CAKE - Fashion Nugget

180-gram vinyl

Fashion Nugget is the second album, originally released in 1996, by the alt rockers CAKE. It included their biggest track "The Distance" as well as other hit songs "I Will Survive" and "Frank Sinatra."

Originally formed as a somewhat antagonistic answer to grunge, CAKE's democratic processes, defiant self-reliance, and lucid yet ever-inventive music has made them a nation-state unto themselves, with no obvious peers, belonging to no school. In addition to writing, arranging, producing, and performing their own music, they have taught themselves to engineer their recording projects in their solar-powered studio, which actually generates more power than is needed to run it, causing the building's electrical meter to run in reverse.

 

Side A

1. Frank Sinatra

2. The Distance

3. Friend Is a Four Letter Word

4. Open Book

5. Daria

6. Race Car Ya-Yas

7. I Will Survive

Side B

1. Stickshifts and Safetybelts

2. Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps

3. It's Coming Down

4. Nugget

5. She'll Come Back to Me

6. Italian Leather Sofa

7. Sad Songs and Waltzes