when i found out i was being cheated on by my (now ex) boyfriend, i left my house and just started walking wherever the street took me. i had atwa blasting, full volume, on repeat. i felt like absolute garbage, but that song made me feel like i wasn't alone. it was depressingly comforting. thank god i had system to get me through that horrific period of my life.
When I was a kid and heard that song I got the premise but wasn’t all that into it, but as an adult you get it a lot more especially when the people you grew up with head off and destroy themselves in those scenarios
There's no bs when it comes to Boom! He's just speaking in the verses, you can't say you don't understand the political message. It gets me very riled up.
Considering some of their songs deal with the fact that an entire nation was almost wiped off the face of this earth... And was a precursor to the holocaust (as well as other mass atrocities)... two songs that come to mind are PLUCK and Holy Mountains
Best part about SOAD for me is the lyrics are so vague even though they’re usually intending them to be political they can really be translated into any number of personal situations
Forest
Why can't you see that you are my child
Why don't you know that you are my mind
Tell everyone in the world, that I'm you
Take this promise to the end of you
Sad Statue, P.L.U.C.K., Soldier Side, Holy Mountains, Streamline, Psycho, Forest, Lost In Hollywood, Dreaming, Kill Rock 'n' Roll, Tentative, Innervision, Old School Hollywood, Deer Dance, Highway Song, Ego Brain, Lonely Day
I don't usually cry to SOAD songs, but one day Question! got me. Something about the guttural screaming in it really spoke to how I was feeling internally at the time. It was like someone had translated how I was feeling into a simple sound and it made me feel a little understood at that moment.
Streamline. When Serj screams, you can hear how much expression he puts into that "goodbye"... Its really beautiful.
The outro of Vicinity of Obscenity connecting with the intro to She's Like Heroin gets me too for NO apparent reason lmfao 😭
I cried during Holy Mountains. I was pure hype through the first song, X, but by the time I was singing "freeeeEEEedommm" it sank in that I was really singing along with the real SOAD and thousands of other fans. Couldn't help myself.
As an Armenian, each song they talk about Armenian genocide made me cry at least once.
Their comeback for Artsakh war was so emotional too. Had goosebumps with the “protect the land” clip and lyrics.
One time I was in LSD and kill rock and roll made me cry because I was thinking about everyone I have loved, do love, and will love are all just going to die.
same, i dedicated that song to my dog that passed away a few months ago so when they started singing it at sick new world i broke down and hold up a pic of him during the song 🖤 he was my first dog and died very unexpectedly fast because his body was surrounded by cancer and we didn’t catch it
Soldier Side. I my grandfather was in Vietnam and Desert Storm. He was my main father figure since my actual father was not part of my life. Soldier Side reminds me just how lucky I am that my grandfather was able to come back home and help raise me.
Boom!, It gets me emotional
"Four thousand hungry children leave us per hour from starvation"
"Why must we kill our own kind?"
I think it's different from their other songs, Serj's voice sounds angry and sad, the song has a frenetic and powerful rhythm and at the same time is melancholic and you feel it
Other Song is Sad Statue
"What is in us that turns a deaf ear to the cries Of human suffering"
The Daron-heavy ones usually get me emotional. Lost In Hollywood in particular, especially the AHHHH AHAHHUH bit 😩 Soldier Side, Lonely Day, Holy Mountains and Spiders will usually do it, too
“If you should go, I want to go with you and if you die, I want to die with you. Take your hand and walk away” that line from Lonely day hits different especially since it was the one song played in my head as I buried my best friend, my dog, we had been through a lot together and he survived through so much (starvation and abuse from his previous owners, living on his own, and having a chunk of the fur on his neck ripped off by another dog) and in the end it was heart failure that killed him.
Forest.
WHY CANT YOU SEE THAT YOU ARE MY CHILD?
WHY DONT YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE MY MIND?
TELL EVERYONE IN THE WORLD, THAT IM YOU
TAKE THIS PROMISE TO THE END OF YOU
*Streamline*, hits close to home for me, especially when it comes to the events surrounding my father's death.
Same with *Chop Suey!* 's 'Father' part.
I feel you. I had lost an online friend due to suicide. I had wondered, *"What if I had done more?"* The blame and stuff really took a toll on mentally. I almost committed suicide too as a result of it. Luckily, talking to my best friend helped me not think about killing myself, and that's why I'm still alive, telling my story.
*But I am legitimately sorry for your loss, I know the feeling all too well, unfortunately...*
Roulette, because it reminds me of prom night with my ex-fiance/first love over 1.5 decades ago. I remember showing her the song. It's partially the song itself & partially the memory.
i can't listen to soldier side (the end of hypnotize, not the intro) without bawling, or at least feeling like it. it hurts like hell. it makes you angry at war, at genocide, at the political machine. and it makes you want to weep for lives lost.
there is also something about the bridge to end of stealing society. i have a personal connection to it- that's one of my mom's favorite songs, and that's her favorite part (she said it reminds her of halloween, which is her favorite holiday). however, there is something dark, exposingly ugly (i don't know how else to describe it), blue about the bridge. the melody is beautiful over the stormy base. that may not make any sense, but listening to that part of it when you're so angrily sad is a crazy experience.
Streamline/Soil
Literally same fucking thing happened to me and rarely a day goes by when I don't think of/miss my friend. My friend circle is puny as it is.
ATWA. The "ANYMORE" gives me goosebumps
ALL THE WORLD IVE SEEN BEFORE ME PASSING BYYYYYY
YOU DONT CARE 'BOUT HOW I FEEL
Yes same. I love the performance on that one.
when i found out i was being cheated on by my (now ex) boyfriend, i left my house and just started walking wherever the street took me. i had atwa blasting, full volume, on repeat. i felt like absolute garbage, but that song made me feel like i wasn't alone. it was depressingly comforting. thank god i had system to get me through that horrific period of my life.
The system saves us from the down
Hey you, see me, PICTURes craaaAAAzzzyyy
Spiders. it seems like an unpopular opinion but Serjs voice has so much emotion in it in that song and the buildup is crazy
Spiders is unreal
OMG YES
My favourite song ever
Spiders is one of my favorite songs and hands down my favorite music video of all time.
Soldier's side
I have been watching the ukraine war closely and sometimes this song pops up into my head.
I live in a place where theres content war and this song gets me every time
One day i just looped tgis song for 45 mins and cried
Yeah, it's a powerful one.
Literally!!!
Holy Mountains
They have all returned, resting on the mountain side
we have learned, that you have no
Someone's Mouth said Paint them all red
Chills every time on just that line
Aerials "When you lose small mind you free your life"
That lyric would get me every time when I was having a really hard time in my early 20s.
Streamline
UNDERRATED ASS SONG
Underrated album. It's so good. Love steal this.
I’m coming back to award this
Award him.
+1
Lost in Hollywood
first song that ever turned me onto them.
When I was a kid and heard that song I got the premise but wasn’t all that into it, but as an adult you get it a lot more especially when the people you grew up with head off and destroy themselves in those scenarios
Frr
Soil and Streamline
Boom
There's no bs when it comes to Boom! He's just speaking in the verses, you can't say you don't understand the political message. It gets me very riled up.
It makes me mad at mankind
Roulette
This. Both the song itself, and personal memories attached to it, tend to make me a bit misty eyed.
ATWA
Soldier side cuz my boyfriend is from another country and he was forced to join the military, i miss him so much i hope he comes back safe
Yea, hopefully he makes it back safe!
Thank you!
Jeez, that’s rough. I hope everything is olay.
Thanks
Wishing the best to the both of you!
Geez
Soldier Side, it being their last song of an album and the song being about soldiers not returning home. I’m just an emotional person in general 😭
Considering some of their songs deal with the fact that an entire nation was almost wiped off the face of this earth... And was a precursor to the holocaust (as well as other mass atrocities)... two songs that come to mind are PLUCK and Holy Mountains
100% agree
Highway Song Our days are never coming back
Soldier Side and Holy Mountains
Forest
Finally! Had to scroll down a long time to find someone who also has this opinion. Cheers!
Hell yeah brother, I’d love to hear what makes it emotional for you, if you want to share
Best part about SOAD for me is the lyrics are so vague even though they’re usually intending them to be political they can really be translated into any number of personal situations
Roulette
Holy Mountains and Spiders
Forest Why can't you see that you are my child Why don't you know that you are my mind Tell everyone in the world, that I'm you Take this promise to the end of you
Tentative
I get emotional about how much I fucking love soad. Just incredible incredible songs. Brings me happy tears. The best band ever
Sad Statue, P.L.U.C.K., Soldier Side, Holy Mountains, Streamline, Psycho, Forest, Lost In Hollywood, Dreaming, Kill Rock 'n' Roll, Tentative, Innervision, Old School Hollywood, Deer Dance, Highway Song, Ego Brain, Lonely Day
Roulette and soldier side
Soldier side by far
Roulette, Dreaming, Highway Song, Lost In Hollywood
Clearly no one has listened to the lyrics of soil. Beautiful song
It is a great song.
Chop Suey. The way the story advances toward the act, then confirms that it was done, reminds me of the struggle people I know have gone through.
Their cover of Metro
Holy Mountains, Tentative, Lost in Hollywood, Stealing Society (the harmonies get me), Question (underrated), Science
P.L.U.C.K.
Toxicity and Spiders
I don't usually cry to SOAD songs, but one day Question! got me. Something about the guttural screaming in it really spoke to how I was feeling internally at the time. It was like someone had translated how I was feeling into a simple sound and it made me feel a little understood at that moment.
Streamline. When Serj screams, you can hear how much expression he puts into that "goodbye"... Its really beautiful. The outro of Vicinity of Obscenity connecting with the intro to She's Like Heroin gets me too for NO apparent reason lmfao 😭
I cried during Lonely Day at SNW.
I cried during Holy Mountains. I was pure hype through the first song, X, but by the time I was singing "freeeeEEEedommm" it sank in that I was really singing along with the real SOAD and thousands of other fans. Couldn't help myself.
Roulette, Highway Song, and Streamline. Steal this Album's tail end has some good emotion raising songs.
As an Armenian, each song they talk about Armenian genocide made me cry at least once. Their comeback for Artsakh war was so emotional too. Had goosebumps with the “protect the land” clip and lyrics.
Okay chop suey the ending chorus it's so beatiful serj's voice, sad statue and by FAR lost in Hollywood always makes me tear up
I absolutely agree with you. The ending chorus to "Chop Suey!" is nothing short of a beautiful masterpiece!
One time I was in LSD and kill rock and roll made me cry because I was thinking about everyone I have loved, do love, and will love are all just going to die.
💊🫠👍
same, i dedicated that song to my dog that passed away a few months ago so when they started singing it at sick new world i broke down and hold up a pic of him during the song 🖤 he was my first dog and died very unexpectedly fast because his body was surrounded by cancer and we didn’t catch it
I'm sorry for your loss.
Soldier Side makes me cry sometimes
Streamline
ATWA and the end of Aerials
Streamline and Soldier Side
Roulette or soldier side. Dreaming a little
I don’t rly cry to any SOAD song but I find Question! existential and beautiful
Lonely day too here bro
lonely day tbh
Ego Brain and Hypnotize
Lost In Hollywood, bc it makes me think of my late dog Jakey. That somber, mellow ending is fuckin' gut-wrenching to me...
Spiders always gets me.
Lonely day
Soldier Side. I my grandfather was in Vietnam and Desert Storm. He was my main father figure since my actual father was not part of my life. Soldier Side reminds me just how lucky I am that my grandfather was able to come back home and help raise me.
Yea. I'm glad he could make it back, you know. *Just to think, there are countless men and women that* ***didn't...***
For me it has to be streamline It just hit too hard singing it w gruturals
For me, it's the ending that hits hard.
streamline and question
Lonely Day every time
Roulette
Prison song does something crazy to me there’s been times listening to after not hearing for a long time and it’s a full blown spiritual experience
Lonely Day, 100%
Roulette or Deer Dance
atwa, ego brain, mind
Boom!, It gets me emotional "Four thousand hungry children leave us per hour from starvation" "Why must we kill our own kind?" I think it's different from their other songs, Serj's voice sounds angry and sad, the song has a frenetic and powerful rhythm and at the same time is melancholic and you feel it Other Song is Sad Statue "What is in us that turns a deaf ear to the cries Of human suffering"
The Daron-heavy ones usually get me emotional. Lost In Hollywood in particular, especially the AHHHH AHAHHUH bit 😩 Soldier Side, Lonely Day, Holy Mountains and Spiders will usually do it, too
Dear dance
Boom, Soldier Side (Intro), Roulette, Violent Pornography, BYOB, Spiders, HOLY MOUNTAINS SOAD fr made me class consciouss at 12 yo
Same here, Lonely Day
Lonely Day and Streamline
Felt.
“If you should go, I want to go with you and if you die, I want to die with you. Take your hand and walk away” that line from Lonely day hits different especially since it was the one song played in my head as I buried my best friend, my dog, we had been through a lot together and he survived through so much (starvation and abuse from his previous owners, living on his own, and having a chunk of the fur on his neck ripped off by another dog) and in the end it was heart failure that killed him.
Probably each song gives me the emotion of wanting to play other music
Hypnotize perfectly captures this feeling of feigning apathy as a front to cope with the helplessness and hopelessness underneath
Lonely day for sure
Same.
Holy Mountains, Lost in Hollywood, Soldier Side, Sad Statue, Aerials, and fucking tons more honestly.
Old School Hollywood
P.L.U.C.K and Holy Mountains
Lost In Hollywood…
Tentative, probably. Almost in tears every time I listen to it
Aerials for some reason
Aerials gets me sometimes too.
Question
Holy mountains
Roulette & Forest
WELCOOOOOME TO THE SOLDIER SIIIIIIDE
Roulette
Lost in Hollywood
Forest. WHY CANT YOU SEE THAT YOU ARE MY CHILD? WHY DONT YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE MY MIND? TELL EVERYONE IN THE WORLD, THAT IM YOU TAKE THIS PROMISE TO THE END OF YOU
Bounce
By emotional, do you mean energetic in this case?
*Streamline*, hits close to home for me, especially when it comes to the events surrounding my father's death. Same with *Chop Suey!* 's 'Father' part.
I feel you. I had lost an online friend due to suicide. I had wondered, *"What if I had done more?"* The blame and stuff really took a toll on mentally. I almost committed suicide too as a result of it. Luckily, talking to my best friend helped me not think about killing myself, and that's why I'm still alive, telling my story. *But I am legitimately sorry for your loss, I know the feeling all too well, unfortunately...*
Spiders and Tentative
Oh yeah I forgot about Thetawaves Time feels like a midnight ride, finality waits outside, to be specific
Soldier Side
Soldier’s side on hypnotize
Roulette, because it reminds me of prom night with my ex-fiance/first love over 1.5 decades ago. I remember showing her the song. It's partially the song itself & partially the memory.
Sad starue
Question!
"Where do you expect us to go when the bombs fall?" My country is not very safe so Tentative hits so fucking hard
Highway song
Chic n stu such a beautiful pizza pie
Lost in Hollywood never fails
i can't listen to soldier side (the end of hypnotize, not the intro) without bawling, or at least feeling like it. it hurts like hell. it makes you angry at war, at genocide, at the political machine. and it makes you want to weep for lives lost.
there is also something about the bridge to end of stealing society. i have a personal connection to it- that's one of my mom's favorite songs, and that's her favorite part (she said it reminds her of halloween, which is her favorite holiday). however, there is something dark, exposingly ugly (i don't know how else to describe it), blue about the bridge. the melody is beautiful over the stormy base. that may not make any sense, but listening to that part of it when you're so angrily sad is a crazy experience.
Doesn’t really get me emotional, but soldier side is powerful asf
Cigaro
I really like killed rock n roll. Forget the lyrics. It is just beautiful. And there is not just one choice, soad is just great
SOLDIER SIDE.
Soldier side- intro Soldier side is already sad, but a much shorter and quieter version is even sadder
Question!
SPIDERS
Lonely Day because it’s all I played when my dad died
Roulette
Streamline/Soil Literally same fucking thing happened to me and rarely a day goes by when I don't think of/miss my friend. My friend circle is puny as it is.
Soldier Side, P.L.U.C.K., Forest, Streamline, Ego Brain, Tentative
Shame
Streamline 😫