Comfort Eagle

Comfort Eagle
Studio album by Cake
Released	July 24, 2001
Recorded	Paradise Studios in Sacramento, California, with additional recording at Hyde Street Studios in San Francisco, California
Genre	Alternative 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: August 14, 2001 "Arco Arena" Released: 2001 "Love You Madly" Released: 2001

Comfort Eagle is the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band Cake. It was released in 2001 on Columbia Records, their first with the company.

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
Total length:			36:55

Release

In its opening week, Comfort Eagle sold about 72,000 copies, debuting at number 13 on the Billboard 200.^[1] On February 2, 2003 the album was certified gold by the RIAA for shipments of half a million copies.^[2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	70/100[3]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
Alternative Press	[3]
Blender	[3]
Entertainment Weekly	B−[5]
PopMatters	7/10[3][6]
Q	[3]
Rolling Stone	[7]
Uncut	[3]

Comfort Eagle was generally well received by critics, with reviewers noting the album's similarity to the band's previous albums, for better or worse.^[3][4]

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
2001	Billboard 200[8]	13
	Top Internet Albums[8]	2

Single

Year	Single	Chart	Position
2001	"Short Skirt/Long Jacket"[8]	Modern Rock Tracks	7

Personnel

Cake John McCrea – vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, bass, drum programming, percussion Vince DiFiore – trumpet, keyboards, backing vocals Xan McCurdy – electric guitar, percussion, backing vocals Gabriel Nelson – bass guitar, keyboards, backing vocals Todd Roper – drums, percussion, Moog synthesizer, backing vocals Tyler Pope – keyboard, electric guitar ("Opera Singer", "Short Skirt/Long Jacket", "Arco Arena")

Technical Kirt Shearer – mixing David Cole – mixing Craig Long – mixing Gabriel Shepard – mixing Don C. Taylor – mastering

References

1. "Week Ending Jan. 16, 2011: Albums: Even Lower | Chart Watch – Yahoo! Music". Yahoo! News. Retrieved June 9, 2013.
2. "RIAA – Gold & Platinum Searchable Database – June 08, 2013". riaa.com. Retrieved June 9, 2013.
3. "Critic Reviews for Comfort Eagle – Metacritic". Metacritic. Retrieved June 4, 2013.
4. Vanderhoff, Mark. "Comfort Eagle – Cake : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards : AllMusic". AllMusic. AllRovi. Retrieved June 4, 2013.
5. Serpick, Evan (August 3, 2001). "Cake: Comfort Eagle Review | Music Reviews and News | ew.com". ew.com. Retrieved June 4, 2013.
6. Fowler, Shan (July 23, 2001). "Cake: Comfort Eagle | PopMatters". PopMatters. Retrieved June 4, 2013.
7. Berger, Arion (July 24, 2001). "Cake: Comfort Eagle : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". rollingstone.com. Archived from the original on October 17, 2007. Retrieved June 4, 2013.
8. "Cake's 'Comfort' Soars Like an 'Eagle' Billboard". billboard.com. Retrieved June 4, 2013.

External links

• Comfort Eagle at Discogs (list of releases)