Fashion Nugget

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Fashion Nugget
Studio album by CAKE
Released	September 17, 1996
Recorded	1995-1996
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	48:36
Label	Capricorn Records
Producer	CAKE
Professional reviews
Allmusic link Robert Christgau link
CAKE chronology
A Piece of Cake (1996) Fashion Nugget (1996) Prolonging the Magic (1998)

Fashion Nugget is the second studio album by CAKE, an alternative rock band from Sacramento, California. It was released in 1996, and contains fourteen songs. "The Distance" became one of the band's biggest hits, and managed to help the album go platinum.

An instrumental version of "Italian Leather Sofa" was later used as the theme song for the TV show Mission Hill.

In the United States, the album received a Parental Advisory sticker for profanity in "I Will Survive" and "Nugget".

Track listing

All songs written by John McCrea, except where noted

1. "Frank Sinatra" – 4:01
2. "The Distance" – 3:00 (Greg Brown)
3. "Friend Is a Four Letter Word" – 3:22
4. "Open Book" – 3:44
5. "Daria" – 3:44
6. "Race Car Ya-Yas" – 1:21
7. "I Will Survive" (Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris) – 5:10
8. "Stickshifts and Safetybelts" – 2:09
9. "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" (Osvaldo Farrés, Joe Davis, John McCrea) – 2:24
10. "It's Coming Down" – 3:44
11. "Nugget" – 3:58
12. "She'll Come Back to Me" – 2:24
13. "Italian Leather Sofa" – 5:52
14. "Sad Songs and Waltzes" (Willie Nelson) – 3:15

Appearances in other media

• The Daria episode "The Road Worrier" featured the song "Frank Sinatra". The song "Daria" was used as closing credits for "The New Kid" and "Friend Is a Four-Letter Word" was the closing credit theme of episode 13 of season 4 : "Dye! Dye! My Darling".
• The song "Frank Sinatra" was also featured at the close of The Sopranos episode "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti."
• Cake's cover of "I Will Survive" was featured in the 1998 French film Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train, the 2004 Japanese movie Survive Style 5+, the 2003 film Secretary, and the 2003 Canadian comedy, Mambo Italiano.
• "Open Book" was featured on the soundtrack to the 2001 film Sidewalks of New York.
• "Stickshifts and Safetybelts" is featured in the film Waking Up in Reno.
• "Stickshifts and Safetybelts" was featured on the Las Vegas callback episode of Season 6 of "So You Think You Can Dance."
• For two years, "The Distance" was used in the TV advert for the Powers (whiskey) Irish Grand National, which takes place in Dublin, Ireland every Easter Monday.
• An instrumental version of "The Distance" was used in Episode 13 of Season 11 of 'The Simpsons', called "Saddlesore Galactica".
• Excerpts of "Stickshifts and Safetybelts" are often used as buffer segments on The Splendid Table, which is produced by American Public Media and airs on public radio stations nationwide.
• The cover of "I Will Survive" and other songs from Fashion Nugget are used in the German film Herr Lehmann.
• An instrumental and uptempo version of the song "Italian Leather Sofa" plays over the opening credits of the animated cartoon "Mission Hill" (1999-2002)
• "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" is featured on the soundtrack of the movies Dream for an Insomniac and Welcome to Woop Woop
• The cover of "I Will Survive" was used in the Italian movie L'uomo in più (One man up).
• A cover of the song popularly covered by Cake--"Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps"--is used in the opening credits of the British TV show "Coupling".

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Singles - Billboard (North America)

External links

• http://www.cakemusic.com/