Crash Test Dummies from Winnipeg, Manitoba won the Juno Award for Group of the Year in 1992.

The Crash Test Dummies are a Canadian band, originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Wikipedia says they started in 1988. But I remember them mainly from the early 1990's when the Superman Song came out and became huge across Canada. I bought the first and the second cassette tapes as they were produced and out there. But, I have no idea where they are now and it wouldn't matter if I did. I no longer have a cassette player. How is that for making you feel older?

I don't know what made me start thinking about the Crash Test Dummies this morning. I used to absolutely love the deep voice of the lead singer, Brad Roberts. Maybe something poked my memories. I looked up the band, found the website (and a Facebook page which seems to be maintained by Brad Roberts who lives in New York City now) and listened to the latest songs (available on the site). The voice is what I remember and yet softer, a bit mellowed over time, experience and life.

On YouTube I found many of the songs I remember: Superman's Song, Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm (yes, that is a song), Peter Pumpkinhead, Swimming in Your Ocean, Afternoons and Coffeespoons, God Shuffled His Feet, Two Knights and Maidens, and a newer song I hadn't heard.

The Crash Test Dummies are Still Making Music

I didn't know there were more albums/ records/ CDs out. For me they seemed to drop off the edge of the planet sometime in the 1990's. (I'm not especially musically inclined, usually I just listen to the radio if that). So I didn't know the band had another four or six (I lost track) CDs together and several projects which the band members had done on their own. Ellen Reid who sings back up and lead on some songs, like Peter Pumpkinhead, has a blog where she also sells her CD.

This CD which I found on Amazon is a best of the Crash Test Dummies. You can also get a best of Brad Roberts (see Crash Test Dude below). I'd rather have the whole package though, I enjoyed the voice but the Crash Test Dummies would sound a bit plain without Ellen and the variety of instrumentals too. I ordered the CD from Amazon before I began writing this.