I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THEM!   :)

Some of my favorites:

Ideas for Walls
Antartica
Messiahs Die Young

I only know "Safety Dance" and "Pop Goes The World." :) Both great songs.

I actually went to high school in MTL with a couple of the brothers from this group ( although they were ahead of me and probably still don't know I exist)

It was a decent band with some hits.

I thought they were 'okay'...

'Safety Dance' was a cool song that was really popular while I was in high school...

Couldn't really get into 'Pop Goes The World', though...

Ugh!  I thought Pop Goes The World was their worst song  8-P

Safety Dance is the only one I can remember...

And don't forget the Weird Al version, The Brady Bunch.  8)

I was a fan of them myself.  About 10 years ago I was DJing a party, and a few others there liked New Wave.  So I put on "Safety Dance", and a few of us old farts got up and started to dance it.  All the kids looked confused, as we tried to explain what we were doing.

The next month I DJed another party at the same house, and brought along the music video.  That time I turned my monitor around, and they could see what we were talking about.

And when I saw the movie "Music & Lyrics" last year, I was struck by how much the fictional group "Pop" sounded like Men Without Hats.  While the characters mostly resembled Wham, musically they seem more like MWH.

Who here loves this band, as much as i do?


My mom and I both do.

And we can act real rude
and totally removed
and we can act like an imbecile

We can dance; we can dance,
everything is out of control,
we can dance, we can dance,
doing it from pole to pole.
We can dance, we can dance;
everybody look at your hands

We can dance, we can dance,
everybody's taking the chance
with the the safety dance
the safety dance
it's the safety dance.

And don't forget the Weird Al version, The Brady Bunch.  8)


That's a great parody of his. It appears on his 2nd studio album, Weird Al in 3D, and on his TV Album compilation...for those who don't know. The first half is generally about various TV programs to watch; in a nutshell his message is "You can watch any program you want, just as long as it's not...'The Brady Bunch'"...and the second half is basically the lyrics of the Brady Bunch theme song sung to the tune of the Safety Dance.

Just went through a bunch of MwH for review purposes.  Underrated band, and while we all remember The Safety Dance, they were a lot more versatile than they were given credit for.

I Like (1982, Rhythm of Youth) is reminiscent in both instrumentation and lyrics of DEVO.  Ditto for Living in China.
"Check out the language / Check out their clothes / Their mother buys their shoes, and where she gets them, no one knows.
They go to parties / To steal the show / By talking really loud and tryin' to tell you what they know, but - I - Like..."

Walk on Water (1987, Pop Goes the World) is... well, it's the key that turns Pop Goes the World from "a cute pop song" into a pretty deep concept album.
"They said we were the new beginning / They said we were a brand new start /
We were none of these thing and they said we could sing, so we sang about the state of the art.
They said we were the second coming / they said we were a different breed /
We were none of these things and they said we could sing, o we sang about the birds and the bees."

If you listen to nothing else by MwH, listen to Pop Goes the World, not the song, the album.  Every track, in order.  The "Johnny and Jenny" in are characters, whose adventures in the music industry are told through the album.

I'm also gonna nominate it for a great roadtrip album.  If you get up while it's still dark, your morning will start out with "Okay, here we go!", you'll warm up the engine to "Pop Goes the World".  You'll be well out of town on an empty 3-lane highway by the time you hit The Real World at a relaxed pace, and you'll have time to just enjoy watching the sky change color.  You'll risk a very expensive speeding ticket during the next three and a half minutes of Moonbeam, but you'll be back to the speed limit long before seeing Officer Friendly off to the side of the road just as "Excuse me Sir, could you tell me how to get to the real world" opens up Jenny Wore Black.  (The brilliance of a line like "Ho ho, the world is a funny place!" will never seem so perfect.)  I couldn't have scripted it better.  It'll never happen again, and most y'all won't believe me.  But I was there.  And I've got an ear-to-ear grin on my face just remembering it.

(Cool Story, Bro! / tl;dr:  "MwH was underrated.  Sunrises are pretty.  If you dig synthpop, you should listen to their stuff in album form, not as singles.")