# New Single by Cake: Sick of You **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 3, 2010, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-single-by-cake-sick-of-you/562830 "2010-12-03T17:33:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-single-by-cake-sick-of-you/562830/1 "2010-12-03T17:33:39Z")
Heard it yet? Official video [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi9MLL8QOY0). - The good news: it’s Cake and they seem to have locked into a sound that works for them - like [Short Skirt / Long Jacket](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7aDstrDMf0)(I song I love, love, love and my kids enjoy as the theme music to Chuck), Sick of You has the same arrangement: Cool guitar riff, flat-toned/hip vocal, simple groove/percussion, interesting use of horns for added spice…if you like Cake and SS/LJ you will like this. - The bad news: if you don’t like Cake or the lead singer’s hipper-than-thou droll delivery, you won’t like this either 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JimmyFlair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce7236/32.png) [@JimmyFlair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimmyFlair)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2010, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-single-by-cake-sick-of-you/562830/2 "2010-12-04T02:52:42Z")
I like it, but then I love Cake. Did you catch them on Conan the other night? I thought that it was a more “high energy, get the crowd singing type thing” than you’d expect from John McCrea’s aforementioned droll delivery. Cake!🙂 ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2010, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-single-by-cake-sick-of-you/562830/3 "2010-12-04T02:57:17Z")
Just wanted to [del]smugly[/del] casually mention that the trumpet player is my cousin. (Okay, third cousin. Our grandfathers were first cousins.) So, yay, Cake and people who love them! ---
**Author:** ![JimmyFlair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce7236/32.png) [@JimmyFlair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimmyFlair)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2010, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-single-by-cake-sick-of-you/562830/4 "2010-12-04T03:29:43Z")
> [@gallows\_fodder](#): > > Just wanted to [del]smugly[/del] casually mention that the trumpet player is my cousin. (Okay, third cousin. Our grandfathers were first cousins.) So, yay, Cake and people who love them! Yay indeed!That’s cool! I think that they’ve become my favorite band over the last few years. ---
**Author:** ![anu-la1979](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@anu-la1979](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anu-la1979)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2010, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-single-by-cake-sick-of-you/562830/5 "2010-12-04T04:23:19Z")
They’ve been playing it on alternative radio here for 3 or 4 weeks I think but the album doesn’t come out till much later, right? ---
**Author:** ![BethCro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cdc98d/32.png) [@BethCro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BethCro)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2010, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-single-by-cake-sick-of-you/562830/6 "2010-12-04T04:26:32Z")
For some reason, that white rabbit bothered me, and I had to stop watching. I still love “Sitting in the Alpha Beta Parking Lot” though. Who knew I had an issue with rabbits? ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2010, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-single-by-cake-sick-of-you/562830/7 "2010-12-04T04:29:14Z")
Sheep Go To Heaven has been my favorite song to crank around people who annoy me for at least a decade. My actually loving the song doesn’t hurt, but the fact that it somehow annoys stupid people is a bonus!\* \*Not liking the song doesn’t automatically mean you’re stupid, not even to me. I just work with a lot of narrow-minded stupid people. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2010, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-single-by-cake-sick-of-you/562830/8 "2010-12-05T12:45:47Z")
> [@JimmyFlair](#): > > I like it, but then I love Cake. > Did you catch them on Conan the other night? I thought that it was a more “high energy, get the crowd singing type thing” than you’d expect from John McCrea’s aforementioned droll delivery. > Cake!🙂 Here’s the clip, I think: [http://www.tbs.com/video/conan.jsp?oid=236492&eref=sharethisUrl](http://www.tbs.com/video/conan.jsp?oid=236492&eref=sharethisUrl) I saw it - they did really well, but I prefer the studio version simply because, given the sparse arrangement and McCrea’s delivery, it balances the parts out a bit better. \*\* gallows fodder \*\*- very cool! ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-single-by-cake-sick-of-you/562830/9 "2010-12-06T01:53:20Z")
[QUOTE=gallows fodder] Just wanted to [del]smugly[/del] casually mention that the trumpet player is my cousin. (Okay, third cousin. Our grandfathers were first cousins.) So, yay, Cake and people who love them! [/QUOTE] Heh. I’ve met one or more of them in person back when they were barely more than a bar band in Sacramento. And then, I repaired an equipment case for 'em. All of this was back in what, 1994 or so? They do at least have a unique sound. Ran across _Sick of You_ on the radio a while ago, and thought “Hmm. Something new from Cake.” ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2010, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-single-by-cake-sick-of-you/562830/10 "2010-12-06T02:39:45Z")
> [@gallows\_fodder](#): > > Just wanted to [del]smugly[/del] casually mention that the trumpet player is my cousin. (Okay, third cousin. Our grandfathers were first cousins.) So, yay, Cake and people who love them! Hah! Lady Chance and I saw them open for Counting Crows at the Niteclub 9:30 in DC. We called him Mr. Versatility because of his many roles.