HT Giveaway: Cake – Live on Letterman

The Live on Letterman webcast series gives some of the Late Show with David Letterman musical guests a chance to play a full set on the stage of the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City. My Morning Jacket, the Foo Fighters and Gorillaz are among the acts that have appeared on Live on Letterman with avant-alternative rockers Cake the next to take the plunge come Tuesday night.

While anyone with an internet connection can watch Cake’s set starting at 9PM EDT on Tuesday night, only about 400 people will be watching from inside the Ed Sullivan Theater including five lucky Hidden Track readers and their guest. That’s right, we have five pairs of tickets to attend Tuesday’s taping. To enter, simply leave a comment below and/or on our Facebook wall telling us about your favorite Cake song. Please make sure you are 100% able to make it to the theater by 8PM on Tuesday night before entering.

Here’s a rundown of the details for this contest…

  • Prize: Five winners will each receive a pair of tickets to attend Cake’s set at the Ed Sullivan Theater in NYC on Tuesday, June 28
  • To enter the contest leave a comment below telling us about your favorite Cake song
  • You can enter a second time by posting your favorite Cake song on our official Facebook page
  • Your comment/Facebook wall posting must be left by 10:59AM EDT on Tuesday, June 28
  • If you’ve written for Hidden Track, you can’t enter
  • All entries will tallied at the end of the contest and we’ll determine the winners by using random.org
  • Please don’t enter if you there’s a chance you won’t be able to make it to the Ed Sullivan Theater by 8PM on Tuesday night

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15 Responses

  1. Hey! My favorite Cake song has got to be Short Skirt Long Jacket! Absolutely love that beat and many other Cake songs. Please pick me!

  2. I love “Long Time”. I sing and groove along with this song. It makes me feel young and cool even though I am an “old” mom and social worker. I turned my 18 year old son onto Cake too. I love sharing music with my kids. If they think I have good opinions on music, I gain respect and they may think I have good views on other life choices.

  3. “Sheep Go to Heaven” because it will rock you out of your seat AND contains some sage advice: “As soon as you’re born you start dying, so you might as well have a good time.” What’s not to love?
    Thanks, Cake, for continuing to kick a** for so many years.

  4. I’m going old school here, and with a cover. They’re version of I Will Survive has always been a favorite.

  5. ‘Short skirt, long jacket’ is an all time classic. I saw Cake at 9:30 in DC not too long ago and was impressed with how much they rock in a live show. Their music is inspired as it sounds exactly the same live as it does on albums. Also cool that they gave away a tree.

  6. I’d like to explain why Frank Sinatra is not only the best Cake song, but quite possibly the best song ever written. Let’s start at the very beginning with the elegant muted trumped solo that takes you immediately into a wooden speakeasy in the 1920’s, a room dampened by the sound of this musicians’s sound while buzzing with energy for we know this muted solo will surely progress into something more vibrant and less shrouded.
    Then, the muted sound breaks, the true sound of Vince’s instrument blazes through and the prose begins.
    Suddenly the image of the speakeasy is augmented, it’s inflated and the wide brush strokes painted by the opening trumpet sounds are filled in with fine-tip colored pencil. We are far from a photograph, but we begin to see dismembered constellations above the backdrop of a glimmering radio station.
    We meet the old man collecting stamps, and relax in his room all filled with chinese lamps as we await the trumpet to ease in to it’s prominent spot back at the speakeasy.
    The song leaves us with a glimpse of the Frank Sinatra world, but it’s a surreal one. It’s detail oriented, but not full of details. It leaves room for our imagination while giving us the artistic musical framework upon which we lay our imaginations.
    And while frank sinatra sings stormy weather,the flies and spiders get along together.

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