Two words:
Yoko Ono.
shudder
My friend kept singing that song during our visit to Hampton Court Palace. The whole tour group ended up with it stuck in our heads! I’m surprised no one was killed.
I knew a girl in school who, for reasons of her own, burned a “torture CD”. David Bowie’s “The Laughing Gnome” was prominently featured.
Another friend liked to listen to The Stooges while working on layouts for the school paper. I think the other editors eventually made her stop.
Macarena
The Chicken Dance
LA Style - James Brown is Dead
It’s always been a personal favourite of mine for that. Used to torture my cousins with it.
On this subject, I’m reminded of a South Park episode where the ATF thinks that a local party is a Koresh style bunker house. They play Cher’s “Life After Love” claiming that no one can withstand this. Inside the party, someone decides to change the music, and they play… Cher’s “Life After Love”.
John Carpenter’s Halloween sountrack…over and over and over and over…
Now, me…I can listen to that all day, but I’ve found it does tend to creep a lot of people out.
The passive approach…Kenny G or any other new-age pseudo-jazz. They’ll be comatose in no time and your commandos can just walk right in and get em.
If you want them to just kill themselves and save you the trouble I’d go with Michael Bolton.
Death Rape 2000 by Wiseblood. The same three notes played over and over again for nine minutes.
Anything John Tesch ever recorded.
Dolly Parton’s covers of Time For Me To Fly and Stairway to Heaven.
Metal Machine by Lou Reed.
Negativeland’s No Escape From Noise album.
Give me time, and I’ll come up with a list of stuff that’ll make you claw your ears off at the mere mention of it.
“Sabre Dance '94” by Dave Edmunds - also good for apartment dwellers with thin walls who are tired of hearing the neighbors having sex.
“Cliffs Of Dover” by Eric Johnson - This one gets played at public events a lot when you’re waiting for some reason. Try listening to it more than three times in a row.
That “Hooray For Santa Claus” song from Santa Claus Conquers The Martians - this one could make the Dalai Lama snap after a while.
“I’m So Glad” - either version, Cream or Deep Purple, would do.
A group of preschooler’s singing “It’s the song that never ends”.
“999,999 Bottles of Beer on the Wall.”
Back in the early 80’s when I managed a record store and wanted to clear it out at closing time,
MX-80 Sound never failed to get us out on time.
Napalm death or Macarena looped over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over.
When I saw this thread I instantly thought of “The Safety Dance” too. I believe Dio’s “Holy Diver” would drive many insane as well.
Er, I like the S.A.F.E.T.Y. Dance.
But I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, to drive a person absolutely batty, blast Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.
Otherwise:
Informer by Snow
Too Shy by Kajagoogoo
Hi Opal by The Straight Dopes
Andy Where’s Your Kilt by Andy Stewart
Donald Where’s Your Troosers by Andy Stewart (Why no, I don’t have the CD. Why do you ask?)
You could always play Amazing Grace on the bagpipes. If that doesn’t incapacitate them to a state of soggy melancholy, I don’t know what will.
Ignacio by Vangelis (I like the music - would gladly have Vangelis’ children - but it’s very electronic in parts - might drive less appreciative ears bonkers.)
MacArthur Park by Richard Harris. Someone left that cake out in the raaaaiiiiiinnnnnnnn…
Oh, but if you want butt-kicking-commando-raid-with-style music…
How about Elgar’s Pomp & Circumstance? We all know it from graduation ceremonies, but used as raid music?
Otherwise…
Russian Easter Festival Overture also by Rimsky-Korsakov.
The Flower Duet (dome epais le jasmin) from “Lakme” by Delibes
(Curse y’all to hell and back for making those songs invade my brain shuhdder)
OK. Better now.
Do you know the way to San Jose? Preferably the Muzak version
Feelings GGAAAAHHHHHHH!!!
Rhinestone Cowboy You know it, you love it. Admit it.
What’s New Pussycat on a continuous loop
Beer Barrel Polka…shoot…ANY polka
Anything from Celine Dion
“I Wanna Talk About Me” by Toby Keith. I lived with a country music fan last summer, and this song was on the car radio far too often. I describe it as a cheese grater on the musical soul.
The entire “Oof” album by Happy Flowers.
Stockhausen’s compositions
A good bit of John Cage’s work as well.
“Sympathy for the Devil” by Laibach
Whatever it is that that stupid icecream truck plays.
What? No mention of the Benny Hill kazoo theme song? Play this over and over (and over) again and I guarantee they’ll be humming it while they beg you to kill them.
A whole album of nothing but a beginning bagpipe learner. Cranked.
I’ve heard that POW interrogators use extremely loud white noise to break some prisoners.
The Violent Femmes have some pretty obnoxious tracks involving conch shells and that deep bass 6-foot Australian flute thing.
I like the Safety Dance.