Since its inception, the CIA has used music as a torture device to induce sleep deprivation, prolong capture shock, disorient detainees during interrogations, drown out screams, and obtain confessions from its opponents. But although the use of music as a vehicle for human suffering is not new, it's especially terrifying given the discordant and often alarming melodies of today's musical lexicon. We're of course talking about the use of Eminem's "White America" or Prince's "Raspberry Beret."

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Yep; that's the old familiar Meow Mix jingle; the one that took America by storm in 1970 when it was released.

It's a cute concept; innocent and juvenile, designed to mimic the childlike excitement your cat has about dinner. It's catchy. It gets stuck in your head.

Once you hear it a few times though, it starts to get a little annoying. Your brain tires of its inherent sweetness, and its melody becomes grating. You want to listen to something else.

Now imagine listening to it on repeat, 24 hours a day, in a windowless military prison cell that's empty save for a defecation bucket, at a volume that just shies from eardrum-shattering.

According to the recently-released and very controversial Senate Intelligence Committee report, that's what it's like to be a CIA detainee in on of our country's fine military prisons.

The report included accounts of a torture playlist featuring the Meow Mix jingle, the Bee Gee's 'Stayin' Alive' and slew of other god awful songs used to send detainees into submissive insanity.

Here are are some that guards and interrogators chose to torment them with. If your favorite song is on here, you have terrible taste in music.

Deicide: Fuck Your God

Dope: Die MF Die, Take Your Best Shot

Eminem: White America, Kim

Barney & Friends: Theme song

Drowning Pool: Bodies

Metallica: Enter Sandman

Meow Mix: Commercial jingle

Janeane Garofalo/Ben Stiller: Chapter from the Feel This Audiobook

Sesame Street: Theme song

David Gray: Babylon

AC/DC: Shoot to Thrill, Hell's Bells

Bee Gees: Stayin' Alive

Tupac: All Eyez On Me

Christina Aguilera: Dirrty

Neil Diamond: America

Rage Against the Machine: Unspecified songs

Don McLean: American Pie

Saliva: Click Click Boom

Matchbox Twenty: Cold

(hed)pe: Swan Dive

Prince: Raspberry Beret

Regardless of your personal opinion on any of these songs, we think we can all agree that blasting them on repeat for unspecified amounts of time would wear down even the most dedicated fan.

The report detailed the agency's use of "sound disorientation techniques" to torture and humiliate detainees. It explains that not only was the music used to wear down an opponent until they were "broken", but that it was also blared at detainees for 24 hours a day, used to signal that an interrogation was about to begin, and, as director of the Human Rights Project at Bard College told Al Jazerra, "take over your mind and invade your inner experience."

For example, CIA records indicate that in the interrogation of suspected 9/11 terrorist Ramzi bin al-Shibh, "the Blues Brothers rendition of 'Rawhide' [was] played." CIA records state that his reaction to hearing the song was evidence of his conditioning, as he knew "when he heard the music where he was going and what was going to happen."

The report also mentions that music was used as a "no-touch torture device" at the COBALT detention facility. There, prisoners "were kept in complete darkness and constantly shackled in isolated cells with loud noise or music and only a bucket to use for human waste."

Since its inception, the CIA has used music as a torture device to induce sleep deprivation, prolong capture shock, disorient detainees during interrogations, drown out screams, and obtain confessions from its opponents. But although the use of music as a vehicle for human suffering is not new, it's especially terrifying given the discordant and often alarming melodies of today's musical lexicon.

That in itself is not ironic — it's well known that music has a heavy psychological component. What is ironic, and deeply unsettling, is the actual music the CIA is using to break down its prisoners; some of the songs the CIA is using are arguably some of the worst songs ever made.

Take for instance, one of the CIA's favorite torture songs, "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees.

For a second, put disregard your own feelings about the song. Is there anything more harrowing than the buoyant optimism and grooviness of the song in the context of pain, humiliation and fear? The juxtaposition between the how the song sounds and the situation the CIA plays it in is enough to make us shudder … so you can imagine what that does to the actual detainees.

But "Stayin' Alive," for all its eerie disco jubilance, isn't even the most jarring song the CIA uses. Even more terrifying are the country and metal songs they implement to break prisoners down. In fact, country and metal, America's two most offensive exports, are the two most common genres of music played for detainees.

Here's one of them …

Jesus H. Christ. If that doesn't penetrate your senses, shit all over the last remnants of hope you have, and turn you into a confessor, we don't know what will. It's like the auditory equivalent of getting your fingernails yanked out.

Perhaps the most surprising thing about this list is how common these songs are. It's not like the CIA is using specially-composed submission music developed in a psychological sound studio; these are mostly run-of-the-mill alt-rock and metal songs. With a few classic rock and commercial exceptions, the CIA's playlist of pain looks a lot more like a Hot Topic holiday mix tape made for an ear-gauging hookah party than a military-grade torture device.

What's strangest, is these songs are all notoriously bad. Everyone hates this shit. They're the same songs that, when they come on the radio, you lunge for your stereo's "off" button with a furious rapidity that ensure your eardrums don't have to process another millisecond of nauseating sound.

We hate to say it … but the CIA knows how to pick 'em. It's torture enough being a military detainee … but the level of torture one has to endure when you through that playlist is, despite our best attempts, indescribable.

We just hope that they haven't gotten their hands on any impossibly-more-grating remixes of their playlist songs …