Friday, June 28, 2019

"A Former Hungarian Ambassador to the U.S. on How Rock Music Challenged the Soviet Union.

“Without rock and roll, I don’t think the Soviet Union would have broken up.”

Sunday, June 2, 2019

"1980s Metalhead Kids Are Alright: Scientific Study Shows That They Became Well-Adjusted Adults


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In the 1980s, The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), an organization co-founded by Tipper Gore and the wives of several other Washington power brokers, launched a political campaign against pop music, hoping to put warning labels on records that promoted Sex, Violence, Drug and Alcohol Use. Along the way, the PMRC issued "the Filthy Fifteen," a list of 15 particularly objectionable songs. Hits by Madonna, Prince and Cyndi Lauper made the list. But the list really took aim at heavy metal bands from the 80s -- namely, Judas Priest, Mötley Crüe, Twisted Sister, W.A.S.P., Def Leppard, Black Sabbath, and Venom. (Interesting footnote: the Soviets separately created a list of blackballed rock bands, and it looked pretty much the same.)