Monkeys Relax to Metallica
This originally appeared in an article under the science section of the Guardian online, and I just plain couldn't let it go by.
Evidently, Metallica, as well as Samuel Barber, Nine Inch Nails and Tool, were played in 30 second bursts for a group of monkeys, at which point their reaction to the music was logged and chronicled. (The actual point of the study was to examine the effects of monkey-sound-inspired music on monkeys. Make your own joke here.)
To make a long story short, the only "human" music that had any appreciable effect on the cotton-top tamarins (like the Whitesnake-fan-simulacrum featured above,) was Metallica's "Of Wolf and Man." Oddly enough, and counter to the reaction of most fraternity brothers from the early to mid nineties, the song had a calming effect on our more primitive distant evolutionary cousins.
There are legions of Lars Ulrich/Metallica fans/Black album jokes to be made here. So many, I can't focus on just one. Leave your submissions in the comments.
I also really, really hope that British taxpayer money wasn't spent on this study.
D.M
Music Editor
D.M is the Music Editor for Bloodygoodhorror.com. He tries to avoid bands with bodily functions in the name and generally has a keen grasp of what he thinks sounds good and what doesn't. He also really enjoys reading, at least in part, and perhaps not surprisingly, because it's quiet. He's on a mission to convince his wife they need a badger as a household pet. It's not going well.