How does a duck POLL: The Crash Test Dummies "God Shuffled His Feet" Poll

good poll

inspired by the cult-of-you thread

GSHF could possibly use a poll, and I don't say that about many albums

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The shuffling-feet sound effect on the title track is one of my favorite things ever, Afternoons & Coffeespoons is fire, How Does A Duck Know is lol, and from the ages of 12-13 I wanted I Think I'll Disappear Now played at my funeral.

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I think I gotta vote for Afternoons & Coffeespoons just for the TS Eliot shoutout tbh even though When I Go Out With Artists gets stuck in my head all the damn time.

How Does A Duck Know is still kinda devastating! Like, it still brings the noise. Without coming off as being forced or corny. It's fierce. It and ITIDN are the introspective, tortured heart of the album (Bug wrote something lovely about the latter on that other thread).

I was thinking just that very same thing about the shuffling-feet sound-effect, helps that the song is stone-classic too

WIGOWA is my mum's fave fwiw

isn't the foot-shuffling-sound a record skipping?

yes iirc

Dunno, but the way it segues into that hazy metallic beat is probably one of the 20 best ways to open an album I've ever heard

oh, totally.

the last track is pretty, too, but it sounds too much like the music they played in those "life: it's a beautiful choice" commercials that were playing around the time the album came out.

Yeah, but it's probably wise they didn't try to follow up Two Knights And Maidens with anything much; that song's probably the one I'll vote for. It's fucking amazing, both a bolt to the solar plexus and a wry little story in pop, one of the briefest and brightest summations of what CTD were all about

I do think one's reaction to this album (and band) depends on how much one was exposed to it as a kid. In my case, quite a lot.

fwiw Albums With A Cult Following -- You and Only You

just listened to this album again today for the first time in forever. it's funny how triumphant and uplifting the chorus of "afternoons and coffeespoons" sounds if you ignore the lyrics.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

The title track >>>> the big hit.

is this a good poll?

i hope so

geir otm, if the big hit wins then my faith in ilm will be deeply shaken

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

oh two of you paws

the cover of this album makes me irritable

I Think I'll Disappear Now got robbed. Relistening to this album that one hits me with the most emotional force, and im instantly thinking about a crush i had in middle school. I couldn't relate to the lyrics then but I do now and they're devastating! Especially "You can bet I'll forget how it was then".

it's my 2nd-favourite fwiw

I don't get it, does the title mean God was playing pickup basketball and got whistled for traveling?