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Cake - Fashion Nugget (CD)

Album Details: Fashion Nugget

Release Date:02/05/2001
Label:Volcano
UPC:614223286723

Other Available Formats: Fashion Nugget

User Reviews: Fashion Nugget

  • Overall:

    My fav.

    By bommrock  Oct 18, 2002

    This is my favorite Cake album, but if you like one, you'll pobably like 'em all.

  • Overall:

    pure brilliance

    By Darren  Nov 15, 2001

    this is one of the truly essential modern rock albums. there isn't a single weak track. like few contemporary bands, they have cultivated themselves a totally unique sound from a myriad of different influences.

Pro Reviews: Fashion Nugget

  • All Music Guide

    Sounding like a suburban, melodic whitefunkinjected 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 selfconsciously elaborate wordplay. Occasionally, their blend of collegiate musical styles funk, hiphop, alternative roc...k 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 thorugh. - Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide Read more Less

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Biography

Cake

Cake's all-purpose eclectic rock appeared nationwide in 1995, when Capricorn released their debut album Motorcade of Generosity. The Sacramento-based band originally included guitarist Greg Brown, bassist Victor Damiani, trumpeter Vince Di Fiore, vocalist and guitarist John McCrea, and drummer Todd Roper. In 1996, Cake scored their first radio hit with "The Distance," w... Read more