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Prolonging The Magic (Deluxe Edition)

CAKE15 songs • 55 minutes

Prolonging the Magic is the third studio album by American alternative rock band Cake. It was released on October 6, 1998, on Capricorn Records. The sole successful single was "Never There". The album was recorded after the departure of guitarist Greg Brown and features a rotating lineup of musicians to replace him. One of them, Xan McCurdy, became his full-time replacement. On its opening week, Prolonging the Magic sold about 44,000 copies, debuting at No. 33 on the Billboard 200 chart. On 28 September 1999 the album was certified platinum by the RIAA for shipments of one million copies. The album was given a parental advisory sticker not because of profanity but for Satanic-themed lyrics. Some copies do not feature a sticker, with the only difference being that the song "Satan Is My Motor" has been retitled "Motor". When asked in 1999 if the song "You Turn the Screws" was directed at recently-departed band members Greg Brown and Victor Damiani, the band responded "Not really. It is a song about power dynamics." The song "Hem of Your Garment" was featured in the 2000 film Me, Myself & Irene. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolong...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)

Songs

  1. 1
    Satan Is My Motor
  2. 2
    Mexico
  3. 3
    Never There
  4. 4
    Guitar
  5. 5
    You Turn The Screws
  6. 6
    Walk On By
  7. 7
    Sheep Go To Heaven
  8. 8
    When You Sleep
  9. 9
    Hem Of Your Garment
  10. 10
    Alpha Beta Parking Lot
  11. 11
    Let Me Go
  12. 12
    Cool Blue Reason
  13. 13
    Where Would I Be?
  14. 14
    Never There (Live at WXPN, Philadelphia, PA - Dec. 1997)
  15. 15
    Sheep Go To Heaven (Live at The End - 1998)

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