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Rock List: Readers’ Top Songs About Insanity

Last week, in honor of Britney’s breakdown, Huckabee’s antics and Winehouse’s latest string of disasters—breaking news! There’s more of them!—we asked our readers for the best songs about insanity. As expected, a song about noted nutcase Syd Barrett and a track sung by a man who once bit off the head of a bat received the most votes. Ditch the straitjackets and check out the full list of twenty-five songs here. 1. Pink Floyd – “Brain Damage” 2. Black Sabbath – “Paranoid” 3. Pixies – “Where Is My Mind?” 4. Metallica – “Welcome Home (Sanitarium)” 5. Radiohead – “Climbing Up the Walls” 6. Guns n’ Roses – “You’re Crazy” 7. Green Day – “Basketcase” 8. Nirvana – “Lithium” 9. David Bowie – “All the Madmen” 10. Gnarls Barkley – “Crazy” 11. The Ramones – “Gimme Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment” 12. Talking Heads – “Psycho Killer” 13. The Doors – “The End” 14. Jefferson Airplane – “White Rabbit” 15. Ozzy Osbourne – “Crazy Train” 16. Suicidal Tendencies – “Institutionalized” 17. Tool – “Rosetta Stoned” 18. The Rolling Stones – “19th Nervous Breakdown” 19. Tears For Fears – “Mad World” 20. Sonic Youth – “Schizophrenia” 21. Jimi Hendrix – “Manic Depression” 22. The Police – “Every Breath You Take” 23. David Bowie – “Aladdin Sane” 24. Joy Division – “She’s Lost Control” 25. The Kinks – “Acute Schizophrenia Blues”

Published: 2008-01-22
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock Lists, Rock Daily