The Songs Used by The CIA for Torture

[okaawhatever]

For those wondering which songs the CIA played as part of their torture program, here is the list per the Houston Chronicle:

Staying Alive by the Bee Gee's
I Love You the Barney Song
The Meow Mix Commercial
Real Slim Shady by Eminem
March of Pigs by Nine Inch Nails
Enter Sandman by Metallica
Baby, One More Time by Brittney Spears
Bodies by Drowning Pool
Babylon by David Grey
F@#k Your God by Deicide
We Are The Champions by Queen
The Beautiful People by Marilyn Manson
Take Your Best Shot by Dope
Zikrayti by Mohamed al-Qasabgi
Various Sesame Street Songs


Various Songs by These Artists:

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Prince
Tupac Shakur's record All Eyez on Me
Aerosmith

http://www.chron.com/entertainment/music/article/CIA-used-musical-earworms-to-interrogate-terror-5948006.php?cmpid=rrhoustontx#photo-5829123

[shenmue]

1. Prince?

Prince is awesome!

[VanillaRhapsody]

2. OMG....I would have told them anything they wanted to know....

[sakabatou]

3. All of these artists should sue

I don't think any of them would want this.

[vanlassie]

4. I Love Babylon!

[okaawhatever]

14. Me too, I wondered how that one made the list....

[Recursion]

6. Doesn't that count as an unlicensed public performance?

I'm not kidding. That might be an avenue to take.

[pinboy3niner]

7. I'm surprised they didn't go with It's A Small World After All

People have won damages from Disney after getting stuck in the ride with the music running.

And I may catch hell here just for mentioning the song.

[OnyxCollie]

8. Skinny Puppy was used to torture Guantanamo prisoners.

Metal band Skinny Puppy send US government invoice after finding out their music was 'used as torture device in Guantanamo Bay'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/weird-news/metal-band-skinny-puppy-send-us-government-invoice-after-finding-out-their-music-was-used-as-torture-device-in-guantanamo-bay-9100005.html

"We heard through a reliable grapevine that our music was being used in Guantanamo Bay prison camps to musically stun or torture people," founder cEvin Key told the Phoenix New Times. "We heard that our music was used on at least four occasions."

~snip~

"So we thought it would be a good idea to make an invoice to the US government for musical services," Key added. "Thus the concept of the {band's new} record title, Weapons."

~snip~

Asked how he felt about their songs allegedly being used in the detention camp, Key replied: "Not too good. We never supported those types of scenarios. … Because we make unsettling music, we can see it being used in a weird way. But it doesn’t sit right with us."

...

I used to play Skinny Puppy to get people to leave after parties.

[Warren DeMontague]

13. Yep.

Had a roommate who liked them, back in the day.

To say it was not my speed would be a monumental understatement.

[NBachers]

9. We're so sorry, Ted- you didn't make the cut

[pinboy3niner]

11. He didn't make their first list because he was #2

[OnyxCollie]

17. Ted's on the jukebox in the officer's lounge.

[DrDan]

10. I am surprised that I do not see klezmer, yiddish folk songs and the like on that list

[Warren DeMontague]

12. Imagine the bonanza they could have reaped, had Nickelback already hit their stride.

[L0oniX]

15. No classics like Farmer in the Dell or Turkey in the Straw, Mary had a Little Lamb???

[Lurks Often]

16. NOOOO, Not the Barney Song!!!

I'd give up my own family not to hear the Barney song

[OnyxCollie]

18. Arnold Schoenberg twelve-tone serial music on a skipping CD.

Death can't come soon enough.

[Ron Obvious]

19. The meow mix song, eh?

Tortured prisoners, screaming in agony, while we hear "miaow miaow miaow miaow-miaow, etc, etc..." in the background makes for an arresting mental imagine.

An artistic tribute to the absurd horror of the whole situation you might almost say.