SOUNDSYSTEM

:''This article is about the 311 album. For other meanings of the term, see Sound system.''
'''Soundsystem''' is the fifth studio album by 311, released on October 12, 1999.
In 2000, after this album was released they left Capricorn Records and switched to Volcano Records for their sixth album ''From Chaos''. The album was certified Gold, having sold over 500,000 copies.

Contents

Track listing

B-Sides & Outtakes

Unreleased

Charts

Miscellanea

Track listing

# "Freeze Time" (Music: Hexum; Lyrics: Hexum/Martinez) - 3:21
# "Come Original" (Hexum/Wills; Hexum/Martinez) - 3:42
# "Large in the Margin" (Sexton; Hexum) - 3:28
# "Flowing" (Hexum) - 3:13
# "Can't Fade Me" (Hexum; Hexum/Martinez) - 2:10
# "Life's Not a Race" (Hexum/Mahoney; Hexum/Martinez) - 4:26
# "Strong All Along" (Hexum; Hexum/Martinez) - 3:28
# "Sever" (Hexum/Wills; Hexum/Martinez) - 4:42
# "Eons" (Sexton; Hexum) - 3:13
# "Evolution" (Hexum/Sexton; Hexum/Martinez) - 4:17
# "Leaving Babylon" (Miller/Jenifer/Hudson/Hudson) - 3:59
# "Mindspin" (Sexton; Hexum/Martinez) - 4:00
# "Livin' & Rockin'" (Mahoney; Hexum/Martinez) - 2:42

B-Sides & Outtakes

★ "Blizza" (Hexum) - 1:16 - (Available via 311' website) [1]

★ "Cali Soca" (??) - 3:36 - (Available via 311' website)

★ "Dancehall" - (??; Hexum/Martinez) - 2:51 (Appears on the Enlarged to Show Detail 2 bonus EP)

★ "Seal the Deal" (??; Hexum) - 3:22 - (Available via 311' website)

Unreleased

★ "Forward"

★ "Hazy"

★ "The 90's"

Charts

'Album'

Year	Chart	Position
1999	The Billboard 200	9

'Singles'

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1999	"Come Original"	Modern Rock Tracks	6
1999	"Come Original"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	39
2000	"Flowing"	Modern Rock Tracks	17

Miscellanea

★ 311 is usually known for their very positive-oriented lyrics. Yet Nick Hexum has claimed at the time of this album's release that "I have never written more personally deep songs than "Eons," "Flowing," or "Large in the Margin." I was dealing with serious lack of direction and self doubt at that time."

★ "Leaving Babylon" is a cover of a Bad Brains song. It was the only cover 311 had ever done that made a 311 studio album until Love Song was released on their Greatest Hits Album in 2005.

★ While the band has consistently put out a new album every-two-years since 1997, ''Soundsystem'' had the longest in-studio time of any 311 album (over a year). Members of the band have pointed to "Life's Not a Race" as being connected to the time spent on this album [2].

★ Before the release of this album, 311 held a contest asking fans to submit artwork for the album cover. The winning fan's work ''was'' used on the finished product.