The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #167953   Message #4055478
Posted By: Senoufou
27-May-20 - 11:32 AM
Thread Name: Men Without Hats 'Safety Dance'
Subject: RE: Men Without Hats 'Safety Dance'
Georgiansilver, that was brilliant! Well done you!
And poor Bonzo, what a horrible memory. Did the Police catch the thieves?
This song, and the original video, makes me think of that weird film The Wicker Man, set on 'Summer Isle' where all sorts of folksy stuff was going on while the population prepared a human sacrifice. Chilling.
Also Glastonbury. A friend who lives in Somerset took me to visit the place many years ago, and the strange, occult New Age stuff made me shiver. Can't explain why.
I think as a general observation, folk music and old traditions have direct links to a darker past, when people believed in far more than Christianity and conventional life/leisure. I find this endlessly fascinating.