Song In My Head .005— “Paranoid” Black Sabbath

The miserable blight of a song with infectious energy is a phenomenon in its own right.

Sad music makes people happy. Why? Perhaps that is because of its downward spiralling tempo, illuminating patterns in your spiderwebby subconscious. Perhaps because of the words, which depending on your own state of mind can be anywhere from comforting, to embarrassingly familiar, to alien enough…