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ALBUM: Motorcade Of Generosity Lyrics
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Cake
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Ain't No Good
Comanche
Haze Of Love
I Bombed Korea
Is This Love
Jesus Wrote A Blank Check
Jolene
Mr. Mastodon Farm
Pentagram
Rock 'n Roll Lifestyle
Ruby Sees All
Up So Close
You Part The Waters
Motorcade Of Generosity Reviews
More essential Cake listening than 'Nugget' or 'Magic'
I first discovered Cake at the Whiskey a-Go-Go in LA before the release of this, their debut album. Despite the fact that I was there to see another band, Cake absolutely blew me away. While 'Fashion Nugget' and 'Prolonging the Magic' are both excellent albums, 'Motorcade of Generosity' has an unabashed irreverence that their subsequent releases don't approach. Combined with this album's rawer, lower-than-lo-fi sound, 'Motorcade' better communicates the band's don't-give-a-fig attitude much clearer than their glossier later releases. Anyone who's listened to 'Rock n' Roll Lifestyle' can understand the depths of irony and pathos that this album offers. Add to that a few truly disturbing tracks, such as 'Pentagram' and 'Mr. Mastodon Farm' and you see the band operating on a far more unrepentant level.
Awesome
After the first listen, I thought this cd was just ok. After repeated listenings, I really started to get into it. Every song is very catchy, and the disc definately grows on you. John McCrea's bitter vocals are wry and incisive as always, and the bass lines are driving, the trumpets are soaring, the guitar breaks are rocking, and the drums are banging. John's vocals and the music really mesh together well, rendering a furor of rich, melodic, pop songs. The apex of the cd is probably the funky jamming toward the end of track 5, Tolene. Backround vocalists are chanting an amazing "ahhhh ah ahhh" in the backround while the guitar solo is just shredding and John is begging the listener to "get down!" Awesome. Other high points include the opener Comanche, Rock N Roll Lifestyle, Ain't No Good and I Bombed Korea. This cd is intelligent pop/rock at its best. Any fans of cake or just pop music in general should be smitten with this incredible outing from a stellar band.
Classic Cake
Motorcade is a great cd. This is the first of Cakes cd's and with Motorcade, you really get a great sense of what this band is all about. This cd has many great songs on it including 'Jolene' (my favorite cake song,) and 'Rock n Roll Lifestyle.' Motorcade has perfect blends of guitar, trumpet, bass, and John Mcrea's voice. With superb lyrics and sound, Motorcade is a must have for Cake lovers, or lovers of good music.
CAKE!!!
Yeah, this band rules. I still haven't gotten around to picking up some of their newer material, but this disc smokes. If you feel like kicking back with some seriously good music, this is the disc for you. Great singer, unique sound, creative lyrics....you can't go wrong with Cake. If you've only heard their later material, do yourself a favor and pick up "Motorcade of Generosity" to see where it all began.
Easily the best Cake album
I think Cake sold out, or at least got that miasmic sheen of celebrity which coats many young bands after their initial success and makes it so hard for them to ever make another good album, a long time ago. But Motorcade of Generosity is the straight dope. The only bad things about this album are that I spelled Motercade wrong in permanent ink on my burned copy and that I played it about 500 times in a row during my junior year of college. Jolene is Cake's best song. Haze of Love, Up So Close, Pentagram, Mr. Mastadon Farm.. I don't even know the names of half the songs, but I know the words. Seriously, if you like Cake at all, you should get this album. I Bombed Korea is awesome. "Red flowers bursting down below us / Those people didn't even know us." Also, the CD I have was made for me by a friend from Sacto, their home town, and at the end he tacked on a nice punk version of Groovy Kind of Love. I'd highly recommend it highly.
These hipsters make music that's smart and spunky, surrounding the ironic vocals of John McCrea with a broad range of sounds: sometimes spare, sometimes funky, with occasional splashes of country and a Latin twist.
Motorcade of Generorsity
may lack the full-bodied punch of
Fashion Nugget
, the album that took Cake to the airwaves, but this 1994 CD offers the same wizened perspective on romance and modern life. And the trumpet accents of Vince de Fiore are bright and high-spirited enough for the Tijuana Brass.
--Steve Appleford
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