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Cracker like a motherfucker.

I'm only familiar with a few tracks outside of Kerosene Hat, but that's a great record. They seem the least detached of this mid-90s trio of detachedness.

cracker is teh suxx

yeah, cracker were bad. there was a horrible period of time when they were always on mtv and i hated HATED david lowery's boyhood friend in the band. johnny galicky or whatever his name was. cuz i knew for a fact that if he hadn't been friends with david lowery that i never ever would have had to know who he was. so i guess i should hate david lowery.

i got nothing against cake. i'd probably like a cake album if i heard one. my boss at the korean deli, jim kim, LOVED cake. jim kim's daily exercise regime involved very heavy swords and he owned a large collection of bound volumes of heavy metal magazine. and he loved the band cake.

I've only heard the singles by Cake, and I like those well enough except for Going the Distance. I would give them a chance if I could get the album out at the library. My guess is that there's a whole lotta filler going on there.

You know who belongs on this poll? Geggy Tah.

Cracker. I never listened to Soul Coughing, but "Nostalgia" and "Big Dipper" destroy anything Cake put out.

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Cracker for me, I love that first album a lot, and think Kerosene Hat pretty good ("Eurotrash Girl!" and a cover of "Loser"), though after that I lost track. All I know by Cake are the big singles and they're nothing I've wanted to go back to. Maybe they were a gateway to more beats-based music for some indie kids, at least that would be something good about them. I don't know Soul Coughing.

Soul Coughing are actually a really interesting band. Cake are shite. Cracker I don't know much about. And I love Doughty's work with TMBG. So I'm going with SC.

I seriously hated Cracker and Cake but really liked Soul Coughing.

yo wassup w/ ILM's late-90s nostalgia all of a sudden?

i don't really like any of these bands, but i voted for cake b/c i liked their singles (except "going the distance").

cracker gets points deducted b/c they were such a letdown from being ex-camper van beethoven. and i never understood the appeal of soul coughing AT ALL.

I think all three of Soul Coughing's albums are pretty good, and extremely underrated. Cake - I would save about half of Fashion Nugget and a few miscellaneous singles. Actually, I made a mix CD like that one time and it's pretty okay. "Daria" is the real gem. Cracker are completely unnecessary and forgettable.

I feel like this poll is missing the Spin Doctors, the Counting Crows, and Soul Asylum.

I would like to join in Cake nostalgia, 'oh their singles were really awesome!!!' but I just can't do it anymore.

I didn't realize Johnny Galecki from "Roseanne" was in Cracker. They don't quite fit into the weird quasi-rap category as the other two bands, though, weren't they just kind of vaguely rootsy alt-rock?

I loved Soul Coughing at the time, still think the rhythm section were great musicians and the sampler guy had a pretty unique approach to the, er, 'instrument' that noone's really done the same since. Haven't listened to them in years, though, should probably dig out those albums and see what I think now.

Soul Coughing was goofy hip-hoppy beat jazz alt-rock, Cracker was goofy country-cover rootsy alt-rock, Cake sits between them like lukewarm water. All had a penchant for colorful phrases like "disgraced cosmonaut."

I just borrowed the three Soul Coughing albums from a friend a month ago, had Irresistable Bliss back in high school. My fave is easily El Oso, he sings the most on that, prefer it to the poetry jam thing. Never owned a Cake album though my college girlfriend bought me a few in a "bowling ball named Homer" way for my birthday (they never left her apt). I like a handful of their singles. Cracker has a handful of good songs too (loved them in middle school), but they suffer from not being Camper Van Beethoven.

It's odd how the last CVB album's best stuff are his tightly written songs and its the ersatz musical hoo-ha that's annoying, and yet his next band's tight song albums are pretty whatevs.

I was such a Soul Coughing super fan in High School, to an embarassing degree.

They don't quite fit into the weird quasi-rap category as the other two bands, though, weren't they just kind of vaguely rootsy alt-rock?

Yeah, this should've been Coughing-Cake-Cibo Matto.

I voted for Soul Coughing because I am from Minneapolis.

You are goinggg to Minneapolis-ah, to write a poll about bands who murder each otherrruh...

Wait, what's the Minneapolis connection? I thought they were from NYC.

They were HUGE in Mpls.; like seven sold-out shows at First Ave. or summat.

yeah, i believe Soul Coughing was one of those bands that ended up with a big Minneapolis following because of KREV in the mid-90s.

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