The year was 1984. Clothes looked terrible. Songs were created with synthesizers. Sunglasses were worn … at night.
Corey Hart’s “Sunglasses At Night” made it all the way to No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 that year. And since he’s Canadian, the song has naturally inspired a college hockey team to create a short, but sublimely awkward, music video some 30 years later.
The Colorado College Tigers men’s ice hockey team is a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college ice hockey program that represents Colorado College. The Tigers are a member of National Collegiate Hockey Conference.
“Sunglasses at Night” is a song recorded by Canadian singer Corey Hart. It was the first single to be released off his debut album, 1983’s First Offense, and became a hit single in the United States, rising to #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1984.
The song is a staple of 1980s pop rock and new wave music, combining an unflagging synthesizer hook, characteristic arpeggio, rock guitar and obscure lyrics. AllMusic described it as “an instant classic with its distinctive melody and catchy chorus.”
The song is included in numerous hits collections of the period, especially in the U.S., but it was not as popular throughout the rest of the world at the time. Peaking at #24 in Hart’s native Canada, it was not a hit in Europe and failed to chart at all in the UK.
In 2002, 19 years after the original version release, the song was re-recorded, with Original 3 as the producer.
Here are the Colorado College Tigers with “Sunglasses At Night”
And, for the purists, here is the original Corey Hart Song.
I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can
Watch you weave
Then breathe your story lines
And I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can
Keep track of the visions in my eyes
While she’s deceiving me
It cuts my security
Has she got control of me
I turn to her and say
Don’t switch the blade
On the guy in shades, oh-no
Don’t masquerade
With the guy in shades, oh-no
I can’t believe it
‘Cause you got it made
With the guy in shades, oh-no
And I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can
Forget my name while you collect your claim
And I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can
See the light that’s right before my eyes
While she’s deceiving me
She cuts my security
Has she got control of me
I turn to her and say
Don’t switch the blade
On the guy in shades, oh-no
Don’t masquerade
With the guy in shades, oh-no
I can’t believe it
Don’t be afraid
Of the guy in shades, oh-no
It kinda scared you
‘Cause you got it made
With the guy in shades, oh-no
Oh, I say I wear my sunglasses at night
I wear my sunglasses at night
I wear my sunglasses at night
I say it to you now
I wear my sunglasses at night
I wear my sunglasses at night
I wear my sunglasses at night
I cry to you
I wear my sunglasses at night
I wear my sunglasses at night
