Cake!

[Jimmysticks]

Who likes Cake? They are my favorite.

[Polera]

not really but i like your signature!

[iiholly]

Its a bass! Ha I thought your sig was a gun... :(. Cake is alright... always interesting to hear what they've come up with... I wouldn't call them my favorite though.

[Jimmysticks]

yea, i found this sig on the internet, someone made it in notepad. I wish it was a guitar instead of a bass though...

[basics]

I liked that Cake tune, you're never there. Reminds me of my university days and some chick who was under 5 feet tall and man could she ****.

[hairbndrckr]

I like Cake... especially Chocolate... oh wait that's not what you're talking about is it... guess I will try to find some clips and see what I think of them... any suggestions?

[Raskolnikov]

Originally posted by hairbndrckr
any suggestions?
Don't go into it expecting mad guitar riffs.

For me Cake is one of those "really cool to hear every so often, but gets old FAST" bands.

Plus, they were really boring when I saw them live.

[basics]

They were mainstream couple hit wonder band with their own particular groove. I can't think of any offhand, they did a version of ... goddamn, i can't remember anything. I've got the melody in my head. I'm going to sit here and think about it til I get it instead of googling it because my brain's been on cruise control lately and I'm goddamn sick of it. still alive .... they did 'never there' ... is it still alive? something to do with alive.

[Pantallica1]

They did that "he's going the distance, he's going for speed, he's all alone, (ALL ALONE!!) in a time of need" song.

That was catchy.

[basics]

Oh yeah, something about throwing away the key... The story line is some chick ditched him and then comes waltzing back in totally expecting him to get on his knees for her again but he puts his foot down and says, forget it <curse>. It's an old classic. It was mixed as a dance tune too. Off the top of my head I'll bet the chords are something like Am, Dm, G, C, F, then something else, maybe E. or Bdim. la la la la, I was petrifide (opening line). Common people.

[nsx_swami]

I think their biggest hit was, Short Skirt Long Jacket. Catchy tune but not exactly cutting edge guitar licks, they have a top 40 pop sound.

[Jimmysticks]

basics, you are thinking of their cover of "i will survive" the best cover of a disco song ever. If you were going to get a clip of a few of their songs, I would go for Jolene, Pentagram, Ain't no good, and Stick Shifts and Safety Belts. Don't expect great guitar work, expect a great groove. The guitar work for stick shifts and safety belts is pretty good though.

[Jimmysticks]

omg rask, I want to see cake live more than any other band! are you cali?

[Raskolnikov]

Originally posted by Jimmysticks
omg rask, I want to see cake live more than any other band! are you cali?
Nah. I saw them at Mountain Jam a few years ago. It's a festival in Killington, VT.

If you want to know what Cake is like live, put their CDs into a changer on random play and imagine the singer asking if the crowd is OK every few songs. They hold up to their studio recordings, but you don't get anything extra out of them.

Unenthusiastic performances are not an option when Jim's Big Ego and The Giggalo Aunts were the two bands before you.

[hairbndrckr]

woohoo I have heard Cake... I actually knew both songs mentioned... so now having said that, they were cool, but just not my cup of tea...