Fashion Nugget
by Cake

Album
Fashion Nugget by Cake
Year: 1996
Release date: 1996-09-17
Overall rank: 1,724th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 311 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1996 (29th)
Award Top albums of of the 1990s (307th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,724th)

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Fashion Nugget is ranked as the best album by Cake.

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Fashion Nugget track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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1.
Frank Sinatra
Average Rating: 83 (73 votes)Comments: View 1
2.
The Distance
Average Rating: 83 (91 votes)Comments: View 3
3.
Friend Is A Four Letter Word
Average Rating: 81 (63 votes)Comments: View 0
4.
Open Book
Average Rating: 76 (54 votes)Comments: View 0
5.
Daria
Average Rating: 77 (53 votes)Comments: View 0
6.
Race Car Ya-Yas
Average Rating: 70 (51 votes)Comments: View 1
7.
I Will Survive
Average Rating: 84 (78 votes)Comments: View 0
8.
Stickshifts And Safetybelts
Average Rating: 71 (55 votes)Comments: View 0
9.
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
Average Rating: 78 (60 votes)Comments: View 0
10.
It's Coming Down
Average Rating: 77 (53 votes)Comments: View 0
11.
Nugget
Average Rating: 80 (54 votes)Comments: View 0
12.
She'll Come Back To Me
Average Rating: 73 (47 votes)Comments: View 0
13.
Italian Leather Sofa
Average Rating: 77 (52 votes)Comments: View 1
14.
Sad Songs And Waltzes
Average Rating: 74 (49 votes)Comments: View 0

Fashion Nugget rankings

Fashion Nugget rankings summary
Overall rank: 1,724th | 1990s rank: 307th | 1996 rank: 29th  Overall chart history
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Fashion Nugget ratings

Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 311 votes)
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 !		08/02/2026 02:06 xhitmanx  Ratings distribution  1,60475/100
 
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 !		05/27/2026 01:20 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  16,02370/100
 
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 !		04/29/2026 09:41 Liks_on_music  Ratings distribution  67681/100

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This album is rated in the top 14% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.2/100, a mean average of 72.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.5.


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Fashion Nugget forum mentions

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From 11/07/2011 18:47 | #30063 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I shouldn't like that album and that band but I can't help myself. "The Distance" is great. the texts hilarious, the melodies catchy. And that version of "I Will Survive" on which the singer sounds half dead or full-gone on Prozac. Too lol.
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From 08/19/2013 15:31 | #84186 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
My first car, which I got in 1997, had only a cassette player. I had skipped collecting cassettes, as CDs were readily available when I started collecting music, so I picked up two cassettes: this one and Soundgarden's "Superunknown". For (mostly) better and worse, this was the soundtrack to those first months of freedom. Haven't given it a spin in 15 years, but I'll always remember it fondly.
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From 10/08/2013 17:00 | #87943 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
Although it slightly lacks diversity, Cake's "Fashion Nugget" is smooth, rockin, and comedic. Just about every track is great. Plus, you'll love the lyrics. Lyrically, this is one of my favorite albums (except for the language.)
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85/100
From 04/07/2012 23:45 | #39735 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
I love this album, my fav Cake, me likey the 'I will survive' cover as well as 'Sinatra' and of course 'the distance'
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From 10/18/2013 04:12 | #88620 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
This album has not aged well. Ironic lyrics and dead-pan delivery are so 90s... and every song sounds the same.
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