his review of the band's first full-length album - the EP "could pass for speed-rock". Coley was more mixed: he found that the band's early music "didn't give much leeway to the imagination", going on to criticize the band's seriousness and the "naive wordplay" in their lyrics. A retrospective review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine for AllMusic found the EP to be "a startlingly coherent set of primal minimalism -- a cross between Californian hardcore punk and the succinct experimentalism of Wire. It speeds by too quickly for any particular song to stand out, but the band's terse, frenetic energy is invigorating, as are their imaginative ideas." In a perfect score review from 2008, Punknews.org reviewer John concluded that Paranoid Time "is infinitely important to independent rock. There is no excuse not to own it." Track listing Personnel Minutemen D. Boon - guitar, vocals Mike Watt - bass, vocals George Hurley - drums, backing vocals with: Greg Hurley - backing vocals on "Joe McCarthy's Ghost" and "Paranoid Chant" Production Greg Ginn - record producer Spot - engineer References Minutemen (band) albums 1980 debut EPs SST Records EPs