Like apparently the French government tried to make protesting illegal but that just made the protestors angrier? Apparently police have started to side with the protestors? Does anyone have any up-to-date news on the extent of what's happening?

  • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Europe was better musically, because it didn't denounce disco in a fit of homophobic and racist rage.

    Lots of communism in music from the cursed Island back then too. Of course, there was a decline in quality and a tendency towards overproduction by either 1987 or 1988 as well as the rise of popular shlock like the infamous Milli Vanilli. Average quality + quantity would only really recover around 1996 imo.

    Early New Wave (especially 1982 and thereabouts, before it turned too pop), post-punk, sophistipop, freestyle, goth rock... all quality music and actually listened to by wide audiences.

    Hell, even minor things like classical influenced music like parts of Depeche Mode's Music for the Masses (1987) or The Communards' (yes, they were communists) self titled album from '86.

    Then again, I'm biased and like even shlock like Italo disco.