Top System Of A Down Songs

Out of all of their amazing songs, which one is the most meaningful and deep and fun to listen to? Don't agree with the list? Vote for an existing item you think should be ranked higher or if you are a logged in, add a new item for others to vote on or create your own version of this list.

The Top Ten

1Chop Suey!
Even though the first two verses are exactly the same, the band delivers awesome instrumentals and make the song catchy enough, to a point where it doesn't even matter. Vote for Suicide (aka Chop Suey! ).
I didn't want to vote for this song because it's the easy choice, but it's the only choice to me. This song truly got me in to this band and have really loved their music ever since.
This... Is just awesome! Don't understand the naming of the song, and the lyrics say nothing about Chinese food, but other than that, the lyrics are awesome!
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2B.Y.O.B.
Every single one of their songs is great but this one just has a little bit more of that greatness.
The chorus is just incredible. Makes me dance involuntarily. I often have to stop myself dancing in public.
BRING YOUR OWN BEER...
OR
BAKE YOUR OWN BREAD...
SYSTEM IS COMING BACK IN 2011,
WAY TO GO FOR THESE GUYS!
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3Toxicity
Great song... Suggestions and streamline never get love.. But this one says SOAD in my mind
Best song by System of a Down, no quetions asked

theTwister

A masterpiece a true representative of Rock. There is a lot of work in this piece. It makes the hair of my skin react.
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4Aerials
Awesome song. The best part is the sitar played by daron in the last few minutes. This song has been an inspiration for me. This is surely one of my favourite songs by System of a Down. Serj tankian and daron malakian rocks! 1
This is by far my favorite song by system of a down. I don't understand what they are going for in this song though. My favorite pieces of this song are the lead guitar parts, by Daron Malakian, and the drums, courtesy of John Dalmayan.
probly one of my top favs

7beach77

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5Question!
So amazing the best song ever written

It starts out mysteriously and ends awesomely
and
everything in the middle is nothing but stunning genius

this song is not in the right place until it is number 1

CaptainComedy17

No, no, no. This song has to be number 1. It's not as well known as Toxicity or Chop Suey but it's probably even better. A thoroughly enjoyable song in every way conceivable.
Amazing! So complicated its mezmerizing and hypnotizing. I LOVE IT
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6Lonely Day

Cool song! Such a lonely day and its mine. Awesome vocals from daron malakian and shavo odadjian

This is one of the best songs I've listened to! A song tat bring me chills in a lonely day! This gets into the list of songs tat redefined my world

What a wonderful song. It has a tune that just sticks in your head, one which you don't mind humming all day long. And with lyrics which make sense, that people can relate too without being too technical. Ah, best song by 'System of a Down' by far.

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7Hypnotize
This song is SO bloody addicting!
AMAZING STUFF. They make simple music but music which rocks! You guys rock! M/
A musical and lyrical masterpiece with some deep message in it.
Nice intro and powerful verses are creating are stressing the atmosphere of this wonderful rock song.
This is the most mesmerizing song of System of a Down ( at least I believe so). The tune, music and style is simply breathtaking. I wonder how these people can create such fantastic songs. I believe that it should be the second beat song after Chops Suey, which is also marvelous.
So people, Enjoy the song and try to place it in the second position.
Enjoy-----
Alexandre
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8Sugar
THE KUMBUCHU MUSHROOM PEOPLE SITTING AROUND ALL DAYYYYYY! Perfect song to scream when your angry

ozlacs

It was 2nd once, where it deserved to be, how have people forgotten about this awesome song?
This song is freaking awsum! its me and my ex-bfs fave song!

mlf102

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9Soldier Side
This song almost made me cry, and has some of the best lyrics and vocals, should definitely be int top ten songs
This is seriously under rated!
its should in top 10 at least.
lyrics are great!
one of the best songs I have ever heard!
One of the Best Freaking SOAD songs! M/ The perfect choice to make someone a System Of A Down Fan! The Music, the vocals... Its just so Damn FLAWLESS! M/
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10Holy Mountains
Such beautiful instrumentation combined with Serj's haunting vocals... VOTE FOR THIS ONE DANG IT!
This song is awesome. A lot of stuff from hypnotize/mexmerize and toxicity should have been in there. Deer dance, prison song, Shimmy, Science, Needles, Forest, and ATWA should totally be here, in addition to Tentative, U-Fig, Dreaming, Attack, RadioVideo, Revenga, Cigaro, etc. Boom, Spiders, Streamline, and IEAIaIO would also be cool. And Soil should be #2, after this awesome combination of Middle East tonality, haunting vocals, amazing lyrics, grooving bass, insane drumming, great guitar, and an overall awesome buildup of true music.
you cannot vote other song before listening to this one first. its epic, it defines soad
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The Contenders

11Spiders
The bass riff and Serj's vocals are so ominous and haunting, that this is one of their masterpieces. The guitar solo is also very good.

NorwegianWood

This is Soad's best song and it is amazing. It starts of soft with a powerful bassline. It eventually reaches an epic climax that is so powerful and just cannot love.
The Solo for this song kicks face, Serj never sounded better, and the lyrics are haunting and beautiful all at the same time. Probably the best System of a Down song.
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12Lost In Hollywood
Easily their best song. Daron's voice, lyrics, and guitar work are incredible. This song has so much emotion in it.
Beats the hell out of the rest of the rest of the top ten excluding a few awesome tracks
Such a good and emotional song. Daron's vocals are excellent but for me it's Ser's backing vocals that make the song as good as it is. Plus Pewdiepie used it as the outro for his videos :)
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13Prison Song

This song is amazing.. IT DESERVES TO BE IN THE TOP TEN! UPVOTE THIS. The beginning is the shiz! Deffinately one of my favorites.

One of the heaviest songs of the heavy metal. It's amazing, even heavier than byob.

This song has the second most powerful lyrics of S.O.A.D. only losing to P.L.U.C.K. (Do you want something more powerful than to speak about genocide? ) The way that Serj sings is amazing, he mixed rap and heavy metal.

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14Forest
This song is kinda like Chop Suey! but I still think it's great
This is should be much higher! Epic song
Forest in 21th position? Shame on you!
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15Violent Pornography
Should be in the top 3 definitely... It's one of the most original songs of the system... I'm never tired listening to it. Awesome.
Great song. I love to just scream out this song when I'm alone in my room, or just in a bad mood that day. This song makes me feel great, and alive. This song and Radio/Video along with Chop Suey are quite amazing. System Of A Down rocks! New listeners should start with albums Hypnotize and Mezmerize.
This one is the best in the mesmerize album after B. Y. O. B and Radio/Video, I love it very-very much
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16Deer Dance

I know that isn't the best soad's music, but I vote in deer dance because I like

This song is just amazing, I love it! It has an awesome rhythm and serj's vocals just make it flawless! But still, its not their best...

Every time I get on this this song moves back on the list. This is my favorite song from them and one of their best, it desrves at least in the top ten.

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17ATWA
great power of the music that can really touch one's hearth! Truely one of the best songs of SOAD
It's so emotional. It truly makes me cry. Just listen to it.
I can sing along with this song all day, and not be bored. One of their best!
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18P.L.U.C.K.
Daron and Serj both sing together in the chorus, its the best part...!
"watch them all fall down" is the best line...!
How the hell is this not higher? It is way better than Chop Suey!
PERFECT SONG, DARON AND SERJ HAD A FALL OUT ON WHO IS LEAD SINGER BUT BACK IN THE DAY THEY WERE NO FALL OUTS THAT IS WHAT MAKES A SONG LIKE THIS SO SPECIAL
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19I-E-A-I-A-I-O

How can you find yourself not singing I-E-A-I-A-I-O every day after listening to this song? I find myself singing this song right before anything epics about to happen

This needs to be listed way higher! This song is yet another popularity boost that soad had. It is way better than some of the other ones before it!

This song definitely deserves to be in the top ten... To me it's better than Chop Suey and BYOB. Amazing song meaning, and if you listen to it once you're hooked. For me, my favorite part is the chorus, easy to understand, and it just plain sounds nice.

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20Revenga

The best system of a down song is chop suey but I'll vote for this one because I think it should be way up higher on this list.

this song is freaking awesome soad 4 ever

enriquebarajasramirez

Awesome song, it deserves to be much higher on the list - top 10 at least! But System of a Down is such a great band that even their less popular songs are fantastic!

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21Cigaro
Cool, in denial!
We are the cruel regulators smoking CIGARO CIGARO CIGARO

The songs rocks!

rock2metal

One of the best songs of System of a Down, heavy, fast and amazingly good. I thinks is just much better than many other songs in the list.
It criticizes the government in a very funny way. Also by having a great drums
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22Radio/Video
Okay-maybe this song shouldn't be number one - but it should at least be in the top ten or five
What? God, this is my favorite System of a Down, to me it should be number 1, but if not at least it should be in the top 10! DAM, this song is so awesome it always makes me dance also makes me spin and jump at the 'la la la la laa' part! POWERFUL!
the song is great... the beat of this song amazing... this song got soul in it... what I gonna say... speechless... song that can beat this song... perhaps aerial

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23Kill Rock 'n Roll
I don't freakin believe it! 42? this song is perfect... should be in the top ten definitely! it's the only system of a down song that I liked listening for the first time...
This is am amazing song! The range I'm it is great and it's nice and simple when you just want something easy to listen to!
I feel like the biggest asshole when I kill ypur RockĀ'n'Roll
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24Psycho

this song is so awesome and the bass is incredible... soad better get back together like they promised!

Okami

This deserves to be in the top ten especially if you consider the live performance of it when daron does a sweet solo while dancing round the stage

This music is really awesome, should definitely be int top ten songs

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25Roulette
Slowly song but a good song
This has got to be the best song I've heard from System of a Down. Absolute musical perfection.
ARE you ALL MAD THIS IS AN AMAZING SONG WITH GREAT LYRICS AND MUST BE AT LEAST TOP 5
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26Suite-Pee

My favorite for many different reasons, but namely for its haunting rhythm and powerful lyrics. The melody is amazing too.

Brace5

cool bass :D good shavo good job :) :DD cool lyrics and my favorite part is 1:00

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27Highway Song
Steal This Album's best song, besides Boom!, of course! One of the few romantics they have.
Not too known, but one of their best songs
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28Sad Statue
Only true fans would know this song. But after looking at this list it seems like this isn't a list for true fans of the band. Chope Suey, BYOB, Toxicity, etc. Are good songs, but they aren't System of a Down's best.
Very sad that this wasn't top ten. This son is just incredible. It pumps you up every time and the easy to remember chorus will leave you singing it for days. <3
Truly a wonderful song in every right. It does not deserve to be so low on this list. It deserves a place in the top 10 along with Radio/Video who also needs to be up there. How many System of a Down songs can one say they've listened to before they can judge them all?
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29Soil

This song is definitely one of their best songs, its verry underrated, you can't realize how how awesome this song is until you listen to it. But yeah chop suey is still their best. This should be higher on the lisi. Vote for this

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30Streamline
The most epic song ever written
Why isn't streamline in the top ten? This song is too good to be 34, its too good to be 24, its too good to be 14, and its too good to be 4. Streamline should be in the top three!
Serj sings like a beast in this song!

Digs795

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31War?

I love this song this should be at least top twenty its just so perfect and unique and it gets better as the song goes on listen to it and tell yourself it shouldn't be higher on this list full of people who only know the popular songs

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33Suggestions

Come on guys! This song is so awesome in the way Serj shows vocal diversity in it... And AWESOME song meaning

So beautiful! I love the middle, when he sings in an oriental way. This song shows that System of a Down have so much things to bring to us.

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34Innervision
I love this song! Amazing vocals everywhere, and the instumentals bust it out to where I want to go, dance, fight, then dance some more. System of a Down does not dissapoint me with this song, though, unfortunetly, it is a very underlooked one. More should listen, as I have.
What! 28? It really nust be at 12 place at least =-=
29? This song should (must! ) Be in the top ten!
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35Tentative
No one, no one's gonna save us now, Not even God, no one saved us
No one's gonna save us...

Where do you expect us to go when the bombs fall?

This song is so beautiful...
Why is Tentative in 50th place? This song should be at least in the top 10's in my opinion! This song is great! Where do you expect us to go when the bombs fall?
Where do you except us to go when the bombs fall...
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36Vicinity of Obscenity

This song is one of their best!

leinad0116

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37Boom!
Short song but gets right to the point... Government needs to stop sending people to war!
How is this 33? This song is great and I think it has most meaning. The bottom line is money and nobody gives a **** 4000 hungry children leave us per hour from starvation whikle millions are spent on bombs creating death showers/Why must we kill our own kind? Pure genius
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38Dreaming
Pure harmony to my ears, cleaning, driving everything, just makes my hands do the beat until the beautiful chorus arrives, summing up, opening your senses, touching... The whole song is like "you run, run, run, do things - now take a look how far and where you've gone... Then you want someone to kick you out of your mind because you hate these thoughts, you can't deny... "
This is easily the most underrated System of a Down song. It has energetic verses with great harmonies in the chorus and bridge. It is actually my personal favorite song by them.
For treated indigenously, digenously (We're the prophetic generation of bottled water, bottled water)
Human right is private blue chip, pry
Truly this is the best
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39Ego Brain
Honestly, this is my all time favorite song. Ever. I don't know why it's all the way at #36 but it's my favorite. The lyrics are beautiful, guitar is awesome. The song 36 should be #36 just because that would be super ironic. Not Ego Brain, best song ever!
Awesome song, its just a shame that it isn't as known as "Chop Suey" or "Aerials". It is an underdog, so it deserves to be voted, so it can shine on the top
Really Awesome way better than Chop Suey
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40Science
Like a dream.. I was imagine my self on the video clip..
Shavo the great SOAD's video Clip Ever, BRAVO SYSTEM! m/
This song offers something different
How is this song not higher... It has such a great meaning and the instrumental value to it is great
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42Old School Hollywood

Second song I heard by the band when I was twelve. Needless to say I was hooked by this one alone. Now I shall throw in fancy words so I get the little bar blue.

Daron Malakian's voice is so amazing and comforting Even though this song is #49 it is my FAVORITE. He talks about how he should of never went to Hollywood (where he was born) and that even though it is conceived as a 'popular' place there's all those "maggot smoking fags on Santa Monica Boulevard"

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43Bounce
This is a masterpeice - the chorus has you headbanging and is just so catchy, while the lyrics, although strange are great. About the only song off toxicity that isn't political.
Wow this is so underrated... It's insane. Possibly the best mosh pit song ever? Ultimate breakdown and fun as hell. It was a difficult choice (Ddevil was also a tempting underrated one). Then there's the verses which are hilariously awesome.
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44F*** the System

I love this song! Of course it is better when you listen to the clean version, but this song always puts me in a good mood. It is just so upbeat and awesome.

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47Mr. Jack
This song is great! Such a great guitar part and harmonization in the verses. This song deserves a better spot, in my opinion.
Fun to play Fun to listen to and gets you pumped like nobody's buisness
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49Shimmy

This song is awesome! Definitely deserves to be ranked higher. Give it a listen and then vote! I think you might agree yeah

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50Nuguns

This song is amazing guys, should be higher! The solo in this song is one of System Of A Down's best solos ever. Everything else is amazing. Should be in the top 20's. Vote!

johnpaularguelles

Nuguns is awesome! It should be higher thatn 54! The solo in the song is amazing! I think it is one of my favorite songs of all-time by System of a Down!

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51Needles

Definitely SOAD's brand of bipolar songwriting

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52Let the Bodies Hit the Floor

53Chic 'N' Stu Listen to sample

54Jet Pilot

I think this is one of the best SOAD songs but too much underrated.

metalhead1

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55A.D.D. (American Dream Denial)

Great song. That's Enough.

Laugh out loud this is so underrated. You guys should really check this one out. You will like it if you like System of a Down.

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58Darts Listen to sample

59This Cocaine Makes Me Feel Like I'm On This Song Listen to sample

60Peephole

Great song! I love the circus type of rhythm it has. Then how Serj's voice goes soft in the chorus. Such an addictive song! Love it.

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62She's Like Heroin

This song is pretty weird but its awesome.

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63The Metro

Have any of you even heard this song? Sure it is a cover, but the cover changes the song in such a great way that it is almost impossible not to love it. Not the best song, but it is better than 60.

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64Marmalade

65The Legend of Zelda
System of a Down has never played song like this

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68Virgin Tea

69CUBErt Listen to sample

70Friik

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72Pizza Pie
Fist song I've ever listened from System of a Down

73Johnny

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      This list was created 5 years, 277 days ago and has been voted on over 8,000 times. This top ten list has been remixed 44 times.

      Updated Wednesday, May 22, 2013

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