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"I Think I'm Paranoid" is a song written, performed and produced by rock band Garbage and was the second single released from their second album Version 2.0. The song was released internationally in July 1998, following up on the success of the band's prior hit, " Push It ".
The song is an E minor pentatonic and only uses power chords. The guitar solo is a dry signal on the left channel, which is patched through a ring modulator and routed to the right channel; this effect was used again on the 1978 song, "Johnny Blade". According to extant lyric sheets, "Paranoid" was at one time titled "The Paranoid." [7]
In 2017, New Years Day and Lzzy Hale from Halestorm covered the song at Alternative Press Music Awards. [90] [91] New Years Day later included a studio version of the cover featuring Hale on their 2018 EP Diary of a Creep. [92] [93] In 2009, "Only Happy When It Rains" was featured as a playable song in the videogame Guitar Hero 5.
Paranoid was recorded at Regent Sound Studios and Island Studios in London, England. [7] The album's title track was written as an afterthought. As drummer Bill Ward explains: "We didn't have enough songs for the album, and Tony [Iommi] just played the guitar lick and that was it. It took twenty, twenty-five minutes from top to bottom."
Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. (born March 18, 1966) [1] is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as the founder, lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist, and main songwriter [9] of the rock band Alice in Chains. [10]
Sandercoe's official website was first launched on 31 July 2003, [3] offering lessons as a sample to promote private one-on-one lessons. The site developed a modest following but once he began making instructional guitar videos for YouTube in December 2006, the site became one of the most popular guitar instruction web sites. [4]
Terence Michael Joseph "Geezer" Butler (born 17 July 1949) [1] is an English musician, best known as the bassist and primary lyricist of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath.He has also recorded and performed with Heaven & Hell, GZR, Ozzy Osbourne, and Deadland Ritual.
Music journalist Martin Popoff has called the song an "ugly, antiwar classic now considered one of Sabbath's top two or three most enduring compositions". [8] Guitar World described the song as "the greatest HM song ever." [11] The magazine also included the song on their list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Solos" and ranked it in 56th place. [14]