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"Afternoons & Coffeespoons"
Single by Crash Test Dummies
from the album God Shuffled His Feet
ReleasedJune 1994
GenreAlternative rock
Length3:53
LabelArista
Songwriter(s)Brad Roberts
Producer(s)Jerry Harrison
Crash Test Dummies singles chronology
"Swimming in Your Ocean"
(1994)
"Afternoons & Coffeespoons"
(1994)
"God Shuffled His Feet"
(1994)

"Afternoons & Coffeespoons" is a song of the Canadian pop band Crash Test Dummies and is the third single from the 1993 album God Shuffled His Feet. "Afternoons & Coffeespoons" has been called the band's most popular song amongst fans.[1]

Background

The title and lyrics of the song are based on the T. S. Eliot poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".

Music video

The music video features Brad Roberts as a patient in a hospital, with the rest of the band playing the doctors operating on him.

Charts

References

  1. ^ Crash Test Dummies.com - Popular Archived 8 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Crash Test Dummies – Afternoons & Coffeespoons". ARIA Top 50 Singles.
  3. ^ "Crash Test Dummies – Afternoons & Coffeespoons" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50.
  4. ^ Canadian Adult Contemporary peak
  5. ^ Canadian Top Singles peak
  6. ^ Nyman, Jake (2005). Suomi soi 4: Suuri suomalainen listakirja (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Tammi. ISBN 951-31-2503-3.
  7. ^ "Crash Test Dummies – Afternoons & Coffeespoons". Top 40 Singles.
  8. ^ "RPM 100 Hit Tracks of 1994". RPM. Retrieved 23 November 2017.