The Neanderthal Spongecake was a rock band

Rock Band

Rock Band is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems, published by MTV Games and Electronic Arts. It is the first title in the Rock Band series. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions were released in the United States on November 20, 2007, while the PlayStation 2 version was...

 created by musician

Musician

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, writer

Writer

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, and filmmaker Cevin Soling. Soling sang lead vocals

Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

 and played the acoustic guitar

Acoustic guitar

An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...

; other band members were Bill Brandau, Andy Thunder (the stage name

Stage name

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 of Andrew Mass), Dan Kornfeld, and Craig Boyce, who was later replaced by Mark Tomase.

The Side Effects of Napalm

The band's first album

Album

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 was The Side Effects of Napalm in 1998. The press surrounding the album's release included claims that the group was the biggest band in Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

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, and that, as a child, Soling led the resistance against Communism

Communism

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 there. These claims were however untrue, as Soling was an American

United States

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 who was born in New York City

New York City

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 and grew up in Scarsdale, New York

Scarsdale, New York

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The Side Effects of Napalm was released in the United States on Xemu Records. Keith Gordon

Keith Gordon

Keith Gordon is an American actor and film director.-Life and career:Gordon was born in New York City, the son of Barbara, an actress, and Mark Gordon, an actor and stage director. He grew up in an atheist Jewish family and was inspired to become an actor at the age of twelve, after seeing James...

 reviewed the album for Alt Culture Guide, saying that it was "A surrealist rock & roll romp across a musical horizon that even Dali couldn't capture on canvas, The Side Effects of Napalm is a quirky funny, maddening, and slightly confusing collection of songs that do a fine job of showcasing Soling's unique talents".

The album's songs included "Boss God", a song that questioned God's

God

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 upbringing. It also included a cover version

Cover version

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 of Quiet Riot's

Quiet Riot

Quiet Riot is an American Heavy Metal band. They are best known for their hit singles "Metal Health" and "Cum On Feel the Noize". They were founded in 1973 by guitarist Randy Rhoads and bassist Kelly Garni, under the original name Mach 1, before changing the name to Little Women and finally Quiet...

 Metal Health

Metal Health

Metal Health is the third studio album by American heavy metal band Quiet Riot. It was released on March 11, 1983, bolstered by the #5 hit "Cum on Feel the Noize" and the #31 hit "Metal Health". It knocked The Police's Synchronicity out of #1 in the US. The album went on to sell over six million...

, which featured guest singing from Quiet Riot's late lead-singer Kevin DuBrow

Kevin DuBrow

Kevin Mark DuBrow was an American rock singer best known as the lead vocalist of the Heavy Metal band Quiet Riot from 1975 until his death in 2007...

. The song "Buffalo" was a collaboration with the Buffalo, New York

Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...

 group Scary Chicken

Scary Chicken

Scary Chicken, a Buffalo Band Active from 1989-2002. Formed at the University at Buffalo. The band recorded and released 4 CDs and 2 cassettes, and has had songs placed in multiple Motion Picture Soundtracks and National TV shows, most recently on Spike TV's "Top Dead Center" program.The band...

, and later resurfaced as the theme song

Theme music

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 for the A&E Network's

A&E Network

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 series Confessions of a Matchmaker

Confessions of a Matchmaker

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Other appearances

Neanderthal Spongecake resurfaced on the compilation album

Compilation album

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, When Pigs Fly: Songs You Never Thought You'd Hear, which included Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan

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 and Ani DiFranco

Ani DiFranco

Ani DiFranco is an American Grammy Award-winning singer, guitarist, poet, and songwriter. She has released more than 20 albums, and is widely considered a feminist icon.-Biography:...

 doing a duet of Nat King Cole's

Nat King Cole

Nathaniel Adams Coles , known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American musician who first came to prominence as a leading jazz pianist. Although an accomplished pianist, he owes most of his popular musical fame to his soft baritone voice, which he used to perform in big band and jazz genres...

 "Unforgettable"

Unforgettable (song)

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, Lesley Gore

Lesley Gore

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 singing AC/DC's

AC/DC

AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Commonly classified as hard rock, they are considered pioneers of heavy metal, though they themselves have always classified their music as simply "rock and roll"...

 "You Shook Me All Night Long

You Shook Me All Night Long

"You Shook Me All Night Long" is one of AC/DC's signature songs from their most successful album, Back in Black. The song also reappeared on their later album Who Made Who. It is one of the band's top 40 singles, reaching number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart in 1980...

", and Don Ho

Don Ho

Donald Tai Loy "Don" Ho was a Hawaiian and traditional pop musician, singer and entertainer.-Life and career:Ho, of Chinese, Hawaiian, Portuguese, Dutch, and German descent, was born in the small Honolulu neighborhood of Kakaako, but he grew up in Kāneohe on the windward side of the island of Oahu...

 performing Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel

Peter Brian Gabriel is an English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career...

's "Shock The Monkey"

Shock the Monkey

"Shock the Monkey" is a 1982 song by Peter Gabriel. It was released as a single and peaked at number 29 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and number 1 on the Billboard Top Tracks chart. The song was Gabriel's first Top 40 hit in the US. In the UK, the song charted at number 58. It was included on...

. Neanderthal Spongecake covered T-Rex's

T. Rex (band)

T. Rex were a British rock band, formed in 1967 by singer/songwriter and guitarist Marc Bolan. The band formed as Tyrannosaurus Rex, releasing four folk albums under the name...

 "Bang a Gong (Get It On)"

Get It On (T. Rex song)

"Get It On" was covered by the Power Station in 1985. Their version – titled "Get It On " – was released as their second single from their debut album. The track was a hit in both the UK, reaching number 22 on the UK Singles Chart, and the U.S., where the song peaked at number nine on the...

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