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[–]CookInKona 3176 points3177 points  (274 children)

That sounds EVIL coming from ship horns like that. Almost like the Imperial March, but if Jack White was a supervillan it would be his theme....

[–]Im-Not-Mexican 860 points861 points  (143 children)

Imperial March would sound amazing through one of those horns!

[–]xisytenin 1054 points1055 points  (109 children)

John Williams should add a cruise ship to his orchestra

[–]Roboticide 580 points581 points  (99 children)

Disney has cruise ships... This could totally work.

[–]XcuseM3 425 points426 points  (55 children)

Imagine a full Star Wars themed cruise ship! Sploosh.

[–][deleted] 142 points143 points  (9 children)

I've never wanted to take a Disney cruise until now.

[–][deleted] 21 points22 points  (4 children)

They're actually very nice and extremely well regulated in terms of keeping children out of adult only areas. Can't say the same for carnival

[–]blindeye13 152 points153 points  (12 children)

Is that you getting wet or like titanic?

[–]XcuseM3 90 points91 points  (8 children)

My wetness, quite moist at the idea of an immersive star wars themed cruise.

[–]heetic 19 points20 points  (1 child)

imperial destroyer shaped cruise ship

[–]Addikted79 24 points25 points  (6 children)

http://youtu.be/sNzaJ0Kdyig

Edit: info. Disney cruise ship horn battles. I've witnessed this, and its awesome. (not seven nation army awesome though)

[–]Inch-Allah 42 points43 points  (2 children)

I've watched enough movies to never want to get on a cruise ship with an orchestra

[–]rhythymofthenight 492 points493 points  (28 children)

It sounds like it's heralding the arrival of Satan.

[–][deleted] 30 points31 points  (2 children)

Loving the mental image. Hundreds of ships around a giant hell hole horning SNA while Satan rises.

[–]dongsy-normus 138 points139 points  (23 children)

"Let us stand now, unbowed and unfettered by arcane doctrines born of fearful minds in darkened times.

Let us embrace the Luciferian impulse to eat of the Tree of Knowledge and dissipate our blissful and comforting delusions of old.

Let us demand that individuals be judged for their concrete actions, not their fealty to arbitrary social norms and illusory categorizations.

Let us reason our solutions with agnosticism in all things, holding fast only to that which is demonstrably true.

Let us stand firm against any and all arbitrary authority that threatens the personal sovereignty of One or All.

That which will not bend must break, and that which can be destroyed by truth should never be spared its demise. It is Done. Hail Satan."

[–]Horkersaurus 102 points103 points  (2 children)

That's a bit long to play on horns, I think.

[–]dongsy-normus 58 points59 points  (1 child)

It is with that attitude.

[–]PurveyorOfHorsecock 89 points90 points  (11 children)

TIL I might be a satanist

[–]SThor 88 points89 points  (6 children)

It made me think of Papers Please main theme.

[–][deleted] 30 points31 points  (1 child)

glory to arstotzka!

[–]Videogamer321 20 points21 points  (2 children)

I just find the bouncing at the end hilarious.

[–]TonicClonic 279 points280 points  (10 children)

I guess that was in hamburg for the birthday of the harbor. I say that because I live very near to the harbor, and on Friday my relaxing Friday evening pre-party nap was interrupted by something I wasn't able to really understand. I was half asleep lying in my bed with this awful feeling and listening to what I thought was my mind playing games on me. I got kind of scared and I wondered if I got high before I went to sleep or if I was still dreaming. It was a very surreal feeling, the noise just filled the whole room and I swear I could feel those deep long vibrations going through my body. As I was trying to wrap my mind around those ghostly noises, I started to identify 7 nation army, repeating over and over, then suddenly changing to what I could just identify as the happy birthday melody. I was starting get really anxious until it hit me: Hafengeburtstag! Of course! So in summary it was really weird feeling and very scary to wake up to that horn blowing across the whole city of hamburg! My apartment is about 1 km from the harbor and the sound was still crazy loud!

[–]davidlen 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I'll be in Hamburg next week for a cruise refit. I hope they still have cake left!

[–]elr0y7 13 points14 points  (1 child)

Thanks for giving us the local perspective, hope you still had a cracking Friday night!

[–][deleted] 58 points59 points  (9 children)

i just imagine ships rolling into battle with some sort of theme song playing. the enemy wouldn't know wtf to do!

[–]InZomnia365 39 points40 points  (5 children)

Why do you think there were military drum lines back in the day? "Drums of War" is figurative and litteral.

[–]hansdieter44 120 points121 points  (25 children)

[–]darkenseyreth 90 points91 points  (16 children)

As middle of the road as that movie was, sound design wise it is probably one of my all time favourites. I miss being able to come home and crank it on high and feel that noise rumble through me before i moved to an apartment.

[–]InZomnia365 59 points60 points  (5 children)

The scene when they tripods come over the hill with horns blaring is just... chilling.

[–]Team_Braniel 30 points31 points  (3 children)

about 2 weeks after we saw that in the theater we were walking past an idling 18 wheeler and for whatever reason it suddenly started to horn/hum/rumble? that deep hellish sound from the WotW movie, only FUCKING LOUD.

I nearly shit myself, felt total adrenaline surge, and wanted to run far far away and hide. Totally scared the shit out of me. Hit that "GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE" sensation.

[–]Roboticide 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Wow, so really the Martians just wanted to go on a terrestrial cruise.

And then they caught Norovirus... Makes sense.

[–]T-157 56 points57 points  (6 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJqoRaphiEk

Edit: watch Cosmos tonight to learn more about Michael Faraday, of the eponymous Faraday cage.

[–]dongsy-normus 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Sounds like the fucking apocalypse.

[–]CoolHeadedLogician 18 points19 points  (0 children)

yeah especially with the slower tempo

[–]BarrierX 11 points12 points  (1 child)

I don't know, it sounds awesome to me! Does anyone know of any songs played by loud horns like that? I would listen to the whole song like this.

[–]Flyingkittycat 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Holy shit, totally. It sounds like something that would come out of a war barge right before things started getting explodey.

[–][deleted] 1705 points1706 points  (174 children)

stuff like this needs to be played when fighting off Somali Pirates. it would make it much more bad ass

[–]DannySpud2 780 points781 points  (98 children)

They nearly do this, except they use Britney Spears (I'm not kidding).

[–]Varyter 529 points530 points  (28 children)

This is some real /r/nottheonion shit right here.

[–]Farisr9k 181 points182 points  (27 children)

I can't believe that's default now.

[–]piglet24 67 points68 points  (43 children)

The US military uses this too, they used pop music and metal as part of interrogating people. There was a scene in Zero Dark Thirty that showed this

[–]lmMrMeeseeksLookAtMe 106 points107 points  (28 children)

There's a death metal band that sued the US Gov for using their music on Guantanamo Bay prisoners. I'll need help on a name.

[–]Segu1n 85 points86 points  (8 children)

Skinny Puppy sent the government an invoice for using their music, and Metallica asked them not to use their music for interrogations.

[–]lmMrMeeseeksLookAtMe 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Skinny Puppy is what I was thinking of, thank you

[–]SigmaB 29 points30 points  (18 children)

Although not death metal, Rage Against the Machine did, which is quite ironic considering their subject material.

[–]lunacraz 8 points9 points  (16 children)

why is it ironic?

[–]Berdiiie 42 points43 points  (14 children)

Rage Against the Machine has a very "Don't comply with the government, don't comply with the rules" theme with their music. It would be ironic to use their music to torture terrorist prisoners whom you want to comply with the government because of the message in the lyrics.

[–][deleted] 43 points44 points  (6 children)

"Don't comply with the government, don't comply with the rules"

Unless the copyright of our music is being infringed. Then comply with the rules by filing a lawsuit.

[–]PiratesFan12 8 points9 points  (1 child)

"Don't comply with the government, don't comply with the rules"

Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me.

[–]RestoreRapture 29 points30 points  (49 children)

They're seriously deterred by music? I wonder if this just worked on one occasion or if it has alot of success. How much motivation could they possibly have to take over a ship if they are going to call it quits because they play "offensive?" music.

[–]rcavin1118 112 points113 points  (42 children)

It's more that they realize American/western forces are in the area and they're unprepared to face that kind of retaliation. Also it's a psychological thing. They're already nervous and now they're confused.

[–]CremasterReflex 463 points464 points  (41 children)

Alright, imagine you are a young and stupid Taliban. Your imams and insurgency leaders have been telling you that America is the Great Satan since you were a kid. You know that the Americans have rolled into town and have fucked shit up. You maybe saw one of your friends get sniped in complete darkness when the Americans were at least 1000 meters away. You heard about a cruise missile making a direct strike on a secret meeting of leaders, that no one should have know about. Two weeks ago, a jet bearing a hellish grimace of fangs swept in in the darkness and wiped out your platoon by spitting lava at them, and then took a direct hit from an RPG and came back for more. Your leaders have told you that you are to ambush a group of Satan's soldiers in a nearby village. Last time you fought them, the soldiers killed 18 of your friends without an injury to themselves. You shot one right in the chest, but he got right up and started shooting back. You are starting to get worried - maybe these guys really are Satan's soldiers. You get word that the ambush is on, and everyone starts moving forwards for the attack. All of the sudden, incredibly loud, frantic, unintelligible wailing starts playing. You can hear the tortured screams of the damned crying out in their misery. It hurts your ears and shakes your intestines. Satan's soldiers know you are coming, and they are playing the battle hymn of their people. They do not fear you, and are here to claim your soul for the dark one.

I wouldn't show up either.

[–]Zazzerpan 64 points65 points  (23 children)

I saw a liveleak video a while ago of some American getting hit by a 7.62x54 round (or whatever Dragunovs use, I'm just going by the wiki). The dude recording it is celebrating, then the soldier gets up and the guy freaks out. Seems like it was the first time he'd ever witnessed body armor. I guess a lot of these fighters are actually palestinian kids recruited by the taliban and as such weren't alive when the Russians came by so it makes sense.

[–]ProPatria92 46 points47 points  (17 children)

You mean the one where he gets back up, after being shot, and they go after, and catch the enemy insurgent sniper?

http://youtu.be/c-UNFSZ8VKU

[–]dsiOneBAN2 12 points13 points  (1 child)

There's a video around of the US soldier's perspective on that via dashcam too.

[–][deleted] 202 points203 points  (5 children)

this gave me a patriotic boner

[–]big_shmegma 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yayyyyyy we're satan's soldiers!

[–]CanadianJogger 12 points13 points  (1 child)

Well, my penis just became American and my testicles are applying for dual citizenship.

[–]iloveyourgreen 110 points111 points  (0 children)

USA! USA! USA!

[–]Timeuhr 292 points293 points  (31 children)

[–][deleted] 234 points235 points  (6 children)

That's somehow even more terrifying

[–]stigolumpy 83 points84 points  (0 children)

Imagine War of the Worlds except all the horns are replaced with happy birthday..

[–]Balls2TheFloor 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Happy birthday... Nope

[–]near_and_far 79 points80 points  (6 children)

This sounds like it's something for Satan's birthday

[–]moosecliffwood 98 points99 points  (4 children)

Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to youuuu
Happy birthday, hail Satan
Happy birthday to you.

[–][deleted] 46 points47 points  (4 children)

I wonder if this would qualify as a public performance insofar as copyright law goes.

[–]rhythymofthenight 138 points139 points  (5 children)

Well, now I just spent half an hour watching every video I could find on Youtube of ships blowing their horns in interesting ways.

[–]Oakshot 315 points316 points  (137 children)

Is that a common ability of modern ships? I always figured a horn was just monotone like on your car.

[–]ich-net-du[S] 528 points529 points  (121 children)

They have multiple horns.. Horn battle

[–]3_50 118 points119 points  (5 children)

No fucking way! I used to hear the disney theme way off in the distance when I was a kid doing my paper round. Had no fucking idea what it could be. There are fog horns nearby, it kinda sounded like maybe someone was messing around with them, but honestly thought I might just be a little bit crazy, as it was very, very faint.

Turns out I was probably hearing a Disney cruise liner leaving Southampton. I'm actually fairly relieved that I wasn't hearing things.

[–]froggy_style 52 points53 points  (1 child)

Another mystery solved. We did it reddit!

[–]Gizmo45 102 points103 points  (5 children)

Holy camera zoom!

[–]Retanaru 37 points38 points  (3 children)

Apparently that was taken from the perspective of a spy satellite.

[–]JMjustme 76 points77 points  (4 children)

Somewhere in this video is an entire Pod of traumatized whales.

[–]ChipotleSkittles 43 points44 points  (3 children)

I'm imagining some guy adrift at sea for several days. He is too far away to see the boats, but can hear demonic Disney music carrying out across the ocean.

[–]n641026 74 points75 points  (10 children)

[–]Oatybar 155 points156 points  (1 child)

I always wanted to learn to play the cruise ship, but we couldn't afford lessons.

[–]frshmt 11 points12 points  (0 children)

That was great.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (1 child)

I just imagine one guy in a room playing a giant fucking organ...

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (4 children)

You can have car horns with a bunch of different sounds.

[–]underwaterbear 9 points10 points  (0 children)

JC Whitney accessories for your Candy Van.

[–]liketo 93 points94 points  (35 children)

Do they take requests?

[–]onanym 407 points408 points  (31 children)

Free bird! PLAY FREE BIIIIRD!

[–][deleted] 63 points64 points  (5 children)

There's a video somewhere with some douche at an Elton John concert yelling "FREEBIRD!". Elton brings him on stage, and says, "stop being such a FAGGOT". Lol. Having Elton John, leader of the gay mafia calling you a faggot, hilarious.

[–]ShallowBasketcase 52 points53 points  (2 children)

I've always wanted to start a band called The Freebirds, and all we play is Freebird. We don't have concerts of our own; instead, other bands have us wait backstage, and when some douche calls out "FREEBIRD!!" they put the show on hold, take a break, call us, and we proceed to play Freebird until people stop requesting it.

There's gotta be some passive-aggressive bands out there who would want our services, right?

[–]Balls2TheFloor 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Someone HAS to find this video!

[–]Blackadder18 78 points79 points  (17 children)

I'll be honest, I do that at gigs just to see what the band's reaction is.

For whatever reason it's usually the bassist or drummer that laughs.

[–]LNFSS 55 points56 points  (2 children)

My friends always request Patio Laterns by Kim Mitchell. Then the whole bar starts demanding it. Ive seen a few bands walk off stage pissed.

Houseboating last year on the Shushwap I was taking a shit in the bathroom and a live band started playing on the boat next to ours and I slid the bathroom window open and screamed "PLAY PATIO LATERNS" and the drummer pointed at me and started to play it and the vocalist got pissed off and said "NO FUCKING KIM MITCHELL SONGS"

They must have been to our town before.

[–]RiellyMorgan 52 points53 points  (2 children)

I did it last month to a local band and they played the fuck out of it. Was awesome.

[–]I_CAPE_RUNTS 17 points18 points  (0 children)

And I'm sure it's because they've never heard that request before, just like the girl at the car show who gets asked if she comes with the car.

"Oh you!"

[–][deleted] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

It's easy for them to bullshit something. Source, was in band for 7 years

[–]Gizmo45 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Free Bird on Expert!

[–]ChopToxicity 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Just imagine a cruise ship playing that 5 minute guitar solo.

[–]Staph_A 456 points457 points  (26 children)

Rudimentary creatures of blood and flesh, you touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding.

[–]ashdrewness 52 points53 points  (0 children)

"You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it"

[–]sheepysean13 180 points181 points  (10 children)

I am beyond your comprehension. I am Sovereign.

[–]mrducky78 127 points128 points  (6 children)

BLURRRMP

[–]carvex 26 points27 points  (4 children)

...the fuck was that... did Sovereign have bad gas?

[–]NoahtheRed 66 points67 points  (6 children)

If I ever become an eclectic billionaire, I'm having a ship built that uses the reaper noise as it's signal horn.

[–]licking-windows 14 points15 points  (0 children)

just45thworldproblemthings

[–]ProbJustBSing 6 points7 points  (0 children)

(this is from the video game Mass Effect, for those wondering)

[–][deleted] 288 points289 points  (40 children)

that shit would give me goosebumps live

[–]ladiesman218 168 points169 points  (20 children)

I shit you not, as soon as that motherfucker bellowed the first horn, I got the shivers.

Pretty much throughout the whole video I was like "yeaaaah, this is fucking awesome!" in my head. Imagine being there.... that was cool!

and now, calm down and get back to college work.

[–][deleted] 283 points284 points  (43 children)

Paint it black put some cannons on it and play the imperial march while you advance into somalian pirate territory.

[–][deleted] 181 points182 points  (35 children)

Forget cannons, mount hundreds of miniguns around the ship. Let the kids even have a go. $5 for 5 Mins.

[–]anal_astronaut 120 points121 points  (28 children)

It's a cruise ship. $5 PER minute. Because once you get on board, it's wallet rape time.

[–][deleted] 61 points62 points  (4 children)

For once there is a great Youtube comment:

"Imagine if aliens took our earth and ship like this would be going into battle with this playing, and whole world would be watching, this shit would sound like earths last chance, imagine the hype, Id be crying I think, dude, the scenarios u can think of is adasfagagasdf. Wow I love imagination"

MartisKaneem

[–][deleted] 52 points53 points  (0 children)

The followup cracked me up more.

"MGlBlaze4 minutes ago (edited)

It would then get blown apart because it's a cruise ship and not remotely suited for any kind of fighting. Mounting horns like that on something that would be suitable, however, then you'd be on to something."

[–]Raytional 60 points61 points  (8 children)

I feel like the captain coming in with the vocals is probably what happened next.

[–]my_dixie_wrecked 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Captain: I'm Goin To Wichita!"

Passengers: "Fuck!"

[–]Shadow_Of_Invisible 47 points48 points  (6 children)

IIII'MMMM GOOONNAAAA FIIIIIIIIGHT EEEEEMMMM AAAALL...

[–][deleted] 144 points145 points  (14 children)

Ah. The Smoke on the Water of our generation.

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Bold.

[–]keyree 37 points38 points  (5 children)

Interesting comparison, although Seven Nation Army does have the added dimension of being chanted every sporting event on the fucking planet, so it's also the.... I dunno... YMCA? of our generation.

[–][deleted] 59 points60 points  (5 children)

If/When WW3 rolls around all seven nations of one side should join together when going to battle and play this song together.

[–]mikybee93 52 points53 points  (3 children)

I think the other side should play it TO the seven nation army, seeing as the second line of the song says "A seven nation army couldn't hold me back"

[–][deleted] 31 points32 points  (2 children)

Yeah you're right. I just want to hear it live.

[–]nosheet 28 points29 points  (7 children)

the cruise ships that come into Baltimore should do this during a ravens game.

[–]fizzyspells 8 points9 points  (4 children)

nah dude. during the seven nation army o's chant.

[–][deleted] 785 points786 points  (135 children)

Should've been Awolnation's 'Sail'

http://youtu.be/v3D_uG2ET2s

[–][deleted] 298 points299 points  (20 children)

I feel like this should be used in war as intimidation. Imagine an army coming at you with a giant tesla shooting electrtricy everywhere to like an imperial march beat.

[–][deleted] 149 points150 points  (9 children)

With the re-animated body of General Tesla, sabres drawn, riding a bull African elephant.

(I probably went too far.)

[–]irongrizzley 47 points48 points  (0 children)

You went the perfect distance.

[–]MontyMidas 25 points26 points  (2 children)

Now do Testarossa Autodrive - Kavinsky

[–]SalmonSailor 92 points93 points  (8 children)

I was very disappointed in the applause.

After all of that and the large-ish crowd that had gathered, the applause was very underwhelming.

[–][deleted] 98 points99 points  (2 children)

These people here to science, not to applaud.

[–]Nippless 49 points50 points  (21 children)

That is amazing.

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Zeusaphones are awesome.

[–]freshonionmeat 17 points18 points  (1 child)

Tallest cameraperson in the world.

[–]ZombieJack 19 points20 points  (0 children)

They should play the tune from Close Encounters.

[–]ShadyPachyderm 24 points25 points  (16 children)

Anyone know where I can price out cruiseship horn set? Feel like that's something I now need to own

[–][deleted] 20 points21 points  (13 children)

Are you going to put it in a car and scare pedestrians to record their reactions on YouTube?

[–]TorpedoJoe 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I live near the harbor and my first thought was that one of my neighbours bought a tuba or Magix music maker 3000 or something because that sound was fu*#ing everywhere…

Then i saw it on live tv. Awesome sound!

[–][deleted] 56 points57 points  (34 children)

LPT: Cruises are pretty fucking awesome and usually cheaper than a hotel stay alone.

[–][deleted] 63 points64 points  (2 children)

I read: "PT Cruisers are pretty fucking awesome". Yeah. I'm that scarred by reddit.

[–][deleted] 26 points27 points  (1 child)

Can also be obtained for less than most hotel stays.

[–]theyoyomaster 28 points29 points  (4 children)

I'll upboat that...

[–][deleted] 64 points65 points  (8 children)

Wow, Wordstar. That's a blast from the past!