Frank Sinatra (live) by Cake
“I'm posting this because I told myself I would write about whatever song showed up next out of my library when I hit "shuffle". I basically broke up with Cake right after this record, as their slacker beat-poet shtick was starting to age well before that of contemporaries like Beck and Soul Coughing. (And this stuff has not come back into fashion.) While they eventually bugged me into disinterest in their career, it's not impossible that they're actually kind of good. At the height of my fandom, I was drawn to their sparse approach to performances, the small stories they spun into songs, and their brainy (exhausting? overbaked?) writing. There's nothing in "Frank Sinatra" that reminds me of the worst of Cake, and there are some likeable aspects: the melody is pretty (and very familiar - but maybe just classically structured), and there are some nice quiet spots, rare for this kind of band in this era.”
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I'm posting this because I told myself I would write about whatever song showed up next out of my library when I hit "shuffle". I basically broke up with Cake right after this record, as their slacker beat-poet shtick was starting to age well before that of contemporaries like Beck and Soul Coughing. (And this stuff has not come back into fashion.) While they eventually bugged me into disinterest in their career, it's not impossible that they're actually kind of good. At the height of my fandom, I was drawn to their sparse approach to performances, the small stories they spun into songs, and their brainy (exhausting? overbaked?) writing. There's nothing in "Frank Sinatra" that reminds me of the worst of Cake, and there are some likeable aspects: the melody is pretty (and very familiar - but maybe just classically structured), and there are some nice quiet spots, rare for this kind of band in this era.
