The Ghosts That Haunt Me

The Ghosts That Haunt Me is the 1991 debut album by Crash Test Dummies. It featured their hit "Superman's Song".

The artwork featured on the cover, and throughout the liner notes, is by 19th-century illustrator Gustav Doré and is from 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The same painting would later be used for black metal band Judas Iscariot's final full length, "To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding".

Track listing

All songs by Brad Roberts except where noted.

1. "Winter Song"-4:01
2. "Comin' Back Soon (The Bereft Man's Song)"-4:27
3. "Superman's Song"-4:31
4. "The Country Life"-4:02
5. "Here on Earth (I'll Have My Cake)"-3:03
6. "The Ghosts That Haunt Me"-3:45
7. "Thick-Necked Man" (Benjamin Darvill)-3:19
8. "Androgynous" (Paul Westerberg)-2:36
9. "The Voyage"-3:13
10. "At My Funeral"-4:02

Personnel

• Brad Roberts, lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitars
• Ellen Reid, back-up vocals, piano, keyboards, accordion, pennywhistle
• Benjamin Darvill, mandolin, harmonica
• Dan Roberts, bass guitar
• Steve Berlin, percussion
• Bob Doige, recorder on At My Funeral
• Vince Lambert, drums
• Greg Leisz, pedal steel on The Voyage
• Garth Reid, banjo on Comin' Back Soon
• Lynn Selwood, cello on Superman's Song
• Bill Zulak, violin on Winter Song, The Country Life, At My Funeral.

Reception

Allmusic writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave it 3½ out of 5 stars and called it "a fine debut album by the ever-smug, collegiate, folk-pop humorists."^[1]

External links

• The Ghosts That Haunt Me at MusicBrainz

References