Torture Music

From Idolator, a music blog:

Head on over to WFMU's Beware Of The Blog for a description of how a U.S. soldier stationed in Iraq used the childhood-trauma duo Happy Flowers as "audio interrogation aids." No jokes here; we're still trying to wrap our heads around the whole thing, in large part because we gave the Flowers' tantrummy "I Said I Wanna Watch Cartoons" a spin after we read the post. (Be sure to download it before you go.) Happy Flowers - I Said I Wanna Watch Cartoons [MP3, via cyberinsekt]

Listen to the mp3 "I Said I Wanna Watch Cartoons," sit back, and enjoy allowing your imagination to roam the scene in Iraq. And do check out WFMU's post. The soldier comments on the song's use in Iraq.

...We came across a bomb in the road and while waiting for EOD to arrive to disarm it, I noticed a guy on the other side of a canal watching the area with binoculars. So we have a bomb, we have a triggerman... unfortunatly, by the time we can get around the canal he managed to escape. The triggerman was within 50 meters of a house. We go to the house and of course the gentleman living there has seen nothing. We had questioned this guy before and not gotten any information so this time, we put him in the Humvee, tell him we are taking him with us and start playing "Mom, I Gave the Cat Some Acid" over and over.

After about an hour of Happy Flowers and being told that we don't want to take him, and that if he would tell us what he knows we will take him back home, he finally tells us who the triggerman is, where we can find him, where other bombs are hidden and ID's 3 corrupt policemen. All without having to threaten, imprison, or break any of our rules of conduct....

More on torture soundtracks from WFMU.