Blast from the Past: Cake's Fashion Nugget

There are some albums from the 1990's that had one song that everyone seemed to fawn over, yet the full albums were good to great and almost forgotten behind the strength of the individual single. Cake's Fashion Nugget is exactly one of those instances. Nearly everyone remembers this album for the single, "The Distance" which propelled the album to platinum status, while forgetting the loads of fantastic, quirky pop songs that fill the rest of the album. Songs like "Daria", "Friend Is A Four Letter Word", and "Frank Sinatra" still have places deep inside my heart, and I think after revisiting the album they may still have places in yours.

I honestly don't remember much of how I was exposed to Cake or why I came to love this album so, though I suspect it has something to do with "The Distance" and with the wonderful cover of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive", but I do remember almost every word found on the album and that itself is enough to create a love of it to me. From the opening keyboard notes of "Frank Sinatra" I can let the music wash over me, and let my mind recall all their slightly bizarre lyrics. Albums that stick as well as Fashion Nugget has are certainly few and far between.

The reason I'm talking about Cake is simply because I came across the album while cleaning up my room the other day and threw it on my iPod out of nostalgia. By the third listen in a row I was recalling my younger days without responsibilities and work and I was really yearning to have some of those times back. Of course we can't go back, we have to press forward, but at least we have the soundtrack to those past days to remind us of where we came from. Check out the album again, you may not realize how much you missed it till you hear it again.
Cake - "The Distance"
Cake - "Friend Is A Four Letter Word"
Cake - "Daria"
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Wednesday's Thoughts from Other People:
- Sit Down Stand Up has posted Lil Wayne's The Leak 2. This is the second mix tape that is preceding his latest true studio album. I haven't hear it yet, but to quote SDSU "It's very...Weezy".
- Daytrotter has a session with the A-Sides. Once again I haven't heard it, sorry it's been a busy day at work, but I can assure it is probably not very Weezy at all. At least I would think.
- Pitchfork introduces a new column to their site where one of their writers names albums that they haven't talked about enough. Like Jay Reatard's Blood Visions. Right. Yesterday they interviewed Yeasayer though.
- Late Night Wallflower has introduced me to another rocking, female led band from New Brunswick! This is hot on the heels of my introduction to Screaming Females, which prompts me to wonder if New Brunswick is the new hot bed to awesome, loud, screeching, sexy, womanly bands? Well is it???
- Rawking Refuses to Stop posts an interview of Michael Cera perfomred by Zach Galafanakis. Hilarity ensues. At least I assume so I haven't watched yet.
- Yellow Stereo has alerted me of a free EP being given away by Brooke Waggoner on her website. And no I haven't listened to it yet and no I'm not going to assume how Weezy it is.