# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2002, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/63 "2002-09-02T18:22:54Z")
“It’s a Small World” [Here’s a particularly “nice” version](http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Stage/7840/smallworld.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2002, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/64 "2002-09-02T23:12:54Z")
Aaah, a question I’m sorta qualified for. Toss a couple of flash-bangs while playing Carmen Burana’s _O Fortuna_ followed immediately by Verdi’s _Dies Irae_. I swear to God, this scares the hell out of me - and I’m a tough sonofabitch. Tripler And remember to double-tap 'em, too. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Asbestos_Mango)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/65 "2002-09-03T03:45:26Z")
Um, how about containing all those death-rock tunes from the late ‘50’ and early '60’s on one CK? You know what I’m talking about- “Teen Angel”, “Tell Laura I Love Her”, “Last Kill”, that sort of crap. Oh yeah, and how come nobody’s mentioned “Having My Baby” by who was it, Paul Anka and some chick? Truly wretched song. “Bodies” by the Sex Pistols. I have long harbored a fantasy of descending on a karaoke bar with a bunch of my friends, selecting the worst tunes to come out in the last fifty years or so, and seeing how long it takes to clear the joint out. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2002, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/66 "2002-09-04T18:41:41Z")
One for the sadistic moments “We Gotta Get Out of This Place” by the Animals. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2002, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/67 "2002-09-04T19:08:23Z")
“I love you… You love me… We’re a happy family…” sung by Carrot Top. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2002, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/68 "2002-09-05T01:04:30Z")
Can you imagine: “Do, a Deer, a female deer. Re, a drop of golden sun. Mi, a name, I call myself…” etc played over, and over, and over again. Who wouldn’t surrender to preserve their sanity? ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2002, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/69 "2002-09-05T04:14:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Horseflesh \* > \*\*I’ve heard that POW interrogators use extremely loud white noise to break some prisoners. > > \*\* Actually, sometimes it’s screaming babies and shrieking women. Most (well, all) guys can’t take it for more than a few hours, on top of all the other stuff they’re doing to you. This is info from SERE school SEAL training. ---
**Author:** ![DarkJudicator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@DarkJudicator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkJudicator)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2002, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/70 "2002-09-05T08:06:36Z")
If we’re going for hardcore “we’re opening a can of whoop-ass on ya!” mode, then I’d have to second _Flight of the Valkyries_ and _Bodies_, and probably the _1812 Overture_ as well. There’s not much that tells you all hell’s about to break loose quite like “Kill da wabbit! Kill da wabbit!” … erm… I mean, “LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR!”. I’d add _Don’t Tread on Me_ and _Battery_ by **Metallica** to the list, and _Edgecrusher_ by **Fear Factory**. For “we’re gonna play this until your brain falls out your ears and forms a little puddle on the ground” sadism… have you guys ever heard of **Frente**? These people had the nerve to attempt a cover of New Order’s _Bizarre Love Triangle_ with cutesy female vocals, but that wasn’t their worst offence. If you ever of a song of theirs called _Accidentally Kelly Street_, for the love of Og don’t subject yourself to it. Save it for someone who deserves true pain. And as much as I love the Animaniacs, any of their songs would start to make me homicidal after the twentieth repetition or so. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/71 "2002-09-06T01:59:30Z")
**Sleater-Kinney** , mixed up with **Yoko Ono** , over and over and over, oh no! :eek: Should prove effective with your standard-issue Al Qaeda types, who can’t abide the presence (or shrieking, angry voices) of strange women, anyway. Although **The Buzzcocks** ’s “Orgasm Addict” would be disturbing, too. Maybe alternated with **Billy Squier** ’s “Stroke Me”. Ugh. Just keep the Red Cross observers out of earshot. ---
**Author:** ![domesticatedjunglefowl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@domesticatedjunglefowl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/domesticatedjunglefowl)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/72 "2002-09-06T18:14:45Z")
michael bolton…covered by the barking dog of ‘jingle bells fame’ or maybe michael jackson’s great hits covered by the the cat from the ‘meow mix’ commercial ---
**Author:** ![domesticatedjunglefowl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@domesticatedjunglefowl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/domesticatedjunglefowl)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/73 "2002-09-06T18:20:07Z")
michael bolton…covered by the barking dog of ‘jingle bells fame’ or maybe michael jackson’s great hits covered by the the cat from the ‘meow mix’ commercial ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2002, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/74 "2002-09-07T03:01:50Z")
**Tuckerfan** it’s nowhere near as bad as Burdon and the Animals doing “Monterey” (sic). A local station used to play that one periodically for some reason, I can remember getting carsick when it would come on. ---
**Author:** ![tetsusaru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f14d63/32.png) [@tetsusaru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tetsusaru)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2002, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/75 "2002-09-07T14:52:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by EJsGirl \* > \*\* > > Actually, sometimes it’s screaming babies and shrieking women. Most (well, all) guys can’t take it for more than a few hours, on top of all the other stuff they’re doing to you. > > This is info from SERE school SEAL training. \*\* Screaming babies and shrieking women? tetsusaru, his nerves hardened to steel cables by 5 years of marriage and 5 months of fatherhood, yawns, farts, scratches his crotch, and gets himself another beer as the SWAT team outside are reduced to whimpering jellies, hoist by their own petard. Urp! ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2002, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474/76 "2002-09-07T15:34:55Z")
Find NPR, and play “Hearts from Space.” It’s two hours of bizzare Electronica/New Age stuff. Scares the crap out of me on long drives. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-for-psychological-warfare/125474.md?page=3)