Only possible filler in Mesmerize is probably TCMMFLIOTS or Sad Statue, but it's also my 2nd favorite album so I don't really see it that way. EDIT: On second thought, Sad Statue is fuqin amazing. Just hadnt listened to it in a while.
He wont do it because he’s a gigantic melon normie who only knows their greatest hits & thinks “Fruit Salad” is an underrated track. He doesn’t even know that their still releasing material. Smh
It’s one of those albums you loved when you first heard but haven’t revisited in a long while and when you go relisten it blows your mind how good the album aged Even though those other bands he mentioned were alright SOAD were just ahead of the curve
Am agree. This was probably one of the first albums I had ever listened to, i know quite literally every word to anything theyve ever done. I really hope SOAD understands how much this album has affected people, and how many childhood's it's made memorable. Regardless if I didnt understand what their lyrics were about
Personally, I despise Daron's voice. I always felt that it was too whiny and with his personality, extremely pretentious. Then again, I can see why people would like his voice. A lot of people like MCR after all.
I was late to the party but pleasantly surprised when I recently listened to Scars On Broadway's first album. It's like straight up SOAD without Serj. Much more preferable to Serj's solo stuff.
It took me a sec to parse this, so I'll share what I landed on: it is bad FOR US that the content of this album aged so well, because things remain shit in frustratingly similar ways
In the last 2 weeks Deer Dance stopped being a metaphor here. "Battalions of riot police, With rubber bullet kisses, Baton courtesy, Service with a smile"
It never was only a metaphor, hell, the US gets riots and all of a sudden erveryone its OMG ITS SO REAL, the rest of the world has been under constant police brutality, even for decades
Steal This Album is criminally underrated because the way it was released to the public. Most people regard the album as Toxicity album's B-side counterpart, considering it has songs that didn't make the cut in Toxicity. Still I can't help but agree with you. Peeps should try listening more to STA. I really dig the songs like Roulette, Ego Brain, Streamline, Bubbles, Chic n Stu, Innvervision, Nüguns etc.
"The bands sense of melody was much greater than a lot of their other metal contemporaries" is the most important line in this video. It made SOAD what it was.
and it only got better as time went on. Having Daron and Serj sing two different melodies is something that is lost in the modern day. Like, the end of Lost In Hollywood is so good simply from that alone.
Ah no mention of Arto, I'm surprised. It feels like it's almost meant to be a bonus song or Part 2 to Aerials but it's also an amazing ending to the album. It transitions the somber tone of the ending of Aerials into a beautiful traditional Armenian song that perfectly winds down the album to its close.
Yeah I had multiple versions of this album when I was younger and that track was never included it was a bonus at the end of Aerials I noticed on streaming sites it has its own track and name
Back in the early 2000's i was a disenchanted hip hop head looking for something new and raw. I caught on to soad in 2002 with an album i feel is one of the best. I regularly play it today and still get the same visceral feeling i got the first time i heard it. For me the only other album on par like this is public enemy and nation of millions.
Anthony, this is your mother. I don't appreciate you listening to such angry music, and I feel that it's impacting your behavior here at home. Please shape up or I'll be taking away your iPod!
I will always maintain that Toxicity is one of the best metal albums of all time. I've never found myself growing tired of all the songs on it and they're all still super potent. Love this review and I love you Melon.
I'm honestly surprised how little you talked about their sense of humor. It's a big factor to their accessibility and one of the most integral aspects of what makes them so unique. It also gives entra depth to their songs when you actually sit down and pay attention to what their goofy lyrics mean
I'm surprised you haven't reviewed this yet. Personally, it's my fave album, hands down. The production is so damn good. The riffs sound so damn catchy and original. The first album's riffs did as well, but I feel like Daron executed what he was going for better on Toxicity. Ever since I heard it with a more mature mind, rather than my 12-year-old self, I came to really appreciate it. I was happy an Armenian band achieved so much. Made me proud of my heritage, man. Such a good feeling.
I've been listening to System of a Down for 10 years now and holy shit do their music still hold up! Especially when comparing them with bands like Disturbed, Linkin Park, Papa Roach and stuff like that. SOAD never got on any bandwagon and instead became one of the most unique metal bands ever made.
I've been wanting to see you do a review of something from this era for a good while now, really glad you picked System. Toxicity and other albums like White Pony are proof quality music could come out of that whole Nu/Alt Metal early 00s fad.
I was skateboarding years ago at the skatepark in my town, listening to my buddies mp3 player on shuffle, and after listening to Forest I went up to him like "Dude this song is awesome who are these guys?" - That was the day I became I huge System fan
System of a Down was my band growing up. Their songs helped me through a lot of rough times and have shaped me at least a little. Don't agree with everything, but I love their messages and how they present them. A great album, but one I've overplayed to the point I have to wait months to come back to it and truly enjoy it anymore.
Daron and Serj have such an amazing harmony about each other that hasn't been replicated since their time. I absolutely love their harmony especially in Dreaming from their Hypnotize album
Toxicity is one of those few albums where I know the lyrics for each song. This is because I listened to the damn album more times than I could count. Great album 10/10
Im not gonna cry because we will never get a new SOAD album. Im not gonna cry because we will never get a new SOAD album. Im not gonna cry because we will never get a new SOAD album. Im not gonna cry because we will never get a new SOAD album...
Gavin Girard They're actually making one for real though now. After the years of arguing, scrapping new plans and all the "soon" "someday" and "maybe", they said they're actually working on stuff properly for the first time in ages now
To me they conveyed more of a punk-feel than metal, even though musically they were pretty metal (though as far from cookie-cut of a genre as you can be).
This whole Era gets so much hate. But it did bring about some timeless classics, that aged very well... just like this Album. Also Bands like Korn, Slipknot and Deftones did some really unique and fresh stuff at the time.
i feel like a renaissance of this era is coming, i feel like i’ve seen a huge rush of love from the people who grew up too young to get into it now and i’m really glad soad, deftones, slipknot, korn, etc. made a legacy that’s being looked back on and appreciated
I was 12 when I first discovered this album. Bought it as soon as I could and listened to it in my old cd player for a year straight. Literally didnt play any other cd except Toxicity. It is art, it is passion, it is everything. My favorite album.
I wish all of that conscious political music that was big in the 90's and early 00's would be more prevalent today. I'm not talking about Macklemore's "Same Love", but Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down, Mos Def, and Immortal Technique style of songs which were in your face and kind of over the top. I feel like at the time, the political and economic climate was better, so there weren't as many people interested in hearing musicians talk about heavy shit in an opinionated way. Now politics is inescapable, even in popular culture, so it would be nice to hear more voices in mainstream music directly addressing contemporary issues in their music.
Have met Immortal Technique many times, i used to work in the neighborhood he lived in. He really is intelligent AF and politically and historically so aware, would love to see him blow up HUGE, learned a lot from him even just in general every day conversation.
Sunforged but that is, in my opinion, one of the defining elements of both rock/metal and hip hop. They have always been genres that seek to “offend” or provoke critical thought of some kind in the listener. This is why we have all this cookie cutter bullshit that’s out now. The sociopolitical climate we live in will not allow anything more than what’s proven to sell to idiots to be regurgitated non stop.
The 90s was not a good econonic climate but definitely didnt have us at any substantial wars with other countries, but the children of baby boomers grew up with parents who didnt understand the struggle of finding a job or becoming successful in a saturated market and threw the kids under the bus, thus resulting in the darker grunge and punk music. Even the country and arena rock got dark
The best part of listening to this album for the first time was discovering that 'Toxicity' was one of the weakest tracks. Prison Song and Deer Dance are incredible.
hard disagree brother. ive seen them live twice back in 2011 and toxicity was the song everyone sang in unison both shows. sugar and chop suey were a close second and third. byob had the craziest mosh
Toxicity is one of the best tracks, don't give it shit just because it's a single. Prison Song is a fantastic song and so is Deer Dance, but Toxicity is still great.
Personally Toxicity and Chop Suey are the only two tracks on the album I skip, and are some of my least favorite soad songs in general. It's all just personal preference but it confuses me that those songs are so popular.
I still have the VHS which I recorded music videos of Chop Suey, Toxicity, Eminem & D12's Fight Music and Linkin Park's In the End. Oh the good old days.
I remember back in the day we would watch WWF and during the commercials, I would put the VHS tape and enjoy the kickass songs then go back to wrestling.
i think "Spiders" and "Question!" have become unexpected inspirations for my own writing, and they feel so lovely and different from their more charged and potent singles. and the occasionally bombastic "Cigaro"
Has anyone seen the birdbox meme where the monster is like "take off the blindfold" and the person is like "no" and the monster is like "it's the new System of A Down record" and the picture is the person peeking?
Literally everything you said about metal in the 90's (1:00-1:30) is exactly what is happening to underground rap like $b, bones, Xavier wulf, ghost mane, SGP, etc. Everyone that is "hard" Try so hard to sound like them, and they over do it with the look so much hot topic doesn't even want that shit. But it's still my favorite genre 💁🏻♂💯
6sɥǝɹǝ6ʞɥɐu6 Yeah Bones really could of done great after his song Dirt but went of the cliffs into the sea of rappers who want to seem suicidal & hard.
@@Homelessgrunt lmao. Dirt was EXACTLY in this phase, Bones has always been ahead of all these "suicidal & hard" rappers. Don't comment on things you saw from far, several years after it happened..
@@Homelessgrunt wait what aha you're so salty you don't even make sense. You obviously used an exemple that contradicts what you tried to say. Don't get annoyed when called out loser
Toxicity from SOAD Is simply one of the greatest heavy music albums of all time.... Not even labeling it "metal", SOAD transcends a label. Just brilliant.
I remember dearly 2005 as a time when everybody was into System of a Down, they were a band you could listen with your neighbors, classmates, best friends, girls, at parties, your gf, even my parents liked it, very cool and weird time that most likely wont ever repeat ever with any band.
Seeing that intro is like time traveling back to the past for a bit... damn, good times. Thank you Melon and may you have an AWESOME 2019, looking forward to what you have in store!
@Jacob Noel That's fair. I like Hypnotize a lot, especially with tracks like Holy Mountains, She's Like Herion, Victims of Obscenity among others, but man, with Mesmerize having tracks like BYOB, Violent Pornography and Question! Mezmerize takes it for me personally between the 2.
Yep... easily one of the greatest metal albums of that decade, of the 21st century and... perhaps of all time? The mix of mellow and brutal it manages is pretty much unmatched - certainly on a mainstream level.
I bought this album when I was Freshman at high school, around Christmas, resulting in a rather unconventional background music at home during the holiday season. I'm very thankful we had a decent stereo back then. This was the first album which I knew by heart from the first to the last bonus song, (shuffling tracks was not cool). The most satisfactory song transitions in my music listening history. I listened this album constantly. I was obsessed, never got boring. Toxicity is a huge part of my youth, even though I didn't really understand much from the lyrics, due to my lack of English knowledge, but still, musically close to a perfect mix of beauty, aggressiveness, catchy melodies, heart and soul which is unmatched with anything I've listened since. I'm thankful for SOAD for making a mark in me.
Warms my heart to see people discussing Opeth ❤️ But Fantwan has said he doesn’t like prog music, but I’m sure he recognizes how great Opeth’s records are
My favorite album of all time. Ever since like, 2004. Clicked this shit so fast when it popped up. Missed the part when you said "Gonna give this magnum opus a strong 9 to a light 10". Might wanna mix the audio better next time so we can all hear that.
This is literally the album that got me though my last year of high school: I listened to it on repeat and shuffle almost every day, since I only had like 5 other songs on my mp3 at the time, and only got the chance to pursue other music I liked maybe 2-3 times a week. Soon as I graduated, I bought all 5 CDs (plus American Idiot) and I used the stylings of Serj and Darren to start learning how to sing&scream. A couple of years ago, I finally got to see them play live in Nuremberg and it was one of my top 3 concert experiences, cementing SOAD as one of my all-time-favorite bands of all time. Now If I could just get to see Scars of Broadway, it would ALMOST make up for never getting the chance to see a Linkin Park show...
System please come back
oh hey you
Oh I know you !
Hi Rob
Wake up
Kind of rather they don't come back, concidering they absolutely hate working with eachother. The music would suffer if they even gave it a shot.
If Anthony Fantano was Armenian his name would be Anthony Fantanian
Uh oh Glink is here
How to make any last name sound Armenian? Take a Persian last name and add “ian” at the end. I’d know. Either way, great video!
What about Anthony Fantankian?
Fantashian
@@7screamingdizbusters :/
>classic albums
>intro is back
>hair growing back
COULD THIS YEAR BE IT
But last year had 2 10s
okuplok what year is it
The year he re-reviews MBDTF? Maybe.
Holy cow
that will be the plan
The Self Titled album and Toxicity have 0 filler songs in them
Very true, Miguel.
@Lord Takyon it's all filler
Only possible filler in Mesmerize is probably TCMMFLIOTS or Sad Statue, but it's also my 2nd favorite album so I don't really see it that way.
EDIT: On second thought, Sad Statue is fuqin amazing. Just hadnt listened to it in a while.
Burger With Fries Sad Statue is NOT filler
Burger With Fries whaaaaaat sad statue is a highlight on that album
Eating melon seeds as a pastime activity
Jake Kelley yes!
The toxicity of our melon of our meeelon
Depression Cherry You, what do you own the melon?
How do you own disorder, disorder
Now i'll never unhear that. Thanks
kinda gay
Fantano this intro better be permanent otherwise I’m migrating to ReportOfTheWeek’s reviews.
so am I woody
Ive never clicked so furiously and with such readiness
System of a down my shit period
Same haha. Besides the Kid A review
Same
Nice pfp.
HE GAVE IT A 6
Is that an Imagine Dragons shirt?
lmao
Nope twenty one pilots
Idiots is clearly Linkin park
@@rumpty7980 Nope, it's blink-182
It's fall out boy, troglodytes
THEY TRIED TO BUILD A MELON
THEY TRIED TO BUILD A MELON
THEY TRIED TO BUILD A MELON
FOR YOU AND ME TO BE WATCHING
*Nearly 200 million melons are smashed monthly in the US*
I smack my melon right here in Hollywood!
@@mikealiberti1799 Favourite SOATD song, that.
ANOTHER MUSIC MELON!!!!
ANOTHER MUSIC MELON!!!!
ANOTHER MUSIC MELOOOOON!
FOR YOU AND ME!!
*aggressive tornado roaring*
I can hear this comment.
We saw this when it was UNLISTED, what timing
Bringing in 2019 with the old intro. 10/10
I prefer this one as well
Rise & Resist The aqaqQ
Classic intro for the classic review series. I seen whatcha did there Melon!
Wow! Wasn't expecting such a popular comment. Follow us on Facebook/Insta. Music Video being released next week 🎶 and always FLOSS
I'm
Sitting in my room
With a melon in my hand
something something old dying man
@@ClumpypooCP waiting for the tune?
veroaghe Ahh you’re right lol
just waiting for the bloom
of some old melon man
I sit
In my desolate room
No lights!
nO mUsIc!
JUST MELON
Never forget “Bounce” was in The Secret Life of Pets...
Gabriel Lara I remember hearing it in the ad, and I immediately got up and started head banging
@@ArlenPierce ME TOO XD
YAAASSSS
That had me so shook the first time I saw that, lmao
Gabriel Lara - We... Don’t... Talk... About... PETS!!
Still no classic review for The Wiggles "Big Red Car" album?
I know what the hell Melon?!
“fruit salad” fucking SLAPS
The Wiggles are the Beatles of children’s music!
He wont do it because he’s a gigantic melon normie who only knows their greatest hits & thinks “Fruit Salad” is an underrated track. He doesn’t even know that their still releasing material. Smh
Total disrespect lol
Chopthony Sueytano here
When Melon did the riff for Prison Song, I instinctively whispered "they're trying to build a prison"
Hahahah, I did too
SAME lmao
Had to stop the review and go listen to the album it's so fucking good, a true modern classic.
I was just thinking of doing this as I was scrolling lol
It’s one of those albums you loved when you first heard but haven’t revisited in a long while and when you go relisten it blows your mind how good the album aged
Even though those other bands he mentioned were alright SOAD were just ahead of the curve
almost did the same lol, before he starts the reviewing I listened to the prison song
Am agree. This was probably one of the first albums I had ever listened to, i know quite literally every word to anything theyve ever done.
I really hope SOAD understands how much this album has affected people, and how many childhood's it's made memorable. Regardless if I didnt understand what their lyrics were about
The album has aged like milk. Serj vocals are unbelievably cringe.
I love Serj’s vocals. But I’ve always secretly adored Daron’s voice. It’s so beautiful.
Personally, I despise Daron's voice. I always felt that it was too whiny and with his personality, extremely pretentious. Then again, I can see why people would like his voice. A lot of people like MCR after all.
They make a unique duo
Maxx Karales the burn lol
I was late to the party but pleasantly surprised when I recently listened to Scars On Broadway's first album. It's like straight up SOAD without Serj. Much more preferable to Serj's solo stuff.
@@maxxkarales64 ouch x2
Toxicity is literally one of the best metal albums. Holy hell. Aged amazingly in terms of content and sound, kind of bad for the former.
Antonyo337 the former? Do you mean self titled? I love that album possibly even mote
More
@@NickB-md1oy Wtf he means the content, read it again.
Its one of the best albums ever period. Its also one of the best artistic expressions ever, regardless of the art form.
It took me a sec to parse this, so I'll share what I landed on: it is bad FOR US that the content of this album aged so well, because things remain shit in frustratingly similar ways
In the last 2 weeks Deer Dance stopped being a metaphor here.
"Battalions of riot police,
With rubber bullet kisses,
Baton courtesy,
Service with a smile"
Police have become so brutal they're like Civil Protection from HL2.
Me is I civil unrest is a real thing
@@torrinbianchi5283 aight *requesting airwatch for tag*
It never was only a metaphor, hell, the US gets riots and all of a sudden erveryone its OMG ITS SO REAL, the rest of the world has been under constant police brutality, even for decades
Imagine getting this upset over a career meth head overdosing while he was being detained.
i wish you could do classic reviews more often
I think the problem is he doesn't have the time, too many expectations to review some new trip-hop album or an ep by Animal Collective.
pushing little melons with their fully automatics, they like to push melon around
Oh god the image of small little Anthonys is golden
Push melon sounds like a crime.
I laughed, fuck
😂😂😂
Toxicity is great, but it's gotta be said that Steal This Album feels supremely underrated.
Truth
Steal This Album is criminally underrated because the way it was released to the public. Most people regard the album as Toxicity album's B-side counterpart, considering it has songs that didn't make the cut in Toxicity.
Still I can't help but agree with you. Peeps should try listening more to STA. I really dig the songs like Roulette, Ego Brain, Streamline, Bubbles, Chic n Stu, Innvervision, Nüguns etc.
Because it’s the worst album
@@bakedcrystal915 Nah, it's (IMO) the best album. I completely respect your opinion, however
Vector Perkins I personally think mesmerize is the best but to each their own
"The bands sense of melody was much greater than a lot of their other metal contemporaries" is the most important line in this video. It made SOAD what it was.
and it only got better as time went on.
Having Daron and Serj sing two different melodies is something that is lost in the modern day. Like, the end of Lost In Hollywood is so good simply from that alone.
Ooh Toxicity review!
*Spends entire review trying to read the shirt*
The Needled Rop
Same
@@captainathens Then Eed Le Drop
Damn, you made me wanna know what it says now.
kiesytuts229966 the needle drop
Ah no mention of Arto, I'm surprised. It feels like it's almost meant to be a bonus song or Part 2 to Aerials but it's also an amazing ending to the album. It transitions the somber tone of the ending of Aerials into a beautiful traditional Armenian song that perfectly winds down the album to its close.
I believe Arto actually was a bonus track on the original cut of the album.
it's a hidden track so not really its own thing, just the end of Aerials
It ends it perfectly
Arto is my favorite part of the album
Yeah I had multiple versions of this album when I was younger and that track was never included it was a bonus at the end of Aerials I noticed on streaming sites it has its own track and name
A melon tries to tell me one of the best albums, is one of the best albums. Who would've thought.
Back in the early 2000's i was a disenchanted hip hop head looking for something new and raw. I caught on to soad in 2002 with an album i feel is one of the best. I regularly play it today and still get the same visceral feeling i got the first time i heard it. For me the only other album on par like this is public enemy and nation of millions.
Self-meloned
Melonicity
Steal This Melon
Melontise
Melonmerise
Staahp
@@fotismonocheir1446
Neeva
Melon of a Down
This is my favourite YT comment ever
Steal This Melon is my favorite album ever! My favorite 5 songs are Mr. Melon, M-E-L-O-N, Meln'Stu, Melon Brain and F**k the Melon
Anthony, this is your mother. I don't appreciate you listening to such angry music, and I feel that it's impacting your behavior here at home. Please shape up or I'll be taking away your iPod!
I suddenly feel the need to talk to a manager
This is the most amazing thing I've ever seen!
Son, Anthony is so alternative, he be on that Zune shit.
Nice review Melon, but you didn’t have to say that the Armenian Genocide was a good thing and that they had it coming.
Give back Constantinople!
@@yungsmorc6462 Anthony TURKtano
Seriously dogg that was just tacky
Wait, when did he say that?
@@wendigolycan 9:48
I will always maintain that Toxicity is one of the best metal albums of all time. I've never found myself growing tired of all the songs on it and they're all still super potent. Love this review and I love you Melon.
Anthony this video was great, but that part where you talked about the Armenian genocide being a hoax was really out of place
Cenk from tyt got lots of heat for saying the same bs
For anyone interested, search Glinks video on TYT and the armenian genocide
These comments not played out yet?
@@garrettwalden7195 they never will be
Garrett Walden Apparently not even though the "joke or meme" is tired and dead
2/10 haircut
favorite hairs: none
least favorite: all
FINALLY, ANTHONY ACTUALLY REVIEWED ONE OF MY FAVORITE ALBUMS. I WAS COOL BEING 12 AND LISTENING TO THIS!
Guitar hero helped me find these niggas
This guy ↑ fucks 😎
System of a Down and Brand New I see ya.
not as good as deja entendu ;)
most people that were born in the 90’s who were into rock loved system of a down when they were 12.
*WHEN I BECAME M E L O N*
*I SHONE LIFE INTO THE MAN'S HEARTS*
That is a very thought out and mature joke
@@YouFeudTV many gracias cariño
Thank you for the classic intros for the classic reviews. It makes it a classic classic
I'm honestly surprised how little you talked about their sense of humor. It's a big factor to their accessibility and one of the most integral aspects of what makes them so unique. It also gives entra depth to their songs when you actually sit down and pay attention to what their goofy lyrics mean
They're trying to build a melon
*FOR YOU AND ME TO LIVE IN*
Underrated comment right here
Is melon the idiot who just said soad are nu-metal? Yeah, no thanks.
Nah nice try tho
THEY'RE TRYNA BUILD A MELON! THEY'RE TRYNA BUILD A MELON! THEY'RE TRYNA BUILD A MELON!
following the rights movements you clamped on with your iron fists,
melons became conveniently available for all the kids
I'm surprised you haven't reviewed this yet. Personally, it's my fave album, hands down. The production is so damn good. The riffs sound so damn catchy and original. The first album's riffs did as well, but I feel like Daron executed what he was going for better on Toxicity. Ever since I heard it with a more mature mind, rather than my 12-year-old self, I came to really appreciate it. I was happy an Armenian band achieved so much. Made me proud of my heritage, man. Such a good feeling.
Its crazy to think that System made their entire flawless discography in only 7 years.
The Beatles
flawless???😂😂
@@asesino2094yes
@@asesino2094 yes
@@thedelaunesband1405 i sorta half disagree, they've got some weird songs but yeah, very great discography
They’re trying to build a melon
For you and meeeeee
To live in!???! 😫
Oh baybee you and meeee
Another melon systeeeem! *audible screeching*
Oh baby you and meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
WAKE UP (WAKE UP)
Grab a melon and put a little makeup!
WHY'D YOU LEAVE THE MELON UPON THE TABLE???
Here you go create another fable
I cry when melons deserve to die
RRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Aaron Vargas L
Wtf is this meme, adongettit...
I've been listening to System of a Down for 10 years now and holy shit do their music still hold up!
Especially when comparing them with bands like Disturbed, Linkin Park, Papa Roach and stuff like that. SOAD never got on any bandwagon and instead became one of the most unique metal bands ever made.
Superunknown by Soundgarden would be a sick classic review.
WartyFingleBlaster , fuck yes.
That's not even their best album lol. He'd do Badmotorfinger way before that
It would, but I'd love to see him give Down on the Upside a chance, even though it never might have reached classic level.
JoshAntes99 getting that buzz saw tatted
ffffuuuuucccckkkkyes
We did it boys, we can go home
Hip to be square go home
Review Dirt by Alice in Chains next!
Or Jar of Flies by Alice in Chains
I’ve been wanting an Alice In Chains review for a while now!
Immigrato clandestino yes!
@@nmweissm Absolute masterpiece that one
One day
Review White Pony by Deftones.
Zombitious ; In the Gore review, he said he never really was into Deftones. Unfortunately, cause they’re great and especially White Pony
I was gonna request this as well but I heard he wasn’t the biggest fan of Deftones
I’ve been wanting him to do Around the Fur. I know he doesn’t really like Deftones but the riffs on that album, man.
Amazing album; should review
He did say that White Pony is a great album if I'm not mistaken
04:30 - Prison Song
06:36 - Needles
05:06 - Deer Dance
04:19 - Jet Pilot
X
06:52 - Chop Suey!
04:26 - Bounce
05:27 - Forest
05:39 - ATWA
05:27 - Science
06:15 - Shimmy
07:55 - Toxicity
Psycho
08:11 - Aerials
No arto either 😢
@@j12112-e arto was a part of Aerials
Red Blood oh really? I’ve always seen it listed as a separate track?
@@j12112-e Yes, me too. It just hasn't been listed explicitly on the album, since it is a hidden track.
Why not psycho, one of my favourite songs of the album :(
I've been wanting to see you do a review of something from this era for a good while now, really glad you picked System. Toxicity and other albums like White Pony are proof quality music could come out of that whole Nu/Alt Metal early 00s fad.
Not enough mention of forest - the best song on the album
Callum Stirk hell fucking yea!! Very underrated
Callum Stirk he completely skipped arto :'|
I was skateboarding years ago at the skatepark in my town, listening to my buddies mp3 player on shuffle, and after listening to Forest I went up to him like "Dude this song is awesome who are these guys?" - That was the day I became I huge System fan
Yup
This is a fact I was waiting for more recognition
As of today, this is officially a well-deserved 10.
a classic/10 rating is basically the equivalent of a 10
@@josef5288 no
@@josef5288 no
Youre a guy lol
@@lenol0315 and you’re a loser who hates on people for being comfortable in their own body
Not sleepy music... AT ALL
WAKE UP!
Daniel Traverzo GrabABushAndPutALittleMakeUp!
yuh dis shit slaps
HideYourScarsToFadeAwayTheShakeUp!
LMAOOOOOOOO
Deftones - White Pony classic review when
sammo YES YES YES
around the fur !!
haha that would be dope but I'd rather see White Pony or Saturday Night Wrist
Sheeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiit
@@sammo2560 Wrist ain't classic enough yet , but WP for sure.
System of a Down was my band growing up. Their songs helped me through a lot of rough times and have shaped me at least a little. Don't agree with everything, but I love their messages and how they present them. A great album, but one I've overplayed to the point I have to wait months to come back to it and truly enjoy it anymore.
Daron and Serj have such an amazing harmony about each other that hasn't been replicated since their time. I absolutely love their harmony especially in Dreaming from their Hypnotize album
You gotta do Funeral or Demon Days for 2000s classic reviews
Agreed. Although, I don't understand why all 5 classic albums this year were such recent ones? Weird Fantano, weird
Toxicity is one of those few albums where I know the lyrics for each song. This is because I listened to the damn album more times than I could count. Great album 10/10
my Creative Zen from middle/ high school clocked it well into the hundreds
Im not gonna cry because we will never get a new SOAD album. Im not gonna cry because we will never get a new SOAD album. Im not gonna cry because we will never get a new SOAD album. Im not gonna cry because we will never get a new SOAD album...
Gavin Girard They're actually making one for real though now. After the years of arguing, scrapping new plans and all the "soon" "someday" and "maybe", they said they're actually working on stuff properly for the first time in ages now
@@legoshi5925 im fairly certain serj shut that down. could be wrong tho
Gavin Girard Ugh, damn you're right, ffs
The downward spiral
@@legoshi5925 Fingers crossed
To me they conveyed more of a punk-feel than metal, even though musically they were pretty metal (though as far from cookie-cut of a genre as you can be).
Definitely agree with this in terms of lyrical content. Kind of akin to some dead kennedys
@@jammintoast you can hear Dead Kennedys all over SOAD's discography
This whole Era gets so much hate. But it did bring about some timeless classics, that aged very well... just like this Album. Also Bands like Korn, Slipknot and Deftones did some really unique and fresh stuff at the time.
i feel like a renaissance of this era is coming, i feel like i’ve seen a huge rush of love from the people who grew up too young to get into it now and i’m really glad soad, deftones, slipknot, korn, etc. made a legacy that’s being looked back on and appreciated
@@heavenwaits That's exactly how I got into it lol. I would kill to see SOAD live
The chords in Prison Song are so epic. That riff makes me go crazy
I was 12 when I first discovered this album. Bought it as soon as I could and listened to it in my old cd player for a year straight. Literally didnt play any other cd except Toxicity. It is art, it is passion, it is everything. My favorite album.
I wish all of that conscious political music that was big in the 90's and early 00's would be more prevalent today. I'm not talking about Macklemore's "Same Love", but Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down, Mos Def, and Immortal Technique style of songs which were in your face and kind of over the top.
I feel like at the time, the political and economic climate was better, so there weren't as many people interested in hearing musicians talk about heavy shit in an opinionated way. Now politics is inescapable, even in popular culture, so it would be nice to hear more voices in mainstream music directly addressing contemporary issues in their music.
No one wants to offend anyone anymore
Have met Immortal Technique many times, i used to work in the neighborhood he lived in. He really is intelligent AF and politically and historically so aware, would love to see him blow up HUGE, learned a lot from him even just in general every day conversation.
@@damienhenriquez9754 that's so dope dude holy shit. The guy was way ahead of his time, I wish he would start releasing music again.
Sunforged but that is, in my opinion, one of the defining elements of both rock/metal and hip hop. They have always been genres that seek to “offend” or provoke critical thought of some kind in the listener. This is why we have all this cookie cutter bullshit that’s out now. The sociopolitical climate we live in will not allow anything more than what’s proven to sell to idiots to be regurgitated non stop.
The 90s was not a good econonic climate but definitely didnt have us at any substantial wars with other countries, but the children of baby boomers grew up with parents who didnt understand the struggle of finding a job or becoming successful in a saturated market and threw the kids under the bus, thus resulting in the darker grunge and punk music. Even the country and arena rock got dark
System of a Down was absolutely amazing in concert when I saw them this year
Where did you see them?
I saw them in 2019 at Sonic temple festival in Ohio. Worth the drive, best band to preform
The best part of listening to this album for the first time was discovering that 'Toxicity' was one of the weakest tracks. Prison Song and Deer Dance are incredible.
hard disagree brother. ive seen them live twice back in 2011 and toxicity was the song everyone sang in unison both shows. sugar and chop suey were a close second and third. byob had the craziest mosh
IDK how common of an opinion this is but Soldier Side is probably my favorite track SOAD has ever dropped
@@bluchicken_995 Soldier Side and Holy Mountain are the best tracks on Hypnotize
Toxicity is one of the best tracks, don't give it shit just because it's a single. Prison Song is a fantastic song and so is Deer Dance, but Toxicity is still great.
Personally Toxicity and Chop Suey are the only two tracks on the album I skip, and are some of my least favorite soad songs in general. It's all just personal preference but it confuses me that those songs are so popular.
I still have the VHS which I recorded music videos of Chop Suey, Toxicity, Eminem & D12's Fight Music and Linkin Park's In the End. Oh the good old days.
Holy shit, so you basically can listen to and watch the clips ANY TIME TOU WANT TO!!! SO RAD!
I remember back in the day we would watch WWF and during the commercials, I would put the VHS tape and enjoy the kickass songs then go back to wrestling.
Stop it, you are giving me a nostalgia boner
Thank god I used Mortal Kombat Annihilation tape to record all those great songs. F**k that movie.
Y u no post dat?
*Toxicity aged as fine wine* , as well as all of SOAD's discography too.
i think "Spiders" and "Question!" have become unexpected inspirations for my own writing, and they feel so lovely and different from their more charged and potent singles. and the occasionally bombastic "Cigaro"
Has anyone seen the birdbox meme where the monster is like "take off the blindfold" and the person is like "no" and the monster is like "it's the new System of A Down record" and the picture is the person peeking?
No, but I need this.
Good meme
Plz link
I feel like I have now.
Sounds like cancer
Literally everything you said about metal in the 90's (1:00-1:30) is exactly what is happening to underground rap like $b, bones, Xavier wulf, ghost mane, SGP, etc. Everyone that is "hard" Try so hard to sound like them, and they over do it with the look so much hot topic doesn't even want that shit. But it's still my favorite genre 💁🏻♂💯
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Yeah Bones really could of done great after his song Dirt but went of the cliffs into the sea of rappers who want to seem suicidal & hard.
@@Homelessgrunt lmao. Dirt was EXACTLY in this phase, Bones has always been ahead of all these "suicidal & hard" rappers. Don't comment on things you saw from far, several years after it happened..
acédie
Yeah cause Deadboy was made from Socrates. Absolutely garbage care they literally use a ringer from a cellphone as beat.
acédie
Simmer that ego down lmao you’re not some gatekeeper for shit ahaha
@@Homelessgrunt wait what aha you're so salty you don't even make sense. You obviously used an exemple that contradicts what you tried to say. Don't get annoyed when called out loser
When are you going to review the modernization of African tribes in the 21st century?
This topic is actually super interesting. I'd love to see some stuff about it.
Melon refuses to acknowledge non-American Africans
amazing vid as always ant, u da man
Do a classic review of Milo Goes to College
why is your hair so long
Gabriel [REDACTED] very good question
That is as far from long hair as you could get.
Denis Borzov r/shittyjokes
@Lindey Stejskal Time of the Season, what a great song
@@MrMixtape you must be new here.
This is still my favorite metal album of all time.
System of a Down is the best Metal band from their period. Period.
Facts just straight up facts
Linkin park is my favorite
RAMM STEIN
Deftones 🤭
It is pretty close though
THEYRE TRYING TO BUILD A MELON!
They did surgery on a grape
this channel and the fans in it are toxic as hell
For You and me to live in.
*_ANOTHER MELON SYSTEM_*
*_ANOTHER MELON SYSTEM_*
*_ANOTHER MELON SYSTEM_*
ALL RESEARCH AND SUCCESSFUL DRUG POLICY SHOWS THAT MELONS SHOULD BE INCREASED
I still listen to this album fully at least once a week or once a month after all these years. Thanks for your thoughts on it
what I love about this is he doesn't just focus on Chop Suey and Toxicity. he dives deep into the album and reviews each song with depth. great work !
He didn't talk about Forest
Toxicity from SOAD Is simply one of the greatest heavy music albums of all time....
Not even labeling it "metal", SOAD transcends a label.
Just brilliant.
About time you reviewed the new tool album
We know Melon secretly loves Hollywood Undead
Everywhere he go
Bitches always know
That melon's hair is getting long
Maybe even a 'fro
It wouldn't even surprise me at this point.
@Tanadian Cuxedo I hope his disability didn't get in the way of him having a normal life
Had to rewatch this now that they released 2 singles in late 2020. What a time to be alive!
I remember dearly 2005 as a time when everybody was into System of a Down, they were a band you could listen with your neighbors, classmates, best friends, girls, at parties, your gf, even my parents liked it, very cool and weird time that most likely wont ever repeat ever with any band.
Seeing that intro is like time traveling back to the past for a bit... damn, good times. Thank you Melon and may you have an AWESOME 2019, looking forward to what you have in store!
LITERALLY LISTENING TO THIS NOW WTF.... THEY TRIED TO BUILD A PRISON
D Mc FOR YOU AND ME TO LIVE IN
@@deadman3750 ANOTHER PRISON SYSTEM
Anibal Alvarez ANOTHA PRISON SYSTEM
Same xddd
Erik Giovani ANOTHER PRISON SYSTEM
Who else remembers Shimmy being on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4? Such a great soundtrack
Shimmy was on Tony Hawk, my first time hearing SOAD. Then in 6th grade my girlfriends older brother burned toxicity for me and I fell in love.
Yooo same , if it wasn’t for tony hawk I wouldn’t of listened to soad
Review Grace by Jeff Buckley!
Justin Brule Lateralus by your picture next!
@@eliash8903 Wouldn't be opposed to Lateralus either! Every single Tool album for that fact.
Now were getting somewhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Buckley was an amazing talent..
And just that album alone makes me sad at what could have came out next....
System Of A Down is one of my favourite bands ever and while I do love Toxicity, I personally prefer albums like Mezmerize and the self titled album
I think Mezmerize and Hypnotize are my favorites, no matter how much shit people give those records
@Jacob Noel That's fair. I like Hypnotize a lot, especially with tracks like Holy Mountains, She's Like Herion, Victims of Obscenity among others, but man, with Mesmerize having tracks like BYOB, Violent Pornography and Question! Mezmerize takes it for me personally between the 2.
Yep... easily one of the greatest metal albums of that decade, of the 21st century and... perhaps of all time? The mix of mellow and brutal it manages is pretty much unmatched - certainly on a mainstream level.
I bought this album when I was Freshman at high school, around Christmas, resulting in a rather unconventional background music at home during the holiday season. I'm very thankful we had a decent stereo back then.
This was the first album which I knew by heart from the first to the last bonus song, (shuffling tracks was not cool). The most satisfactory song transitions in my music listening history. I listened this album constantly. I was obsessed, never got boring.
Toxicity is a huge part of my youth, even though I didn't really understand much from the lyrics, due to my lack of English knowledge, but still, musically close to a perfect mix of beauty, aggressiveness, catchy melodies, heart and soul which is unmatched with anything I've listened since. I'm thankful for SOAD for making a mark in me.
You make it sound so easy to understand what these songs are about lol. I've been listening to this album for years and a lot of this was news to me.
When I got the notification i almost cried
So you finally gave up and recognize Blackwater Park is a great album.
Femto Deliverance is where its at
I will always uphold that Damnation is the best Opeth record, despite it not even being a metal album at all.
Still Life is objectively the best Opeth album
@@havokmusicinc thanks man
Warms my heart to see people discussing Opeth ❤️
But Fantwan has said he doesn’t like prog music, but I’m sure he recognizes how great Opeth’s records are
After decades, I can't listen to this album unless it starts from track 1. Absolute masterpiece. Every tracks meant to be there.
Soad is my fav band. You showed it so good that i got goosepumbs all over my body
This is the most blessed video of 2019
My favorite album of all time. Ever since like, 2004. Clicked this shit so fast when it popped up. Missed the part when you said "Gonna give this magnum opus a strong 9 to a light 10". Might wanna mix the audio better next time so we can all hear that.
I think that is implied being its a classic review lol
This is literally the album that got me though my last year of high school: I listened to it on repeat and shuffle almost every day, since I only had like 5 other songs on my mp3 at the time, and only got the chance to pursue other music I liked maybe 2-3 times a week. Soon as I graduated, I bought all 5 CDs (plus American Idiot) and I used the stylings of Serj and Darren to start learning how to sing&scream.
A couple of years ago, I finally got to see them play live in Nuremberg and it was one of my top 3 concert experiences, cementing SOAD as one of my all-time-favorite bands of all time.
Now If I could just get to see Scars of Broadway, it would ALMOST make up for never getting the chance to see a Linkin Park show...