| No Pain for Cakes | ||||
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| Released | 1987 | |||
| Recorded | November 1986 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 38:00 | |||
| Label | Antilles/Island [1] | |||
| Producer | John Lurie | |||
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No Pain for Cakes is an album by the American jazz band the Lounge Lizards, released in 1987. [2] [3] John Lurie sang on the album. [4]
The album was recorded at Kaufman Astoria Studios, in Queens, New York. [5] Marc Ribot contributed to No Pain for Cakes. [6]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Robert Christgau | B+ [7] |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |   [8] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide |  [9] |
| Windsor Star | C+ [10] |
The Globe and Mail called the album "mature and vivid music, always ingenious and sometimes brilliant." [11] The Windsor Star wrote that the Lounge Lizards "sound as if their music is written by a contemporary Kurt Weill for a Fellini movie without them ever taking their tongues out of their cheeks." [10] The Christian Science Monitor deemed No Pain for Cakes "zany weirdness and outrageous eclecticism—avant pop/jazz/rock." [12]
All tracks composed by John Lurie; except where indicated
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