Comfort Eagle

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Comfort Eagle
Comfort Eagle cover
Studio album by Cake
Released July 24, 2001
Recorded Paradise Studios in Sacramento, CA, with additional recording at Hyde Street Studios in San Francisco, CA
Genre Alternative
Length 36:55
Label Columbia
Producer Cake
Professional reviews
Cake chronology
Prolonging the Magic
(1998)		 Comfort Eagle
(2001)		 Pressure Chief
(2004)

Comfort Eagle is the fourth album by Cake, an alternative rock band from Sacramento, California. It was released in 2001 (see 2001 in music), and contains eleven songs. Comfort Eagle was Cake's first release on Columbia Records.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Opera Singer" – 4:06
  2. "Meanwhile, Rick James..." – 3:57
  3. "Shadow Stabbing" – 3:07
  4. "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" – 3:24
  5. "Commissioning a Symphony in C" – 2:59
  6. "Arco Arena" – 1:31
  7. "Comfort Eagle" – 3:40
  8. "Long Line of Cars" – 3:24
  9. "Love You Madly" – 3:58
  10. "Pretty Pink Ribbon" – 3:08
  11. "World of Two" – 3:41

[edit] Personnel

  • John McCrea - Guitar (Acoustic), Bass, Percussion, Guitar (Electric), Keyboards, Vocals,
  • Vince Di Fiore - Trumpet, Keyboards, Vocals (background)
  • Xan McCurdy - Percussion, Guitar (Electric), Vocals (background) Drum Programming, Design, Mixing
  • Todd Roper - Percussion, Drums, Vocals (background), Moog Synthesizer
  • Kirt Shearer - Mixing
  • David Cole - Mixing
  • Craig Long - Mixing
  • Gabriel Shepard - Mixing
  • Don C. Taylor - Mastering

[edit] Miscellaneous

  • The song "Close but no Cigar" on "Weird Al" Yankovic's album Straight Outta Lynwood (2006) is a parody of Cake's musical style. Although not a parody of any one song in particular, it seems to be inspired by "Short Skirt/Long Jacket". "Close but no Cigar" is about a man who is very demanding when it comes to women, evidenced by him dumping his date for silly reasons. The song copies some key musical elements such as a funky bassline, trumpets and cowbells, vibraslap, and the background "choir". Moreover, the trumpet line is nearly identical to "Love You Madly."
  • The song "Comfort Eagle" was included in the original soundtrack for the film Shallow Hal, starring Jack Black.
  • The song "Comfort Eagle" was slated to be the album's second single, but its release was cancelled after 9/11 due to its lyrics mentioning airplanes and stepping from ledges. "Love You Madly" was instead released as the second single.
  • The song "Shadow Stabbing" was included in the original soundtrack for the film Orange County, starring Colin Hanks and Jack Black.
  • The song "Arco Arena" was directly sampled in the song "Guns and Roses" off Jay-Z's album The Blueprint 2.
  • Although the recording of "Arco Arena" on the album is an instrumental, a longer version of the song with vocals exists and was released as a promo single in 2001.
  • The song "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" was used in the film Waitress starring Keri Russell and Nathan Fillion. The song was also used as the theme song for the 2007 NBC series Chuck.
  • The song "Love You Madly" is featured in the 2008 film Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

[edit] Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year Chart Position
2001 The Billboard 200 13
2001 Top Canadian Albums 7
2001 Top Internet Albums 2

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year Single Chart Position
2001 "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" Adult Top 40 31
2001 "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" Modern Rock Tracks 7

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