No Pain for Cakes | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1987 | |||
Recorded | November 1986 | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 38:00 | |||
Label | Antilles/Island[1] | |||
Producer | John Lurie | |||
The Lounge Lizards chronology | ||||
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No Pain for Cakes is an album by the American jazz band the Lounge Lizards, released in 1987.[2][3] John Lurie sang on the album.[4]
The album was recorded at Kaufman Astoria Studios, in Queens, New York.[5] Marc Ribot contributed to No Pain for Cakes.[6]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Robert Christgau | B+[7] |
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | [8] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [9] |
Windsor Star | C+[10] |
The Globe and Mail called the album "mature and vivid music, always ingenious and sometimes brilliant."[11] The Windsor Star wrote that the Lounge Lizards "sound as if their music is written by a contemporary Kurt Weill for a Fellini movie without them ever taking their tongues out of their cheeks."[10] The Christian Science Monitor deemed No Pain for Cakes "zany weirdness and outrageous eclecticism—avant pop/jazz/rock."[12]
All tracks composed by John Lurie; except where indicated