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This List Of Bands Banned On Soviet Radio Is A Real Head Scratcher
Uproxx ^ | 06.02.14 | Robo Panda

Posted on 06/03/2014 7:56:46 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows

Did you ever want to see AC/DC, The B-52′s, Pink Floyd, Donna Summer, The Village People, and Julio Iglesias in the same place? Well then, you can either read my dream journal or check out this list of Western music banned on Soviet radio stations. The list was titled “The approximate list of foreign musical groups and artists whose repertoires contain ideologically harmful compositions” (catchy title) and was distributed to Communist Party officials in January of 1985. We like how they call it an “approximate list”. Everything in the USSR was so slapdash.

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TOPICS: History; Music/Entertainment; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 1985; censorship; evilempire; napl; rockandroll; russia
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To: Cboldt

Surprised they didn’t include Grand Funk Railroad for being An Americanski Band.


81 posted on 06/04/2014 9:41:23 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: Cboldt
*shrug* Really cheap vodka.
82 posted on 06/04/2014 12:41:50 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Judas Priest...racism?


83 posted on 06/04/2014 2:21:34 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: Lazamataz
I *KNEW* you were a Juggalo!

Hardly, your talking to a guy who used to blast Warpigs while under "condition black" during military exercises.

I am surprised Motörhead didn't make the list...Guess they were terrified of Lemmy


84 posted on 06/04/2014 3:59:10 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Forgive but don't forget)
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To: Steely Tom

Hard core libertarians, so yes, EXTREMELY anti-communist...

I would have thought that Priests of Syrinx would have got them on the banned list, if Anthem did not.


85 posted on 06/05/2014 9:08:59 AM PDT by L,TOWM (No one in the US is free of the spirit of entitlement)
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