Jon Freeman, my musical experience in the MRI scan was a commercial radio station's news broadcast item about a randomly violent stabbing at a party. I must have looked agitated because the ethereal voice asked me if I was all right and I asked her to turn the radio off. I listened to the sounds of the MRI and found it soothing.

I can't stand the yakkety-yak of commercial radio at any time, but being in a claustrophobic's nightmare enclosed space while listening to it was like being in hell.