Cake

Whenever the music industry is at a loss for trends, novelty artists prosper. And so, the mid-'90s were predictably ripe with one-off jokes -- still smarting from the emotional hangover of grunge, radio listeners wouldn't look a gag gift in the mouth. But despite Cake's quirky surface -- singer John McCrea's deadpan delivery and Vince Di Fiore's oddball mariachi trumpet initially sounded like a pu...