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Cake - B-Sides and Rarities Audio CD

A fair review of the Cake "B-Sides and Rarities" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Cake reviews here, or go back to the Cake tabs.

Cake Band: Cake
Title: B-Sides and Rarities
Rating:
Release Date: 2007-10-02
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 [Live] 11: It's Coming Down [Live]

Pretty Good Album
I'm not sure how it compares to their other albums but it is pretty entertaining and I love the covers. I just started with Cake and I do like this album. They are actually very good. .


Cakalicious
The band covers songs from Black Sabbath to Barry White and keep it REAL. This amazing album surprised me in that it contains a wide variety of different sounds and styles for the band. A true necessity for any Cake-lover. Wow!.


Mediocre
A couple of the covers are fantastic but as an album it is just average. I've been a big fan for a number of years and this album is a bit mediocre.


One of my favorite bands--blows it big time.


Don't pay over eight bucks for this album because you're not really even getting an album. I don't know whether they've run out of ideas, they're hard up on cash, or WHAT the exact explanation is here, but after three years between the release of "Pressure Chief" and this "thing", I expected a LOT more from what I consider to easily be one of my top five bands. With two instrumental tracks, several covers (none of them fantastic) and a god-awful rendition of the muppet's "Mahna Mahna", this collection simply didn't deserve a retail release, and I feel ripped off. I should have just gone with my gut after listening to the previews at Barnes and Noble. You also get two unnecessary, crappier-sounding, early versions of "Short Skirt Long Jacket" and "It's Coming Down". If anything, these tracks seem thrown in just to pad the unbelievably short length of this release.

After the serviceable but minor let-down of the 11-tracked "Pressure Chief", I was really hoping that Cake would step it up to the greatness of their best album "Fashion Nugget" again. Cake has yet to even show ANY indication that they have the creativity left in them to produce anything worthwhile.

With three years (on average) between the releases of their albums, they'd better not be counting this turd, thinking they can rest on their laurels til 2010.


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Another Beauty
I fell in love with them all over again with this album. Cake has always delivered a creative sound and a unique production. It's refreshing to hear a band develop. Anyone who appreciates Cake's funky brand of sound will undoubtly be pleased.


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