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{{quote|'''LISTEN TO MY SONG!!!'''|'''Nekki Basara''', ''[[Macross 7]]''}}
Usually refers to playing music at loud volumes, though not always. The important criterion is that the sound is (1) loud, (2) annoying, or (3) both. Often played for laughs (especially if [[Everything's Louder with Bagpipes|bagpipes]] are involved). Any risk of hearing loss [[Steel Ear Drums|will be ignored]] as an [[Acceptable Break From Reality]]. Might constitute [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]] (even more so if [[Suckiness Is Painful]] / it's an [[Ear Worm]]).
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* One of the "banned" episodes of ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' featured the Team Rocket trio torturing the Safari Warden by (among other things) making him listen to Meowth's singing.
** In the ''Pokémon Chronicles'' series, Butch and Cassidy of Team Rocket attempt to torture information out of Professor Oak with the sound of a nail scraping on glass.
* Almost a meta-subversion: In ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]'', the singing of Lynn Minmay was inspirational to the humans and a psychological weapon of mass destruction to the Zentradi. The voicework for Minmei's singing in the [[Macekre|English adaptation]] ''[[Robotech]]'', however, is considered [[Your Mileage May Vary|by some]] to be so god-awfully grating that they accept the latter description as accurate. [[Fanfic
** Hey, the same thing goes with the princesses' and demons' voices in ''[[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch]]''
* [[Fairy Tail|Natsu]] uses this to his advantage against {{spoiler|Cobra}}, who has incredibly powerful hearing {{spoiler|that lets him read minds, somehow.}} He tricks him with the phrasing of the attack beforehand as a widerange roar, which would normally mean a gigantic fireball. Nope, it's actually an ''extremely'' loud, actual dragon's roar.
* One chapter of the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' manga has a karaoke-obsessed delinquent torturing Yugi with his loud singing.
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* Subverted in ''[[World War Z]]'' where each country plays some sort of music to draw in the zombies to their firing boxes, Africans use drums, Scots use bagpipes, Americans use The Trooper.
* ''[[Comrade Death]]'', a short story by Gerald Kersh, [[Arms Dealer]] Sarek attends a demonstration of a competitor's machine gun. Seeing an opportunity, he bribes the competitor's band to drown out the sales pitch with an obnoxious and blaring military march and he hijacks the sale.
* In [[Neal Stephenson]]'s ''[[The Big U]]'', two roommates at American Megaversity fight a vicious stereo war with each
* In the [[Discworld]], we learn of [[Wales|Llamedosian]] battle choirs supported by specially reinforced battle-harps, who can set up subsonic harmonies that can make an enemy feel very ill indeed, or cause his fortress walls to collapse.
** The Pictsie folk have a battle-bard called the Gonnagal, who altenates {{William [[Mc Gonnagal]] awful poetry}} with the supersonic mousepipes, the least excruciating effect of which is to cause ear-wax to melt and run.
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== Radio ==
* ''Kremmen of the Star Corps''. The evil Thargoid aliens threaten to "play [[Twisted Sister]] into each ear until your brain explodes!"
* In ''[[The Goon Show]]'''s ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]'' parody - predictably enough, called "Nineteen Eighty Five" - the tortures in Room 101 all entailed listening to BBC Radio [[Soap Opera
** Also Harry Seacombe singing.
** Which is [[Fridge Brilliance]], as Orwell originally named the room after a real conference room at BBC Broadcasting House in which tedious planning meetings for new programs (possibly including soap operas) were held.
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* During an escalating feud between [[DuckTales|Scrooge McDuck]] and his new neighbors, one of his assaults is to break out [[Everything's Louder with Bagpipes|his favorite bagpipes]] and a speaker system. The neighbors' response? Accordion.
* Used in the second episode of ''[[Megas XLR]]'', ''Magnanimous'' where Coop defeats the eponymous villain by firing up Megas' super sound system and singing The Riddle Song, ''very'' badly.
* ''[[The Smurfs]]'' episode "Romeo And Smurfette" had a dueling
* In one episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'' Peter gets obsessed with the song "Surfin' Bird" and plays/sings it nonstop, intentionally trying to annoy people with it. '''Possible move to
{{quote|'''Peter:''' Brian, can I see that paper for a sec? <looks at paper> Huh, that's odd, I thought that would be big news.
'''Brian:''' You thought ''what'' would be big news?
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** Other "Stop The 'Bop" campaigns have since been staged elsewhere.
* A judge known for his unusual sentencing once made delinquent youths attend Opera.
* [http://songindex.net/472467/TAOC_TEH_WODNER_DOG-SONG_FOR_THE_STUPID_RAVER_SHITHEAD_WHO_LIVES_UNDERNEATH_ME_AND_ALWAYS_PLAYS_HIS_SHITTY_MUSIC_REALLY_LOUD_AND_MAKES_MY_FLOOR_VIBRATE_AND_AT_ONE_POINT_HE_LEFT_HIS_ROOM_BUT_LEFT_THE_STEREO_ON_AND_IT_SKIPPED_AND_I_HAD_TO_LISTEN_TO_IT_FOR_FOUR_FUCKING_HOURS.mp3 SONG FOR THE STUPID RAVER SHITHEAD WHO LIVES UNDERNEATH ME AND ALWAYS PLAYS HIS SHITTY MUSIC REALLY LOUD AND MAKES MY FLOOR VIBRATE AND AT ONE POINT HE LEFT HIS ROOM BUT LEFT THE STEREO ON AND IT SKIPPED AND I HAD TO LISTEN TO IT FOR FOUR FUCKING HOURS]
* [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27099954/?GT1=43001 Another news story:] A man was punished for playing rap music obnoxiously loudly. The judge told him he'd waive the fine if the offender listened to 20 straight hours of [[Ludwig Van Beethoven|Beethoven]]. He only lasted 15 minutes. (...because he had things to do and 20 hours is a long time.)
** I love Beethoven, but [[Unfortunate Implications|somebody needs to check that judge]].
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* Some law enforcement officials, when wanting to discourage patronage of a bar that's been the center of much trouble in a community, have had success with leaving loud classical music playing in the vicinity.
* One moderately effective way of keeping coyotes away from livestock is to leave a radio playing at a loud volume outdoors all night long. The only thing is that you have to occasionally change the station, or the coyotes will become accustomed to that type of music and lose fear of it. Either that or the hipster coyotes among them start to complain about the bands that they used to think were cool before the rest of the pack started listening to them.
* Years ago, North Korea built a fake town along the border of the DMZ, equipping it with loudspeakers to blast propaganda at the South Korean border, trying to trick southerners into defecting. Recently, the South has retaliated by building speakers of their own, aimed at the
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