The Crashdummies were actually around before the more famous, low-singing, drunken Crash "TEST" Dummies from up there in the great white North. (Our band was NOT a TEST... we knew what we were doing.) Formed in 1984, the Crashdummies' music was once categorized by a Minneapolis music writer as "anti-song instrumentals". It was rare to find a music review of the Crashdummies that didn't contain the word "quirky". Still we entertained thousands of club goers in the Twin Cities and throughout the United States from 1984 to 1990 with weird-experimental-noise-jazz-art-humor-beer-math-jam rock. When Canada's Crash Test Dummies got more famous, there was talk among us about actually changing our great name. If we were thinking straight we should have changed it to "Crashdummies UK". One rather un-cool local DJ suggested "Musical Puzzle". (We rather prefered "Musical Pus Ball".) We joked that we might as well call ourselves "LAME." As a joke started billing ourselves as LAME on our posters which was met with great displeasure to our loyal fans... but made all the papers. Crashdummies lyrics were sometimes sparse, absurd, and rarely meant or "said" anything at all... making them perfect for the musical/artistic climate of the "PC" eighties. We started out as a guitar band and eventually added a horn section. Slightly annoying pop hooks made the Crashdummies oddly infectious to club audiences everywhere. Our CD "Jovial Philosophers, Martyrs and Fanatics" documents some great moments in live concerts, studio recordings and radio performances from the mid to late eighties. You can hear the progression from our humble beginnings when our material was very minimalistic to our later work which was anything but. There are also a very limited number of copies remaining of "Oil Can People" our 1986 7" 7 song vinyl EP also available on Stucco. Belly Acre Escalator Elevator Vanilla Wafer This instrumental is a prime example of our many "mathematical" tunes. Oily Furnace Man Featuring the "Skyscraper of Flypaper Horn Section". The Davis Rasin Our tribute to Miles Davis (and his rasin). Painful Glass An example of alphabetical poetry. Anxious Bison Carry Down Every Frugal Goat. How? I'm Jealous Kelly Laughed. Men, Not Oyster People's Quivering Rhythmic Sensuousness Topples Under Visors While Xylophones Yell ZOOM! My Generation (Live) A crowd pleaser. Convex Sex The drums are in 3/4 time, the bass in 7/8, guitar #1 is in 5/4 and guitar #2 is in 9/8. Each phrase is repeated 4 times, then there are 4 bars of rest. Each part comes "in and out" at strategically placed but odd times... thus the title "Convex Sex". The song is finished when each phrase cycles back to the beginning and all of the parts "come together" at the same time... thus the title "Convex Sex". Stucco Discs