God Shuffled His Feet

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God Shuffled His Feet
Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet.jpg
Studio album by
Crash Test Dummies
ReleasedOctober 26, 1993
Recorded1993
StudioDV Productions, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Music Head Recording, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
Genre
Length44:45
LanguageEnglish
Label
Producer
Crash Test Dummies chronology
The Ghosts That Haunt Me
(1991)		God Shuffled His Feet
(1993)		 A Worm's Life
(1996)
Singles from God Shuffled His Feet
  1. "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm"
    Released: October 1993
  2. "Swimming in Your Ocean"
    Released: January 1994
  3. "Afternoons & Coffeespoons"
    Released: June 1994
  4. "God Shuffled His Feet"
    Released: October 1994

God Shuffled His Feet is the second album by Canadian band Crash Test Dummies, released in 1993. It features their most popular single, "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm". The cover art superimposes the band members' faces over the figures of Titian's painting Bacchus and Ariadne . It was their most successful album commercially, as it sold over eight million copies worldwide. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Robert Christgau Rating-Christgau-neither.png [3]
Drowned in Sound 8/10 [4]
Entertainment Weekly B− [5]

The album was the band's biggest mainstream hit. AllMusic writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine attributes the album's success to "Jerry Harrison's remarkably clear and focused production" and that "apart from the relatively concise pop smarts of the singles "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" and "Afternoons and Coffeespoons," God Shuffled His Feet isn't all that different from the band's first album." [2]

Commercial performance

God Shuffled His Feet was a number-one album in Austria and New Zealand, and also reached the top five in the national albums charts of numerous countries such as Australia, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. In addition, the album reached number six in the Netherlands national albums chart, [6] number two in the UK Albums Chart, and number nine in the United States Billboard 200 albums chart. [7] In their native Canada, it never reached higher than number 11 on the national charts, but fueled by the success of its four singles (all Top 20 hits there) the album eventually reached triple platinum status.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Brad Roberts

No.TitleLength
1."God Shuffled His Feet"5:10
2."Afternoons & Coffeespoons"3:56
3."Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm"3:55
4."In the Days of the Caveman"3:41
5."Swimming in Your Ocean"3:49
6."Here I Stand Before Me"3:07
7."I Think I'll Disappear Now"4:52
8."How Does a Duck Know?"3:42
9."When I Go Out with Artists"3:44
10."The Psychic"3:48
11."Two Knights and Maidens"3:25
12."Untitled"1:43

Personnel

Crash Test Dummies
Additional musicians

Charts

Certifications

Sale certifications for God Shuffled His Feet
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [36] Platinum70,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria) [37] Gold25,000*
Canada (Music Canada) [38] 3× Platinum300,000^
Finland (Musiikkituottajat) [39] Gold37,908 [39]
Germany (BVMI) [40] Platinum500,000^
Netherlands (NVPI) [41] Gold50,000^
Norway (IFPI Norway) [42] 2× Platinum100,000*
Sweden (GLF) [43] Platinum100,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) [44] Gold25,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [45] Gold100,000^
United States (RIAA) [46] 2× Platinum2,000,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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