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Men Without Hats -- music video for their 1982 hit, "The Safety Dance":
From a tweet by @beautyscientist:
Safety Dance - It was bonkers when it came out. Still doesn't make sense.
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From a tweet by @beautyscientist:
I was 17 when this came out. I dressed like this when I could, and sought out crazy hippie chicks like her to sleep with on Sunset Beach with my Jensen Healy in tow.
Here's a TMI moment: The first two songs I ever got laid by were "I've Been Down So God Damn Long" on LA Woman (she didn't think I would make it past "Love Her Madly", which was her favorite song), and "If I had a Rocket Launcher" by Bruce Cockburn, in the back of a Starsky and Hutch Gran Torino.
Eric at October 20, 2012 2:08 PM
My 14-year-old daughter is sitting about six feet from me as I play the video. She seems supremely unimpressed.
Now she's singing a Justin Bieber tune. *Sigh!*
Old RPM Daddy at October 20, 2012 2:25 PM
"Safety Dance - It was bonkers when it came out. Still doesn't make sense."
Nope, what was really bonkers was that idiots were "break" dancing and seriously injuring themselves and others in the process.
Seriously, injuring folks while dancing; that's what doesn't make sense; and this song was in response to that.
(sigh, I am old if I remember that!)
Charles at October 20, 2012 7:32 PM
My friends and I in WoW call traps that are timed for you to run thru at certain times "Doing the Safety Dance" but most of them are too young to know this song exists ^.^
Kat at October 21, 2012 2:52 AM
And this was about the only piece of Canadian "rock" that actually got onto MTV during the whole of the 1980's. How can a nation of 30,000,000 (located next door to the country that invented rock and roll) be able to produce exactly one decent rock band (Rush) in five decades? I blame it on socialist health care. The connection? Shut up.
David Crawford at October 21, 2012 9:07 AM
Dude, don't sleep on the Guess Who, or Bachmann-Turner Overdrive. Or Triumph (remember them?).
Old RPM Daddy at October 21, 2012 10:04 AM
From a tweet by @beautyscientist:
Safety Dance - It was bonkers when it came out. Still doesn't make sense.
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Especially since that's Morris dancing....
(No, not as in Mark Morris....but I DID once see the words "Morris dancing" in an article about him!)
lenona at October 21, 2012 12:08 PM
Heck yes I remember Triumph. There was also Max Webster and FM. And Loverboy, although they weren't in the Toronto Tontos circle; IIRC they were from Vancouver.
Cousin Dave at October 22, 2012 9:03 AM
The singer talks about the number:
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v16725574hRwbx5sZ
Stinky the Clown at October 22, 2012 2:30 PM
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