(It’s recommended that you listen to this on Spotify as their embed only has 200 songs. The 2:44 7-inch single then got some momentum and rose to 3 on the Hot 100 on. 'The Safety Dance' was released next, but it didnt boogie until a 12-inch remix, running 4:32, went to 1 on the Dance chart on June 2, 1983. The first single was 'I Got The Message,' which went nowhere. “The Safety Dance” (extended dance version)Ī filterable, searchable & sortable somewhat up to date database with links to every “Certain Song” post I’ve ever written. Rhythm Of Youth was the first Men Without Hats album.
In any event, it’s materially different from the single, and - for me, at least - is the reason that “The Safety Dance” isn’t just a classic single, but a classic song. It’s strange, but I’m guessing it’s also what attracted me to this song, though after this opening, it sounds like they use the vocal take from the single for the rest of the song, but they never really bring in the massive synths that you probably associate with this song until the very very end. Meanwhile, on the extended dance version - which I’m sure was spun more than once at KFSR Night at McGuffey’s - there’s a much longer intro, featuring a highly reverbed voice spelling out “S-A-F-E-T-Y” followed by a computer singing: “Boop boop bop bop be boop boop bop bop”.Īnd then, with the massive wall of synths nowhere to be found - just the bass, drums and handclaps - Doroschuck doesn’t so much sing the opening declaration as he speaks it, with particular weird emphasis on “out of this world” at the end of the verse.
The rest of the single of “The Safety Dance” is variations on that theme, both musically and lyrically - with a massive wall of burbling synths guiding Doroschuck to the end of the song as he repeats the title over and over to the end.
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Inspired by a real-life incident where Doroschuck was kicked out of a club for pogoing, it’s a pretty strong declaration of being pro-dancing, which I’ve always appreciated, as that was right around the point when I realized that I was also pro-dancing, even if I wasn’t pro music that was defined as “dance music.” Men Without Hats is a Canadian new wave rock and synthpop group from Montreal, Quebec, Canada that formed in 1977, achieving their most popularity in the 80s. Not just shorter, but completely different in conception - and with fewer hooks, to boot.ĭo you even know what I’m talking about? Has the extended dance mix of “The Safety Dance” made it down through history, or are you only familiar with the shorter - and somewhat different single, in which, after only 10 seconds of synthesizer fanfare, lead hatless man Ivan Doroschuck gets right to the point: Sure, it all seemed vaguely silly, right down to the somewhat problematic-but-ubiquitous medieval-themed video that was played approximately five times an hour on MTV, but here’s the thing: that video - and the single it was based on - was a completely different version of the song that people who bought the album or the extended dance version of the single heard. Let’s just say that I’ve been an unabashed fan of this hookfest from the very start: I even gave the underlying album (the long-forgotten Rhythm of Youth) a good review in the very second issue of Dead Air Diary.
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