# Music for Psychological Warfare **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 25, 2002, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474 "2002-08-25T07:39:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/43 "2002-08-27T12:49:53Z")
“Memory” from CATS. There’ s over 400 covers to choose from, including several different languages. I have a CD with 20 different versions on it, and by the end your ears hurt. A few more and they would bleed. ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/44 "2002-08-27T13:11:01Z")
Raid Music: _1812 Overture_ Drive them crazy music (ala **The Drew Cary Show** ): _Panama_ by Van Halen (The show’s use of this song by Mimi to drive Drew out of his house might have been a clever riff on the US Army’s treatment of Noriega). ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/45 "2002-08-27T13:20:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Horseflesh \* > **The Violent Femmes have some pretty obnoxious tracks involving conch shells and that deep bass 6-foot Australian flute thing.** Black Girls by Violent Femmes? Not a bad choice, but it kinda grows on you. Years of quasi-forced listening to Montréal radio means I’ve accumulated a discographic armementarium which is perfectly suited to this kind of warfare. Why the CIA hasn’t approached me to be house DJ at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is a mystery. Pulled - Facepuller Love of Three Oranges - Prokofiev Rabbi Nardoo Flagoon - Severed Heads Lena Beamish - Miranda July Subhuman - Throbbing Gristle For Kids - P-Model Good Morning, Captain - Slint Tape Machine K-4 - …Of Tanz Victims (O.K. I’m biased on this one…) You want to get as many of these on vinyl as possible and use a 9/32" drill bit to make an off-center hole in the records (this doesn’t damage the records) to simulate a warped surface. Playing on the wrong speed also has interesting possibilities. Play loud. If this doesn’t work, we’ll talk about offbeat mixing and effects generators. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/46 "2002-08-27T17:20:10Z")
My nephew sang me this one once: to the tune of glory glory halelueah "I know a song that gets on everybody’s nerves, I know a song that get’s on everybodys nerves, I know a song that get’s on everybodys nerves, and this is how it goes. I know a song that get’s on everybodys nerves I know a song that get’s on everybodys nerves I know a song that get’s on everybodys nerves and this is how it goes… ---
**Author:** ![skot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@skot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skot)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/47 "2002-08-27T17:23:33Z")
Anything by **Laibach** , specifically off their _Nova Akropola_ disc. Great for clearing out the house after a party. **Severed Heads** _Gashing the Old Mae West_ would drive anyone insane… ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/48 "2002-08-27T18:00:15Z")
I can personally vouch for this one: Pachelbel’s “Canon” played repeatedly by a 12-year-old piano student. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/49 "2002-08-27T19:03:13Z")
“Indian Love Call” by Slim Whitman. Hey, if it worked on the Martians… Also, give “99 Red Balloons” by Nena a try. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/50 "2002-08-27T19:07:13Z")
I don’t have any songs to add, but the thread title would be a great name for a compilation album. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/51 "2002-08-28T04:52:35Z")
_Blue_ by Eiffel65. “I’m blue da boo dee da boo di, da boo dee da boo di” ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/52 "2002-08-28T05:05:12Z")
That song (Whitney Houston?) And AAAIIIIIIYYYYIIIIIAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIII will always LOOOOVE YOOOOOOOOOOUUUOOOOUUUOOOOOOUUUUUUUU_urk_ Barring that, Genie in a Bottle by Christina Agulera. But then again, it might be because my kid sister listens to it all the time and sings as off-key as a five-hundred year old set of bagpipes lost in an attic for four hundred ninety-nine years and then dug out and played by a dog howling along with the music. ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/53 "2002-08-28T06:03:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Moto \* > \*\*Also, give “99 Red Balloons” by Nena a try. \*\* German or English version? **NurseCarmen** , that’s just cruel. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/54 "2002-08-28T09:54:07Z")
My college roomie swore by this one song on Carl Sagan’s Cosmos album; I think it was called the Bulgarian Shepherdess Song. She wanted to kill me every time I played it. It’s a vocal style that most people used to West European-style music either love or hate (usually the latter). ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/55 "2002-08-29T00:27:52Z")
There was also this album of Tibetan monks doing some sort of bizarre throat chanting that was used to torment people I knew in college. Lots of horrible moaning noises, then a cacophanous burst of clanging stuff. Repeat _ad nauseam_ (about three times). ---
**Author:** ![Omnipresent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8c91f0/32.png) [@Omnipresent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omnipresent)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/56 "2002-08-29T03:12:04Z")
Any RAP whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/57 "2002-08-29T16:48:17Z")
Well, I’ll volunteer to be the besieged if **Omnipresent** is in charge of the music. “Come out now! We’ll play more Public Enemy!” _Fight the power! Fight the Power!_ ---
**Author:** ![Jdeforrest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@Jdeforrest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jdeforrest)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/58 "2002-08-29T17:17:11Z")
How bout a never ending tape of karaoke. Specifically Gloria Gainer’s “I will survive.” I think I’d be willing to shove a fork in my ear after an hour or two of that. ---
**Author:** ![Ich\_Bin\_s](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Ich\_Bin\_s](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ich_Bin_s)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/59 "2002-08-29T17:20:56Z")
Eunoia, you are my new hero. Brilliant. Absofrickinlutely brilliant. I thought I was the only soul willing subject myself to Facepuller. I would mention Stretcheads, most anything by Schlong (particularly their cover of the entire West Side Story soundtrack), and a few Brainiac songs. In the snooty catagory, I have some Derek Bailey and Jerry Hemmingway stuff that’s just impossible; also a John Zorn/Fred Frith wank-fest that I can’t seem to get through. I’ve played these in the presence of others, and had a person come up to me, very seriously, and tell me that if I don’t turn it off, he’s going to punch me in the face. But the grand daddy, the ultimate the-party’s-over-go-home-now-please artist is none other than [MERZBOW](http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=603728761/pagename=/RP/CDN/FIND/discography.html/ArtistID=MERZBOW) Ahhh, the pain. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2002, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/60 "2002-08-30T18:21:07Z")
Jayne Wayne County’s “If You Don’t Want to Fuck Me, Fuck Off!” Daniel Johnston’s entire output. White Witch’s “It’s So Nice to be Stoned” Gwar ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2002, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/61 "2002-08-31T10:26:45Z")
Anything by **Neil Young** (Excuse me. I have to go puke now) ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2002, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/62 "2002-09-01T00:20:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Horseflesh \* > \*\*…that deep bass 6-foot Australian flute thing. > > \*\* It’s called a didgeridoo. Oh, and _Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass_ band playing ANYTHING would clear a hostage or siege situation pretty quickly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474.md?page=4)