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What I love most about Paranoid is what it did to music in 1970. This wasn’t simply a heavy record; it helped define an entire genre. Tony Iommi turned a devastating workplace accident into a completely new guitar vocabulary, Geezer Butler made the bass gallop underneath it like something enormous coming toward you, and Bill Ward attacked his little jazz kit like it owed him rent. Underneath all that weight were lyrics about war, paranoia, alienation and political hypocrisy that still feel relevant. Few albums have had this much influence on everything that came after them.

Overrated.

This albums sounds supurb on vinyl. I add a colored dot sticker to albums that sounds so good they just transport you. Whenever I want to sit and really be absorbed by a record and have that kind of listening experience, I look for that stack of colored dot records in my collection. And Elisabeth Fraser's voice has my heart forever as a goth kid from the 80s/90s.

my intro to fontaines and it didn't disappoint

Can’t believe how many people hate on this album. Criminally underrated. Tyler + Rick Rubin = *chef’s kiss* and Poachers is one of the most slept on songs of the modern outlaws country genre.

classic band, classic album, classic sound

It’s in the name, it’s immaculate! Madonna is one of a kind

I've had this on CD since it came out and only got round to the vinyl recently, which tells you something. Thirty-odd years in, and I never once felt I needed a better copy. Dulli narrates his own cruelty in real time and dares you to enjoy the swagger, and the awful part is that you do. The band swing where they should snarl, all that Cincinnati soul running underneath the meanness. He hands My Curse to Marcy Mays because he can't bring himself to sing those words, still the most honest gesture on a record built entirely out of dishonesty. I've seen them a few times and met Dulli once, long enough to tell him what this record meant to me. Top five, and it isn't moving.

CURRENTLY OBSESSED Funky drummer shit is fire

You can tell the response to this album gave CW the confidence to make Getting Killed. Both are incredible. Nina + Field of Cops might be my most listened to song of the last two years.

One of the most influential women in HipHop

10 years from now, a dj will drop this at a show and every 20 year old will lose their ever loving mind.

Good hiphop, not their best album but Electric Relaxation and Can I Kick It? are so good!

So much has been written about this album, I love it so much I'm kinda stuck for words to describe what it means to me. I think it continues to inspire simply because it defied genre's, embraced new noise and lyrically remains ever present 4 decades later. And Topper is the shit, the absolute pulsing heart of the album.

I can't explain it but this album speaks to me from start to finish.

Is Allan Rayman still "the most mysterious man in music"? Who knows, but the Jekyll-Hyde stunt he pulled with his Roadhouse era started here, and what a start it was. Tennessee literally made me visit Nashville, by train, and Graceland still goes as one of the most defining tracks in his haunting catalog.

Some records you admire. This one I've just lived alongside. It takes its time and asks the same of you: seven minutes here, nine there, keyboards stacked into rooms you can walk around inside, Smith's voice arriving so late in Plainsong that the wait becomes part of the song. Grief and infatuation and self-pity all sound identical in here, which is either a flaw or the whole point depending on your mood. I've been listening to it for decades now, and I've never once put it on out of nostalgia. In my top 5 of all time.

saved me

I can’t help but sing along

With every listen this album grows deeper and deeper on me.. It’s truly amazing!!