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Prolonging The Magic (EXPLICIT) (CD)

By: Cake (Artist)

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Cake Artist Snapshot:

Cake's colorful cross-genre take on 1990s alt-rock produced a surprisingly consistent parade of radio hits (including a stripped-down cover of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive"), and filled a void on the charts left by Camper Van Beethoven and They Might Be Giants. The Bay Area ensemble's infusing of rock with jazz, lounge, funk, country, and hip-hop was accomplished with equal parts irony and true reverence for those disparate styles.

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DISC 1 for Prolonging The Magic (EXPLICIT) (CD) Album By Cake (Artist)
1   Satan Is My Motor
2   Mexico
3   Never There
4   Guitar
5   You Turn The Screws
6   Walk On By
7   Sheep Go To Heaven
8   When You Sleep
9   Hem Of Your Garment
10   Alpha Beta Parking Lot
11   Let Me Go
12   Cool Blue Reason
13   Where Would I Be?
 

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Review

Q (12/98, p.114) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...[PROLONGING THE MAGIC] combines Coward-esque wit with Weill-ish raw emotion within an understated shuffle and funking band work. Funny and glum with a low turnout of cliches..."

Title Note

Cake: John McCrea (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, organ, Moog synthesizer); Gabriel Nelson (guitar, mandolin, piano, organ, bass); Vincent Di Fore (trumpet, background vocals); Todd Roper (drums, percussion, background vocals).

Additional personnel: Jim Campilongo, Xan McCurdy, Chuck Prophet, Rusty Miller, Tyler Pope (guitar); Greg Vincent (pedal steel guitar); Ben Morss (piano); David Palmer (keyboards); Mark Needham (percussion); Phyl Banks (programming); Richard Lyman (musical saw).

Engineers include: Craig Long, Kirt Shearer, Joe Johnston.

Recorded at Pus Cavrn & Paradise Studios, Sacramento, California; Hyde Street Studios & Coast Recorders, San Francisco, California.

Their second album brought fame to Cake, with a hit single ("The Distance") that wasn't written by the group's main songwriter John McCrea, therefore misrepresenting the band's sound. PROLONGING THE MAGIC gives listeners another chance to tune in to this California unit's distinctive sound, an arch, alt-rock concoction that fall somewhere between Pavement and They Might Be Giants. There's a hip-hop inflection to the rhythm section now and again, and the addition of trumpet keeps the production from slipping into alternative rock cliche. The tunes are all delivered with a generous dollop of sarcastic wit and Cake's collective tongue firmly in cheek. Despite the high irony quotient, there's a rollicking, light-hearted feel that keeps things sprightly and infectious.

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