ARTIST: CAKE TITLE: Fashion Nugget (Deluxe Edition) LABEL: Volcan Legacy GENRE: Alternative SOURCE: WEB BITRATE: 320 kbps avg PLAYTIME: 67:04 RELEASE DATE: 2022-00-00 RIP DATE: 2022-07-09 ENCODER: LAME URL: https://play.qobuz.com/album/p6mb64c245cfa Track List ---------- 1. Frank Sinatra 4:00 2. The Distance 3:00 3. Friend Is a Four Letter Word 3:22 4. Open Book 3:45 5. Daria 3:44 6. Race Car Ya-Yas 1:21 7. I Will Survive 5:09 8. Stickshifts and Safetybelts 2:09 9. Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps 2:24 10. It's Coming Down 3:44 11. Nugget 3:58 12. She'll Come Back to Me 2:25 13. Italian Leather Sofa 5:52 14. Sad Songs and Waltzes 3:14 15. Multiply the Heartaches 2:49 16. Never Gonna Give You Up 3:49 17. Jolene (Live at The Bluebird 8:24 Theatre, Denver, CO - May 1995) 18. Frank Sinatra (Live at Crest 3:55 Theatre, Sacramento, CA - 1996) Release Notes: Fashion Nugget, Cake's second album, was released on September 17, 1996. Like Motorcade, it was produced by the band and released on Capricorn Records.[3] Cake considered the album more professionally produced than Motorcade, despite references to its "raw" sound,[15] and the reception was again generally positive; critics noted the broadening of Cake's sound, with Joshua Green noting in the Westword that "Nugget spans a broader range of topics than did Motorcade, with similarly appealing results",[2] and Matt Weitz in the Dallas Observer saying that "The gimlet eye and sardonic humor of 1994's Motorcade of Generosity is intact, but Fashion Nugget is aptly named; it updates Motorcade with beatboxy soul and hip-hop rhythms".[10] The album's first single, "The Distance", written by Greg Brown,[16] became the band's biggest hit to date and is considered their "ubiquitous" song;[17] it hit number 5 on the RPM Alternative 30,[18] and entered the Modern Rock Tracks top 5.[19] On the strength of "The Distance",[20] Fashion Nugget was certified gold on December 9, 1996 and platinum on April 10, 1997.[21] The second single from Fashion Nugget, a cover of the Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris song "I Will Survive", hit number 38 on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart.[22] Although the band described it as a serious take on the original, one they'd been playing live for years,[3] original performer Gloria Gaynor considers it her least favorite version of the song due to its use of profanity.[23] Following Fashion Nugget's release, the band toured the United States, playing in cities including Tulsa,[24] Chicago,[4] Salt Lake City,[6] Los Angeles,[25] San Antonio,[26] and Dallas.[27] They later toured overseas, visiting the United Kingdom as a support act for Counting Crows, playing their own shows alongside the tour at venues including Dingwalls in London.[28] The band also toured Japan; a later tour of the US, starting in Minneapolis in June 1997, was cancelled due to illness when McCrea was diagnosed with "fatigue and extreme exhaustion".[29] After McCrea recovered, the band continued touring, playing at the Big Stink festival in Vancouver, Washington,[30] and the Jayhawk Music Festival in Lawrence, Kansas.[31] 1997 also saw lineup changes; bassist Victor Damiani and guitarist Greg Brown both left, prompting speculation about the band's survival; McCrea noted that "Musically, there was a really great symbiosis and I really felt that it (their departures, especially Brown's) was the most stupid thing in the world", and said that he had considered dissolving the band.[32] Brown and Damiani formed the "new-wave influenced" Deathray;[14] their places within Cake were taken by Xan McCurdy and Gabe Nelson, whom McCrea persuaded to rejoin the band.[32]