He Liked To Feel It

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"He Liked To Feel It"
"He Liked To Feel It" cover
Single by Crash Test Dummies
from the album A Worm's Life
Released 1996
Genre Alternative Rock
Writer(s) Brad Roberts
Crash Test Dummies singles chronology
The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead (1995) He Liked To Feel It (1996) My Own Sunrise (1997)

"He Liked To Feel It" is a song by Canadian group Crash Test Dummies and was the first single from their 1996 album A Worm's Life. The song and subsequent video generated some controversy for the band due to the subject matter about a boy, who experimented with different ways of pulling out his own teeth.

[edit] Music video

The music video for the song was the band's most controversial. The video featured the band performing on a New York City rooftop interspersed with scenes of a boy pulling his teeth out in various ways, including tying the tooth to a car, tying the tooth to a stick and throwing it to a dog on the other side of a fence, and tying the tooth to a crane.

As a result of the graphic footage, the video was banned from being played on YTV in Canada and eight shots had to be removed before the video could be shown on MTV. [1]

Controversial shot of a boy getting his tooth pulled out in the video for "He Liked To Feel It".
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Controversial shot of a boy getting his tooth pulled out in the video for "He Liked To Feel It".
Crash Test Dummies
Brad Roberts - Ellen Reid - Dan Roberts - Benjamin Darvill - Mitch Dorge
Crash Test Dummies discography
Studio albums: The Ghosts that Haunt Me - God Shuffled His Feet - A Worm's Life - Give Yourself a Hand - I Don't Care That You Don't Mind - Jingle All The Way - Puss 'n' Boots - Songs of the Unforgiven
Singles: "Superman's Song" | "Androgynous" | "The Ghosts That Haunt Me" | "The First Noel" | "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" | "Swimming In Your Ocean" | "Afternoons & Coffeespoons" | "God Shuffled His Feet" | "The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead" | "He Liked To Feel It" | "My Own Sunrise" | "Keep A Lid On Things" | "Get You In The Morning" | "Every Morning" | "The Day We Never Met"
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