System of a Down - Hypnotize

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The single is pretty good - boring video though.

I'm thinking the album will best "Mezmerize", though, based on the song descriptions I've read. This sucker should leak within the next few days...

Thoughtson the single? Any of you insider folks heard this yet?

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Thursday, 3 November 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

I like the single, and the song from it they were playing on tour, "Kill Rock'n'Roll". Mezmerize is great, I hope Hypnotize is as good but honestly I'm kind of dreading making an either/or choice on my end of year lists.

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 3 November 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

Is this going to be just another collection of songs or is it meant to be different from Mezmerize (i.e. more mellow or more angry in general)

― jimjim, Friday, 4 November 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)

The impression I'm under is that it is supposed to be darker and more "serious", if not completely discarding their bizarro tendencies.

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Friday, 4 November 2005 04:44 (twenty years ago)

oink oink.

"Dreaming":
http://s63.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=13V3Y1BD5GE7F15FE281HKSJJ8

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Sunday, 13 November 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

I've been kinda let down by this as well as "Question". They're a little boring when they're not spazzing out.

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 13 November 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

>They're a little boring when they're not spazzing out.

Their earlier slow songs ("Spiders" and "Aerials") were both good, but yeah, "Question" blows. I don't think I'll be buying this new one, and I did buy the earlier disc. I didn't like Steal This Album much, either; I think they peaked with Toxicity.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Sunday, 13 November 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

i didn't think it was possible but the new album cover is even worse than the previous one

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000BM6AVA.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― pinder (pinder), Sunday, 13 November 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

I like this song quite a bit, actually. Bodes well.

Any more where that came from, Simon H?

― a. begrand (a begrand), Sunday, 13 November 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

You know what irks me? That the misspelling of "MeZmerize" is not supported by a corresponding misspelling in "Hypnotize."

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 13 November 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

"Kill Rock n' Roll":

http://s55.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1B3DUYWLCUZSV35VQP35BDEWV5

And yesh, thatbothers me too, joseph.

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Monday, 14 November 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)

i was hoping there would be a cover of

http://www.lp-cd.de/10/R904_01.jpg

― stockholm cindy is in your extended network (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 14 November 2005 05:27 (twenty years ago)

it already leaked.....

it feels like a continuation of the last song on mezmerize

― bilbo baggins, Monday, 14 November 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Is there a cover of

http://www.musicobsession.com/Pictures/n/o/notoriousbig313444.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 14 November 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

You know what irks me? That the misspelling of "MeZmerize" is not supported by a corresponding misspelling in "Hypnotize."

What's even more annoying is the repeated line of, "the most loneliest day of my life," in "Lonely Day". What are they, six years old?

― a. begrand (a begrand), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 10:00 (twenty years ago)

"Lonely Day" is by far the worst of the 23 songs on both records. By a huge fucking margin. It should not exist. "She's Like Heroin" and "Violent Pornography" are regrettable as well.

Overall though I think "Hypnotize" is the better album, if only for "Stealing Society", "Tentative", "Dreaming" and the full "Soldier Side".

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

I found the goofier moments on Mezmerize worked rather well. On Hypnotize that ill-advised trio of songs, "Vicinity of Obscenity", "She's Like Heroin", and the abysmal "Lonely Day" derail things, especially coming right on the heels of "Holy Mountains", the best song on the entire two-disc set.

― a. begrand (a begrand), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

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