One of the great things about youtube is that stuff that gets overlooked or forgotten (even in its own time) finds new life and new fans as the curious stumble on old videos.
A fine example is the band ‘The Cake’ – I don’t quite know how I stumbled on this video but there’s something very cool and surprising about it. It begins with one of the girls stumbling and made dizzy by the carousel. She for a short while looks as though she refuses to join in as the others start to sing – though this is how they always performed. As they sing they hap hazardly improvise dances with a demeanour that’s very endearing and so opposite from the more usual slick performers of the time. And like the performance the music is not what you expect, being full of psychedelic strings and an amazing reverberant rhythm. It turns out they themselves were great songwriters and well connected to the emerging British progressive rock movement of the late sixties.
Simon Cowell would have hated them, which is why I and a lot of others on youtube think they're very cool.
More slices of The Cake
This one's kind of funny
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