Crash Test Dude
Crash Test Dude: Brad Roberts Live Singing Your Favorite Hits is a live album performed by Crash Test Dummies lead singer Brad Roberts during his solo acoustic tour following the Give Yourself a Hand tour. The album was released, along with an accompanying rockumentary film, exclusively through the MapleMusic.com e-commerce portal.
| Crash Test Dude: Brad Roberts Live Singing Your Favorite Hits | ||||
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| Released | November 5, 2001 | |||
| Recorded | Ted's Wrecking Yard, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2000 and Metalworks Studios in Mississauga, Ontario Genre = Rock, acoustic rock | |||
| Length | 90:23 | |||
| Label | Cha-Ching Records | |||
| Producer | Paul Tozer and Brad Roberts | |||
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Album
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Introductory Remarks" | 1:52 | |
| 2. | "Understand Your Man" | Johnny Cash | 3:05 |
| 3. | "An aside regarding prostitution" | 1:09 | |
| 4. | "Androgynous" | Paul Westerberg | 3:38 |
| 5. | "I Want to Par-tay!" | Brad Roberts, Greg Wells | 2:52 |
| 6. | "Oral sex is proffered by Mr Roberts in order to compensate a customer for the high ticket price" | 0:35 | |
| 7. | "Cocaine" | Gary Davis | 4:14 |
| 8. | "Give Yourself A Hand" | Roberts, Wells | 3:28 |
| 9. | "Trident Gum Theme" | 1:33 | |
| 10. | "Da Do Ron Ron" | Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector | 3:49 |
| 11. | "A discussion of bowel difficulties during the performance" | 1:06 | |
| 12. | "Afternoons and Coffeespoons" | Roberts | 4:19 |
| 13. | "A Poem, "Scientific Management", is read" | 3:08 | |
| 14. | "Keep a Lid on Things" | Roberts, Wells | 2:43 |
| 15. | "A hilariously derisive account of my heritage ensues, as I banter on, ever more wittily, the scotch now coursing through my body as I experience an ever increasing alcohol-induced euphoria" | 1:01 | |
| 16. | "Superman's Song" | Roberts | 5:00 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Relation between bass baritone guitar and the penis is discussed" | 1:23 | |
| 2. | "God Shuffled His Feet" | Roberts | 3:52 |
| 3. | "My Freedom from all STD's is firmly and self-servingly established" | 1:04 | |
| 4. | "A Cigarette Is All You Get" | Roberts, Wells | 3:13 |
| 5. | "He Liked to Feel It" | Roberts | 4:09 |
| 6. | "The String Change Song" | 2:32 | |
| 7. | "Delilah" | Les Reed, Barry Mason | 4:33 |
| 8. | "La Grange" | Frank Beard, Billy Gibbons, Joel Michael Dusty Hill | 2:54 |
| 9. | "Torontonian's: Pro's and Con's" | 1:10 | |
| 10. | "Unbreak My Heart" | Diane Warren | 4:36 |
| 11. | "My Reputation in the politically correct press as "Crash Test Drunkard"" | 1:31 | |
| 12. | "Bette Davis Eyes" | Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon | 2:53 |
| 13. | "Another poem, entitled "Circumcision" is read" | 3:33 | |
| 14. | "Baby One More Time" | Martin Carl Sandberg | 3:29 |
| 15. | "Mmm Mmm Mmm" | Roberts | 5:27 |
| 16. | "Encore" (Superman's Song Reprise) | Roberts | 0:51 |
Film
| Crash Test Dude: The Brad Roberts Rockumentary | |
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| Directed by | Brad Roberts Jeff Stephenson Jason Tan |
| Starring | Brad Roberts Murray Pulver |
| Music by | Brad Roberts |
| Distributed by | Cha-Ching Records |
Release date | 5 November 2001 |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
Crash Test Dude was also released as a rockumentary film. The film features a candid, behind-the-scenes look at Brad Robert's solo tour across Canada and the Northern U.S.[1]
Personnel
- Brad Roberts – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, bass baritone guitar
- Murray Pulver – back-up vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Reception
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| Allmusic |    [2] |
The album received mixed to poor reviews. Allmusic writer Aaron Badgley gave it 1½ out of 5 stars and states that "choosing to debut with a live disc was not a good idea, as this CD is full of Roberts' rants and childish cover versions. It is also the performance of an artist who does not seem to care a great deal about his audience. Sure, the Crash Test Dummies hits are here, in stripped-down, almost acoustic versions. And it is for those songs alone that CD even deserves a listen. The versions are nowhere near as good as the original studio recordings, but at least they have a form, are complete, and are listenable. His version of Britney Spears' Baby One More Time following a poem titled Circumcision is neither funny or ironic. It is plain pathetic. And his rants between songs are just the ramblings of a drunken performer (he makes it clear that he continues to drink throughout the show)."[2]
References
- "Crash Test Dude Video". MapleMusic.
- Badgley, Aaron. "Brad Roberts: Crash Test Dude > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved 29 April 2010.