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Haha we were into metal and hard dance music yet somehow we all loved cake and would see them live.. impressive achievement, i still love them 3 decades later
Every single one of my Cake CDs wound up with ashes on it from cigarettes. Not as an ashtray, just as a casualty of the time. I can't think of anything more 90s for me.
@@PaulSmoker420 How can someone's personal opinion be objectively wrong? Come on, man.. I don't go on bands videos I don't like and tell everyone they're wrong for liking them. It's all about how it makes you feel.
Couldn’t agree more with you. I’ve had that one on my playlist a lot in the last month or so, very ironic that this video and your comment hit today. Love it.
Saw Cake three times in one day at SXSW. They were playing at three different industry parties. Kinda crazy considering how popular they were at the time.
I've seen Cake a bunch of times. The best time was at The Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom in Hampton Beach, NH. They took the stage and McRea told a story about overhearing some waitresses talking near the bathroom. One said to the other one, "Oh I wonder what they are gonna play last?" And they both laughed about The Distance being a one hit wonder track. Now, I was already in the know from previous Cake shows that they almost always close with Jolene. So, McRea says, "So, we're gonna play it first. If that's all you came to hear feel free to leave afterwards." And then they played The Distance. No one left.
I hadn't thought about Cake in decades - then I rewatched Soprano's earlier this year and "Frank Sinatra" grabbed me right away. I learned a decent acoustic version of it and have enjoyed listening to their stuff again, what a great encapsulation of 90's alternative.
My biggest influence on the vibra slap. Have you noticed in the video for I Will Survive the protagonist from the video for The Distance runs by on camera? You also are unlikely to hear a white boy groove as hard as Sick of You. Cake yesterday.Cake today.Cake forever!
One of my favorite bands. I saw them live a couple years ago and they were pretty low-energy. At the time it felt a bit like burnout but i enjoyed it none the less. To find out that they in fact find the concert circuit draining and difficult AND that a toned-down musical tone is something they aspire for… that honestly brings a better light to the memory.
@Smith-wk6pb I actually made the comment before I got to the end and they did not actually mention the glory of Gaynor song until almost the end of the video. so I kind of jumped the gun but I think you're just nitpicking because you like the nitpick I did listen I actually really like cake a lot I have like three of their albums going to set or actually two. I'm voice texting I haven't listened to them in years but their friend song I really love short skirt long jacket, when I need to be hyped of course I have to listen to the distance. Frank Sinatra never there I can go on and on I love cake I don't listen to cake all the time but they're there when I need them. so I won't even be my usual asshole self and post a whole bunch of insults to you I'll let this one slide.... oh and I forgot one of the most kick ass covers of all time which to me I like listening to it more than I like the original, war pigs. matter of fact I think I feel like I need to listen to it right now
They headlined alongside Primus at All Good Festival in 2015, and both bands got kinda politically preachy during their sets, spreading a general sense of malaise throughout the audience… like… le sigh…
During the early 2000's, Cake did an impromptu tour where they played at highway rest stops. Really anywhere that they could plug up a couple of amps. It was DIY and awesome!
You know how the band you like never plays that one song you love in concert? Well, the second time I saw Cake, I waited too long to get a beer after the opener had left the stage. If I went to get a beer, I was in danger of missing Cake coming out. I decided to get a beer anyway as they would probably open with something off the radio or MTV. Standing there, third person in line, and I heard the crowd start cheering. Then I heard Stick Shifts and Safety Belts echoing out. That moment made me realize I loved Cake.
I saw them get booed off the stage at Edgefest in Barrie, Ontario in 2001. They were slotted to play in between Sevendust and Default… they were doomed after the great show Sevendust put on… they played a couple of songs and people from the crowd were bewildered at the oddity of this band Cake (playing after Sevendust) and began booing and throwing the odd water bottle at the band… Mccrea yelled at the crowd “if you boo and throw 1 more bottle we’re leaving”….. Cue the bottles from everyone in the crowd being thrown at them - Mccrea flipped the crowd said “F you” and the band left the stage… Which was too bad because both my friend and I wanted to see them! I understand though - WOW - that was A LOT OF FLYING WATER BOTTLES!!!
It's probably the tightest live show I ever saw. They're a really amazing band to see live. Boston 90s at the half shell. I saw a lot of good bands there and they were free.
@@MrERLoner Never heard of any of those bands. I played in a band in the mid-90's from FAR NorCal (i.e. the true northern valley), and we played with a SacTown band called Simon Feck a few times. One of the guys in that band now runs the Torch Club in Sactown.
There's always one weird little dude in every crowd that's a Cake fan. Most likely he's wearing a Kangol hat and a t-shirt with another shitty band's logo. He is alone and usually has a skin condition. Often seen with fans of Dave Matthews and the Spin Doctors, while playing Magic the Gathering.
Love to hear your take on Metal Church. They were a band with huge potential and talent and were beset with bad luck and tragedies. Pretty crazy stuff.
I love the song and accompanying video, "Love You Madly", where trumpeter Vince DiFiore and then drummer Pete McNeal have a cook-off to judges Jeff Smith, Phillis Diller, and Rick James (RIP to all three ): There's also a backstory to Pete that is very dark. I'm a little surprised there was absolutely no mention in this video. Perhaps it's just another sordid rock and roll tale people would rather forget...
I’ve seen cake five different times in Nashville. They’re definitely one of the most fun bands I’ve ever seen live. They really like to get the crowd involved and always sounded great live.
Absolutely love Cake and was lucky enough to see them here in Sydney in the late 90s. They're my go to band for karaoke ! Mr True Stories, any chance we could get an episode on Ben Folds Five ?
People remember the 90s as the era of grunge, but it was dead by 1995. More diverse artists like Beck, Cake, Fun Lovin’ Criminals & Geggy Tah took over modern rock radio.
I've been one of the biggest fans of the band since before they got big. I used to see them in local Sacramento clubs, and was fortunate enough to be an early adopter and play them on radio stations in Northern California when they finally hit. But I'll tell you, some of us are just sick of getting an earful of preaching about politics. So I still listen to their music, but I just don't listen to their politics and I think a lot of people got sick of it. It would probably help if they release some new material as well.
Cake was quite literally the band that made me pick up and learn to play the bass guitar back in the 90's. Their style was nothing like what we were used to hearing at the time and it just completely gripped myself and my brother.
I went to Sacramento city junior college at the same time as Greg Brown and we had several mutual friends. He taught me how to play space oddity by Bowie one day when I stopped him while he was walking by at sac city. I knew he was a Bowie nut and I’d been wanting to learn that song. He was very cool and gladly stopped and showed me how to play it. I saw Cake play at Sacramento state college in mid 90s as well. I also saw Saturdays child once. They did an amazing cover of Hurdy Gurdy man.
I think that they approach each of their covers in a unique way that's almost always well suited to that particular song. Their version of songs like I Will Survive and Perhaps,Perhaps,Perhaps are so different from the originals and therefore work so well. But with songs like Ruby,Don't Take Your Love Into Town and Guitar Man they make subtle little tweaks at the most. And somehow manage to make those covers sound way better than the originals anyway.
Never There is my favorite Cake song. The Distance is also great. Sheep Go To Heaven is just awesome. Prolonging The Magic is one of those albums I can just put in and push play. I need to dig out my CDs and jam to some Cake. Yes, I'm old. I don't like streaming.
I drive by that Starbucks that is featured in Short Skirt Long Jacket in Sacramento and instantly think of their iconic music video. It was a reaction video before reaction videos.
I absolutely love Cake. I never got to see them live, and I hate that fact. I go through phases where I will listen to pretty much just Cake for a month or so at a time. In 2002 or so I tried putting a Cake tribute band together, but it never gelled.
I still have a Short skirt to go with my Looooong Jacket...Na na na nana. Love and miss Cake! Sad Drummer almost killed the band in 2009. Peter McNeal is where he belongs now.
Cake jams! So many good, feel good (and bad good) tunes. They seem like they'd still fit in the modern music circuit these days. But I was 14 or so when they hit the radio. They have lots of cool tunes.
They are interesting, me and my son-in-law both still listen to them. The lead singer has strong opinions about a lot of things and I think he has been ostracized a bit for that, which is too bad (our younger society is way too into a censorship sort of approach to ideas).
Had the displeasure of seeing cake twice, at two different festivals. They are just awful. I mean, maybe the band itself is ok, but all I remember about them is just how shitty their frontman is. He has one hell of an ego for a guy that talk sings.
@@jr2904 I heard that quote about the death of disco was wyte supreme assist and I was "huh what?" Like out of nowhere "the racism did it"...derp comment of the century. If I ever see those meltdowns, I'll be filing all my Cake tunes into the bin with bruce springsteen and green day - aka - the recycle bin.
@@billschlafly4107 keep the music, even if the singer has delusions, the music is great. Guitar, for example, is practically shorthand for Atlas Shrugged.
I’ve been one of those 15 people at a Sacramento show. The cool thing about that in the eighties was that I saw bands ranging from Exodus to RHCP to the Decedents to Black Flag to Slayer at clubs/bars like El Dorado Saloon and the Cattle Club at 14 years old with a handful of other punks, metal heads and skins! Of course there were the ‘bigger’ shows at The Crest Theater with Dead Kennedy’s and G&R in their prime. Fuck I miss being a teenager!😢 😂
i've seen them a few times in the last ten years here in Seattle and they put on a really good show. He's a great frontman and the band is tight. Highly recommend seeing them live.
I like Cake, but I sure hope the statement "the disco sucks movement was partially white supremacist" was a typical example of the bands dry humor in which denying it is humor with a straight face is an aspect of the delivery.
I saw them back in 2000 on the "Unlimited Sunshine Tour" with Kinky, Modest Mouse, and Flaming Lips. It is still one of the best shows I have ever seen. See them live if you have not, definitely worth the the time, money, & effort!😉👍✨
Universal music appeal died with the introduction of streaming, not because someone died or tastes changed...everything is still here on TH-cam, from 60's to today to...everything. It's a segmented, divided world we live in...
I had a friend that went to their concert when they first starting making headway. My friend was a very talented musician. He said the group wasn't great playing their instruments but said it didn't matter it was probably the best concert he ever went to. I understood what he meant many years later when I was at a Michael Franti and Spearhead concert.
I discovered Cake from watching the TV show Chuck... which uses an instrumental version of Short Skirt/Long Jacket as it's theme song. Ended up falling in love with the band... just saw them n concert a couple of months ago. Great band!
Cake in many ways, was the sound of what Kurt Cobain spoke, not what he played, it was like the sarcastic yet loving hug he never got to feel. His floating ghost commenting on his now dead useless body. Cake represented the core missing ingredient of the grunge movement, humor and humility. Grunge was always bound to be the angry miserable cousin of hair metal. Success used to kill it self, before it could enjoy the fruits of its labor (Dave Mustaine warned grunge, don't do heroin; nearly all its casualties are narcotic related)
Unfortunately, Cake managed to ruin themselves for my wife due to a really bad show last summer. Outdoor show, in the rain. Started well over an hour late, and McCrae was just....off for the first part. They played a handful of charts with him being off on timing and pitch. They then spent 30 minutes doing their tree thing while the crowd obviously was having none of it. The rest of the show was pretty good, but at that point, she was cold, wet, miserable, and stuck in a crowd of angry, cold, wet, drunk people and just wanted to leave. Haven't been able to listen to them in the house since.
I definitely think the anti grunge sentiment was a breath of fresh air at the time. lol, they were alternative alternative 😅. Contrasting the ubiquitous, self destructive depression music with something very different. I had a match, but she had a lighter…
"Disco sucks was a white supremacist movement" No, disco sucked whether the artist was black or white, and apparently many black people were a part of that "white supremacist" movement 😂
This band was consequential at the time amid Creed, Train, Fuel, Candlebox etc. always interesting. Weird live performances where they were almost antagonistic to the audience. Musical Andy Kaufman imho.
I absolutely love cake, ever since its first record was playing on the local college radio. I love that I can sing along because John Mccrea range is limited. It is my go-to road trip playlist. It was a little overplayed in the MTV years. They had cake songs in every show it seemed
Cake is NOT a lie... I was kinda introduced to them thru hanging out at Buffy the Vampire Slayer's fan community back in the day. Alyson Hannigan was a big fan of them at the time. The Distance and their cover of "I Will Survive".
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Ben Folds Five ?
'I Hate labels.'
'You Are what you are, so Drop the Puck, run amok and play, you dumb fukc!!'
2 of my favorite quotes.... ever!!
My band opened for them in Athens, GA. The drummer didn't bring a throne. He was going to sit in a regular chair, but our drummer lent him his throne.
Haha we were into metal and hard dance music yet somehow we all loved cake and would see them live.. impressive achievement, i still love them 3 decades later
this
Cake is one of my favourite bands. I'm so glad they reissued their albums on vinyl too. The sarcasm and the skilled musicianship is timeless.
Every single one of my Cake CDs wound up with ashes on it from cigarettes. Not as an ashtray, just as a casualty of the time. I can't think of anything more 90s for me.
Drunk in my house with 2-4 friends throwing guitars at 2 am
Occasional specs of weed and little razor blade knicks all over most of my CD cases in those days lol
Lol, you mofos make me laugh!
Cake is the most time capsule sound of the 90s, neither overstated nor understated, they were simply "witnesses"
I Will Survive is one of the best examples of making a song your own stylistically while retaining the essence and structure of the original.
Agreed!
Wrong.
@@PaulSmoker420 How can someone's personal opinion be objectively wrong? Come on, man.. I don't go on bands videos I don't like and tell everyone they're wrong for liking them. It's all about how it makes you feel.
@@IxQuit Don't feel bad bro, that dude has been killing what few brain cells he was born with by smoking cannabis all day.
Couldn’t agree more with you. I’ve had that one on my playlist a lot in the last month or so, very ironic that this video and your comment hit today. Love it.
Saw Cake three times in one day at SXSW. They were playing at three different industry parties. Kinda crazy considering how popular they were at the time.
Saw them live because a friend had tickets. One of the best shows I've ever seen. I'm a convert.
That reminds me of when I tagged along to see We are the Mummies...blew my mind! ❤️🔥
Same thing happened to me... Knew about the band, but a friend had tickets... One of the best live bands I saw
Going the distance is such a vibe its more than a song
I thought that song was only a couple yrs old. Saw it on Sirius video channel and loved it. Didn't realize it was from the mid 90's.
@@Scottocaster6668 It transcends time .. and distance
@@Scottocaster6668That was their first “hit” on alternative rock stations
I think you should buy a dictionary and look up the word "Vibe."
@@gregbors8364 I didn't get into alternative back then. Chris Cornell, Alice in Chains are really good. Just didn't get into it.
I love Cake. We used to play them while tripping to keep from going dark. Saved us from a lot of bad trips.
Gonna have to remember that next time I shroom
That would ruin my night fr
You need a better source of LSD
yeah, i would never listen to Cake tripping. not sure what you normally listen to.
I've seen Cake a bunch of times. The best time was at The Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom in Hampton Beach, NH. They took the stage and McRea told a story about overhearing some waitresses talking near the bathroom. One said to the other one, "Oh I wonder what they are gonna play last?" And they both laughed about The Distance being a one hit wonder track. Now, I was already in the know from previous Cake shows that they almost always close with Jolene. So, McRea says, "So, we're gonna play it first. If that's all you came to hear feel free to leave afterwards." And then they played The Distance. No one left.
And a loooooooooong jacket.
Nananana nananananananana
What a terrible time to be alive, that song is trash.
@@th3gr811000%
And a loooooooooong …
loooooooooong
jacket.
@@th3gr81Cry me a riverrrrr 😂🎉
One of the best live bands in Sacramento
I always loved seeing Cake live
They sounded great too
I miss Cake. They were a very different band with an unique lead singer.
"The Distance" is possibly their best hit song of their catalogue.
They toured last year and it was great. You can still make it next time
I don't think they're gone they just don't get out that often. Been a bit since last album tho I guess
Their remake of Sad songs and Waltz's by Willie is fantastic
No one can be compared to cake or soul coughing. I hate comparisons
@@markkunkel7401 When did I compared Cake to Soul Coughing? Both have different sounds.
I hadn't thought about Cake in decades - then I rewatched Soprano's earlier this year and "Frank Sinatra" grabbed me right away. I learned a decent acoustic version of it and have enjoyed listening to their stuff again, what a great encapsulation of 90's alternative.
I LOVE Cake. Skilled songwriting sarcasm. COMFORT EAGLE is a classic.
They were building a religion!!
They were building it bigger!
So Comfort Eagle also had Going the Distance on it, right?
No that was on fashion nugget
😊@@aprilbrown8081
My biggest influence on the vibra slap. Have you noticed in the video for I Will Survive the protagonist from the video for The Distance runs by on camera? You also are unlikely to hear a white boy groove as hard as Sick of You. Cake yesterday.Cake today.Cake forever!
I used to listen to Fashion Nugget when I was a band nerd. The late nineteen hundreds were a different time.
My kiddo is in color guard… I’ve seen the Distance in two different halftime shows this year.
The last time we were free
Short skirt and long jacket described a lot of people we knew in the 90s.
I only heard that song because my older brother bootlegged it on Napster 😂
Also their best song 🎉
One of my favorite bands. I saw them live a couple years ago and they were pretty low-energy. At the time it felt a bit like burnout but i enjoyed it none the less. To find out that they in fact find the concert circuit draining and difficult AND that a toned-down musical tone is something they aspire for… that honestly brings a better light to the memory.
Not many bands can cover a Black Sabbath song and a Barry White song with style. A Legendary Band worthy of more props.
you forgot about the Gloria Gaynor song, I will survive which is a gay anthem I think, cake made it cool
@@rellis881And Miley Cyrus made it cringe... Oh wait, that song isn't a cover 😂🎉
@lowlink534 lol
@@rellis881that was talked about in the video or can't you hear or listen.
@Smith-wk6pb I actually made the comment before I got to the end and they did not actually mention the glory of Gaynor song until almost the end of the video. so I kind of jumped the gun but I think you're just nitpicking because you like the nitpick I did listen I actually really like cake a lot I have like three of their albums going to set or actually two. I'm voice texting I haven't listened to them in years but their friend song I really love short skirt long jacket, when I need to be hyped of course I have to listen to the distance. Frank Sinatra never there I can go on and on I love cake I don't listen to cake all the time but they're there when I need them. so I won't even be my usual asshole self and post a whole bunch of insults to you I'll let this one slide.... oh and I forgot one of the most kick ass covers of all time which to me I like listening to it more than I like the original, war pigs. matter of fact I think I feel like I need to listen to it right now
Legend has it that they’re still driving and striving and hugging the turns.
Loved this band. The lead singer actually repaired my iPhone at the Apple Genius Bar once.
Are you for real?!
Yeah they were awesome at music and at small device repair too.
🤣😂👍🏻✌🏼
Damn that's a pretty cool catch
that’s pretty cool. I met him at a bar once too, damn he makes a really good margarita. I had to leave him a good tip
still love Cake, but around 2016 i noticed their Facebook page became more about stoking political division, than promoting the band, and their music.
Same. Politics broke a lot of brains.
Cry harder about it and see if that helps, weakling.
StOkInG pOlItIcAl DiViSiOn DeRp
So you disagree with their politics, they made some good points, and you couldn’t handle it? Okay.
They headlined alongside Primus at All Good Festival in 2015, and both bands got kinda politically preachy during their sets, spreading a general sense of malaise throughout the audience… like… le sigh…
Rip goofy fun rock 1995-2001
A faintly glimmering radio station...
They're back, baby!
During the early 2000's, Cake did an impromptu tour where they played at highway rest stops. Really anywhere that they could plug up a couple of amps. It was DIY and awesome!
That's so rad.
You know how the band you like never plays that one song you love in concert? Well, the second time I saw Cake, I waited too long to get a beer after the opener had left the stage. If I went to get a beer, I was in danger of missing Cake coming out. I decided to get a beer anyway as they would probably open with something off the radio or MTV. Standing there, third person in line, and I heard the crowd start cheering. Then I heard Stick Shifts and Safety Belts echoing out. That moment made me realize I loved Cake.
A lot of good cars are Japanese
But when I’m driving far I need my baby next to me
I love that song so damn much
COMFORT EAGLE, too !!
You can meet at his location but you better come with cash
In Argentina the band had a BIG hit on radio & MTV with the Gloria Gaynor cover.
The Distance wasn't a hit here.
Cake is just so great! So catchy and fun. I saw them in Phili with Cheap Trick. Now, that was a great show.
Love your videos and as a lifelong resident of Sacramento, thank you for mentioning the Beat record store. That brought a tear to my eye.
The Beat... so much time there. It was like the end of an era when it closed.
Diagnosed with exhaustion that's interesting. I would love to hear some Mcrea country music now that's he's gone through so much.
I think the label just pushed them to tour and tour to sell albums
I saw them get booed off the stage at Edgefest in Barrie, Ontario in 2001. They were slotted to play in between Sevendust and Default… they were doomed after the great show Sevendust put on… they played a couple of songs and people from the crowd were bewildered at the oddity of this band Cake (playing after Sevendust) and began booing and throwing the odd water bottle at the band… Mccrea yelled at the crowd “if you boo and throw 1 more bottle we’re leaving”….. Cue the bottles from everyone in the crowd being thrown at them - Mccrea flipped the crowd said “F you” and the band left the stage…
Which was too bad because both my friend and I wanted to see them! I understand though - WOW - that was A LOT OF FLYING WATER BOTTLES!!!
Hilarious, I've never even heard of Sevendust...
It's probably the tightest live show I ever saw. They're a really amazing band to see live. Boston 90s at the half shell. I saw a lot of good bands there and they were free.
The 90's Sactown scene brought us Far, the Deftones, and Cake...
And LGS and Pocket Change .and Cause amd Effect
@@MrERLoner Never heard of any of those bands. I played in a band in the mid-90's from FAR NorCal (i.e. the true northern valley), and we played with a SacTown band called Simon Feck a few times. One of the guys in that band now runs the Torch Club in Sactown.
So many great bands in Sac during that time and The Cattle Club was the spot.
I loved Jackpot and Oleander!
There's always one weird little dude in every crowd that's a Cake fan. Most likely he's wearing a Kangol hat and a t-shirt with another shitty band's logo. He is alone and usually has a skin condition. Often seen with fans of Dave Matthews and the Spin Doctors, while playing Magic the Gathering.
😆
all I know is I love Cake and I wish more people loved CAKE too
Love to hear your take on Metal Church. They were a band with huge potential and talent and were beset with bad luck and tragedies. Pretty crazy stuff.
A highly underrated band
I grew up in Sac and I once saw Defones and Korn with Cake at the Cattle Club for $8.... Cake was the headliner Lol 😅
Cattle Club was the best. Kai Kln, Pounded Clown, Deftones, Cake.... the list of great bands goes on and on.
Cattle Club was awesome. Used to catch a ride there from the foothills whenever I could back in the very early 90s. Saw so many great acts there.
I love the song and accompanying video, "Love You Madly", where trumpeter Vince DiFiore and then drummer Pete McNeal have a cook-off to judges Jeff Smith, Phillis Diller, and Rick James (RIP to all three ): There's also a backstory to Pete that is very dark. I'm a little surprised there was absolutely no mention in this video. Perhaps it's just another sordid rock and roll tale people would rather forget...
Let's hear this story...
I’ve seen cake five different times in Nashville. They’re definitely one of the most fun bands I’ve ever seen live. They really like to get the crowd involved and always sounded great live.
They actually went the distance…
They went for speed…
@@waverlyking6045they’re all alone
@@ExNihiloComesNothing All alone in their time of need...
Absolutely love Cake and was lucky enough to see them here in Sydney in the late 90s. They're my go to band for karaoke ! Mr True Stories, any chance we could get an episode on Ben Folds Five ?
Nice one, I'm from Sacramento and remember seeing them at the now defunct cattle club
Thanks
Same. CD release party for.Motorcade.
The Cattle Club! Pretty much every band that got big in the early/mid '90s played that little place.
People remember the 90s as the era of grunge, but it was dead by 1995. More diverse artists like Beck, Cake, Fun Lovin’ Criminals & Geggy Tah took over modern rock radio.
I liked it all....Expect when that damn butt rock came along. Limp Biskit, 3 doors down, papa roach all that shit.
Geggy Tah 😊
Don't forget Spin Doctors 😅
@@davehughesfarm7983 Ah yes, “nü metal”, it had neither the charisma of heavy metal nor the authenticity of grunge, yet lives on to this day…
@@markusantonio4866 all I want to do is to thank you 🙏
I've been one of the biggest fans of the band since before they got big. I used to see them in local Sacramento clubs, and was fortunate enough to be an early adopter and play them on radio stations in Northern California when they finally hit. But I'll tell you, some of us are just sick of getting an earful of preaching about politics. So I still listen to their music, but I just don't listen to their politics and I think a lot of people got sick of it. It would probably help if they release some new material as well.
I suppose he is a left wing nut job?
A friend's band opened for them a couple times back in the late 90s and he said they were super cool guys.
Guarantee these guys have always been the types you’d see next Tuesday
I have their CD. Still a good listen when your all alone in a time of need.
This is exactly why I watch your stuff. Fun, informative, and exciting video. I haven't been this hyped about Cake in years. Cheers! 🍻
Cake was quite literally the band that made me pick up and learn to play the bass guitar back in the 90's. Their style was nothing like what we were used to hearing at the time and it just completely gripped myself and my brother.
Coulda used a whole brass section, but made it work with just one trumpet.
I remember seeing them at bumbershoot festival in Seattle and they were incredibly quiet, now I understand that choice in volume!
Comfort Eagle is more relatable then when it came out.
He's going the distance !
He's going for speed!
I went to Sacramento city junior college at the same time as Greg Brown and we had several mutual friends. He taught me how to play space oddity by Bowie one day when I stopped him while he was walking by at sac city. I knew he was a Bowie nut and I’d been wanting to learn that song. He was very cool and gladly stopped and showed me how to play it. I saw Cake play at Sacramento state college in mid 90s as well. I also saw Saturdays child once. They did an amazing cover of Hurdy Gurdy man.
They have one of the best cover songs, completely made it their own.
I think that they approach each of their covers in a unique way that's almost always well suited to that particular song. Their version of songs like I Will Survive and Perhaps,Perhaps,Perhaps are so different from the originals and therefore work so well. But with songs like Ruby,Don't Take Your Love Into Town and Guitar Man they make subtle little tweaks at the most. And somehow manage to make those covers sound way better than the originals anyway.
War pigs?
I Will Survive
@@crowchannel3891 well , their war pigs cover was awesome as well
My bad, I’ll have to check it out.
Never There is my favorite Cake song. The Distance is also great. Sheep Go To Heaven is just awesome. Prolonging The Magic is one of those albums I can just put in and push play. I need to dig out my CDs and jam to some Cake. Yes, I'm old. I don't like streaming.
As a Sacramentan, we don't have near as many things to hang our hats on compared to LA or SF but Cake is definitely one of them.
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I drive by that Starbucks that is featured in Short Skirt Long Jacket in Sacramento and instantly think of their iconic music video. It was a reaction video before reaction videos.
I absolutely love Cake. I never got to see them live, and I hate that fact. I go through phases where I will listen to pretty much just Cake for a month or so at a time. In 2002 or so I tried putting a Cake tribute band together, but it never gelled.
Should have called it "Fake", using the same font styles, art, etc.
I still have a Short skirt to go with my Looooong Jacket...Na na na nana. Love and miss Cake! Sad Drummer almost killed the band in 2009. Peter McNeal is where he belongs now.
Cake jams! So many good, feel good (and bad good) tunes. They seem like they'd still fit in the modern music circuit these days. But I was 14 or so when they hit the radio. They have lots of cool tunes.
I love these deep dives; they help me figure out what music I used to listen to I need to get rid of.
They are interesting, me and my son-in-law both still listen to them. The lead singer has strong opinions about a lot of things and I think he has been ostracized a bit for that, which is too bad (our younger society is way too into a censorship sort of approach to ideas).
Man, I love CAKE!!! I saw them in Seattle years ago, it was such a good show!!!
Had the displeasure of seeing cake twice, at two different festivals. They are just awful. I mean, maybe the band itself is ok, but all I remember about them is just how shitty their frontman is. He has one hell of an ego for a guy that talk sings.
Lead singer can be found having TDS meltdowns on X.
Not surprising after his comment about what happened to disco, I guess the beegees are black lol
@@jr2904 I heard that quote about the death of disco was wyte supreme assist and I was "huh what?" Like out of nowhere "the racism did it"...derp comment of the century. If I ever see those meltdowns, I'll be filing all my Cake tunes into the bin with bruce springsteen and green day - aka - the recycle bin.
Clueless libtarts maybe they need to vist diddly with his baby oil in hand.
I will try to ignore his mental illness and continue enjoy the music.
@@billschlafly4107 keep the music, even if the singer has delusions, the music is great.
Guitar, for example, is practically shorthand for Atlas Shrugged.
Greg Brown is one of the best guitarists of ‘90s alternative-rock; he has a very unique & original & inventive style
That "shirt skirt, long jacket" song was the theme to the great spy/comedy show 'Chuck'.
I’ve been one of those 15 people at a Sacramento show. The cool thing about that in the eighties was that I saw bands ranging from Exodus to RHCP to the Decedents to Black Flag to Slayer at clubs/bars like El Dorado Saloon and the Cattle Club at 14 years old with a handful of other punks, metal heads and skins! Of course there were the ‘bigger’ shows at The Crest Theater with Dead Kennedy’s and G&R in their prime. Fuck I miss being a teenager!😢 😂
Cattle Club was my adolescence.
They just wanted dental insurance and a 401K.... they should have wrote a song about that lol
i've seen them a few times in the last ten years here in Seattle and they put on a really good show. He's a great frontman and the band is tight. Highly recommend seeing them live.
They were awesome in Nashville “Dancin in the district”. One of my favorite shows there
I like Cake, but I sure hope the statement "the disco sucks movement was partially white supremacist" was a typical example of the bands dry humor in which denying it is humor with a straight face is an aspect of the delivery.
I don't think it was humor, sadly.
His TDS proves it.
I love Cake so much, I have been listening to a ton of the old albums this year
saw cake last year and they put on an incredible performance. such an underrated band nowadays.
I saw them back in 2000 on the "Unlimited Sunshine Tour" with Kinky, Modest Mouse, and Flaming Lips. It is still one of the best shows I have ever seen. See them live if you have not, definitely worth the the time, money, & effort!😉👍✨
Universal music appeal died with the introduction of streaming, not because someone died or tastes changed...everything is still here on TH-cam, from 60's to today to...everything. It's a segmented, divided world we live in...
A byproduct of a diverse society.
Fashion Nugget is one of the best albums of the 90's.
I had a friend that went to their concert when they first starting making headway. My friend was a very talented musician. He said the group wasn't great playing their instruments but said it didn't matter it was probably the best concert he ever went to. I understood what he meant many years later when I was at a Michael Franti and Spearhead concert.
I discovered Cake from watching the TV show Chuck... which uses an instrumental version of Short Skirt/Long Jacket as it's theme song. Ended up falling in love with the band... just saw them n concert a couple of months ago. Great band!
The best thing about Cake is their friendly association with Jackpot, one of the greatest acts of the era.
He is handling the money
He is serving the food
He knows about your party
And he is calling you……
....bro!
Dude
Cake in many ways, was the sound of what Kurt Cobain spoke, not what he played, it was like the sarcastic yet loving hug he never got to feel. His floating ghost commenting on his now dead useless body. Cake represented the core missing ingredient of the grunge movement, humor and humility. Grunge was always bound to be the angry miserable cousin of hair metal. Success used to kill it self, before it could enjoy the fruits of its labor (Dave Mustaine warned grunge, don't do heroin; nearly all its casualties are narcotic related)
Unfortunately, Cake managed to ruin themselves for my wife due to a really bad show last summer.
Outdoor show, in the rain. Started well over an hour late, and McCrae was just....off for the first part. They played a handful of charts with him being off on timing and pitch. They then spent 30 minutes doing their tree thing while the crowd obviously was having none of it. The rest of the show was pretty good, but at that point, she was cold, wet, miserable, and stuck in a crowd of angry, cold, wet, drunk people and just wanted to leave. Haven't been able to listen to them in the house since.
In my opinion, one of the most brilliant bands of their era.
I definitely think the anti grunge sentiment was a breath of fresh air at the time. lol, they were alternative alternative 😅. Contrasting the ubiquitous, self destructive depression music with something very different.
I had a match, but she had a lighter…
"Disco sucks was a white supremacist movement" No, disco sucked whether the artist was black or white, and apparently many black people were a part of that "white supremacist" movement 😂
Leftist logic. Most musicians suffer from it.
This band was consequential at the time amid Creed, Train, Fuel, Candlebox etc. always interesting. Weird live performances where they were almost antagonistic to the audience. Musical Andy Kaufman imho.
Always a fun show. Glad to see them again in Philly again ❤
I can definitely smoke a fat blunt to this 👊
Live show, was so much like the recording, I thought they were lip syncing.. real deal.
I absolutely love cake, ever since its first record was playing on the local college radio. I love that I can sing along because John Mccrea range is limited. It is my go-to road trip playlist. It was a little overplayed in the MTV years. They had cake songs in every show it seemed
Never forget that Cake is so fun, they give away fruit trees at their shows. I ❤ Cake.
Cake is NOT a lie... I was kinda introduced to them thru hanging out at Buffy the Vampire Slayer's fan community back in the day. Alyson Hannigan was a big fan of them at the time. The Distance and their cover of "I Will Survive".
Thank you for the post! ✌🏼😊
"Let Me Go" is their best song IMO
I love Cake like fatties love cake! Thanks for the video!!
You are so welcome!
Sheep go to heaven…
while listening to this song my gen z son asked 'so Lebron James is going to hell?' 🤣
@@giventofly76 you should've educated him, Michael Jordan will always be the goat lol
… Goats go to hell.