| 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.
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)."
| 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]