Members Mr. Botch Posted November 18, 2009 Members Share Posted November 18, 2009 I realize this thread will descend into Political Thread mayhem within a few hours, but I found this list recently published by Newsweek morbidly interesting. Songs used by the US government and military: Interrogations of Iraqi prisoners: F**k your god, Deicide Interrogations at CIA prison in Afghanistan: The Real Slim Shady, Eminem Second battle at Fallujah: Hell's Bells, AC/DC Interrogations at Gitmo: Sesame Street Theme :poke: Psychological conditioning of U.S. soldiers: I Love You, Barney FBI Siege of the Branch Davidians: These Boots are made for Walkin', Nancy Sinatra Capture of Panama's Noriega: Welcome to the Jungle, Guns-n-Roses Barry Manilow and Debbie Boone, used by 7-11's to keep away loiterers, did not make the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lsits Posted November 18, 2009 Members Share Posted November 18, 2009 What? No Yoko! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members philbo Posted November 19, 2009 Members Share Posted November 19, 2009 here's my list: 1) Anything by Frankie Yankovic2) 'I will always love you' - Whitney Houston3) Yoko, especially the scat singing on Plastic Ono Band4) Any rap or hiphop of the 'Cap that whitey's ass' variety5) Debbie Gibson There are plenty more, but I suspect most people would be completely broken psychologically after about 20 hours of any of these.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted November 19, 2009 Members Share Posted November 19, 2009 If you strap me down to a chair and play non-stop Raffi or most other sing-songy children's songs, I'd probably divulge our country's top secrets within an hour, even if I didn't know any of the secrets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Wide Posted November 19, 2009 Members Share Posted November 19, 2009 20 minutes of Jewel songs where she goes into that little girl voice, I'll be confessing to whatever you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted November 19, 2009 Members Share Posted November 19, 2009 "Seasons In The Sun" by Terry Jacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cooterbrown Posted November 19, 2009 Members Share Posted November 19, 2009 Almost any new country...particularly the yowling and caterwauling by that chick from Sugarland, the emasculated whining of the Rascal Flatts singer, the atonal grunts and hoots of Toby Keith, or the dying hound delivery of Tim McGraw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted November 19, 2009 Moderators Share Posted November 19, 2009 20 minutes of Jewel songs where she goes into that little girl voice, I'll be confessing to whatever you want. Yep, that would do it for me as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Alndln2 Posted November 19, 2009 Members Share Posted November 19, 2009 What? No Yoko! This one should work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cooterbrown Posted November 19, 2009 Members Share Posted November 19, 2009 That one is tame, compared to this one:(@ 2:40 she sounds alot like SpongeBob laughing!) b9fFnVudKSI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jon Hiller Posted November 19, 2009 Members Share Posted November 19, 2009 ^^ that's just wrong. An abuse of tape, even. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jeff da Weasel Posted November 19, 2009 Members Share Posted November 19, 2009 Almost any new country...particularly the yowling and caterwauling by that chick from Sugarland, the emasculated whining of the Rascal Flatts singer, the atonal grunts and hoots of Toby Keith, or the dying hound delivery of Tim McGraw. Yes, yes, and yes! I'd rather have bamboo shoots shoved under my nails than be exposed to that stuff for long time periods. And yes, I'd prefer to listen to eight solid hours of Yoko Ono than 8 minutes of most contemporary country. Gah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members A Happy Crowd Posted November 19, 2009 Members Share Posted November 19, 2009 here's my list:1) Anything by Frankie Yankovic2) 'I will always love you' - Whitney Houston3) Yoko, especially the scat singing on Plastic Ono Band4) Any rap or hiphop of the 'Cap that whitey's ass' variety5) Debbie GibsonThere are plenty more, but I suspect most people would be completely broken psychologically after about 20 hours of any of these.... Back in 2002, Iraq held an "election" so that Saddam Hussein could claim to have his people's support and he actually used Whitney's version of "I Will Always Love You" as his official campaign song. As if it weren't bad enough that the Iraqi people were already living under his rule, they also had to endure that song being blared repeatedly on the tv and radio for weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rudolf von Hagenwil Posted November 19, 2009 Members Share Posted November 19, 2009 different culture, same list... Interrogations of Iraqi prisoners: F**k your god, Deicide Interrogations at CIA prison in Afghanistan: The Real Slim Shady, Eminem Second battle at Fallujah: Hell's Bells, AC/DC Interrogations at Gitmo: Sesame Street Theme :poke: Psychological conditioning of U.S. soldiers: I Love You, Barney FBI Siege of the Branch Davidians: These Boots are made for Walkin', Nancy Sinatra Capture of Panama's Noriega: Welcome to the Jungle, Guns-n-Roses that's the 7 songs they play at railway station here, to keep the junkies out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted November 19, 2009 Members Share Posted November 19, 2009 And yet some 1980's punk rockers claim that Yoko is the mother of punk rock... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hanshananigan Posted November 19, 2009 Members Share Posted November 19, 2009 Music becomes torturous for me when someone is giving a play-by-play about why the song is so great, for example: 1. frat boy screaming, "doode! this is the best part!" every third bar of a Dave Matthews Band song.2. pretentious jazz snob, eyes closed, moaning multisyllabic words like "inflection" in response to every rhythm change in Bitches Brew.3. bridal party huddled up singing and acting out the dialog in "Paradise by the Dashboard Lights" while a drunken uncle, who looks surprisingly like Meatloaf, largely ignored by the more genteel attendees, is scaring the flower girl with his own rendition. The psychological impact of music is largely a matter of context. -Hans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Beck Posted November 20, 2009 Members Share Posted November 20, 2009 Music becomes torturous for me when someone is giving a play-by-play about why the song is so great, for example: 1. frat boy screaming, "doode! this is the best part!" every third bar of a Dave Matthews Band song. 2. pretentious jazz snob, eyes closed, moaning multisyllabic words like "inflection" in response to every rhythm change in Bitches Brew. 3. bridal party huddled up singing and acting out the dialog in "Paradise by the Dashboard Lights" while a drunken uncle, who looks surprisingly like Meatloaf, largely ignored by the more genteel attendees, is scaring the flower girl with his own rendition. The psychological impact of music is largely a matter of context. -Hans Yep, Stuff like that is why I need my alone time... lots of me time away from the lights and noise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted November 20, 2009 Members Share Posted November 20, 2009 And yes, I'd prefer to listen to eight solid hours of Yoko Ono than 8 minutes of most contemporary country. Gah! Easily, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kerouac Posted November 20, 2009 Members Share Posted November 20, 2009 I do not support torture, but I'll happily record some clips of my beginning drum students jamming with my beginning guitar students and ask the violin teacher to lend me two or three of her beginners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted November 20, 2009 Moderators Share Posted November 20, 2009 You know, it's funny hearing that Yoko stuff... it's not half bad. B52s, Lena Lovich, some others that I can't quite recall. Who knew? Yoko was an influence! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cooterbrown Posted November 20, 2009 Members Share Posted November 20, 2009 You know, it's funny hearing that Yoko stuff... it's not half bad. B52s, Lena Lovich, some others that I can't quite recall. Who knew? Yoko was an influence! I remember reading an interview with Kate Pierson where she explicitly said that Yoko was one of her biggest influences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Duddits Posted November 20, 2009 Members Share Posted November 20, 2009 Anything by me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ani Posted November 22, 2009 Members Share Posted November 22, 2009 Not quite sure that I would say Guns n' Roses "Welcome to the Jungle" is torture music, as listed in the capture of Noriega, but to each his own. If someone were wanting to torture me, Dolly Parton for any extended amount of time would certainly do it. I can handle a small portion of her materials, but there's far too much tremolo in most of her catalog for me to enjoy. Likewise, Tiny Tim, Slim Whitman and others that over emphasize the vibrato effect annoy me as well. Willy Nelson is borderline on tolerance; I have to be in the mood to listen to him. I know I'm picking on some big named country artists, but hey, you asked. As a personal preference, I could live without any of those mentioned under my torture category. On the flip side, I could listen to almost every Guns n' Roses song without having a second thought about it. I can't really think of anything they have out that I would change a dial on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted November 22, 2009 Members Share Posted November 22, 2009 ( on Dolly Parton): I can handle a small portion of her materials, but there's far too much tremolo in most of her catalog for me to enjoy. Oh, my, was this a problem in mastering? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ani Posted November 22, 2009 Members Share Posted November 22, 2009 Oh, my, was this a problem in mastering? Never listen to her long enough to know; at least, not unless I'm forced to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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