Music as Weapon

I know you've probably read about music being used as a way to taunt enemies of the USA. In the first Gulf War there were reports of Guns & Roses being blasted to annoy the enemy. This led to lots of contests for the “worst”(best) terror songs of all time. That's fun. I mean, it's not like it's actually torture, right? Well, this article makes a sound argument that torture is torture no matter what form it takes.

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Sounding brass in front of your enemy has always been a part of war, from Joshua's trumpets tumbling walls in the Bible to a mean fife and drum ringing out “Rule Britannia” across the Plains of Abraham. When American forces invaded Panama in 1989, Manuel Noriega fled to the papal nunciature, and American forces roared Twisted Sister's “We're Not Gonna Take It,” and songs with the word “jungle” in the lyrics in front of His Holiness's house. During the siege of Falluja in April 2004, American soldiers cranked the volume on their AC/DC. Their preferred song? “Shoot to Thrill.”

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Written while groovin' to One Evening from the album “Let It Die” by Feist