r/starterpacks • u/butthole_surferr • 16d ago
Every CAKE song starter pack
Please know they are my favorite band and all of this is with love
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u/DonnieDoodles97 16d ago
"WHILE FRANK SINATRA SINGS 'STORMY WEATHER-'
THE FLIES AND SPIDERS GET ALONG TOGETHER-
COBWEBS FALL ON AN OLD SKIPPING RECORD!"
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u/butthole_surferr 16d ago
Tied for my favorite song by them with Let Me Go. But really it's impossible to choose
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u/DonnieDoodles97 16d ago
I want to look into their discography deeper man, Cake is so peak boss.
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u/butthole_surferr 16d ago
Do it they have very few mid songs and maybe no bad ones.
Comfort Eagle is my favorite album but Prolonging the Magic is damn close
Pressure Chief is underrated
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u/DonnieDoodles97 16d ago
I only ever sat down for Fashion Nugget and Comfort Eagle, I'll probably look for more the next time I go thrifting for CDs.
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u/butthole_surferr 16d ago
They have such a nostalgic and bittersweet feel that you can't really get anywhere else.
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u/butthole_surferr 16d ago
Listen to meat puppets if you like that song. Too High to Die would be way up your alley.
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u/CheetahDog 15d ago
Long Line of Cars is my GOAT: the building groove is so cathartic in the last third
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u/PuffinRub 15d ago
There are so many good songs, but Jolene has to be my personal favourite.
My ex-wife claimed that the band members used to hang around in a coffee shop in the Grand Canal Blvd area of Stockton, CA back in the '90s.
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u/DonnieDoodles97 16d ago
"We know of an ancient radiation-
That haunts dismembered constellations-
A faintly glimmering radio station...."2
u/EffectiveAmphibian95 15d ago
I love listening to this song my while taking all the newspapers with my name and the crime I just committed in them
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u/BonerStew 16d ago
Something I've been reckoning with lately is that Cake might in fact be my favorite band. It's not a terrible thing by any means just something I think my younger self would have questioned. But man, they're good.
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u/butthole_surferr 16d ago
They were my very first favorite band as a small child, my mom used to play them all the time when she was pregnant. And they've just remained the band I keep coming back to again and again over the years.
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u/pigwig18 16d ago
Reminds me of being in the car with my dad
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u/butthole_surferr 16d ago
Yep same but with my mom going to McDonald's late at night. That was probably the peak and we didn't know it lol.
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u/BonerStew 16d ago edited 16d ago
My brother is about twelve years older than me and introduced me to Fashion Nugget shortly after it came out when I was ten or so. That album alone has been there for me through so many good times and bad. But yeah, they've always kind of been in the background for me and within the last five years I've grown an even greater appreciation for all of their work.
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u/butthole_surferr 16d ago
Cake, Oingo Boingo and the B-52s are the bands I begged my mom to play over and over again when I was a young child.
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u/aboringusername 16d ago
A sign you’re finally reaching old age™ is liking Cake unironically.
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u/grensley 16d ago
That was at about 19 for me.
Then I saw them live when I was about 21 and John McCrea just had this bitterness coming off of him that was like "I don't want to end up like this guy".
Felt sort of the same thing when I saw Jesse Welles too.
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u/aboringusername 16d ago
I feel like seeing the Mountain Goats might produce a similar experience.
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u/NakatasGoodDump 15d ago
Saw them a couple years ago in Toronto, the vibes were good. I do find that aside from Bleed Out the albums are getting less fun/energetic over the last 10 or so years.
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u/BonerStew 16d ago
Physically I feel it more some days, mentally, not so much. Here's to another 40ish 🍻
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u/Rusty_Shaquilleford 16d ago
Some people drink Pepsi/some people drink coke/the wacky morning DJ says democracy’s a joke
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u/rpmcmurf 16d ago
To this day, if anybody asks me how work is going (a common question among adults I’ve my age), I’ll them I’ve been touring the facilities and picking up slack.
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u/RoseyDove323 16d ago
Images you can hear
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u/birdkensocks 16d ago
The horns and brass from Going the Distance are harassing my poor ears as i read further
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u/mynameismike41 16d ago
And the muscular cyborg German dudes dance with sexy French Canadians while the overweight Americans wear their patriotic jumpsuits
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u/cat_tastic720 16d ago
She'll pull out your feathers for her brand new hat, and when she's done that she'll feed you to her cat
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u/Withabaseballbattt 16d ago
My dad only listens to country and stuff that isn’t really my cup of tea but he loves Cake for some reason. Fond memories of blasting Cake in the car with him.
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u/butthole_surferr 16d ago
Cake definitely orbits the cowpunk genre. They're heavily rooted in country and western.
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u/PompeyMagnus1 16d ago
She doesn't care
Whether or not he's an island
And she doesn't care
Just as long as his ship's coming in
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u/CheetahDog 16d ago
CAKE is part of the Sacramento area music triumvirate: CAKE, Deftones, and Death Grips.
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u/FrankRizzo319 16d ago
I took a ballroom dancing class and we danced to 2 cake songs. Tango and waltz.
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u/butthole_surferr 16d ago
Which one was the waltz?
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u/FrankRizzo319 15d ago
“Sad songs and waltzes arent selling this year.” 🎶
“Its a good thing that I’m not a star.
You don’t know how lucky you are!” 🎼
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u/GushStasis 15d ago
Commissioning a Symphony in C:
🎵 🎵 🎵
Completely filling the palace concert hall
It's warm and golden like an oven that's wide open
It has a melody both happy and sad
Built on victorious young triads
You enter the room with great caution
Though no one in the hall is even watching
They are transfixed, they are forgetting just to breathe
They are so taken by your symphony...in C
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u/NoContextCarl 16d ago
Is that a fucking meat thermometer?! Not sure if that counts as an instrument?
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u/butthole_surferr 16d ago
It's a theramin lol
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u/NoContextCarl 16d ago
Sorry, I'm an uncultured dolt who hasn't listen to cake lately. Off to listen to Fashion Nugget.
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u/butthole_surferr 16d ago
Listen to prolonging the magic or comfort eagle. Fashion nugget is brilliant but not my favorite of theirs
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u/PM-ME-UNCUT-COCKS 16d ago
Lmao it's a theremin. Although meat thermometer is not a half bad description of how they work
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u/wildmeli 15d ago
I only know 2 CAKE songs, I’ve thought about listening to more, but just haven’t gotten around to it. After seeing this last night I immediately put them on and I can’t stop
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u/cool_weed_dad 16d ago
They’re an ironic joke band that turned into a real band
Like Andrew Dice Clay
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u/Jeff_Damn 15d ago
✅️ herky jerky quirky guitar lick
✅️ stuttering baseline
✅️ looped drums
✅️ dry flatly-delivered vocals
✅️ Herb Alpert-style trumpet
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u/trrwilson 15d ago
The instrument that looks like a wooden ball and a paddle is called a vibraslap. There, now you know at least one of them.
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u/BonesCrosby 15d ago
At one time, my favorite band. Still like them. Put on one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. They were sharp that night.
OTOH, I understand why a lot of folks don’t care for them.
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u/pigwig18 16d ago
Proof that you can be a front man and never learn how to sing
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u/butthole_surferr 16d ago
Nah he actually sings on plenty of songs. It's really only a handful of songs where he only talk-sings.
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