my teerteenth post!!!!

Meaning of Chop Suey!

In the beggining of the song, Serj talks about some person who covers his problems to make the people see only his outside, not his troubled, cold inside. Now we have the " Fatheeeeeeeer" thing. This is a quote from Jesus, so probably Serj is talking with God, and saying why has he bring him so much misfortune. Because he says " why have you forsaken me? ", so probably he is handing his life to the Lord,so he can bring him peace
Lyrics down here:
Wake up(wake up)
Grab a brush and put a little makeup
Hide the scars to fade away the shakeup
Why’d you leave the keys upon the table?
Here you go create another fable
You wanted to
Grab a brush and put a little makeup
You wanted to
Hide the scars to fade away the shakeup
you wanted to
whyd you put the keys up on the table
you wanted to
i dont think you trust in my
self righteous suicide i cry
when angels deserve to DIE!!!
WAKE UP
Grab a brush and put a little makeup
Hide the scars to fade away the shakeup
Why’d you leave the keys upon the table?
Here you go create another fable
You wanted to
Grab a brush and put a little makeup
You wanted to
Hide the scars to fade away the shakeup
You wanted to
Why’d you leave the keys upon the table?
You wanted to
I don’t think you trust
In, my, self righteous suicide
I, cry, when angels deserve to die
In, my, self righteous suicide
I, cry, when angels deserve to die
Father, father, father, father
Father into your hands, I commend my spirit
Father into your hands
Why have you forsaken me
In your eyes forsaken me
In your thoughts forsaken me
In your heart forsaken, me oh
Trust in my self righteous suicide
I, cry, when angels deserve to die
In my self righteous suicide
why, cry, when angels deserve to die

http://www.lyricinterpretations.com/System-of-a-Down/Chop-Suey

my twelfth post!!!!!

Meaning of I-E-A-I-A-I-O

 The meaning maybe that this was a chant used by the KKK  people when they burned people at the stake, so the band might wanna say with the band that killijng´s bad and also maybe have something to do with racism and the 4th of july because it says: "and we light up the skieeeeees". Mayber this qoute also mean the KKK people , as i said previously. Also may mean aboput the American Consumerism, because its says "plutonium wedding rings".
Lyrics:
Peter's pecker picked another
Pickle bearing pussy pepper,
Peter's pecker picked another
Pickle bearing pussy pepper, Why?

Meeting John at Dale's Jr.
Winked an eye and point a finger,
Meeting John at Dale's Jr.
Winked an eye and point a finger, Why?

A former cop, undercover,
Just got shot, now recovered,
A former cop, undercover,
Just got shot, now recovered, Why?

Fighting crime, with a partner,
Lois Lane, Jimmy Carter,
Fighting crime, with a partner,
Lois Lane, Jimmy Carter, (siren)

I E A I A I O,
I E A I A I O, Why,
As we light up the sky.

Peter's pecker picked another
Pickle bearing pussy pepper,
Peter's pecker picked another
Pickle bearing pussy pepper, Why?

Meeting John at Dale's Jr.
Winked an eye point and point a finger,
Meeting John at Dale's Jr.
Winked an eye point and point a finger, Why?

A former cop, undercover,
Just got shot, now recovered,
A former cop, undercover,
Just got shot, now recovered, Why?

Fighting crime, with a partner,
Lois Lane, Jimmy Carter,
Fighting crime, with a partner,
Lois Lane, Jimmy Carter, (siren)

I E A I A I O,
I E A I A I O, Why,
As we light up the sky,
I E A I A I O,
I E A I A I O, Why,
As we light up the sky.

Mind disillusions acquainted,
Bubbles erotica,
Plutonium wedding rings,
Icicles stretching,
Bicycle shoestrings,
One flag, flaggy but one,
Painting the paintings of the alive.

I E A I A I O,
I E A I A I O, Why,
As we light up the sky,
I E A I A I O,
I E A I A I O, Why,
As we light up the sky.
Source and lyrics:
http://www.lyricinterpretations.com/System-of-a-Down/IEAIAIO

my eleventh post!!!!!

From now on,  i will put the meanings or funny facts about Soad´s weirdest songs. Today we have Kill Rock N´ Roll

Meaning!!
 In an interview, Daron confessed that once he ran over a rabbit, he put him Rock N´Roll.Then he saw another rabbit with the same eyes, so he made this song to tribute to the dead rabbit, that´s why he saws " Eat all the grass that you want, Accidents happen in the dark", becasuse he says that he´s not gonna kill the another rabbit and he shuold be free to escape, and maybe this incident happened at night.
Lyrics:

So I felt like the biggest asshole.
felt like the biggest asshole!
when I killed your rock and roll.
Mow down the sexy people!

Every time I look in your eyes,
every day I'm watching you die.
All the faults I see in you,about how I.


So I felt like the biggest asshole.
Felt like the biggest asshole!
When I killed your rock and roll.
Move down the sexy people!

Every time I look in your eyes,
every day I'm watching you die.
All the faults I see in you.
about how I..

Aaaaahhhhhhh....

Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh....

Eat all the grass,
eat all the grass that you want,
accidents happen in the dark.
Eat all the grass that you want,
accidents happen in the dark.
Eat all the grass that you want,
accidents happen in the dark.
Eat all the grass that you want,
accidents happen...

Every time I look in your eyes,
every day I'm watching you die.
All the faults I see in you.
About how I...

Aaaaahhhhhh....

Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh.....

So I felt like the biggest asshole,
when I killed rock and roll,
when I felt like the biggest asshole,
when I killed rock and roll.

Source:
http://www.lyricinterpretations.com/System-of-a-Down/Kill-Rock-n-Roll

my tenth post!!!!!!!!

Now i will put the complete discograaphy ofthe band:



1) System of a Down










 Year: 1998
Genre: Alternative Metal
Songs:
01. Suite-Pee
02. Know
03. Sugar
04. Suggestions
05. Spiders
06. DDevil
07. Soil
08. War?
09. Mind
10. Peephole
11. CUBErt
12. Darts
13. P.L.U.C.K.

2) Toxicity
Year: 2001
Genre: Alternative Metal
Songs:
1. Prison Song
2. Needles
3. Deer Dance
4. Jet Pilot
5. X
6. Chop Suey!
7. Bounce
8. Forest
9. ATWA
10. Science
 11. Shimmy
12. Toxicity
13. Psycho
14. Aerials

3) Steal This Album!

  Year: 2002
Genre: Alternative Metal
Songs:
01. "Chic 'N' Stu"
02. "Innervision"
03. "Bubbles"
04. "Boom!"
05. "Nüguns"
06. "A.D.D. (American Dream Denial)"
07. "Mr. Jack"
08. "I-E-A-I-A-I-O"
09. "36"

10. "Pictures"
11. "Highway Song"
12. "Fuck the System"
13. "Ego Brain"
14. "Thetawaves"
15. "Roulette"
16. "Streamline"

4) Mesmerize
Year: 2005
Genre: Alternative Metal
Songs:

1. "Soldier Side - Intro"
2. "B.Y.O.B"
3. "Revenga"
4. "Cigaro"
5. "Radio/Video"
6. "This Cocaine Makes Me Feel Like I'm On This Song"
7. "Violent Pornography"
8. "Question!"
9. "Sad Statue"
10. "Old School Hollywood"
11. "Lost in Hollywood

4) Hypnotize
Year: 2005
Genre: Alternative Metal
Songs:

1. "Attack"
2. "Dreaming"
3. "Kill Rock 'N Roll"
4. "Hypnotize"
5. "Stealing Society"
6. "Tentative"
7. "U-Fig"
8. "Holy Mountains"
9. "Vicinity of Obscenity"
10. "She's Like Heroin"
11. "Lonely Day"
12. "Soldier Side"

SOURCE:





http://clancup.foroes.net/t84-system-of-a-down-discografia-completa

 

  

my ninth post!!!!!

Now i will put some of  the concerts the band will make in 2012:

System Of A Down	Saturday, 25 February 2012	Brisbane RNA Showgrounds, Australia
System Of A Down	Sunday, 26 February 2012	Sydney Olympic Park, Australia
System Of A Down	Friday, 02 March 2012	Melbourne Melbourne Showgrounds, Australia
System Of A Down	Saturday, 03 March 2012	Adelaide Bonython Park, Australia
System Of A Down	Monday, 05 March 2012	Perth Claremont Showgrounds, Australia

 SOURCE:http://concertful.com/concert/system-of-a-down/

my eight post!!!!!

 COOOOL VIDEOS AND PHOTOS!!!
Here i  will put some more

Links to videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENBv2i88g6Y                             (question !)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqZNMvIEHhs&feature=related   (Spiders)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F46r-_jPPHY&feature=related   (war?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE2r7r7VVic&feature=relmfu   ( boom) !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJmt3dr9XYQ     (Toxicity)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJd1Zs_Ugl4&feature=related     ( Soldier Side)

My seventh post!!!!!!

Curiosities of the band !!!!

•  The band was named like this because of a poem that Daron Malakian wrote that was named "Victims of a Down"but they put System instead of Victims because they wanted that their albums would be near to Slayer´s alums.
• The song Kill Rock N´ Roll was named likew this beacuse one day Daron almost kills a rabbit with his car, he named the rabbit Rock N´Roll, thats why in tyhe song it says " eat all the grass that you want, accidents happen in the dark"
•  Once, the band canceled a concert in Turkey  because they said that it would  be hiprocite to play in this country.
•  SOAD donated 2000 $ to the armenian genocide.
• B.Y.O.B.=  Bring your own bombs

SOURCE:

http://www.tipete.com/userpost/musica-gratis/curiosidades-de-system-down

my sixth post!!!!!!!

sooo i finished with the bios and from now i will do random things, such as puting lyrics of songs, curiosities,etc.
Now i will put some of the awards , nominations and other things that the band has earned.

2005 

Nomination for American Music Award category Favorite Alternative Artist

2003

Got nomination for California Music Award
category Outstanding Group

2006

Won ECHO Award
category International Rock/Alternative Male/Female Artist/Group of the Year for "Mezmerize"

2007

Got nomination for Grammy Award
category Best Hard Rock Performance for "Lonely Day"

2006

Won Grammy Award
category Best Hard Rock Performance for "B.Y.O.B."

2006

Got nomination for MTV Europe Music Award
category Best Alternative

2005

Won MTV Europe Music Award
category Best Alternative Act

2002

Got nomination for MTV Video Music Award
category Best Rock Video for "Chop Suey!"

2006

Won mtvU Woodie Award
category The Good Woodie - (Greatest Social Impact) for "Question! [Armenian Genocide]"

 Here i will put some of the LINKSof the  videos of their greatest songs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSvFpBOe8eY&ob=av3e (Chop Suey)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnGdoEa1tPg&ob=av3e (Lonely Day)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoheCz4t2xc&feature=relmfu ( Hypnotize)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-iepu3EtyE&feature=relmfu ( Aerials)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUzd9KyIDrM&feature=relmfu (B.Y.O.B.)

I will put more in other blogs , enjoy them !!!!!

my fifth post!!!!!

Bios of the band:
 John Dolmayan ( drums)

John was born the 15 of July  of 1975 in Lebanon, with armenian descendence. In his childhood, he moved to Canada because one night a bullet broke his window and landed were he slept, but he decided to sleep with his father because he was afraid.If him wouldn´t did that, he wouldn´t be here with us.Then he moved to Los Angeles,were he joined the band after Andy Kachaturian,the old drumer,left the band because of a hand surgery.

John says that he owns his father his talent on the drums o his father, that also played the drums. He also plays on the band Scars on Broadway,with Daron Malakian.

my fourth post!!!!!!

Bios of the band
Shavo Odadjian ( Bassist)

 He was born as Shavarsh Odadjian the 22 of april of 1974 in Yerevan, Armenia USSR. He used to make skateboarding and grew listening metal bands as Kiss, Slayer, etc. Then he moved to Los Angeles, and estudied in a school where his later mates Serj and Daron estudied.

While he worked in a bank, he made the band Soil with Serj and Daron in 1993.Then in 1995 he made the band System of a Down. He is also a DJ in Los Angeles. He addmits that he is better in guitar than the bass, and also he wrote some of the lyrics of "Bounce".
Source:
http://www.lastfm.es/music/Shavo+Odadjian/+wiki


 Lyrics of the song above:

Jump, bounce, down, up
I went out on a date,
with a girl, a bit late,
she had so many friends,
gliding through many hands.
i brought my pogo stick,
just to show her a trick,
she had so many friends,
gliding through many hands.
Jump pogo?..
bounce pogo,
down pogo, up pogo
Unannounced twister games,
all players with no names,
they lined up double quick,
but just one pogo stick,
everyone gets to play,
runaway, expose',
it was so exotic,
but just one pogo stick.
Jump pogo?..
bounce pogo,
down pogo, up pogo
Oh, i like to spread you out,
touching whoever's behind
Jump pogo?..
bounce pogo,
down pogo, up pogo
 Thanks to http://www.musica.com/letras.asp?letra=16846 for the lyrics.



 

my third post!!!!

Bios of the band

Daron Malakian ( Guitarist and vocalist)

 He was born the 18 of july of 1975,in Glendale, California and he has armenian descendence, he is the only one of the band who was born in U.S. When he was a child he wanted to play the drums but his parents didnt let him and instead they bought him an electric guitar, and he got good and started to  write songs. Then he met Serj,Shavo and John, and he made the band System of a down. The band was named like this because of a poem that Daron wrote that was called Victims of a Down. Here´s the poem:

"As the century nears its formidable end, our global experience of universal proportions, predicted by many greats, will arrive at our solar system, to our system of a down.
Authoritarian oppression, family abuse, depression caused by conformity, and economic devastation will be neutralized by technological terrorism in times of complete chaos.
Control will never again be gained for toleration will become extinct. A husband quarrelling with his wife will not think twice or regret his spent bullet. Hungry children will not spare the grocer.
Remorse in all forms will be removed from human thoughts and actions.
Freedom will only be available through revolution or death. This system of a down is unavoidable as life on this planet becomes unnecessary.
The hand has five fingers, capable and powerful, with the ability to destroy as well as create.
We have the power to stop and reverse the tides of time by making our awareness of abuse known to the powers of industry and their uncouth political arms. Only by raising the awareness and promoting personal peace within today’s self-defeatist society, can we allow the planet a chance to avoid self-destruction!
OPEN YOUR EYES, OPEN YOUR MOUTHS,
CLOSE YOUR HANDS AND MAKE A FIST."
Thanks to http://dmeetree.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/victims-of-a-down-testing-the-blog-system/ for the poem
Sources:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1412175/bio

my second blog!!!!! ( SERJ TANKIAN)

Okay i will star by puting the biographies ( summaries obviously) of each  memebers of the band.in each post  i will do biography of each one,i will come with another idea when i finish all four, so lets start.
Serj Tankian

 Serj Tankian was born in august 30 in Beirut, Lebanon. He is the vocalist, keyboardist and sometimes guitarist of the ban System of a Down,but he also is a solist.When he was seven, Serj moved with his parents to Los Angeles at the beginning of the civil war in Lebanon.He took singing lessons for four years and also took guitar lessons as a young child. He is rally interested in politics, so he created with Tom Morello ( Rage against the machine) the organization Axis Of Justice and also in the songs of the band talks about politics and other related topics. Serj is vegetarian and likes poetry. He is especially interested in Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe. Serj hates celebrity gossip. He believes it is a waste of time and that rumors can destroy relationships.
2 days after 11/09/2001 Serj published an essay that people misunderstanded and started to denounce Serj about justifiyng the attacks, but he was not guilty,sony eliminated the essay but here it is:

Understanding Oil
By Serj Tankian
9/13/2001

 

"The brutal attacks/bombings this week in New York, and Washington D.C., along with threats of attacks there and elsewhere in the country have changed our times forever. While the mass media concentrates on the details of the destruction, and the blanketed words of politicians, I will attempt to understand and explain the events from the fence. BOMBING AND BEING BOMBED ARE THE SAME THINGS ON DIFFERENT SIDES OF THE FENCE.

Terror is not a spontaneous human action without credence. People just dont hijack planes and commit harikari (suicide) without any weight of thought to the action. No one in the media seems to ask WHY DID THESE PEOPLE DO THIS HORRIFIC ACT OF VIOLENCE AND DESTRUCTION?

To be able to understand the answer to this, we must first look at our U.S. Mideast Policy. During most of the 20th century, U.S. businesses have worked on attaining oil rights and concessions from countries in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. After WWI, secret back door deals by our State Dept. yielded oil rights from then defeated Turkey to fields in what is now Iraq and Saudi Arabia, in return for looking the other way at a crime against humanity, the Genocide of the Armenians by the Turks. Oil profits have been the motivating factors behind many attempts at counterinsurgency of democratic regimes by the CIA and the U.S in the Middle East (such as Iran in the 1950s, where the Shah replaced the Prime Minister who refused to give up oil rights to the U.S., and since the people couldnt deal with the Shah, an extremist government headed by the Ayatollah Khomeini ultimately prevailed). During the Iran-Iraq war, America supplied both sides with weapons and advice. These are not the actions of a rich superpower wanting peace. Lets not forget that Saddam Hussein, before being Americas vision of the Anti-Christ, was a close ally of the U.S., and the CIA. So what was the firm belief system of consecutive American administrations that caused all this to occur ? PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST WILL LEAD TO HIGHER OIL AND GASOLINE PRICES. Lets not also forget the power of the Arms industry, disguised as defense, that still sells billions of dollars of weapons to the area. Therefore it has not been in the short-term economic interest of the U.S. to foster Peace in the Middle East. Using the above reasoning, the U.S. has encouraged extremist governments, toppled democracies, as in the case of Iran to replace it with a monarchy, rigged elections, and many more unspeakable political crimes for U.S. businesses abroad. Lets not also forget the Red Scare. During the war between the then Soviet Union and Afghanistan, the U.S. armed and supported the Taliban, a fundamentalist Muslim organization, and allowed them to export opium and heroin out of their country to pay for those weapons. Therefore the Taliban rose to power and control with the help of the U.S.A. Today, the bombing of Iraq still continues, no longer covered by the media, the economic embargo still remains, killing millions of children, and recently, while the world and the U.N. General Assembly have cried out to bring in peacekeeping forces into Israel and Palestine, to end the escalated war and recent assassinations, the U.S. has vetoed the rest of the Security Council and has halted the possibility of peace, there, in the most volatile place in the world.

People in Serbia, Lebanon, Iraq, Sudan, and Afghanistan to name a few have seen bombs fall, not always at military targets and kill innocent civilians, as the scene in New York city yesterday. The wars waged by our government in our names has landed smack in the middle of our living room. The half hour of destruction closed down all world financial markets, struck the central headquarters of our military, and had our leaders running into bunkers, and our citizens into fear and frenzy. What scares me more than what has occurred is what our reactions to the occurrences may cause. President Bush belongs to a long generation of Republican Presidents who love war economies. The media has only concentrated on the bombings, if you will, and what type of retaliations are looming for the perpetrators. What everyone fails to realize is that the bombings are a reaction to existing injustices around the world, generally unseen to most Americans. To react to a reaction would be to further sponsor the reaction. In other words, my belief is that the terror will multiply if concrete steps are not taken to sponsor peace in the middle east, NOW. This does not mean that we should not find the guilty party(s), Bin Laden, or whoever they may be, and not try them. Put simply, as long as a major injustice remains, violence precipitates to the surface of life.

Native American folklore, the Bible, Nostradamus, and many other major religious beliefs point to this era with the visuals of yesterdays disasters, and conditions of ecological disasters we experience daily in our lives today. War, rumors of war, famine, long burning fires, etc., are at our doorstep. We can prevail over this possible vision with the power of the human spirit, understanding, compassion, and peace. ITS TIME TO PUT OUR NEEDS FOR SECURITY AND SURVIVAL, ACHIEVED ONLY THROUGH PEACE, ABOVE AND BEYOND PROFITS, ESPECIALLY IN THESE TIMES.

SOLUTION:

The U.S. should stop sidestepping the U.N. Security Council, and allow U.N. Peacekeeping troops and missions to the Middle East. Stop the violence first.

Stop the bombing and patrol of Iraq.

With todays gains in the use of alternative fuels, develop them to full usage with autos and other utilities, to make the country less dependant on an already depleting natural reserve, oil.

By initiating peace, we would have already shaken the foundations of support for Bin Laden, and/or all those that sponsor activities like those we saw yesterday, and break the stronghold of extremists on the world of Islam. On the other hand, if we carry out bombings on Afghanistan or elsewhere to appease public demand, and very likely kill innocent civilians along the way, wed be creating many more martyrs going to their deaths in retaliation against the retaliation. As shown from yesterdays events, you cannot stop a person whos ready to die."

 Thanks to http://donce.awardspace.com/esej.html for the essay.

Source:

http://artists.letssingit.com/serj-tankian-m5h79/biography

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