11-05-2021, 12:58 PM
Not sure if this is true (it's old), but it is amusing...
Quote: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
Shadow boxing the apocalypse

