It was an utter delight having The Paranoid Style @paranoiacs.bsky.social on today. We had a great conversation, listened to some songs that influenced the new album Known Associates, and they played a handful of songs live in the studio. Check it out here: www.mixcloud.com/rockrabbitho...
Me too!
ZZ Top appeared on a BBC show with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark in 1980 and nicked not only their sound but also their dance moves domino.elfworld.org/omd-zz-top-s...
I like it! The singing reminds me of Canned Heat, of all things.
Amazing.
Love it unreservedly and with all my heart!
I love all their records!
Every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp guitar hook and a Simmons SDS-V
Works like a charm!
Me too!
I guess the band had pretty much exhausted the boogie-band trio thing after a decade, but I prefer my ZZ Top sans Fairlight!
Texas meets Essex and gets funky
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The astonishing outcome of Billy Gibbons' on-its-face-insane inspiration to make ZZ Top sound more like Depeche Mode, ‘Eliminator’ is forty-five minutes of ecstatic hooks and Fairlight boogie whose groove is nothing less than a novel musical vernacular. A masterpiece. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae82...
Elizabeth Nelson, singer and songwriter for The Paranoid Style, is a woman with blonde straight hair seen standing towards the left of the frame wearing a colorful spring dress and white high heeled boots. She is standing on a path of those honeycomb type pavers, which seems reckless in those boots. In the background are ferns and lush greenery. If you look closely, she is holding a mostly-empty glass tumbler in her right hand and her left is on her hip, as she stares off and away to her left. It's hard to tell if she's amused by something she sees over there, or is just thinking about something else. Just off her elbow are some big letters in a playful, angular yellow and pink font. THE PARANOID STYLE they shout with glee. Maybe it's the words "Live in Studio!" sitting just below that have them so worked up. Rather more reserved text top and bottom says The Rock and Roll Rabbit Hole Tues. 12-2 WOWD 94.3.
This Tuesday, we welcome Elizabeth Nelson & Tim Bracy of The Paranoid Style. They'll play a few songs live in the studio, and walk us through some influences behind their brand new album, Known Associates. March 10 from Noon-2pm Eastern at TakomaRadio.org and WOWD 94.3 @paranoiacs.bsky.social
absolutely hijacking international women's day to suggest that you consider purchasing a copy of THREE CHORDS AND BLESSED NOISE, a chapbook written by a woman about Patti Smith's Horses 50th Anniversary tour! jukeboxgraduate.bigcartel.com/product/thre...
Thank you very much!!!
I’ve been an X’gauer since 1992. I occasionally subscribe to his Substack, and plan to restart in April. If not for the Dean of American Rock Critics, I wouldn’t have discovered The Paranoid Style. Congratulations on yet another another solid “A!”
As someone who practically memorized his 'Rock Albums of the Seventies' you are in fine company and it's well deserved.
Kudos!
When I began writing songs, it was outside the limits of my imagination that I'd ever get an A grade from Robert Christgau for any of my records. Today's Consumer Guide marks five full A's in a row for the Paranoid Style. Sharp as ever. I couldn't be more grateful.
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I co-sign all of this.
Jody Stephens once said to the effect of feeling like he was allowed to rave about Big Star because he didn’t write the songs. I feel similarly in this case.
This is great. Especially if it would lead paranoiacs to tour enough to come near the geographic center of the country (or maybe just a small bit North and East though I'd drive to make up for the difference).
Also Nelson's not wrong about Linda Ronstadt and that Stones song being a strong contender.
Heck yeah!
"There's a case to be made for Elizabeth Nelson as the best rock lyricist of this moment. Nelson and the Paranoid Style are the most persuasive argument I know for the ongoing vitality of rock and roll." Psyched by this rad review of 'Known Associates' on Fresh Air today! www.npr.org/2026/03/06/n...
I am so, so excited to see Joe Jackson live later this year!
Agreed in the perfect single designation. I've known this song since it came out. I've heard it intermittently in the years since. Never thought much about it either way. These past few weeks, 43 years on, I cannot stop playing it. It bides its time!
This song is an industrial grade earworm
I didn’t really care for this song when it came out but I’ve come to love it as I’ve gotten older.
I’ve seen him 5 or 6 times. One of the best performers I’ve seen, always with a different but outstanding band.
