“God Shuffled His Feet” by Crash Test Dummies

The title track of Crash Test Dummies' 1993 album God Shuffled His Feet went out as its fourth and final single in October 1994, and it's as strange and wry as anything on the radio that year. Brad Roberts wrote it, sings it in a cavernous baritone and plays both acoustic and electric guitar, while Ellen Reid adds piano, keyboards, accordion and backing vocals. Jerry Harrison produced with the band, Tom Lord-Alge mixed, and guest Adrian Belew drops in a synthesized guitar solo that wriggles like it's trying to escape.

It reached number 14 on Canada's RPM 100 Hit Tracks chart, topped the country's Adult Contemporary chart and got to number three in Iceland. In Tim Hamilton's video, an audience files into a theatre expecting a word from the Almighty and discovers he's a puppet, worked by an old man tucked away out of sight.

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