God Shuffled His Feet is the second album by Canadian band Crash Test Dummies, released in 1993. It features their most popular single, "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm". The cover art superimposes the band members' faces over the figures of Titian's painting Bacchus and Ariadne. It was their most successful album commercially, as it sold over eight million copies worldwide.
Reception
The album was the band's biggest mainstream hit. AllMusic writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine attributes the album's success to "Jerry Harrison's remarkably clear and focused production" and that "apart from the relatively concise pop smarts of the singles "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" and "Afternoons and Coffeespoons," God Shuffled His Feet isn't all that different from the band's first album." number two in the UK Albums Chart, and number nine in the United States Billboard 200 albums chart. In their native Canada, it never reached higher than number 11 on the national charts, but fueled by the success of its four singles (all Top 20 hits there) the album eventually reached triple platinum status.
Track listing
Personnel
;Crash Test Dummies
- Benjamin Darvill – harmonicas, mandolin, acoustic guitar
- Michel Dorge – drums, percussion
- Ellen Reid – piano, keyboards, accordion, backing vocals
- Brad Roberts – lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, piano on "Untitled"
- Dan Roberts – bass guitars, synth bass, backing vocals
;Additional musicians
- Larry Beers – drums on "Afternoons & Coffeespoons", "In the Days of the Caveman", and "When I Go Out with Artists"
- Adrian Belew – synthesized guitars on "God Shuffled His Feet"
- Kerry Nation – backing vocals on "Afternoons & Coffeespoons"
Charts
Weekly charts
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|+Weekly chart performance for God Shuffled His Feet
!Chart (1993–94)
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!scope="row"|Canadian Albums (The Record)
| style="text-align:center;"|11
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!scope="row"|European Albums (European Top 100 Albums)
|align="center"| 2
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!scope="row"|Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)
|1
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!scope="row"|Italian Albums (Musica e Dischi)
| 15
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Year-end charts
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|+1994 year-end chart performance for God Shuffled His Feet
!Chart (1994)
!Position
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!scope="row"|Australian Albums (ARIA)
| style="text-align:center;"|38
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!scope="row"|Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)
| style="text-align:center;"|8
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!scope="row"|Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)
| style="text-align:center;"|31
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!scope="row"|European Albums (European Top 100 Albums)
| style="text-align:center;"|8
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!scope="row"|German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)
| style="text-align:center;"|4
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! scope="row"| Icelandic Albums (Tónlist)
| style="text-align:center;"|20
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!scope="row"|New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)
| style="text-align:center;"| 11
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!scope="row"| Swedish Albums & Compilations (Sverigetopplistan)
| style="text-align:center;"| 22
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!scope="row"|Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)
| style="text-align:center;"|7
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!scope="row"|UK Albums (OCC)
| style="text-align:center;"|50
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!scope="row"|US Billboard 200
| style="text-align:center;"|53
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