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Fashion Nugget | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | September 17, 1996 | |||
Recorded | 1995–1996 | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 48:36 | |||
Label | Capricorn | |||
Producer | Cake | |||
Cake chronology | ||||
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Singles from Fashion Nugget | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
Cash Box | (favorable) [3] |
Chicago Tribune | [4] |
Christgau's Consumer Guide | [5] |
In Music We Trust | A [6] |
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide | [7] |
Pitchfork | 7.8/10 [8] |
The Virgin Encyclopedia of Nineties Music | [9] |
Fashion Nugget is the second studio album by alternative rock band Cake. It was released in 1996, and contains 14 songs. "The Distance" and "I Will Survive" became the most successful singles on the record, with the prior peaking at number 22 in the UK [10] and at number 4 on the US Alternative Airplay Chart. [11] The album was recorded at Paradise Studios in Sacramento, California. [12]
On December 9, 1996, the album was certified gold by the RIAA, and the next year, the album was certified platinum for shipments of one million copies. [13]
The album contains elements of alternative rock, [2] rock, [6] funk, [2] [4] [14] hip hop, [15] [2] rockabilly, [4] jazz, [4] country, [4] [6] [15] pop rock, [6] folk rock, [6] and Latin music. [4]
All tracks are written by John McCrea, except where noted
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Frank Sinatra" | 4:01 | |
2. | "The Distance" | Greg Brown | 3:00 |
3. | "Friend Is a Four Letter Word" | 3:22 | |
4. | "Open Book" | Brown, McCrea | 3:44 |
5. | "Daria" | 3:44 | |
6. | "Race Car Ya-Yas" | Cake | 1:21 |
7. | "I Will Survive" | Freddie Perren, Dino Fekaris | 5:10 |
8. | "Stickshifts and Safetybelts" | 2:09 | |
9. | "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" | Osvaldo Farrés, Joe Davis | 2:24 |
10. | "It's Coming Down" | 3:44 | |
11. | "Nugget" | Cake | 3:58 |
12. | "She'll Come Back to Me" | 2:24 | |
13. | "Italian Leather Sofa" | 5:52 | |
14. | "Sad Songs and Waltzes" | Willie Nelson | 3:15 |
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Weekly charts
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Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA) [31] | Gold | 35,000^ |
Canada (Music Canada) [32] | Gold | 50,000^ |
United States (RIAA) [33] | 2× Platinum | 2,000,000‡ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
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