10 Greatest Double Albums In Music History

For as tense as the Iraq War was at the start of the '00s, it was shocking to see almost no musicians really make a stand against it. Before Green Day's American Idiot, it almost became taboo to even mention that there was a war going on at all, with the Chicks later getting blacklisted by their fans for speaking their mind. When you give this kind of ammunition to an already political band though, there was so much more that needed to be said.

As System of a Down started to work on their album suite Mezmerize and Hypnotize, the songs seemed to fracture into two distinct styles. While you had one end criticizing the war going on at the time, you also had cuts that focused on the darker side of life at the top, like on Lost in Hollywood where Daron Malakian talks about feeling lonely and unfulfilled after reaching his dreams.

These were tense times though, and System of a Down were the ones to wake us up from the propaganda we were being fed, like seeing the moralism of the United States crumble to pieces on Sad Statue or bullying citizens into being patriotic on songs like U Fig or BYOB. With the rest of the world on fire, System showed us the United States in shambles, as leaders sold us on the American Dream of being sent away to die. Not the best to live by any stretch.