No Pain for Cakes explained

No Pain for Cakes
Type:	Album
Artist:	the Lounge Lizards
Cover:	No Pain for Cakes.jpg
Released:	1987
Recorded:	November 1986
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	38:00
Label:	Antilles/Island^[1]
Producer:	John Lurie
Prev Title:	Lounge Lizards
Prev Year:	1981
Next Title:	Voice of Chunk
Next Year:	1988

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]

Production

The album was recorded at Kaufman Astoria Studios, in Queens, New York.^[5] Marc Ribot contributed to No Pain for Cakes.^[6]

Critical reception

The Globe and Mail called the album "mature and vivid music, always ingenious and sometimes brilliant."^[7] 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." The Christian Science Monitor deemed No Pain for Cakes "zany weirdness and outrageous eclecticism—avant pop/jazz/rock."^[8]

Track listing

All tracks composed by John Lurie; except where indicated

"My Trip to Ireland"
"No Pain for Cakes"
"My Clown's on Fire" (John Lurie, Curtis Fowlkes, Marc Ribot)
"Carry Me Out"
"Bob and Nico"
"Tango #3, Determination for Rosa Parks" (Evan Lurie)
"The Magic of Palermo" (John Lurie, Evan Lurie)
"Cue for Passion" (Evan Lurie)
"Where Were You" (Evan Lurie, Erik Sanko)

Personnel

Lounge Lizards

Evan Lurie - piano; voice on "My Trip to Ireland"
John Lurie - alto saxophone, painting
Marc Ribot - guitar, banjo; cornet on "Carry Me Out"
Curtis Fowlkes - trombone
Roy Nathanson - reeds
Erik Sanko - bass
Dougie Bowne - drums
E.J. Rodriguez - percussion

Additional personnel

Anders Gårdmand - baritone saxophone on "No Pain for Cakes" and "Carry Me Out"
Jill Jaffe - violin on "No Pain for Cakes"
Seigen Ono at the Kaufman Astoria Studios, Queens - recording and mixing
Valerie Goodman - coordinator
Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound, NYC - mastering

Notes and References

Web site: Label Watch: Luaka Bop and John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards. Bill. Milkowski. JazzTimes.
Web site: The Lounge Lizards Biography, Songs, & Albums. AllMusic.
Web site: Lounge Lizards . Trouser Press . 26 June 2022.
Web site: Lounge Lizards' John Lurie. https://web.archive.org/web/20211203232420/http://www.mtv.com/news/570079/lounge-lizards-john-lurie/. dead. December 3, 2021. MTV News.
News: Goldstein . Patrick . Pop Eye . Los Angeles Times . 12 Apr 1987 . Calendar . 67.
Web site: New York Rock: From the Rise of The Velvet Underground to the Fall of CBGB. Steven. Blush. October 4, 2016. St. Martin's Publishing Group. Google Books.
News: Miller . Mark . No Pain for Cakes The Lounge Lizards . The Globe and Mail . 7 May 1987 . C3.
News: Duncan . Amy . Pop/Rock/Jazz . The Christian Science Monitor . 10 June 1987 . Arts.