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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.
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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
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1842 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) | 2011 |
| 2013 | 1883 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) | 2012 |
| 2014 | 1956 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) | 2013 |
| 2025 | 502 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
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