"Spinning Song" Hour after Hour after Hour . . .

[alzado]

This posting is a bit whimsical, I must admit.

The Army has "psy ops" teams intended to counter various bad guys.  "Psy ops" stands for "psychological operations."

I remember reading the following:  -- years ago, when Manuel Noriega was holed up and refusing to come out of the archbishop's residence in Panama City, the Army psy ops team played at very loud volume this one song-- "I fought the law, and the law won."  Hour after hour, day after day.  After three days, as I recall, Noriega gave up.

Now ----  If a pianist bad-guy were cornered somewhere, and the authorities wanted him to come out, I wonder if playing Mendelssohn's "Spinning Song"  -- hour after hour after hour -- would do the trick?  The authorities might want to move a concert grand next to the front door . . . .  ?    [Heck, I'd be signing a confession within a half hour . . .]

Or-- are there other piano pieces that would be more maddening than that selection?

[bernhard]

Beethoven’s Fur Elise
Chopin’s Fantasie Impromptu / Minute waltz
Hanon
Czerny Etudes (most of them)
Liszt’s Hungarian rhapsodies
Brahms Hungarian dances
Finissy, Xenakis (anything really)
Satie’s Vexations
Bartok’s Mikrokosmos
Mozart’s Turkish march
Joplin’s Entertainer
Einaudi’s Le Onde

And the sure way for a pianist bad guy to surrender and confess everything: Maksim!

(Give me the Spinning song any day! )

Best wishes,
Bernhard.

[thalbergmad]

Satie-Gymnopedie No1

[nanabush]

Chopin's e flat minor prelude without breaks....

[luc]

dawson's creek...
ok, that's not music but.. nobody would survive that.

[Nightscape]

Steve Riech's "Come Out"

[allthumbs]

"Heart and Soul" duet played by people who took some lessons in the distant past, but don't really play any more.

Everytime I hear that piece played, I suffer an apoplectic fit. I would give up immediately before the first refrain was finished!

Cheers


allthumbs

[perfect_pitch]

How about...

THIS IS THE SONG THAT NEVER ENDS, IT JUST GOES ON AND ON MY FRIEND, SOME PEOPLE STARTED SINGING IT....

[Beats the crap out LAMBCHOP!!!!]

Ahhhhh.... silence is golden.   

And out of curiousity, who wrote the Spinning Song??? Schubert??? Anyone have a recording of the piece so I can hear it??? Is it that annoying...?

[alzado]

Who wrote the "Spinning Song?"

I believe one version was by Mendelssohn.  That's the one I am thinking of.

However, "Spinning Song" was also written by others.

It is like Humoresque.  Many wrote one of these.  The best known is probably Dvorjak's.

Lotsa luck--

Alzado

[Bob]

Aren't most students inflicting this torture on their parents?  Worse yet, since they have mistakes in their playing and repeat things over and over.




(death to lampchop )

[perfect_pitch]

(death to lampchop )

DAMN BLOODY RIGHT!!!! My Dog can chew his little sock face any time.   

[jpianoflorida]

Heart and Soul......definitely , I could go the rest of my life without hearing that one!

[sharon_f]

Chopsticks!

[arensky]

I think anything played over and over and over and over and over will start to drive anyone to distraction after awhile. In Noriega's case they blasted heavy metal at him because he hated it with a passion ( he is an opera lover, I believe.). So I guess you have to know a bit about your target's likes and dislikes. Having your favorite music blasted at you by adversaries could be just as or more irritating imo...

Here are some pieces I think could be very effective for this purpose, owing to their repetitive "catchy" nature...

Spinning Song-Ellmenreich

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

Le Petit Negre-Debussy
 
Batman Theme-Neil Hefti

The Greatest American Hero Theme-?

She Loves You-Lennon/McCartney

I Wanna Hold Your Hand-Lennon/McCartney

It's My Party-Lesley Gore

Spring Song-Mendelsohn

Jingle Balls

Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree

Jingle Bell Rock

Music! Music! Music!-Teresa Brewer

Stand by Your Man

Light my Fire-The Doors

867-5309- (don't remember who did this)

My Sharona-The Knack

The Barney Song

Da Da Da-(can't recall)

Rock me Amadeus-(glad I can't recall)

Love Will Keep us Together-Captain and Tenille

Crocodile Rock-Elton John

Who let the Dogs Out who who who who who who who who who who who who who who.......

Let 'em In-Wings

Grandma got run over by a Reindeer

Golliwog's Cakewalk-Debussy

Minuet in G-Beethoven

Any Clementi Sonatina

Kuhlau too

The Entertainer

The Looney Tunes Theme

Gimmmee a Little Kiss Will Ya Huh?-Guy Lombardo

Sweet Talkin' Guy-The Chiffons

Nola-Felix Arndt


ah could go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on

[counterpoint]

In geman, the verb "spinnen" has always this double meaning of "to spin" and "to be crazy". So Mendelssohn's Spinnerlied does perfectly fit the requirement for the described task 

[invictious]

4:33

Woo

[bench warmer]

Nobody yet has mentioned Ravel's Bolero.

You need only play it once and the melody repeats like 900 times...and there  ain't nothin' else in it.

[houseofblackleaves]

Nobody yet has mentioned Ravel's Bolero.

You need only play it once and the melody repeats like 900 times...and there  ain't nothin' else in it.

REVOLUTIONARY I SAY!! *points at celing*


........

Actually, kind of annoying.

[pianolist]

In the 1960s, when I was a teenager, I used to listen to short wave radio instead of playing football. The communist countries generally jammed most of the broadcasts from the West, which means that they broadcast loud oscillating sound waves on the same radio frequencies.

But the authorities in Cuba had a better idea, and instead of this dreary, wobbly white noise, they broadcast a female singer, belting out "Kiss me honey, honey, kiss me. Thrill me, honey, honey, thrill me. Don't care even if I blow my top, but honey, honey, don't stop!" It went on for hours and hours.

The fact that after forty years I can repeat it verbatim means I should have played more football.

[burstroman]

Boulez, Piano Sonatas #1 or #2.