Audio CD review:
Cake - B-Sides and Rarities

Cake - B-Sides and Rarities

Band: Cake Title: B-Sides and Rarities Rating: Release Date: 02 October, 2007 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: War Pigs 2: Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town 3: Mahna, Mahna 4: Excuse Me, I Think I've Got a Heartache 5: Conroy 6: Strangers In the Night 7: Subtract One Love (Multiply the Heartaches) # 8: Never, Never Gonna Give You Up 9: Thrills 10: Short Skirt, Long Jacket 11: It's Coming Down 12: Bonus Track

Customer Reviews Half Baked " It's the goofiest thing here, and at least makes sense in the band context. The main reason to get this is the version of "War Pigs. After that, things are a really mixed bag. The number of country covers is telling, but frankly, Cake brings nothing to them in the way they reinvented "I Will Survive" ("Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town" comes close: see also The Killers' version on [[ASIN:B000XJ41O4 Sawdust]]). As is the case with most B-Sides collections, the majority of the songs were recorded as larks or left unfinished for a reason. If you're new to the band, stick with [[ASIN:B000003CKH Fashion Nugget]] or [[ASIN:B00005ABIP Prolonging the Magic]]. You'll be glad your ears weren't forced to listen to Cake's version of "Manna Manna," which was cute on Sesame Street with muppets, but not by adults. PS - The Vanilla Icing smell is NASTY. B-Sides and Rarities - Worth Your Time and Money The bass-lines, the guitar riffs, the horns, the throaty vocals that aren't really melodic but somehow seem to fit in just perfectly. First of all, I'm a big fan of Cake's music. It's just a great combination. Secondly, I love covers. I used to scour the Internet for any cover of any song, just to hear it. If it was a good cover, I'd usually run out and buy a CD buy the cover band. Since I already love Cake, and love cover songs, B-Sides is everything I expected. The first song is a cover of Black Sabbath's War Pigs, which is a song that I love. Cake takes the song, and delivers it in true Cake fashion. The last song on the disc is also a cover of this song, but a live one. Continuing with covers, they also have Barry White's Never, Never Gonna Give You Up (which was featured on the American Werewolf in Paris soundtrack, and was the only reason I bought that disc), Sinatra's Strangers in the Night, and Mahna, Mahna from the Muppets. (do dooooo do do doo!) They also cover some country songs, such as Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town, which has been sung by several artists through the years, and Excuse Me, I Think I've Got a Heartache. The best part about the country covers is that they're REAL country songs, not this Kelly Clarkson stuff that folks are calling "new country. " New Country is just rock with a steel guitar, and consists primarily of junk. So, Cake fans and cover song fans out there, go out and buy this disc. I'm giving it a full five stars. Cracked CD Case The cd is fine and works properly but the case arrived cracked. Product arrived on time. . . You can see a complete list of all Cake discography, or go back to the Cake tabs