Not too many people do like cake. They're something of a cult band. The problem with Cake, I'd guess, for the common person is that the disparity between one song and the next, the beatuy of what they do isn't persented in a nice package thats terribly obvious.
A lot comes from the instrumentation, but you have to value the sparse. This isn't a James Brown or Gun's & Roses. The song writing, coupled with McCrea's voice speaks to certain people. We get where he is and where he's coming from. I wouldnt try and suggest they're a megastar band, but they are very good at what they do, not, in small part, to their song writing either.
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