The ’70s were the perfect time to be paranoid: rumors of government-sanctioned assassinations here and abroad, second-gunman theories around dead presidents, whispers of elite secret societies pulling strings, that whole Watergate thing. It wafted in the air like yesterday’s tear gas. The movies picked up the vibe and amplified it. Buy a ticket and you could see Warren Beatty discover an assassin-recruitment corporation (The Parallax View), Robert Redford as a CIA analyst on the run from agency goons (Three Days of the Condor), Gene Hackman get tripped up over...
- 8/12/2023
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Bad Religion envision conspiracy theories as a retro dance craze in their rattling new song, “Do the Paranoid Style.”
“It’s a paranoid style in American politics/Casey Jones, you better watch your apocalypse,” frontman Greg Graffin snarls over a pummeling drum pattern and power chords — a spin on a famous Grateful Dead lyric. “All kinds of wild interpretation/Are open to the paranoid imagination.” Later, he references political division and “Communist plots against the population.”
The band paired “Do the Paranoid Style” with a wild video that pairs vintage...
“It’s a paranoid style in American politics/Casey Jones, you better watch your apocalypse,” frontman Greg Graffin snarls over a pummeling drum pattern and power chords — a spin on a famous Grateful Dead lyric. “All kinds of wild interpretation/Are open to the paranoid imagination.” Later, he references political division and “Communist plots against the population.”
The band paired “Do the Paranoid Style” with a wild video that pairs vintage...
- 3/26/2019
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
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