“Androgynous” by Crash Test Dummies

The songwriting credit on "Androgynous" goes to Paul Westerberg alone, words and music, and Crash Test Dummies cut it for The Ghosts That Haunt Me, the Canadian folk rock group's 1991 debut; the track first surfaced that April. Bob Doidge engineered it and Bob Shaper did the mix.

It shares the record with the Dummies' hit "Superman's Song", and with a sleeve that reaches way back: artwork by the 19th-century illustrator Gustav Doré, taken from Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, plus more borrowed from the French novelist Restif de la Bretonne. The debut did steady business, too: by November 1993 it had moved 400,000 copies at home and another 200,000 south of the border.

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