A solo comes in as well and it's a more twisted version of the Middle Eastern guitar play at the beginning. Both vocalists sing the simple-minded chorus of "I'm just sitting in my car/And waiting for my girl" and by the time you get to it, it's sung so beautifully with the softer tone that returns. It's like a couple people have been talking to each other musically. After a few lines, Daron Malakian balances them out with some lines of his own that respond to Serj's. After some typical Middle Eastern powerchords on the guitar, Serj Tankian starts singing and at that split second the guitar, bass, and drums get heavier than before. I still have the feelings I've had from it when I first heard it that it feels like yesterday. Anyway, the band managed to do a lot of neat things for the shortest song on this album and if you want a good song to mosh to, check this out.Īh, the title track and the first single off the album. As for the song's instrumentation and vocal interplay, it's the same as "Cigaro" except a little slower and a little softer. I didn't know what the lines "Eat all the grass that you want/Accidents happen in the dark" had to do with the music of rock 'n roll until I realized the meaning had nothing to do with that at all. ![]() Confused? So was I when I first went over the lyrical content. I don't mean the music, I mean the bunny rabbit Daron ran over that inspired this song. The something wrong of course is killing rock 'n roll. No, I don't mean the body part, I mean the people who feel like assholes for doing something wrong. ![]() Remember "Cigaro" on Mezmerize, the crazy song all about cocks? Well, this is the "Cigaro" on Hypnotize, a song about assholes. The song ends the same way it started and this is definitely one of Hypnotize's highlights. The bridge he sings out is the best part of the song lyrically ("Dreaming of screaming/Someone kick me out of my mind/I hate these thoughts I can't deny") and I like the na-na-na-na-na-na-na's that come out later in the track. My favourite part though is the bridge, in which Daron Malakian does his lines (you know you like a song off of System of a Down's recent work if you like what Daron's singing does to the song as well). When the chorus kicks in, the song becomes softer and more depressing. However, he makes his voice stack on top of another set of his vocals, as if a massive tower was only built with his vocal chords. Serj Tankian's vocals match "Attack" as well in these verses. "Dreaming" starts off almost as hard as "Attack", but Serj's lyrics are more confusing than what he said in the chorus of the previous track ("We're the prophetic generation of bottled water, bottled water"), yet nonsensical lyrics are something to expect from System of a Down, so that doesn't detract from the brilliance of the song. Overall, "Attack" is only good as an album opener and as an anthem for if you want to attack something.Īfter the album opener, we get to the track that really draws in the themes of Hypnotize. The chorus is kind of confusing ("We attack/Attack, attack your fetal servitude/We attack/Attack, attack, attack with pesticide/We attack/All the years of propaganda/WE SHALL ATTACK!!!"), but it helps to give the track its heaviness. Serj's vocals and lyrics make the song sound like a more political Iron Maiden. Sure, Daron Malakian's vocals might make this song relaxing after the heavy guitar riffing at the beginning, but when Serj Tankian comes in, the fun really starts. Wrong! System of a Down wanted to suprize people with the album opener by replacing the soft instrumental known as "Hezze" with this hard edged track. However, I will still do a track by track analysis to show the high points and the low points of the album, because it's a tradition I have been keeping for many reviews.Īfter listening to "Lost In Hollywood" on Mezmerize, you would think that Hypnotize would start soft as well. If this album had a mathematical equation it would be "Hypnotize = Mezmerize to the power of -1 (Mezmerize inverted)". Unlike Mezmerize, Hypnotize is hard to digest by only a few songs and is only a good album in its entirety. My best friend ever thinks it's the worst album System of a Down have made in their complete works, but that's only because he has listened to a few songs off of it. Why? More effort has been put on it than its predecessor and the music doesn't seem completely commercialized. ![]() Anyway, Hypnotize is Mezmerize's sequel and out of the two albums, this is more worth getting. I wanted to wait until there was official news about what the second single on Hypnotize would be before I could really show my opinion on the album. Why did I decide to review later when I could've done it on the release date? Simple. I know there has been too many reviews on Hypnotize, but hey, there were around five reviews on Mezmerize before I could get my review out.
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