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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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[Thanks to Gefn for the link!]
To: Slings and Arrows; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
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posted on
06/03/2014 7:58:11 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
B-52’s, Violence? The bomber yes, the band NO!
To: Slings and Arrows
Julio Eglesias - neofacist.
I knew it.
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posted on
06/03/2014 7:59:25 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: Slings and Arrows
theyve BANNED...Genghis Kahn?
wasnt he a bit long in the tooth to be playing rock and roll anyway?
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posted on
06/03/2014 8:01:42 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
To: CivilWarBrewing
*shrug* That’s what comes of drinking cheap vodka.
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posted on
06/03/2014 8:02:16 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: MeshugeMikey
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posted on
06/03/2014 8:03:01 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
I wonder who is “banned” from government-owned radio stations now??
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posted on
06/03/2014 8:03:21 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: skeeter
It’s not like he tried to hide it.
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posted on
06/03/2014 8:03:25 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
I guess Insane Clown Posse is ok
10
posted on
06/03/2014 8:04:17 PM PDT
by
darkwing104
(Forgive but don't forget)
To: Slings and Arrows
I guess they liked The Beatles “Back in the USSR”
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posted on
06/03/2014 8:04:29 PM PDT
by
Gefn
(More cowbell)
To: Slings and Arrows
Van Halen - Anti-Soviet Propaganda?
I must have missed that song.
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posted on
06/03/2014 8:07:07 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
To: MeshugeMikey
There was a German disco group by the same name (well, the German version of that name anyway).
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posted on
06/03/2014 8:07:51 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Slings and Arrows
I guess Klesh should be the Clash and Stranger the Stranglers.
Why is it in English?
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Hot for People’s Teacher.
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posted on
06/03/2014 8:08:40 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: darkwing104
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posted on
06/03/2014 8:09:18 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Gefn
And the Who’s “Boris the Spider.”
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posted on
06/03/2014 8:10:08 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: CivilWarBrewing
BANG BANG BANG on the door baby.
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posted on
06/03/2014 8:10:14 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: ifinnegan
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posted on
06/03/2014 8:10:36 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Well, there was their little-known single “Our Love is Hotter than a Tac Nuke On Moscow.”
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posted on
06/03/2014 8:11:39 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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