Saturday, December 11, 2004
November 10: Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet
I think Crash Test Dummies got a bad rap. Yeah, we all heard "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" too much, but so what? There's other good songs on here. The old SPI in Stillwater used to play "Afternoons and Coffeespoons" all the time, and that song was good.
Go back and listen to this album if you've got it. Now ignore "Mmm Mmm" and what do you get? A band that sounds like Dave Matthews Band or Blues Traveler, two other acts that were big around the same time, but with the lyrical sensibility of They Might Be Giants.
If I pulled out a CD right now and said "Hey, would you like to hear this band? They sound like They Might Be Giants crossed with Blues Traveler," would you say yes? No, of course not. It's 2004. Nobody wants to hear that now. But in 1994? You bet your sweet bippy you would have.
And they were Canadian. And didn't that guy have an extraordinarily low voice? I'd like to hear him in a bass-off with James Earl Jones. That would be awesome.
Go back and listen to this album if you've got it. Now ignore "Mmm Mmm" and what do you get? A band that sounds like Dave Matthews Band or Blues Traveler, two other acts that were big around the same time, but with the lyrical sensibility of They Might Be Giants.
If I pulled out a CD right now and said "Hey, would you like to hear this band? They sound like They Might Be Giants crossed with Blues Traveler," would you say yes? No, of course not. It's 2004. Nobody wants to hear that now. But in 1994? You bet your sweet bippy you would have.
And they were Canadian. And didn't that guy have an extraordinarily low voice? I'd like to hear him in a bass-off with James Earl Jones. That would be awesome.
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