# What kind of "terrorist torture" music would you actually enjoy? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 18, 2014, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-terrorist-torture-music-would-you-actually-enjoy/679139 "2014-01-18T10:12:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-terrorist-torture-music-would-you-actually-enjoy/679139/1 "2014-01-18T10:12:28Z")
The scenario: You’re trapped in the Branch Davidian compound at Waco, or you’re Manuel Noriega in the final days of his regime, or perhaps you’re merely being held at Guantanamo and due to the new P/C rules about delivering torture the worst things your captors can do is play loud music you hate. Which kind of music repeated over and over again would you actually enjoy, _a la_ B’rer Rabbit in the briar patch? ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-terrorist-torture-music-would-you-actually-enjoy/679139/2 "2014-01-18T12:30:54Z")
If by Country music you mean the typical 70’s 80’s dreck stuff, then it would be all over in 3 minutes. I think that modern classical orchestral would be a pretty powerful psyche weapon ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-terrorist-torture-music-would-you-actually-enjoy/679139/3 "2014-01-18T12:45:02Z")
Dude, Boyz II Men is about the opposite of “hip-hop/gangsta rap”. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-terrorist-torture-music-would-you-actually-enjoy/679139/4 "2014-01-18T12:57:14Z")
> [@casdave](#): > > If by Country music you mean the typical 70’s 80’s dreck stuff, then it would be all over in 3 minutes. I was specifically thinking of Billy Ray Cyrus’ “Achy Breaky Heart” which is a standard torture device. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Elemenopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5e925/32.png) [@Elemenopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elemenopy)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-terrorist-torture-music-would-you-actually-enjoy/679139/5 "2014-01-18T13:12:03Z")
I picked Tejano/Salsa. I got addicted to Cumbia and Plena a while back; if you include the Cuban jazz stuff, my “Latin” playlists probably outnumber all other categories. 🙂 They really used that stuff for torture, or is that just your choice? I could also live with New Wave for a long time. (No Depeche Mode, though. Hubby’s favorite band, still, and it is approaching torture for me.) ---
**Author:** ![gracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@gracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gracer)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-terrorist-torture-music-would-you-actually-enjoy/679139/6 "2014-01-18T13:47:58Z")
“Other” I admit it: I am a dirty atheist communist trying to overthrow the government and my comrades are hiding under the bed. Please just turn that music off! ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-terrorist-torture-music-would-you-actually-enjoy/679139/7 "2014-01-18T15:32:00Z")
I’m not sure which category the Allman Brothers Band ought to be in so I’ll just say I could listen to _Stormy Monday_ from **Live at the Fillmore East** as loud as they could play it – from now on. Also any hard bop or cool jazz. Especially Miles doing anything. And Deodato. ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-terrorist-torture-music-would-you-actually-enjoy/679139/8 "2014-01-18T15:53:48Z")
Any Beatles stuff - I could listen to a number of their albums (Rubber Soul, Revolver, Abbey Road, etc) on repeat pretty much indefinitely. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-terrorist-torture-music-would-you-actually-enjoy/679139/9 "2014-01-19T03:33:57Z")
Hate tejano, like quite a bit of salsa. Dislike most heavy metal, enjoy some hard rock. And, it’s just called “Country.” So, you’re categories aren’t working for me. But I’d say there are songs in each of your categories that would be non-torturous. “Country” would be the least likely to be non-torturous for me – in other words, most likely to be torturous. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2014, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-terrorist-torture-music-would-you-actually-enjoy/679139/10 "2014-01-19T03:40:42Z")
The 80s, but only for a limited period. 1980-1989 was far too long, for instance. With anything that is repeated I’m crazy by about the third rotation and killing by the fifth. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-terrorist-torture-music-would-you-actually-enjoy/679139/11 "2014-01-20T19:40:35Z")
I could take all of that. What I can’t take is easy listening or adult contemporary. Celine Dion, Michael Bolton, Kenny G. ARRRRRGGGHH! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-terrorist-torture-music-would-you-actually-enjoy/679139/12 "2014-01-20T19:50:29Z")
> [@Blackberry](#): > > Dude, Boyz II Men is about the opposite of “hip-hop/gangsta rap”. Maybe he meant Boyz II Men _doing_ “hip-hop/gangsta rap”…in which case _I_ would be surrendering, ratting out my team mates, and converting to whatever religion they want me to follow. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2014, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-terrorist-torture-music-would-you-actually-enjoy/679139/13 "2014-01-20T21:29:41Z")
I love New Wave and Hard Rock, and if they did Broadway Showtunes, I’d love it.