Western music banned in Iran

[Buried Alien]

Rarely does discussion of world affairs and politics spill over to the Music Forum, but this (http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/12/19/iran.music.ap/index.html) warrants it.





Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[ghostrider666]

The irony is that when US kids are rolling thru the streets in APCs in the next year or two, they'll be blasting rap & heavy metal music from boom boxes.

[Spike-X]

The only surprise here is that it wasn't already banned.

[Grant]

Note to self: Stay the fuck out of Iran.

[Spike-X]

Songs such as George Michael's "Careless Whisper," Eric Clapton's "Rush" and the Eagles' "Hotel California" have regularly accompanied Iranian broadcasts, as do tunes by saxophonist Kenny G.

Well, they'll be sorely missed.

[Alex]

I thought that ment they banned Country music, and was curios as to why iranians liked it.
But since they mean western in the world way...
I don't know, that guy is a freaking nutball, but this makes sense in a way.
Lets say you are a crazy, jew hating, middle eastern prime minister.
You know a few things from music.
It can be used to rock the kashbah.
And, it eventualy leads to freedom if you don't stop it, Rush taught us that in one of their concept albums.
So, following these warnings, he's just going about it the best way he can.

[cactusmaac]

It won't have much effect given how you can easily get all that stuff on the black market.

[traxler]

It won't have much effect given how you can easily get all that stuff on the black market.
I suspect he has cousins in that black market.
Soon to be very rich, gratefull cousins.
And what about downloading?
Like they don't have PCs in Iran.

[Sanagi]

You can always tell how out-of-touch with reality someone is by how much censorship they want.

[Shellhead]

The irony is that when US kids are rolling thru the streets in APCs in the next year or two, they'll be blasting rap & heavy metal music from boom boxes.

It's funny, I actually agree with every post in this thread so far, except for yours.

The odds of the US invading Iran in the next few years is roughly zero to none. Our invasion of Iraq has been a deadly fiasco, and may leave the region in turmoil for many years to come. Translated in to English, that means enjoy the current price of gas, it's only going up from here. Just last week, Dubya actually admitted that the intelligence reports that caused him to invade Iraq were wrong, which is a huge admission from this stubborn president.

Our military forces are demoralized and stretched thin across the planet, from Iraq, to South Korea, to Cuba, to many other places. We still have troops in Japan, and we beat them 60 years ago! We don't have the manpower, the equipment or the credibility to invade Iran until we finish with Iraq, and that's just not happening soon enough.

[The Mirrorball Man]

The odds of the US invading Iran in the next few years is roughly zero to none.
Which is precisely why Ahmadinejad knows he can get away with everything he's saying and doing right now: it gives him easy brownie points with Muslim fundamentalists, and he knows there won't be any serious consequences.

[Adam Crocker]

It won't have much effect given how you can easily get all that stuff on the black market.

And in the spirit of that I think it would be all too approrpriate to post the following, which was inspired by Khomeini...

Now the king told the boogie men
You have to let that raga drop
The oil down the desert way
Has been shakin' to the top
The sheik he drove his Cadillac
He went a' cruisnin' down the ville
The muezzin was a' standing
On the radiator grille

[Chorus:]
The shareef don't liiiike it!
Rockin' the Casbah!
Rock the Casbah!
The shareef don't liiiike it!
Rockin' the Casbah!
Rock the Casbah!

By order of the prophet
We ban that boogie sound
Degenerate the faithful
With that crazy Casbah sound
But the Bedouin they brought out
The electric camel drum
The local guitar picker
Got his guitar picking thumb
As soon as the shareef
Had cleared the square
They began to waaaiiil

The shareef don't liiiike it!
Rockin' the Casbah!
Rock the Casbah!
The shareef don't liiiike it!
Rockin' the Casbah!
Rock the Casbah!

Now over at the temple
Oh! They really pack 'em in
The in crowd say it's cool
To dig this chanting thing
But as the wind changed direction
The temple band took five
The crowd caught a wiff
Of that crazy Casbah jive

The shareef don't liiiike it!
Rockin' the Casbah!
Rock the Casbah!
The shareef don't liiiike it!
Rockin' the Casbah!
Rock the Casbah!

The king called up his jet fighters
He said you better earn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the Casbah way

As soon as the shareef was
Chauffeured outta there
The jet pilots tuned to
The cockpit radio blare

As soon as the shareef was
Outta their hair
The jet pilots waaa--ailed...

The shareef don't liiiike it!
Rockin' the Casbah!
Rock the Casbah!
The shareef don't liiiike it!
Rockin' the Casbah!
Rock the Casbah!

He thinks it's not kosher!
Fundamentally he can't take it.
You know he really hates it.

[cactusmaac]

I suspect he has cousins in that black market.
Soon to be very rich, gratefull cousins.
And what about downloading?
Like they don't have PCs in Iran.

Yeah but most of the population is too poor to own one.

[K'Nort]

That's an interesting -- and speedy -- turnaround. Last August (2004), Iran allowed a Western rock album to be legally sold for the first time. It was a best-of Queen. Which has some irony, of course, but it was based on Mercury's heritage.