My brother was obsessed with this album. Later, my dad got really into this song as he was slowly dying from cancer. The ironic happy sound juxtaposed with the theme resonated with him, I think. Then my brother died 3 years later when COVID destroyed his lungs. Listening to this is bittersweet but it makes me feel close to them. Thanks for an incredible song.
I can't remember who gave me their cassette, but I'm forever grateful. How can you not love this group, having fun making great music? Now, in my 70s, I love them just as much as the first time I heard them. I wake up with one of their songs in my head and know it's going to be a good day!
A friend of mine let me keep a CD of Siamese Dream that I had borrowed since he'd gotten another copy for Christmas. Thank God for the family member that gifted him another copy, I can't recall the number of times over the years when I wanted to be deluged by 90s nostalgia and popped in that CD. I still have that CD and the Crash Test Dummies album (plus numerous other 90s CDs). In the same 90s CD case no less. I believe the 90s can't fully be explained, only experienced.. but probably everyone feels that way about their childhood. Sorry for the ramble
If you haven't listened to this entire album, do yourself a HUGE favor and do it. I', a metal head, and when this was new my Uncle Grog (A biker in the VNVMC) gave me a cassette of the album, I bought it on CD after one listen and have been listening to it at least once a week, usually more, since then. SUCH an incredible album from "cover to cover" as my Uncle would say. Give it a swirl, you'd be happy you did!!!!
I have a very wide spectrum of music interests and this is by far one of the smoothest albums and flow I've ever heard. I know no one in person that like them in the least, so if not for RUclips I'd think I was the only fan in the world.
I’m being told my liver is failing. I look forward to my coffee spoons. I think my love for this album was foreshadowing. I don’t know how people don’t think they were special in their own way.
My favorite song from Crash Test Dummies. The moral of the song is that we grow old but we should enjoy the journey and shouldn't dwell for too long on the past.
I don't think that's the message of this song at all. Pretty sure the message of this song is that the narrator is going to die before he gets old and he's imagining what that would be like.
Didn't understand when I was 14-15 in 1993 but loved this song. Now I'm 44, got a dissappearing hearline and knew some hospitals hallways... This song is a sweet anthem of how life changes and we become older.
Currently have covid and laying in a hospital bed with an Oxygen mask strapped to my face, listening to this song. It's the little things that keep you smiling. Plus its better than listening to poor old Allan across the ward who sounds like he is on his last legs. Bless his heart.
This song got me prepared for a Whipple procedure, arguably the most horrific surgery on earth) After listening to this song 100 times I learned not to take life so seriously. The surgery saved my life three years ago and I’m 100percent. The surgery was in 2019 th e so g , born in the 90’s
Nothing sounded more "90's" than CTD. Wish i could go back for a day cruising, smokin, jammin to this album. Sarah, chevy and austin. Ill never forget you lot!
This song is a hypochondriac anthem of sorts, with lead singer Brad Roberts singing about old age and a series of ailments. In a Songfacts interview with Roberts, he said: "'Afternoons & Coffeespoons' is a song about being afraid of getting old, which is a reflection of my very neurotic character. I have always been preoccupied with death. It's kind of a morbid preoccupation, I'll admit. I always struggled with severe clinical depression, suicidal thoughts, high anxiety levels - ever since I was a little kid. I got extremely good marks at school, but my emotional life was a wreck. And I don't think I understood that I had a psychiatric illness, I just was constantly terrified of things that nobody else seemed to be worried about, like my death."
Such an upbeat tune! Funny how the song has a whole new meaning now we're older lol. Back in the day we had no idea what it was about, alot of people thought it was about drinking coffee while reading a book lmao
I was 21 when this song came out....the lyrics about getting old, and getting old seemed an eternity away...30 years later *boom* it's upon you in the blink of an eye.
Jesus Christ. I was a teenager when this song came out. I loved it but it haunted me then and definitely haunts me now. I feel like they time travelled. What was once a young generations song is becoming a truth.
Oh man my thought exactly when I heard this song for the first time since high school today! Damn... we all danced and laughed at this and now, it brings a tear to my eye!
@@KevinBenecke Summer '94 was my Summer before Senior Year, so probably my last one with all my friends together since many people went their separate ways after graduation. Good times! This song, I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles), and all the Lion King songs remind me of Summer '94!
It's so funny that you said the summer of 94. Man as Soon as I heard this start playing that's exactly where I went in my mind, that was a hell of a summer. I was 14 and I remember I lost my virginity that year lol. But I fell in love , got my heart broke and fell in love 2 more times that Summer. LMAO. It use to be so easy , but what I remember most is my parents helped me buy my first car. It was 78 Nova. But we paid 300 hundred for it and it needed a shit ton of work done to it. So I spent that whole summer working on it every chance I got. With a radio blasting. And I had this CD and Nirvana , Alice in chains , Pearl jam, and a bunch of others. But blasting music and getting greasy was my summer days. Man those days were fun LoL
I've listened to this song over & over for nearly 30 years, dreaming of the day when I would wear pajamas in the daytime...the day is here now & I am still singing along, while I hear the rattle in my bronchi!
I was 9 when this album came out, and my dad, who was an oncologist and general music lover, played it all the time. Now that I’m 38 and have taken care of a lot of cancer patients, my dad included, I understand his love for the album and this song in particular. When cancer comes for me, if I’m lucky enough to live long enough to face its inevitability, I hope I have the wherewithal to blast this song at full volume. Afternoons measured out with coffee spoons.
Thank you to my old man for having this on cassette, the whole album is amazing. I’m somewhat of a metal head but this album, this song.....well there is something that rings true right now in this current climate. CTD what can I say?? Genius. The whole record on my playlist for now and forever ❤️
just saw them Tuesday night in Sac. CA. I know every word to every song in this album! Total metal head but there was something about this album. LOVE IT
The musicianship and talent that’s in this band is off the charts. Just listen to the jam sections and they go off! I’m 48 and anytime I listen to this record Im 17 again and it’s awesome. I loves me some CTD’s! ❤️🏆🏁
I heard this song when I was just a kid. I didn’t know what a hairline was, already wore pyjamas in the daytime and thought he was singing “tears Eliot”. I didn’t quite understand the whole thing but I still thought it was great. And I still do today, especially now that I understand everything about every song on the album. That’s why I listen to all of them all the time again.
This whole album was horribly underrated. It's a true masterpiece.
But the fact a baritone fronted group cracked the top ten is something. I love this band and have brought it to so many people through the years
Thomas Mueller Do you remember the ‘80s, dude..? All baritone, all the time, lol.
Grouchy Mom some of my best memories are my dads opening the windows on a Sunday morning, blasting amazing 90s song and cleaning the house
Agree..i still hold to my copy with dear life....Its so precious..such amazing songwriting and music.
Talking Heads nigga produced and all.
You can’t really explain the 90’s to anyone who didn’t live in them. It was a glorious time to be alive.
It was the last best decade.
@@grouchymom6252 ...old folks
I feel like ninety percent of the fun I have had in my life was in the nineties. The best times indeed.
Yesss! I would go back in a second!❤❤❤
amen to that brotha..
My brother was obsessed with this album.
Later, my dad got really into this song as he was slowly dying from cancer. The ironic happy sound juxtaposed with the theme resonated with him, I think.
Then my brother died 3 years later when COVID destroyed his lungs.
Listening to this is bittersweet but it makes me feel close to them. Thanks for an incredible song.
Sorry for your loss man, sounded like they saw the funny side of life though. Hope this song makes you happy.
Sorry for the pain Satan is causing. Did the murderers in lab coats hook your brother up to a ventilator?
What a great story. I'm so sorry for your loss though.
Oh man, so sorry for your terrible loss. What a beautiful song to carry their memory. Hope you're able to find some peace x
❤🩹
Turning 50 next month....these lyrics ring true now!!! Some of us didn't make it this far!!! God Bless.....and shuffle your feet😊
btw this band is not a Christian band, but i agree Gid Bless!
This was released in 1994, definitely it not 50 years ago.
@@OonaYounger I think he was saying HE is turning 50 next month.... not the song.
I can't remember who gave me their cassette, but I'm forever grateful. How can you not love this group, having fun making great music? Now, in my 70s, I love them just as much as the first time I heard them. I wake up with one of their songs in my head and know it's going to be a good day!
A friend of mine let me keep a CD of Siamese Dream that I had borrowed since he'd gotten another copy for Christmas. Thank God for the family member that gifted him another copy, I can't recall the number of times over the years when I wanted to be deluged by 90s nostalgia and popped in that CD. I still have that CD and the Crash Test Dummies album (plus numerous other 90s CDs). In the same 90s CD case no less. I believe the 90s can't fully be explained, only experienced.. but probably everyone feels that way about their childhood. Sorry for the ramble
I put this on when it is time to clean my garage/shopspace!
Danny Devries, if you’re reading this: thanks for lending me this CD in 10th grade. I’ll get it back to you, I swear.
Lol
Have you gave it back yet, after 5 months lol, I would keep it 😜🥰
Ahshah!
Send it to me, I'll get it to Danny:)
Danny is my stepdad
Harmonica guy has a lot of charisma in this video. Fun, energetic, catchy. Lady pianist I had a mad crush for.
If you haven't listened to this entire album, do yourself a HUGE favor and do it. I', a metal head, and when this was new my Uncle Grog (A biker in the VNVMC) gave me a cassette of the album, I bought it on CD after one listen and have been listening to it at least once a week, usually more, since then. SUCH an incredible album from "cover to cover" as my Uncle would say. Give it a swirl, you'd be happy you did!!!!
I'm a metal head rocker but the crash test dummies gave me a grunge Foak cross over that I just loved 94 and still love 2day
FUNERAL BILL II this album is one of the best engineered albums I’ve ever heard.
The mix is just solid all around.
This was my first ever CD which I still have and I also own the LP now too :-)
I have a very wide spectrum of music interests and this is by far one of the smoothest albums and flow I've ever heard. I know no one in person that like them in the least, so if not for RUclips I'd think I was the only fan in the world.
Picked it up in the 90s cause I liked their name lol
Man, beautiful tongue in cheek quirky art waveforms with amazing messages and great story lines. Love this band. Timeless too. My students love it.
Interesting observation. 😊
I’m being told my liver is failing. I look forward to my coffee spoons. I think my love for this album was foreshadowing. I don’t know how people don’t think they were special in their own way.
My favorite song from Crash Test Dummies. The moral of the song is that we grow old but we should enjoy the journey and shouldn't dwell for too long on the past.
Mine too
Mine as well. But funny they fit in 2018
Well said sir
I need to remember not to dwell so much, thanks
I don't think that's the message of this song at all. Pretty sure the message of this song is that the narrator is going to die before he gets old and he's imagining what that would be like.
Dan Roberts is possibly my favorite bassist. So tasteful, never overdone and always makes the song better. Totally underrated player…
The bass lines are incredible!
Dan really is a very solid and wonderfully tasty bassist. He, along with Mitch Dorge on drums, support these songs so well.
I will never not love the Crash Test Dummies!!! So witty, so ebullient, so catchy and joyful and adorable.
One of those songs that sits in the bowels of your brain since the mid 90s until, one random day, you think about it again
True as I heard this on acid and spent years trying to find and not disappointed 😊🙉
Love that. Bowels of your brain. 🤣🤣🤣
Didn't understand when I was 14-15 in 1993 but loved this song. Now I'm 44, got a dissappearing hearline and knew some hospitals hallways... This song is a sweet anthem of how life changes and we become older.
I can't say it better ('cause I'm french) 😉
@@newboborder3221 same cos’ im spanish lol
@@pbasoaltot 😅
What hairline? 😆
I was 16 in 1993.
Now about to be 46, my back often hurts. I am not like I once was, that's for sure.
Honestly, I always thought it was a morbid tune about a guy with lung cancer. Hairline...chemo...pajamas...hospital gown. Rattle in his bronchi.
Any other 90's kid's still kickin around out there? ✌
Channel Happiness no, all 90’s kids are gone. Did you not hear?
Channel Happiness I’m here
Iam a 70s kid lol
You bet!
@@leelindo4483 me ne me meeee
Used to listen to this album in the backyard with headphones and a portable tape player. Laying out in a chair watching the trees with the wind.
I think most of us here did :)
Back when music was fun, interesting and “alive”. Incredible song.
They Might Be Giants!
What you don’t like mumble rap? Haha 😆
@@jjmah7 No, or the popular Toronto guy that "sings" like he's missing key brains cells.
Clever and original thought.
Currently have covid and laying in a hospital bed with an Oxygen mask strapped to my face, listening to this song. It's the little things that keep you smiling. Plus its better than listening to poor old Allan across the ward who sounds like he is on his last legs. Bless his heart.
Just read this and am hoping you are still with us good human🙏
@@teufelhunden8479 me too...
me too-are you okay? drop us a message!
Don’t worry Lex I didn’t Vax either I respect your conviction.
This song got me prepared for a Whipple procedure, arguably the most horrific surgery on earth)
After listening to this song 100 times I learned not to take life so seriously.
The surgery saved my life three years ago and I’m 100percent.
The surgery was in 2019 th e so g , born in the 90’s
Absolutely love it
Nothing sounded more "90's" than CTD. Wish i could go back for a day cruising, smokin, jammin to this album. Sarah, chevy and austin. Ill never forget you lot!
🤔 Wait, wuddabout TMBG? 😊
There was a couple of singers in TMBG@@davidjoseph3403
I have some of my best memories surrounding this album ❤️
Nothing says 90s like a peppy, wonderful melody with some real dark lyrics.
This song is a hypochondriac anthem of sorts, with lead singer Brad Roberts singing about old age and a series of ailments. In a Songfacts interview with Roberts, he said: "'Afternoons & Coffeespoons' is a song about being afraid of getting old, which is a reflection of my very neurotic character. I have always been preoccupied with death. It's kind of a morbid preoccupation, I'll admit. I always struggled with severe clinical depression, suicidal thoughts, high anxiety levels - ever since I was a little kid. I got extremely good marks at school, but my emotional life was a wreck. And I don't think I understood that I had a psychiatric illness, I just was constantly terrified of things that nobody else seemed to be worried about, like my death."
We all miss this.. Real people making real music.
Such an upbeat tune! Funny how the song has a whole new meaning now we're older lol. Back in the day we had no idea what it was about, alot of people thought it was about drinking coffee while reading a book lmao
Tribalwyvern79 lol right???
Tribalwyvern79 I thought it was a metaphor for drugs till I saw the video
Num entendi nada kkk
Honestly I wasn't interely sure what it was about until I read the comments
@Tribalwyvern79 People really thought that? You didn't hang out with a group of smarties, did you?
I was 21 when this song came out....the lyrics about getting old, and getting old seemed an eternity away...30 years later *boom* it's upon you in the blink of an eye.
Ain’t that the truth!
@@johngriffith7315 Scary just how fast it, John.
I was 16 when it came out. Seems like so long ago and just like yesterday all at once.
You aren't kidding, John.
@@BassPlayerSusan Yup.
Jesus Christ. I was a teenager when this song came out. I loved it but it haunted me then and definitely haunts me now. I feel like they time travelled. What was once a young generations song is becoming a truth.
It's like they wrote it during quarantine, wearing pajamas in the daytime, and stuff about lungs and hospital hallways...😳🤔
Oh man my thought exactly when I heard this song for the first time since high school today! Damn... we all danced and laughed at this and now, it brings a tear to my eye!
Well put
Wasn’t born when it came out, but I used to hear it a lot in 2nd grade.
Still singing the tunes... thanks folks ... some of the best music out there 👌 stay safe 🏴
This song floated into my mind today... takes me back to better, more innocent times...
Awe the summer of 94, absurd how fast things have gone by....
DutchKat my favorite years. We were so lucky to be around in the mid 90s :)
That was my first year out of high school.
@@KevinBenecke Summer '94 was my Summer before Senior Year, so probably my last one with all my friends together since many people went their separate ways after graduation. Good times! This song, I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles), and all the Lion King songs remind me of Summer '94!
a better time
It's so funny that you said the summer of 94. Man as Soon as I heard this start playing that's exactly where I went in my mind, that was a hell of a summer. I was 14 and I remember I lost my virginity that year lol. But I fell in love , got my heart broke and fell in love 2 more times that Summer. LMAO. It use to be so easy , but what I remember most is my parents helped me buy my first car. It was 78 Nova. But we paid 300 hundred for it and it needed a shit ton of work done to it. So I spent that whole summer working on it every chance I got. With a radio blasting. And I had this CD and Nirvana , Alice in chains , Pearl jam, and a bunch of others. But blasting music and getting greasy was my summer days. Man those days were fun LoL
I've listened to this song over & over for nearly 30 years, dreaming of the day when I would wear pajamas in the daytime...the day is here now & I am still singing along, while I hear the rattle in my bronchi!
Yes our reality, aging slowly but such is life ehh? cheers!
Man, no shit. 😂
How does a duck know how to tell his wife from all the other ducks? Hmm hmm hmm hmm?
I am 71 young and still love it, cheers from Cologne 😀😀😀🍷🎉
I love this song!
The Comedy of this song and the absolute awesomeness of how it is put together it's incredible
Einer der besten Songs die ich je gehört habe! Großachtung vor diesen Künstlern!
A legendary piece of music. Hairs on my arms lift with joy every time I hear this. It is simply magnificent.
made me happy back then and still does the trick today, thanks!!
It's probably been 25 years since I've heard this song. LOVE IT.
Alguém ouvindo em 2024 esse clássico..😊
awesome ! great times from 90's ...
Cheers from Brazil.
The best song of the 90's!
Still gets airtime in our house ... from start to end . Good old days when the whole album counted . Brilliant,thank you for the music xxx
Brilliant!
I was 9 when this album came out, and my dad, who was an oncologist and general music lover, played it all the time. Now that I’m 38 and have taken care of a lot of cancer patients, my dad included, I understand his love for the album and this song in particular. When cancer comes for me, if I’m lucky enough to live long enough to face its inevitability, I hope I have the wherewithal to blast this song at full volume. Afternoons measured out with coffee spoons.
This is the weirdest and best album from the 90's, it really is worth a listen.
The world obviously wasn’t ready for this masterpiece and never will be!.
This song was so underrated!!!!!!
Absolutely!!
Perfecto music. I love it.
God Shuffled His Feet was a top 10 album of the 90s. I always remember hearing Brad introducing this song at Edgefest '94 here in Dallas...
This song warms my heart up. Thank you CTD.
Great Album....Great Band...fantastic harmonies, great rhythm section!!
Some great 90’s memories come flooding back listening to this. What a decade it was ❤️
I can’t stop listening to this and I love it!!!!
This deserves more than 1.6M views.
Awe the summer of 94, absurd how fast things have gone by....
This song was so underrated!!!!!!
just a great melody!
I really like how this song could turn into a jam session, with several of each instrument playing at once!
Love this....July 2021! Loved it for 30 years!
Coming back to this song during the COVID19 outbreak. Gives me a sense of well being. I love it
S B same here.
I've been listening to these guys all summer during quarantine, they soothe my soul.
'Rattle in my broncii'
Could not be more appropriate.
Watching from my covid icu bed nothing more appropriate for this virus. Rattle in my bronchi really sticks !
"Pyjamas in the daytime" all through lockdown... 😁
Love this music ❤❤ all the way from Perth Australia
Awesome track. Brings back some great memories from the 90s
Brilliant tunes 👍😂
Anyone listening in 2020? CTD all the way!
CTD ❤💪🏻🇨🇦
March 5th, 2020....
yeah with my disappearing hairline
@@MarshallLore same here!
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Superb bass playing on this track.
Loved this when i was 16 im 40 now and still love it 💕
great song/video from 1994, remember it well like yesterday.
Masterpiece
great song/video from 1994, remember it well like yesterday.
Any other 90's kid's still kickin around out there? ✌
Harmonica accompaniment is really fantastic
Thank you to my old man for having this on cassette, the whole album is amazing. I’m somewhat of a metal head but this album, this song.....well there is something that rings true right now in this current climate. CTD what can I say?? Genius. The whole record on my playlist for now and forever ❤️
Oh Yes! Totally underrated. Outstanding
Simply love this song...
This great tune has a carefree drive out to the country on a sunny summer afternoon with no one around kind of vibe.
Any other 90's kid's still kickin around out there? ✌
Those not born in 90's..well...stay indebted to youtube
Amazing song and lyrics.
My favorite song by this group. Good stuff
Totally agree 💯
The older I get, the more I like this song.
The more represents our lives in perfect order
All these years later, and I still know every word to CTD songs. This is one of my favorites!❤😂
just saw them Tuesday night in Sac. CA. I know every word to every song in this album! Total metal head but there was something about this album. LOVE IT
Great show at gage park hamilton ontario tonight! Incredible performance & I thank you. Love you all ❤
great to hear their other songs! this sounds better than the rubbish we hear in the charts nowadays, greetings from ireland! peace out
I love this song.
The musicianship and talent that’s in this band is off the charts. Just listen to the jam sections and they go off! I’m 48 and anytime I listen to this record Im 17 again and it’s awesome. I loves me some CTD’s! ❤️🏆🏁
♡♡♡ always lifts my vibration
You know a song is great when you can sing along to it after (yeesh) almost 20 years
I heard this song when I was just a kid. I didn’t know what a hairline was, already wore pyjamas in the daytime and thought he was singing “tears Eliot”. I didn’t quite understand the whole thing but I still thought it was great. And I still do today, especially now that I understand everything about every song on the album. That’s why I listen to all of them all the time again.
How much I miss these days in music .. When everything was great and cool .Love it
Great memories. To ♥ hear
An excellent band in an epic era of music, 90's classic 👍
I saw you guys live in Melbourne a couple months ago and it was amazing!
Sooperb! Catchy as hell! Love this album 😁
Love this song, much better than the one they're known for.
when you heard all the songs, and never seen a video. 90's
Incredible!
Really like this group. So unique
Magic music video. Love it.
Imo one of the most underrated bands of the 90's!
Very much yes to T S Eliot. (I can't believe this reference made it into this song; pure genius.)
Masterpieces get extra plays😗
It is what it is a masterpiece
ahead of their time perhaps, but so unforgettable. This song just smacks me back to that time.