Bloggystyle -- The Greatest

Bol probably put it best when he said that System of a Down tracks can sound completely different and yet still have their distinct sound.

Almost everyone has heard the group's hits, like Toxicity and Chop Suey. Personally my favorite tracks are Spiders and Sugar, from the first album.

This album officially came out yesterday, but one of the group's albums prodded me to "Steal This Album," so I took their advice.

Soldier Side - Intro

Nothing like a psychedelic sounding anti-war message to start off the festivities.

B.Y.O.B.

This is another anti war track, with a bunch of hard rock. As is their forte, the track switches up unpredictably throughout. "Everyone's gonna have a really good time, marching through the desert, blowing up the sunshine." BYOB of course stands for Bring Your Own Bombs.

Revenga

System of a Down albums may be the hardest to review, because everything is off the wall and likely to change completely in a split second. I don't know why the track is called Revenga, when they constantly refer to revenge in the track (and say revenge). Nature of the beast I guess (nhjic).

Cigaro

I don't care what genre of music it is. Anytime a rapper or band is insistent on comparing the size of his phallic instrument to others (nh), it's a terrible thing.

Radio/Video

This track sounds like polka or something you'd see crazy Russian dancing to as the band rocks on talking about being on the radio.

This Cocaine Makes Me Feel Like I’m On This Song

The track starts out with softer than usual rock until Serj starts in with some absolutely zany, almost impossible to understand ranting. They weren't kidding about the coke.

Violent Pornography

"Everybody, everybody, everybody fucks and on and on and on." The number of times the word everybody is said is mindnumbing. The hook about fucking chicks, violent pornography and sodomy is definitely different.

Question!

This track sounds more like Disturbed than the typical System tracks. Not that that's a bad thing.

Sad Statue

This is probably the most political track on the album. With lyrics like "you and me will all go down in history, with a sad Statue of Liberty, and a generation that didn't agree." and "What is in us that turns a deaf ear to the cries of human suffering?!!!" this is the essence of the group.

Old School Hollywood

Trying to describe this track is impossible, with all the different sound effects and the voice boxes. I don't know what Old School Hollywood and Baseball have to do with each other, but I don't care either.

Lost in Hollywood

This is another track that sounds like it came off a Disturbed CD. It reminds me of Sugar. More straightforward than usual, no switchups or anything.

This album is less than 40 minutes long, which I don't mind (mostly because I didn't buy it for like 15 bucks). Apparently System of a Down is putting out another album later this year, as a sort of Part 2. At least that's what the assholes at Amazon.com said.

This shit's not bad. It's certainly not Toxicity or their first album though. I'm sure the group's fans will find enough about it to like it.