Torture Music!
From this article in Mother Jones, here’s a selection of music used in American military prisons (from leaked docs and interviews):
Quite a bit of variety! I was hoping Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Torture Me would be on there, but oh well. Which song would break you first?
I was under the impression that Yellow Submarine had been used for similar purposes in South America (Argentina?) decades ago, but I couldn’t find a good source to verify this. If you have any insights, let me know.
So, if you’re the copyright holder on one of these songs, can you ask the military to stop using it, similar to how artists ask political campaigns to stop using their songs?
(via boing boing)
Edit:
The music won’t show up in some RSS readers, so see the original post to see the list and listen.
Also, this post uses the word ‘torture’ casually and isn’t trying to make a point about that.
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Heck, that’s a nice setlist. I like most of the stuff there.
I enjoyed about 90% of that, but the Meow Mix theme might break me.
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