My Hats Collection Explained

My Hats Collection
Type:compilation
Artist:Men Without Hats
Cover:My Hats Collection album cover.jpg
Released:6 June 2006
Recorded:1978–1986
Genre:Synthpop
Length:57:57
Label:Trilogie Musique (MHC)
Unidisc (TSC)
Producer:Marc Durand
Prev Title:No Hats Beyond This Point
Prev Year:2003
Next Title:Love in the Age of War
Next Year:2012

My Hats Collection is a compilation album by Canadian new wave/synthpop group Men Without Hats, released in 2006. The compilation is notable for including "Tomorrow Today", a song by a pre-Men Without Hats band called Heaven 17 (unrelated to the British band of the same name), which featured Ivan Doroschuk on keyboards, and "Gravity is My Enemy", a song from the original demo tape that got the group signed to Statik.

Track listing

  1. "The Safety Dance" - 2:45
  2. "Living in China" - 3:04
  3. "Antarctica" - 3:27
  4. "I Got the Message" - 4:41
  5. "I Like" - 4:13
  6. "Where Do the Boys Go?" - 3:46
  7. "Freeways" (Euromix) - 5:47
  8. "Editions of You" - 3:56
  9. "Pop Goes the World" - 3:46
  10. "Tomorrow Today" - 3:56
  11. "Gravity Is My Enemy" - 3:42
  12. "Heaven" - 3:43
  13. "The Safety Dance" (extended version) - 4:34
  14. "Where Do the Boys Go?" (extended version) - 6:17

The Silver Collection

In 2008, the album was reissued as The Silver Collection, a CD/DVD pack which replaced "Gravity Is My Enemy" with an extended New Wave version of "Ban the Game" (the short piano intro to Rhythm of Youth), "Rhythm of Youth" and "Treblinka" (all three come from the same demo tape) and also included a bonus DVD containing five music videos and an interview.

  1. "The Safety Dance"
  2. "Nationale 7"
  3. "I Like"
  4. "Where Do the Boys Go?"
  5. "Pop Goes the World"
  6. The Jeannie Becker interview (1983)