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I'm currently writing something about representations of madness and paranoia in 60s and early 70s cinema (don't ask). Anyway, I quite like the idea of having some snazzy song titles (ideally from that period) as chapter headings. Obviously stuff like Love's 'The Red Telephone' is about madness and paranoia, but you'd never know that just from the title. The same could equally be said for practically every song written by either Syd Barrett or Brian Wilson. In terms of ones that do reflect it in the title though, all I've been able to come up with so far have been:
The Stones, '19th Nervous Breakdown' (which could work)
Black Sabbath's 'Paranoid' (which is a bit too generic for a chapter title)
Jimi Hendrix's 'Manic Depression' (likewise)
King Crimson's, '21st Century Schizoid Man' (which is great, but a bit confusing as a chapter title, given the period I'm looking at)
John Lennon's 'Mind Games' (which is increasingly looking like it's going to be the overall title of the thing)
Frank Zappa's, 'Who Are the Brain Police?' (which is definitely a good one)
I'm sure there are literally dozens of other examples from that period (especially in the areas of psychedelia and prog) but for whatever reason I've just drawn a total blank. So while this does appear quite an odd request, if anyone can think of some others (the stranger the better) it'd really help me out a lot.
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