I love when bands do covers of popular or famous songs in their own style. The original song is more of a victory theme of someone breaking free of a bad relationship, while Cake's version is more of a bitter "Fuck you and everything you stand for" kind of song.
Agreed! That is the EXACT difference between the songs. Just classify it as the Black version and the White version. A Black woman singing this is Testifying as to her freedom. Cake's vocals are not convincing - at least not to many Black people, but it's cool as a country/rock version. But better? If you want to go by instrumentation, it's got more going on, but then disco was not about instrumentation (well, that's not right, either, but lets let that go for now...). The best disco was killer singing and a killer beat to dance to. This version would have me tappin' my toes, but not shakin' my booty.
Just like a monotone, dry professor giving a lecture about desert sand. You will get information without the strength of the original wind that eroded rocks to put it there.
I knew this was a cover back then, of course, but this version was the one that taught me the lyrics. The way he pronounce every word so clearly and articulated was amazing for a non-English speaker.
Believe it or not, music is considered the BEST way for non-English speakers to learn the language. Sadly, it doesn't work the other way around for some reason.
I'm so suck with english subject at school back day but after i've heard Nirvana song when they released Nevermind album,i'm think i can speak english until this day.lol
At first I was afraid I was petrified I kept thinking I could never live without you By my side But then I spent so many nights Just thinking how you've done me wrong I grew strong I learned how to get along And so you're back From outer space I just walked in to find you Here with that look upon your face I should have changed my fucking lock I would have made you leave your key If I had known for just one second You'd be back to bother me Oh now go, Walk out the door Just turn around Now, you're not welcome anymore Weren't you the one Who tried to break me with desire? Did you think I'd crumble? Did you think I'd lay down and die? Oh not I, I will survive Yeah As Long as I know how to love, I know I'll be alive I've got all my life to live I've got all my love to give I will survive, I will survive Yeah, yeah It took all the strength I had Just not to fall apart I'm trying hard to mend the pieces Of my broken heart And I spent oh so many nights Just feeling sorry for myself I used to cry, But now I hold my head up high And you see me With somebody new I'm not that stupid little person Still in love with you And so you thought you'd just drop by And you expect me to be free But now I'm saving all my lovin' For someone who's lovin' me Oh now go, Walk out the door Just turn around Now, you're not welcome anymore Weren't you the one Who tried to break me with desire? Did you think I'd crumble? Did you think I'd lay down and die? Oh not I, I will survive Yeah As long as I know how to love, I know I'll be alive I've got all my life to live I've got all my love to give I will survive, I will survive Yeah, yeah Oh no
Cruising down the street in my Hoopty in the mid to late 90s blasting this in Southern California. God I miss those days. I had to leave California because it was not affordable for working class like me
When someone disagrees with the majority and states their own opinion about a certain subject: BOO! YOUR OPINION FHACKIN SUKS! OUR OPINIYONS AR BETTAR THEN URS! EVERYONE SHOULD LIKE THIS BECUZ ITS SO GOOD!
They were most popular in the early to mid 90s. They're still performing though! I believe they have most of the original members of the band as well (last I read), I believe they've only replaced one band member.
I bet you anything that you love a lot of covers, you just didn't know they were covers. Like Sinead O'Connor's Nothing Compares 2 U or The Beatles' Twist and Shout
Great thing about CAKE, besides their wildly inventive, quirky tunes and borrowing from and superbly blending so many musical genres is that their songs so often tell a story with a storyline arc. And the songwriters are virtual metaphor machines. Sometimes, I think of them as if Herb Albert had started a funky rock band! THINK about it!
my high school anthem song... worst years of my life, and greatest song discovery. back then i bring the cassette wherever i go, and just listen to their songs on walk man.
A true Cake fan. I discovered them because of this cover and became a fan playing their albums in loops when walking to and from work signing and side skipping on the street! Ha ha great memory.
such a great pick me up after what felt like the biggest breakup heartbreak ever. But this helps. So much strong hope and forceful statements. I love it.
From one combat veteran to another, you don't get paid to make ethical or moral decisions. You're there to fight , to win, then to come home, and make sure that the brothers who are fighting shoulder to shoulder with you come home as well. I salute you and what you did. You are the real 1% and no hater can take that away from you. God bless you and Valhalla awaits us..
Happy memories of listening to this on a Minidisc player in Phuket in late 2001, drinking with some chums before a rather wild, and as I recall, deluged, night out.
"I Will Survive" At first I was afraid. I was petrified. I kept thinking I could never live Without you by my side. But then I spent so many nights Just thinking how you'd done me wrong. I grew strong. I learned how to get along. And so you're back from outer space. I just walked in to find you here Without that look upon your face. I should have changed my fucking lock. I would have made you leave your key If I'd have known for just one second You'd be back to bother me. Oh now go. Walk out the door. Just turn around now. You're not welcome anymore. Weren't you the one Who tried to break me with desire? Did you think I'd crumble? Did you think I'd lay down and die? Oh not I. I will survive. As long as I know how to love I know I'll be alive. I've got all my life to live. I've got all my love to give. I will survive. I will survive. It took all the strength I had Just not to fall apart. I'm trying hard to mend The pieces of my broken heart. And I spent oh so many nights Just feeling sorry for myself. I used to cry. But now I hold my head up high. And you'll see me with somebody new. I'm not that stupid little person Still in love with you. And so you thought you'd just drop by, And you expect me to be free. But now I'm saving all my lovin' For someone who's lovin' me. Oh now go. Walk out the door. Just turn around now. You're not welcome anymore. Weren't you the one Who tried to break me with desire? Did you think I'd crumble? Did you think I'd lay down and die? Oh not I. I will survive. As long as I know how to love I know I'll be alive. I've got all my life to live. I've got all my love to give. I will survive. I will survive. www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/cake/iwillsurvive.html
I became a Cake fan ...geez ..about 18 (?) years ago when some 16 yr old teen girl I knew (I coached college womens ball, and traveled a lot watching high school girls play to recruit them)told this old guy (i was ...50 then) ...wow...double wow....I wore this cd out ..played it everytime i hit the road ....man..I had downloaded my fav music on a thumb drive which my car stereo could play...it was a killer system...and man would I play this loud AF. The entire album was great. Usually I would pick one or 3 songs from an album....I recorded the entire thing. Now, I am 68 and STILL love this song. Trumpet plays a very big part of their musical style ...almost every song.
this is bound to never be seen but it surprises me how i actually like how this cover saps out the triumphance of the original. theyre not thriving like the singer of the source song, the cover shows that the singer is getting by rather than living at their peak. they are surviving
I've grown up listening to this interpretation of the song, and I heard it way before I heard the original. Maybe it's bias, but I honestly think this is much better, I like the stronger bitter tone.
This cover lacks the passion that gives a strong "f-u" to the other person in the song. It doesn't very strength it caters to the fatality of cakes generation. It emotes defeat more than strength of walking away from it.
Love their deadpan take on this great song, the really nice bass and guitar 💛 Beautiful. The soft guitar part almost makes me a little teary eyed sometimes
I just can't describe the feeling this song gives to me. I used to listen this last summer with my friends in sunny weather just enjoying the moment. Brings back the joy of the memories.
I love when bands do covers of popular or famous songs in their own style. The original song is more of a victory theme of someone breaking free of a bad relationship, while Cake's version is more of a bitter "Fuck you and everything you stand for" kind of song.
Yes and in the videoclip he looks like a lone loser on the road in his laughable vehicule :)
Agreed! That is the EXACT difference between the songs. Just classify it as the Black version and the White version. A Black woman singing this is Testifying as to her freedom. Cake's vocals are not convincing - at least not to many Black people, but it's cool as a country/rock version. But better? If you want to go by instrumentation, it's got more going on, but then disco was not about instrumentation (well, that's not right, either, but lets let that go for now...). The best disco was killer singing and a killer beat to dance to.
This version would have me tappin' my toes, but not shakin' my booty.
what does being black have to do with anything
Colin Parlett you summed up what we all where thinking, but could not articulate.
.
Bass line, guitar and trumpet just killed it. Bought the album because of this song and all the tracks stand out. Style that can't be duplicated
It's like he wanted to make sure everyone knows exactly what he was singing about without missing a single word. Totally love it.
Just like a monotone, dry professor giving a lecture about desert sand. You will get information without the strength of the original wind that eroded rocks to put it there.
Yes! I love the way he almost pauses on words in some places, it's great!
I knew this was a cover back then, of course, but this version was the one that taught me the lyrics. The way he pronounce every word so clearly and articulated was amazing for a non-English speaker.
Believe it or not, music is considered the BEST way for non-English speakers to learn the language.
Sadly, it doesn't work the other way around for some reason.
@@TheShadowangel13 I learned to speak english because of music. Never took a single learning course.
Today I learned this singer's first language is not english lol, I couldn't even tell
me too learned english from this song, lol!!
I'm so suck with english subject at school back day but after i've heard Nirvana song when they released Nevermind album,i'm think i can speak english until this day.lol
Love the bassline.
+Kurt Nordstrom BOB ROSS?
MRAMAZRBALLZZ Hah, no. Just a fellow afro wearer.
+Kurt Nordstrom of course you would love that. you have an afro.
yes! Finally someone musically inclined,lol
+Kurt Nordstrom cake has one of the best bassists I've heard
His monotone, emotionless voice is awesome for some reason.
He sounds soooo done with the relationship haha
I found it halting. Like he was upset and he was just barely keeping it together.
this song got me out of a divorce depression, kudos
I'm happy to hear you are doing well, stranger!
👌
Me too!
This song has gotten me through every major turning point in my life gotta get back to who I was before
Same
I'm not sure I've ever heard a sarcastic trumpet solo before.
I live for this trumpet solo
Hahaha brilliant
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Hahahaha fkn lol....nice
For years I played this on a loop when I was cleaning the bathroom and kitchen. Don't ask me why. It was just my power cleaning anthem.
Hahahahaha omg the same happened to me
Freedom! 90' is my power cleaning anthem
I didn't have it on a loop but when I started cleaning today I started and stopped with this song...
To survive the fumes maybe 😂
Cleaning the bath room right now lol
The guitar solos, man, and the sick bassline. Just hell yeah.
I really like how they arranged this, with the bass out front.
This is one of the best covers I’ve heard. Love the originality they brought to it. That bass line is off the chain
This is what its like to sing in double spaced.
Jaq?
More like with periods between all of the words except between the sentences.
Lmao
True
underrated comment
At first I was afraid
I was petrified
I kept thinking I could never live without you
By my side
But then I spent so many nights
Just thinking how you've done me wrong
I grew strong
I learned how to get along
And so you're back
From outer space
I just walked in to find you
Here with that look upon your face
I should have changed my fucking lock
I would have made you leave your key
If I had known for just one second
You'd be back to bother me
Oh now go,
Walk out the door
Just turn around
Now, you're not welcome anymore
Weren't you the one
Who tried to break me with desire?
Did you think I'd crumble?
Did you think I'd lay down and die?
Oh not I,
I will survive
Yeah
As Long as I know how to love,
I know I'll be alive
I've got all my life to live
I've got all my love to give
I will survive,
I will survive
Yeah, yeah
It took all the strength I had
Just not to fall apart
I'm trying hard to mend the pieces
Of my broken heart
And I spent oh so many nights
Just feeling sorry for myself
I used to cry,
But now I hold my head up high
And you see me
With somebody new
I'm not that stupid little person
Still in love with you
And so you thought you'd just drop by
And you expect me to be free
But now I'm saving all my lovin'
For someone who's lovin' me
Oh now go,
Walk out the door
Just turn around
Now, you're not welcome anymore
Weren't you the one
Who tried to break me with desire?
Did you think I'd crumble?
Did you think I'd lay down and die?
Oh not I,
I will survive
Yeah
As long as I know how to love,
I know I'll be alive
I've got all my life to live
I've got all my love to give
I will survive,
I will survive
Yeah, yeah
Oh no
Ty
Tenkiu
No hablo español jdhldvs
Wow
Thank you soldier
Cruising down the street in my Hoopty in the mid to late 90s blasting this in Southern California. God I miss those days. I had to leave California because it was not affordable for working class like me
That bass line is diamond.
100%.
Cake will survive the test of time. Still give me chills listening to their music, even after 23 years. It is truly inspired.
What an amazing cover. From a 52yr old who remembers the original.
As a bass player, I reeeally appreciate the bassline.
Yeah...some farkin awesome guitar riffs on this epic remake of what I once considered kind of a dorky, over dramatically sang disco song.
Lame pun on words.
Now, that's what I call a killer Bassline!!!😎👌
Those beats though. Over 20 years later and still love.
i could play that bassline for hours
oh84e
Fascination Street is a fun Bass Line to play too for sure!
me too.
When someone disagrees with the majority and states their own opinion about a certain subject:
BOO! YOUR OPINION FHACKIN SUKS! OUR OPINIYONS AR BETTAR THEN URS! EVERYONE SHOULD LIKE THIS BECUZ ITS SO GOOD!
@@guycrimson4095 cry about it
Holy jesus christ, that bass!
+zafragaxt I know right!! It's incredible!
Trying to learn it now, and it's as hard as it sounds...I'm going to need a month.
+Christopher White it's actually not that hard, I got it the second time ;)
¡The best!
I love covers that really make it their own & do something different while maintaining the essence of the original
The song absolutely nails that
Never heard of them. Almost 65 and I love this version.
They were most popular in the early to mid 90s. They're still performing though! I believe they have most of the original members of the band as well (last I read), I believe they've only replaced one band member.
The trumpet in the outro is amazing
Grant Snyder trumpet for life :D
+Unplugged Riot SCRUB!!! Trombone for life..... I guess the trumpet was pretty good..... I guess....
+Unplugged Riot You know it!
+Matthew Philip Heck yeah, trombones! But that trumpet was amazing.
I love the trumpet. It just fits so perfectly with the way they covered this song.
"I shoulda changed my fuckin lock.."
+Omar David I should've changed that stupid lock
+Omar David I should've changed that stupid lock
+Cat Meow Times change
+Omar David O heard Gloria Gaynor doesn't like this version because they changed "stupid" to "fucking"
+Omar David Yeah, awesome little twist on the lyrics! I hate the censored version of this song, it pisses me off so much!
I saw them in concert (because of this song) at Mississippi Nights in StL about 22 years ago. Best night ever!
It's been 9 years and I'm still listening to this song and I'm 12 now
Of course!
This song is my anthem this week.
Damn Carrie. Damn. Dam. Um yep still need in some spa time I see.😳
I'm not a fan of cover songs but this one is so unique.
+efedude77 I'm just the opposite. I LOVE cover songs. For one thing: a unique arrangement can bring a fresh perspective to a song.
it's one of those few covers that doesn't suck and makes Cake seem better because of how often bands botch a cover
I bet you anything that you love a lot of covers, you just didn't know they were covers. Like Sinead O'Connor's Nothing Compares 2 U or The Beatles' Twist and Shout
I remember when Cake came out I always thought they were unique like Save Ferris and No Doubt. I miss the shit out of the 90's.
What an amazing cover. From a 52yr old who remembers the original.
Great thing about CAKE, besides their wildly inventive, quirky tunes and borrowing from and superbly blending so many musical genres is that their songs so often tell a story with a storyline arc. And the songwriters are virtual metaphor machines. Sometimes, I think of them as if Herb Albert had started a funky rock band! THINK about it!
Okay, you get serious props for mentioning Herb Alpert. Giving you a thumbs up for that alone.
definitely the best version of "i will survive" the rhythm changes are awesome, cake really made the song their own
Sorry. I love Cake but this is not the best version of this song. Gloria Gaynor did it best. This is the best cover.
Did you mean the best cover of the original?
Let's not argue the semantics of the word version lel
Lobster Room Cleaning Service Calm down you bundle of sticks the internet is made for arguments
@@simplejack160 dont have the gall to call me a feggit lele
the vocals and the rifts pair so eloquently it is truly superb.
I have loved this band since forever
I'm really digging Cake right now + loving the Christopher Walken'esk lyrical rhythm.
"Money" by Pink Floyd made me want to play the bass. THIS is the song that made me pick up a bass and play it.
Quite simply one of the best covers ever recorded !
my high school anthem song...
worst years of my life, and greatest song discovery.
back then i bring the cassette wherever i go, and just listen to their songs on walk man.
i can´t believe i found it. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS VERSION. I´ve been listening this in an old cd my entire life and now 12 years later... thanks
Love Cake! Underrated band, IMHO.
The last bass solo is badass
Cake has the remarkable ability to make their cover songs better than the originals.
I love this version! It sounds like he is trying really hard to convince himself otherwise, but not at all "surviving" that well...
In my opinion, he’s surviving, but also he’s so mad at his girlfriend he’s crumbling.
Yeah cuz like what he said dude. Its a fuck you version
Hey guy who commented here 7 years ago. How are you
Yeah man. How are you?
@@akkoakk4966 Hey guy who commented here 1 year ago. How are you?
Holy shit I love this version
Hell yess!
Naw it's cheap af. How many cynical versions of popular songs do we need? It's lazy af
I hated this song! Till I heard cake do it.
@@James-cb7nb Yea, but this was way before that whole trend. And it's really not that cynical.
Definitely.....
A true Cake fan. I discovered them because of this cover and became a fan playing their albums in loops when walking to and from work signing and side skipping on the street! Ha ha great memory.
Saw cake 2 weeks ago.
Was an amazing show!
Go see them now! Or risk losing them forever
Yea they're coming to my city this month!
i forgot how much i love this band
I love this version. i always will.
A bass solo then a guitar solo with drums and then a trumpet solo; everything just goes great together.
such a great pick me up after what felt like the biggest breakup heartbreak ever. But this helps. So much strong hope and forceful statements. I love it.
that guitar, the bassline, this song's really awesome!
Cake's bass player is the most underrated bassist of all time.
From one combat veteran to another, you don't get paid to make ethical or moral decisions. You're there to fight , to win, then to come home, and make sure that the brothers who are fighting shoulder to shoulder with you come home as well. I salute you and what you did. You are the real 1% and no hater can take that away from you. God bless you and Valhalla awaits us..
Art, music, life ...freewill!!!
Cadê os Brazucas curtindo esse SONZÃO em 2020? 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
tu ta ouvindo a copia ,todos sabemos que á real é " a wilson vai "
I myself have never broken any one with desire. but I can cook a really good brisket on a smoker.
Lmao...
Similar feeling if you don't share said brisket...
Hahaha
I bet you have. Don’t sell yourself short.
IMHO the best bass-line-driven song in all of rock
Thank god for this upload as the official vevo one sounds like an old VHS rip from the tape MTV would have played 900 times
best song to test new earphone
i could listen that bassline and trumpet all day! ❤️
too true!
You be surprised sometimes the $20 variety do a decent job...gave up buying fancy Bose cause as a large musicphile I break them regularly
This song is perfect for every relationship I've ever been through hahah like... Perfect
Jesus they nailed it, John McCrea's vocals are awesome.
I want a piece of that Cake! Awesome band!
I'm an old lady so cake is kind of new to me but dang I like cake
welcome to the alternative that's spoken to more than one generation
+kathleen erickson ans she said "Let them eat cake!" Actually Antoinette never said that.
old is the new young 😉👍
MexicanMarine best comment on TH-cam 😁
i love this comment.
Who knew the guy introduced me to this amazing cover would be the one guy I'm trying to get over. Such is life
Same here
@@amandarowan2173 😞 It gets better. Not immediately but it does get better. ❤️
Best version of this song ever created. Great job Elvis!
Admitted I was powerless over CAKE and I can’t stop listening.
wow, what amazing rhythm the singer has, every note is on beat completely
bass line hummmmmmmmm
flawless
there is one comment below that is so good i have to repeat it. "holy jesus christ, that bass!"
Happy memories of listening to this on a Minidisc player in Phuket in late 2001, drinking with some chums before a rather wild, and as I recall, deluged, night out.
This song is immortal! Thankyou Cake!!!
One of the best covers ever arranged
Uno de los mejores cover que he escuchado, saludos desde Chile.
the bass line is just gorgeous
the bass is going so crazy :D
"I Will Survive"
At first I was afraid.
I was petrified.
I kept thinking I could never live
Without you by my side.
But then I spent so many nights
Just thinking how you'd done me wrong.
I grew strong.
I learned how to get along.
And so you're back from outer space.
I just walked in to find you here
Without that look upon your face.
I should have changed my fucking lock.
I would have made you leave your key
If I'd have known for just one second
You'd be back to bother me.
Oh now go.
Walk out the door.
Just turn around now.
You're not welcome anymore.
Weren't you the one
Who tried to break me with desire?
Did you think I'd crumble?
Did you think I'd lay down and die?
Oh not I.
I will survive.
As long as I know how to love
I know I'll be alive.
I've got all my life to live.
I've got all my love to give.
I will survive.
I will survive.
It took all the strength I had
Just not to fall apart.
I'm trying hard to mend
The pieces of my broken heart.
And I spent oh so many nights
Just feeling sorry for myself.
I used to cry.
But now I hold my head up high.
And you'll see me with somebody new.
I'm not that stupid little person
Still in love with you.
And so you thought you'd just drop by,
And you expect me to be free.
But now I'm saving all my lovin'
For someone who's lovin' me.
Oh now go.
Walk out the door.
Just turn around now.
You're not welcome anymore.
Weren't you the one
Who tried to break me with desire?
Did you think I'd crumble?
Did you think I'd lay down and die?
Oh not I.
I will survive.
As long as I know how to love
I know I'll be alive.
I've got all my life to live.
I've got all my love to give.
I will survive.
I will survive.
www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/cake/iwillsurvive.html
You know this is a old disco son3 Gloria. Gaynor?
Why did you comment this if you know there is a website where we could just look it up ourselves?
@@bije277 some of us believe in spontaneous karaoke you fucking killjoy
I JUST NEED THE NAME OF THE DISCOTHEQUE ON THE SECOND FLOOR OF SILOM SOI 4
MoralityPolice alright that’s fair.
I became a Cake fan ...geez ..about 18 (?) years ago when some 16 yr old teen girl I knew (I coached college womens ball, and traveled a lot watching high school girls play to recruit them)told this old guy (i was ...50 then) ...wow...double wow....I wore this cd out ..played it everytime i hit the road ....man..I had downloaded my fav music on a thumb drive which my car stereo could play...it was a killer system...and man would I play this loud AF. The entire album was great. Usually I would pick one or 3 songs from an album....I recorded the entire thing. Now, I am 68 and STILL love this song. Trumpet plays a very big part of their musical style ...almost every song.
this is bound to never be seen but it surprises me how i actually like how this cover saps out the triumphance of the original. theyre not thriving like the singer of the source song, the cover shows that the singer is getting by rather than living at their peak. they are surviving
Best cover ever I'll wait three years for a comment because it's from the ninties I'm used to it
Bassline is banging
I've grown up listening to this interpretation of the song, and I heard it way before I heard the original. Maybe it's bias, but I honestly think this is much better, I like the stronger bitter tone.
I've heard a couple of covers before I heard the original and I feel the covers are better. Not just by these guys, but by other bands as well.
This cover lacks the passion that gives a strong "f-u" to the other person in the song. It doesn't very strength it caters to the fatality of cakes generation. It emotes defeat more than strength of walking away from it.
this song really attended to me during a crushing heart break
This song helped me get threw a breakup and made me feel strong thanks cake lol
my god that bass.
Love their deadpan take on this great song, the really nice bass and guitar 💛 Beautiful. The soft guitar part almost makes me a little teary eyed sometimes
I just can't describe the feeling this song gives to me. I used to listen this last summer with my friends in sunny weather just enjoying the moment. Brings back the joy of the memories.
Worlds most underrated guitarist...
Such beautiful voicings and phrasing.
a year ago this song helped me sooooo soooo fking much, its unbelievable...
"It took all the strength I had
Just not to fall apart "
that bass groove is incredible !!!!!!!
Love this song.....I have listened to it multiple times.
I learned this version of this song on my ukulele and I do NOT regret it
super cool. i'm a ukulele player also. try Ram On, by Paul McCartney...great ukulele song
bonkus bo fronkus- what do you have against the ukulele?
bonkus bo fronkus omg wow good roast . gtfo .
Learn it on guitar. The solo is really fun.
post a vid and ill watch it
Best version of the song ever! Love me some CAKE!!!
The bass player is funky AF in this song!!!
I ❤ 🎂
The end is perfection
Bomb ReMix ! Tight ... Totally Enjoyable
This song is helping me through a breakup with my first love... It hurts but Cake soothes the soul
I was a Boy Scout when this song came out. Thank you Band CAKE! CAKE Rocks!
Love the trumpet. Has a western, Mexican standoff vibe to it. Hence ‘survive’