Crash Test Dummies: Superman's Song

Crash Test Dummies music video "Superman's Song" from their 1991 debut album "The Ghosts That Haunt Me".

Written by Brad Roberts
Performed by Crash Test Dummies
Concept by Ellen Reid
Directed by Dale Heslip
Produced by Vast Productions

Much Music: Best Music Video for 1991
http://www.muchmusic.com/events/mmva0...

Canada's Golden Sheaf Award Winner for Best Music Video (1991)

Summary: A group of super heroes, whose perfect lives are deteriorating, gather to lay the once invincible Superman to rest.

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[ChenStylish]

THIS IS IT. This, THIS is the song! This is the song my father and I will dance to at my wedding. None of the popular suggestions appealed to me because they were all about how FATHERS feel about DAUGHTERS.

Because I'm choosing it, i want a song about how I feel about my FATHER. And this pretty much sums it up.

[Xz10zb4SNz]

The song makes me think about loss of innocence, of childhood heroes diminished and forgotten with the passage of time; like in the song Puff the Magic Dragon.

It’s a eulogy, but it’s also a lament: “Sometimes I despair the world may never see another man like him”.

The Man of Steel personifies an unshakeable belief that Good and Evil exist, can be untangled, and the former will always triumph over the latter. So what to make of his passing? It's the end of another kind of innocence.

[Slanj Bo]

If we forget it and let it go, then the innocence goes with it, but there is always going to be a land of Honalee in our heads, we just have to let it flow.............!

[Nate Hart]

This song was made for a actor of superman who died he did the classic show of super man

[ver666non]

Wonderful song- gee this band was so great- what became of them? Superman fascinated me- a God passing as a human- comic-book Christ--he had taken an oath of anonymity and relative poverty- he abased himself to serve others

[dylan whitney]

I'd marry ya just to be there.

[dataspank]

a masterful song and one of the best music videos of all time

[gabriel serieys]

Crash Test Dummies are dominating inconspicuously cathargic artists with their benevolent excellent spirit

[kweb131]

W0W.. 2 MIL. ONLY! This is just such an amazing song .. it's an event.. of your heArt..& what's good .. Asshole world leaders need to listen & enjoy & stop bombing .. ~ !

[Dustin Hubbard]

that i would agree with

[KiljiArslan]

If they ever remake smallville, or if the superman movie actually turns into a franchise I want this used.

[spacecowboy5000]

This video reminds me of Frank Miller's "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns" by Frank Miller. In it we see all the superheroes as decrepit old men - except for Superman. And he almost dies after absorbing the energy of a bunch of nuclear warheads. Good times...