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Cake (stylized CAKE) is an American alternative rock band from Sacramento, California, consisting of singer John McCrea, trumpeter Vince DiFiore, guitarist Xan McCurdy, bassist Daniel McCallum and drummer Todd Roper. The band has been noted for McCrea's sarcastic lyrics and monotone vocals, and their wide-ranging musical influences, including country music, Mariachi, rock, funk, Iranian folk music and hip hop. Cake was formed in 1991 by McCrea, DiFiore, Greg Brown (guitar), Frank French (drums) and Shon Meckfessel (bass), who soon left and was replaced by Gabe Nelson. Following the self-release of its debut album, Motorcade of Generosity, the band was signed to Capricorn Records in 1995 and released its first single, "Rock 'n' Roll Lifestyle", which hit number 35 on the Modern Rock Tracks music chart and was featured on MTV's 120 Minutes; French and Nelson then left the band, and were replaced by Todd Roper and Victor Damiani. Cake's second album, 1996's Fashion Nugget, went platinum on the strength of its lead single, "The Distance". Following a tour of Europe and the United States, both Brown and Damiani announced they were leaving Cake, which led to speculation about the band's future; McCrea eventually recruited Xan McCurdy to take over on guitar, and persuaded Nelson to return. Prolonging the Magic, the band's third album, was released in 1998 and went platinum, having shipped over one million units; this was followed three years later by Comfort Eagle, the band's first album on Columbia Records, featuring the single "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" which hit number 7 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. Following a series of tours, including several versions of the Unlimited Sunshine Tour, the band released Pressure Chief in 2004, its second and last album on Columbia. After creating its own label, Upbeat Records, the band released Showroom of Compassion in 2011, which became its first album to debut at the top of the Billboard charts, selling 44,000 copies in the first week after release.
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More Beer Drinking Classics [2017]
Song | Duration |
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The Distance | 3:00 |
Just Great Rock Songs [2016]
Song | Duration |
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The Distance | 2:58 |
The Box Set Series: '90's Alt Rock [2015]
Song | Duration |
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Never There | 2:44 |
L' Album Rock 90's [2012]
Song | Duration |
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I Will Survive | 5:09 |
Showroom of Compassion [2011]
Song | Duration |
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Sick of You | 3:13 |
Federal Funding | 3:49 |
Long Time | 4:35 |
Italian Guy | 3:10 |
Got To Move | 3:40 |
Mustache Man (Wasted) | 4:04 |
What's Now is Now | 3:37 |
Teenage Pregnancy | 2:40 |
Bound Away | 3:24 |
Easy To Crash | 4:07 |
The Winter | 4:05 |
Sick of You [2011]
Song | Duration |
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Sick of You | 3:13 |
Italian Guy |
Tracks from the Track, Vol. 1 [2010]
Song | Duration |
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The Distance | 2:59 |
100 Hits: Indie [2009]
Song | Duration |
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The Distance | 3:00 |
Disco Meets Bossa [2008]
Song | Duration |
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I Will Survive | 5:41 |
Forgetting Sarah Marshall [2008]
Song | Duration |
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Love You Madly | 3:59 |
Life is Music [2008]
Song | Duration |
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The Distance | 2:59 |
Pop Rock [Sony BMG] [2008]
Song | Duration |
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I Will Survive | 5:10 |
B-Sides and Rarities [2007]
Killer Buzz, Vol. 2 [2006]
Song | Duration |
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The Distance |
Austin City Limits Music Festival: 2004 [2005]
Song | Duration |
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Wheels | 3:36 |
East Coast Blues & Roots Festival 2005 [2005]
Song | Duration |
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Take It All Away | 3:58 |
Stubbs the Zombie: The Soundtrack [2005]
Song | Duration |
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Strangers In The Night | 2:52 |
Wheels EP [2005]
Song | Duration |
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Wheels | 3:18 |
No Phone | 3:34 |
Daria | 3:43 |
Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town | 2:59 |
Live from the Archives, Vol. 7 [2004]
Song | Duration |
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Never There | 2:41 |
Pressure Chief [2004]
Song | Duration |
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Wheels | 3:18 |
No Phone | 3:52 |
Take It All Away | 3:57 |
Dime | 3:37 |
Carbon Monoxide | 3:09 |
The Guitar Man | 3:53 |
Waiting | 3:56 |
She'll Hang the Baskets | 2:41 |
End of the Movie | 1:49 |
Palm of Your Hand | 2:57 |
Tougher Than It Is | 3:00 |
Pressure Chief [Japan Bonus Tracks] [2004]
Pressure Chief [Tour Edition] [2004]
Song | Duration |
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Wheels | |
No Phone | |
Take It All Away | |
Dime | |
Carbon Monoxide | |
Guitar Man | |
Waiting | |
She'll Hang the Baskets | |
End of the Movie | |
Palm of Your Hand | |
Tougher Than It Is | |
Mahna Mahna |
KFOG Live from the Archives, Vol. 9 [2002]
Song | Duration |
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Comanche |
MTV2 Handpicked [2002]
Song | Duration |
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Short Skirt / Long Jacket | 3:24 |
Comfort Eagle [2001]
Orange County [1 CD] [2001]
Song | Duration |
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Shadow Stabbing | 3:07 |
Orange County [2 CD] [2001]
Song | Duration |
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Shadow Stabbing | 3:07 |
SCR.comp.002 [2001]
Song | Duration |
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The Distance (Pop Edit) | 3:00 |
The Sopranos: Peppers & Eggs (Music From the HBO Original Series) [2001]
Song | Duration |
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Frank Sinatra | 4:01 |
Indie 2000, Vol. 5 [2000]
Song | Duration |
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Sheep Go to Heaven |
Stop Handgun Violence [2000]
Song | Duration |
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Guitar | 3:43 |
Morning Becomes Eclectic: Selected On-Air Performances [1999]
Song | Duration |
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Is This Love? | 4:29 |
Now, Vol. 2 [1999]
Song | Duration |
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Never There | 2:44 |
Sex, Candy, & The Intergalactic Dope Show [1999]
Song | Duration |
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Never There |
The Best of KROQ's Almost Acoustic Christmas [1999]
Song | Duration |
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The Distance | 3:05 |
Prolonging the Magic [1998]
Song | Duration |
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Satan Is My Motor | 3:12 |
Mexico | 3:26 |
Never There | 2:44 |
Guitar | 3:40 |
You Turn the Screws | 4:13 |
Walk on By | 3:48 |
Sheep Go to Heaven | 4:44 |
When You Sleep | 3:58 |
Hem of Your Garment | 3:43 |
Alpha Beta Parking Lot | 3:30 |
Let Me Go | 3:56 |
Cool Blue Reason | 3:27 |
Where Would I Be? | 3:52 |
Prolonging the Magic [Clean] [1998]
Song | Duration |
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Motor | 3:12 |
Mexico | 3:26 |
Never There | 2:44 |
Guitar | 3:40 |
You Turn the Screws | 4:13 |
Walk on By | 3:48 |
Sheep Go to Heaven | 4:44 |
When You Sleep | 3:58 |
Hem of Your Garment | 3:43 |
Alpha Beta Parking Lot | 3:30 |
Let Me Go | 3:56 |
Cool Blue Reason | 3:27 |
Welcome to Woop Woop [1998]
Song | Duration |
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Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps | 2:24 |
An American Werewolf in Paris [1997]
Song | Duration |
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Never Gonna Give You Up | 3:49 |
Gravesend [1997]
Song | Duration |
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Multiply the Heartaches | 2:47 |
Huckleberry House 30th Anniv. Jam [1997]
Song | Duration |
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Mr. Mastodon Farm | 5:24 |
MTV's Best of the Buzz Bin, Vol. 2 [1997]
Song | Duration |
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The Distance | 3:00 |
Royal Flush: Live On-Air (WAAF Boston) [1997]
Song | Duration |
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The Distance | 2:55 |
Spring Collection '97 [1997]
Song | Duration |
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It's Coming Down |
Fashion Nugget [1996]
Song | Duration |
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Frank Sinatra | 4:01 |
The Distance | 3:00 |
Friend Is a Four Letter Word | 3:22 |
Open Book | 3:44 |
Daria | 3:44 |
Race Car Ya-Yas | 1:21 |
I Will Survive | 5:10 |
Stickshifts and Safetybelts | 2:09 |
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps | 2:24 |
It's Coming Down | 3:44 |
Nugget | 3:58 |
She'll Come Back to Me | 2:24 |
Italian Leather Sofa | 5:52 |
Sad Songs and Waltzes | 3:15 |
Fashion Nugget EP [1996]
Song | Duration |
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Daria | 3:45 |
I Will Survive | 3:44 |
Fashion Nugget [Clean] [1996]
Song | Duration |
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Frank Sinatra | 4:01 |
The Distance | 3:00 |
Friend Is a Four Letter Word | 3:22 |
Open Book | 3:44 |
Daria | 3:44 |
I Will Survive | 5:10 |
Stickshifts and Safetybelts | 2:09 |
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps | 2:24 |
It's Coming Down | 3:44 |
She'll Come Back to Me | 2:24 |
Italian Leather Sofa | 5:52 |
Sad Songs and Waltzes | 3:17 |
Flirting with Disaster [1996]
Song | Duration |
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You Part the Waters | 2:50 |
Motorcade of Generosity [1994]
Song | Duration |
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Comanche | 2:09 |
Ruby Sees All | 3:00 |
Up So Close | 3:13 |
Pentagram | 2:19 |
Jolene | 5:19 |
Haze of Love | 3:07 |
You Part the Waters | 2:50 |
Is This Love? | 3:19 |
Jesus Wrote a Blank Check | 3:10 |
Rock'n'Roll Lifestyle | 4:14 |
I Bombed Korea | 2:19 |
Mr. Mastodon Farm | 5:27 |
Ain't No Good | 2:39 |
Culture Shock, Vol. 7
Song | Duration |
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Short Skirt/Long Jacket |
End Sessions, Vol. 1: Live on the End
Song | Duration |
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Sheep Go to Heaven | 5:08 |
Friends and Lovers: Songs of Bread
Song | Duration |
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The Guitar Man | 3:55 |
Hott Rocks, Vol. 47
Song | Duration |
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You Turn the Screws |
Live Stigmes
Song | Duration |
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I Will Survive | 3:02 |
Nu Rock Traxx, Vol. 33
Song | Duration |
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Love You Madly |
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