St. Petersburg recently celebrated the opening of the Rock Club and 35 years of official acceptance of their local scene*, and coincidentally I ran across some official soviet censorship lists from the summer of 1984:
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(one notes that кино, despite having being on the list, now merits a symphonic interpretation ... tempora mutantur)
It's apparently a soviet attempt to "reassess the contracts of musicians who performed violently or sexually in concert, and creating a panel to set industry standards.", but I'm not sure any of the censors (similar to how their US counterparts seemed to have forgotten Elvis' pelvis?) actually listened to the censees.
For example, I can understand how the soviets (who seem to have been even more obsessed than the LDS with squeaky-clean?) would have had problems with the Ramones and Acca/dacca.
And maybe the B-52s got the boot for their name, not their songs. But the Talking Heads? Yes? Asia?
Was there something amazingly subversive about new wave or prog that my white suburban teenage friends of the time completely failed to appreciate?
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