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Not sure if this is true (it's old), but it is amusing...

FEBRUARY 22, 2008
The Torture Playlist
The songs that American guards and interrogators used to torture detainees.

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Music has been used in American military prisons and on bases to induce sleep deprivation, “prolong capture shock,” disorient detainees during interrogations—and also drown out screams. Based on a leaked interrogation log, news reports, and the accounts of soldiers and detainees, here are some of the songs that guards and interrogators chose. Read about the guards here.

[b]Deicide:[/b] Fuck Your God

[b]Dope:[/b] Die MF Die, Take Your Best Shot

[b]Eminem:[/b] White America, Kim

[b]Barney & Friends:[/b] theme song

[b]Drowning Pool:[/b] Bodies

[b]Metallica:[/b] Enter Sandman

[b]Meow Mix:[/b] commercial jingle

[b]Janeane Garofalo/Ben Stiller:[/b] chapter from the Feel This Audiobook

[b]Sesame Street:[/b] theme song

[b]David Gray:[/b] Babylon

[b]AC/DC:[/b] Shoot to Thrill, Hell’s Bells

[b]Bee Gees:[/b] Stayin’ Alive

[b]Tupac:[/b] All Eyez On Me

[b]Christina Aguilera:[/b] Dirrty

[b]Neil Diamond:[/b] America

[b]Rage Against the Machine:[/b] unspecified songs

[b]Don McLean:[/b] American Pie

[b]Saliva:[/b] Click Click Boom

[b]Matchbox Twenty:[/b] Cold

[b](hed)pe:[/b] Swan Dive

[b]Prince:[/b] Raspberry Beret

Bonus: Listen to investigative reporter Justine Sharrock explain why the Meow Mix jingle, Neil Diamond, and the Barney theme song all lend themselves to “no-touch torture.” Plus: How Metallica reacted when they found out how their music was being used. —Gary Moskowitz