Afternoons & Coffeespoons

"Afternoons & Coffeespoons" is a song by Canadian rock 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] It is also one of their most successful songs commercially, peaking at number two in Iceland, number seven in Canada, number 16 in Finland, and number 66 in the United States.

"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)

Background

The title and lyrics of the song are based on the 1915 T. S. Eliot poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".

Critical reception

Larry Flick of Billboard called "Afternoons & Coffeespoon" "another winner" for the band, writing that although it did not live up to the catchiness of "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm", it was a "very hummable" song.[2]

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. Flick, Larry, ed. (11 June 1994). "Single Reviews" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 106 no. 24. p. 65. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
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  7. "Eurochart Hot 100 Singles" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 11 no. 31. 30 July 1994. p. 8. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  8. Nyman, Jake (2005). Suomi soi 4: Suuri suomalainen listakirja (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Tammi. ISBN 951-31-2503-3.
  9. "Offiziellecharts.de – Crash Test Dummies – Afternoons & Coffeespoons". GfK Entertainment Charts.
  10. "Íslenski Listinn Topp 40 (09.6.–15.6. '94)". Dagblaðið Vísir (in Icelandic). 9 June 1994. p. 15. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
  11. "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Afternoons and Coffeespoons". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
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  16. "Crash Test Dummies Chart History (Alternative Airplay)". Billboard. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
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  18. "RPM Top 100 AC tracks of 1994". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
  19. "Árslistinn 1994". Dagblaðið Vísir (in Icelandic). 2 January 1995. p. 16. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
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