The Ghosts That Haunt Me
| The Ghosts That Haunt Me | ||||
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| Studio album by Crash Test Dummies | ||||
| Released | April 5, 1991 | |||
| Recorded | Wayne Finucan Studio, Winnipeg, Manitoba | |||
| Genre | Folk rock | |||
| Length | 36:59 | |||
| Label | BMG/Arista | |||
| Producer | Steve Berlin | |||
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| Singles from The Ghosts That Haunt Me | ||||
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The Ghosts That Haunt Me is the 1991 debut album by the Canadian folk rock group 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".
The artworks on the booklet of the album are by 19th-century illustrator Gustav Doré and is from 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, except the "The Flying Man" by French novelist Nicolas Edme Restif de la Bretonne and is from 'The Discovery of the Austral Continent by a Flying Man', 1781.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Winter Song" | Brad Roberts | 4:01 |
| 2. | "Comin' Back Soon (The Bereft Man's Song)" | Brad Roberts | 4:27 |
| 3. | "Superman's Song" | Brad Roberts | 4:31 |
| 4. | "The Country Life" | Brad Roberts | 4:02 |
| 5. | "Here on Earth (I'll Have My Cake)" | Brad Roberts | 3:03 |
| 6. | "The Ghosts That Haunt Me" | Brad Roberts | 3:45 |
| 7. | "Thick-Necked Man" | Benjamin Darvill | 3:19 |
| 8. | "Androgynous" | Paul Westerberg | 2:36 |
| 9. | "The Voyage" | Brad Roberts | 3:13 |
| 10. | "At My Funeral" | Brad Roberts | 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
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| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |    [1] |
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 (list of releases)
References
- 1 2 Erlewine, Steve. "Crash Test Dummies: The Ghosts That Haunt Me > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved 29 April 2010.