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Very interesting take on this subject....your feelings????


Barry Manilow has now joined the ranks of Metallica and Barney the Dinosaur. They are all part of that exclusive group of musicians whose songs are used as torture. The controversial practice involves blasting music at ear-splitting volumes for hours on end. A truly annoying song helps. U.S. soldiers have used it on everyone from Manual Noriega to the prisoners locked up at Gitmo. Predictably, most songwriters don't dig this kind of use. It's not the kind of audience they had in mind when hoping for a hit.

Manilow hasn't made it onto the U.S. Armed Forces torture play list yet. But his songs have been picked up by city officials in Christchurch, New Zealand, who plan on blasting "Mandy" in the town mall to keep unruly kids away. Still, torture is torture whether in an Iraqi prison cell or Kiwi mall.

So now that Barry Manilow has joined the "Music as Torture" club, we thought we'd present the Top 10 List of Torture Tunes. Play them loud the next time you want those kids off your lawn.


10. Metallica
"Enter Sandman"

9. Barney the Dinosaur
"I Love You"

8. David Gray
"Babylon"

7. Britney Spears
"...Baby One More Time"

6. Barry Manilow
"Mandy"

5. Captain & Tennille
"Muskrat Love"

4. Twisted Sister
"We're Not Gonna Take It"

3. "Sesame Street" Theme

2. Neil Diamond
"America"

1. Meat Loaf
"Paradise by the Dashboard Light"

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I'd add Lamb Chop's "The Song That Never Ends" to that list. And possibly "It's a Small World" and the Smurfs theme song.

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anything Celine Dion... ashamed



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One Night in Bankok-Murray Head

Anything by Lisa Lisa.

That "I love you, always forever" song.



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disco strangler wrote:

 

anything Celine Dion... ashamed

 


Agreed.

 



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Oh, that "Woo hoo" song. (Sorry Woo, nothing against you.)

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Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry, Be Happy

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Mad Mema wrote:

Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry, Be Happy



Go figure I love that song.



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Pambo wrote:

Mad Mema wrote:

Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry, Be Happy



Go figure I love that song.


Of course you do... laughing.gif

 



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All songs Michael Bolton.



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Never Been To me - Charlene

Can;t stand that song.

Actually, the classic rock station in Harrisburg has a thing every afternoon called "Make it stop", where they play a song that once was a hit but now sounds awful and they play it until someone calls in with the correct artist and title.

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Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight

Someone should be shot for that song.

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Mad Mema wrote:

Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight

Someone should be shot for that song.



 Again...another song I like. 

Tell 'em how you feel about Madonna....



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Pambo wrote:

 

Mad Mema wrote:

Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry, Be Happy



Go figure I love that song.

 


So do I.

 



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Madonna can shove it. Better yet... Celine Dion can shove Madonna.

Like the songs or not isn't really the issue here. It's the sheer torture factor of the song in question. I like "Enter Sandman" and "Paradise By The Dashboard Light", yet I do not dispute the fact that they could be used to traumatize a person.

Being forced to listen to 'Don't Worry, Be Happy" at high volumes for hours on end would turn your brain into the equivalent of that gellatinous goo you find around a Spam.

 

 



-- Edited by Mad Mema at 11:21, 2009-03-12

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 lmao.gif

I laughed out loud at that one!  It's kinda creepy that I'm laughing like that when I'm in the house, alone.  biggrin



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Mad Mema wrote:

Madonna can shove it. Better yet... Celine Dion can shove Madonna.

Like the songs or not isn't really the issue here. It's the sheer torture factor of the song in question. I like "Enter Sandman" and "Paradise By The Dashboard Light", yet I do not dispute the fact that they could be used to traumatize a person.

Being forced to listen to 'Don't Worry, Be Happy" at high volumes for hours on end would turn your brain into the equivalent of that gellatinous goo you find around a Spam.

 

 



-- Edited by Mad Mema at 11:21, 2009-03-12

Or you might just not worry & be happy.  biggrin

Oh hey!  Maybe I like it because it's the equivalent of musical Xanax....

 



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I'm just saying that if your brain has turned to Spam goo, then you couldn't possibly be worried, you might be happy, but the greatest odds are you would be in a lithium like daze and drooling on yourself.

As far as 'Afternoon Delight', I'm all for the concept... just saying that at normal volumes the high notes send dogs into fits. Strap some poor bastage to a chair and blast that at them for hours on end... makes waterboarding look like a reasonable alternative.

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You guys ever see the SNL skit where Will Ferrell & Helen Hunt hold Hanson at gunpoint in an elevator? They put headphones on, and play MMM-Bop over and over again until the guys would feel the pain that the world felt that summer. Hysterical. I just checked Youtube, but it doesn't appear to be on there.

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I hate "Truly, Madly, Deeply" by Savage Garden and "Amgel" by Sarah McClaughlin.  Don't know why... Just something about them make me want to scream.

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You have an excellent point there, TG... I happen to like Truly, Madly, Deeply but can absolutely see where 3 or 4 times in a row would put someone over the edge.

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I can't fight this feeling any MORE
I forgot what I started fighting FOR
its time to roll up to the SHORE
through away the OAR
FOR EV OR

god almighty that has annoyed me most of my life.....

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JD The Jazz Doctor wrote:

I can't fight this feeling any MORE
I forgot what I started fighting FOR
its time to roll up to the SHORE
through away the OAR
FOR EV OR

god almighty that has annoyed me most of my life.....


It was our annoying secret requestor who annoyed me with that song!  Every - freakin - day.   no.gif

 



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Lady Strange wrote:

 

JD The Jazz Doctor wrote:

I can't fight this feeling any MORE
I forgot what I started fighting FOR
its time to roll up to the SHORE
through away the OAR
FOR EV OR

god almighty that has annoyed me most of my life.....


It was our annoying secret requestor who annoyed me with that song!  Every - freakin - day.   no.gif

 

 


Jane's Getting Serious.  Back in the days where you could request the same song once every 4 hours.  Some days I would hear it 3 times a day.  And it went on for MONTHS!

 



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laughing.gif I didn't see that one coming from you, JD... I figured you would rail off on "It's Tricky"!

"Can't Fight This Feeling" is pretty heinous. Yet, it was very popular at one point.

Bottom line, everybody is different. The key to a truly pain inducing song lies within the ears of the beholder.


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I think really, if you take any song and play it over and over again, it will become torture.

Have I mentioned Jane's Getting Serious?

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MzHartz wrote:

I think really, if you take any song and play it over and over again, it will become torture.

Have I mentioned Jane's Getting Serious?


Overplay is the main culprit for me in most cases.

 



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laughing.gif I didn't see that one coming from you, JD... I figured you would rail off on "It's Tricky"!

"Can't Fight This Feeling" is pretty heinous. Yet, it was very popular at one point.

Bottom line, everybody is different. The key to a truly pain inducing song lies within the ears of the beholder.





g gal beats tricky (back) into my head when she wants to pick on me...disbelief.gif

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laughing.gif We always know how to hurt the ones we love. When Pambo gets mad at me she Rick Rolls me or trys a Madonna sneak attack. I retalliate by leaving One Night In Bankok on her voicemail.

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You, my dear, are evil.  And this is the only finger emoticon there is....biggrin

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