Cake Albums Ranked

Cake (stylized CAKE) is an American alternative rock band from Sacramento, California, consisting of singer John McCrea, trumpeter Vince DiFiore, guitarist Xan McCurdy, bassist Daniel McCallum, and drummer Todd Roper. The band has been noted for McCrea’s sarcastic lyrics and monotone vocals, and their wide-ranging musical influences, including country music, Mariachi, rock, funk, Iranian folk music, and hip hop. Prolonging the Magic, the band’s third album was released in 1998 and went platinum, having shipped over one million units; this was followed three years later by Comfort Eagle, the band’s first album on Columbia Records, featuring the single “Short Skirt/Long Jacket” which hit number 7 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. Following a series of tours, including several versions of the Unlimited Sunshine Tour, the band released Pressure Chief in 2004, its second and last album on Columbia. After creating its own label, Upbeat Records, the band released Showroom of Compassion in 2011, which became its first album to debut at the top of the Billboard charts, selling 44,000 copies in the first week after release. Here are all of the Cake albums ranked.

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7. B-Sides And Rarities (2007)

“B sides and Rarities by Cake has some controversial but catchy hits with such tunes as the respective music tribute of Kenny Roger’s Ruby Don’t Take Your Love To Town, Barry White’s Never Never Gonna Give You Up and Black Sabbath’s War of Pigs. There is also the superb music tribute of Frank Sinatra’s Strangers In The Night and the brilliant Short Skirt Long Jacket song.”

6. Pressure Chief (2004)

“This record is a winner start to finish. Cake has the wonderful quality of being appropriate for most all listening situations. Particularly like “Wheels”, “Too Much”, “Tougher”. Sweet, clever, intelligent, brave. Tells a story and somehow manages to include you in it. Ideas you can get behind without really needing to raise a fist. Deeply romantic and unrealistic songs. Great stuff.”

5. Showroom Of Compassion (2011)

“The album kicks off with the slow and steady “Federal Funding,” as if the band is coming out of hypersleep and just getting their footing back. “Long Time” acknowledges the band’s absence with a familiar vigor and peppiness. Even though Cake, by nature, often resist the urge to full-on “rock out,” “Long Time” is one of those rare instances where they sound as if they are champing at the bit to do just that. “Mustache Man (Wasted)” takes the ball and rolls with it, making for one of the album’s more rousing number”

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4. Motorcade Of Generosity (1994)

“This is definitely a different sound than the more popular modern Cake music, however, this lo-fi album is certainly going to catch your heart with simple yet satirical lyrics, that for which Cake is known for. Extremely folky, extremely influenced, but nonetheless, a great addition to your Cake collection. If you love Cake’s more popular tunes, you’re probably not going to get into this as much, but if you want to know more about the roots to Bassline-heavy folk rock that is Cake, get this album, for sure. My personal favorite is I Bombed Korea. Simple lyrics, simple tune, heart-catching ditty.”

3. Prolonging The Magic (1998)

“The breadth of this album is probably its most impressive quality. While some of the acidic irony of their previous two major releases is lacking here, I, for one, don’t miss it much, considering all that I have been given in return. Replacing that irony is a new degree of compositional brilliance on the part of the band, which is made all the more remarkable by the fact that two members had deserted to form Deathray.”

2. Comfort Eagle (2001)

“Comfort Eagle has a few standout tracks and a lot of milder ones which grew on me. Short Skirt/Long Jacket is the big hit that first grabbed me, an upbeat tribute to the modern dream girl who is “touring the facility and picking up slack” while her nails “shine like justice” and she “uses a machete to cut through red tape”. The title track Comfort Eagle is a strange compare/contrast mashup of religious cults, the music business, and television shopping channels–but it was absolutely useless to resist that beat, and I was chorusing along with it and stomping my heels in time on the second listen”

1. Fashion Nugget (1996)

” Mixing rock with the jazz sound is genius, and no one does it better than Cake on this album. All of Cake’s albums are great in my opinion but I still say this one is the best yet. The lead singers voice sounding monotonic works perfectly, which combined with the music makes a very original cd and band for that matter.”