This album is awful.. Come to think of it the whole band is atrocious. The song Short Skirt/Long Jacket has to be one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard. The lyrics are terrible. Anyone could have written such ridiculous lyrics. Where is the talent in such a song?? The singer has a horrible voice. He’s constantly singing off-key. Do not waste your money on this CD. …
Rating: 1 / 5
Sometimes you buy a disc because you love a particular song. We’ve all done it before. Cake’s Comfort Eagle is the perfect example. ‘Short Skirt/Long Jacket’ is a crack-up fun song. The song nails just about every hetero guy’s fantasy about the perfect girl: “I wanna girl who gets up early, I wanna a girl who stays up late!”; “She is fast, thorough and sharp as a tack!”; “I want a girl that uses a machete to cut through red tape”. The beat is catchy, the lyrics hysterical.
But after that, the CD quickly loses all steam. The title track is marginal, ‘Shadow Stabbing’ is just OK, and then just about every other song sounds the same. The percussion sounds like it’s out of a machine instead of a talented drummers fingers and hands. When a 1:30 long instrumental cut is a highlight of the disc, let’s just say money is better spent on other music out there.
There is not a single song that measures up to previous works like ‘Never There’, which is a shame, because John McCrea can write good lyrics. If this where Cake is going, it is no wonder why this band has trouble keeping its members together. This disc most accurately rates 1.65 stars, generously rounded up to 2.00 simply because of ‘Long Skirt’. (…) spend your money elsewhere.
Rating: 2 / 5
They no doubt have a unique sound, but the lyrics characterize what I call “hyper-Rock Intellect.” Which is the quasi-intellectual expression of rebellion that contains no strong intellectual insight. They are rockers, therefore they rebel against conforming society; but to sing simple lyrics mocking a classical composer and opera singer sounds nothing more than childish and annoying- leaving me to believe there was no real intellectual thought put into these words (“Comfort Eagle” being the only slight exception). They are one step above singing about how parents are so uncool. Sell on Cake, sell on.
Rating: 2 / 5
I think that Britney Spears must have collaberated on this project. Four letters distill this CD’s essence: D U N G!
Rating: 1 / 5
This album is awful.. Come to think of it the whole band is atrocious. The song Short Skirt/Long Jacket has to be one of the worst songs I’ve ever heard. The lyrics are terrible. Anyone could have written such ridiculous lyrics. Where is the talent in such a song?? The singer has a horrible voice. He’s constantly singing off-key. Do not waste your money on this CD. …
Rating: 1 / 5
Sometimes you buy a disc because you love a particular song. We’ve all done it before. Cake’s Comfort Eagle is the perfect example. ‘Short Skirt/Long Jacket’ is a crack-up fun song. The song nails just about every hetero guy’s fantasy about the perfect girl: “I wanna girl who gets up early, I wanna a girl who stays up late!”; “She is fast, thorough and sharp as a tack!”; “I want a girl that uses a machete to cut through red tape”. The beat is catchy, the lyrics hysterical.
But after that, the CD quickly loses all steam. The title track is marginal, ‘Shadow Stabbing’ is just OK, and then just about every other song sounds the same. The percussion sounds like it’s out of a machine instead of a talented drummers fingers and hands. When a 1:30 long instrumental cut is a highlight of the disc, let’s just say money is better spent on other music out there.
There is not a single song that measures up to previous works like ‘Never There’, which is a shame, because John McCrea can write good lyrics. If this where Cake is going, it is no wonder why this band has trouble keeping its members together. This disc most accurately rates 1.65 stars, generously rounded up to 2.00 simply because of ‘Long Skirt’. (…) spend your money elsewhere.
Rating: 2 / 5
In ‘Short Skirt, Long Jacket’, Kitty is changing her name to Karen as her MG changes to a white Chrysler LeBaron.
They meet at the bank, when she borrows his pen.
She has “….fingernails that shine like justice…”,
….. but no pen!
The dude is in a band….
Would he be awake yet?
Would he have a pen?
Would she even speak to him?
____ Karen with the white coupe? _______
I wore the outfit.
I had a pen…..Always…
I loved my
___ Red ___ topless ___ 2.5L turbocharged Chrysler LeBaron.
If this actually happened “Karen” didn’t need a pen, she needed a line.
She should have asked what sign he was.
My sign is “Don’t feed the animals”.
Rating: 4 / 5
They no doubt have a unique sound, but the lyrics characterize what I call “hyper-Rock Intellect.” Which is the quasi-intellectual expression of rebellion that contains no strong intellectual insight. They are rockers, therefore they rebel against conforming society; but to sing simple lyrics mocking a classical composer and opera singer sounds nothing more than childish and annoying- leaving me to believe there was no real intellectual thought put into these words (“Comfort Eagle” being the only slight exception). They are one step above singing about how parents are so uncool. Sell on Cake, sell on.
Rating: 2 / 5