Posted on 12/09/2008 10:55:37 PM PST by This Just In
As reported earlier today by msnbc, there are a number of musicians who want the military to stop using their music to torture our enemies. Frankly, if our military commanders really wanted to inflict serious psychological damage, they would drop flyers featuring images of these very musicians. A mug shot of Marilyn Manson would surely scar the Dickens out of the most war hardened devoted terrorist. Or perhaps a picture of Liberace lavished in fur and bling bling.
On second thought, those pictures would only provide the enemy with a false sense of security in believing that the United States, with characters like Marilyn Manson prancing running the stage and in public, is doomed to implode.
Naturally, this caused me to consider what kind of music I would wish to play for my enemies. The first song that popped into my mind was Muskrat Love. I am confident that a majority of individuals reading this post will not need me to tell them what artist performed that hit (Surely Willis Alan Ramsey must have been smoking some serious hash when he came up with that gem). The second opus that entered my mind was that infamous Barney song.
As I pondered a plethora of possibilities out there, I thought I'd enlist the help of you FReepers for some input in providing your very own personal playlist of songs to torment our enemies by.
Here are several of my own:
1. Shonberg's Pierrot Lunaire (Actually, this may be false start. Can the French really cause that much psychological damage?)
2. Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
3. Kajagoogoo's - Too Shy
The original, of course, was Horst Buchholz being tortured by diabolical agents of the KGB to the tune “Itsy-Bitsy-Teeny-Weeny Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini” in the Billy Wilder comedy hit, “One, Two, Three”, starring James Cagney. Fiendish.
How about “Hey There, Delilah” with its wounded-cow-sounding refrain: “Oooooooooh, it’s whatcha do to meeee...” Make it stop; make it STOP!
“Boogie Fever” a disco song from The Sylvers..
1) Sheryl Crow
2) Bruce Springsteen
3) Nina Hagen
4) Celine Dion (except when she is doing AC/DC)
5) something O Connor (Que ball)
6) Neil Young singing about war
7) Greed Day (not a typo)
8) Grass Hopper Symphony
9) Madonna
10) Myself
I can’t picture in my minds eye Itsy-Bitsy-Teeny-Weeny Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini and Jimmy Cagney. It must have been fiendish. It’s almost as bad as Mickey Rooney starring in a love story opposite Katherine Zeta Jones.
Better still, how about all of the artists you listed in ONE band. Talk about nuclear.
“Mohammed al Bakr and His Port Said Orchestra”, Korean Television, Bagpipes and drums(I successfully dispersed a large unruly group of people with a closed loop of it,along with al Bakra’s tape). Iron Butterfly might work on jihadists; anything sung by Roseanne Barr, Any crappy(I’m being redundant) Gangsta Rap..
Hmm Barry White, Barry Manilow,Barbra Streisand & Michael Jackson would work if they wanted info out of me.
Mohammed alBakr and His Port Said Orchestra?!! I must look that up.
A friend just spent several months in S. Korea and will be returning to the states shortly (said he can’t wait to step foot on native soil). I’ll be sure to ask about televised programming there.
Is that Gangsta Rap with a capital C?
Cagney’s “One, Two, Three” is a hilarious Cold War send-up; if you haven’t seen it, find a rental, by all means, and be prepared to laugh your butt off. Cagney plays the president of the German branch of Coca-Cola, who’s looking for a promotion to the Atlanta bottling plant. The only problem is, he’s been asked to baby-sit the daughter of the national president when the girl - a ditsy twenty-something - shows up for a holiday from the US. The daughter no sooner arrives in Germany than she runs away and gets pregnant - by an East German communist whom she meets at a May Day parade. Cagney’s challenge: transform the young Leftist into a modern capitalist - and a member of a German royal family, at that - before the girl’s father shows up for his own visit!
Wow, that film was pushing the envelope before there was one. It had better be funny. :^)
Now that is hilarious.
How about Fire by Elmer Fudd.
Olivia Newton-John, Barry Manilow. Blecch.
Hilarious, guaranteed. You won’t be disappointed.
That'll break anyone!
(might take a couple tries to get it to load - Youtube is being ornery tonight.)
Er, I guess that was more than two words, but you get the idea.
You’re right; loading’s a pain. Will check later.
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