I've seen reports of even greater aural atrocities.
From the New York Post, November 29:
They’ve gotta hold on, ready or not …
Inmates at a notoriously strict Russian jail are bombarded each day with the same 13 songs — most by vegan DJ Moby or soft rockers Bon Jovi, according to a former detainee.
The songs, also including AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” and a handful of Russian hits, are blared daily at Kapotyna-7 detention center, where poisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny was once held, Newsweek first reported.
“This playlist is repeated day after day, month after month,” Grigory Melkonyants, the head of Russia’s beleaguered election watchdog, Golos, wrote on Telegram of his time being held there in August.
“They are heard every morning by thousands of Russians awaiting trial, including political prisoners,” he said....
....MUCH MORE
Unrelated to the incidents I was thinking about while typing the intro line, the most famous instance of music as torture was the U.S. psychological operations troops targeting the Papal Nuncio in
Panama City to drive out strongman and drug dealer Manuel Noriega who
had sought refuge within.
It took ten days but he came out.
From the National Security Archive at George Washington University here's the start of the official playlist:
(You've Got) Another Thing Coming - Judas Priest
Blue Collar Man - Styx
Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins
Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo
Don't Look Back - Boston
Electric Spanking of War Babies - Funkadelic
Heaven's On Fire - Kiss
If I Had A Rocket Launcher - Bruce Cockburn
In My Time of Dying - Led Zeppelin
Iron Man - Black Sabbath
Judgment Day - Whitesnake
Jungle Love - Steve Miller
No More Mister Nice Guy - Alice Cooper
Paradise City - Guns & Roses
Panama - Van Halen
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Refugee - Tom Petty
Renegade - Styx
Run Like Hell - Pink Floyd
The Party's Over - Journey
This Means War - Joan Jett
Wanted Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi
Wanted Man - Ratt
War Pigs - Black Sabbath
We're Not Gonna Take It - Twisted Sister
You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC
Your Time is Gonna Come - Led Zeppelin
And many more.
