You Heard It Where?: Cake
Alright, guys and gals, time for me to play catch-up after a long weekend with 56k at the parental units’ house. Believe me, it’s no kinds of good. But, I digress. The important thing is now I will be sharing with you where you may have heard Cake besides the radio, so more unlikely places.
- If you’ve seen the movie Wordplay, which is a documentary about crossword puzzles, you for sure heard “Shadow Stabbing” in the opening credits. A couple funny stories about this one: First of all, I saw this movie last weekend, just before I was preparing to write for Cake, so it cracked me up. Secondly, Wordplay got me obsessed with crossword puzzles. Third, “Shadow Stabbing” is one of my favorite Cake songs. Moving on…
- Do you like the cartoon Mission Hill? Yeah, me too, it’s great. Well, next time you watch it, take a closer listen to the theme song. It’s the instrumental version of “Italian Leather Sofa.” Trippy, right?
- Cake has made more than one appearance on cartoons. Take Daria for example. The songs “Daria” (how appropriate), “Rock ‘N Roll Lifestyle” and “Friend is a Four Letter Word” have all been closing credit songs for the cartoon. So Cake is good for beginning and ending cartoons, super!
- Gloria Gaynor, eat your heart out. Cake’s cover of “I Will Survive” has appeared on several things, including Secretary, Mambo Italiano, and the Japanese film Survive Style 5+.
- Geeks and the mafia united when Cake’s song “Frank Sinatra” appeared at the end of a Sopranos episode.
- Shallow Hal, a 2001 movie, featured the song “Comfort Eagle,” which comes from the CD of the same name.
- “Shadow Stabbing” was also featured in Shallow Hal and Orange County, which was the first movie I heard it in and basically had a heart attack since, like I said, I love the song so much.
- If you are a fan of the Powers Irish Grand National, you may have heard the song “The Distance,” which was used in TV ads for the Dublin, Ireland event for two years.
- The 2001 film Sidewalks of New York used Cake quite a bit, with the songs “When You Sleep,” “Sheep Go to Heaven,” “You Turn the Screws,” “Open Book,” and “Never There.”
- “Never There” was also on an episode of Friends, during a surprise party for Rachel.
- “Short Skirt, Long Jacket” was in both the movies Anchorman and Waitress. This tidbit has made me really want to watch Anchorman again because I don’t remember hearing it in that movie, but all the same, that’s really cool.
- Me, Myself, and Irene had the song “Hem of Your Garment” in its movie.
- National Public Radio, or as we elitists affectionately call it, NPR, truly, and may I say appropriately, loves Cake. (Could I have used any more commas in the last sentence? Probably). The beginning of “You Turn the Screws” is used as a buffer segment often, and “When You Sleep” as well. “Stickshifts and Safetybelts” is used as a buffer too on the NPR show The Splendid Table.
- Weird TV aired the music video to “Rock ‘N Roll Lifestyle” on an episode.
- “Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps,” a Cake cover, has appeared on a few obscure movies, namely Welcome to Woop Woop, Dream for an Insomniac, and Opposite Sex.
- Cake’s version of “Mahna Mahna” was featured on a charity CD called For the Kids as part of VH1’s Save the Music organization.
I’d like to thank the oh-so-glorious Wikipedia for so many great Cake facts. They had tons of info on this band, because like I said, it’s geek rock, and I love the geeks that care so much about updating Wikipedia, for I am one of them, and also it makes blogs like this possible.
Coming up, my favorite songs. Send me your own feedback to blog52bands@yahoo.com!
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