Music that has been used to torture: Pick the *MOST* torturous!

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Source: http://www.reprieve.org.uk/Press_stop_torture_music.htm

Music that has been used to torture includes...

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Barney the Purple Dinosaur - theme tune	8
Limp Bizkit	4
Don McLean - American Pie	3
Red Hot Chili Peppers	3
David Gray - Babylon	2
Saliva - Click Click Boom	2
Meat Loaf	2
Prince - Raspberry Beret	2
Metallica - Enter Sandman	1
Neil Diamond - America	1
Drowning Pools - Bodies	1
Matchbox Twenty - Gold	1
AC/DC - Shoot to Thrill	1
Aerosmith	1
Sesame Street - theme tune	1
Christina Aguilera - Dirrty	1
Eminem - Slim Shady	1
Nine Inch Nails - March of the Pigs	0
Rage Against the Machine - Killing in the Name Of	0
Nine Inch Nails - Mr. Self-Destruct	0
Queen - We are The Champions	0
Li'l Kim	0
Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive	0
Britney Spears	0
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA	0
Deicide - Fuck Your God	0
Dope - Die MF Die	0
Dope - Take Your Best Shot	0
Dr. Dre	0
Eminem - Kim	0
AC/DC - Hell's Bells	0
Eminem - White America	0
Tupac - All Eyes on Me	0

― ilxor, Monday, 16 February 2009 07:54 (seventeen years ago)

No idea what to even vote for, or what will win...

― ilxor, Monday, 16 February 2009 07:56 (seventeen years ago)

What's worse: Being driven insane by music you like or by music you hate?

― slacki (libcrypt), Monday, 16 February 2009 07:58 (seventeen years ago)

How unfortunate that Death Cab for Cutie is not on this list.

― drainCosmetics, Monday, 16 February 2009 08:01 (seventeen years ago)

drowning pool

― Charlie Howard, Monday, 16 February 2009 08:45 (seventeen years ago)

I'm sure David Gray must be banned under the Geneva Convention?

― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Monday, 16 February 2009 08:46 (seventeen years ago)

It's amazing how prosaic most of that list is. I would have thought they would have went for something a little more left field like Merzbow or Ryoji Ikeda.

― Shallow Gravy (Billy Dods), Monday, 16 February 2009 10:17 (seventeen years ago)

RASPBERRY BERET. Jesus, i hope that never happens to me. that song really drills itself into your head, I can only imagine the nasty little thought loops you'd get stuck in after 8 hours of that at high volume.

― Mirror-spangled elephant head (J@cob), Monday, 16 February 2009 10:35 (seventeen years ago)

Uh, fuck, gotta be AC/DC. I feel grumpy just seeing their name.

― i'm shy (Abbott), Monday, 16 February 2009 18:43 (seventeen years ago)

American Pie

― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Monday, 16 February 2009 18:45 (seventeen years ago)

I have found from having to listen to Muzak that there's this arch with any song:

1 week of a song you really hate: hate it
Weeks 2-4: A visceral anger at hearing the damn song or even thinking about it
4 weeks +: the song has become part of your bloodstream and seems profoundly connected to you
Last stage: embrace of the song and everything about it

This is from listening to the song once every four hours: I imagine the progression would be sped rapidly were it on repeat. Eventually I think it would just become nothing.

― i'm shy (Abbott), Monday, 16 February 2009 18:48 (seventeen years ago)

American Pie

― O Supermanchiros (blueski), Monday, February 16, 2009 12:45 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― horseshoe, Monday, 16 February 2009 18:50 (seventeen years ago)

i'm torn between/by "we're the champions" and "born in the you ess ay"

― t**t, Monday, 16 February 2009 19:36 (seventeen years ago)

I once attended an artist's aural reconstruction of the Waco siege which featured the FBI's remix of These Boots Are Made For Walkin', which they slowed down and sped up at random points. It sounded immense - hilarious and terrifying and really exciting all at the same time. Not that it's on the list.

― Dorianlynskey, Monday, 16 February 2009 19:40 (seventeen years ago)

the idea of saliva's click click boom becoming a part of my bloodstream is horrifying

― vergangenheitsbewaeltigung (later arpeggiator), Monday, 16 February 2009 19:47 (seventeen years ago)

1 week of a song you really hate: hate it
Weeks 2-4: A visceral anger at hearing the damn song or even thinking about it
4 weeks +: the song has become part of your bloodstream and seems profoundly connected to you
Last stage: embrace of the song and everything about it

You would make a much better potential terrorist than I. Based on past experience - crappy office job where "lite rock less talk" was enforced listening, I never got to your last stage, I made increasingly more desperate attempts to turn off the radio or change the station and took more smoke breaks.

― candy corn for lunch and dinner (sarahel), Monday, 16 February 2009 20:26 (seventeen years ago)

When General Noriega took sanctuary in a Panamanian church, the liberators from El Norte blasted "Welcome To The Jungle" nonstop,so the priests would kick him out. It worked.

― dow, Monday, 16 February 2009 23:39 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Saturday, 21 February 2009 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

Many of these songs are quite charming, let's see Neil Diamond very nice, Eminem clever and effervescent, hm, la la la , Hell's Bells I quite like that DAVID GRAY AUGH FUCK ME I'VE CHEWED OFF MY OWN HINDQUARTER

― Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt, Saturday, 21 February 2009 04:36 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Sunday, 22 February 2009 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

Barney deserves it!

― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Sunday, 22 February 2009 02:16 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

They really missed out by not using Yoko Ono's "Don't Worry Kyoko".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swG6Rry9Tss

― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 12 January 2013 17:08 (thirteen years ago)

lol

― Cunga, Saturday, 12 January 2013 19:33 (thirteen years ago)

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