Comfort Eagle is the fourth studio album

Studio album

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 by American

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 band Cake

Cake (band)

Cake is an American alternative rock band from Sacramento, California. Consisting of singer John McCrea, trumpeter Vince DiFiore, guitarist Xan McCurdy, bassist Gabe Nelson and drummer Paulo Baldi, the band has been noted for McCrea's sarcastic lyrics and deadpan voice, DiFiore's trumpet parts, and...

. It was released on 24 July 2001. Comfort Eagle was Cake's first release on Columbia Records

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On its opening week, Comfort Eagle sold about 72,000 copies, debuting at number 13 on the Billboard 200

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. On February 2, 2003 the album was certified gold by the RIAA for shipments of half a million copies.

Track listing

Personnel

• John McCrea - Lead vocals, guitar
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  , bass
  Bass guitar
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  , percussion
  Percussion instrument
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  , keyboards
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• Vince DiFiore
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   - Trumpet
  Trumpet
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  , keyboards, backing vocals
• Xan McCurdy - Percussion, guitar, backing vocals, design, mixing
• Todd Roper - Percussion, drums
  Drum kit
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  , backing vocals, Moog synthesizer
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• 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
  Shallow Hal
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• 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
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  and Wordplay
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• The song "Short Skirt/Long Jacket
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  " is featured in the soundtrack of the film All About Steve
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  , the movie Waitress
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  , and the ER
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  episode "Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic". An instrumental portion of the song is used as the theme song to the NBC
  NBC
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   show Chuck
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  . The song was also used in a 2010 Apple iPod Nano
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   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
  Forgetting Sarah Marshall
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• The song "Love You Madly" was used in Episode 2 of Season 1 of Smallville
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• The song "Love You Madly" is used in a promo for PBS Kids
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• The song "Arco Arena" is sampled by Jay-Z
  Jay-Z
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   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

External links

• Comfort Eagle on Last.fm
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