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The Ghosts That Haunt Me

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Released
  
April 5, 1991

Label
  
BMG/Arista

Release date
  
5 April 1991

Genre
  
Folk rock

Length
  
36:59

Artist
  
Crash Test Dummies

Producer
  
Steve Berlin

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Recorded
  
Wayne Finucan Studio, Winnipeg, Manitoba

The Ghosts That Haunt Me (1991)
  
God Shuffled His Feet (1993)

Nominations
  
Juno Award for Album of the Year, Juno Award for Recording Package of the Year

Similar
  
Crash Test Dummies albums, Other albums

Winter song by crash test dummies


The Ghosts That Haunt Me is the 1991 debut album by the Canadian folk rock group Crash Test Dummies. It featured their hit "Superman's Song".

Contents

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 full length, "To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding".

The artworks on the booklet of the album are by 19th-century illustrator Gustav Doré and is from 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, except the "The Flying Man" by French novelist Nicolas Edme Restif de la Bretonne and is from 'The Discovery of the Austral Continent by a Flying Man', 1781.

The ghosts that haunt me by crash test dummies


Personnel

  • Brad Roberts, lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitars
  • Ellen Reid, back-up vocals, piano, keyboards, accordion, pennywhistle
  • Benjamin Darvill, mandolin, harmonica
  • Dan Roberts, bass guitar
  • Steve Berlin, percussion
  • Bob Doige, recorder on At My Funeral
  • Vince Lambert, drums
  • 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, At My Funeral.
  • Reception

    Allmusic writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave it 3½ out of 5 stars and called it "a fine debut album by the ever-smug, collegiate, folk-pop humorists."

    Songs

    1Winter Song4:02
    2Comin' Back Soon (The Bereft Man's Song)4:28
    3Superman's Song4:32

    References

    The Ghosts That Haunt Me Wikipedia