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"Idiosyncratic alternative pop" immediately comes to mind when trying to describe Cake to the uninitiated. On the band's fifth album, PRESSURE CHIEF, John McCrea and company continue down the same creative path with their tried-and-true knapsack of sonic elements--McCrea's deadpan phrasing, sprinklings of trumpet, and off-kilter hooks that manage to work in spite of themselves.
Fueled by its frontman's progressive views on everyday life, this Sacramento quartet takes aim at a depleted ozone layer (the faux-punk-meets-Kraftwerk "Carbon Monoxide"), the intrusiveness of modern technology (a jittery, keyboard-laden "No Phone"), and society's prevailing "get-it-now" sentiments (the loping ""Waiting"). McCrea also tries his hand at legit singing, and he ends up sounding sincere, whether it's on the R.E.M.-like "She'll Hang the Baskets" (featuring guest guitarist Chuck Prophet) or a heartfelt walk through Bread's 1970s nugget "The Guitar Man," adding yet another quirky cover choice to the group's pantheon. Oddball yet endearing, PRESSURE CHIEF furthers Cake's successful pursuit of loose and non-conformist pop music.
Audio Mixers: Cake; Mark Needham; Craig Long; Patrick Olguin; Kirt Shearer.
Arranger: Cake.
Cake: Vincent Di Fiore (melodica, trumpet, keyboards, percussion, background vocals); Gabriel Nelson, Xan McCurdy (bass guitar); John McCrea.
Personnel: John McCrea (vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboards, percussion); Tyler Pope (guitar, keyboards, percussion); Gabriel Nelson, Xan McCurdy (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, drums, background vocals); Chuck Prophet (electric guitar); Vince Di Fiore (melodica, trumpet, keyboards, percussion, background vocals); Todd Roper, Matt McCord, Paulo Baldi (drums).
Pressure Chief Music | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Pop, Alternative, Enhanced CD | | Label | Columbia | | Orig Year | 2004 | | All Time Sales Rank |  9774  | | CD Universe Part number | 6781670 | | Catalog number | 92629 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Oct 05, 2004 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Cake; Cake | | Engineer | Cake; Mark Needham; Craig Long; Patrick Olguin; Kirt Shearer; Cake; Patrick Olguin; Mark Needham | | Personnel | Chuck Prophet - electric guitar
John McCrea - vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboards, percussion
Todd Roper
Tyler Pope - guitar, keyboards, percussion
Gabriel Nelson
Xan McCurdy - bass guitar
Vince di Fiore - melodica, trumpet, keyboards, percussion, background vocals
Vincent Di Fiore - melodica, trumpet, keyboards, percussion, background vocals
Paulo Baldi - drums
Matt McCord
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Cake Pressure Chief Songs Pressure Chief Music Review Average Rating: (4 out of 5 stars)   Top layer of the cake!
GREAT CD - unbelievable instrumental style, great sense of timing & rhythm. Totally fun to listen to, and yes, these are songs you can make your own!
Submitted by cathiepaull (Murphysboro, IL) 
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 Another step down
In my humble opinion, 'Pressure Chief' brought in the final failings and shortcomings of the band, turning me off from a once-tight band (ever listened to 'motorcade of generosity?). A step up? Sure, let's hope Cake decides to play because they enjoy it, for it obviously shines through on their recordings.
Submitted by Brian (Moscow, ID)
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PRESSURE CHIEF
AN INTERESTING ALBUM WITH ELECTIC BEATS AND SOUNDS. IT EXAMS THE HUSLE, BUSTLE AND ANNOYANCES OF MODERN DAY LIFE. I LIKED IT A LOT . IT WAS THE FIRST ONE I HAVE LISTENED TO BY THE BAND CAKE.
Submitted by G.A.AYER (FAIRFAX, VA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No How can you not like Cake
The flow is great just like the rest of their albums you'll love this one.
Although McCrea is a great song writer
the main stream hasn,t really bought into them. In time they will go down as one of the best! Kinda like the Dead.
Never underestimate a sweet-tooth.
Submitted by willwuchevich (Peterstown ,WV)
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Much more comforting than "Eagle" (my least favorite release). I have followed this band since '94. I really enjoy Pressure Chief. I felt this latest CD went back to their roots. If you are just discovering the band- make sure to check out the rest of their catalogue. I love this band like a fat kid loves.......
Submitted by dijitaldave (Orange County, CA)
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Their second album brought fame to Cake, with a hit single ("The Distance") that wasn't written by the group's main songwriter John McCrea, therefore misrepresenting the band's sound. PROLONGING THE MAGIC gives listeners another chance ...
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John McCrea's off-key, languid half-rap, half-croon rambles over horn-laden indie-rock and crashes into Mariachi-band melodies while he dashes off less patently goofy than off-kilter lyrics such as "with fingernails that shine like justice." It's a formula that doesn't sound like a sure success for one album, let alone a slew, yet COMFORT EAGLE would bring Sacramento band Cake's total to four overwhelmingly catchy albums over six years.
Perhaps due to the pop crossover of singles like "The Distance" and "Never There," it's easy to forget that Cake is stylistically closer to Pavement than to all the fly-by-night goof-rock bands. While McCrea's lyrics are winking, referential, hyper-self-aware, and occasionally smug or silly, they also wind appealingly, wax cleverly, ...
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This audio document of The Corrs' Dublin homecoming concert has pretty much everything fans of Irish pop could wish for, including an appearance from Bono in his earthly incarnation, fresh from an audience with President George W. Bush. It's to the band's credit that the charismatic singer fails to steal the show, despite creditable efforts via an anthemized version of Ryan ...
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Recorded between 1949 & 2002. Includes liner notes by Joel Lewis.
It's hard to summarize the highlights of a career as long and prolific as Dave Brubeck's in a two-CD compilation. If you're going to settle for that, however, The Essential Dave Brubeck is a good job, spanning 1949 to 2002, with 76 minutes of music on each disc. Although a few of these tracks were drawn from his early Fantasy recordings and his later Concord/MusicMasters/Telarc discs, the overwhelming bulk of them come from his days at Columbia from the mid-'50s through the late '60s. "Take Five" is here, of course, as are some of his better- known recordings, like "Blue Rondo a La Turk," "Take the 'A' Train" (a live 1954 performance), "Audrey," and "Some Day My Prince Will Come" (from the Dave Digs Disney album). Overall it spotlights the pianist ...
| | Jon Butcher An Ocean In Motion: Live In Boston 1984 CD (2002)
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Jon Butcher cut a path through the Boston rock & roll scene when his Johanna Wilde band started making some noise as a terrific mainstream act like their contemporary, Charlie Farren, bucking the "new wave" trend and establishing a presence by staying true to the music's mission. Johanna Wilde evolved into Jon Butcher Axis, and that both of his 1980s major label releases on Polydor are out of print in the new millennium certainly leaves a void for fans, of which there were many. Ocean In Motion: Live In Boston 1984 helps fill that void, despite its flaws. An allegedly "live" CD of vintage Jon Butcher Axis -- said to be from Boston's The Channel Club in 1984 -- sounds too clean to be recorded in front of an audience. The same loop of applause with an annoying and lengthy whistle comes up in between tracks (most noticeably on an otherwise excellent "Don't Say Goodnight.") The Dayton, Ohio label Atom Records must be commended for getting Butcher's music out there, but it's like that studio version of "Fortune Teller" that the Rolling Stones tagged on to Got Live If You Want It!: the fake applause just desecrates otherwise fine music. Seven tunes can be found on the first Polydor LP, Jon Butcher Axis released in 1983, three also appeared on the follow-up, Stare At The Sun: the songs "Victims," "Walk On The Moon," and "Don't Say Goodnight," while the 11th title, "Not Fade Away," is a cover of the Norman Petty/Charles Hardin song made famous by The Rolling Stones. Foreigner's Thom Gimbel, who performs with Aerosmith and is producing Adrian Perry, son ...
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For anyone hasn't watched episodes of the Disney animated series PHINEAS AND FERB, it's highly recommended. It is a Saturday morning cartoon comedy that stars two irrepressibly inventive, multi-talented mischievous nerd geniuses (who happen to be stepbrothers), their vain, hyperactive, scheming sister Candace, and their pet platypus that happens to be a secret agent fighting an evil scientist. The plots are standard, and sometimes so are the jokes, but the characters aren't. One of the show's highpoints is the music, from Bowling For Soup's theme song "Today ...
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