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No Pain for Cakes is the second studio album by the American jazz band The Lounge Lizards, released in 1987.

Reception.

The Globe and Mail called the album “mature and vivid music, always ingenious and sometimes brilliant.” 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.”

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

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Released: 1987
Recorded: November 1986
Length: 38:00
Label: Antilles/Island
Producer: John Lurie