System Of A Down - B.Y.O.B. REACTION & REVIEW! FIRST TIME HEARING! 

"Why don't presidents fight the wars?/Why do they always send the poor?" One of the great anti war lyrics of all time. I see this as a successor to "War Pigs" by Black Sabbath.

If your guess was that this was an anti-war song, you would be correct. This song is a protest to the Iraqi war during the Bush era. B.Y.O.B. stands for Bring Your Own Bombs. Nice reaction as always 🤘😊👍

No! I say don’t change who you are!!!! The channel is reactions, reviews and rants! This is why we watch you because we value your input! I am in favor of NO stopwatch!

Please keep giving this band a chance. They’re so brilliant. Love.

the whole album "toxicity" is a masterpiece❣️

This song is genius, and it'll grow on ya. Organized, structured chaos at its best! I knew you'd like it. There is no band like System Of A Down. No band comes close. Besides, this is a very catchy number. Not sure how well it'd work at the gym, but great for some E-Z listening. Great reaction, man!

More system! Plz. Been listening to them for 20 years. My favorite band and one of the best ever. Lost in Hollywood. And Sugar should be next from system

10:19 Yes they play it Live, but with the 3 part Vocal harmonies it's different, I don't know how they do it nowadays, but when they toured for this album Serj had 2 mics on stage, one mic is high pitched and sounds like a chipmunk and the other mic is just his normal main mic, when that Chorus comes in Daron harmonizes with Serj, but Serj sings into both mics he has, so it is 3 harmonies in the end but the high vocal is just a chipmunk voice, its not really loud so it doesn't annoy that much, but I do think its a pretty weird and unique way to do it. Btw the music video is censored and at 11:37 they say ''where the fuck are you''. I know you aren't into swear words that much, but I think it is pretty understandable to swear and get anger out on such a serious topic. 13:15 yes it was their goal for it to be chaotic someone said the catchy chorus represents the illusions and distractions we are fed, which fits. In the chorus they say ''Everybody's going to the party, have a real good time Dancing in the desert, blowing up the sunshine'' and “Blowing up the sunshine” means something like how all the bombs exploding during war seem to look like sunrises. And when it goes back into the chaos thing its basically where reality hits. 16:20 They are saying ''Why don't presidents fight the war? Why do they always send the poor''. 22:17 Serj did the Low vocals and the high vocals on this track, Daron (the guitarist) is the third voice, he first comes in in the second chorus. Live when they toured for this album they definitely delivered the energy and everything, but some things were different. John (the drummer) plays some parts of the song a little differently and Serj uses 2 mics for the harmonies (+ daron still singing with him of course). As I'm saying I don't know if they still perform it like that or if they deliver the energy nowadays as good as back then, but its a great song and they definitely did it justice when this was new. Great reaction.

Fun Fact: System of a Down released a 2 albums (Mesmorize and Hypnotize) in the same year. Both albums went platinum that same year. One of the very very VERY few bands to ever pull off such a feat! Great reaction to one of the most epic bands of the Millenium. Keep beating that dead horse! Love the rants and reviews!

I have watched at least 20 reaction videos to this song and no one has broke down the music and and had the knowledge you do. Your explanation of the beat and change ups were spot on.

"An organized and structured chaos." That's the best comment I've heard on SOAD. They compose their songs like that intentionally. Their music is full of suspenses and surprise

Nooooooooooooo Don't change!!!!!!! The best part of what you do is when you ramble on...you show your passion for music...Please Don't Change....You are a true muscian and I learn so much when you go on a rant....Rock On Brother

Direct quote from my chat with your better half the other day: "The way he breaks things down in terms of song structure- he is unparalleled in the reactor universe." Thought I'd share that with you, bc, well, facts... And it always cracks me up when you react to a song that was on a CD in my room in Oh Seven... 🤣 Doesn't matter how much I think I know about a song - you school me, every time, and I am totally here for it.

System of a down's whole musical concept is controlled chaos. Sometimes more, sometimes less. And I think it's not for everyone. But I think from all the bands doing what they do, they are maybe the most catchy one. They kinda turn the rules of metal songwriting upside/down and still give you some great melodies and harmonies. Here's a short video, showing their Producer (Rick Rubin) and what he has to say about their style. "They didn't fit, but they were so good, that they transcended "not fitting"". ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hByRgNaneTU.html Please react to "System of a down -Question!" (sometime, I'm patient ^^)

I’ve said it before on your soad reviews…they’ll grow on you if you give them a chance. I think they’ve grabbed you. Now, keep going down that rabbit hole! You won’t regret it. Most of their music is that organized chaos. Couple tidbits: I don’t know this for sure but it’s rumored that the lead singer was a burgeoning opera performer before ditching it for this. You can tell he has some vocal training regardless. Soad is much like Rage Against the Machine in that their lyrics greatly supplement the musical talent. They’re very anti establishment/anti war, and if you support that sort of thing (and pay attention to lyrics) you’ll appreciate them even more. This bands music is wonderfully engineered. The album material is superior to live. The albums are a trip. Their live shows are still enjoyable…just not the same experience. The entire band is made up of Armenian immigrants. They never seemed to give two craps about ditching the accents for commercial purposes and I applaud them for it. I’d recommend you do the same thing with the stopwatch. Don’t change who you are to appease the masses. Your show is reactions, reviews, and RANTS. That’s why we enjoy your show.

Great review!! I've also always felt those "lalalas" are neat

david, dont change !! its just going to add pressure. sure, sometimes things carry on/ramble but i think it's human nature when you're trying to get a certain point across or simply making sure viewers understand (explain)where you're coming from before they cheer or jeer you ! !! also i agree with your score on this one! thanks for the reaction!

My favourite SOAD song. What a banger :)

I love their "schizophrenic" approach to writing music.

This song deserves a higher score! Definitely And yeah, they play this song in every show

I can’t wait for the day you finally check out the band Spiritbox. I think you will truly love the instrumentals and Courtney’s vocals. I have no doubt they would end up all over your playlists if given the chance. I would recommend Constance for the first song, it’s the most beautifully written and performed “heavy” song I have ever heard. The song has special meaning to Courtney and many others who have dealt with loved ones with Alzheimer’s and Dementia. I myself have dealt with this and it’s absolutely heart wrenching to look back upon and knowing I should have done more, but at the time I was young and selfish. I can’t even fully comprehend what it must be like for them either, forgetting everything and everyone you have ever known. The song always tears me up, I won’t lie. Put it on the list and I might see it 3 years from now, I’ll still be here. Much love, thanks David.

The pigs were fierce on this one! 🐖 🐷 🐽

Another awesome song by SOAD and great reaction. I personally never thought you rambled too long. I say keep doing what you feel is natural. To me having a timer would limit what I'd want to say. And I'd be self-conscious about it lol. I say no stop watch/timer but that's just me.

I saw these guys back in 2000 at Summer Sanitarium. With Metallica, Korn, Power man 5000, and Kid Rock of all people. Other than Korn these guys had the crowd going nuts as far as physical energy. Mosh pits opened everywhere.

Serg is a fantastic singer, perfect timing and the guitarist is no slouch the whole band is awesome.......

if you're interested in making your own music , this guys analyse of songs is such a fucking great tool

As a long time SOAD fan, this song was surprising. Still very soad, but just a new level of their sound!

This was one of the first songs that first introduced me to SOAD as an 8 year old, and damn it pulled me in.

Like the show. Like the format, Great music well dissected. Brav0!

No stopwatch my man. Take as long as you need 👍

They do it, 3 harmonies in live at Astoria (2005), Serj sing with 2 microphone

Serj is a classically trained singer and uses so so many techniques. They’re friggen awesome

I can remember the first time i watch this video, I was with my brother watching mtv (when mtv was about music) My english level was 0 at that time, cant understand shit of lyrics but That guitar intro, the screams, that drum pff SOAD is my childhood band.

😂 that’s hilarious I tell my boss when it’s busy as hell at work and there’s a big mess all over the place I say that I loved the Organized Chaos 😂

So real reaction of real dude of rock lover. Unusual reaction of course.

To answer the question they did do byob live in Pensacola , my first concert ever . Amazing amazing amazing live performers man . I wanna say it was 05

The triplets over the 8th notes give it a nice sense of velocity.

When making the 2 albums I remember reading a story that they went and bout a bunch of acoustic guitars and hung them in a studio to see what it sounded like they loved it but it didn’t record well. They used to try all kinds of stuff. Serj has a good solo album and has done some work for game of thrones live.

I didn't hear this song live I seen them at ozzfest 2002 and they sounded very close to the studio version. The bassist is awesome and high energy. The vocals are extremely strong and crystal clear. I've been to 3 ozzfest and many other concerts seen many bands and I think my top 5 love (not in order) is system of a down, Eddie money, Slipknot (2004), judest priest, and Ozzy in 2002. (Both times I seen black Sabbath in 04 and 05 was not near as good as him with Zak Wylde). System of a down was so much fun. Awesome show. Another great band live is Killswitch engage with howard (2005)

So with the 3 part vocal harmonies, 2 of the voices are the lead singer Serj layered together, with one being at a higher pitch, and the 3rd is Daron, the guitarist/2nd singer. When they play it live, it’s just the 2 harmonies for obvious reasons.

Thanks. Great review as always, @David Heretic. Yes, they always played BYOB live. I hope u will review & react to SOAD - Chop Suey. That's their greatest song. Peace✌️ from 🇲🇾

How in the world could you avoid hearing this? I mean I'm glad you didn't, since we have this reaction!

Ok not even halfway through this & I get the feeling this channel is probably going to grow pretty big pretty fast. 😆 I haven't even spotted an Opeth song on here yet.😆

No stop watch!

This band is just AMAZEBALLS!🤘🖤

Great reaction. System of a Down is awesome. That's really all I have to say. If you like vocal harmonies, Bad Religion have a lot of great harmonies. I say, talk all you want man. Personally I like watching you try to figure out how you felt about the song. I think a lot of these songs you might like better on a second or third listen without having to pause. Is that a misfits shirt?

"Still they feed us lies from the tablecloth". System of a down haven't released a new album in almost 20 years at this point, hopefully (fingers crossed) we get something new...soon.

Your freak out on the third listen/pig noises had me losing it 😆

Watch BYOB LIVE @ Astoria bro they nail it

I have this song set as my alarm. I have never been late for work.

OINK OINK OINK OINK BOOOO 😂😂😂 love the sound effects bro lmao as always awesome video.

great to watch your emotional facial expression!

Perfect reaction

As a high schooler, System of a Down was hot and cold for me but as a 32 year old; System of a Down is an all time great

Yoooooooooooooo great breakdown, damn

Nix the timer! Some dead horses are worth beating! hahaha...When you mention the same thing more than once it means it was more important than stuff you only mentioned once...right? Repetition is emphasis...I never seen you get "lost"...Keep the timer if you like the pressure--but, imo, you don't need it. I've enjoyed seeing you "ponder" your opinion in the review, which is something the timer will interfere with. I prefer generally unfiltered Dave-ness...

I fucking love this band.

Awesome reaction David! Hi to you and Mrs. Heretic

Great to have seen this band live in 2005

It’s weird seeing Serj at the shops when he’s in NZ 😅

I’ve seen them do it live - seemed to me to be a 2 part harmony between Daron and Serj…

Wow, man, where have you been sleeping for the last 15 years that you missed this song? : D joke. Nice reaction, as always.

I saw a live performance video of this song and Serj used two mics.

David yes u do lalalalalalalove the lalalalala lol

4:49 ive heard serge the lead singer is a trained opera singer so that explains the lalala and how good it is

OINK OINK OINK that cracks me up everytime. XD

Gave you thumbs up for going back the 3rd time lol

You would be great at giving honest critiques to unsigned artist trying to hone in on their song writing skills. But you'd have to be brave enough to submit your own music to that level of scrutiny. I think it would be worth it if one was serious enough at trying to figure out what songs would make the cut for a demo or to go back to the drawing board and fine tune their songs.

Great!

Honestly… SOAD is such a great band but nobody reacts to the good music. BYOB, Toxicity, Chop Suey… it’s all radio music. Holy Mountains, Tentative, Mr Jack, Radio/Video, Mind, War… that’s real System of a Down

Serg was a professional opera singer! If yall didn’t know!

Bit late to the party here. The way I understand the song, the melodic parts of the song is how war is sold to young soldiers and the “chaos” is the reality of war. If I’m correct organised chaos is more planned that you realise.

I think the 5min rant timer is a good idea. Timers work well in many situations, including transitions for those on the spectrum. I do think though there should be exceptions... 5min should be a goal, not a rule. For example, when you did reaction to Ghost Love Score, there is no way 5min would have been enough.... be focused perhaps; yet be YOU!

Trying to play this on bass is ridiculously hard lol

loved this reaction

They are from Armenia and that country delt genocide from Turkey and now Azerbaijan. The the song is about American wars and geopolitical issues. I’d give it 9.0

Another good one! Right on 😎👍👍

Hi David. This is Awesome. I wnna know please do react song From Band "Novelist" title "voyager".

just a suggestion, why not look for lyrics when you do the review? it helps so then you know what the song is about if lyrics clear (which they are extremely in this particular song)

System of a Down is the Dead Kennedys of the heavy metal.

Okay, so I have seen a lot of reactions to this song (fun one to see people get shocked by) including a good few musicians, composers, vocal coaches, etc and watched them be really confused by what is going on musically. Leave it to a metalhead (I don't know your channel but you are clearly a metalhead) to actually pick up on why it works

It looks like you are the fist person who really wach it first time

I see you got FF in the intro. Have you ever heard SECURITRON(Police State 2000)? Awesome song dude. 💠

I know this is a bit late to comment but 8:16 didn't this part remind anybody of the beginning of CUBErt by System of a down?

Why don't presidents fight the war Why do they always send the poor Very great and heavy lyrics on this song... This song is amazing!!

Someday you should check out Serj on his Elect The Dead solo concert, especially the track Sky Is Over for his La Is Las live . . . It made my respect for his vocal talent raise like three levels. Was kinda on the fence before listening to that, became huge fan of it after. You are right, his voice fits the style of music the band plays perfectly, but he has much more range then the band's music will allow . . . If possible, listen to album version before live version. I guarantee you will find it worth while

This song has great lyrics.

Serj has some damn good vocals

They sound exactly the same live

Lmao the pig sounds is killing me 😭😂

Live BYOB is better!! Search it!!! You will be amazed 👌🔥

I’ve always loved SOAD’s musical talent. Loved Serj’s voice. Never was a fan when Darin (the guitar player) screeched

Please check "toxicity" system of down song fingerstyle cover by alif ba ta. Thankyou

#Pictures by them also have same _Controlled Chaos_ 🤓👍🏻

This is a great work out gym

David I have a request for you, you have to listen shepherds reign, the song le manu you will like it please 😀 🙏🏼

Rick Rubin is a great vocal producer.

Best band ever They’re the best of all time 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

SOTD GOATED BRO

We buy the products that feed the war machine. That money goes to fund our overblown military budget and if the government needs more they just raise taxes. Meanwhile veterans starve in the streets or take their own lives. When I was in the military I used to blare this in the company parking lot. Nobody got it... I was just another soldier listening to metal music... If you don't get the irony of that I can't help you