My old fried Chris passed away from cancer this week. He was 68, and Crash Test Dummies were his favorite band. I am spending this night, listening to them and remembering our many conversations! RIP buddy!
Crash Test Dummies...........an example of artists who had that perfect balance between cynical realism and uplifting optimism. That to me is the biggest part of what gives music meaning...............and ultimately what makes it good.
This in my opinion was their best album, despite the success of the second. There's not a bad song on it and the sound is completely unique. From the best times in my life, thanks CTD!
yep I lost my cd but played it home from work many nites -my kids hated it at first now I catch them playing it on itunes sometimes same as my rusted root cd
All a matter of opinion. I'm not saying you're wrong or I'm right, but i think the best songs on God Shuffled His Feet [Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm, title track, Afternoons and Coffeespoons, In The Days Of The Cavemen, Swimming In Your Ocean, Untitled, Two Knights And Maidens] are better than the best songs on this album, for me anyway. Plus, the sound quality on GSHF is way better than this album.
@@SiLatics56They're such different albums arrangement and performance wise, but it's God Shuffled His Feet which I've always felt represented their seamless blending of more primary, traditional rock & roll elements into their artsy fartsy Canadian folk-pop-bluegrass music canvas. The lilting, folksy twang of Ghost that Haunt Me was almost entirely absent their 1994 album, which in turn, by 1996, on "A Worm's Life," a more contemporary, 1990s "alternative & grunge-lyte" tonal backdrop was utilized to a harder, "grunge-by-numbers" arrangement, in lieu of the sounds of the 1989 & '94 albums. "A Worm's Life" has a couple decent arrangements, but it was the first time they were trying to keep pace in the musical landscape "de jour," rather than doing whatever came organically. Like always happens, sudden label micro-management AFTER a big surprise success resulted in their third, and first shitty album, "A Worm's Life." Surely it was vexatious and maddening, like it was/has been for so many thousands of similarly positioned groups across previous decades, to know confidently from recent success, that your creative instincts are well balanced, calibrated & tuned for mainstream success, only to be rewarded from the benefactor of such success with a panel of clueless & uncreative poindexters following tightly the dollars they're sure they can mine from something which was only ever successful because they were not in the room. Suddenly these unappreciative assholes are monitoring your every bathroom break, every lyric and note, bafflingly undermining every creative decision, vetoing ideas left & right. A great many bands have found themselves in the position where it's as if they're being stifled, stymied and punished for unexpectedly making their label a shitload of money. Obviously, this classic music biz model sank the band's fragile balance of quirky yet widely palatable music, and by the weird and difficult listening of "Give Yourself a Hand," an album filled with bizarre & unfunny pervert humor rapped by what had become a human tuba impression over top a discordant, jittery mess of digital music tones and little snips of samples nature sounds, or whatever the fuck, beeps and gleep-glops and pervert jokes, and it was depressing to listen to it, truly baffling. By their fifth album I just figured maybe Brad Roberts had lost his mind. Needless to say, their previous momentum and amazing songwriting felt a galaxy away.
Back in 1994 I listened to this whole album over and over while driving the whole stretch of I-80 from Reno, NV headed east to Salt Lake City, Utah for at least 500 miles. I think I knew every word and note by then. It's definitely my favorite CTD album!
Are you near Kingston, Ontario Canada on July 26th? They are playing a free live concert in Market Square for the start of this year's Rockin' The Square. I'm going.
The Crash Test Dummies opened with this terrific song at Hamilton, Ontario's "Festival of Friends" last night (Saturday, August 3, 2024) at 8 pm. What a great show! And tickets to this amazing 3-day festival are $0 every year! 😀
The Crash Test Dummies are playing live in our city Kingston, ON on July 26th, 2024 in Market Square for the start of this year's Rockin' The Square. It's a free concert so if you're in the area, come and join us. It'll be my first time seeing them live.
Love from Perth, Western Australia.. looking forward to the upcoming tour... This was the voice and music i resonated as a 8-12 y.o growing up and working out what was what... This was my 90's compass.. Thanks Crash test dummies !
Absolutely ..... so much narrative to attempt to bring us “home”,,,I was there in the beginning,,,,, not even sure why some blip caught my wandering eye tonite..... beautiful messages for ANY time".........surely will be bringing them back at least to share with friends who might never had heard them..... such powerful messages.... I’ll keep on ... and there may be a message for me at this time of my life...
Did Brad Roberts write all the lyrics for CTD? I didn't appreciate them in the 90s but have come back to them over the last few months. The lyrics are captivating.
You guys aren't the only ones. This was so different from the standard radio fare of the time, and is timeless. The whole record has this wistful, playful vibe that brings a smile to my face and makes me feel twenty-five years younger. That's all I ask from music - make me feel invincible again. :)
So many negative comments on their lyrics. That is where uniqueness originates. They are one of a kind. Music is from the heart and sentences do not always have to be "proper english grammatical sentences". That is music.
The Ghosts that Haunt Me is an amazing album; IMO it is their best. This song just popped into my head, and I had to hear it. It is in some ways unfortunate that Crash Test Dummies are best known for what is certainly not one of their better songs (or, at least, I don't like it much). Weird how that happens.
AWESOME CANADIANA! These guys are soooo still on my playlist! The next album.. "God Shuffled his Feet""....Abosute brilliance! ..but the American market has no tollerance for "smart" / whitt! .....still love em!
I'm an American.. been in Ohio nearly all my life... I'm in my early 20s, my dad and I saw Crash Test a couple times about two, three years or so back. my dad was lucky enough to see em for the first time in 96 !
The Ghosts That Haunt Me Crash Test Dummies There's a skeleton in everybody's closet I can think of one or two in my own room But I would like to introduce them both to you You'd shake their bony hands and so dispel the gloom Cause you're so kind I know you would not mind You'd send away the ghosts that haunt me now And the things I fear Just wouldn't seem so near And when I stroll out late at night There would be nothing rattling at my hells There are nights when all my aching bones won't let me sleep And demons come to plague me as I lie in bed But I know if you were sleeping there beside me then That you could fend them off and they would let me rest There are nights When the wind comes howling through my old place I have dreams And I wake up with the sweat pouring down my face And I wait till the morning comes There will come a time I fear when all my days are done And they will come collect my corpse and bury me And then I hope you'll come over to the Other Side To join me in our new life, keep me company
This is my favorite band ever and there going to be in Kansas City soon just my luck I wish I lived there not boring Springfield MO this sucks I swear I hate my life 😭
I love CTD's. yet this was posted 12 months ago? Am I behind the times or ix this posting? I rememner playing the original game "Doomd" to this soundtrack and then the first WoW,
You mean the ‘living,’ are exactly now, like ‘the dead’ ???? NAAAWWW, lol, n.f. Time’s have changed ? Prob’ly just me, lol i wouldn’t have it any other way, lol, been a necessary, tho’ dubious, blessing...🌍💜🔆✨💫🌎💜✌️💜
The tragically shit is music you listen too as you sit in car in the garage with the door closed as the motor is running as you take deep breathing of the Exuast fumes .
My old fried Chris passed away from cancer this week. He was 68, and Crash Test Dummies were his favorite band. I am spending this night, listening to them and remembering our many conversations! RIP buddy!
Just saw them tonight for the second time. Love their music. Very sorry for your loss.
@@mayhem7455 thanks!! He was about 25 years older than me, and taught me a lot about life!
Sorry about your loss
Cheers to your friend
Crash Test Dummies...........an example of artists who had that perfect balance between cynical realism and uplifting optimism. That to me is the biggest part of what gives music meaning...............and ultimately what makes it good.
I grew up in Winnipeg and happened to meet a few members at a Safeway in at James we were gonna fight over the last dozen eggs
The eggs broke we got drunk god bless Winnipeg st James in particular 🎉
And Safeway owes us a couple bucks
Eggs….
I love people that don't take themselves too seriously. Especially musicians and other entertainers.
Just simply stunning. Nothing close to this exists anymore in music.
The Ghost that Haunt Me is an absolute masteriece of a song and album!!!
Back to front, one of my favorite albums of all time
What a great song! Harmonica and Mandolin add a unique sound.
This in my opinion was their best album, despite the success of the second. There's not a bad song on it and the sound is completely unique. From the best times in my life, thanks CTD!
yep I lost my cd but played it home from work many nites -my kids hated it at first now I catch them playing it on itunes sometimes same as my rusted root cd
All a matter of opinion. I'm not saying you're wrong or I'm right, but i think the best songs on God Shuffled His Feet [Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm, title track, Afternoons and Coffeespoons, In The Days Of The Cavemen, Swimming In Your Ocean, Untitled, Two Knights And Maidens] are better than the best songs on this album, for me anyway. Plus, the sound quality on GSHF is way better than this album.
Yes..first I heard was GSHF and then picked up this album...blew me away.
@@SiLatics56They're such different albums arrangement and performance wise, but it's God Shuffled His Feet which I've always felt represented their seamless blending of more primary, traditional rock & roll elements into their artsy fartsy Canadian folk-pop-bluegrass music canvas. The lilting, folksy twang of Ghost that Haunt Me was almost entirely absent their 1994 album, which in turn, by 1996, on "A Worm's Life," a more contemporary, 1990s "alternative & grunge-lyte" tonal backdrop was utilized to a harder, "grunge-by-numbers" arrangement, in lieu of the sounds of the 1989 & '94 albums. "A Worm's Life" has a couple decent arrangements, but it was the first time they were trying to keep pace in the musical landscape "de jour," rather than doing whatever came organically. Like always happens, sudden label micro-management AFTER a big surprise success resulted in their third, and first shitty album, "A Worm's Life." Surely it was vexatious and maddening, like it was/has been for so many thousands of similarly positioned groups across previous decades, to know confidently from recent success, that your creative instincts are well balanced, calibrated & tuned for mainstream success, only to be rewarded from the benefactor of such success with a panel of clueless & uncreative poindexters following tightly the dollars they're sure they can mine from something which was only ever successful because they were not in the room. Suddenly these unappreciative assholes are monitoring your every bathroom break, every lyric and note, bafflingly undermining every creative decision, vetoing ideas left & right. A great many bands have found themselves in the position where it's as if they're being stifled, stymied and punished for unexpectedly making their label a shitload of money.
Obviously, this classic music biz model sank the band's fragile balance of quirky yet widely palatable music, and by the weird and difficult listening of "Give Yourself a Hand," an album filled with bizarre & unfunny pervert humor rapped by what had become a human tuba impression over top a discordant, jittery mess of digital music tones and little snips of samples nature sounds, or whatever the fuck, beeps and gleep-glops and pervert jokes, and it was depressing to listen to it, truly baffling. By their fifth album I just figured maybe Brad Roberts had lost his mind. Needless to say, their previous momentum and amazing songwriting felt a galaxy away.
Brad has the best facial expressions ever.
I am honoured and immensely grateful to be totally addicted ro CTD once again! 🖤
I’m 52 and discovering many of these gems for the first time.
You shoulda grown up here in Canada!
Better late than never😊
Back in 1994 I listened to this whole album over and over while driving the whole stretch of I-80 from Reno, NV headed east to Salt Lake City, Utah for at least 500 miles. I think I knew every word and note by then. It's definitely my favorite CTD album!
they played in a bar i worked with the first album. and I was lucky enough to see them again in 2019. amazing
My favorite Crash Test album. Have a copy I got signed!
10000 comments on how they are the most underrated. I guess that says something. They are really good.
I always loved this band ❤️ still do
I would love to see them live
Are you near Kingston, Ontario Canada on July 26th? They are playing a free live concert in Market Square for the start of this year's Rockin' The Square.
I'm going.
@@redspice55 no I'm in Vancouver
@@TifaAnnTheEmpressJourney Oh sorry. Maybe, since they're touring they'll come out your way.
I would love to see them! Come to Washington State Brad!!
The Crash Test Dummies opened with this terrific song at Hamilton, Ontario's "Festival of Friends" last night (Saturday, August 3, 2024) at 8 pm. What a great show! And tickets to this amazing 3-day festival are $0 every year! 😀
Was sooo upset that I wasn't able to attend 😩
The mandolin makes this song.......takes it from good to sublime.
The Mandolin is definitely a thing - but maybe 2nd to the accordion and hammarnocia harmonies.. just saying
I love this band.❤❤❤❤❤❤
The Crash Test Dummies are playing live in our city Kingston, ON on July 26th, 2024 in Market Square for the start of this year's Rockin' The Square. It's a free concert so if you're in the area, come and join us.
It'll be my first time seeing them live.
Most underrated band of 90s!!!
they are literally known for only one song: Mmm mmm mm m
One of
They were pretty popular in Canada. Just not the United States.
How is a multiplatinum group that sold 10million copies underrated?
Tragically Hip even more underrated outside Canada
Love from Perth, Western Australia.. looking forward to the upcoming tour... This was the voice and music i resonated as a 8-12 y.o growing up and working out what was what... This was my 90's compass.. Thanks Crash test dummies !
This band always made me happy.
Still have this on the original cassette tape I bought in 1992. If only I still had a tape deck :P
My ol’ Mustang still has a cassette player. We can go for a cruise and jam to Crash Test Dummies! 😋
You can still buy one. Just check on-line.
Love this song ! Its 2025 Crash test Dummies still rock today! The Ghosts That Haunt Me Now, is all time one of the greatest albums....
Its time you came back on the world's stage .... Your voice is rare and captivating ~
I second that !!!
The Dummies are on tour right now! Just saw them tonight
@@brandonbrown3899 no he didn't
N2TheOcean n
Sean Sturgill n
So weird. Things I didn't really get into in college I'm obsessed with now. Love it.
A style all their own ! Love these guy's ! They where all meant to be together and just do what they do !!! 😁✌
Lyrical brilliance.
Love this song - beautiful and deep sentiments, stirring note progressions, astounding! 🤗
Absolutely ..... so much narrative to attempt to bring us “home”,,,I was there in the beginning,,,,, not even sure why some blip caught my wandering eye tonite..... beautiful messages for ANY time".........surely will be bringing them back at least to share with friends who might never had heard them..... such powerful messages.... I’ll keep on ... and there may be a message for me at this time of my life...
Very talented band! Everyone compliments each other!
Love this song. Every word, every note, every little bit of it :)
ohhhhhh man i loved this song as kid!!!!!! didn't know it was Dummies!
Hands down my fav CTD track
Thankyou. You are so kind and honest.
This helped me with my PTSD
Me too brother!
Same here my friends.
Incredible!
Delightful....
Love these guys!
Ótima banda. Marcou minha geração👍👍
Another great song about a disfellowshipped person... I mean ghosts?
My favourite crash test dummy song.
AWESOME SONG
Did Brad Roberts write all the lyrics for CTD? I didn't appreciate them in the 90s but have come back to them over the last few months. The lyrics are captivating.
ditto
You guys aren't the only ones. This was so different from the standard radio fare of the time, and is timeless. The whole record has this wistful, playful vibe that brings a smile to my face and makes me feel twenty-five years younger. That's all I ask from music - make me feel invincible again. :)
Yes, he did.
Except for Androgynous. That was a cover. But I like the CTD version better than the original.
@@ElaMongrella yes, good catch, a Paul Westerberg cover. Like Brad, he’s also one of my favorite songwriters
Genius 🦘
Esse cantor era um deus grego 😍
La voix du chanteur est à tombée.🌞
Finally got to see CTD in November 2023 and they did this song. A dream fulfilled.
So many negative comments on their lyrics. That is where uniqueness originates. They are one of a kind. Music is from the heart and sentences do not always have to be "proper english grammatical sentences". That is music.
I haven't seen any negative comments. Except for maybe this response to your comment😂
Huh? I don’t see anything negative?
Yeah!
Esse homem era lindo demais❤❤❤
Brilliant
Ellen Reid...my oh my.. what a talent and a beauty!
Oddly enough I have all of these ghost following me around every corner I turn now.
One of the Best Bands of the 90's they were originally from Winnipeg MB
The Ghosts that Haunt Me is an amazing album; IMO it is their best.
This song just popped into my head, and I had to hear it. It is in some ways unfortunate that Crash Test Dummies are best known for what is certainly not one of their better songs (or, at least, I don't like it much). Weird how that happens.
Such an underrated band
Happy to subscribe💖✝️🥰
AWESOME CANADIANA! These guys are soooo still on my playlist! The next album.. "God Shuffled his Feet""....Abosute brilliance! ..but the American market has no tollerance for "smart" / whitt! .....still love em!
Not all Americans. Liked them when they came out and now at 53 still like them !!
And would love to hear them come out with some new work, or rather Talent.
I'm an American.. been in Ohio nearly all my life... I'm in my early 20s, my dad and I saw Crash Test a couple times about two, three years or so back. my dad was lucky enough to see em for the first time in 96 !
Older ya get, the more this song makes sense
The Ghosts That Haunt Me
Crash Test Dummies
There's a skeleton in everybody's closet
I can think of one or two in my own room
But I would like to introduce them both to you
You'd shake their bony hands and so dispel the gloom
Cause you're so kind
I know you would not mind
You'd send away the ghosts that haunt me now
And the things I fear
Just wouldn't seem so near
And when I stroll out late at night
There would be nothing rattling at my hells
There are nights when all my aching bones won't let me sleep
And demons come to plague me as I lie in bed
But I know if you were sleeping there beside me then
That you could fend them off and they would let me rest
There are nights
When the wind comes howling through my old place
I have dreams
And I wake up with the sweat pouring down my face
And I wait till the morning comes
There will come a time I fear when all my days are done
And they will come collect my corpse and bury me
And then I hope you'll come over to the Other Side
To join me in our new life, keep me company
After getting back into mmm..mmm... I'm wondering now if I have underestimated Crash Test Dummies all these years.
hooray fot the crash test dummies
how do you go from this to... whatever that thing is they just put out
This is my favorite band ever and there going to be in Kansas City soon just my luck I wish I lived there not boring Springfield MO this sucks I swear I hate my life 😭
Is just a thought, but it's songs like this that always made me feel Crash Test Dummies turned into Rusted Root....🤷♀️
♥️♥️👏👏👏👏
Reminds me of my first catfish..20 years later and we are still together
Goddamn I miss the 90s.
Brad's so cute ☺️
Love Miss Ellen :-)
I love CTD's. yet this was posted 12 months ago? Am I behind the times or ix this posting? I rememner playing the original game "Doomd" to this soundtrack and then the first WoW,
I played Doom and Ultima 6 religiously while listening to CTD as a kid 💚
No, you're not dreaming. Michel Dorge with hair.
Ahahahah, Never thought of him with hair at all, It’s quite funny seeing him with hair though.
Lead singer looks like the dude in Office Space.
Would Love 2 have a drink in joint with yous 🌞🌻🥳
You mean the ‘living,’ are exactly now, like ‘the dead’ ???? NAAAWWW, lol, n.f. Time’s have changed ? Prob’ly just me, lol i wouldn’t have it any other way, lol, been a necessary, tho’ dubious, blessing...🌍💜🔆✨💫🌎💜✌️💜
I have lots of ghosts that haunt me.
I still have a crush on Ellen.
Thank-you
I love da puppets
™️🥷 R.I.P. WLUNA 2024
how does a duck know what direction south is?
I wish I had Brad's hair.
This looks like one of their earlier songs because the lead singer is a lot older now. Joke, right?
2nd single from their 1991 album, says Wikipedia.
title track of the debut album
December 25 2024 you have no idea
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The tragically shit is music you listen too as you sit in car in the garage with the door closed as the motor is running as you take deep breathing of the Exuast fumes .
These guys don’t get enough credit. Every thing is about the tragically shit. Not ☝🏻This guy . Gord downey appeals too a Gommer or yokel crowd