CAUGHT ME OFF GUARD!| CAKE - The Distance REACTION

[@TheRedWaltz24]

"Short Skirt/Long Jacket" or "Never There" are two other great songs from them worth listening to.

[@lissy2000us]

Yes!! Definitely!

[@TechnicallyTexan]

YEEEES!!! Every girl in the 90s, including me, wanted to be the girl with the short skirt and the loong jacket.

[@jon-pauldupont5746]

No phone is another great track

[@catblimp7894]

Rock and Roll Lifestyle is pretty underrated.

[@olivia6334]

Love you Madly is great too!!

[@styles2980]

Cake has several interesting songs, you should explore them more with "short skirt long jacket", "Rock'n' Roll Lifestyle", "Never There" and "Shadow Stabbing". Another song that always stands out to me is "She don't use Jelly" by the Flaming Lips. You'll never hear lyrics like this again.

[@milesdoodling1054]

AH YES! She dont use Jelly! I love The Flaming Lips!

[@jenniferkasowicz9463]

Yes! Have recommended “She Don’t Use Jelly” by Flaming Lips so many times. Love Ben Folds Five’s “lounge” cover of the song, too!

[@scottNNJ]

Check out their remake of Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive”. Completely mind-blowing.

[@LiveAlcheme]

Thank God for Cake! Totally unique, totally listenable, love the horns, love the layers of sound.

[@laraismyname821]

This whole album, Fashion Nugget, is amazing. Like every single song slaps.

[@katthor7311]

I love Cake. Their sound is so unique. I put in another bid for Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps for the next song.

[@jenniferkasowicz9463]

Cake’s album “Fashion Nugget” is one of those that I can listen to the whole way through. No skips. It’s brilliant, layered, quirky. So glad you reacted to this! ❤️✌️

[@Scruffyman81]

Cake is a reflection of Sacramento, a very diverse city. They are a band that is a fusion of musical styles: Rock, rap, funk, country, etc. Please try Ruby Sees All, Jolene, No Phone, Long Line of Cars. Thanks Jayvee!

[@BKLYN_TZU]

That's the truth I was a teenager in the Early to mid '90s there was alot of originality and no two songs sounded the same but what made the '90s special is the fusion of different Genre's with Hip-Hop to create music like this

[@adamdonovan4071]

Except Dave Matthew’s band….every DMB track sounds the same..IMO, at least in the rough.

[@BKLYN_TZU]

@@adamdonovan4071 Adam Donovan that's true there was a few bands like The Blues Travelers also but " Crash Into Me" had a Groove to it with that military style drumming on the back beat but majority of the music in the ' 90s had some kind of Hip-Hop influence if it wasn't in the instrumentation it was in the way they did their vocals with some kind of rap flow

[@adamdonovan4071]

@@BKLYN_TZU they had some good songs. They just tend to have a high interchangeability. Boyd was truly amazing on the fiddle, and Dave had a unique voice, I just can’t listen to a full album of theirs as it gets repetitive. Jack Johnson has similar issues though…late 90s surfer acoustic rock if you aren’t familiar.

[@BKLYN_TZU]

@@adamdonovan4071 Adam Donovan the repetitiveness in the music is what they use to call the groove back in the day LOL but everything else you wrote is the truth

[@adamdonovan4071]

@@BKLYN_TZU I don’t mean within a song. I mean between songs…

[@thefullnomad6543]

In 1999, I did a road trip down to California (I'm from Vancouver, Canada). I stayed at a hostel in California and did some cooking in the kitchen, and some folks and I connected. We all head out around midnight on a warm April night, just wandering around town. At about 3am, we came upon an old club in the downtown core, where music was playing out the windows. It was Cake rehearsing for a tour they were going on. We just sat on the curb, talking, listening to one of the most popular bands around doing soundchecks, practicing songs, and goofing off. We hung out till sunrise, found an all-night diner, and had the breakfast of champions. I've still never seen them in concert, but what a great memory. Good people, a warm night, good music, great conversation. That's all ya need.

[@xgarrett420x]

This song will make you start bopping your head everytime. If it comes on the radio, I'm cranking it up.

[@BloodTithingsGaming]

Cake is one of those bands where if you know of them, you end up knowing all their songs. They're just so much fun to listen to.

[@manicpanic3544]

Cake is the best! "Short Skirt/Long Jacket", "Never There" among others.

[@TrishaAyshe]

Whaaat! I was just randomly revisiting this band a few days ago and now here you are. They were really great and different back then. "Never There" was their biggest hit and I think you'll enjoy it too!

[@lissy2000us]

Wow this brings me back to 10th grade!! And you are right! The 90’s were an eclectic mix of musical styles and new beats! A great time to be a teenager

[@MarkTitus420]

Cake's music is like the name. They take everyday ordinary things and events and turn them into hit songs. This was a one of their biggest and they had many in the 90's.

[@andtheneverythingchangedwh5234]

Cake is awesome! Their style is so unique. I would also highly recommend "short skirt long jacket" by them. I would suggest reacting to a lyric video of it (the official music video has people talking over the music so it's kinda distracting from the song. "Never There" is also very good.

[@robertbrenneman5367]

I’m in a Cake rabbit hole, you’re reaction is wonderful. So glad you enjoyed it

[@otterpocalypse1003]

Cake is such a vibe, there really isn't anything quite like them. "Comfort Eagle" and "Commissioning a Symphony in C" are two of my favorites

[@jillgehrke7262]

So good! In high school, I would dance the "Bobby Brown" to this song.

[@jenniferandrews1917]

“Short skirt and a Long Jacket” is also a great tune from CAKE.

[@camban]

Canadian truckers have surely been blasting this all the way to Ottawa.

[@Maxmulham]

lol

[@xanajak]

Cake owned the world for a few hot minutes. Do "Frank Sinatra" next. Few other great songs. This one started the wild ride.

[@NCgirl13]

Oh wow ! Thank you ! I’ve loved them from way back !!! This song was also sometimes used as nascar theme . Cake has several other good songs

[@historydragonsandmagic]

Oh the days of Ska. Why did we leave it behind?! Love love love this song. So many memories attached to it.

[@db6655]

This song never gets old. If I live to be an old lady this goes on my top 10 playlist in the nursing home.

[@michaelbeasley5783]

Masterpiece fusion of hip hop, rock etc. Love it.

[@MrDeadstu]

Propellerheads w/ Shirley Bassey - "History Repeating" (1998) A jazzy groove with the legend on vocals, and the video is pretty cool too.

[@1969milf]

One of my all time favorite bands, always innovative and quirky!

[@katecravens]

The 90s were the shit! Had so many styles of music you always loved something on the radio that was new 💙

[@redstep-child3096]

Now you know how I felt the first time I heard this! You're one of us now, bro. ❤😂🤘✌❤

[@saraharnett9970]

This song made it's way onto every mixtape and CD I made growing up. They are a great band, check out a song called Never There, it's my favorite! Love the variety of genres you react to!

[@amygenevalee6393]

Love CAKE! Definitely had their own sound yet it is addicting. Anytime I hear this or others by them I’m always turning it up. Definitely recommend Short Skirt/Long Jacket and another artist if you enjoyed this, Moby.

[@lawrencekelli]

This song is wickedly cool! Have always loved it!

[@jasonfrost3693]

Broke multiple boom boxes playin this song back in the day. Got a job, got a real system, blew it up too! I'm still going the Distance tho ! 🤘🥲🤘

[@DJHolte]

Wow, first time I think I've seen anybody on KZbin react to Cake! They are so fun, and so unique.

[@brandy012173]

Whenever I am in front of something that is overwhelming and I can barely muster the confidence to even show up (whether it be a job interview after being turned down 20 times and my resume is sht, and my bank acct is overdrawn. Or when I had to go and face my almost exhusband in court fighting for custody of my kids when he had a job and i didn't). I listen to this to make myself try and remember who i am and THAT ME is someone they haven't even met yet! Get strong. Get ready. Get poised. BECAUSE THIS JOB IS MINE. (etc. This song gives me strength.)

[@Wyndigayle]

Cake is awesome! They definitely have a sound all their own. Hope you get around to checking out more of their stuff. :)

[@robbob5302]

“Bowel-shaking earthquakes of doubt and remorse, assail him, impale him, with monster truck force.” They have awarded Pulitzers for less poetry than that.

[@Jules001]

YES! I love Cake. For more try: short skirt/long jacket, rock 'n' roll lifestyle, never there, love you madly, haze of love, perhaps perhaps perhaps, shadow stabbing, comanche... honestly, I've never met a Cake song that I didn't like.

[@socalnitro]

Idk how I missed your reaction on this one. San Diego 1992 was my intro to this beautiful art.

[@itmightbme]

I saw them in a small venue in Bham Al when this album came out. Great in concert 💜

[@op3crimsin]

You might try Type O Negative "Love You to Death". O' Holy Night by David Phelps, Gaither choir, where David has a green shirt. Shaggy, "Boombastic", "Angel", or "It wasn't me".

[@mikeb3835]

The song 'Comfort Eagle' by Cake is pretty good. It was used in the hilarious movie 'Shallow Hal'

[@scottgelb2650]

I have on occasion played this song 3 or 4 times in a row. Also love their song Never There.

[@gobucks2k3]

The 90s were such a wonderful time 😂

[@TheChick24]

They are so unique! Short skirt, long jacket or never there for next!

[@theOGnokk]

I mean the guy was flowing and had some bars. Love this song

[@lisanelson6073]

Cake is so unique!! Check out Never There, Short Skirt/Long Jacket and their cover of War Pigs.

[@Gigi_Unapologetic]

Ive been WAITING for someone to react to CAKE!!! Very eclectic... The more you listen the more you will love them!

[@Thunderboy179]

I highly recommend listening to their whole Comfort Eagle album. One of my favorite albums ever

[@jenniferkasowicz9463]

Here’s another quirky but brilliant 90s band… Ben Folds Five. “Brick” is probably they’re most famous song (heavy), but “Song for the Dumped” is fun! Ben Folds can rock the piano!

[@naturally953]

Love the beat, nice! 🔥

[@BeatleDustino]

I love Cake, the band and the baked good. Check out Short Skirt and Long Jacket next. Stick Shifts and Safety Belts is another great one too.

[@markagerman1223]

The 90' the best decade for music by a mile !

[@DMB088]

Love it! One of my favorite intros ever!

[@marlenabenson]

This song never gets old, it's so well done! Check out Short Skirt Long Jacket, and Never There.

[@DizJakeOG]

Great band! Can't go wrong with any of their songs. I do agree with Short Skirt Long Jacket.

[@dqshipley2811]

Yes. Pure, distilled Sacramento.

[@markagerman1223]

Short skirt/Long jacket fantastic Cake song and great video !

[@marionetaklemcba]

Imagine a South American boy, who understood a few words of English listening and even crazier, "buying" an original Cake CD ("Fashion Nugget") in the 90's!!! For just two songs (Frank Sinatra and I Will Survive) without meeting the band and meeting all those disco gems....rare for you nowadays, weirder and crazier for me and my friends in the 90's!! ! Greetings from Rio Tercero, Córdoba Argentina dad!!

[@AD-pd3ov]

Oh the memories! This song takes me back...They did a cover of I Will Survive believe it or not.. I have that one too from the 90's on my playlist... you should check it out

[@mgalarama1529]

If you've ever seen the movie, "Shallow Hal", they use Cake's song "Comfort Eagle"- might want to check that one out as well.

[@bearclairebear]

CAKE has so much going on. I always loved the kind of change up with Sad songs and waltzes and Stickshifts and safetbelts. Also their version of Mahna Mahna

[@pennytipp]

Yes, love me some Cake!

[@Tina-vv3gz]

I love cake!!!! Can't say it enough!!!🎺📯❤❤❤

[@colinwalker4824]

This reaction is exactly how we all reacted to cake at first.

[@tilemonkee5510]

Bruh,your reaction was priceless! Same as mine,back in the day. I remember the first time , thinking ,oh,some rap song.then the guitar kicked in...then the Horns played.. I was like,THIS is DIFFERENT,and I LIKE IT!! You should check out "I will survive". Its a cover of a Gloria Gaynor song. If you do,do the live version..its even better!

[@manna6618]

The bass player from this band slayed, always had a bangin vibe regardless of the song.

[@joshuacalebsmith]

Short Skirt/Long Jacket! Next from CAKE!

[@TheHeatherjane]

Yes, I love that one!

[@gregortega6547]

That Bass line is just sick!!!

[@karinlindae-fregoso802]

this is definitely a rabbit hole to dive into... please, more Cake! Try Never There...

[@TimpossibleOne]

I forgot all about this banger

[@warpdrivefueledbyinsomnia8165]

90s music is a hell of a drug.

[@mikeedward9595]

"Short Skirt, Long Jacket" should be your next reaction. Cake sounds like Cake, and nobody else.

[@NeutronDance]

Marcy Playground - Sex and Candy

[@kanem5moone]

Tune!

[@shaunacohen7630]

Comfort Eagle is another great song by Cake!

[@someoldatheist6712]

Cake is an amazing band. they got piles of great songs but a couple of my fav are " comfort eagle" and "sheep go to heaven goats go to hell".

[@dqshipley2811]

Comfort Eagle ⭐️

[@Suzanne-33]

I love Cake!

[@charlesbarton3032]

It's one of those you want to listen to you 3 or 4 times just so you can really understand it

[@user-dx1jb4zq9e]

The 90s was basically like "don't tell me how to make music"

[@iAFKall_day]

Fun fact: He's actually moving so fast it looks like he's moving slow, like some helicopter blades.

[@kathrynmcintosh2726]

Please react to Pulp song called Common people. Hello from Australia

[@Motelmotel666]

I’m pretty certain he reacted to this a couple months ago

[@tonyplove]

Cake is funky man! You can't go wrong with any of their tunes.

[@blueyedmule]

They were using race car metaphorically to build a business/relationship analogy. Good stuff, loved Cake sawvthem in Pdx, Violent Femmes opened for them.

[@MikMech]

Gotta love a bit of Cake!

[@AndICanTalk2]

This song is fire. Great reaction.

[@DavidGowers]

An amazing band!! I haven't found a bad song from them yet

[@jon-pauldupont5746]

The only hit song featuring a Melodica. Only in the 90’s 😁

[@wadsworthaaron]

Cake's take on "I Will Survive" takes the Gloria Gaynor version and turns it inside out... in the best possible way (^,^)

[@gloriaandrea2539]

Love Cake! Super unique band!!Fantastic!!!❤️

[@KDeCesare]

Yes! "Short Skirt Long Jacket" next please.

[@joshadamson6874]

I dont know what im listening to but i like it. Perfectly said

[@stephenulmer3781]

The song is about race car driving ☺ For more "Quirky" 90s songs ill suggest for you "Sucked out" by Superdrag" "Lucus with the lid off" by Lucus and "Your Woman" by White Town 😁

[@debbyemerson3877]

Oh wow! Who sucked out the feeeeeeeeeeeeeling? The instant flashbacks 😆

[@wendyhood1962]

I think you are mistaken about it being about car racing. It's about sex

[@kevinvegas1916]

Cake has some goodies!

[@adriennepender673]

CAKE was BOMB, and so underrated! Their album, "Fashion Nugget" is brilliant.

[@chrisw3421]

They do a very unique version of Black Sabbath's War Pigs

[@stack_of_records]

Cake is a good band. If you like this stuff you should check the Belgian band Zita Swoon - The Banana Queen. Great video too.

[@debbyemerson3877]

Excellent song for your workour playlist

[@alphajava761]

Slash's signature is a top hat, this dude's is a fishing hat .. which is perfect because Cake is a snarky band.. lot's of great songs. I've never seen him without that fishing hat lol.

[@rowdyron4111]

SICK!!!