Cracked Archive - Music
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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1 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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Cracked's 'One Hit Blunders': 5 Reasons 'Blurred Lines' Became A Cursed Song
Think 'Blurred Lines' was a creepy song? You don't know the half of it.
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- By Dan Fritschie
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Cracked's 'One Hit Blunders': 5 Ways One Awful Music Video Ended Billy Squier's Career
Music videos built a lot of careers but destroyed a few along the way, too.
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- By Dan Fritschie
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15 Brilliant Uses of Jazz In Hip-Hop
Two great, uniquely American genres borrow from and brush up against each other to create chaotic sonic bliss.
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- By Chris Corlew
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The Time The U.S. Government Disobeyed The Wu-Tang Clan
Uncle Sam used the most expensive album ever sold to pay off a bad man's debts.
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- By Carolyn Page
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