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Crash Test Dude

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Crash Test Dude: Brad Roberts Live Singing Your Favorite Hits
Live album by
ReleasedNovember 5, 2001
RecordedTed's Wrecking Yard, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2000 and Metalworks Studios in Mississauga, Ontario Genre = Rock, acoustic rock
Length90:23
LabelCha-Ching Records
ProducerPaul Tozer and Brad Roberts
Brad Roberts chronology
Crash Test Dude: Brad Roberts Live Singing Your Favorite Hits
(2001)
Rajanaka: Mantra
(2011)

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.

Album

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Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

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)."[1]

Track listing

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Disc 1
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Introductory Remarks" 1:52
2."Understand Your Man"Johnny Cash3:05
3."An aside regarding prostitution" 1:09
4."Androgynous"Paul Westerberg3:38
5."I Want to Par-tay!"Brad Roberts, Greg Wells2:52
6."Oral sex is proffered by Mr Roberts in order to compensate a customer for the high ticket price" 0:35
7."Cocaine"Gary Davis4:14
8."Give Yourself A Hand"Roberts, Wells3:28
9."Trident Gum Theme" 1:33
10."Da Do Ron Ron"Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich, Phil Spector3:49
11."A discussion of bowel difficulties during the performance" 1:06
12."Afternoons and Coffeespoons"Roberts4:19
13."A Poem, "Scientific Management", is read" 3:08
14."Keep a Lid on Things"Roberts, Wells2:43
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"Roberts5:00
Disc 2
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Relation between bass baritone guitar and the penis is discussed" 1:23
2."God Shuffled His Feet"Roberts3:52
3."My Freedom from all STD's is firmly and self-servingly established" 1:04
4."A Cigarette Is All You Get"Roberts, Wells3:13
5."He Liked to Feel It"Roberts4:09
6."The String Change Song" 2:32
7."Delilah"Les Reed, Barry Mason4:33
8."La Grange"Frank Beard, Billy Gibbons, Joel Michael Dusty Hill2:54
9."Torontonian's: Pro's and Con's" 1:10
10."Unbreak My Heart"Diane Warren4:36
11."My Reputation in the politically correct press as "Crash Test Drunkard"" 1:31
12."Bette Davis Eyes"Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon2:53
13."Another poem, entitled "Circumcision" is read" 3:33
14."Baby One More Time"Martin Carl Sandberg3:29
15."Mmm Mmm Mmm"Roberts5:27
16."Encore" (Superman's Song Reprise)Roberts0:51

Personnel

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Film

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Crash Test Dude: The Brad Roberts Rockumentary
Directed byBrad Roberts
Jeff Stephenson
Jason Tan
StarringBrad Roberts
Murray Pulver
Music byBrad Roberts
Distributed byCha-Ching Records
Release date
  • 5 November 2001 (2001-11-05)
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

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.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b Badgley, Aaron. "Brad Roberts: Crash Test Dude > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved 29 April 2010.
  2. ^ "Crash Test Dude Video". MapleMusic.
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