Cake (band)

. Billboard Mainstream Rock Charts. Cake's fifth album Pressure Chief, was released on October 5, 2004.
. Cake headlined the Unlimited Sunshine Tour festival in the summer of 2002 among an eyebrow-raising ecletic mix of bands including indie rock superstars Modest Mouse, The Flaming Lips, De La Soul, Latin techno fusion band Kinky and bluegrass group The Hackensaw Boys. They scored a Top 10 Rock smash with "Counting The Days" the same week. Their biggest hits include "The Distance", an alternative retake of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive", "Never There", "Sheep Go to Heaven", and "Short Skirt/Long Jacket". The album entered at #66 on the Billboard 200, after a string of promotional club/radio appearances, including a sold-out show at Los Angeles' Roxy Theater, performing a high-energy show.

Todd Roper left the band after recording Comfort Eagle. They released "Youth" under their own label, El Music Group. Greg Brown left in 1998, replaced by Xan McCurdy. On November 2004, Collective Soul released sixth studio album "Youth" with new guitarist Joel Koesche. Damiani left the band in 1997, replaced by Gabe Nelson. In 2001, the lead guitarist, Ross Childress, left the band, eventually being replaced by his own guitar tech, Joel Koesche. Their musical style is quite unique, and has been compared to They Might Be Giants and the Talking Heads, though a more accurate sound-alike would be Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass. Subsequent singles flopped, such as "Perfect Day" (a duet with Elton John) and "Vent", which barely cracked the Top 40 on the Rock chart.

Although their music is often classifed as alternative rock, Cake commonly combines multiple musical genres, such as funk, pop, jazz, rap, and country. Cake's music features droll lyrics rife with word play (laconically-voiced in a rap-like style by lead vocalist/guitarist John McCrea), catchy distorted guitar riffs (courtesy, until 1998, of guitarist Greg Brown and, until 1997, bass player Victor Damiani), and a solo trumpet (played by Vince DiFiore). It entered at #22 on the Billboard 200 but produced no more than one bona fide hit with "Why Pt 2" peaking at #2 at their strongest format. Cake is a Sacramento, California band, formed in 1991, who have had several hits throughout the 1990s and 2000s from their five recorded albums. In 2000, Collective Soul released fifth studio album "Blender" which achieved modest success. Todd Roper - Drums, percussion (left after Comfort Eagle). Collective Soul was one of the Top 5 most played bands on the Mainstream Rock format in the 1990s. John McCrea - Vocals, acoustic guitar, organ, vibraslap. At the end of 1998, "Heavy" was the #2 rock song of the year.

originally Victor Damiani (also left before "Prolonging the Magic" was recorded). It garnered moderate success on alternative, hot AC and the Top 40 formats but became somewhat of a cult favorite. Gabe Nelson - Bass guitar