LOL... Old Soviet list of banned Western Music

[Blue_Tires]

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1. styx? lol

well i admit i'm not very familiar with their full catalog, but i had them in the soft rock/lame pop category. doesn't seem to belong in a list of mostly metal/punk acts.

oh, and homosexuality gets canned heat canned, but that's not the reason for putting village people on the list?

[Blue_Tires]

2. Yeah, I was wondering what was 'violent' about the Village People

[C_U_L8R]

3. Obscurantism. Had to look that one up.

Friedrich Nietzsche said: "The essential element in the black art of obscurantism is not that it wants to darken individual understanding, but that it wants to blacken our picture of the world, and darken our idea of existence."

Sounds like Trump is an avid practitioner.

[Jake Stern]

4. I notice Queen isn't on the list

Proof that Freddie Mercury could make fans out of even the most hardcore Commies.

[jayschool2013]

5. That top 5

So awesome.

[Coventina]

6. The B-52's and Madness were punks and violent?!?!

The Soviets needed better researchers.

[d_r]

7. This guy never

Listened to pink Floyd final cut

[Chipper Chat]

8. They banned Julio Iglesias?

Oh I fogot. The soviets banned Churches.

[rurallib]

9. I feel so sorry for the comrade who made the list and had to listen

to all the decadent western music.

[jmowreader]

10. Confused here

They nailed Canned Heat (one of America's more benign bands) for "homosexuality" but got the Village People (a band whose entire act was a parody of gay stereotypes) for "violence"?

But I would have LOVED to been on the committee that made up this list. "Comrades, to properly denounce Ozzy Osbourne we're going to need a complete collection of his decadent, nekulturny, anti-socialist records."

[malthaussen]

11. In English, even.

How helpful.

-- Mal

[KatyMan]

12. It does say at the bottom

"Author's translation of figure 6.2", so I would assume the original is in the book.