Singles ranker: System Of A Down

[crash46]

I was about to set the ipod to shuffle my "singles" playlist, and when it turned up "Question!", I decided it'd be more fun to start these up again. .

1. Chop Suey!
2. B.Y.O.B.
3. Aerials
4. Toxicity
5. Spiders
6. Question!
7. Hypnotize
8. Cigaro
9. Sugar
10. Lonely Day

I think I left off "Kill Rock 'N' Roll", whatever quasi-single that came after "Aerials", and anything else that may have been released from the self-titled.

[czarina]

Impossible for me.

[crash46]

Yeah it wasn't easy, especially since I'd grade my #10 pick with an A- and even a B+ for KRNR.

[reese]

They're all, at the minimum, an A- for me. Impossible to do!

[halo19]

Here's mine:

01. Question! A+
02. Chop Suey!
03. Aerials
04. Spiders
05. Sugar A
06. Toxicity
07. Kill Rock N' Roll A-[/b]
08. Hypnotize
09. Boom
10. B.Y.O.B.
11. War?
11. Cigaro B+
12. Lonely Day
13. Innervision B (Does sound like a B-side.)

You also left out the Steal This Album! singles. I believe there was one other release from the self-titled, but I'm not sure. Something tells me it was "Know" but I wouldn't.

[a Nick O!]

The other s/t single in question is "War?"

1. Chop Suey! A+
2. Aerials
3. Toxicity A
4. B.Y.O.B.
5. Spiders A-
6. Question!
7. Sugar
8. Innervisions
9. Kill Rock N' Roll B+
10. Cigaro
11. Hypnotize
12. Lonely Day
13. War?
14. Boom! B

[crash46]

Yeah, I did leave out the whole Steal This Album; shame on me since Michael just stole it last week.

"I-E-A-I-A-I-O" was a midweek top 50 hit as well (the creation of the "Boom" video caused its demise, I believe), and I think the other quasi-single I was thinking of was "Psycho" since KROQ spun it.

So this should be updated...
1. Chop Suey!
2. B.Y.O.B.
3. Aerials
4. Toxicity
5. Spiders
6. Question!
7. Hypnotize
8. Cigaro
9. Sugar
10. Innervision
11. War?
12. Lonely Day
13. Kill Rock 'N' Roll
14. Psycho
15. Boom
16. I-E-A-I-A-I-O

[mtm4319]

In retrospect, I think SOAD released too many singles from Hypnotize/Mesmerize. It took me a while to even remember how "Question!" went, and I almost posted this ranker with that song on the "don't remember" list. And for those scoring at home, "Question!" went to #1 on my chart! It's their only #1, in fact, but it doesn't top this list.

1. Toxicity
2. Chop Suey!
3. Question!
4. Aerials
5. Psycho (sorry, they really peaked with Toxicity for me. I'd put "Prison Song" somewhere in here too.)
6. Spiders
7. Innervision
8. I-E-A-I-A-I-O
9. Sugar
10. B.Y.O.B.
11. Hypnotize
12. Lonely Day
13. Cigaro
14. Boom

I don't remember "War" and "Kill Rock 'N' Roll".

[crash46]

I think all of their CD's had mismanaged singles releases.

Self titled: With "Sugar" and "Spiders" peaking at #34 and #36, I'm surprised they even attempted a third single. Although since it was "War!", it was probably just their decision to get a message out by shooting a video or something like that.

Toxicity: Aerials went to #1. Why'd they stop there.

Steal This Album: "Innervision" did fine for what it was, so it's not like they couldn't have at least followed it up, but there never was a definitive followup, so therefore there were no more hits

Mesmerize: Waited too long to put out "Question", which eliminated the chance of a 3rd hit before the other half of the double album was released. I guess they wanted to leave the opportunity open to go back to this album and release "Lost In Hollywood", but it never happened.

Hypnotize Waited far too long for "Kill Rock 'N' Roll", which was essentially a 5th single with all things considered, and it did nothing except for a minor splash on Active. The fine era which is that of Mesmerize/Hypnotize fizzles out when it could've finished on a stronger note.

[Pipa]

Aerials.

And that is all.

[a Nick O!]

crash46 said:

I think all of their CD's had mismanaged singles releases.

Self titled: With "Sugar" and "Spiders" peaking at #34 and #36, I'm surprised they even attempted a third single. Although since it was "War!", it was probably just their decision to get a message out by shooting a video or something like that.

I'm not sure of the chronology of "War?" I don't think a video was ever made. It may very well have been one of those first single, re-release things, since the album came out in '98, but "Sugar" wasn't a single 'til summer '99. I want to say I heard "War?" more after "Spiders," but that could've just been the radio playing it more since there wasn't a new single and no one remembered it.