God Shuffled His Feet
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| Released | October 26, 1993[1] | |||
| Recorded | 1993 | |||
| Studio | DV Productions, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Music Head Recording, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin | |||
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| Length | 44:45 | |||
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God Shuffled His Feet is the second album by Canadian band Crash Test Dummies, released in 1993. It features their most popular single, "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm". The cover art superimposes the band members' faces over the figures of Titian's painting Bacchus and Ariadne. It was their most successful album commercially, as it sold over eight million copies worldwide.[2]
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
| Robert Christgau |  [4] |
| Drowned in Sound | 8/10[5] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B−[6] |
| Music Week |  [7] |
| Smash Hits | [8] |
The album was the band's biggest mainstream hit. AllMusic writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine attributes the album's success to "Jerry Harrison's remarkably clear and focused production" and that "apart from the relatively concise pop smarts of the singles "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" and "Afternoons and Coffeespoons," God Shuffled His Feet isn't all that different from the band's first album."[3]
Commercial performance
God Shuffled His Feet was a number-one album in Austria and New Zealand, and also reached the top five in the national albums charts of numerous countries such as Australia, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. In addition, the album reached number six in the Netherlands national albums chart,[9] number two in the UK Albums Chart, and number nine in the United States Billboard 200 albums chart.[10] In their native Canada, it never reached higher than number 11 on the national charts, but fueled by the success of its four singles (all Top 20 hits there) the album eventually reached triple platinum status.
Track listing
All tracks are written by Brad Roberts.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "God Shuffled His Feet" | 5:10 |
| 2. | "Afternoons & Coffeespoons" | 3:56 |
| 3. | "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" | 3:55 |
| 4. | "In the Days of the Caveman" | 3:41 |
| 5. | "Swimming in Your Ocean" | 3:49 |
| 6. | "Here I Stand Before Me" | 3:07 |
| 7. | "I Think I'll Disappear Now" | 4:52 |
| 8. | "How Does a Duck Know?" | 3:42 |
| 9. | "When I Go Out with Artists" | 3:44 |
| 10. | "The Psychic" | 3:48 |
| 11. | "Two Knights and Maidens" | 3:25 |
| 12. | "Untitled" | 1:43 |
Personnel
- Crash Test Dummies
- Benjamin Darvill – harmonicas, mandolin, acoustic guitar
- Michel Dorge – drums, percussion
- Ellen Reid – piano, keyboards, accordion, backing vocals
- Brad Roberts – lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, piano on "Untitled"
- Dan Roberts – bass guitars, synth bass, backing vocals
- Additional musicians
- Larry Beers – drums on "Afternoons & Coffeespoons", "In the Days of the Caveman", and "When I Go Out with Artists"
- Adrian Belew – synthesized guitars on "God Shuffled His Feet"
- Kerry Nation – backing vocals on "Afternoons & Coffeespoons"
Charts
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