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B Sides and Rarities (Cake album)

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Released
  
October 2, 2007

Release date
  
2 October 2007

Artist
  
Cake

Label
  
Upbeat Records

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Length
  
35:01 (Standard), 40:21 (Limited Edition)

B-Sides and Rarities (2007)
  
Showroom of Compassion (2011)

Genres
  
Alternative rock, College rock, Alternative country

Similar
  
Cake albums, Alternative rock albums

B-Sides and Rarities (originally referred to as just Rarities on the band's website) is a rarities compilation album by Cake, an alternative rock band from Sacramento, California. It features several cover songs, including Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" and Barry White's "Never, Never Gonna Give You Up."

Contents

Originally, Columbia Records requested the band to release a greatest hits compilation, but the band promptly refused. During the legal fall-out, Cake formed its own record label, Upbeat Records, and released B-Sides and Rarities.

A limited edition version of the album features a bonus track, a live version of "War Pigs" featuring Steven Drozd of The Flaming Lips. It also features a scratch and sniff cover with "five different CD cover/scent variations (including red/fresh cut roses, brown/leather, green/fresh cut grass, purple/grape, and yellow/banana )."

Personnel

Cake
  • Vince DiFiore – trumpet, keyboard, harmony vocals
  • John McCrea – acoustic guitar, lead vocals
  • Xan McCurdy – electric guitar, background vocals
  • Gabe Nelson – bass guitar, keyboard, background vocals
    • Guest musicians
  • Paulo Baldi – drums on tracks 4, 10, 11
  • Greg Brown – guitar, organ on tracks 7, 8, 9
  • Victor Damiani – bass on tracks 7, 8, 9
  • Pete McNeal – drums on tracks 1, 2, 3
  • Tyler Pope – keyboards, guitar on track 5
  • Todd Roper – drums on tracks 7, 8, 9
    • Technical personnel
  • produced, arranged, & mixed by Cake
  • additional mixing by Patrick Olguin
  • mastered by Patrick Olguin at Velvet Tone South, Sacramento, CA
  • design by Aesthetic Apparatus
  • CAKE management by Tommy Manzi (for the Umbrella Group) and Lori Turncrantz (for Silent Tribunal LLC)

    • Appearances in other media

  • Cake's cover of "Mahna Mahna" appears on the charity CD For the Kids whose proceeds benefit the "VH1 SAVE THE MUSIC" organization.
  • "Never, Never Gonna Give You Up" features in the movie An American Werewolf in Paris.
  • Cake's cover of Strangers in the Night appears on the PC video game soundtrack Stubbs the Zombie in "Rebel Without a Pulse"
  • Conroy appears in an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation entitled "The Lost Girls".

    • Songs

    1War Pigs3:54
    2Ruby Don't Take Your Love to Town2:56
    3Mahna Mahna2:54

    References

    B-Sides and Rarities (Cake album) Wikipedia
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