Cake's 1997 cover version of "I Will Survive": we fucking with this song or not?

Did you really mean "song"?

for an Irony band they don't overindulge on this one. The gittarist is okay.

so much better than "Going the Distance"

Yeah, but not as good as "Never There".

TRC OTM, very poor wording from Dom there. I'll assume he means "recording".

great guitar solo. remember when sky one used to show this and 'the distance' late. first time i heard Ben Folds Five too!

i approve

this could seriously be the official theme song of the stockton-sacramento corridor

http://youtube.com/watch?v=10C68Gzd5GM

arrggh, his voice.

disapprove

Cake are one of the worst bands ever.

if they would have quit after "The Distance," I would have fucked with this band in perpetuity. Why did so many '90s one-hit alt-wonders have to keep making songs!

you too, ben folds

"Short Skirt, Long Jacket" is good.

Are these guys still together?

ha ha. the dj at the local indie club used to make 'ironic' 'disco' 'dance moves' every time he played this, which was about 3 times a week. oh, ha ha.

disapprove

this would be an awesome stripper song

i liked this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd34vJohGXc&feature=related

heard this on the radio yesterday - love the singer's concert attire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkgXArxRxy8

the Hot Rod Lincoln guitar might be the best thing they ever did

Cake is kind of like the "mellow out maaaaan" version of Rage Against the Machine. Same 'funky' hip-hopish drumming, scratchy guitar work, sang/rapped vocals.

I LOATHE CAKE

even a moist piece of red velvet?

if they would have quit after "The Distance," I would have fucked with this band in perpetuity. Why did so many '90s one-hit alt-wonders have to keep making songs!

-- Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 16 December 2007 22:22 (50 minutes ago) Link

Whiney OTM. after "Rock'n'Roll Lifestyle" and "The Distance" I was ready to cop their albums and be a fan, in retrospect I'm glad I never got together the allowance money to do so.

the dj at the local indie club used to make 'ironic' 'disco' 'dance moves' every time he played this, which was about 3 times a week.

dear lord.

never got these dudes. at all.

I did hear that some kid wrote asking them to play his bar mitzvah and they showed up unannounced, set up and played. Pretty awesome if it's true.

Holy shit, it's true!

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1426840/19990202/cake.jhtml

compared to most of the cake i've heard, "i will survive" benefits from having a melody. but as a cover it doesn't have a point of view. they're not invested in it emotionally, the joke such as it is is the affectless performance of an emotionally volatile song, but they're also not attacking it or rearranging it or doing anything interesting with it. they probably like the song, but they don't have anything to say about it beyond "hey listen to our disco cover."

i did like "ruby sees all" back whenever that was on the radio. mostly cake puzzles me, as a band with a semi-sizable following that i just don't really understand at all. (as noted on another cake thread, their fanbase in my anecdotal experience seems to skew college-educated-white-female. which means i don't know what.)

I don't think it's true -- Cake called the guy up to discuss his "Cake credentials" (yikes) so I don't think it could have been unannounced. I'll bet he paid them, too.

That said, both "The Distance" and "Never There" are classic and sounded extremely different from everything else on the radio at the time, which is why people like me remember Cake fondly.

does anyone else here know their 2001 song "Shadow Stabbing"? i maintain that that song is FANTASTIC and their pinnacle.

lead singer's prison pussy is rather irksome

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Yeah, that mouth donut was never a good look.

This version subtracts most of what is good from the original and adds nothing of value. Way to go!

I've never heard this before. I don't actually hate it, but I don't think I'd want to hear it again. It did sort of make me take a second look at the melodic strengths of the song. It also reminds me of some other song that I can't remember whether I like or not.

since there was no middle option, I said approve.

First of all, I think Gloria Gaynor's original is one of the most wretchedly awful songs ever written. It isn't all of her fault--it's mostly due to how many people sing it at karaoke night. But then again everybody sings Journey at karaoke night and I don't hate them!

but Cake's version was more low key and not so in-your-face annoying. I didn't 'like' it but I didn't hate it

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Now I'm listening to Gloria Gaynor. I've never seen the video for this before, for what it's worth. I do prefer Gloria Gaynor's version. I think I might like the Celia Cruz version even more (it's actually good).

I can name six Cake singles I really enjoy and this is not one of them.

"Frank Sinatra"
"The Distance"
"Never There"
"Sheep Go To Heaven"
"Short Skirt/Long Jacket"
"Love You Madly"

for reference's sake

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Bad luck lil' dudes

His "fucking key" used to irritate me (ooh you can swear!) but I still like it.

how did i miss this poll?!!?!

i loved it back in the day but i'd 've voted disapprove now. kinda sucks.

Still love this. Is this like "I Just Called to Say I Love You," where I'm the only person in the world (except for the two dozen voters up top, of course -- still a pretty tiny percentile) who digs it?

I prefer it to the original, certainly.