Serj Tankian anyone?

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Serj Tankian anyone?

« on: November 23, 2010, 08:05:23 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKpVooXVDRM

I listen to so little music these days, but Serj from System of a Down is among the few groups still making new music.

His Nu-Metal background probably turns you off, but I love it. He is heavy on the orchestra this time.


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Re: Serj Tankian anyone?

« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2010, 12:10:16 PM »

SOD is NU-metal? I always thought they were just a rock band with a sense of humor.


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Re: Serj Tankian anyone?

« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2010, 02:01:59 AM »

I'm with you on that. They were called gimmicky, but I bought their CD's and put their stickers on my skateboard.


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Re: Serj Tankian anyone?

« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2010, 10:32:41 PM »

I'm not a huge fan, but their first two albums were pretty good. The term nu-metal brings to mind a band like Linkin Park, who, along with acts such as Limp Bizkit, are responsible for ruining many bus rides home after school for me.


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Re: Serj Tankian anyone?

« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2010, 05:25:48 PM »

I don't mind his solo stuff but I really wish S.O.A.D. would get back together. Hypnotize and Mezmerize were friggin' brilliant. Funny that when they first came out I couldn't stand them.


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Re: Serj Tankian anyone?

« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2010, 08:54:42 AM »

Quote from: Esper_Crusader on November 28, 2010, 05:25:48 PM

I don't mind his solo stuff but I really wish S.O.A.D. would get back together. Hypnotize and Mezmerize were friggin' brilliant. Funny that when they first came out I couldn't stand them.

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Re: Serj Tankian anyone?

« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2010, 07:07:05 PM »

I like SoaD - Toxicity (the album) a lot. It's one of my more incongruous music tastes.

Also I know they're supposed to be nu-metal but they always struck me more as glam revival or something. Serj's particular vocal stylings are really not that far removed from early-70s Brian Eno or pre-Berlin, post-Hunky Dory Bowie. Compare Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch, Ziggy Stardust, and, I don't know, Pogo. Or Roxy Music's Virginia Plain for that matter. The underlying music styles are pretty different on all of them, but the vocals share a very similar flavor of acrobaticity. Particularly in terms of penchants for rapid pitch shifts, sudden switches between 'chest' and 'head' vocalization, etcetcetc i am fucking babbling oh god what

The salient point is that several songs on Toxicity had banjos on them.


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