Afternoons & Coffeespoons

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"Afternoons & Coffeespoons"
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Single by Crash Test Dummies
from the album God Shuffled His Feet
ReleasedJune 1994
Genre Alternative rock
Length3:53
Label Arista
Songwriter(s) Brad Roberts
Producer(s) Jerry Harrison
Crash Test Dummies singles chronology
"Swimming in Your Ocean"
(1994)
"Afternoons & Coffeespoons"
(1994)
"God Shuffled His Feet"
(1994)

"Afternoons & Coffeespoons" is a song by Canadian rock band Crash Test Dummies, released by Arista in June 1994 as the third single from the band's 1993 album God Shuffled His Feet . "Afternoons & Coffeespoons" has been called the band's most popular song amongst fans. [1] It is also one of their most successful songs commercially, peaking at number two in Iceland, number seven in Canada, number 16 in Finland, and number 66 in the United States.

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Background

The title and lyrics of the song reference the 1915 T. S. Eliot poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". [2] Lead vocalist Brad Roberts called it "a song about being afraid of getting old, which is a reflection of my very neurotic character". [3]

Critical reception

Larry Flick of Billboard called "Afternoons & Coffeespoon" "another winner" for the band, writing that although it did not live up to the catchiness of "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm", it was a "very hummable" song. [4]

Music video

The music video for "Afternoons & Coffeespoon" features Brad Roberts as a patient in a hospital, with the rest of the band playing the doctors operating on him.

Charts

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