![]() With minds flashing back to The Smashing Pumpkin's Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Nine Inch Nail's The Fragile and the failings of just about every double album to produce enough material worthy of a double album, System of a Down, somehow, managed to up the ante just a little bit, by actually producing a double album worthy of its double album status. But let's not split hairs and start quoting Steve Albini on why record companies are the scum of the earth. And with absolutely nothing to do with the fact that, with two CDs selling at ã12, the nice capitalists at the record company are raking in a lot more than the ã15 or whatever it is, that one double CD would sell for. Hypnotize is the second half of the band's double album that was released separately, because, apparently, attention spans are not what they used to be. They have, somehow, managed neither to ever lose credibility nor to isolate the common, layman who doesn't really care that 4,000 hungry children die from starvation every hour. System of a Down have become what Rage Against the Machine never quite managed to - a deeply political band, left-of-center, but also accepted and loved by the mainstream. I could go on like this, but there's an album to be reviewed and, let's be honest, with System of a Down, the review will probably contain enough anti-American sentiment without my incoherent and pleonastic ramblings. Ergo, you have no right, at all, to start pissing about with a language that isn't yours to piss about with. We are, quite literally, your superiors in every way. America was born from the remnants of a British people who couldn't make it here for whatever reason. And yes, I did say "zed," none of that "zee" crap either. I'm sorry to any Americans out there who like to get involved with this whole using a "zed" instead of an "ess" thing, but they can't. System of a Down – Hypnotize - Sony, 2005
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