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Metallica Is for Monkeys


01/02/2010
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Metallica Is for Monkeys was a top story in Sept. Here it is again as we recap 2009: (Rock Radio) It's official: Metallica is monkey music. That's the conclusion reached by a group of scientists who set out to discover how human music came into existence. And while the cotton-top tamarins ignored tracks by Nine Inch Nails and Tool, they responded positively to Metallica's 1991 Black Album track Of Wolf and Man.

The tamarin experiment involved playing different types of music to see if monkeys respond to music, or if only humans do. They played a variety of 30-second clips including music experts had devised from monkey sounds.

While they reacted to the monkey music, the only human music they paid attention to was Metallica's � and it made them calm and relaxed rather than the response straight-laced lab geeks expected. - more on this story



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