrics are considerably more literal (less Dadaist) than the rest
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System Of A Down – Innervision
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“Innervision” is a melodic but aggressive track in which Serj Tankian appears to look inward whilst searching for the answers to life and the universe. The bridge is indicative of
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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 (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 – Suggestions
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“Suggestions” talks about the media and how the authority treats you as nothing. The whole song is a metaphor with the storyline of a ship that is being attacked by another
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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 – Soil
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“Soil” talks about suicide and depression and is dedicated to a friend of the band who committed suicide. Also, “Soil” was the band’s previous name.
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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 – 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 – Pictures
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[Verse 1: Serj Tankian] / Flaunt your will at every wheel / Perish it, your chocolate soul / Cobblestones under your wheels / [Chorus: Serj Tankian & Daron Malakian] / I got
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System Of A Down – Darts
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“Why do old societies hold the pantheon of 12 gods to be true, while modern societies generally have one God?” – footnote from the booklet for the album
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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 – Genocidal Humanoidz
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This song was written in response to the acts of terrorism done by Azerbaijan with the help of Turkey towards the people of Armenia and Artsakh, also known as Nagorno-Karabakh
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System Of A Down – Friik
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“Friik” is a demo that originally appeared on System of a Down’s fourth demo tape. The tape was never officially released to the public, having been recorded solely for the purpose
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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 – 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 – Attack
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“Attack” starts off Hypnotize with a bang—some would argue the song attacks your ears. The track is sonically the polar opposite of its sister album, Mezmerize’s intro “Soldier
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System Of A Down – 36
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“36” is named so because it is SOAD’S 36th track on their entire discography. Also, on the leaked version of Steal this Album! (called Toxicity II), this track was originally
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System Of A Down – Cherry
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This song was leaked as a demo on the unofficial demo album “Toxicity II.” The song has been given various names, including “Virgin Tea,” “Virginity” and “Cherry.”
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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 – Highway Song
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[Verse 1: Serj Tankian] / I need, I feel, a love, you love to love the fear / I never want to be alone, I've forgotten to / The road keeps moving the clouds, the clouds become
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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 – Fortress
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“Fortress”, also known as “Outer Space”, is one of two songs from Toxicity Sessions/Toxicity II that never made it to Steal This Album!, the other being “Virgin Tea”, also known as
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System Of A Down – Revenga
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This song is about seeking revenge for the loss of a child called ‘Clementine.’ The song is mainly about an abortion that took place against the father’s will. Since the decision
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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 – 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 (Ft. Diddy, Lil' Kim & Ma$e) – Will They Die 4 You
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[Intro: Chef] / And here they are, Puff Daddy, Ma$e, and Lil' Kim! / [Chorus: Ma$e and Serj Tankian] / How many niggas that'll die for you? / How many get the keys so they can ride
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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 – 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 – 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 (Ft. Arto Tunçboyacıyan) – Bubbles
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“Bubbles” uses a prolonged metaphor of life as a ‘bubble jungle’, which could mean a plethora of things, but the pairing of fish would suggest that it’s describing the ocean. The
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