BOC: X-Ray Eyes

Carl E. Anderson cea20 at CUS.CAM.AC.UK
Thu Oct 8 11:03:27 EDT 1998


On Thu, Oct 8, 1998 3:21 pm +0100 "Andy Gilham"
<Andy.Gilham at BTINTERNET.COM> wrote:
> Oh, the paranoia is definitely there - blame John Shirley.  "Hammer Back"
> may be the most explicitly paranoid...  "Step into a world of
strangers/Into
> a sea of unknowns/Even friends, potential dangers..."  Leaving aside the
> lame rhyming of "stranger" with "danger", that's about as paranoid a
lyric
> I've heard, at least since that Girlschool song with the refrain of "Out
to
> get you, out to get you"...

    I pick Motohead's "Over Your Shoulder" for some good paranoia :)

--
Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/



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