americanohno: Music Banned By The Soviet Union In 1985

americanohno 01.15.17	Hmm Sputnikmusic dot com seemed to have fucked my list up anyways: Starting with 37 are entries not found on list but probably should have been. Also several entries for artists not in the database seemed toi have vanished.
ScuroFantasma 01.15.17	lol @ 5
MarsKid 01.15.17	Banning a fucking Styx album lol
Sinternet 01.15.17	Lmao nice list
treeqt. 01.15.17	appreciate the redundancy fam
AlexKzillion 01.15.17	Didn't Tom Morello say he was a communist?
Sevengill 01.15.17	The Village People > violence wut
SteveOffProbation 01.15.17	"Official Reason: Shit Band" pretty sure that's reasoning for all the bands here EXCEPT 5 but alright
Mythodea 01.15.17	Great list. Half of these are tagged as ''neofascist''. Was it just a tag to ban music or was there something in particular that triggered such a response?
Sinternet 01.15.17	the fuck you saying shit about genghis tron buddy?
americanohno 01.15.17	@ Mythodea mostly has to do with an anti-western slant combined with mistranslations. Supposedly 10cc was 10ss in russian ss = nazis and so on. However there was a lot of flirtation with reactionary politics with certain (mostly british) bands in the 80s. You have Motorhead and Siouxsie and the Banshees dressing up in nazi uniforms for press photos, Bowie admitting an admiration for Hitler/Mussolini in an interview, Ian Curtis and Morrissey were closet Thatcherites and so on. The commies were right to be suspicious of popular music. @ Sinternet I've never listened to Genghis Tron before. for some reason the Komsomal wasnt appreciative of their music.
beefshoes 01.15.17	Yugoslavia was a self-declared communist state, had no music bans to my knowledge (or any bans aside from nationalist political opposition), and bands like Iron Maiden played there all of the time. The difference is between Soviet totalitarianism (Stalinism) and authoritarianism where opposition is still permitted. Even then, people easily got around the bans, and extreme metal might have been easier to obtain since censors were so focused on mainstream rock and metal from the time.
Mythodea 01.15.17	Now we talk about totalitarian communism, I've never heard of a band playing in China. Is it just me, or do band really abstain from China?
Sinternet 01.15.17	china has a very strict control on it, but recently they've been letting in a lot more western artists
Snide 01.15.17	Blood on the Dance Floor is banned from China, along with Guns n' Roses
guitarded_chuck 01.15.17	gnr should be banned worldwide
Sinternet 01.15.17	agreed hard
someguest 01.15.17	The Soviet Union fell before 28 came out.
demigod! 01.15.17	is this fake news??
someguest 01.15.17	Like "Surprise! I'm pregnant!" when she's really just fat?
americanohno 01.16.17	If you guys click on the link generously provided by me in the description everything will Make more sense.!
bakkermaarten007 01.16.17	Ironic that a regime based on class revolution would prohibit violence in music. Most forms of art however, were banned in the Soviet-Union for being not realistic enough. They wouldn't tolerate such forms of mild escapism from the reality of 'the working class'. In obscurity- and with fear for being deported to a gulag- some artists made very captivating art, perhaps also in large part due to the poor living conditions. (many great books, music and etc. have been made in destitution)
Greem 01.16.17	17 is Krokus, 28 is Munich Machine