Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Its An Anti-War Song.....But Its Fun






Its A Mistake by Men At Work

I LOVED this band. I'll be writing about many of their songs and videos but I thought I would start with this beauty. Released in 1983, the third single off their sophomore release, it reached #6 in the US charts and the video was played on MTV about 9 million times.

The subject matter was nuclear war....it seemed to be on a lot of minds back in the 80's and honestly, we were all a little scared of dying in a bright red flash of light, or worse, surviving and having to rebuild this semi-doomed planet of ours. But we were lucky to have artists like these to make some of the images less horrific. When you feature the band as soldiers and the lead singer getting smacked around by a granny with an umbrella (not to mention a not-so-subtle caricature of then President Reagan) you're definitely playing it for laughs. In the end, we see that even the guys with their finger on the button can make a mistake.

Please enjoy





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