Fashion Nugget

Fashion Nugget
Studio album by Cake
Released	September 17, 1996
Recorded	1995-1996
Genre	Alternative rock, college rock
Length	48:36
Label	Capricorn Records
Producer	Cake
Cake chronology
Motorcade of Generosity (1994)Motorcade of Generosity1994 Fashion Nugget (1996) Prolonging the Magic (1998)Prolonging the Magic1998
Singles from Fashion Nugget
"I Will Survive" Released: 1996 "The Distance" Released: October 15, 1996 "Frank Sinatra" Released: 1997 "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" Released: 1997 "Friend Is A Four Letter Word" Released: March 3, 1998

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
Robert Christgau
The Rolling Stone Album Guide

Fashion Nugget is the second studio album by Cake, an alternative rock band from Sacramento, California. It was released in 1996, and contains 14 songs. "The Distance" became one of the band's biggest hits. On December 9, 1996, the album was certified gold by the RIAA, and the next year, the album was certified platinum for shipments of one million copies.

In the United States, the album received a Parental Advisory sticker for profanity in the songs "Nugget" and "I Will Survive," a cover of the Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris song that originally did not have said profanity.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by John McCrea, except where noted. 

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Frank Sinatra"		4:01
2.	"The Distance"	Greg Brown	3:00
3.	"Friend Is a Four Letter Word"		3:22
4.	"Open Book"	Brown, McCrea	3:44
5.	"Daria"		3:44
6.	"Race Car Ya-Yas"	Cake	1:21
7.	"I Will Survive"	Freddie Perren, Dino Fekaris	5:10
8.	"Stickshifts and Safetybelts"		2:09
9.	"Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps"	Osvaldo Farrés, Joe Davis	2:24
10.	"It's Coming Down"		3:44
11.	"Nugget"	Cake	3:58
12.	"She'll Come Back to Me"		2:24
13.	"Italian Leather Sofa"		5:52
14.	"Sad Songs and Waltzes"	Willie Nelson	3:15

Personnel

CAKE

• John McCrea - lead vocals, acoustic guitar and organ
• Greg Brown - electric guitar and organ
• Vince DiFiore - trumpet and percussion
• Victor Damiani - bass guitar
• Todd Roper - drums and percussion

Special Guest

• Greg Vincent - pedal steel guitar (track 12)

Appearances in other media

• The Daria episode "The Road Worrier" featured the song "Frank Sinatra". The song "Daria" was used as closing credits for "The New Kid" and "Friend Is a Four-Letter Word" was the closing credit theme of episode 13 of season 4 : "Dye! Dye! My Darling".
• The song "Frank Sinatra" was also featured at the close of The Sopranos episode The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti
• Cake's cover of "I Will Survive" was featured in the 1998 French film Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train, the 2004 Japanese movie Survive Style 5+, the 2003 film Secretary, and the 2003 Canadian comedy, Mambo Italiano.
• "Open Book" was featured on the soundtrack to the 2001 film Sidewalks of New York.
• "Stickshifts and Safetybelts" is featured in the film Waking Up in Reno.
• "Stickshifts and Safetybelts" was featured on the Las Vegas callback episode of Season 6 of So You Think You Can Dance.
• For two years, "The Distance" was used in the TV advert for the Powers Irish Grand National, a horse race which takes place in Dublin, Ireland every Easter Monday.
• An instrumental version of "The Distance" was used in Episode 13 of Season 11 of The Simpsons, called "Saddlesore Galactica".
• Excerpts of "Stickshifts and Safetybelts" are often used as bumpers on The Splendid Table, which is produced by American Public Media and airs on public radio stations nationwide.
• The cover of "I Will Survive" and other songs from Fashion Nugget are used in the German film Herr Lehmann.
• An instrumental and uptempo version of the song "Italian Leather Sofa" plays over the opening credits of the animated cartoon "Mission Hill" (1999–2002).
• "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" is featured on the soundtrack of the movies Dream for an Insomniac and Welcome to Woop Woop.
• The cover of "I Will Survive" was used in the Italian movie L'uomo in più (One man up).
• "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" was used in Snapple commercials
• "The Distance" was used in Amazon Echo commercials in 2015.

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1996	The Billboard 200	36
	Heatseekers	1

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1996	"The Distance"	Hot 100 Airplay	35
		Modern Rock Tracks	4
		Mainstream Rock Tracks	38
1997	"I Will Survive"	Modern Rock Tracks	28

External links

• Fashion Nugget at AllMusic
• Fashion Nugget on Last.fm