I really love Cake. One of my favorite bands ever. I once walked by a free Cake Concert in DC. They weren’t playing yet but I saw the big crowd in the park and thought huh, “wonder what’s going on there?”I got home later that night to PA, and realized it was a free Cake concert and I just strolled on by. I deeply regret that mistake to this day.
@jessewestbrook98162 жыл бұрын
@LTrain45 45 best comment I've ever seen! 😂😂😂
@MeatyOchre2 жыл бұрын
That’s how you afford that rock and roll lifestyle
@okayimsorry54735 жыл бұрын
I think short skirt/long jacket is definitely meant to be ironic.
@hermeticascetic3 жыл бұрын
Or... It's a song about Daria...
@okayimsorry54733 жыл бұрын
@@hermeticascetic hmm. You mean like the one thats called Daria? Because I think that ones about Daria.
@hermeticascetic3 жыл бұрын
@@okayimsorry5473 it's like both of them are about Daria
@okayimsorry54733 жыл бұрын
@@hermeticascetic now substantiate.
@hermeticascetic3 жыл бұрын
@@okayimsorry5473 he spends the entire song describing his "ideal woman" and finishes off each verse with "I want a girl with a short skirt and a long jacket" Literally Daria's outfit. He wants a real world Daria. Not to mention half the physicality described is Daria. This ain't rocket science.
@mrmusickhimself5 жыл бұрын
Cake is one of the most underrated and consistently awesome bands of all time. They're one of the rare bands who've never released a bad album. I'm almost always content to play their full discography from beginning to end, and the band clearly take their time in creating quality albums. That being said, holy shit, they haven't released an album since 2011. To quote from a song off that particular album: it's been a long time.
@TheAcidzooq Жыл бұрын
To quote another, maybe there is just to much carbon monoxide around for John McCrea to release something new.
@rigatonijacobs5 жыл бұрын
this is less understanding cakes lyrics and more editorializing your own ideas at many points
@incendiaryagenda35695 жыл бұрын
He also speaks like he's constantly making up his script off the top of his head and it's frustrating to listen to lol
@shatnuh5 жыл бұрын
Thank you. I felt like so much of that was projection.
@andrewstolzmann26635 жыл бұрын
@Route Zero Actually, McCray has said in interviews that he wanted to write a song where the preformance of the economy could be equated to a woman's attractiveness. Damn, check out the dividends on that!
@isaacrobertson43745 жыл бұрын
Andrew Stolzmann out of all of the comments yours has the most truth
@adriansolis77604 жыл бұрын
Yup
@OpaqueVisions475 жыл бұрын
Great band. They've been sorely missed since 2011. A new album would be awesome.
@sofiaholiday53445 жыл бұрын
I've heard that a new album will be comming out next year so hopefully we can look forward to that
@petegarthedwarvencleric75685 жыл бұрын
I believe they released a single at the end of last year
@petemoss77045 жыл бұрын
I think they're waiting for Trump to be impeached to release their next single. It's going to be age of aquarius.
@TalonBX5 жыл бұрын
They've released a few songs over the past year or so. Look up their single Sinking Ship, or their covers of Roger Miller's Reincarnation and (as mentioned above) The 5th Dimension's Age of Aquarius. They are all very good.
@f.demascio18575 жыл бұрын
I saw them live last year. Playing was good, singing was out of pace, 6 songs, then "Goodnight Richmond." He did speak out against tRump indirectly and promoted planting trees by giving one away. Spoke environmentally a bit between songs.
@natemattern22605 жыл бұрын
It’s so nice to see someone acknowledge and notice CAKE for once
@d0gb1te5 жыл бұрын
Motorcade of Generosity is a nearly-perfect album, and remains among my personal favorites.
@nedbrookes64815 жыл бұрын
It really is fantastic, but I think I'm going to have to pick prolonging the magic as my favorite. It's just really hard to pick favorites between cake albums though, it's like picking favorites between your children.
@acidstrummer5 жыл бұрын
Fashion Nugget was my favourite, Frank Sinatra was such a great track.
@nedbrookes64815 жыл бұрын
@@acidstrummer Frank Sinatra is an absolute banger. Easily my favorite cake song. I just think that prolonging the magic is really consistently fantastic.
@acidstrummer5 жыл бұрын
@@nedbrookes6481 that's fair, I love both albums equally but it's probably my bias for Frank Sinatra that colours my opinion
@pokepe124 жыл бұрын
For me it's kind of impossible to pick a favorite cake album, it's like picking a favorite son
@katelynlarese94355 жыл бұрын
When the house was standing You'd never have believed it When the house was standing You'd never have believed The bricks and mortar Have all given way At first they resisted but then they began to sway How can you say forever is at your command How can you say the future's in the palm In the palm of your hand 🙌🥰❤️
@DeadlyPlatypus Жыл бұрын
The most impressive part of the band as a whole is their ability to "layer" all of the sounds in their music. Each instrument has its OWN part. But each part is interesting on its own, there are no "supporting" instruments. "Friend is a Four Letter Word" is a great example.
@Bluejayboy94 Жыл бұрын
The instrumental in Friend is a Four Letter Word is insane
@IDL7165 жыл бұрын
My first CDs were Cake “Fashion Nugget”, 311 “311”, & Bush “Sixteenstone”; Always interpreted “Short skirt/long jacket” as a lady in the streets & freak in the sheets; Speaking of Bush, Gavin Rosdale had some interesting songwritings...
@skumdjungeltangoi71725 жыл бұрын
Understanding Type O negative would be cool
@corememoriess5 жыл бұрын
DeathBurn this will be so interesting :)
@austindorf835 жыл бұрын
I concur
@cameronfogarty33125 жыл бұрын
Type o rules whats your favorite album
@skumdjungeltangoi71725 жыл бұрын
@@cameronfogarty3312 I would probably say Bloody Kisses or Origin of feces. You?
@Subparanon5 жыл бұрын
A 6'7" park maintenance worker with a double bass hung over his shoulders like a guitar, juxtaposing religious fervor with animal lust; whats not to get? :)
@jax36365 жыл бұрын
I see Short Skirt/Long Jacket as commentary against what is expected of women or at least what is expected of them if they want to find someone- the problem being that every time he mentions a trait he'd like a girl to have, the next trait is the complete opposite.
@mk1k5 жыл бұрын
Jax3636 I think that’s more accurate
@hunteronnen50005 жыл бұрын
Stick shifts and safety belts is the only song I know from this band. It has been my favorite song since the first time I heard it.
@grahamcracking50565 жыл бұрын
8:10 now i may be a dumb college student and not a licensed professional, but maybe the reason that young people are more depressed nowadays is because A) there's more of an understanding in pop culture of what it is, B) they feel disconnected to people around them because it's harder to interact to people in person because we spend most of our time online, C) we're all working way too hard to reach an arbitrary goal (monetary success) that's harder to reach thanks to the assholes of the previous generation who fucked the planet and raised prices while stagnating wages, or D) all of the above idk might be wrong tho
@Koogai5 жыл бұрын
I think the gap between younger and older people is the biggest problem, and is the root of disconnection for sure. People that wouldn't touch the internet past going onto social media have the most control in our society right now. The news takes a lifestyle they don't understand and turns it on it's head because they know the older folks that watch news are looking for answers. We've been given opportunities with the internet, but it's still even new to us, though we already found ways to turn it into jobs or profit. Younger people work for something the people with power don't understand, and instead of embracing more experimentation they pretty much spit in their fucking face and berate them on every media that captures an older crowd, begging to keep things the way they've always been. That would sure make me depressed.
@OMGitsProvidence5 жыл бұрын
short skirt long jacket is clearly about wanting a successful/overachiever type woman with a wild side
@thirdspacemaker9141Ай бұрын
I don’t think “long jacket” was meant in this way, but I always thought of it in the criminal record context.
@MisbehavingChild5 жыл бұрын
The Clash!!!!!!!!!!!
@iomar905 жыл бұрын
How about Morphine ? They're so underrated...
@mauriciocorrea48115 жыл бұрын
That would be so great!
@jotade20985 жыл бұрын
Agreed, one of the best bands ever, great docu here kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnzOhnyEjJWlnZI You should check Whitey too (the musician, not the band), another strangely forgotten one.
@f.demascio18575 жыл бұрын
@@mauriciocorrea4811 Ditto!
@f.demascio18575 жыл бұрын
Yes!
@thebasedgodmax11635 жыл бұрын
cure for pain is one of the best songs i've ever heard
@RCAvhstape5 жыл бұрын
To be honest I never cared what the singer was on about; to me the best thing about this band is the bass player.
@second18145 жыл бұрын
Understanding cake's basslines
@dra26915 жыл бұрын
Or the trumpet
@Tibbers125 жыл бұрын
you do realize they've had two different bassists? right?
@michaellee89074 жыл бұрын
I know the bass player
@NinjaMatt22015 жыл бұрын
Ironically, Cake is exactly the kind of thing that inspired grunge artists to create. To be fair, grunge artists eventually fought to be called alternative instead to stop being pidgeonholed or restricted to the grunge sound and branch out to new sounds. I wouldn't be surprised if Cake was one of the influences of that change.
@kimevertolofsson5 жыл бұрын
Why is William Osman in this video's thumbnail picture?
@aaronl31115 жыл бұрын
Beastie boys next!
@nikohnickerson62675 жыл бұрын
YESSSSSSS!!!!!!
@scribblertheband5 жыл бұрын
Fashion nugget is a big influence on me
@ryurc30332 жыл бұрын
Dammit. This made me reflect more on my own life than I would like to admit. My own overworking mentality, the way it crashed down as I fell into depression. And trying to climb back out. As a teenager I listened to alot of cake. It slowly moved down in the playlist as things got heavier and heavier.(alot of dark metal) these songs all meant more the older I got.
@davidnissim5893 жыл бұрын
Short Skirt Long Jacket is definitely a sarcastically observant commentary on how specific men are when it comes to choosing a woman to date.
@musicman65555 жыл бұрын
Mr. Bungle or Jane's Addiction
@anthonyalpha41185 ай бұрын
As a wiser 52 yr old Conspiracy Theorist, I find I appreciate CAKE's lyrics all the more now. And Comfort Eagle is a great MP3 song just prior to SENDING in the ski/snowboard terrain park!
@Drunkyboi5 жыл бұрын
I mean if you take the distance at face value sure... but its really about struggling with both an amphetamine addiction and a crippling histrionic personality disorder, and McCrea has confirmed this, boyo
@mikebarnes74415 жыл бұрын
Congrats "boyo" you're so smart!
@corbinengelman88545 жыл бұрын
How could you not talk about Comfort Eagle!? Jk lol still a good video. More people need to listen to Cake they really are an amazing band!
@richardkistner554911 ай бұрын
Comfort Eagle! has always been my favorite.
@bow15435 жыл бұрын
oh. my. god. I have never seen a video about Cake! Finally!
@Sweetbriar335 жыл бұрын
I always thought that the distance was about bad sex, like trying to get off without any consideration for his partner? “Trying to think of someone for whom he still burns/he’s going the distance/he’s going for speed/she’s all alone her her time of need”
@CloudslnMyCoffee Жыл бұрын
Everyone I know thinks this
@fr3ddytv35 жыл бұрын
Understanding Death from Above, Bloc Party, Oasis, Pearl Jam, Jesse Hughes, Led Zeppelin.
@icantdoanythingwrongever5 жыл бұрын
Fr3ddy Tv Bloc Party yes!
@second18145 жыл бұрын
Nothing to understand about oasis
@justice77885 жыл бұрын
Your channel is so addicting, please keep it up
@quinnsears16343 жыл бұрын
Its crazy theres so many diffrent views I've always thought of short skirt/long jacket to be about expectations men have for woman.
@daft43435 жыл бұрын
Ah the band from town. One of my co-workers back in the 90's was dating one of the members, and they would come by the restaurant near closing time to eat Tappa's, and drink wine. Good time's, saw them a few times at the local show venues back in the day in Sacramento. Thanks for the video good sir!
@dannydevito54275 жыл бұрын
Understanding Jane’s Addiction
@second18145 жыл бұрын
Ew
@current31095 жыл бұрын
Arlo KILpatrick Ur funny
@kjaubrey48163 жыл бұрын
Jane is doing well. She never made it to Spain though.
@AtLeastTryALittle5 жыл бұрын
Pertaining to your analysis of short skirt long jacket: I can tell you first hand that a girl just like that exists. It's basically my wife's theme song. Voice like tinted glass, eyes that burn like cigarettes, eccentric style, changing her name and her car almost as often as her mood (that one is a long story). But still.... the resemblance is uncanny.
@thedevilinthecircuit141410 ай бұрын
Yes she does. I married her!
@c.nelson37475 жыл бұрын
I literally just started listening to this band like a week ago lol, this is perfect timing.
@amelian96775 жыл бұрын
I have loved Cake for years, and this makes me appreciate them even more 🎂
@WithdrawnFromReality5 жыл бұрын
So glad you did Cake! Such an underrated band
@OMGitsProvidence5 жыл бұрын
To me, quintessential cake is the music video for Short Skirt, Long Jacket---they don't take themselves too seriously and that's what made their music so enjoyable to me
@JulianSanchez-yw7hg5 жыл бұрын
Please do Mild High Club next! Love your series, really i formative
@leonadams80975 жыл бұрын
I can't recall where I read it, but Short Skirt Long Jacket also highlights the double standard we hold women to (short skirted sexuality and long jacketed modesty), as well as following a narrative of the idealised woman in question, changing her name and car to the more mature Karen and sensible Chrysler respectively. It fits with your assertion that the lyricist is a critic of modern society, who frames his analyses in comic or sarcastic ways.
@pierpressure68955 жыл бұрын
Thats what i thought too
@NessJr5 жыл бұрын
I found the feminist!
@leonadams80975 жыл бұрын
@@NessJr You aren't wrong. Out of curiosity, what is the image you have of me, right now, just as you read this?
@NessJr5 жыл бұрын
@@leonadams8097 you know what, I'll play along, sounds fun! A taller version of Notch, the creator of Minecraft. Be advised, I am 100% guessing
@leonadams80975 жыл бұрын
@@NessJr yeah, that's a miss. I have less girth and more hair :D
@Aaron-lc9cx3 ай бұрын
It's ok if despair drives ambition. Often I see these songs as cautionary tales. There's a lot baked in that cake
@koenwieringa19045 жыл бұрын
So strange, I knew The Distance from when it came out, and picked up Fashion Nugget about a month ago. And now here's your video that gives this gem some meaning beyond the comedic dead-pan lyrics. Strange coincidence. Thanks for the awesome vid, Lie!
@johngleue5 жыл бұрын
Great idea fora channel. You should do some 'they might giants' songs. I love listening to their albums with a friend of mine and delving into what we think theyre trying to say with any particular song.
@rateeightx4 ай бұрын
I feel this helps sum up why I always say that CAKE is a Punk band in spirit. That said, I still have no clue what "Mr. Mastodon Farm cuts swatches of all materials" means.
@mainHERO885 жыл бұрын
This video gave me a completely different perspective on a band that I just thought was boring and overplayed on the radio. I really like all the messages behind their upbeat music now. BUT I'M STILL WAITING FOR YOU TO DO A VIDEO ABOUT BECK.
@adamlangdon22452 жыл бұрын
I like how you tied it up with a nice bow at the end. deeeep. Good video
@austinvancleek8 ай бұрын
I think your video is great and your commitment to its production is an homage that should be acknowledged and celebrated as the fan/respectful listener that I suppose you must be for realizing this project in the first place; but, when it comes to your synopsis of Short Skirt Long Jacket, which is by no means their best song or the one (in my opinion) that is anywhere near the most worthy of reflection or emphasis, you gave a lot of scenarios of what the song could be alluding to except consideration of a scenario in which it could be written about a specific woman that exudes all the qualities the song describes. In fact, I feel you’ve fallen short by failing to either realize for yourself, or acknowledge if you did consider it, that the lines about Citibank are so specific that it seems to lead credence to a counterpoint that it was written with an actual real life muse as its inspiration and not the idealized woman that you make claims it was written for/about in several different hypothetical scenarios.
@133Nomad3 жыл бұрын
I had The Distance going through my head as I passed this.
@jasonbailey91395 жыл бұрын
0 views, 5 likes, 23 comments...seems legit. Anyway, great video as always.
@jonathandejong3516 Жыл бұрын
This was fun listening to some one talk about cake! One of my favourite bands... I think their lyrics are darker than they were given credit for in this video. I definitely think of short skirt long jacket as a fun but depressing song. It's set to a happy beat and superficially fun - a bit like hey ya by outkast - but if you really think about the lyrics they hit you . And same with sheep go to heaven. When I listen the song, I'm left with the sense that mccrae is actually telling the goats to go to hell at the end of the song Or as some guy once said 3000 years ago: It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart. There's something about pleasure that can leave one feeling even hollowed once it's over. Anyway - what a cool band
@wtfemtf5 жыл бұрын
Understanding Jeff Mangum/Neutral Milk Hotel
@rickyhunt40755 жыл бұрын
And The Blues Robert Johnston, BB King, Howlin Wolf, Albert King, Leadbelly, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Billie Holiday, John Lee Hooker, etc.
@Subparanon5 жыл бұрын
No no no no no no. Going the distance is not about hard work. It's a song about pipe dreams and peoples obsession with success at the cost of everything else. It's about missing the race and not even realizing it's over. It's a song about being too caught up in making it, to realize you didn't make it. The guy lost the race, everybody has gone home, but he's still driving his ass off, thinking if he just gives it his all, the people will come back, he'll win the race, and get the big payoff. He's deluding himself and the song varies between pitying him, and ridiculing him for his blind ambition.
@austinvancleek8 ай бұрын
I agree with you.. queue “Glory Days” while he races in a breaking down stock car in an empty dirt track in a backwoods county in middle America on a Wednesday night at 8pm that he got a pay check advance loan in order to rent track time after he gets off of his 80 hour per week minimum wage job he works in order to keep the car running and gas in the tank-and yet no one is there to watch and no one to even compete with. It’s just the man in the machine that has sacrificed his life for, as you said, a “pipe dream”.
@SlyHikari035 жыл бұрын
Cake is great! Favorite album of theirs is “Fashion Nugget”.
@barrettseattle18465 жыл бұрын
I think you missed the point of short skirt long jacket. The song starts with him fantasizing over what sounds like a fictional archetype for women. But by the end of the song, we reslize he's singing about how much he respects responsible mature women. "Changing her name from kitty to karen" "she wants a car that will get her there" "I want a girl with good dividends". As the song progresses we realize that he isn't looking for a Hollywood-esqu interpretation of a girlfriend, but rather a responsible partner in his life. Personally I think the song is very sweet
@seannelson99985 жыл бұрын
Your interpretation seems much closer to the truth than the video. I think short skirt/long jacket means he wants a girl with a wild, fun past, who is now respectable and responsible. The long jacket is the present, which hides the wild past of the short skirt.
@barrettseattle18465 жыл бұрын
@@seannelson9998 thank you!
@regulargeye200911 ай бұрын
So you read 2 interviews and listened to a couple of albums and you know what he meant when writing each song? Nah....
@stanley64405 жыл бұрын
new order please
@amandamears19165 жыл бұрын
Cake is the 1st band iv seen live! They opened for No Doubt(when N.D.was still ska).I want my Cake and eat it too.Love his voice,very distinct.
@jacobbrubaker95255 жыл бұрын
You should do a video about Neutral Milk Hotel. Because there is a severe lack of videos like yours about them and there is quite a lot to talk about.
@Vasilkov012 жыл бұрын
John McCrea : THE CAKE" I love you man
@joeprado36145 жыл бұрын
Oh hell yea love cake thanks for this. Instant sub.
@michaelwagner305 жыл бұрын
Good job. You're great at finding bands that I personally love. And when you speak about them it feels like it's coming from someone who's actually a fan, but also so smart and inquisitive.
@snazzydrew5 жыл бұрын
Cake is my favorite band... So I guess that's why this popped up in my recommended it. I always thought Short Skirt is ironic. Like he's aware of how silly it sounds. "Voice that is dark like tinted class"
@Puppy_Puppington4 жыл бұрын
Back in 11th grade I used to go on CAKEs website and read the daily quotes anytime I was in the library lol
@SkyreeXScalabar5 жыл бұрын
Chuck
@eyeofcthulhu53623 жыл бұрын
I definitely think "Meanwhile Rack James" is their best song.
@YouFeudTV5 жыл бұрын
Made me want to listen to cake.. never there
@angelsunlight7 ай бұрын
First concert in 2001 in Berkeley weekend after 9/11 I was six years old
@applejuicefool695 жыл бұрын
The Distance is *not* sonically "easy going."
@brandonrodriguez86155 жыл бұрын
Depeche Mode next
@1zymn15 жыл бұрын
Understanding Tom Waits!
@jackcarr66865 жыл бұрын
Understanding the 13th Floor Elevators, the story of their lead singer is harrowing, not enough know
@terminalpreppie84395 жыл бұрын
Were Cake's lyrics hard to understand?
@lesclaypoolonbass94315 жыл бұрын
Ya if you're a sheep you go to heaven, if you're a goat you can go to hell. Pretty simple
@flightnesssnowbirb83185 жыл бұрын
Some of the most thought provoking bands of the 90's Tool Radiohead C A K E
@KaiserGuy19925 жыл бұрын
I just want to say I love you man.
@Violett69693 ай бұрын
One of the best bands ever
@mithas18082 ай бұрын
I love Cake but you missed something. McCray didnt write going the distance. It was the lead guitarist who wrote it.
@brandonrodriguez86155 жыл бұрын
Can you do Understanding Depeche Mode
@JonkiJonkas5 жыл бұрын
YES! I didn't know I needed this.
@jax1207 Жыл бұрын
An interesting video, thanks. You came up with several meanings for Short Skirt Long Jacket and you may be right but I always understood it differently. I thought it was a comment on the pressures faced by modern women to be everything, to be assertive successful career women, as well as sexy and feminine.
@darriencopeland21393 ай бұрын
Man what about “Comfort Eagle”
@icecreampimpdeux5 жыл бұрын
You should do Hum
@MaladyKayjo5 жыл бұрын
I can’t believe I actually got noticed
@siddthekid50465 жыл бұрын
Awesome video. Thank you! I agree, Modest Mouse next!!!!! Or Built to Spill or Pavement!!!!!
@LucasGabrieh5 жыл бұрын
I always thought Short Skirt/Long Jacket was about how men expectations on women are unreasonable, impossible to achieve and how being the "girl of a man's dream" demands a huge amount of traits that no person in the world has.
@BlitzAMV5 жыл бұрын
I thought it was about chicks with dicks
@rickyhunt40755 жыл бұрын
Thin lizzy
@hoezayyg20665 жыл бұрын
I’ve never understood really who Spooky Black/Corbin is and came from understanding his lyrics and who he is and why he’s so emotional would be amazing
@Fuzz_Ray5 жыл бұрын
You have got to do R.E.M. my dude
@dale12605 жыл бұрын
Faith no more please
@nedd.84795 жыл бұрын
Can you do a video on Leonard Cohen?
@ElConquistadork5 жыл бұрын
I always took Short Skirt/Long Jacket as a ballad about falling for the professional yuppie women who are becoming more and more common in the business world. Sort of the fantasy of a guy who’d want to be a stay at home dad. And as for Sheep Go To Heaven, I’m not sure that he’s advocating for the hedonistic lifestyle so much as contrasting that pagan sort of attitude against the Christian life of denying yourself pleasure. The title and chorus refer to a verse in the Bible where Jesus describes who would get into heaven vs who would go to hell. And don’t forget his references to Waiting for Godot (the gravedigger puts on the forceps), a play about existence and what we do to pass the time as life goes by: it definitely seems to be more in favor of the pan pipes and wine lifestyle, but I’ve never been sure that it was him advocating for it directly. Sorry: that’s a block of text.
@Bytheway-2004Ай бұрын
Cake is super underrated.
@jamylaury25155 жыл бұрын
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SMASHING PUMPKINS VIDEO?????
@jonah10445 жыл бұрын
Cake is great but I feel like sinking ship got my hopes up for nothing. I miss their music and I want more.
@charleeriverbear51535 жыл бұрын
Fucking love your channel dude...please do Interpol
@luisgutierrez76195 жыл бұрын
Me an intellectual: The Distance is about racing cars 😌🙃
@second18145 жыл бұрын
Racing horses
@BlitzAMV5 жыл бұрын
Short skirt long jacket is about chicks with dicks
@antthomas79165 жыл бұрын
Can you do Those Poor Bastards? Such an underated and diverse band.
@devinanthony57735 жыл бұрын
My mom went to prom with the original drummers cousin, they're from Sacramento