Crash Test Dude

Crash Test Dude: Brad Roberts Live Singing Your Favorite Hits
Live album by Brad Roberts
Released	November 5, 2001
Recorded	Ted's Wrecking Yard, Toronto, Canada, 2000
Genre	Rock, acoustic rock
Length	90:23
Label	Cha-Ching Records
Producer	Paul Tozer and Brad Roberts
Brad Roberts chronology
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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

Track listing

All tracks written by Brad Roberts, except where noted.

Disc one

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" (Brad Roberts, Greg 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" – 4:19
13. A Poem, "Scientific Management", is read
14. "Keep A Lid On Things" (Brad Roberts, Greg 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" – 5:00

Disc two

1. Relation between bass baritone guitar and the penis is discussed – 1:23
2. "God Shuffled His Feet" – 3:52
3. My Freedom from all STD's is firmly and self-servingly established – 1:04
4. "A Cigarette Is All You Get" (Brad Roberts/Greg Wells) – 3:13
5. "He Liked to Feel It" – 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. "Betty 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" – 5:27
16. "Encore" (Superman's Song Reprise) – 0:51

Film

Crash Test Dude: The Brad Roberts Rockumentary
Directed by	Brad Roberts Jeff Stephenson Jason Tan
Starring	Brad Roberts Murray Pulver
Music by	Brad Roberts
Distributed by	Cha-Ching Records
Release date(s)	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

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
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]

External links

• Crash Test Dude at MapleMusic.com
• Crash Test Dude CD/Video set at MapleMusic.com
• Crash Test Dude at the Internet Movie Database

References

1. ^ "Crash Test Dude Video". MapleMusic. http://www.maplemusic.com/product.asp?dept_id=612&pf_id=610-02&lang=EN. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Badgley, Aaron. "Brad Roberts: Crash Test Dude > Review". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r608868. Retrieved 29 April 2010.