Comments on: Heart-ache: U.S. soldier cops to playing “Happy Flowers” during Iraq interrogations

By: Emmett J.

Emmett J. — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:53:17 +0000

Save the Children?

By: Alarming News

Alarming News — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 10:14:54 +0000

Hip torture…

The WFMU blog posts a letter from a soldier in Iraq about his torture technique. I can hear Andrew Sullivan sobbing from here. Hat-tip Peter. UPDATE: I thought the hipster, WFMU-blog reading boyfriend was giving me a previously unlinked story……

By: Buck Turgidson

Buck Turgidson — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 03:45:33 +0000

I question the (song’s) timing.

By: F15Mech

F15Mech — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:49:37 +0000

On the Heart-ache-ometer

I just spent the last 2 days (with my bro and sis-in-law) in a car with my 7-mo niece and 3 yr old nephew.

Talk about torture.

As much as I love them, I would gladly listen to Happy Flowers for a couple of hours, over another road trip with my niece and nephew.

By: CanuckInPA

CanuckInPA — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 19:04:31 +0000

‘Muskrat Love’ always worked for interrogating bad guys back in my days as a cop! ;-)

By: Gottafang

Gottafang — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 18:34:39 +0000

Just played the clip for my 10-year-old daughter. She thought it was hilarious and asked if it could be put on her iPod.

iTunes store is temporarily unavailable right now. Hmmmm. . .

By: TugboatPhil

TugboatPhil — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:23:38 +0000

Or “Una Paloma Blanca” by Slim Whitman?

profitsbeard on January 13, 2007 at 11:10 AM

Slim was pretty lethal to those Martians, in Mars Attacks!!

By: profitsbeard

profitsbeard — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:10:33 +0000

Psyops will never be the same.

What ever happened to good old tunes like “Weasels Ripped My Flesh” by Zappa? (Purportedly what broke Dick “Turbin” Durbin permanently back in 1982.)

Or “Una Paloma Blanca” by Slim Whitman?

(Yodeling can fry the avergae human cortex in minutes.)

Or “You And Me Against The Word”? (Preferably the kazoo band version.)

If they could blare Happy Flowers along the entire Iranian border for a month straight maybe we’d be getting somehwere with Mahmoud and the mad mullahs.

No krytons could withstand the ultrasonics for long.

As Shakespeare put it: “Play On“!

By: Tony737

Tony737 — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 15:58:05 +0000

Well, hey, at least they didn’t make ‘em watch “The View”!

15 seconds of that and you’ve got my car keys, my ATM card, and my 401(K). “Take it! Take it all! Just please turn off that horrible noise!”

Rosie and Joy, both talkin’ at the same time! ACK!

By: serenity

serenity — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 15:29:35 +0000

Music soothes the savage beast…

By: Spiny Norman

Spiny Norman — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 06:01:24 +0000

Fish Heads?

I took a Fish head
out to see a movie
Didn’t have to pay
to get it in…

By: major john

major john — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 05:54:34 +0000

Shoulda tried Barry Manilow – Mandy would have broken him in half the time.

jeffshultz on January 12, 2007 at 4:44 PM

Hey, pal. We’ve got some mercy in us…heh.

By: Patrick Chester

Patrick Chester — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 03:46:52 +0000

Mildly amusing, though I can see how it would get on people’s nerves after about thirty seconds or so.

(…at least it wasn’t “Fish Heads”)

By: Spiny Norman

Spiny Norman — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 02:49:35 +0000

Did anyone else hear the “brown note” in there?

8^(

By: auspatriotman

auspatriotman — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 01:39:20 +0000

But they’re using “the children” to make them talk and that’s just not very Leftish. Is it?

By: austinnelly

austinnelly — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:54:09 +0000

Dude, does Hillary Clinton know we’re using her voice to break the terrorists?

Pretty funny stuff. I think I’d compromise with my interrogators; stop playing this and you can flush me down the toilet.

By: Daily Pundit » Quick! Somebody Alert Andrew Sullivan

Daily Pundit » Quick! Somebody Alert Andrew Sullivan — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:53:16 +0000

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By: Ugly

Ugly — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:50:08 +0000

Mr Bungle: Ma Meeska Mow Skwoz (the demo version) would be my choice of auditory assault.

By: BacaDog

BacaDog — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:44:51 +0000

Melt Banana is another good band when it comes to making entertainingly awful “music.”

Melt Banana? Good Lord, I guess I am old.

By: Jack Deth

Jack Deth — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:18:38 +0000

Musically, I’d have opted for:

Jamie Brockett’s “The Ballad of the USS Titanic”
Anne Murray’s “Teddy Bears’ Picnic”
Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”
Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s “Carn Evil #9″
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s “Suite Judy Blue Eyes”
Procol Harum’s “Whiter Shade Of Pale”
Harry Chapin’s “Taxi”

And if all else fails:
Frank Zappa’s “Dinah Moe Humm”
Jimi Hendrix’s “Star Spangled Banner” from ‘Woodstock’

Jack.

By: Lonevoice

Lonevoice — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:16:06 +0000

That’s 3 minutes that I won’t get back….

By: Teal

Teal — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:46:25 +0000

Wait, Are you SURE this wasn’t Hillary Rodham Clinton? I could’ve SWORN…

By: TugboatPhil

TugboatPhil — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:10:01 +0000

I didn’t make it halfway through that….what do you want to know??

By: jummy

jummy — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:08:12 +0000

progressives defy parody pt. 5,876,435

What constitutes noise as differentiated from what constitutes music is culturally determmined. What would you call coercion through noise trauma?

Posted by: bartelby | January 10, 2007 at 05:13 PM

and to think we laugh at the idea that playing music constitutes torture.

By: GT

GT — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:04:12 +0000

Oh geez. My 13 year old nephew just asked if could download it from iTunes.