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so I heard some cake song on the radio the other day that I liked a lot. It had some lyric about cutting red tape with a machette. What song is it, and is this a band I should check out? If so, where should I start?
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stip wrote:
so I heard some cake song on the radio the other day that I liked a lot. It had some lyric about cutting red tape with a machette. What song is it, and is this a band I should check out? If so, where should I start?
"short skirt, long jacket"
go download it. the video is funny as shit too if u can find it
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warehouse wrote:
stip wrote:
so I heard some cake song on the radio the other day that I liked a lot. It had some lyric about cutting red tape with a machette. What song is it, and is this a band I should check out? If so, where should I start?
"short skirt, long jacket"
go download it. the video is funny as shit too if u can find it
yeah its off of Comfort Eagle and the video is super funny.
They have random people listen to the song and comment on it. This old dude is really funny when he's like "Errr, what's with all that thumping?"
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Before their new studio album hit stores in the summer of 2009, CAKE will present an expanded and remastered reissue of Motorcade of Generosity, available in early 2009 via Upbeat. “We’ve added some video from our first national tour, recorded back in May of 1995,” says DiFiore. The reissue will also be available in a deluxe vinyl edition. “Looking back on it, through all that we’ve experienced, the dynamics of the band are very similar to when we first started. There have been some bumps along the way, but we’ve somehow managed to maintain our momentum and stay on track.”
As-yet-untitled, CAKE’s new studio album will be the first project they have undertaken since they overhauled their studio to run entirely on solar power. It was a decision that was made with both environmental and artistic consequences in mind. “It just seemed like the right thing to do,” McCrea says. “I believe in science, and science is telling us that we need to make adjustments. Being in California, it seemed like a waste not to take advantage of all the free electricity.”
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At my school at least, liking Cake in the mid 90s was how I felt like The Talking Heads in the late 70s/early 80s was like. I remember trading a metallica album for Fashion Nugget before school in 8th grade and getting berated by some of my classmates for how much Cake sucked.
To this day I laugh at those kids. Cake was very different from any other music at the time. It was great!
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washing machine wrote:
At my school at least, liking Cake in the mid 90s was how I felt like The Talking Heads in the late 70s/early 80s was like. I remember trading a metallica album for Fashion Nugget before school in 8th grade and getting berated by some of my classmates for how much Cake sucked.
To this day I laugh at those kids. Cake was very different from any other music at the time. It was great!
They were building a religion.
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Definately check these guys out stip!
I would imagine they take a little time to get into for most people, but once you're familiar with them, they're great. I'd start with their album Fashion Nugget, then Comfort Eagle, although it's Comfort Eagle that has the song you heard. You'll probably hear a few songs from Fashion Nugget that you'd recognize from the 90's, like "Going the Distance".
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I heard Cake's cover of "I Will Survive" before I was aware of the original. I can't get enough of the singer's deadpan delivery on vocals. It jives well with all of the muted instrumentation, yet it all sounds really alive somehow.
You should actually start with the song "Fashion Nugget" off of Fashion Nugget. Nice.... They already sold out a limited edition run of the Motorcade reissue on orange vinyl. I have Motorcade and Fashion on vinyl, original releases. Those were the only two albums to get the vinyl treatment along with a few singles. Pentragram is another great one as is Stickshifts and Safetybelts. I have a proshot DVD of them that was recorded off of Freeview, one of the satellite TV services. It's really good. I have another audience DVD of theirs as well. I taped them back in 2005 at Lollapalooza and saw them one other time in New York with Hackensaw Boys, Cheap Trick, and another band or two. Ugh, I can't recall right off. I think Detroit Cobras were there.
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washing machine wrote:
At my school at least, liking Cake in the mid 90s was how I felt like The Talking Heads in the late 70s/early 80s was like. I remember trading a metallica album for Fashion Nugget before school in 8th grade and getting berated by some of my classmates for how much Cake sucked.
To this day I laugh at those kids. Cake was very different from any other music at the time. It was great!
Now listen to me, unless that was post-AJFA material, no Cake album is worth a Metallica album.
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Jammer91 wrote:
washing machine wrote:
At my school at least, liking Cake in the mid 90s was how I felt like The Talking Heads in the late 70s/early 80s was like. I remember trading a metallica album for Fashion Nugget before school in 8th grade and getting berated by some of my classmates for how much Cake sucked.
To this day I laugh at those kids. Cake was very different from any other music at the time. It was great!
Now listen to me, unless that was post-AJFA material, no Cake album is worth a Metallica album.
coincidentally, you are exactly like the type of guys that gave me shit in junior high.
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I love cake. Check out their cover of I Will Survive, it has a smooth as hell bass line. And then try Shadow Stabbing for very cool lyrics and a great groove. Take a stroll through a listening of Alpha Beta Parking Lot, Let Me Go, Meanwhile, Rick James..., I Bombed Korea, and Mr. Mastodon Farm, and you'll understand why people would trade Mettallica for a Cake CD.
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