I was completely caught unawares when this song popped up on my radio today. Such a powerful song, great vocals (by the Edwin Hawkins Singers), and what a voice… pretty emotional, but that’s because my parents used to play this a lot on cassette some 30 years ago.
Thanks to good friend Pascal, who reminded me of this Black Crowes track. They got a bit of a Pink Floyd – Breathe vibe going on in here.
I saw them some time ago in Paradiso, Amsterdam and it was a damn great show!
Once, some years ago, I got involved in Somesongs, a site where you could post your own songs and have them actually listened and reviewed by fello musicians. Sadly enough, most of those musicians went on to do other things, so it kind of died out. But I found some great music there, including this song by Brad Sucks. At one time he apparently chose to re-record the song; this version I think isn’t half as good as the demo. I’ll upload that one next week…
Caesar’s best known song in Holland, apparently because of the line “Life gets so much easier when you’re stoned”. I like it a lot because of the frenzied drumming during and after the chorus; it’s the way I would like to drum, if I only could spend more time practicing…
Live during their farewell concert in 2008.
Official (?) videoclip.
I stumbled onto this fine song from Caesar today, and I just had to post it. Off their album No Rest for the Alonely, I think this is their best song.
A blast from the past. I actually went to see the Ahoy, Rotterdam gig of Peter Gabriel’s Secret World tour (but cannot remember anything of the actual concert 
).
Studioversion with sleeve.
Live during the Secret World Live tour.
And still more CAKE! I love the overall sound of the band which they keep the same over the albums: cheapo nylon stringed guitar as rhythm, Gretsch electric guitar, drums, funky bass and drums with the occasional synth.
More CAKE! Great lyrics on this one (been there, felt like that), plus I love me some pedal steel guitar.
Been discovering some CAKE albums I didn’t know lately, and this song struck me for its strange lyrics. I mean, who would sing about the afterlife of sheep and goats…
Live webcast, jan 22th, 2002
Live @ the Great American Music Hall
I browsed my iTunes library yesterday, trying to do some cleaning up when I stumbled across No Rest for the Alonely, an album by dutch band Caesar. So I listened and found there were only 3 songs on it that I would rate 4 stars, the rest of the tracks including this opening track My Loss deserving 5 stars easily.
No online media found yet…