83: Cake – Fashion Nugget

by mkanderson on Dec 30, 2009

Cover of "Fashion Nugget"
Cover of Fashion Nugget

I find myself quoting songs from Cake's Fashion Nugget (1996) quite a bit. There is something about that album Cake hasn't quite recreated since. Fashion Nugget is a finely crafted album of art rock with poetic vision and catchy pop and rock hooks. It's solid from the opening track, "Frank Sinatra" to the bizarre, introspective "Sad Songs and Waltzes".

As I write this I'm listening to the album again and thinking how Cake is so beatnik. I want to snap my fingers and say "yeah man" in a mellow, luded out voice. I don't know any other group that could have pulled off a cover of "I Will Survive" and still be taken seriously.

Then there is my favorite track of all on Fashion Nugget: "Nugget". There have been so many people I have wanted to dedicate this song to. I'd probably have it as a ringtone if I didn't have young children.

Yeah man.

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techcommdood Dec 30, 2009 at 10:54 am

Good album, great band. I don't think I have any one favorite Cake album.

Angelos Dec 30, 2009 at 11:10 am

Yeah, I wouldn't be able to pick one over the others. Maybe this is the most solid start-to-finish, but others have better single tracks.

She's got a silk dress and healthy breasts that bounce on his Italian leather sofa.

mkanderson Dec 30, 2009 at 11:39 am

My favorite is "Nugget" which just pushes this album to being my favorite overall.

Angelos Jan 4, 2010 at 1:04 pm

Learn to buck up.

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