Paranoimia


"Paranoimia" is a song by English synth-pop group Art of Noise released in 1986, from their album In Visible Silence.
The song's better-known version was a version released as a single, featuring television character Max Headroom on vocals. This version was first featured on the 1986 album Re-Works of Art of Noise. The 7" single features a monologue about Max Headroom being scared and unable to sleep. The 12" has a completely different vocal with Headroom as a master of ceremonies, talking about the music and making a pun-laden introduction of the alleged band members: Peter O'Toole on trumpet, tennis player Martina Navratilova on bassline, Cher on mic, and the Pope on drums.
The 12" single was also available on a one-sided cassette tape with the following track listing:
  1. Paranoimia – 6:40
  2. Paranoimia – 3:18
  3. Why Me? – 2:56
  4. A Nation Rejects – 2:57
Some later issues of the CD In Visible Silence, most notably the US version, include the single version in place of the original version, which did not include the Max Headroom vocals.

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