Inhumane Treatment

 

1. Skip, it is absolutely no surprise that latter-day “popular music” of any shade or stench could or would be used for torturing detainees.

   It is already a torture to anyone who expects more of music than noise strung along a timebase.  Overproduced, overamplified noise is still noise.

   Time was when popular music was distinguished by its wide variety of lovely melodies.  Remember Stardust, As Time Goes By, If I Loved You, Moonlight Serenade, Stella by Starlight? Good tunes, great tunes, tunes everyone could recognize, even if you played them on a comb!  And they were legion, a golden treasure that few enough of us are even aware of nowadays!

   Nowadays, however, what passes for “popular music” is most readily distinguished by its multitudinous degrees of obnoxiety.

   Perhaps there will again be a day when real songwriters exist, but I have my doubts.  The last generation of them passed with such writers as the Gershwins, Richard Rodgers, Hoagy Carmichael and Victor Young.  Nobody gives a damn about a good melody any more.  From all appearances, they simply string notes along the score beneath the lyrics, and they are usually most damnably non-memorable!

   In the meantime, let Eminem and company be used for torture.  It is their only utilitarian value (and their aesthetic value is absolutely nil).

   GLENN MILLER FOREVER!!!

   

   Posted by Tannenberg       12/20/2005  at  09:11 AM  



2. Awwwh, po widdle Islamofawcists don’t like devil music of the US!

   Guess we should follow their example and just saw through their necks with a dull sword.

   Doesn’t anybody remember that there’s a war going on!?!

   Posted by MAJ Mike       12/20/2005  at  09:44 AM  



3. Hey, Eminem has some real talent!  I’m reminded of the best scene, in the worst movie: “PCU” - wherein the kids bar the doors to a meeting room & play, at top volume, “Afternoon Delight” by The Starlight Vocal Band.

   Posted by Oink       12/20/2005  at  09:53 AM  



4. Whoa..now I am all for fun and games, but dissing Barry is just...just...well, I’m not sure what it is, but I don’t like it! 

   Merry Christmas!

   Posted by Beccayinn       12/20/2005  at  10:43 AM  



5. Gasp! The collective horror! Made to listen to Eminem at top volume! That is truly torture!

   But, the question remains, where are these clandestime prisons? And why has the MSM not found a way to the doors of said prisons? Scared to do a little real digging boys?

   I think it is all a sham by the MSM to smear Bush and the US. I, for one, put no credence in any of these reports.

   Journaljismic dreams.

   The Hobo

   Posted by Robohobo       12/20/2005  at  11:30 AM  



6. Becca—You gotta be a chick, right?  Barry Manilow

   Posted by Oink       12/20/2005  at  12:35 PM  



7. Oink, you can’t possibly mean to imply that Barry Mailow doesn’t have a sort of Neil Diamondesque universal appeal, do you?  Now I AM shocked!

   Posted by Beccayinn       12/20/2005  at  12:51 PM  



8. Becca: Absolutely!  Barry & Neil go together like Amoebic Dysentery & diarrhea. 

   Posted by Oink       12/20/2005  at  01:02 PM  



9. Being forced to listen to Barry Manilow is torture.  Trust me on this. 

   Posted by U2warrior05       12/20/2005  at  01:58 PM  



10. I’ve sung Hoagy Carmichael before. Great Stuff.
    I was a big fan of Barely Maninoff in my yoot.
    I admit to still being fond of “Copacobana”.
    You know what the islamo-twits should be made to listen to...JOHN PHILLIP SOUSA!!!
    *cranks up ‘Semper Fidelis’ REEEEALLY loud* Hehehehe.

    Posted by Annoying Little Twerp       12/20/2005  at  02:57 PM  



11. All right, in honor of this thread and in favor of torturing both terrorists and the politically correct crowd, I am going to crank up ‘Mandy’ while wrapping my Christmas presents.  That should offend just about everyone, I suppose.

    

    Posted by Beccayinn       12/20/2005  at  03:08 PM  



12. Bacca: Sounds like a plan. My friend Doug named his Beagle “Mandy”—he was so moved by the song.  Doug died of AIDS in 1985.  And he did not catch it from a transfusion. 

    I sat in the very place in Bloomington IN where Hoagy wrote ‘Stardust’.

    (P.S. Both of the above are true stories.)

    Posted by Oink       12/20/2005  at  04:44 PM  



13. at the gitmo, gitmo abannnna, torture n music, music n torture,they fell in lovee,
    cant get that fucking song outer my ed now, thanks,
    Bulldog

    Posted by bulldog       12/20/2005  at  04:53 PM  



14. at the gitmo cobanaa, at the gitmo,
    Bulldog

    Posted by bulldog       12/20/2005  at  04:59 PM  



15. Knock it off, Bulldog, please.

       

    Hey, why don’t we crank up Toby Keith on those bastards?  That would be enough torture for them, don’t you think?

    Posted by U2warrior05       12/20/2005  at  05:27 PM  



16. I’ll get it out for you.

    *starts singing “Yellow Submarine*

    Posted by U2warrior05       12/21/2005  at  05:37 PM  

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