Band I was given (by John Tillman): Cake
Song I love: pretty much all of them. I liked everything from 1994's 'Motorcade' to 2011's 'Showroom'. I like the fact that they are the only non-ska band from the 90s still in existence that still has a trumpet. Plus it kind of sounds to me like said trumpet has a dent in it for some reason. Or it's just all tarnished and worn out. I don't know, that's just how I picture it. I like the cheap-ass garage sale sound of the acoustic guitar. And I love the random chain of consciousness dreamlike feel of the lyrics. Shit like that is what You think about when you have a fever and are on nyquil.
Song I hate: I didn't really care for 'Short skirt/long jacket' for the longest time, and I'm not really sure why. I just didn't like the cut of it's jib. It kind of grew on me though. I think it was because it was the first pre-album single released off of 'Comfort Eagle' and it was so drastically different from everything they'd done up until then. But I gave it a chance as I drove around listening to it and it sucked less and less with each consecutive play.
Favorite Album: While I personally think that all 6 (7 counting the 'B-sides and Rarities' compilation) of their studio albums have start to finish replayability, an odd thing for a band to have two let alone SIX A-to-Z good albums, the one I love the most has got to be 'Prolonging the Magic'. It was what I listened to off and on pretty much all year my senior year of high school. It made an appearance in my car CD player at least once a week. when Lanzer and I went to see Tom Petty at Sour Titty's Gund Arena it was in the CD player the whole way home in the concert/Indians traffic. We listened to it like 3 or 4 times and would pause it as we analyzed the lyrics and thought up theories as to what the fuck John McCrea was talking about.
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