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 album To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding in 2002.

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

Track listing

All tracks are written by Brad Roberts, except as noted

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Winter Song"		4:01
2.	"Comin' Back Soon (The Bereft Man's Song)"		4:27
3.	"Superman's Song"		4:31
4.	"The Country Life"		4:02
5.	"Here on Earth (I'll Have My Cake)"		3:03
6.	"The Ghosts That Haunt Me"		3:45
7.	"Thick-Necked Man"	Benjamin Darvill	3:19
8.	"Androgynous"	Paul Westerberg	2:36
9.	"The Voyage"		3:13
10.	"At My Funeral"		4:02

Personnel

Brad Roberts – lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitars
Ellen Reid – piano, keyboards, accordion, tin whistle, backing vocals
Benjamin Darvill – mandolin, harmonica
Dan Roberts – bass guitar
Vince Lambert – drums
Steve Berlin – percussion
Bob Doige – recorder on "At My Funeral"
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" and "At My Funeral".

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

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."^[1]

References

External links

Crash Test Dummies

Crash Test Dummies
Brad Roberts Ellen Reid Dan Roberts Mitch Dorge Benjamin Darvill
Studio albums	The Ghosts That Haunt Me God Shuffled His Feet A Worm's Life Give Yourself a Hand I Don't Care That You Don't Mind Puss 'n' Boots Songs of the Unforgiven Oooh La La!
Christmas albums	Jingle All the Way
Compilations	The Best of Crash Test Dummies Demo-litions
Singles	"Superman's Song" "The Ghosts That Haunt Me" "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" "Swimming in Your Ocean" "Afternoons & Coffeespoons" "God Shuffled His Feet" "The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead" "He Liked to Feel It" "My Own Sunrise" "Keep a Lid on Things" "Get You in the Morning" "And It's Beautiful" "Now You See Her" "Promised Land"
Related	Discography Crash Test Dude

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