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Their first album in ten years, Love in the Age of War, which marked a return to their New Wave, electro-pop sound.
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In 2011, they performed several shows with Devo and toured with The Human League and B-52s. In 2010, citing a resurgence in the popularity of New Wave, Ivan reformed the band with session musicians and began playing at festivals. In 2008, “Pop Goes the World” and “Safety Dance” both received SOCAN Classics awards for achieving 100,000 airplays on domestic radio. In 2005, “Safety Dance” was ranked the 36th greatest Canadian song of all time on the CBC Radio One series 50 Tracks: The Canadian Version. Stefan and Colin both remained active in the Montreal music scene, while Ivan relocated to Victoria,īC, and became a stay-at-home dad. In 2003, Stefan and Ivan reformed the group and released No Hats Beyond This Point. The Spell, a dance album that met with modest success, and Stefan released the solo album Ride of Glory.
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The band’s greatest hits compilation, Men Without Hats: Collection, came out in 1996, without Ivan’s input. In 1995, McCarthy died due to complications from AIDS. The group officially disbanded soon thereafter. The resulting album, Sideways (1991), had a dramaticallyĭifferent sound than the band’s previous work and was not released in the US. In 1990, Ivan introduced a lineup that included Stefan, Colin, Mark Langevin, and members of the Quebec rock bands Voivod, the Doughboys, and Idées noires. It included the Top 10 hit “Hey Men” and the Top 40 hit “In the 21st Century.” By then, the group had returned The band’s next album, The Adventures of Women & Men without Hate in the 21st Century (1989), was certified gold in Canada. In 1989, it was nominated for a Juno Award for single of the year. 2 in Canada and was a Top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot 100. Pop Goes the World (1987) earned the band a Félix award in 1988 for English Of the same name, which was certified platinum in Canada. They returned to international prominence with the single “Pop Goes the World” from the album In 1987, Lenny Pinkas (drums) joined the group and the band moved to Mercury Records. Inġ985 they released the remixed, multilingual EP Freeways. The song “Where Do the Boys Go?” from Folk of the '80s (Part III) (1984) was a Top 40 hit in Canada in 1984. Men Without Hats continued to receive critical acclaim but never duplicated the commercial success of their first album. In 1984 for most promising group and single of the year (“Safety Dance”), as well as a Grammy nomination for new artist. In 1983 - Best-Selling Single, Group of the Year and Rock Album of the Year - and another in 1984 for best-known artist outside of Quebec. In the Top 10 in 20 countries, pushing worldwide sales of Rhythm of Youth to more than 2 million copies.
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It was based on Ivan’s confrontations with bouncers while pogo dancing in Montreal disco clubs that were not punk friendly. The second single from Rhythm of Youth, “Safety Dance,” is an anthem for freedom of expression. Of Ivan (vocals), Stefan (guitar, bass), Colin (keyboards, electronics), and Allan McCarthy (percussion, electronics). By the time they recorded their debut album, Rhythm of Youth (1982), the band consisted Picked up by Stiff Records in Britain and the US, the EP eventually landed them a deal with Statik Records worldwide and MCA in the United States. The band - which took its name from the fact that Doroschuk and his two brothers and bandmates, Colin and Stefan, never wore hats in the frigid Montreal winters - went through numerous lineup changes before releasing the independent four-song EP Folk of the 80s (1980).