Cake: Fashion Nugget - COMPACT DISCS

Cake: Fashion Nugget - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Fashion Nugget Artist: Cake Label: Sbme Special MKTS. Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 888430563421 Genre: Rock Release Date: 2001 02 05 Number of Discs: 1 Additional Details: Explicit Lyrics Alternative Rock 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.

Title: Fashion Nugget
Artist: Cake
Label: Sbme Special MKTS.
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 888430563421
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2001-02-05
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: Explicit Lyrics

Alternative Rock-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 Cake consider themselves above everyone else, and nothing is too insignificant to make fun of. And that wouldn't necessarily have been a problem if they had the wit or musical skills that would make their music either funny or listenable. Instead, they wallow in sophomoric jokes that rely on self-consciously elaborate wordplay. Occasionally, their blend of collegiate musical styles - funk, hip-hop, alternative rock - makes the music easy to digest in small doses, such as "The Distance," but it isn't varied enough to prevent the album from becoming tedious when played straight through.

Tracks:
1.1 Frank Sinatra
1.2 The Distance
1.3 Friend Is A Four Letter Word
1.4 Open Book
1.5 Daria
1.6 Race Car Ya-Yas
1.7 I Will Survive
1.8 Stickshifts And Safetybelts
1.9 Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
1.10 It's Coming Down
1.11 Nugget
1.12 She'll Come Back To Me
1.13 Italian Leather Sofa
1.14 Sad Songs And Waltzes