Musicians don’t want tunes used for torture

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Nine Inch Nails, even ‘Sesame Street’ theme used for interrogations
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28144557/

Blaring from a speaker behind a metal grate in his tiny cell in Iraq, the blistering rock from Nine Inch Nails hit Prisoner No. 200343 like a sonic bludgeon.

“Stains like the blood on your teeth,” Trent Reznor snarled over distorted guitars. “Bite. Chew.”

The auditory assault went on for days, then weeks, then months at the U.S. military detention center in Iraq. Twenty hours a day. AC/DC. Queen. Pantera. The prisoner, military contractor Donald Vance of Chicago, told The Associated Press he was soon suicidal.

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Now the detainees aren’t the only ones complaining. Musicians are banding together to demand the U.S. military stop using their songs as weapons.

A campaign being launched Wednesday has brought together groups including Massive Attack and musicians such as Tom Morello, who played with Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave and is now on a solo tour. It will feature minutes of silence during concerts and festivals, said Chloe Davies of the British law group Reprieve, which represents dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees and is organizing the campaign.

[1620rock]

1. Sick bastards.

[RandomThoughts]

2. Nothing should be used for torture.

Torture is wrong.

I think songs should be used for love, they can give such comfort.

However I also believe the songs were given to singers for a purpose, I think many things in the world are mused to people for a bigger reason. Maybe one person alone needs to hear an uplifting song, and God knew that the voice of a particular singer, would lift their spirits out of sorrow.

Things like that. I know music has helped me out of sorrow, and let me see the beauty of all of the creation of God.

I think songs that would torture, may have elements of darker spirits in them. Most have both sides, but some are like 99% great, and some are 99% bad. Of coarse this is just my view on it.


Hard to say the songs actually belong to anyone.

[BeatleBoot]

3. I think Ted Nugent wouldn't be one of them.

Just guessing.

Since his ramblings are left to only torture me.

[panader0]

4. I thought this was about Barry Manilow.

[EFerrari]

7. . . .

:spank:

lol

[exboyfil]

5. The state used classical music in A Clockwork Orange

Would Fiddler on the Roof be more effective? How about some real Yiddish music?

[lurky]

6. Did anyone see "Standard Operating Procedure"?

The Earl Morris doc about Abu Graib? One of the guards was commenting that they tried a bunch of different songs to use on the prisoners. They started with "Hip Hop Hurray", which the prisoners actually liked and chanted along to, so then they went to "Enter Sandman" by Metallica, which the prisoners again started to like after a while. Finally they started playing country music, which caused the prisoners to completely break down after prolonged exposure. I thought that was interesting and amusing.

[spin]

8. Hell, if the government would pay me enough money...

I'll sign a few songs. (Now that would be real torture!)