For the Marvel character, see Randall Darby.
"Paralyzer" is the first single from alternative rock band Finger Eleven's fifth album Them vs. You vs. Me, and it was released in March 2007. Finger Eleven's frontman Scott Anderson has said that the single has a feel distinct from the rest of Finger Eleven's music, possessing more of a "dance rock" feel. The riff is quite similar to Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out", Mötley Crüe's "Too Young to Fall in Love", Skid Row's "Youth Gone Wild", Amanda Lepore's "Champagne" and Led Zeppelin's "Trampled Underfoot."
The song received high airplay in both the United States and Canada, and was performed live on the March 14 2007 episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and again almost exactly ten months later on January 9, 2008, in a testament to the longevity of the single's success. The song has surpassed "One Thing" to be Finger Eleven's most successful single.
The single has two versions, one is the original CD version, while one is the radio edit version, which has the term "shitty" censored in the song for usage on regulated airwaves. There are three musically different versions of the song. One is the album version, and the two others are both different radio versions. This song is played during the New York Islanders warm-ups at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
