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Cake - revisited

June 5, 2007 |

 Cake  I forgot how much I liked Cake.  Their infectuous grooves, their overly simplified back beats, their witty and often odd lyrics combined to create one of the best bands of the mid nineties.  While the world was deep in a grunge filled depression Sacramento’s Cake emerged to fill a much need void of joyous rock.  Its hard to classify them.  They are not really a ROCK band, they are not really a alternative band,  they fit somewhere between Madness and The Presidents of The United States.   Not exactly Mock but not exactly Rock.

Their Fashion Nuggets album is filled with a few definitive examples of songs that can only be Cake .  Going the Distance comes to mind immediatly for its speed racer like motif.  Their softer side appears ever so briefly on their 1998 release  Prolonging The Magic with the song Mexico.  Take a listen  Mexico

Their last album seemed to miss the mark.  It might just be the kind of music that Cake produces more than the musicians.  The youthful vigor, the seemingly randomness of their songs is mostly reserved for those in their 20’s.  As bands and musicians grow older and more mature they seem to lose the freshness that drives the creative juices and instead find themselves awash in a sea of reflection.  I mean can someone in their 30’s really right and sing a song called Sheep go to Heaven Goats go To Hell?

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