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Don Cherry kicked off the second round in classic style last night on CBC, with an eccentric purple striped suit. It may have hurt your eyes; now it's time for Cherry to assault other senses.

The video you are about to see has been around for a while, but there's a good chance many of you haven't seen it or if you have, had quickly erased it from your mind. I present you, Don Cherry's "Rock 'em Sock 'em Techno".

Can you feel the 1980's European techno vibe? Did the background track want to make you reach for your glow sticks, Chess King shirt, and dial up your buddy Dieter from Sprockets?

Everybody, sing!

Let's go!

Cherry lent his "rapping" abilities in a collaboration with Toronto-based techno group BKS. In 1993, Much Music (Canada's MTV) named "Rock 'em Sock 'em Techno" the worst music video of the year. Personally, I would have picked Snow's "Informer", because I can appreciate a hilarious techno parody.

Let's go!

If only Cherry would produce one of these videos on an annual basis, more people wouldn't think he's a few sandwiches short of a picnic. OK, maybe not. Could you picture Ron McLean as the DJ Jazzy Jeff to Cherry's Fresh Prince? The two could replace Stompin' Tom Connors at the next NHL Awards.

Let's go!

Missed some of the lyrics because you were too busy digging a pencil into your eardrum? Here's some of Cherry's lyrical stylings with a hockey twist:

"He can dangle, he can score, who else, Bobby Orr!" 

Let's go!

"Who's the best I often ponder, right now it's Stevie Wonder (Yzerman)!"

Let's go!

"Listen listen to what I say, play that game the Canadian way, Hockey man is what I am!"

Let's go!

Wreckless Conjecture, who the found the video himself earlier this week, put it best:

"If you can make it to the forty-five second mark before your small intestine begins leaking, you're a stronger person than I."

Let's go!

If you have any suggestions for future Don Cherry techno lyrics, we'd like to hear them.

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  1. knucklehead
    1. Posted by knucklehead Fri May 01, 2009 9:51 am EDT

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    Leahy, I own a copy of this sorry video. Guilty.
  2. Conrad
    2. Posted by Conrad Fri May 01, 2009 9:54 am EDT

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    for years canadian high school kids have been getting high and watching this with the sound turned to 11. it's a rite of passage into the stupidity that is adulthood.
  3. Sergei D
    3. Posted by Sergei D Fri May 01, 2009 9:57 am EDT

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    If this video really is for children wish foundation or w/e. I have a wish
    MAKE IT STOP!!!
    P.S. I just know I am going to be singing lets go "LETS GO" the rest of the week, thanks a lot.
  4. JGB
    4. Posted by JGB Fri May 01, 2009 9:57 am EDT

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    I watched this on a rented copy of "rock'em sock'em" years ago. I love Grapes, but that is horrible.
  5. yerry.take
    5. Posted by yerry.take Fri May 01, 2009 10:02 am EDT

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    r0lfc0pter! zomg!!11 lmao! fial! um... lol? g2g? byob?
  6. knucklehead
    6. Posted by knucklehead Fri May 01, 2009 10:03 am EDT

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    Cherry, the original Party Starter.
  7. mad_bathroom_feces_bomber
    7. Posted by mad_bathroom_feces_bomber Fri May 01, 2009 10:09 am EDT

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    The music was kind of good in bits, the rapping awful. Looks like something the now golfing Habs would pull out at an All-Star game, say in a 100th anniversary season or so. LOL at #6, all that video needed was Conan O and some Bud Light.
  8. JohnB
    8. Posted by JohnB Fri May 01, 2009 10:10 am EDT

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    What was that?! I don't think I've ever been so confused and so scared in all my life... I possibly may have seized during that too, probably the only reason I'm still alive.
  9. JohnB
    9. Posted by JohnB Fri May 01, 2009 10:11 am EDT

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    HAHA, vroom wroom party starter!
  10. beer_man_beer_here
    10. Posted by beer_man_beer_here Fri May 01, 2009 10:12 am EDT

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    Keep your dirty hands off my dreams...
  11. Spock
    11. Posted by Spock Fri May 01, 2009 10:14 am EDT

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    I think my IQ went down a couple of points. The dog was the only good thing of the video .... and I don't like dogs. Go CAPS Go!!!
  12. Tyree
    12. Posted by Tyree Fri May 01, 2009 10:22 am EDT

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    Cherry is a fairy; just like Ovie & Zetterberg!!
  13. Big Rich
    13. Posted by Big Rich Fri May 01, 2009 10:32 am EDT

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    what...the...hell...? Only thing positive I can say is that I have no audio at work, so at least i'm only half Helen Keller now.
  14. beer_man_beer_here
    14. Posted by beer_man_beer_here Fri May 01, 2009 10:33 am EDT

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    Lets set up a cage fight between Tyree and Ovie and/or Zetterberg...
  15. beer_man_beer_here
    15. Posted by beer_man_beer_here Fri May 01, 2009 10:33 am EDT

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    Till Death....
  16. Eric H
    16. Posted by Eric H Fri May 01, 2009 10:39 am EDT

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    this video physically hurts to watch.
  17. Andrew T
    17. Posted by Andrew T Fri May 01, 2009 10:41 am EDT

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    hahahaha oh man, that was hilarious. i just sent the video to everyone i know. Can Cherry rap with the best of them? If you wanna find out, click the link and listen. LETS GO!!
  18. Spock
    18. Posted by Spock Fri May 01, 2009 10:41 am EDT

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    I did not realize this video was for charity. Definately a game changer. I retrace my previous statements. Don Cherry our hero. The Mother Therresa of hockey. Go CAPS Go!!!
  19. Jon A
    19. Posted by Jon A Fri May 01, 2009 10:53 am EDT

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    I fail to see the big deal about this. A douche producing douchity. What else do you expect?
  20. Justin K
    20. Posted by Justin K Fri May 01, 2009 10:54 am EDT

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    W....T....F....
    For the Children's Wish Foundation? I hope some kids wish was to see Don Cherry do techno and that this wasn't made to make money for the organization.
  21. The Red Wall D.
    21. Posted by The Red Wall D. Fri May 01, 2009 10:55 am EDT

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    Hahahaha Hey Cherry " Party Starter" ......wow. For a guy who hates Eurpoeans he sure does sway to thier music pretty well.
    If he hasnt condemed the hart trophy finalists already I would love to see the video of him doing so when it happens. Someone needs to post it here.
    Wysh....get it done.
  22. LeNoceur
    22. Posted by LeNoceur Fri May 01, 2009 10:57 am EDT

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    This video is proof positive that techno is not so much a musical genre as an attempt by the Devil to pound our souls into a submissive pulp, to make them all the easier to harvest and turn into the soul-juice that feeds his everlastingly evil heart.
  23. knucklehead
    23. Posted by knucklehead Fri May 01, 2009 11:03 am EDT

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    #22
    Interesting take....Mr Potter
  24. Pienkos
    24. Posted by Pienkos Fri May 01, 2009 11:07 am EDT

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    Leahy, I made it 55 seconds before I threw up in my mouth. Do I get a prize or something?
  25. Munkcy
    25. Posted by Munkcy Fri May 01, 2009 11:22 am EDT

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    Apparently the Child's wish was "Death by Techno Cherry."

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