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“No Phone” by Cake

From the album Pressure Chief (2004)

“No Phone” by Cake appears on 24 radio countdowns from 16 stations between 2004 and 2022. It was first released in 2004 on the album Pressure Chief. Its best result is #24 on the WBER Listener Countdown 2004. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #50 alternative song of 2004, #1,874 alternative song of all time and #421 of the '00s.

24countdowns
16stations
#24best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
2004–2022years charted

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CAKE - No Phone (Official Video)

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"No Phone" was the lead single from Pressure Chief, Cake's fifth studio album, which arrived in October 2004, a couple of months later than first planned. The band kept it all in-house, literally: they produced the album themselves in a converted house in Sacramento, and on this track Cake are credited with the arrangement plus the engineering and the mix, the last two shared with Craig Long, Mark Needham, Patrick Olguin and Kirt Shearer.

John McCrea wrote it with Vincent DiFiore and Xan McCurdy, and two guests fill in: Paulo Baldi on drums, and Tyler Pope on keyboards, percussion and guitar. It climbed to No. 13 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart, and it came from the band's second and last album for Columbia.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.

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Indie & Adult Alternative

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Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2004 64 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 2004 91
2004 37 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2004 106
2004 85 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2004 101
2004 33 WFNX Boston, MA WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2004 100
2004 29 107.7 The End Seattle, WA The End Top 77 Songs of 2004 77
2004 31 CD101 Columbus, OH CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2004 101
2004 74 CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON CFNY Top 102 Songs of 2004 102
2004 32 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2004 99
2004 42 Channel 104.9 San Jose, CA Channel 104.9 Top 104.9 Songs of 2004 105
2004 53 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2004 88
2004 45 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 2004 103
2004 46 X96 Salt Lake City, UT X96 Top 50 Songs of 2004 50
2004 49 99X Atlanta, GA 99X Essential 99 of 2004 99
2004 24 WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 2004 227
2004 79 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2004 100

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2004 1997 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2007 524 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 659 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 645 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2010 630 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 619 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 596 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2014 562 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013
2022 697 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s 907

Charting alongside it in 2004

Best songs of 2004 →
  1. 1Somebody Told MeThe Killers
  2. 2American IdiotGreen Day
  3. 3Float OnModest Mouse
  4. 4Take Me OutFranz Ferdinand
  5. 5VertigoU2
  6. 6MegalomaniacIncubus

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