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« on: December 09, 2008, 07:17:58 pm »

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.

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.....

The writer of Barney's "I Love You" theme is upset the song is being played at Gitmo to break prisoners. He wrote in a newspaper column, "Any music can become unbearable if played loudly for long stretches."
(They also used Sesame street music.)

"It's absolutely ludicrous," he wrote in the Los Angeles Times. "A song that was designed to make little children feel safe and loved was somehow going to threaten the mental state of adults and drive them to the emotional breaking point?"

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« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2008, 08:32:11 am »

That would make me go nuts for sure!  fool
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« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2008, 09:14:30 am »

The Barney song? Or another group they listed?
I listen to some of the music the mention, not over and over again though.  Cheesy
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« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2008, 09:32:22 am »

Any song over and over again would drive me nuts.  Cheesy
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