100 Paranoid Songs

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Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you...

1. Arab Strap - Fucking Little Bastards (with the quite brilliant "they whisper I'm a cunt")

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 10 September 2004 09:44 (twenty years ago) link

He is a cunt

2. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 10 September 2004 09:47 (twenty years ago) link

3. Beta Band - » Round The Bend «

― Super-Masonic Black Hole (kate), Friday, 10 September 2004 09:49 (twenty years ago) link

Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized.

― roger, Friday, 10 September 2004 09:51 (twenty years ago) link

5. Tiny Tim - She's Just Laughing At Me (what a song!)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 10 September 2004 09:51 (twenty years ago) link

6. So Solid Crew - Haters

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 10 September 2004 09:52 (twenty years ago) link

7. Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 10 September 2004 09:57 (twenty years ago) link

8. John Cale - Leaving It All Up To You
9. Walker Brothers - In My Room
10. Streets - What Is He Thinking?
11. Napoleon XIV - They're Coming To Take Me Away (Ha-Haa!)

― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Friday, 10 September 2004 09:58 (twenty years ago) link

12. The Fall - Frightened
13. The Fall - A Figure Walks

... that's what speed'll do to ya

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 10 September 2004 09:58 (twenty years ago) link

14. The Cure - 10:15 Saturday Night

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 10 September 2004 10:00 (twenty years ago) link

15. Love - The Red Telephone

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 10 September 2004 10:02 (twenty years ago) link

16. Leonard Cohen - Dress Rehearsal Rag (too paranoid even to slash his own wrists)

Speaking of which, what exactly does LC mean by the line "You can find your love with diagrams on a plain brown envelope"? I always interpreted it as meaning getting sent porn through the mail, but perhaps others know differently.

― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Friday, 10 September 2004 10:06 (twenty years ago) link

17. Sly & the Family Stone - Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin

... plus a few other Sly songs

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 10 September 2004 10:08 (twenty years ago) link

18. Bauhaus - The Spy In The Cab

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 10 September 2004 10:10 (twenty years ago) link

19. Bowie - Sound And Vision

― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Friday, 10 September 2004 10:14 (twenty years ago) link

20. Fleetwood Mac - Tusk ("Why won't you tell me who's on the 'phone?")

― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Friday, 10 September 2004 10:14 (twenty years ago) link

21. R Dean Taylor - There's A Ghost In My House

― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Friday, 10 September 2004 10:16 (twenty years ago) link

22 Geto Boys 'mind playin tricks on me'
23 Gravediggaz 'defective trip'

― pete b. (pete b.), Friday, 10 September 2004 10:19 (twenty years ago) link

24. Minutemen - Paranoid Time
25. Genesis - Misunderstanding

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 10 September 2004 10:20 (twenty years ago) link

26. Porter Waggoner - Rubber Room

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 10 September 2004 10:21 (twenty years ago) link

27. Nick Drake - Black Eyed Dog

― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Friday, 10 September 2004 10:23 (twenty years ago) link

28. Frances Nero - Footsteps Following Me

― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Friday, 10 September 2004 10:23 (twenty years ago) link

29. Kevin Ayers - Song From The Bottom Of A Well
30. Public Image Ltd - Under The House

― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Friday, 10 September 2004 10:25 (twenty years ago) link

31. THE JAM - DOWN IN THE TUBE STATION AT MIDNIGHT!!!!!!

― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Friday, 10 September 2004 10:26 (twenty years ago) link

Marcello, I think we've found your specialist subject for Mastermind

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 10 September 2004 10:27 (twenty years ago) link

32. Norman Wisdom - Don't Laugh At Me

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 10 September 2004 10:30 (twenty years ago) link

Someone apparently was on Mastermind the other week and their specialist subject was the UK Singles Chart 1960-1980. DRAT! I'll have to be content with answering questions on Derek Bailey then.

― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Friday, 10 September 2004 10:30 (twenty years ago) link

33. Mothers of Invention - Who Are the Brain Police? (et al)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 10 September 2004 10:33 (twenty years ago) link

34. radiohead - paranoid android (just to get that outta the way)

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 10 September 2004 10:35 (twenty years ago) link

35. "Sittin Here" - Dizzee Rascal

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 10 September 2004 10:41 (twenty years ago) link

36. Barry Andrews - Win a night out with a well-known paranoiac

― Tag (Tag), Friday, 10 September 2004 10:48 (twenty years ago) link

37. "Air" - Talking Heads

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Friday, 10 September 2004 10:48 (twenty years ago) link

38. The Beat - All Out To Get You

― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Friday, 10 September 2004 11:24 (twenty years ago) link

39. Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Wild Life

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 10 September 2004 11:34 (twenty years ago) link

40. Temptations - I Wish It Would Rain ("Day after day I stay locked up in my room")

― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Friday, 10 September 2004 11:51 (twenty years ago) link

41. Kevin Coyne - Talking to No-one ("Talking to no-one is strange/ But talking to someone is stranger")

...and lots of others

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 10 September 2004 11:53 (twenty years ago) link

42. Shrink - "Valid Or Void"

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 10 September 2004 11:57 (twenty years ago) link

43. Jacques Brel or Scott Walker or Alex Harvey, any of them will do - Next

― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Friday, 10 September 2004 11:59 (twenty years ago) link

44. Don Estelle & Windsor Davies - Whispering Grass

... I mean how paranoid can you get without being locked up?!??!!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 10 September 2004 12:03 (twenty years ago) link

45. Brian Protheroe - Pinball ("And they say that you never know when you're insane")

― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Friday, 10 September 2004 12:08 (twenty years ago) link

Tricky to thread.

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 10 September 2004 12:15 (twenty years ago) link

46. Grand Funk Railroad, "Paranoid"
47. Bob Dylan, "Subterranean Homesick Blues"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 10 September 2004 12:19 (twenty years ago) link

48. animals - talking heads

" they're laughing at us!"

― piscesboy, Friday, 10 September 2004 12:27 (twenty years ago) link

49. Can - Outside the Door

― Sean Witzman (trip maker), Friday, 10 September 2004 12:35 (twenty years ago) link

50. Beck "Motherfucker" (EVERYONE'S OUT TO GET YOU MOTHERFUCKER)

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 10 September 2004 12:39 (twenty years ago) link

51. Guns 'N' Roses - Out Ta Get Me (I'm not 100% on this - maybe they were out to get him)

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 10 September 2004 12:43 (twenty years ago) link

52. Men At Work "Who Can It Be Now?"
53. Frida, "There's Something Going On"

― phil d., Friday, 10 September 2004 12:45 (twenty years ago) link

54. Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business
55. Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight
56. Abba - The Winner Takes It All ("But tell me does she kiss like I used to kiss you?")

― Donnie Smith The Quiz Kid, Friday, 10 September 2004 12:50 (twenty years ago) link

ABBA "The Visitors"

― jjj, Friday, 10 September 2004 12:53 (twenty years ago) link

58. Nellie McKay "Baby Watch Your Back"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 10 September 2004 13:14 (twenty years ago) link

59. Goodie Mob "Cell Therapy"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 10 September 2004 13:14 (twenty years ago) link

60. "Say My Name" - Destiny's Child

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 10 September 2004 13:18 (twenty years ago) link

61. Elvis Costello "Green Shirt" among others

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 10 September 2004 13:26 (twenty years ago) link

I hate these number threads, as they always get out of order.

Suffice it to say...EVERY KILLING JOKE SONG EVER RECORDED, BLESS'EM!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 September 2004 13:46 (twenty years ago) link

62. People Are Strange - The Doors

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 10 September 2004 14:25 (twenty years ago) link

63. Rockwell, "Obscene Phone Caller"

64. Whitney Houston, "Whatchoolookinat"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 10 September 2004 14:27 (twenty years ago) link

65. "Sickman" - Alice In Chains

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 10 September 2004 14:46 (twenty years ago) link

66. the jam, "girl on the phone"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 10 September 2004 15:05 (twenty years ago) link

67. "Destroyer" - The Kinks

― Duh, Friday, 10 September 2004 15:05 (twenty years ago) link

People, people, people...

"Shot By Both Sides" Magazine

― Not that Chuck, Friday, 10 September 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago) link

69."Stranger In Town"-Del Shannon

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Friday, 10 September 2004 15:17 (twenty years ago) link

70: "Girls are out to get you" The Fascinations

― Bidfurd, Friday, 10 September 2004 15:24 (twenty years ago) link

71. Laugh At Me - Sonny Bono

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 10 September 2004 15:28 (twenty years ago) link

72. The Cure - Man Inside My Mouth.

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Friday, 10 September 2004 15:42 (twenty years ago) link

73. Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta
74. Garbage - I Think I'm Paranoid

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Friday, 10 September 2004 15:52 (twenty years ago) link

75. Sylvie - Saint Etienne

she's paranoid that her younger sister is going to steal her boyfriend - who says you can't have a sugary paranoid song, haha !

― darren (darren), Friday, 10 September 2004 17:06 (twenty years ago) link

sylvie! brilliant!

― derrick (derrick), Friday, 10 September 2004 17:10 (twenty years ago) link

76. Cheap Trick - Dream police

― Avi (Avi), Friday, 10 September 2004 17:13 (twenty years ago) link

77 Music Machine "Talk Talk"

― dave q, Friday, 10 September 2004 17:16 (twenty years ago) link

The Make-Up - "If They Come In The Morning"

― emil.y (emil.y), Friday, 10 September 2004 17:38 (twenty years ago) link

79. Non-Phixion "The CIA Is Trying To Kill Me"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 10 September 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago) link

80. Steely Dan - Don't Take Me Alive

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 10 September 2004 19:15 (twenty years ago) link

thirteen years pass...

81. Captain Beefheart - 'Telephone'

(Revived because this song is so effective at pulling me right into the heart of the Captain's psychotic episode.)

― Bruise Harmsby and the Rage (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 12:03 (six years ago) link

82. The Cure - "Subway Song"
83. Talking Heads - "Psycho Killer"
84. The Beatles - "No Reply"

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 12:34 (six years ago) link

85. Dead Milkmen - I Against Osbourne

― incarcerated moonfaces (how's life), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 12:50 (six years ago) link

86. Pink Floyd – "Paranoid Eyes"

― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 14:07 (six years ago) link

was gonna say:

5. Tiny Tim - She's Just Laughing At Me (what a song!)
― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, September 10, 2004 10:51 AM (thirteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and yes it really is. such a simple idea but not one you hear a lot in songs

― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 14:10 (six years ago) link

87. Bruce Springsteen - State Trooper

― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 14:59 (six years ago) link

88. PJ Harvey - Big Exit

― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link

89. the Mountain Goats - In the Craters on the Moon

― incarcerated moonfaces (how's life), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 15:11 (six years ago) link

90. "99 Problems" (if you begin with the premise spelled out in the first post)

― clemenza, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 15:19 (six years ago) link

91. Eddie & Sunshine - There's Someone Following Me

― emil.y, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link

92. Spirit, "1984"

Someone will be waiting for you at your door
When you get home tonight

― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link

93. Rolling Stones "Fingerprint File"

― earlnash, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 17:58 (six years ago) link

94. Ian Dury & the Blockheads, "If I Was With a Woman"

― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 18:05 (six years ago) link

95. talking heads - drugs

― Ross, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link

The Tubes, "Mr. Hate"

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link

77 Music Machine "Talk Talk"
― dave q, Friday, September 10, 2004 10:16 AM (thirteen years ago)

Haha yeah, or "Talk Me Down!"

― timellison, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 17:18 (six years ago) link

four months pass...

97. Leadbelly/ Nirvana/etc. "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" aka In the Pines
98. Michael Jackson "Who Is It"

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Sunday, 23 December 2018 05:55 (six years ago) link

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