Cover of Showroom of Compassion by Cake
Cover: Showroom of Compassion

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“Sick Of You” by Cake

From the album Showroom of Compassion (2011)

“Sick Of You” by Cake appears on 45 radio countdowns from 32 stations between 2010 and 2025. It was first released in 2011 on the album Showroom of Compassion. Its best result is #4 on the WBRU Top 95.5 Songs of 2011. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #32 alternative song of 2010, #6,639 alternative song of all time and #31 of the '10s.

45countdowns
32stations
#4best position
0#1 finishes
1top 10 finishes
2010–2025years charted

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"Sick of You" led Cake back into the fray as the first single from Showroom of Compassion, their sixth studio album, and it's a hate song with a punchline. John McCrea has explained it as a map of loathing that starts wide, with presidents and movie stars you'll never meet, then keeps shrinking toward relatives, close friends and, finally, the person in the mirror.

The whole band shares the writing credit, Vincent DiFiore, McCrea, Xan McCurdy and Gabriel Nelson, and Cake produced it themselves, engineering and mixing alongside Patrick Olguin. It rides the usual deadpan Cake bounce, dry as a desert and just as sunny. It gave them a fourth top-10 hit on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart, reaching number four, and went all the way to number one on Mediabase's Canadian alternative rock chart.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2010 61 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 2010 91
2010 58 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2010 101
2010 33 WFNX Boston, MA WFNX Top 101 Songs of 2010 101
2010 48 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2010 99
2010 102 103.1 The Buzz West Palm Beach, FL Buzz 103.1 The 103 Most Played Buzz Cuts of 2010 103
2010 47 X96 Salt Lake City, UT X96 Top 50 Songs of 2010 50
2010 63 The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN The Current Top 89 Songs of 2010 88
2010 55 94.5 The Buzz Houston, TX 94.5 The Buzz Top 94 of 2010 94
2010 49 ALT 104.5 Philadelphia, PA Radio 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2010 51
2010 42 KJEE 92.9 Santa Barbara, CA KJEE Top 92 Songs of 2010 91
2010 46 Lightning 100 Nashville, TN Lightning 100 Best of 2010 50
2010 65 WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2010 104
2010 63 105.7 The Point St. Louis, MO 105.7 The Point Top 105 Songs of 2010 105
2010 49 94.3 WCYY Portland, ME WCYY Top 50 of 2010 50
2010 17 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 2010 103
2010 14 107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2010 107
2010 30 103.1 The River Kalispell-Flathead Valley, MT 103.1 The River Top 103 of 2010 102
2010 28 99 Rock Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction, NH-VT 99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2010 99
2010 30 (tie) WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 2010 95
2010 70 WXPN Philadelphia, PA WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2010 100
2010 38 Channel 92.3 San Jose / San Francisco Bay Area, CA Channel 92.3 Top 92 Songs of 2010 92
2010 21 89.9 WLCA St. Louis, MO WLCA Top 89 of 2010 89
2010 40 KFMA Tucson, AZ KFMA Top 50 Songs of 2010 50
2010 43 94.1 The Zone Rochester, NY 94.1 The Zone Most Played Songs of 2010 91
2010 25 KSLG Eureka (Humboldt County), CA KSLG Top 94 Slugtunez of 2010 94
2010 36 FM 102/1 Milwaukee, WI FM 102/1 Top 50 of 2010 50
2010 66 89.7 The River Omaha, NE / Council Bluffs, IA 89.7 The River Top 89 of 2010 89
2010 26 WBRU Providence, RI WBRU Top 95 Songs of 2010 95
2011 50 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 2011 91
2011 59 WFNX Boston, MA WFNX Top 101 Songs of 2011 101
2011 27 CFNY 102.1 The Edge Toronto, ON 102.1 The Edge Top 102 Songs of 2011 102
2011 91 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2011 99
2011 13 KSLG Eureka (Humboldt County), CA KSLG Top 94 Slugtracks of 2011 94
2011 34 89.7 The River Omaha, NE / Council Bluffs, IA 89.7 The River Top 89 of 2011 89
2011 35 92.3 WTTS Indianapolis-Bloomington, IN WTTS Top 50 Songs of 2011 50
2011 28 105.7 The Point St. Louis, MO 105.7 The Point Top 105 Songs of 2011 105
2011 11 90.5 WERG Erie, PA WERG Top 90 of 2011 90
2011 91 103.1 The River Kalispell-Flathead Valley, MT 103.1 The River Top 103 of 2011 103
2011 58 (tie) WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 2011 111
2011 24 94.1 The Zone Rochester, NY 94.1 The Zone Most Played Songs of 2011 94
2011 4 WBRU Providence, RI WBRU Top 95.5 Songs of 2011 96

All-time and decade countdowns

Also listed as: Sick of You.

Charting alongside it in 2010

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