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
Live album by Brad Roberts
Released	November 5, 2001
Recorded	Ted's Wrecking Yard, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2000 and Metalworks Studios in Mississauga, Ontario
Length	90:23
Label	Cha-Ching Records
Producer	Paul Tozer and Brad Roberts
Brad Roberts chronology
Crash Test Dude: Brad Roberts Live Singing Your Favorite Hits (2001) Rajanaka: Mantra (2011)

Album

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
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

Disc 1

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
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

Disc 2

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
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

Personnel

• Brad Roberts – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, bass baritone guitar
• Murray Pulver – back-up vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar

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	5 November 2001 (2001-11-05)
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.^[2]