Cracked Archive - Music
Songs That Got Their Magic from Being Sped Up
Let’s turn that pitch up to 11
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- By Ryan Menezes
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6 Five Sugary Pop Songs That Are Actually About Heinous Crimes
The smooth criminal Michael Jackson was singing about? That would be Richard Ramirez, aka the Night Stalker
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- By Amanda Mannen
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‘Saturday Night Live’: ‘More Cowbell’ Forever Changed How We Hear ‘(Don’t Fear) The Reaper’
The classic 2000 sketch poked fun at Blue Öyster Cult, turning their biggest hit’s goofiest instrument into an indictment of the excesses and pretensions of a bygone rock era
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- By Tim Grierson
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5 Nonsense Reasons Music Was Banned
This "electric guitar" is sure to cause violence amongst the youth!
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- By Eli Yudin
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How A Backstreet Boys’ Fart Topped the Charts in Romania
‘The Call’ features backing vocals from Howie D’s butt
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- By Mike Rampton
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Hit Songs About Places That the Artists Had Never Visited
John Fogerty hadn’t spent a single second in that bayou he so famously captured in song
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Everyone Knows This Tune, But No One Knows Its Name
Da-da-da DA da DA da DA-da!
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- By Ryan Menezes
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Grow Up And Give Country Music A Break
So you're telling me the genre that brought us Johnny Cash is for hicks and rednecks?
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- By Eli Yudin
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A Definitive Ranking Of Spooky Halloween Sound Effects
It's ghouls versus ghosts in a bona-fide moan off!
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- By Eli Yudin
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Schools Have Raised Money By Torturing Students With MMMBop
This policy violated the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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15 Songs That Don't Mean What You Think
A lot of people never stop dancing long enough to really listen to a song, or its meaning is intentionally obscured because it’s too much of a downer to make you boogie.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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Cracked's 'One Hit Blunders': 5 Bizarre Background Details About 'American Pie'
You've heard it 4,000 times; might as well finally learn what 'American Pie's deal is.
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- By Dan Fritschie
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Cracked's 'One Hit Blunders': 5 Strange Things About 'All Star' And Smash Mouth's Rise And Fall
'All Star' facts to ensure that, on this one narrow topic, you will, at last, be the sharpest tool in the shed.
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- By Dan Fritschie
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Cracked's 'One Hit Blunders': 5 Ways 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' Guy Got Royally Screwed
Solomon Linda deserved much, much better than he got.
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- By Dan Fritschie
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5 Fresh Personalities To Try Out Your Freshman Year Of College
Time to order posters that will decide every conversation I have for two years!
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- By Eli Yudin
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