Musicians don’t want tunes used for torture (Musicians admit their music is torture)

MSNBC ^ | 12/9/2008 | ap

[tobyhill]

Blaring from a speaker behind a metal grate in his tiny cell in Iraq, the blistering rock from Nine Inch Nails hit Prisoner No. 200343 like a sonic bludgeon.

“Stains like the blood on your teeth,” Trent Reznor snarled over distorted guitars. “Bite. Chew.”

The auditory assault went on for days, then weeks, then months at the U.S. military detention center in Iraq. Twenty hours a day. AC/DC. Queen. Pantera. The prisoner, military contractor Donald Vance of Chicago, told The Associated Press he was soon suicidal.

[mysterio]

I don’t think they admitted that at all.

[KoRn]

If someone tied me up and turned up some music by REM, country, rap, or bluegrass, I would probably sing like a bird and tell my interrogators everything they wanted to know.

[Redcitizen]

That lends credence to the talk about how heavy metal in the 80’s was the cause of antisocial behavior and other destructive behavior.

[ClaudiusI]

Great, now I can't get Head Like A Hole out of my head.
Interesting, it seems to be about Obama.
Head like a hole/ Black as your Soul/ I'd rather die/ Than give you control
Bow down to the one you serve/ You're going to get what you deserve.

[HelloooClareece]

Well, if pop culture is killing the souls of our citizens we may as well share it with the radicals.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

My ‘torture music’ would be rap and ‘Southern (white) gospel’. Other than that.....I’m very diverse. ;) Oh.........I just forgot. Experimental jazz on a saxophone is torturous. Honking geese is all I can think of.

[Old Sarge]

Then-BG James Dozier was tortured by the Red Brigades with Wendy Williams and the Plasmatics.

I could be happy with AC/DC or Bluegrass. No issues there.

But I would self-medicate if I was forced to hear Street Master Bling-dawg Tre-Dre Bodacious T all day and night...

[Charlespg]

Napoleon XIV

[null and void]

With the exception of the Barney song and a few others I haven’t heard it sounds like my normal listening music to me...

[Mr_Moonlight]

Spinal Tap - Heavy Duty

I get the rock and roll and that'll be my life
No page in history baby- that, I don't need
I just want to make some eardrums bleed
Heavy, duty
Heavy duty rock and roll

[billorites]

Oh, for the love of God!
Please stop!

[Frantzie]

Be-bop 1950s jazz with wacky sax work - yeah that would suck. Sort of a music dead zone between big band 1940s and 1950s early rock and roll.

[edh]

Yes. All of that Megadeth, Iron Maiden, and Metallica I listened to growing up while programming computers made me a maniacal, ruthless, Conservative engineer.

While I cannot dismiss evidence showing that music can influence people for the worse, it is complete nonsense to group a complete genre of music into one that promotes “antisocial and other destructive behavior”. Ultimately, it is the individual that has problems, not the music.

[Freedom_Fighter_2001]

Big Bottom

Talk about mud flaps my girl’s got’em

[darkangel82]

That lends credence to the talk about how heavy metal in the 80’s was the cause of antisocial behavior and other destructive behavior.

Uh, no, it doesn't.

[Frantzie]

I could handle TNT by AC DC and a lot of Queen because Brian May is a great guitarist.

[null and void]

Odd. That song and the same connection have been running through my head all day too.

[Mr_Moonlight]

Why waste good music on the brain ??

Spinal Tap Heavy Duty

heheheheeee ... great lyrics :)

[Firefigher NC]

A bit of a disturbing article. Says a US contractor was held in military prison because of something they suspected his employers of doing, then eventually released him, but bottom line is an innocent man was subjected to rather brutal treatment.