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Diaby 
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Posted: January 13 2009 at 02:36 |
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What do you think about him? I only know his solo album Elect the Dead, but it's pretty good. Anyone heard that one?
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Posted: January 13 2009 at 14:24 |
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Not into his solo stuff at all, but his work in System of a Down is great.
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Posted: January 13 2009 at 15:12 |
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System was a great band, hopefully they get off their hiatus soon because the member's solo projects have been luke-warm at best. I bought Elect The Dead when it came out last year and was quite disappointed. Some good stuff there, but he clearly needs Derek to help him write, as does Derek need Serj as proven by Scars On Broadway.
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Posted: January 13 2009 at 15:56 |
Ditto Mike, SOAD were fantastic. I currently have the albumsHypnotize/ Mesmerize and Toxicity and I like what I hear. Reminds me of Summer 08  Haven't heard any of the dude's solo stuff though, but from what I've heard it's nothing on SOAD.
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Posted: January 13 2009 at 20:34 |
I have to agree with these guys. I haven't heard much of either, but it seems that both Serj's solo stuff and Scars on Broadway are poor man's System of a Down. Generic alt-metal at some times, and annoyingly weird at others.
System made some great alt-metal, and their quirkier songs were really creative. And "Question!" might as well be better than most prog-metal material I've heard here.
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Posted: January 13 2009 at 23:34 |
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I think I heard the single from his solo album and maybe turned it off halfway through or something. It wasn't very interesting. However, SOAD were quite good. Although a bit repetitive and short on verses, but they provide some many interesting elements of quirky, psychotic, Armenian, pop/metal. Which you don't hear everyday. Their first album kind of stinks though. A bit too juvenile musically, in my opinion.
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Posted: January 14 2009 at 02:36 |
Their first album was just that, a first album  . But you can't argue with "war" and "Peephole" - awesome tracks. I've seen them listed on some prog sites and I disagree with that - but they certainly are some of th ebest alt-metal bands out there. Hypnotize remains on my top-something of all time. Great pair of albums, I hope they can top them. Furthermore: Psycho, groupie, cocain, crazy. that is all.
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Posted: January 14 2009 at 11:53 |
I found Elect the Dead very interesting, however, there are few songs I dislike. A bit surprising, that allmusic labels it as "Neo-Prog" 
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Posted: January 14 2009 at 11:57 |
Wow. Allmusic is dumb
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Posted: January 14 2009 at 17:38 |
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And "Question!" might as well be better than most prog-metal material I've heard here. |
Tune  My favourite System song. Maybe. I think it's marginally beaten by ATWA. Oh and about "Question?". 5/4 BABY! 
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Posted: January 14 2009 at 20:43 |
... And 6/8, and 9/8, and 4/4.
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Posted: January 14 2009 at 21:56 |
Serj's voice is pretty amazing. (My personal description is a cross between Jello Biafra, Mike Patton and a man from Mars.)
I've only heard the single from EtD. I also heard some of the Serart project. Not as good as prime System.
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Posted: January 14 2009 at 23:08 |
I'm a system fan.. was really disappointed with his solo album, think I've spun it like twice?
I also have the serart cd, it's certainly different.. I'll have to give it a spin soon.
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Posted: January 15 2009 at 11:03 |
topofsm wrote:
... And 6/8, and 9/8, and 4/4.
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And some SICK drumming. Cheers Harry, I'm now a " " addict
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Posted: January 15 2009 at 11:18 |
I'll stick my oar in here in support of SOAD fans - I've only got/heard Toxicity & it's one of the most played albums on the iPod (great driving music) - I did hear a couple of tracks from Serj's solo album a while ago, but have to say they didn't stick in my mind at all... just sounded flat by comparison to SOAD.
Great voice (extremely versatile too), highly intelligent lyricist - get SOAD back together 
[edit]
Bears a striking resemblance to one of the greats, too:
Edited by Jim Garten - January 15 2009 at 11:22
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Jon Lord 1941 - 2012
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Posted: January 15 2009 at 11:21 |
Wow Jim, I wouldn't have expected you to be in on the band  You should try out Mesmerize/Hypnotize, they're an excellent pair of albums.
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Posted: January 15 2009 at 11:27 |
You'd be surprised - The first time I heard 'Chop Suey' I knew this was a band I needed to investigate - went out & bought Toxicity only to find Chop Suey was possibly the weakest track on an otherwise powerful, intelligent, incisive, funny (nearly wet myself the first time I hear 'Pogo' ) & (lets face it) balls-out rocking album
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As I remember though, our forum friend Peter wasn't too keen when I tried to convert him 
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Posted: January 15 2009 at 11:44 |
My friend's brother used to blast "Chop Suey" and "BOOM!" from "Steal This Album" in his car driving us to school back in ye-olden-days, so it was only a matter of time until I hunted down Toxicity. I can actually remember the day that each of Mesmerize and Hypnotize came out because my friends and I held a listening party in my parent's basement (although I suppose this second part of the story was only about 4 years ago  ). Hypnotize was such a big release at the time that pretty much everyone I knew at the school was yacking about it, and even had t-shirts to preempt the album - they even played the whole album on the local radio the night before it was released. But I guess not all of Canada feels the same way. Peter will never know what he's missing out on 
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Posted: January 15 2009 at 12:25 |
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Posted: January 15 2009 at 12:27 |
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She had so many friends!!!
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