Comfort Eagle

Comfort Eagle
Studio album by Cake
Released	July 24, 2001
Recorded	Paradise Studios in Sacramento, CA, with additional recording at Hyde Street Studios in San Francisco, CA
Genre	Alternative rock, funk rock
Length	36:55
Label	Columbia
Producer	Cake
Cake chronology
Prolonging the Magic (1998) Comfort Eagle (2001) Pressure Chief (2004)
Singles from Comfort Eagle
"Short Skirt/Long Jacket" Released: 2001

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	(B-)[2]
Piero Scaruffi	[3]
PopMatters	(favorable)[4]

Comfort Eagle is the fourth studio album by American band Cake. It was released on 24 July 2001. Comfort Eagle was Cake's first release on Columbia Records.

On its opening week, Comfort Eagle sold about 72,000 copies, debuting at number 13 on the Billboard 200.^[5] On February 2, 2003 the album was certified gold by the RIAA for shipments of half a million copies.^[6]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by John McCrea, unless otherwise noted. 

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Opera Singer"	McCrea, Mark Kornweibel	4:06
2.	"Meanwhile, Rick James..."		3:57
3.	"Shadow Stabbing"	McCrea, George Kane	3:07
4.	"Short Skirt/Long Jacket"		3:24
5.	"Commissioning a Symphony in C"		2:59
6.	"Arco Arena"		1:31
7.	"Comfort Eagle"		3:40
8.	"Long Line of Cars"		3:24
9.	"Love You Madly"		3:58
10.	"Pretty Pink Ribbon"		3:08
11.	"World of Two"		3:41

Personnel

• John McCrea - Lead vocals, guitar, bass, percussion, keyboards
• Vince DiFiore - Trumpet, keyboards, backing vocals
• Xan McCurdy - Percussion, guitar, backing vocals, design, mixing
• Todd Roper - Percussion, drums, backing vocals, Moog synthesizer
• Kirt Shearer - Mixing
• David Cole - Mixing
• Craig Long - Mixing
• Gabriel Shepard - Mixing
• Don C. Taylor - Mastering

Miscellaneous

• The song "Comfort Eagle" was included in the original soundtrack for the film Shallow Hal.
• The song "Comfort Eagle" was slated to be the album's second single, but its release was cancelled after 9/11 due to its lyrics mentioning airplanes and stepping from ledges. "Love You Madly" was instead released as the second single.
• The song "Shadow Stabbing" appears in the opening credits of the movies Orange County and Wordplay.
• The song "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" is featured in the soundtrack of the film All About Steve, the movie Waitress, and the ER episode "Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic". An instrumental portion of the song is used as the theme song to the NBC show Chuck. The song was also used in a 2010 Apple iPod Nano TV ad and on BBC Football show Match of The Day.
• The song "Love You Madly" is featured in the 2008 film Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
• The song "Love You Madly" was used in Episode 2 of Season 1 of Smallville.
• The song "Love You Madly" is used in a promo for PBS Kids.
• The song "Arco Arena" is sampled by Jay-Z for his song "Guns & Roses".
• The CD tray is colored white.

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
2001	The Billboard 200	13
	Top Canadian Albums	7
	Top Internet Albums	2

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
2001	"Short Skirt/Long Jacket"	Bubbling Under the Hot 100	24
		Adult Top 40	31
		Modern Rock Tracks	7

References

1. ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r544316
2. ^ http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,169206~4~0~cakecomforteagle,00.html
3. ^ http://www.scaruffi.com/vol5/cake.html
4. ^ http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/cake-comfort
5. ^ Grein, Paul (January 19, 2011). "Week Ending Jan. 16, 2011: Albums: Even Lower". Yahoo! News. http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/73781/week-ending-jan-16-2011-albums-even-lower/. Retrieved January 19, 2011. 
6. ^ "Gold & Platinum - Search Results: Cake". Recording Industry Association of America. http://riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?resultpage=1&table=SEARCH_RESULTS&action=&title=&artist=Cake&format=&debutLP=&category=&sex=&releaseDate=&requestNo=&type=&level=&label=&company=&certificationDate=&awardDescription=&catalogNo=&aSex=&rec_id=&charField=&gold=&platinum=&multiPlat=&level2=&certDate=&album=&id=&after=&before=&startMonth=1&endMonth=1&startYear=1958&endYear=2009&sort=Artist&perPage=25. Retrieved 2011-01-23. 

External links

• Comfort Eagle at Allmusic
• Comfort Eagle on Last.fm