joelbb wrote: 

You're absolutely right! If you listen all the way through most Cake songs without hitting the PSD button, you're a fool. 

Take your own IQ test and click on the "lyrics" link for this song. I can't say the words you'll find will even marginally reward your effort.

Let's not even talk about the singing. Someone needs to go into the studio and cattle prod that hipster doofus out of his snotty ennui. 

Rather than complain about Cake, I'd like to thank Bill and Rebecca for the PSD button. Problem solved.

 jhorton wrote: 
Only 3 hits of Viagra and Oprah?Isn't that like bringing a knife to an ugly fight?No wait,I meant a gunfight.

 joelbb wrote: 
IMO, Cake's lyrics are clever; ridiculously, affectedly clever. Listening to cake is sort of like walking into a Starbucks, and the baristas are sharing a joke about Kafka, and they provide you service with a sneer — because you'll never be clever enough to get their joke.

parc nam thaw

 jhorton wrote: 
Are your bags packed?  Oprah may be sending Joan Rivers as a fill-in, however.

That was brilliant, Bill. That was a morning maker.

 Kanuffen wrote: 
AGREED!!!

 jhorton wrote: 
I remember that night, Winfrey was off her tits!

Shameful and stupid. Hooray!

 jhorton wrote: 
Yes, you have no sense of clever, articulate lyrics whatsoever.  I've always thought of Cake as an IQ test.  You flunked.

 jhorton wrote: 
This is a good song to ponder this question over. 

Guitar and trumpet dwelling solos.... Got to love that

prefab sprout?

crap man, wot wot?

crap what man?

What man crap

man what crap

I'd rather be stranded on a desert island with two hits of acid, three hits of viagra, and Oprah Winfrey, then ever listen to one verse of a Cake song ever again in my life!

Have I made myself clear? 

I really sense a dull and trite song here...sorry...I just don't like this band or its output.

 fredriley wrote: 
Thanks.  I was just sitting here wondering how that English expression related to the name of this band.

Love this song, especially the guy going ballistic at the end.

 fredriley wrote: 
That expression has always bugged me too.  It had apparently gotten reversed since the 16th Century, when it was something like "Would you both eat your cake and have your cake?"  In its current form it makes much less sense.  One would obviously have to possess a cake (or any comestible) before one could consume it.
Good tune, by the way - it made me wonder if Sinatra ever recorded a tune called "Cake".

love it

LOVE their sound, though I'm not sure how to describe it. They're the musical heirs to Camper Van Beethoven, one of my favorite bands of the 80's (let's not talk about Cracker, though). Speaking of CVB—haven't heard them on RP in way too long.

Parental Advisory... LOLing my ass off. 

On a wild tangent, I've never really liked the English expression "to have your cake and eat it". The Italians have a much better saying: "avere una botta piena e una moglie ubriaca" - to have a full barrel and a drunk wife :o)

I'll get me Chianti...