listening to David Gray: cruel and inhuman torture
Mother Jones: the Torture Playlist:
Music has been used in American military prisons and on bases to induce sleep deprivation, “prolong capture shock,” disorient detainees during interrogations — and also drown out screams. Based on a leaked interrogation log, news reports, and the accounts of soldiers and detainees, here are some of the songs that guards and interrogators chose.
Most of the top 10 are what you’d expect from redneck teenagers sent to create hell on earth: death metal, Eminem, and Metallica — and, er, some ironic kiddie-show theme tunes. But at number 11? “Babylon”, by David Gray…
June 17th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
I once saw David Gray play in the Landsdowne in Boston with some friends who were really into him. He gave me the spinnies with that head thingy he does. most unpleasant.