Crash Test Dummies - Mmmmm Mmmmm
Formé au milieu des années 1980 au Canada, Crash Test Dummies se distingue en 1991 avec un premier album, The Ghosts That Haunt Me, qui atteint la première place des charts canadiens sans toutefois passer les frontières. Ce n'est qu'une question de temps: leur mélange de rock, de blues, de folk et de pop séduit les Etats-Unis et le monde entier dès l'album suivant en 1993, God Shuffled his Feet, coproduit par Jerry Harrison des Talking Heads. La raison de cet énorme succès, c'est le single Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm sorti en 1994, un classique du rock des années 1990. Derrière la simplicité apparente de ce titre, on trouve Brad Roberts, diplômé de littérature anglaise versant dans des textes hautement philosophiques. Le succès du groupe est de courte durée puisque les deux albums suivants, A Worm's Life en 1996 et Give yourself a hand en 1999 ont connu un succès plus confidentiel. Crash Test Dummies revient pourtant en 2001 avec un cinquième album intitulé I Don't Care That You Don't Mind.
Once there was a kid who
God into an accident and couldn't come to school
But when he finally came back
His hair had turned from black into bright white
He said that it was from when
The cars had smashed him so hard
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Once there was this girl who
Wouldn't go and change with the girls in the change room
But when they finally made her
They saw bithmarks all over her body
She couldn't quite explain it
They'd always just been there
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
But both the girl and boy were glad
'Cause one kid had it worse that that
'Cause then there was this boy whose
Parents made him come directly home right after school
And when they went to church
They shook and lurched all over the church floor
He couldn'r quite explain
They'd always just gone there
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Once there was a kid who
God into an accident and couldn't come to school
But when he finally came back
His hair had turned from black into bright white
He said that it was from when
The cars had smashed him so hard
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Once there was this girl who
Wouldn't go and change with the girls in the change room
But when they finally made her
They saw bithmarks all over her body
She couldn't quite explain it
They'd always just been there
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
But both the girl and boy were glad
'Cause one kid had it worse that that
'Cause then there was this boy whose
Parents made him come directly home right after school
And when they went to church
They shook and lurched all over the church floor
He couldn'r quite explain
They'd always just gone there
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
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