Mind Playing Tricks On Me
1991
An Isaac Hayes loop from Tough Guys, three verses by Scarface, and a rap record about fear rather than swagger.
★ 7.7
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Sunday MorningThe Velvet Underground
Sunday Morning
1966 · From The Velvet Underground & Nico
Cale spotted a celesta in the studio, Warhol suggested paranoia, and the last track cut became the album's gentle opener.
★ 6.5
Season of the Witch
1966
Two chords built for jamming, Mickie Most in the producer's chair, and folk-pop suddenly acquired a shiver of paranoia.
★ 6.1
99 LuftballonsNena
99 Luftballons
1983
Karges saw balloons released at a 1982 Rolling Stones show in Berlin and imagined them crossing the Wall.
★ 5.8
Who Can It Be Now?
1981
Hay wrote the music in a Bermagui treehouse, and Greg Ham's saxophone hook does the rest.
★ 5.1
Madman Across the Water
1971 · From Madman Across the Water
Buckmaster spilled ink across his orchestral score and rewrote all of it in a day; Spedding's electric guitar prowls underneath.
★ 4.8
Disturbia
2008
Four writers including Chris Brown, a reissue bonus track, and two weeks at number one on anxiety alone.
★ 4.8
Flagpole Sitta
1998
Named for a 1920s pole-sitting fad, cut in Seattle in 1996, and now inseparable from Peep Show's opening titles.
★ 4.7
Somebody's Watching Me
1984
Berry Gordy's son signed to Motown without telling him, then got Michael Jackson to sing the chorus uncredited.
★ 4.4
YOLO
2013
Needlz produced it around The Joy Formidable's Whirring, and the punchline turns a reckless slogan into pure paranoia.
★ 1.5