Yes, I Want To Eat Some Cake!

Title: Eat Some Cake

Recorded on: GarageBand

Instruments: Clean Electric (guitar sound)
                     70s Ballad Drums
                     Rock Kit
                     Upright Jazz Bass
                     Trumpet Section
                     Fingerstyle Electric Bass
                     Angelic Organ
                     Megaphone (for primary vocals)
                     Male Basic (for other vocals)

Once again, the instruments are all presets in GarageBand.

As I struggle to learn Ableton and therefor am not writing any of my new ideas down, I go back and revisit some of my older stuff. This one was deliberately written as a single and although I don't think it would sell well (and SoundCloud apparently agrees because in the month or so that it's been out it's only had 17 plays,) it's still fun. It was written as a tribute to the band Cake and I sometimes wonder what John McCrea and the boys would think if they heard it. Hopefully they would take it in the spirit which it was written in.

I'll be the first to admit that this song owes a lot to "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" even though that's not my favorite Cake song. Right down to the reference line to wanting a woman who is "sharp as a tack." I was trying to write an original song but I was listening to the "Comfort Eagle" disc a lot and also writing about my recently deceased wife. So there you go. In a way, this is the grown up version of "Short Skirt," being about what kind of woman I would want for a long-term relationship, unlike the twenty-something fantasies of Cake's song.

I went with an entire trumpet section instead of trying to emulate Vince DiFiore's single, clear trumpet because, well, I'm just not  that good yet as a producer or a keyboard player. And besides, for all the great things you can do on GarageBand, the truth is that a lot of their sounds suck. The loops tend to be good but the presets all by themselves can be really tinny, or sound canned.

I used the Megaphone preset for the primary vocals because it was the best way I could find to mimic John's monotone, disaffected vocals. I don't know how he does that. I'm not a singer (I don't actually sing on this song,) so I tried to fake it as best I could.

I played this song for Burch and he laughed out loud. It's good that someone got the joke, at least it means that I did what I set out to do. It's always a good feeling when someone reacts positively to your stuff!

I posted this one a while back, you can listen to it here:https://soundcloud.com/c-l-neal/eat-some-cake
. I hope you enjoy it!

Peace out, catch you later...