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System of a Down singer to release solo album

post #1 of 23
4/16/07 at 2:57pm
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Since System of a Down is on break, their most excellent singer will release a solo effort, Elect the Dead, due out in 2007. And while it will be different than System, it will still be rock.

I'll look forward to that.
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post #2 of 23
4/16/07 at 2:58pm
How many monumental tragedies can America take in one day?
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post #3 of 23
4/16/07 at 3:10pm
When are singers gonna realize not to make solo albums anymore? Chris Cornell's first one wasn't horrendous (thanks to Alain Jonhannes), but his new one is shaping up to be all shades of shit. Mick Jagger's solo albums are shit. I don't understand.
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post #4 of 23
4/16/07 at 3:13pm
Don't know Devin, how many articles are you going to post today?

ZING!

As for the topic, this could be interesting. System of a Down's last album (er split release double album?) was really odd and fun, but it was clearly a mix of the band's styles, moreso than their previous work. I'm interested to see how much Tankian can do on his own. Could be worth hearing but ultimately boring (like Thom Yorke's solo CD) or it could be different enough to warrant a few listens (like. um. anyone remember a very different yet still interesting post-band solo CD? Chris Cornell...maybe?)
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post #5 of 23
4/16/07 at 3:18pm
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Originally Posted by Ninhead
When are singers gonna realize not to make solo albums anymore? Chris Cornell's first one wasn't horrendous (thanks to Alain Jonhannes), but his new one is shaping up to be all shades of shit. Mick Jagger's solo albums are shit. I don't understand.
Like lurgee said, not all solo album are shit. Thom York is a good exception to that. And unlike Cornell, Tankian is a trained opera singer with a wide range, so I'll wait to hear before judging. The only reason I listen to System of a Down is his voice, not the guitarist's one, even if he's the mind behind the band.
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post #6 of 23
4/16/07 at 3:27pm
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Originally Posted by Martin Savage
Like lurgee said, not all solo album are shit. Thom York is a good exception to that. And unlike Cornell, Tankian is a trained opera singer with a wide range, so I'll wait to hear before judging. The only reason I listen to System of a Down is his voice, not the guitarist's one, even if he's the mind behind the band.
Well, don't take me too far out of context. I'm skeptical of solo albums, but I definitely don't go in with the expectation that I will hear the same as I would from the full band. I try to keep my enthusiasm in proper balance with my skepticism. But there's plenty of evidence that Ninhead is right -- solo albums are a bad idea.

With Yorke, for instance, I knew that Kid A & Amnesiac was really his style, so his solo album, to me, was not mind-blowing. but I still enjoyed it. With Cornell, I think his solo work was clearly different from Soundgarden and it worked for what it was -- not Soundgarden. Plus, Cornell had a notoriously bad live singing voice, so I was surprised at the range he had on the solo CD.

Anyway. There are still COUNTLESS solo albums that are just embarrassing vanity projects. (Guns n Roses fans have been waiting a decade for Axl's!) And yet, if you're enough of a fan of the singer, you can look past the horror to at least get something out of it -- even if it's just a discussion on CHUD's forum!
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post #7 of 23
4/16/07 at 3:35pm
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I didn't take you out of context, I said "Not ALL solo albums are shit". Most of them; yes, but that depends on who does the job. SOAD has one more thing going for them; they have usually catchy chorus. I'm also skeptical, but I'll sure give this a listen.
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post #8 of 23
4/16/07 at 3:54pm
John Lennon squeezed out one or two that weren't completely crap.
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post #9 of 23
4/16/07 at 4:06pm
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And there's also a fellow named Peter Gabriel...
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post #10 of 23
4/16/07 at 4:34pm
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Originally Posted by DaveB
John Lennon squeezed out one or two that weren't completely crap.
Yeah, I hear a couple of his friends did too.
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post #11 of 23
4/16/07 at 4:46pm
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Originally Posted by DaveB
John Lennon squeezed out one or two that weren't completely crap.
And Serj Tankian is no John Lennon, or Peter Gabriel.

SOAD is just further proof of how worthless a Grammy truly is.
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post #12 of 23
4/16/07 at 5:14pm
System of a Down is fantastic. Serj on his own, who knows.
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post #13 of 23
4/16/07 at 5:19pm
System has been going down hill for a while now, especially with the whole Mezmerize/Hypnotize release. But, who knows Daron wrote most of those two albums, so maybe Serj on his own won't suck.

Speaking of singers going solo, Devin Townsend of Strapping Young Lad, has put out pretty consistantly good solo albums, I think he has one coming out this year too.
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post #14 of 23
4/16/07 at 5:23pm
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Originally Posted by Uth Vaspetad
And Serj Tankian is no John Lennon, or Peter Gabriel.

SOAD is just further proof of how worthless a Grammy truly is.
My comment was more in response to Ninhead - there are plenty of good solo artists who came out of band situations. In fact, some are so good that you barely even remember there was a time that they made their names as members of a band (Gabriel, Neil Young, Nick Cave, etc.).

I don't expect that Tankian's album will be all that great (and I even kind of like some of SOAD's songs). Doesn't the other guy write most of the songs, anyway? EDIT: Last question addressed by Bub.
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post #15 of 23
4/16/07 at 5:33pm
Mesmerize and Hypnotize have both grown on me over time. Daron's influence is definitely the flaw.

Serj solo? Dunno. Considering the last couple of a SOAD albums, this could sound like anything.
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post #16 of 23
4/16/07 at 5:40pm
I hope he repeats some nonsensical sentence for 2 and a half minutes some point on the album. That'd be killer.
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post #17 of 23
4/16/07 at 7:57pm
SOAD are great, but I'm likewise, really wondering how a Serj solo album would be.
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post #18 of 23
4/17/07 at 1:49am
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Originally Posted by DaveB
My comment was more in response to Ninhead - there are plenty of good solo artists who came out of band situations. In fact, some are so good that you barely even remember there was a time that they made their names as members of a band (Gabriel, Neil Young, Nick Cave, etc.).
Let's not forget a most recent effort by one of modern music's greatest songwriters--Mr. Thom Yorke. It didn't make me forget about Radiohead, but it did reiterate my fondness for Yorke's shimmering vocals.

Ozzy Osbourne's early stuff was quite a success on its own merits (of course the awesome talents of Randy Rhoads played a part in that success). Speaking of the Ozzmeister, I just heard his new single ('I Don't Wanna Stop') today and he's still rockin' quite hard for a 58-year-old.
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post #19 of 23
4/17/07 at 10:51am
Another successful solo artist came to mind: Rob Zombie. I like his solo stuff much more than White Zombie's material. I'd also argue that Zombie's film career wouldn't have existed if it weren't for the notoriety he received with his solo output.
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post #20 of 23
4/17/07 at 11:05am
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Originally Posted by Ray Abed
Let's not forget a most recent effort by one of modern music's greatest songwriters--Mr. Thom Yorke. It didn't make me forget about Radiohead, but it did reiterate my fondness for Yorke's shimmering vocals.
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Originally Posted by lurgee
Could be worth hearing but ultimately boring (like Thom Yorke's solo CD)
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Originally Posted by Martin Savage
Like lurgee said, not all solo album are shit. Thom York is a good exception to that.
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Originally Posted by lurgee, again
With Yorke, for instance, I knew that Kid A & Amnesiac was really his style, so his solo album, to me, was not mind-blowing. but I still enjoyed it.
Thom was not forgotten...
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post #21 of 23
4/17/07 at 11:24am
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Originally Posted by Ray Abed
Another successful solo artist came to mind: Rob Zombie. I like his solo stuff much more than White Zombie's material. I'd also argue that Zombie's film career wouldn't have existed if it weren't for the notoriety he received with his solo output.
The thing about Zombie is that I always felt that White Zombie was pretty much Rob Zombie under another name, playing with interchangeable people, much like Trent Reznor under Nine Inch Nails. While he dropped the heavy guitar work under his solo career, I always felt it was the same thing as White Zombie. There's a couple of artists out there that are so much "the band" that whether or not they go solo makes no difference.
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post #22 of 23
4/17/07 at 2:18pm
Mark Lanegan, yo!
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post #23 of 23
4/18/07 at 12:40am
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Originally Posted by Martin Savage
The thing about Zombie is that I always felt that White Zombie was pretty much Rob Zombie under another name, playing with interchangeable people, much like Trent Reznor under Nine Inch Nails. While he dropped the heavy guitar work under his solo career, I always felt it was the same thing as White Zombie. There's a couple of artists out there that are so much "the band" that whether or not they go solo makes no difference.
Fair enough. You can say there's a similar situation with Tom Petty, whose solo albums (with the exception of his latest) are superior to The Heartbreakers' material, which is kinda strange, considering Petty's solo band is pretty much The Heartbreakers backing him up.
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