subject: System Of A Down [print this page] I am known in my circle, as somebody who likes a wide range of music. I get pleasure from rock, jazz, classical, and people like Rufus Wainwright and Jeff Buckley. I even like some punk, and I admire the music writing of Kurt Cobain. I have Metallica in my CD collection. Is not your Mum cool! my son's mates would say. I don't have System Of A Down.
There's one genre that I've by no means warmed to, and that's the heavy steel of the 1990's. My son can be into plenty of completely different music now, however he solely listened to a sure type of metal band again in these days. His bed room door could be ajar and the high decibel riffs of System Of A Down, Korn, the Deftones, and Cradle Of Filth would spill out.
There was the standard mother or father and teenager battle concerning the degree of noise, my son informing me that System Of A Down had to be loud to enjoy them properly. Posters of soccer gamers on the wall had been replaced by tattooed men with goatees giving the finger.
Optimistically, he tried to transform me to System Of A Down. I think he picked on that band as a result of he knew my left wing political leanings would make me admire the lyrics at least. System Of A Down is known for its themes of social justice and defending the downtrodden. I knew this because he informed me, not as a result of I might really make out a single word. So, he confirmed me the lyrics written down and it was a little bit of an eye opener. Sure, they did dwell up to the explicit lyrics warning sticker, but they are truly good. They are imaginative, even poetic at occasions and do address social ills. When I advised him I liked them, he grinned, considering I would been converted. I had to remind him, I still did not just like the music.
System Of A Down did train me a lesson nevertheless, and that is not to dismiss something totally. In fact, I laughed like a drain at Spinal Faucet, but I've discovered there's typically something good if you take the trouble to seek out it.
My son did his finest to teach me concerning the different musical genres and where System Of A Down fitted in to it all. It was very confusing. There may be nu metallic, loss of life steel, thrash metal and alternative metal. I still haven't grasped all the subtleties of the sub-genres.
Step by step, my son's musical tastes extended to reggae and ska punk. He started to borrow my Pink Floyd and Simon and Garfunkel. Although he doesn't play them a lot nowadays, I do know there's still a place in his coronary heart for System Of A Down and their ilk. Funnily enough, I feel an odd nostalgia for these bands that attempted to shake us up out of our lethargy. Some of them had one thing to say. My favorite System Of A Down lyric is why don't Presidents fight the struggle? Why do they all the time send the poor? I suppose that says it all.
