Yes "Short Skirt/ Long Jacket" was recorded by Cake in 2001
and "The Distance" in 1996
Here are some other songs they recorded and the year
2004
WHEELS
NO PHONE
TAKE IT ALL AWAY
DIME
CARBON MONOXIDE
THE GUITAR MAN
WAITING
BASKETS
END OF THE MOVIE
PALM OF YOUR HAND
TOUGHER THAN IT IS
2001
OPERA SINGER
MEANWHILE, RICK JAMES...
SHADOW STABBING
SHORT SKIRT/LONG JACKET
COMMISSIONING A SYMPHONY IN C
ARCO ARENA
COMFORT EAGLE
LONG LINE OF CARS
LOVE YOU MADLY
PRETTY PINK RIBBON
WORLD OF TWO
1998
SATAN IS MY MOTOR
MEXICO
NEVER THERE
GUITAR
YOU TURN THE SCREWS
WALK ON BY
SHEEP GO TO HEAVEN
WHEN YOU SLEEP
HEM OF YOUR GARMENT
ALPHA BETA PARKING LOT
LET ME GO
COOL BLUE REASON
WHERE WOULD I BE
1996
I WILL SURVIVE
STICKSHIFTS AND SAFETYBELTS
PERHAPS, PERHAPS, PERHAPS
IT'S COMING DOWN
NUGGET
SHE'LL COME BACK TO ME
ITALIAN LEATHER SOFA
SAD SONGS AND WALTZES
1994
YOU PART THE WATERS
IS THIS LOVE?
JESUS WROTE A BLANK CHECK
HOW DO YOU AFFORD YOUR ROCK'N'ROLL LIFESTYLE?
I BOMBED KOREA
MR. MASTODON FARM
AIN'T NO GOOD
History:
Cake (band)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Background information
Origin Sacramento, California, USA
Genre(s) Alternative rock
Country
Post-grunge
Indie rock
Years active 1991 – Present
Label(s) Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Capricorn Records
Columbia Records
Website CakeMusic.com
Members
John McCrea
Vince DiFiore
Xan McCurdy
Gabe Nelson
Paulo Baldi
Former members
Greg Brown
Victor Damiani
Shon Meckfessel
Pete McNeal
Todd Roper
Frank French
Cake (often written CAKE) is a band from Sacramento, California, formed in 1991. It has had several hits throughout the 1990s and 2000s from its five recorded albums.
Although Cake's music is often classified as alternative or indie rock, it combines multiple musical genres, such as funk, ska, pop, jazz, rap, and country. Cake's music features droll lyrics rife with word play and syncopation (laconically-voiced in a rap-like style by lead vocalist/guitarist John McCrea), catchy distorted guitar riffs (courtesy of guitarist Greg Brown until 1998, and bass player Victor Damiani until 1997), and a solo trumpet (played by Vince DiFiore). Cake's unique musical style has been compared to Soul Coughing, They Might Be Giants, Talking Heads, The Cars, and Camper Van Beethoven.
Damiani left the band in 1997, replaced by Gabe Nelson. Greg Brown left in 1998, replaced by Xan McCurdy. Brown and Damiani continued to work together when they formed the band Deathray. Todd Roper left the band to focus on parenthood after recording Comfort Eagle.
Cake's biggest hits have included "The Distance", "Never There", "Sheep Go to Heaven" "Rock 'n' Roll Lifestyle", "No Phone", "Short Skirt/Long Jacket", and an alternative remake of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive". An instrumental version of Cake's "Italian Leather Sofa" is featured as the theme song to the cartoon Mission Hill. The song "Shadow Stabbing" from Comfort Eagle appears in the opening credits of the movies Orange County and Wordplay. The songs "Daria", "Rock 'n' Roll Lifestyle", and "Friend Is a Four-Letter Word" are featured as closing credit themes for episodes of Daria. The song "Frank Sinatra" was also featured at the close of The Sopranos episode "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti".
Additionally, Cake headlined the Unlimited Sunshine Tour festival in the summer of 2002 among an eclectic ensemble of bands including Modest Mouse, The Flaming Lips, De La Soul, Latin techno fusion band Kinky and bluegrass group The Hackensaw Boys.
Cake's fifth album, Pressure Chief, was released on October 5, 2004. John McCrea discussed this album with Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air in February 2005.
The band will release a live album, Live at the Crystal Palace, sometime in 2007. According to the band's page on MySpace, a rarities collection is also in the works, which will feature a cover of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs."
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