Cake - Fashion Nugget [PA]

Artist:

Cake

UPC:

614223286723

Description:

Cake: John McCrea (vocals, acoustic guitar, organ); Greg Brown (electric guitar, organ); Vincent Di Fiore (trumpet, percussion); Victor Damiani (bass); Todd Roper (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel: Greg Vincent (pedal steel guitar).
Recorded at Pus Cavern and Paradise Studios, Sacramento, California.
Sounding like a suburban, melodic, white funk-injected version of King Missile`s performance art/standup comedy, "The Distance" became a novelty hit in the fall of 1996, sending Cake`s second album, Fashion Nugget, to platinum status. Certainly, "The Distance" was the only reason Fashion Nugget went platinum, because the remainder of the album is too collegiate and arcane for mainstream music tastes. It isn`t because it`s obscure or intellectual -- it`s because the band is smirking. An "ironic" cover of Gloria Gaynor`s "I Will Survive" is the key to the album, sending the signal that nothing is too insignificant to make fun of. Their blend of collegiate musical styles -- funk, hip-hop, alternative rock -- makes the music easy to digest in small doses, such as "The Distance." ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Frank Sinatra
2. Distance, The
3. Friend Is a Four Letter Word
4. Open Book
5. Daria
6. Race Car Ya-Yas
7. I Will Survive
8. Stickshifts and Safetybelts
9. Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
10. It`s Coming Down
11. Nugget
12. She`ll Come Back to Me
13. Italian Leather Sofa
14. Sad Songs and Waltzes

Album Information

Release Date:

09/17/1996

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Rock & Pop

Subgenre:

Alternative

Label:

Volcano 3

Producer:

Cake

Catalog Number:

32867

Original Release Year:

1996

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Runtime:

17 : 52

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