the album that hit #1 on the charts on 9/11 !!!!! fucking awesome. i didn't listen to it until years later, and didn't totally process how much Prison Song wasn't fucking around even a little bit until years after that. Science is one of the most straightforward SOAD songs to ever exist and back when i was an annoying atheist i was kinda like "well ok" but now i pretty much agree with it more than ever lol. i could take or leave Chop Suey tho
i don't have official stats on this but i'm fairly certain that i revisit this album at least once year because i'm fated to go through "i feel like listening to SOAD" phases for… More
“Prison Song” has such an iconic first note that anyone who grew up during the 2000s will instantly recognize it. It is to me what the first piano note of “Black Parade” is to emo kids.