# needed: songs used by the U.S gov't for psychological torture **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 8, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-songs-used-by-the-u-s-govt-for-psychological-torture/186945 "2003-07-08T05:02:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-songs-used-by-the-u-s-govt-for-psychological-torture/186945/21 "2003-07-09T07:40:39Z")
Hate to say it, but [DOKAKA](http://artists.iuma.com/dl/DOKAKA/) could have easily fit the bill… > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Humungus \* > **I want to know because burning a CD of songs that our gov’t has used as psychological weapons would be…pretty cool.** Why you little…now _I’m_ inspired to make a similar mix-tape, myself!! 😉 > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Dooku_ > **Dalooth, I’m not sure about AC/DC, but I do know that the Army was blasting Enter Sandman by Metallica during prisoner interrogation…Apparently Lars Ulrich wasn’t too happy about it.** It would have been funnier if the Army had gotten the songs from Napster in the first place… (P.S. Lars is a whiny bitch, isn’t he?) ---
**Author:** ![tailake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tailake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tailake)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-songs-used-by-the-u-s-govt-for-psychological-torture/186945/22 "2003-07-09T07:48:06Z")
Didn’t anyone read that article i Newsweek that said they were using Metallica and the theme from Barney ( the purple dinosaur) to break down Iraqi interogees… They alluded to the fact that people unaccustomed to heavy metal break down very quickly, and that the Barney theme makes people crazy the world over ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-songs-used-by-the-u-s-govt-for-psychological-torture/186945/23 "2003-07-09T07:55:41Z")
I heard that as well. ---
**Author:** ![dopetalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@dopetalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dopetalker)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-songs-used-by-the-u-s-govt-for-psychological-torture/186945/24 "2003-07-09T08:15:39Z")
If you want a torturous song to inflict on someone try a dozens-of-decibels-strong version of that unbelievably embellished guitar-string distortion of “The Star Spangled Banner” that takes five times as long as the normal percussion waltz-style. Not that I don’t like it-I love it! But an enemy from whom we’d need information or compliance of some kind would cooperate in a second after hearing this over and over in a sound proof cell for several three hour periods. ---
**Author:** ![Shrinking\_Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Shrinking\_Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shrinking_Violet)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-songs-used-by-the-u-s-govt-for-psychological-torture/186945/25 "2003-07-09T11:11:00Z")
If I really _hated_ a neighbour I’d play KLF’s “What Time Is Love?” at ear-splitting volume through the wall - pure “audio-PMS”. 😃 Julie ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-songs-used-by-the-u-s-govt-for-psychological-torture/186945/26 "2003-07-09T11:45:37Z")
How about “Hit me baby, one more time”? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-songs-used-by-the-u-s-govt-for-psychological-torture/186945/27 "2003-07-09T13:23:43Z")
Christina Aguilera’s Beutiful, or any recent No Doubt Songs, or just stick a boom box set to any pop/Top 40 station in there for a couple of hours and let the DJ’s pick out the songs for them, since that seem to be what they do all day anyways. ---
**Author:** ![CastleAnthrax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@CastleAnthrax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CastleAnthrax)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-songs-used-by-the-u-s-govt-for-psychological-torture/186945/28 "2003-07-09T14:43:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dutchboy208 \* > \*\*I can’t imagine that any human could survive more than one play of “my heart will go on”… \*\* At a flea market a couple years ago where we were set up as vendors, the guy across from us selling Peruvian imports had a set of CDs of pan flute music. One was of cover tunes, including That One. It was worse than the original. They also featured some Michael Bolton. Over and over. My heart very nearly did not go on. HennaDancer [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/needed-songs-used-by-the-u-s-govt-for-psychological-torture/186945.md?page=1)