New Wave/Synthpop songs ranked from #200 to #1, one per day.
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Number 52: Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance
The second and final Men Without Hats entry on my Top 200, "The Safety Dance" (presented here in the great album/video/Canadian radio single version, not the God-awful US radio single version) was the band's biggest hit. It reached #3 in America, #11 in their native Canada, and #6 in the UK while receiving heavy international video airplay. Ivan Doroschuk and crew went on to release four more albums after Rhythm of Youth, the 1984 LP that includes "The Safety Dance", before Ivan went solo in 1995. "The Safety Dance" gets the #52 spot here.
Bonus: Here's "Superbadgirls" from Ivan's first solo LP, 1997's The Spell.
Like a cross-eyed sharpshooter or a badly hung porn star, Ivan's certainly made the most of his limited natural talent .... thanks to his superb marketing & propaganda abilities the Ivan Ivan franchise shall live on forever!
In Super Bad Girls he looks like Bono as channeled by Jason Mewes (Jay & Silent Bob)
Like a cross-eyed sharpshooter or a badly hung porn star, Ivan's certainly made the most of his limited natural talent .... thanks to his superb marketing & propaganda abilities the Ivan Ivan franchise shall live on forever!
ReplyDeleteIn Super Bad Girls he looks like Bono as channeled by Jason Mewes (Jay & Silent Bob)
Bono resemblance confirmed.
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