Is there cake?

And right on cue, the department manager just walked in and announced that there is cake with fresh strawberries in the main office. Random Cake Day is the best holiday ever.

I dunno. "MacArthur Park" has so many stupid lyrics, whereas "Tusk" just has the stupid repetition of the word "tusk!"

Tusk lacks the drama of MacArthur Park

sigh

I would commit petty larceny for a Random Cake Day.

OK, which has worse lyrics: "MacArthur Park" or "Tusk"?

To be honest, my half-brother's retarded sister loves "MacArthur Park." She hates "Tusk." I have a tendency to trust her with things like that.

I remember when I first visited California, somehow "MacArthur Park" came up (probably drove by it with a local) and I had to confess I had never heard the song. AFAIK, I still haven't.

I gather it is about cake, however. How can a song about cake be long, boring and a bizarre point of trivia? I don't know.

In 1992 Dave Barry solicited reader's choices for worst song ever and received an overwhelming flood of over 10,000 responses. There was one clear "winner" — MacArthur Park, which nevertheless topped the charts twice (1968 and 1978) and has been covered on more than 50 albums!

but in defense:

But Barry and other detractors are just plain wrong. This is the inner cry of a young Okie kid lost in Los Angeles with a heart full of sorrows and a head full of acid. He has been crushed by love, but he vows to rise again, though he knows his loss always will cause him pain.

Also, the author's defense:

All very edifying, Jimmy, - but the question that really needs to be asked here is, what are the lyrics to MacArthur Park about? I mean, "Someone left the cake out in the rain/I don't think that I can make it cos' it took too long to bake it and I'll never have that recipe again" - what's going on there? "I always think that whatever is art, need not and should not be explained, as someone once said. "But I'll tell you: MacArthur Park is clearly about a love affair ending, and the person singing it is using the cake and the rain as a metaphor for that. OK, it may be far out there, and a bit incomprehensible, but that is what I was trying to get at. I suppose the whole thing was that I wrote the song at a time in the late 1960s when surrealistic lyrics were the order of the day. It was written around about the same time as Strawberry Fields, so it probably seems a bigger deal now than it was back then. Still, the lyrics never stopped Richard Harris, Frank Sinatra, Donna Summer and any number of trash garage bands from doing it - and who else can say that about one of their songs"?

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Tusk.

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Nutty, you hadn't even heard the Donna Summer cover of it?

Donna Summer had the 1978 hit with it, right?

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