 Artist: Cake: mp3 download Genre(s): ROck: Alternative Rock Discography:  Comfort Eagle Year: 2001 Tracks: 11  Fashion Nugget Year: 1996 Tracks: 14  Motorcade of Generosity Year: 1994 Tracks: 13 Best-known for their omnipresent attain "The Distance," Cake epitomized the postmodern, irony-drenched esthetic of ‘90s geek-rock. Their healthy freely mixed and matched pastiches of widely variable genres -- white-boy casimir Funk, rap, nation, new wave pop, jazz, college rock, and guitar sway -- with a particular please in the clashes that resulted. Their songs were filled with lyrical not sequiturs, pop-culture references, and smirky satire, all delivered with bone dry withdrawal by speak-singing frontman John McCrea. Cake's music to the highest degree oftentimes earned comparisons to Soul Coughing and King Missile, just lacked the downtown New York artiness of those two predecessors; or else, Cake cultivated an simulacrum of mediocre guys with no illusions or pretensions about their persona as entertainers. At the same time, critics lambasted what they saw as a smugly superior attitude behind the band's habitual satire. Perhaps in that deference was something in Cake's tenaciously scanty, low-keyed presentation that amplified their ironical disengagement level when they didn't destine it, just most reviewers pegged them as one-hit wonders afterwards the success of "The Distance." Nonetheless, Cake managed a few more than alternative-radio hits in the age that followed, spell retaining largely the same approaching. Cake was formed in Sacramento, California in 1992 by vocalist/songwriter John McCrea, who'd recently returned family later disbursal a few years in Los Angeles, unsuccessfully trying to break into the music byplay. The original lineup of Cake besides featured guitar player Greg Brown, trumpeter Vince DiFiore, bassist Sean McFessel, and drummer Frank French; McFessel before long left hand hand to advert college, and was replaced by Gabe Nelson. In 1993, the banding released their debut single, "Rock ‘n' Roll Lifestyle," on a local cornerstone, and followed it with a self-generated, self-released, self-distributed album, Motorcade of Generosity. Motorcade build its way of life to the revived Capricorn label, which released the record album nationally after Cake sign language a undertake with them. With the aspect of broad national touring, both Gabe Nelson and Frank French left field the set, and were replaced by bassist Victor Damiani and drummer Todd Roper. Re-released by Capricorn, "Rock ‘n' Roll Lifestyle" caught on at college wireless in 1995, and was followed by 2 more singles, "Ruby Sees All," and "Jolene" (non the Dolly Parton sung). Cake's inst record record album, Style Nugget, was released in 1996 and spawned a prison-breaking ruin in the Greg Brown-penned "The Distance," which henpecked alternate receiving set that fall, and stratum turned into an unlikely sporting-event hymn. Mostly on the military capability of "The Distance," Fashion Nugget charted in the Top 40 and sold over a one thousand thousand copies. It besides spun cancelled a somewhat controversial followup single in a cover of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive"; although the band professed its sincere wonderment for the sung dynasty, some critics and listeners took it as a soapy set down, in portion because of McCrea's dead cooking pan vocals. In 1997, Greg Brown and Victor Damiani both left hand Cake and formed a new root word, the new wave-influenced Deathray, which finally released its debut record album on Capricorn in 2000. Meanwhile, McCrea in short considered putt Cake to pillow, just brought original bassist Gabe Nelson indorse to put back Damiani. For Cake's succeeding record album, McCrea secondhand a tag-team forward motion of guitarists -- five in all -- on dissimilar tracks; the final resultant, Prolonging the Magic, was released in 1998. True to its sardonic title, it defied critical ruling to bring forth some other freehanded alternative-radio shoot in "Ne'er There," plus decently successful follow-ups in "Sheep Go to Heaven" and "Permit Go." Prolonging the Magic sold nearly as well as Fashion Nugget, and was as well certified platinum. For the supporting hitch, unitary of the album's guitarists, Xan McCurdy, officially united Cake full-time. In the natural spring of 2000, Cake gestural a new conduct with Columbia, and debuted in 2001 with their fourth part overall record album, Comforter Eagle, which became their highest-charting still (at Number 13). The lead single "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" was a happen off on alternative wireless, and even earned some MTV airplay -- no yearner an easy project for whatsoever creative someone -- with a video that featured reactions to the song by every which way selected multitude on the street. Following the mop up of the record album, drummer Todd Roper left the mathematical group to spend more than than clock time with his children, and was replaced on the supporting tour by Pete McNeal. |
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