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Alternative PressComfort Eagle is infinitely smarter, smarmier and catchier than Weezer's Green Album. [Oct 2001, p.79]
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The best songs, particularly "Long Line of Cars" and "Pretty Pink Ribbon," exhibit a modern pop that is both mechanized and organic.
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It's mostly funny, but it also gets kind of same-y as these average Joes embrace their marching-band backgrounds and revel in self-deprecating humor.
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Cake at times manage to counterbalance the smart-aleck cynicism with skilled musicianship, and when [John] McCrea drops the monotone bombast and actually sings, the songs really work.
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BlenderMcCrea is still spinning wry, keenly observed stories, though the band has broadened its stylistic base some... [Aug/Sep 2001, p.121]
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Just as little has changed on the radio front, so has Cake stuck with its market-proven formula on "Comfort Eagle."
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Q MagazineWhen it works, it works brilliantly. [Dec 2001, p.120]
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Cake often veers close to the land of Dr. Demento -- but its catchy, quirky music always manages to pull back from the brink of madness by being a bit more substantial than your typical novelty tune.
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And the songs are catchy, yes. Just not so catchy that you're already singing along with them the first time you hear them.
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The sweetest moments come when frontman John McCrea breaks from the formula and extends his baritone beyond a single note, as on the harmony fueled ''Pretty Pink Ribbon'' and the yearning ''World of Two.''
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With Comfort Eagle mainly serving as a variation on the same themes that Cake keeps covering, it's tough to say for sure whether it's a better or worse album than anything else by the band.
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UncutJohn McCrea's sense of subversion skates on the thin ice of their self-belittling grooves without ever quite toppling. [Jan 2002, p.131]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 40 out of 45
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Mixed: 3 out of 45
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Negative: 2 out of 45
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Mar 27, 2020
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AyshL.May 1, 2008Amazing.