Men Without Hats

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Men Without Hats
Men Without Hats (2011)
Men Without Hats (2011)
General information
origin Montreal , Canada
Genre (s) Synth pop
founding 1976 as Wave 21
1977 as Men Without Hats
Website www.menwithouthats.com
Current occupation
Ivan Doroschuk
Keyboard
Louise Dawson (since 2010)
Keyboard
Rachel Ashmore (since 2012)
guitar
Sho Murray (since 2016)

Men Without Hats is a Canadian synth pop - band that the new wave is associated with movement. Her greatest success was the song The Safety Dance from 1982.

history

Founded in Montreal in 1976 as Wave 21, the group was renamed Men Without Hats in 1977. Their first production was the EP Folk of the 80s in the early 1980s . Her greatest commercial success was the song The Safety Dance from 1982. The most successful albums are Rhythm of Youth and Pop Goes the World . In the 1990s, synthesizer music lost its importance. The band therefore recorded an electric guitar- heavy album with Sideways .

Lead singer Ivan Doroschuk released a solo album with The Spell in 1997 before the band reunited in 2003 and released their first EP album in over a decade. In 2012 the album Love in the Age of War was released with ten new songs. The band, newly founded around the lead singer, wanted to connect with Rhythm of Youth and presented catchy and danceable synthesizer music in the style of the 1980s. A European tour in 2013 also took Men Without Hats to Germany.

Members

The core of the band consists of Ivan Doroschuk and his brother Stefan. Other members included a. another brother, Colin and Jeremy Arrobas, Tracy Howe, Roman Martyn and Allan McCarthy.

Discography

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US CA CA
1982 Rhythm of Youth DE9 (15 weeks)
DE
- - UK96 (1 week)
UK
US13
gold
gold

(26 weeks)US
CA15th
platinum
platinum

(… Where.)Template: chart table / maintenance / preliminaryCA
First published: March 20, 1982
1984 Folk of the 80s (Part III) - - - - US127 (4 weeks)
US
CA42 (... weeks)
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First published: May 1984
1987 Pop Goes the World - AT11 (8 weeks)
AT
- - US73 (25 weeks)
US
CA8th
platinum
platinum

(… Where.)Template: chart table / maintenance / preliminaryCA
First published: June 29, 1987
1989 The Adventures of Women & Men Without Hate
in the 21st Century
- - - - - CA41
gold
gold

(… Where.)Template: chart table / maintenance / preliminaryCA
First published: October 1989

gray hatching : no chart data available for this year

more publishments

  • 1980: Folk of the 80s (EP)
  • 1982: The Safety Dance (EP)
  • 1985: Freeways (EP)
  • 1991: Sideways
  • 1996: Collection
  • 1997: The Spell
  • 1997: Greatest Hats
  • 1997: The Very Best Of
  • 2003: No Hats Beyond This Point
  • 2006: My Hats Collection
  • 2006: Live Hats!
  • 2008: The Silver Collection
  • 2010: The Safety Dance - The Collection
  • 2012: Love in the Age of War

Singles

year Title
album
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)
Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US CA CA
1982 I Like
Rhythm of Youth
- - - - US84 (3 weeks)
US
-
First published: January 24, 1982
Chart entry: November 1983
The Safety Dance
Rhythm of Youth
DE2 (20 weeks)
DE
AT7 (10 weeks)
AT
CH4 (11 weeks)
CH
UK6th
silver
silver

(16 weeks)UK
US3 (24 weeks)
US
CA11
gold
gold

(… Where.)Template: chart table / maintenance / preliminaryCA
First published: March 1982
Chart entry: June 1983
I Got the Message
Rhythm of Youth
- - - UK99 (2 weeks)
UK
- -
First published: May 27, 1982
Chart entry: December 1983
1984 Where Do the Boys Go?
Folk of the 80s (Part III)
- - - - - CA30 (... weeks)
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First published: 1984
1987 Pop Goes the World
Pop Goes the World
- AT1 (12 weeks)
AT
- - US20 (21 weeks)
US
CA2
gold
gold

(… Where.)Template: chart table / maintenance / preliminaryCA
First published: October 1987
Moonbeam
Pop Goes the World
- - - - - CA23 (... weeks)
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First published: October 1987
1989 Hey Men
The Adventures of Women & Men Without Hate in the 21st Century
- - - - - CA8 (... weeks)
Template: chart table / maintenance / preliminaryCA
First published: 1989
In the 21st Century
The Adventures of Women & Men Without Hate in the 21st Century
- - - - - CA35 (... weeks)
Template: chart table / maintenance / preliminaryCA
First published: 1989
1991 Sideways
Sideways
- - - - - CA50 (... weeks)
Template: chart table / maintenance / preliminaryCA
First publication: 1991

More singles

  • 1982: Living in China
  • 2012: Head Above Water

Individual evidence

  1. Men Without Hats Evie Nagie in: Rolling Stone: Q&A: Men Without Hats' Ivan Doroschuk on New Album, Meeting Carly Rae Jepsen and the Return of New Wave, June 12, 2012
  2. a b Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
  3. Music Sales Awards: UK US CA

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