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Any Cake fans?

I've always liked this band, but after seeing them live last summer, they've become one of my favorite bands.

Here are some of their hit songs to those of you who are not familiar with their music. Cover of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" to me is one of the best cover songs ever. I also highly recommend the video of "Short Skirt/Long Jacket". Very entertaining.:


Distance


Short Skirt/Long Jacket


I Will Survive

They have many more great songs, hit songs. I hope you check them out.

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And this is something I heard on the radio for the first time today.

War Pigs(NEW) - I guess this is not a official video, but rather a music video contest submission. Not bad.
 
Thank goodness there is another Cake lover here. . . Now if we can only get the Ween and Local H fans aboard we are all set :)
 
I forgot what forum I clicked on, but then hit the first thread thinking how it was a thread about cakes, and I would blast Black Forest Cake, but I was seriously let down.

Miater - Local H is pretty damn decent, but I can't take Ween seriously enough to listen to very much of it. If you like H, definitely check out the band Sponge, they've got a very similar sound (their b-sides), which is a good thing.
 
I have to admit I have a crappy taste for the band Cake.

I mena, I like some songs a lot, but they're the best-known songs: Short Skirt, Long Jacket, Going the Distance, Never Gonna Give You Up and Never There. In short, the most commercial ones, and coming from a guy who prides himself in liking most non-commercial stuff, this is hard to admit.

I've heard other, lesser-known stuff from them and really haven't gotten much into it. But the previously mentioned songs are in my favourite ever list.
 
Cake is one of my favorite bands in the genre. I've seen them twice and both were great shows. They have some of my favorite lyrics.

"The ornaments look pretty but they're pulling down the branches of the tree."


Is this the sad songs and waltzes guy? I have a song of his but I'm not sure how I got it.

Yes.
 
check out the band Sponge
If you like Sponge, surely you like Cake too?

I saw Cake in London a couple of years ago. I must be brutally honest and I say I wasn't impressed, but I think that was partially due to the fact that I hadn't heard a single song by them - not even their 'famous' ones that everyone sang along to. My mate who I went to the concert with loved them, however, and I could tell I was in the wrong place when they opened with their song 'Building A Religion' and everyone except for me shouted "DUDE!" at the end of every chorus. I figured that they are one of those bands that have a large cult following but that's about it. My mate became familiar with them when backpacking around Australia, and judging from the demographic of the crowd that evening, he wasn't the only one.

Ho hum. I guess I'll have to stick to biscuits.
 
I don't really mind Cake, I wouldn't pay to see them or anything. I'm fond of the song Stickshifts and Safetybelts, among others.

I don't like my favorite Cake songs close to as much as I like my favorite Sponge songs. There's a bunch of Cake stuff I don't like though, just as there is a bunch of Sponge stuff I don't like.

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Holy crap I just typed up all of that and I realised I've been had. Sponge Cake. I get it. Haahahaha.

You clever boy, you.
 
"Stick shift.." is a great song. While searching for a thread about Cake, I found a thread LoudMusic made just for that one song. "Stick shifts and safety belts, bucket seats have all got to go..", yeah, great song. 👍

Cake? Check.

Ween? Check.

Never heard of Local H, though.
I was thinking kinda same. I like Ween. Local H, I used to hear this one song(which I can't remember now) by them in mid-90's, but that was it.
 
I actually only heard about Ween fairly recently, but I've really gotten in to them. They're just so different from everything else out there, and they can do just about any style or mood of music. And they're goofy as hell.

They're also playing at Bonnaroo this year. And it shall be glorious.

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Okay, that "I Will Survive Cover is pretty" awesome.
 
The Local H song you heard is Bound for the Floor.

Check the song Fritz's Corner by H, I think it was a single too, and it's pretty kickin'.
 
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Local H, I used to hear this one song(which I can't remember now) by them in mid-90's, but that was it.

You are probably thinking of 'bound to the floor' check out songs like 'Everyone's alive', 'Fritz's Corner', 'The Kids are Alright', 'P.J. Soles' leading into 'How's the Weather Down There', 'Creature Comforts', 'President Forever', 'Eddie Veder' . . . Just to name a few. These are more of their popular songs. . .
 
though oddly enough John McCrea singled me out for not singing along to the chorus of Satan Is My Motor. :trouble: I wasn't in the mood for a corporate singalong, and when John noticed that I wasn't joining in, he moved to the front of the stage, pointed to me (I was in the second row) and said: "why won't you just sing with everybody. Are you some kind of Christian?" I smiled at him, but he continued to look pretty grumpy for the remainder of the track.
That's kind of interesting and sucky at the same time. When I saw them last summer, I did notice that he wasn't exactly a crowd-pleasing, Mr. Nice Guy.

Your story reminded me of the blur concert I went to. I was probably 3, 4 rows back on the (general audience)floor, and the bassist, Alex James kept looking at me like he wanted to beat the crap out of me. Just when he was looking at me, rest of the times, he was fine. I'd try to smile at the guy, not knowing what his problem was. I wasn't doing anything, except I was looking at this beautiful girl who were right by me, and she did not look local at all. If she was Alex's GF or something, that would kinda make sense, I suppose. :lol:
 
Mike Dirnt of Green Day got mad at us at a show cause we wouldn't stop "requesting" their old 80s stuff. It wasn't his call, he kept telling us to ask Bilie. It was fine in the end, gave me a pick etc etc.
 
I've just watched a little bit of each of thoes vids, and nope I can't say I'm a cake lover when the cake in question is sound related rather than food related.
 
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