Comments on: Mr. Scalia’s iPod

By: gnaddrig

gnaddrig — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:52:53 +0000

I bet they have enough sick minds on their various payrolls to come up with more than just turning torture sessions into a mockery of cultural events for the edification of the participants. I’m not sure I want to know.

Another sort of music that could be used - but this might be giving them ideas again. Forget it.

By: Dr Paisley

Dr Paisley — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:30:52 +0000

“American Pie” is clever, but Matchbox 20 comes much closer to the right idea. The blunt force trauma is all wrong, you want to break them down subtly. A playlist of Air Supply, Little River Band, Styx, Bread, Rick Astley and Barry Manilow will achieve the desired goal. And for the holdouts, there’s always the ultimate weapon—Kenny G!

By: Kilgore Trout

Kilgore Trout — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:20:01 +0000

I just wanted to comment on the fact that this is the first time I’ve seen an Anal Cunt reference in a very long time, um… thanks?

and I’ll thrown in Job For a Cowboy, or anything of the genre Grindcore. I’d confess if I had to listen to that for more than 45 seconds, but to each their own I guess, some people enjoy that form of torture.

I’m with the Cat, don’t give them ideas.

By: schrödinger's cat

schrödinger's cat — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:34:08 +0000

Gnaddrig: man, don’t give them ideas!

By: gnaddrig

gnaddrig — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:41:21 +0000

Torturees have a right to being treated in a professional manner. Simply blowing out their eardrums with bad music played too loud just won’t do. If you were a terrorist, wouldn’t you hate having to give away your trade secrets to a gang of over-enthusiastic amateurs? Wouldn’t you much rather do business with skilled professionals that take pride in a job well done?

Anyway, much more important than the repertoire is the delivery of the music. I suggest using professional DJs in torture sessions. Torturer(s) and DJ would form a stable partnership, becoming a team greater than the sum of its constituent members, a fine-tuned tool for the extraction of information.

Everyone knows how music can be used in movies to increase the tension, or to relax, to reassure, and to shake the recipients again. A good DJ could make qualified choices of when to play which song at what volume, add sound effects, pick up - hmm - the mood on the floor, play on the anxieties, hopes, tensions of torturee and torturers alike. A good DJ would make each torture session a unique and memorable event. The session would of course be recorded, and all participants could then receive a copy of the soundtrack (on request the screams of the torturee could be included as well).

I think the playlist given on Mother Jones is quite ok for the purpose. But if you insist on suggestions for more music, I’d add some Slipknot, maybe a bit of Richard Wagner and certainly Agadoo by Black Lace (both to induce and drown out screams).