 | No Not Me Never by Photo Atlas
Buy new: $15.42 / Used from: $0.01 Primo Dance-Punk from one of the leaders of the Denver scene. "Handshake Heartattack" is a frenetic free for all that'll leave you breathless and shaking.
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 | Make Up the Breakdown by Hot Hot Heat
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $0.01 Their best and most cohesive record... Equal parts Cure, Radiohead, Jam, and At the Drive In... "Bandages" and "Oh Goddamnit" are classics in the genre... if there was a genre.
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 | Monument to the Masses by Ima Robot
Buy used from: $0.98 Paranoid Rock-lite. This is the poppier side of paranoid dance rock, but "Creeps Me Out" is perfection on a platter.
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 | Kid A by Radiohead
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.20 What paranoid rocker could be in absence of one prog-rock version of Paranoia? A dumb one, that is... "The National Anthem" is the dance-punk's version of The Propellerheads' "Take California".
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 | Myth Takes by !!! (Chk Chk Chk)
Buy new: $42.72 / Used from: $24.99 Ok, not their best record (most of their best songs are on EPs and singles anyway) but this is their attempt at doing a cohesive album. It's great regardless. I dig it.
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 | Ca Plane Pour Moi
One of the bands who started it all... That drone, that speed, that unease... it's all so perfectly bottled in this single.
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 | Freezing Atlantic by Aberdeen City
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $0.01 How brilliant is this band? "Pretty Pet" is so on the verge of breakdown that it's incredible... Live it's even better, if that's possible. Like wow. Still one of the tightest wound records of all time.
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 | Whatever People Say I Am Thats What I Am Not by Arctic Monkeys
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $4.46 Fast, furious and kinetic, Arctic Monkeys take the pop turn for Dance Punk and do it some good. Still the single "I Bet You Look Good..." is there pinnacle. Let's hope they can match it.
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 | Delete Yourself by Atari Teenage Riot
Buy used from: $0.39 Taking its cue from Rave, Hardcore and Industrial, ATR were pioneers in the movement. Crazy and atonal at times, they took chaos by the balls and made them dance. Painful and bloody, this is Paranoid Rock at it's most aggro.
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 | Eleventeen by Daisy Chainsaw
Buy used from: $0.82 So who says chicks can't be paranoid? Daisy Chainsaw's "Love Your Money" is creeptastic and celebratory. Too bad they never could match that brilliance.
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 | Give Up by Postal Service
Buy new: $12.71 / Used from: $3.49 This is the Xanax version of Paranoid Rock...I've always said that Ben Gibbard is god... and he is. And this album proves it. It's best listened to while walking down alleyways at midnight alone.
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 | Boys Don't Cry by Cure
Buy used from: $5.70 Godfathers of the movement... This, their US debut (not UK... I know the difference, dimwit) had "10:15 Saturday Night" and "Subway Song"... two of the creepiest songs based on paranoia... well, next to Rockwell's "(I Always Feel Like) Somebody's Watching Me" but that's a totally DIFFERENT list altogether.
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