Men Without Hats
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Sep 17, 2026
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Ed CraneHOST
Why, it is men without hats and the safety dance.
Ed CraneHOST
Back in 1983, that one takes me back.
Ed CraneHOST
1983 is the year I moved from Chicago to New York to work for the great CBS News empire.
EricHOST
You are a news finder.
EricHOST
um here's one for you 80s dance pop artists men without hats still have no hats uh but they have made some changes they now have some friends that are also your friends that also don't dance oh troubling yeah no i mean they're more accepting like you know okay if you have a friend that doesn't dance they're like he's probably all right
RobbieHOST
oh i like this this is a good turnaround then
AaronHOST
yeah great i love that for them Okay, here's something.
KelsPANELIST
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KelsPANELIST
Men Without Hats.
KelsPANELIST
[laughs]
NealHOST
Davo?
DavoHOST
[laughs]
KelsPANELIST
[laughs] Thank God.
DavoHOST
It is Men Without Hats.
KelsPANELIST
I was like, is it Men With Hats or Men Without Hats? [laughs]
NickHOST
Uh, some of them are into the acid rock and the wolf rock and the thrash metal and all the things, '80s rock, that we're involved in, Josh, day after day.
NickHOST
There were others sitting around with us that they wouldn't know, uh, Men Without Hats from Metallica, you know what I mean?
DanaHOST
Right.
NickHOST
They, they just don't follow m- music much at all.
Judd ApatowSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
[laughs] Exactly.
Adam CarollaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And then it's a quick Men Without Hats.
Judd ApatowSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That's right.
Adam CarollaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And then I plug in my Graham Parker, and I crank up, uh, Stupefaction or something as loud as I can.
ChrisHOST
So he made a protest song about it.
ChrisHOST
What am I talking about? Well, Ivan Doroschuk was the lead singer of the new wave group Men Without Hats, and he formed The Safety Dance as a sort of an anti-establishment song.
ChrisHOST
Went all the way up to number three in 1983 after spending 16 weeks in the Top 40.
ChrisHOST
It's their one and only hit on this countdown, and it lands at song number 1529.
ChrisHOST
This is Men Without Hats and The Safety Dance.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We can dance if we want to.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We can leave your friends behind.
ChrisHOST
I'm sure he's quite proud of that.
Surfing TruckerHOST
So while we have some great tunes coming to you from Flamage, Nitzareb, we're going to start things out.
Surfing TruckerHOST
You guessed it, Men Without Hats, I Love the 80s, here on Alternative 80s.
Surfing TruckerHOST
Alternative 80s
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Ain't no place I'd rather be Gentlemen and ladies, I love the 80s.
Chris CordaniHOST
We can have that instead.
Chris CordaniHOST
And yes, Men Without Hats is already touring the U.S., so they're on our side of the border anyway.
Chris CordaniHOST
All the good things from Canada are already here.
Chris CordaniHOST
We don't want the round bacon.
Eric Von EssexHOST
It was either that or Benny Hill.
PaulGUEST
Wasn't, wasn't, wasn't it the, the, the group Men Without Hats that did a song called Safety Dance? So I'm, I'm thinking that y- you've got something there.
PaulGUEST
It has something to do with-
Eric Von EssexHOST
Oh
Bob CordaroHOST
We'll be back.
Bob CordaroHOST
Men Without Hats.
Bob CordaroHOST
There's a band we forgot about.
Bob CordaroHOST
This date, 1983, they moved from number 11 to number 6 with their hit, Safety Dance.
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