Album Rating: 3.5
first two songs are indeed awesome
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Saw him live when he promoted this, prancing round in a top hat. He was shit. I heckled.
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Album Rating: 3.0
I remember when the opening track was a fairly popular radio single, at least where I lived.
Prob the weirdest song on the radio at the time.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Used to worship this record and serj
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Album Rating: 3.0
"I saw SOAD live and they all really sucked. It's what killed my love for Serj and SOAD, seeing them totally butcher it live. "
Yah same here. Wouldn't say 'killed my love for SOAD' but they are indeed awful live nowadays. Serj just seemed so tired and uninterested the entire time and he used that damn nasally Kermit The Frog voice thru the whole show.
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everybody knooooooows that u cradle the suuuunn
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Album Rating: 4.0
such a nostalgia trip to listen to this again
LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE LIEEEEE LIEEE LIEEEEE
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
I still think this is excellent, the songs may be simple, but it's very very well executed. The piano adds a lot too
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Album Rating: 4.0
Came back to this after like 10 years. It was better than I remember! Very solid.
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Album Rating: 4.0
nice, pinky
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Album Rating: 3.5
Serj talking on Falling Stars like he's in a 2005 christcore band
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im sure if i listened to this i would absolutely hate it
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Album Rating: 3.5
it's his only solo project I liked. It's like SOAD b-sides
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i need to give this some time tbh
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Album Rating: 3.5
I just jammed this for the first time in 10 years the other day... still pretty good.
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Album Rating: 4.0
harakiri is great too
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Album Rating: 3.5
Damn I don't know why I had such an amazing time listening to this today. Likely in part due to having a really good EQ on my headphones but also I haven't been able to listen to much music lately, but even still this wasn't an album that ever grew on me much. I think I've also gotten past some of the bad memories I associated with the album and started fresh again.
I do wonder if the album was secretly remastered or a higher quality version was uploaded on Spotify. Probably not but it just sounds really good to me right now.
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Empty Walls is still a jam
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Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off
This makes me wonders whether or not the good melodies in SOAD actually came from Serj
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Well kalkwiese, it’s clear to me from daron and serjs side ventures that Serj was the defining factor in the songwriting from soad. I have put a lot of thought into this and here is my disposition (I’m so over work today):
- Daron started to take the songwriting reigns a bit more in the 4th and 5th albums. Evidence: more vocal involvement from daron, stylistic change to the music favoring more guitar driven songs, drop off in quality (points toward darons songwriting as will be described later), the band ended up breaking up after the albums due to ego issues inferably from daron and power struggles. This last point makes sense with daron taking more part in songwriting and the quality dropping.
-serjs solo venture is indisputably better and has had much better reception than darons. The songwriting and themes on this debut are much more reminiscent of soads first 3 albums than anything daron has put out on his own
-the new 2020 songs, while for a good cause, are completely rudimentary from a songwriting standpoint. Genocidal humanoids sounds like a b track from hypnotize and mezmerize. And they have stated that these were written almost entirely by daron
Having Saadi that, daron is probably my favorite guitarist of all time, so not take anything away from him in that regard. But as far as songwriting and coming up with melodies, I think it’s clear Serj held the torch here
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