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Crash Test Dude: Brad Roberts Live Singing Your Favorite Hits
Type:Live album
Artist:Brad Roberts
Cover:Album Crash Test Dude cover.jpg
Released:November 5, 2001
Recorded:Ted's Wrecking Yard, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2000 and Metalworks Studios in Mississauga, Ontario Genre = Rock, acoustic rock
Length:90:23
Label:Cha-Ching Records
Producer:Paul Tozer and Brad Roberts
Next Year:2011

Crash Test Dude: Brad Roberts Live Singing Your Favorite Hits is a live album performed by Crash Test Dummies lead singer Brad Roberts during his solo acoustic tour following the Give Yourself a Hand tour. The album was released, along with an accompanying rockumentary film, exclusively through the MapleMusic.com e-commerce portal.

Album

Reception

The album received mixed to poor reviews. Allmusic writer Aaron Badgley gave it 1½ out of 5 stars and states that "choosing to debut with a live disc was not a good idea, as this CD is full of Roberts' rants and childish cover versions. It is also the performance of an artist who does not seem to care a great deal about his audience. Sure, the Crash Test Dummies hits are here, in stripped-down, almost acoustic versions. And it is for those songs alone that CD even deserves a listen. The versions are nowhere near as good as the original studio recordings, but at least they have a form, are complete, and are listenable. His version of Britney Spears' Baby One More Time following a poem titled Circumcision is neither funny or ironic. It is plain pathetic. And his rants between songs are just the ramblings of a drunken performer (he makes it clear that he continues to drink throughout the show)."

Personnel

Film

Crash Test Dude: The Brad Roberts Rockumentary
Director:Brad Roberts
Jeff Stephenson
Jason Tan
Starring:Brad Roberts
Murray Pulver
Music:Brad Roberts
Distributor:Cha-Ching Records
Country:Canada
Language:English

Crash Test Dude was also released as a rockumentary film. The film features a candid, behind-the-scenes look at Brad Robert's solo tour across Canada and the Northern U.S.[1]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Crash Test Dude Video . MapleMusic .