The Ghosts That Haunt Me
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Studio album by Crash Test Dummies | ||||
Released | 1991 | |||
Recorded | Wayne Finucan Studio (Winnipeg, Manitoba) | |||
Genre | Folk rock | |||
Length | 36:59 | |||
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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.[1] 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 album To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding, in 2002.
Art is also taken from the French novelist Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne's The Discovery of the Austral Continent by a Flying Man, 1781.
Reception
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AllMusic writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine called The Ghosts That Haunt Me "a fine debut album by the ever-smug, collegiate, folk-pop humorists."[2]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Brad Roberts, except as noted
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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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 – piano, keyboards, accordion, tin whistle, backing vocals
- Benjamin Darvill – mandolin, harmonica
- Dan Roberts – bass guitar
- Vince Lambert – drums
- Steve Berlin – percussion
- Bob Doige – recorder on "At My Funeral"
- 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" and "At My Funeral".
References
External links
- The Ghosts That Haunt Me at MusicBrainz (list of releases)
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- Brad Roberts
- Ellen Reid
- Dan Roberts
- Mitch Dorge
- 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
- Puss 'n' Boots
- Songs of the Unforgiven
- Oooh La La!
- Jingle All the Way
- "Superman's Song"
- "The Ghosts That Haunt Me"
- "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"
- "And It's Beautiful"
- "Now You See Her"
- "Promised Land"