“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.
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).
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.
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…
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…
I can personally vouch for this one: Pachelbel’s “Canon” played repeatedly by a 12-year-old piano student.
“Indian Love Call” by Slim Whitman.
Hey, if it worked on the Martians…
Also, give “99 Red Balloons” by Nena a try.
I don’t have any songs to add, but the thread title would be a great name for a compilation album.
Blue by Eiffel65. “I’m blue da boo dee da boo di, da boo dee da boo di”
That song (Whitney Houston?)
And AAAIIIIIIYYYYIIIIIAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIII will always LOOOOVE YOOOOOOOOOOUUUOOOOUUUOOOOOOUUUUUUUUurk
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.
German or English version?
NurseCarmen, that’s just cruel.
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).
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).
Any RAP whatsoever.
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!
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.
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
Ahhh, the pain.
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
Anything by Neil Young
(Excuse me. I have to go puke now)
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.