"Der Kommissar"' is all about young people using drugs, probably cocaine ("snow") in Germany. "Alles Klar, Herr Kommissar?" is the German version of "Is everything all right, Officer?"
One hit wonders depend on the country really. Madness are considered one hit wonders in the US (Our House) but in the UK, they're anything but! They had top 10 hits every other week!
Yeah, I Remember In One Video Someone Suggested He Make A Video About Rage Against The Machine, To Which He Noted That, In The U.S., They're Not A One-Hit Wonder. Although Ofcourse I've Lived In The U.S. All My Life And Only Heard Of One Song By Them, So It's An Easy Mistake To Make IN My Opinion.
Would love to see Todd do a video on Johnny Hates Jazz. Ironically, the lead singer's dad was the first one hit wonder of the pop music era. A generational one hit wonder phenomenon is screaming for Todd to tell.their story.
Todd is amazing but he somehow missed one of the video's biggest accomplishments: hordes of growing boys who had their sexual awakening and/or got off on Peasant Girl. There are many, apparently. Heard that Peasant Girl became a big magazine exec later and hated being asked about the "Safety Dance" video. "It was just one afternoon of my life!" (Needless to say, that isn't really her returning to the "I Like' video, just a double/stand-in).
I looked up "Sideways", the Men Without Hats album that didn't come out in the states and "sounds like Superchunk". Fun fact about that album: Away from Voivod played drums on it. If you know anything about Voivod, then you'd know that the only thing they and Men Without Hats have in common is that they're both from Montreal and that's it.
I live in Vancouver. Right before the pandemic hit I was trying out for a pretty heavy "grind core influenced" band. They were pretty casual about things which was fine by me. After a few rehearsal with them, they tell me that their drummer usually disappears for a month or so during the summer to go tour with Men Without Hats. I was frankly dumbfounded as I couldn't believe they were still active. I was like "Really?!?! The Safety Dance guys?!?!"
When I heard that guitar intro in the video, I knew I would like that album. And yes I looked it up, and it sounds absolutely awesome. How someone wouldn't like it is beyond me. I'd say it's huge step forward what they were doing... Exactly type of alternative rock that I like. REM - Monster is one of my favorite albums ever. ( ...and I really don't like New Wave in general for that matter.😅)
I saw them open for the B-52's a year ago. He wore a hat. They played a bunch of their worst songs, ended with safety dance as the sun went down and introduced the Human League who between songs talked about how their own music was just silly noises. B-52's never looked better though.
Always thought they were German. There was a famous case in the 80s of police raiding and shutting down cellar bars in Berlin because of moshing. They considered it rioting and shut down a number of clubs... but when the fans, bands and club owners tried getting the truth out... that the injuries incurred were due to the raids by police, not the dancing, they were accused of being a part of the rising neo - fascist far right movement. Moshing was almost banned (obviously was to all intent and purposes, effectively banned) until there was a change in government. (Or the wall came down, can't remember which). Anyway, I was told that's what the song referred to. So I thought they were German.
I mean Canada is part of the Commonwealth and they get more EU news than the USA does so its not really shocking that they knew enough about this even though they are from canada to release a song based on it.
their song Sideways (10:53) sounds suspiciously like I Saw Your Mommy by Suicidal Tendencies. Smells Like Teen Spirit sounds like the intro to Sideways. She Hates Me by Puddle of Mudd sounds like all 3 songs collectively. if musical inbreeding was a thing, She Hates Me would def be a product of it lmfao. (won’t stop me from having nostalgia bias for it tho)
Well that would only work if they named themselves after they had written and released music and then years after synth was not popular anymore, Devo only had hats in 1 song as well.
Lots of US New Wave - Missing Persons, Oingo Boingo, Pere Ubu, Talking Heads and on and on. I mean how could Todd forget something as over-the-top 80s New Wave like : ua-cam.com/video/IasCZL072fQ/v-deo.html I also like the fact that the primary brothers behind MWH were born ... in Champagne IL.
Heck yes! There's a bunch of New Wave bands from America, and not all from New York or L.A. (where nobody walks, of course ;)) as you might expect--for pete's sake, the B-52s are from Georgia. (By the way, in case anybody is wondering, that link is to "Words" by Missing Persons--it's not a rickroll, which wouldn't make sense in this case anyway as we're talking about NON-British acts. :P) Edit: New Wave bands from America? How about BLONDIE, whom Todd even references in the video? XD
I’m Canadian and I hear pop goes the world on the oldies station we play at work more than I hear safety dance lol PS I feel like pop goes the world and I melt with you would make a killer mashup.
10:52 Can't believe I just realized (I knew it felt fimiliar) but Puddle of Mudd's riff from She Hates Me is exactly the same as that! Weird to think they got it from Men Without Hats!
I think the music video is brillant, especially in the early days of MTV-where the new medium was still not yet “figured out” and though typically rough in appearance, music videos could be a bit subversive; indeed, beyond the obvious surface silliness of the video and the tune itself, I find a Rabelaisian character to this video/song, ie a proverbial middle finger to conventional morality, as embodied in the “dance” during a carnival or a festival. Traditionally, carnival is a time when the folk could be indecent and act “like we come from out of this world,” and invariably carnival publicly and ceremonially makes fun of the powers-that-be. I doubt any of this was intended in the video. I mean I don’t think the band members where reading Rabelais, _Gargantua and Pantagruel_ but in unconscious effect, the video is quite interesting. But I digress :)
Also, I remember Casey Kasem explaining on AT40 at the time that the safety part was that the beat was slower so that moshers would be slower and less dangerous.
The video reminds me of Johann and Peewit, the comic and animated series by Peyo where The Smurfs got their start. I was very little when "The Safety Dance" came out so I am actually more familiar with them through "Pop Goes The World" and only later learned that they also did "The Safety Dance."
Always liked Pop Goes The World better than the Safety Dance. Unfortunately, Belinda Carlyle's hit that year started in a similar way, always disappointing me.
The EP of Safety Dance I bought had Antarctica on the B-side. It's a song I like much better than Safety Dance. The jacket actually had those Fred Murray paint-by-number dance steps on it, as if the Safety Dance was an actual dance ... which it wasn't.
1:00 OINGO BOINGO TOO!! also- There was Martha And The Muffins from Canada as well, predating MWOH… hey, those kids are probably worthy of an episode of their own…
Martha and the Muffins! I'm not Canadian, but I know about them because of those various-artist New Wave CDs I used to collect. I've heard several of their songs and like pretty much all of them. They're good stuff!
Wow. I spent my whole life thinking the lyric was "save the dance" like this was some kind of Footloose thing. And I spent three quarters of the video wondering when "safety" would become relevant to the song. And it wasn't until my third or fourth time in the video that the titular lyrics came up that I made the connection.
If you listen carefully, what he's saying in the chorus is actually "it's safe to dance". He's telling the audience that their show is a place where they can feel safe to cut loose.
Ivan's love of prog can be seen on that 90s Men Without Hats album as the cover art text uses the same look as Genesis' logo during the early 70s and one of the tracks is named "The Van der Graaf Generation Blues"
So, Fun Fact, I Didn't Know There Was A One-Hit Wonderland Video On "The Safety Dance" (Which Considering The Only Place I Could Find It Is Here, Is Understandable.), But Came Across It In The Strangest Place: I Was Looking At The IMDB Page For Depeche Mode, To See What Things They'd Provided Soundtrack For, And Found That 1: Someone Put One-Hit Wonderland On IMDB, And 2: This Episode Exists. -And Also 3: Almost Every Time Depeche Mode Have Contributed A Song To The Soundtrack Of Something I've Actually Seen, It's One Of Theirs I've Never Heard Of.-
When I listen, it almost sounds like he's saying "I wanna save the dance." Which is to say that the whole point is hes going to "save thd dances" from being restricted.
I Like and Where Do the Boys go are fantastic tracks. The Saftey Dance video was shot in a village called West kington in Wiltshire. Still there never changed you can see it on Google street view.
Cute song with a catchy tune and a great video. I come back to it every now and then, remember when I first saw Boy George on MTV, reminds me of my youth. Boy George is a train wreck now, so is my youth.
when i was a kid, for a brief time between the ages of 12 and 13, MWH were my favourite band...this album specifically...before I found punk rock in 1985. Pop Goes The World is still pretty good, too, tho. Go figure, they were punk adjacent. My other favourite was The Gogos who i later found out also emerged from the punk scene. I guess I was destined for punk, it just took a while to find it.
Ah, Bonhomme. I'm from Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada and can say that the only reason I know who Bonhomme is is because of elementary school French class. I can tell you that the name translates to "Good man" though.
As a kid I absolutely adored the song "Pop Goes the World"! I listened to it so many times on my first ipod. I was actually surprised years later when I heard they were considered a one hit wonder for a different song
When I heard that Sideways intro guitars I was hooked. Don't really care that New Wave electronic stuff, but I looked up few songs from Sideways, and it sounds absolutely great album. I didn't want to spoil that too much, as I have to get that one on CD. I don't really get Todds reaction though? It's not really album you could compare to their previous stuff anyways... So what's the funny thing? With quick listening it reminds me of REM's Monster, and that is one of my all time favorite albums.
The idea of synth-pop being the new folk music was way ahead of its time, now that it's as cheap for bedroom musicians to use synths as it is to buy acoustic guitars.
Suspect is hatless, I repeat hatless
I hope they throw his hatless butt in jail.
Yes that's the joke Todd already referenced.
I remember thinking that the safety dance video was actual historical footage when I was 5.
Blonde chick in the video was a journalist sent to write about the band and ended up in the video. She later edited UK Cosmopolitan magazine...
Interesting to see this recommended. Fun fact: Ivan (lead singer) actually lives in my neighbourhood!
Does anyone recognize him as the Safety Dance dude?
@@BroForce426 On occasion? Used to see him around local festivals and such from time to time, back when those were a thing haha
*Video Title:* "Men _With_ Hats"
*Copyright bots:* "I see nothing wrong here."
"Hatless REPEAT Hatless," is such a great Simpsons quote only a true nerd would pick up on.
He is driving a...car...of some sort...
Going to that place that sells chilli
I hope they throw his hatless butt in jail
"Der Kommissar"' is all about young people using drugs, probably cocaine ("snow") in Germany. "Alles Klar, Herr Kommissar?" is the German version of "Is everything all right, Officer?"
One hit wonders depend on the country really. Madness are considered one hit wonders in the US (Our House) but in the UK, they're anything but! They had top 10 hits every other week!
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Yeah, I Remember In One Video Someone Suggested He Make A Video About Rage Against The Machine, To Which He Noted That, In The U.S., They're Not A One-Hit Wonder. Although Ofcourse I've Lived In The U.S. All My Life And Only Heard Of One Song By Them, So It's An Easy Mistake To Make IN My Opinion.
Yeah, 'Night Boat to Cairo' for example.
Yup, Men Without Hats had about ten charting singles in Canada.
@@alittlebitgone To be fair, just being Canadian is a cheatcode to get charting singles in Canada due to your guys' radio playtime laws.
Would love to see Todd do a video on Johnny Hates Jazz. Ironically, the lead singer's dad was the first one hit wonder of the pop music era. A generational one hit wonder phenomenon is screaming for Todd to tell.their story.
The medieval theme was genius for the time. D&D, Willow, neverending story all that stuff. Blended well
It actually reminds me of Johann and Peewit, the comic and series by Peyo which was also when the Smurfs got their start.
Confession: this is one of my favorite songs ever. I love how ridiculous it is and it always makes me smile 😀
Also, the beat is iconic
Hi
That's Pop goes the World for me. Huge guilty pleasure
A Fav of Mine too!❤
"Hatless, repeat, hatless!" Geez Todd, how obscure can your Simpsons references get?
about as obscure as the concept of comedy is to The Simpsons since season 8
@@michealpersicko9531 nice one
As a Canadian I have both strong memories of Pop Goes the World and Bonhomme who use to come to my elementary school.
Off topic, but Madness of, “Our House” actually had another Top 40 U.S. hit: “It Must Be Love” (No. 33 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1983)
This is the second post about Madness where a bunch of singles are listed EXCEPT the obvious
ONE STEP BEYOND!
The thought of Def Leppard making gangsta rap is too hilarious for words
Two years ago they opened for BT and Howard Jones. They are actually amazing live. Totally worth any money to go see them.
Blues Traveler?
Todd is amazing but he somehow missed one of the video's biggest accomplishments: hordes of growing boys who had their sexual awakening and/or got off on Peasant Girl. There are many, apparently. Heard that Peasant Girl became a big magazine exec later and hated being asked about the "Safety Dance" video. "It was just one afternoon of my life!" (Needless to say, that isn't really her returning to the "I Like' video, just a double/stand-in).
I looked up "Sideways", the Men Without Hats album that didn't come out in the states and "sounds like Superchunk". Fun fact about that album: Away from Voivod played drums on it. If you know anything about Voivod, then you'd know that the only thing they and Men Without Hats have in common is that they're both from Montreal and that's it.
I live in Vancouver. Right before the pandemic hit I was trying out for a pretty heavy "grind core influenced" band.
They were pretty casual about things which was fine by me. After a few rehearsal with them, they tell me that their drummer usually disappears for a month or so during the summer to go tour with Men Without Hats.
I was frankly dumbfounded as I couldn't believe they were still active.
I was like "Really?!?! The Safety Dance guys?!?!"
When I heard that guitar intro in the video, I knew I would like that album. And yes I looked it up, and it sounds absolutely awesome. How someone wouldn't like it is beyond me. I'd say it's huge step forward what they were doing...
Exactly type of alternative rock that I like. REM - Monster is one of my favorite albums ever. ( ...and I really don't like New Wave in general for that matter.😅)
I saw them open for the B-52's a year ago. He wore a hat.
They played a bunch of their worst songs, ended with safety dance as the sun went down and introduced the Human League who between songs talked about how their own music was just silly noises. B-52's never looked better though.
I know this is an old-ass comment, but a concert that had Men Without Hats, Human League AND B-52s? I would've absolutely gone to that. :D
@@robinchesterfield42 I was just thinking this!
“I Like” is actually a good song in my opinion. It was actually a minor U.S. hit, peaking at No. 84 on the Billboard Hot 100.
I like I like :-)
Great song. 2013 live tour was great
Always thought they were German. There was a famous case in the 80s of police raiding and shutting down cellar bars in Berlin because of moshing. They considered it rioting and shut down a number of clubs... but when the fans, bands and club owners tried getting the truth out... that the injuries incurred were due to the raids by police, not the dancing, they were accused of being a part of the rising neo - fascist far right movement. Moshing was almost banned (obviously was to all intent and purposes, effectively banned) until there was a change in government. (Or the wall came down, can't remember which). Anyway, I was told that's what the song referred to. So I thought they were German.
I mean Canada is part of the Commonwealth and they get more EU news than the USA does so its not really shocking that they knew enough about this even though they are from canada to release a song based on it.
Considering his Ukrainian/French/Canadian/French-Canadian amalgamation of an accent, I'd buy that he was German.
their song Sideways (10:53) sounds suspiciously like I Saw Your Mommy by Suicidal Tendencies.
Smells Like Teen Spirit sounds like the intro to Sideways.
She Hates Me by Puddle of Mudd sounds like all 3 songs collectively.
if musical inbreeding was a thing, She Hates Me would def be a product of it lmfao. (won’t stop me from having nostalgia bias for it tho)
When he played that clip, I was expecting Ivan to shout "Trust!" at the beginning, so, yeah, definitely there on the "She Hates Me" similarity.
Maybe they called themselves Men Without Hats because they have been compared so often to DEVO, who are known for their hats.
could be...
Well that would only work if they named themselves after they had written and released music and then years after synth was not popular anymore, Devo only had hats in 1 song as well.
Do not fear Bonhomme du Neige. He can be merciful. Sometimes.
Lots of US New Wave - Missing Persons, Oingo Boingo, Pere Ubu, Talking Heads and on and on. I mean how could Todd forget something as over-the-top 80s New Wave like : ua-cam.com/video/IasCZL072fQ/v-deo.html
I also like the fact that the primary brothers behind MWH were born ... in Champagne IL.
Heck yes! There's a bunch of New Wave bands from America, and not all from New York or L.A. (where nobody walks, of course ;)) as you might expect--for pete's sake, the B-52s are from Georgia. (By the way, in case anybody is wondering, that link is to "Words" by Missing Persons--it's not a rickroll, which wouldn't make sense in this case anyway as we're talking about NON-British acts. :P)
Edit: New Wave bands from America? How about BLONDIE, whom Todd even references in the video? XD
I’m Canadian and I hear pop goes the world on the oldies station we play at work more than I hear safety dance lol
PS I feel like pop goes the world and I melt with you would make a killer mashup.
Love how when you're introducing the lead singer, he's pictured wearing a hat (while the captions beneath him says "Men Without Hats").
You can see how much better Todd got over the years since this was made.
10:52 Can't believe I just realized (I knew it felt fimiliar) but Puddle of Mudd's riff from She Hates Me is exactly the same as that! Weird to think they got it from Men Without Hats!
Thank you! I kept it hearing it here and thinking it sounded so familiar
I think the music video is brillant, especially in the early days of MTV-where the new medium was still not yet “figured out” and though typically rough in appearance, music videos could be a bit subversive; indeed, beyond the obvious surface silliness of the video and the tune itself, I find a Rabelaisian character to this video/song, ie a proverbial middle finger to conventional morality, as embodied in the “dance” during a carnival or a festival. Traditionally, carnival is a time when the folk could be indecent and act “like we come from out of this world,” and invariably carnival publicly and ceremonially makes fun of the powers-that-be. I doubt any of this was intended in the video. I mean I don’t think the band members where reading Rabelais, _Gargantua and Pantagruel_ but in unconscious effect, the video is quite interesting. But I digress :)
It’s essentially the mummers dance of the 1980s
...oh my god it IS. Down to the midsommar maypole dancing and everything. :O
Nothing about the Ultimate Accolade? Weird Al Yankovic used it for his parody "The Brady Bunch", which is where I first heard the tune.
Also, I remember Casey Kasem explaining on AT40 at the time that the safety part was that the beat was slower so that moshers would be slower and less dangerous.
The video reminds me of Johann and Peewit, the comic and animated series by Peyo where The Smurfs got their start.
I was very little when "The Safety Dance" came out so I am actually more familiar with them through "Pop Goes The World" and only later learned that they also did "The Safety Dance."
Wasn't "Pop Goes the World" on a Target Commercial? It sounds familiar.
The melody is also a staple in South American football chants
Always liked Pop Goes The World better than the Safety Dance. Unfortunately, Belinda Carlyle's hit that year started in a similar way, always disappointing me.
5:46 And a few years later, Tadd talked about "Rock Me Amadeus", which was a tribute to Mozart, with a catchy beat
Favorite Band ever? No. Favorite Music Video ever? Yes! Of course, this was also the first music video I ever saw.
The EP of Safety Dance I bought had Antarctica on the B-side. It's a song I like much better than Safety Dance. The jacket actually had those Fred Murray paint-by-number dance steps on it, as if the Safety Dance was an actual dance ... which it wasn't.
I know "The Safety Dance" because of the very first NOW That's What I Call Music album in the UK from 1983. Side 2, Track 2 - or CD 1, Track 10.
1:00 OINGO BOINGO TOO!!
also- There was Martha And The Muffins from Canada as well, predating MWOH… hey, those kids are probably worthy of an episode of their own…
Martha and the Muffins! I'm not Canadian, but I know about them because of those various-artist New Wave CDs I used to collect. I've heard several of their songs and like pretty much all of them. They're good stuff!
Dude you are all over it, I grew up in the 80s and I never understood why people would get crazy to this, but then slow dance to Boston after it ..
Wow. I spent my whole life thinking the lyric was "save the dance" like this was some kind of Footloose thing. And I spent three quarters of the video wondering when "safety" would become relevant to the song. And it wasn't until my third or fourth time in the video that the titular lyrics came up that I made the connection.
If you listen carefully, what he's saying in the chorus is actually "it's safe to dance". He's telling the audience that their show is a place where they can feel safe to cut loose.
8 years? Whoa. Still holds up. Good job!
Ohhhh "Pop Goes the World," was in "Date with an Angel!" 🥰🥰🥰🥰
What you said about Pop goes the world reminds me of I'll melt with you by Modern English. You should do them!
This aged well!
Fortunately, later he did! :)
All this time I could’ve swore Devo sang this song
Ivan's love of prog can be seen on that 90s Men Without Hats album as the cover art text uses the same look as Genesis' logo during the early 70s and one of the tracks is named "The Van der Graaf Generation Blues"
Sideways is a good album. Has a slight screaming trees vibe on sideways and harry crews
I always figured it was about doing "the horizontal tango" safety (that is, with a love glove on).
O.M.G!!! "Men without work!"
Probably one of the best puns I've ever heard! I do believe Todd was the first one to come up with it X-D
Didn't the Simpsons tell that joke in an episode?
@@Chaoitcme well... they have a tendency to do it all first... can be 😁
Yes, they did! Just checked. @Make room for Lisa.
is the title "Men with hats" on purpose?
I think it's a reference to how they care about style over function, they're Quebecers and in the winter it is cold so you'd want to wear a hat
Todd, what you lack in production values, you make up for in research, wit, and snark. Like!
This band often pops up in the background on the official ToddChannel so i am glad i found this and saw it. Cheers man!
Thank you for totally loving music
So, Fun Fact, I Didn't Know There Was A One-Hit Wonderland Video On "The Safety Dance" (Which Considering The Only Place I Could Find It Is Here, Is Understandable.), But Came Across It In The Strangest Place: I Was Looking At The IMDB Page For Depeche Mode, To See What Things They'd Provided Soundtrack For, And Found That 1: Someone Put One-Hit Wonderland On IMDB, And 2: This Episode Exists. -And Also 3: Almost Every Time Depeche Mode Have Contributed A Song To The Soundtrack Of Something I've Actually Seen, It's One Of Theirs I've Never Heard Of.-
When I listen, it almost sounds like he's saying "I wanna save the dance." Which is to say that the whole point is hes going to "save thd dances" from being restricted.
Like the plot of "Footloose"! That would kinda work, actually. :)
Pop goes the world became a football ("soccer") anthem, if I'm not mistaken. Great vid amigo
I Like and Where Do the Boys go are fantastic tracks. The Saftey Dance video was shot in a village called West kington in Wiltshire. Still there never changed you can see it on Google street view.
"That's racist Men Without Hats." 😂
Cute song with a catchy tune and a great video. I come back to it every now and then, remember when I first saw Boy George on MTV, reminds me of my youth. Boy George is a train wreck now, so is my youth.
Why can't I find this episode on Todd's channel? Thanks for uploading it.
I loved this song. Ironically, for a one hit wonder group, I also like their other song called...I like :-)
Long before the floss you had the safety dance 🕺 🤣
Pop Goes the World is a popular chant at soccer/football games.
5:59 actually "Der Kommisar "is actually about avoiding Dirty Cops
This track would have been great for a GOT end of season video :-)
The 'everybody look at your hands' and mention of being in a trance makes me think they dropped acid.
when i was a kid, for a brief time between the ages of 12 and 13, MWH were my favourite band...this album specifically...before I found punk rock in 1985. Pop Goes The World is still pretty good, too, tho. Go figure, they were punk adjacent. My other favourite was The Gogos who i later found out also emerged from the punk scene. I guess I was destined for punk, it just took a while to find it.
The lead singer looks like both main members of Ween in one person
sincerely thanks for mentioning Superchunk out of nowhere.
Ah, Bonhomme. I'm from Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada and can say that the only reason I know who Bonhomme is is because of elementary school French class. I can tell you that the name translates to "Good man" though.
As a kid I absolutely adored the song "Pop Goes the World"! I listened to it so many times on my first ipod. I was actually surprised years later when I heard they were considered a one hit wonder for a different song
When I heard that Sideways intro guitars I was hooked. Don't really care that New Wave electronic stuff, but I looked up few songs from Sideways, and it sounds absolutely great album.
I didn't want to spoil that too much, as I have to get that one on CD.
I don't really get Todds reaction though? It's not really album you could compare to their previous stuff anyways... So what's the funny thing? With quick listening it reminds me of REM's Monster, and that is one of my all time favorite albums.
I Like is a great song. It has a decent message. Pop goes the World is still plyaed on the regular up here in canada
TIL where the comedy group Les Bleu Poudre found all those Bonhomme Carnaval costumes to smash with frying pans in the nineties.
I get Men at work confused with them.
Alaska Airlines brought me here (is what I would've said, if I wasn't 52 and remember dancing to this song back in '83).
one of my top 10 maybe top 5 bands. i will solidly stand by their debut EP and first 3 albums.
Any mention that the Little Guy is actually from Time Bandits?
Remember that song the Safety Dance? It wasn't as safe as they said - Futurama
I. Love. This. Song.
London Boys were a UK act from the 80s they had 2 hits and then both died in a car crash in the Alps in 1996 would be a fascinating video.
The idea of synth-pop being the new folk music was way ahead of its time, now that it's as cheap for bedroom musicians to use synths as it is to buy acoustic guitars.
TBH, I can see why Todd hasn't re uploaded this himself, it's not one of his best OHW videos
9:08 "And he is awful and I hate him."
American New Wave .... Berlin, Missing Persons. And maybe Blondie.
Pop Goes the World is a great album. That is all.
Well, I feel stupid. I'm from Montreal and I had no idea they were too.
4:47 Todd invents the white woman jumpscare
Antartica was also a big deal in Montreal clubs for sure!
Oh, wait, "I Melt With You", Modern English's biggest 80's hit, used the lyrics, "Pop goes the world and I melt with you" in the chorus. So, no. Derp.
And now he's covered it! :)
I'll stop the world and melt with you.... It's a little different
Does loving a Dwarf running through tall grass make me a bad person?
I always wondered what the song was about. And why they weren't wearing appropriate sa
at 10:55 isn't that "she fucking hates me riff"?
Its also the riff from a song called “I Saw Your Mommy” by a band called Suicidal Tendencies.
6:12 - That is definitely not what they call pogoing or slam dancing!
I dunno, it's like a weak watered down version.
@@Gatorade69 I think the clip is just normal dancing! It looks like a mainstream audience dancing to a mainstream band in the 80s.
I really like the song Antarctica. Another song, I dont know which album, called Mother's Opinion is good as well.
Why was this deleted from his channel?
LOVE THIS SONG!
Todd's been doing this shit for a decade+ wtf