Psyop: The Love’s Not Mutual -- U.S. military is using Metallica and the ‘Barney’ theme song

Newsweek ^ | May 26, 2003 | Adam Piore

[Mister Magoo]

Psyop: The Love’s Not Mutual

The U.S. military is using Metallica and the ‘Barney’ theme song as instruments of coercion in Iraq

NEWSWEEK

May 26 issue — Your parents aren’t the only ones who hate your music—some Iraqis hate it, too. U.S. military units have been breaking Saddam supporters with long sessions in which they’re forced to listen to heavy-metal and children’s songs. “Trust me, it works,” says one U.S. operative.

[toothseaquer]

Now that you mention it, ''You Light up My life by Pat Boone's daughter would also do it for me.

[hchutch]

New Kids on the Block?

NSYNC?

Backstreet Boys?

[dighton]

"Imagine this keeps playing,
Until you spill the beans."

[Poohbah]

New Kids on the Block :o)

[gitmo]

I Love You
You Love Me
We're a Happy Family ...

[mylife]

New Kids on the Block? NSYNC? Backstreet Boys?

Thats some serious torture for those of us with 3 legs!

[small_l_libertarian]

I just realized ... I am from Tampa and have lived within 90 minutes of Disney World my entire life and have only been to Disney World that one time when I was six.

Mom wouldn't even let me go for Prom Night and I never understood why.

(Learn something new every day on FR.)

[Arpege92]

They should have used something from the Dixie Chicks....I know I can't stand it when someone is whining!!!

[Reaganesque]

In the movie "Back to the Future", didn't Marty McFly use this trick on his father? You know, the scene where he dresses up in his radiation suit and says he is "Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan" and that if his father doesn't ask his mother out to the prom that he would melt his brain with Van Halen music. Worked for him.

But, I have to agree, the Barney music is definitely up there with thumb screws and bamboo under the finger nails.

[Dan from Michigan]

They don't like metal? Black album Metallica isn't nothin. Give them the OLD Metallica. Or Iron Maiden. Or Slayer. Or give them live Ted Nugent...make sure they hear Tedly yapping before the songs...

[nutmeg]

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[Noumenon]

OK - how about "The Candy Man?" Sammy Davis Jr.

[SAJ]

Aw, geez, not THAT one.....arrrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhbarrfretch-ch-ch!

[GreyWolf]

“Trust me, it works,” says one U.S. operative.

I'll bet it does! It would sure as hell work on me. I would be screaming and singing like a canary after about 15 minutes of The Barney Song. Of course that brand of torture goes well beyond pulling out fingernails and electro-shock techniques, so it's not for the weak stomached observers.

[jriemer]

Hell, The Cult of the Viking Kitties have been using Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song to pound Trolls in to submission for years...

Valhalla, I am coming!

[hchutch]

Well, terrorists did not sign on to the Geneva Convention, so this is fair game.

[4mycountry]

Barney: Revised Version

I hate you
You hate me
We're a great big stinking fam-a-lee
With a great big punch and a kick for me and you,
Won't you say you hate me too?

[4mycountry]

My nomination:
(I don't know the name so here are the words)

I'm too sexy for my shirt!
Too sexy for my shirt!
So sexy that it hurts!


Everytime I hear that song I cry laughing....

[Constitution Day]

I think there needs to be a Viking Kitties II with "Ride of the Valkyries" as its theme.
Wouldn't that be cool?

[4mycountry]

>>>How about TV theme songs from the 60's?

The Braaaaady Bunch!
The Braaaaady Bunch!
That's the way they all became the Brady Bunch!

Sunday, Monday, Happy Days!
Tuesday, Wednesday, Happy Days!
Thursday, Friday, Happy Days!