Cracked Archive - Music
5 Origin Stories Of Famous Music That Are Shockingly Creepy
The music industry is shadier than Slim.
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- By Patrick Coyne
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473 5 Hilarious Attempts By Musicians To Stay On Top
In 1994, an increasingly irrelevant MC Hammer had to change - so he chucked the MC from his name and any dignity/credibility he had with it.
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- By Patrick Coyne
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- 422
8 Acts Of Rock Star Debauchery That Would Destroy You
If you're a rock star whose defining work came out somewhere between the years of 1969 and 1994, chances are your body and soul have atrophied into tiny prunes thanks to a decades-long carousel of hedonism.
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- By Adam Wears
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6 Ways Music Controls Your Life (That You Never Knew About)
Music has an almost magical effect on people.
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- By Jim Avery
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7 Musicians Whose Trademark Looks Were Hiding Something
Sometimes an iconic trademark came about less by design and more by necessity.
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- By Paul Blank
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6 Musicians Who Made Entire Albums Just To Say F#@k You
It turns out some petty squabbles live on forever in album form.
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- By Cedric Voets
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6 Celebrities You Didn't Know Had Ridiculous Music Careers
Sometimes, an entertainer's musical side job reveals a whole other side of their personality.
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- By Chris Berglund, Sam Jackson, JM McNab
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7 Promotional Stunts by Musicians That Backfired Hilariously
Judging by how often their spectacularly bad ideas make the wrong kind of headlines, it clear musicians need to get better PR teams.
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- By Matt Farmer, Blair Dodge, A.C. Grimes
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5 Unknown People Who Secretly Made All Your Favorite Music
What sucks about the entertainment industry is that usually a very small group of very pretty people get all of the credit for work done by an army of talented folks behind the scenes.
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- By Sam Jackson
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6 Half-Assed Accidents Behind the Most Famous Songs Ever
Some of the most iconic musical moments of all time have just been farted out on accident.
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- By Jacob Trowbridge, Ed Stevens, Ryan Menezes, John Martin, Alexander Pan
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5 Classic Songs That Were Originally Creepy as Hell
Turns out that the words these forgotten originals were routinely bizarre, racist, and/or totally insane.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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- 527
5 Shocking Early Versions of Famous Musicians
If you dig into the past of almost any famous artist, you'll find something radically, hilariously different from what they became famous for.
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- By Michael Hossey
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- 354
The 6 Most Disturbing Song Choices by Huge Ad Campaigns
Some marketers are content to slap any old catchy riff into their ads, regardless of the incredibly awkward context that the lyrics might create.
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- By Elorm Kojo Ntumy
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6 Classic Album Covers That Were Originally Horrifying
If cooler heads hadn't prevailed, history might remember all of these differently.
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- By Jacob Trowbridge
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- 378
6 Famous Musicians Who Swiped Their Biggest Hits from Others
Many times 'what it takes' has less to do with talent and more to do with the capacity to take songs someone else rejected or flat-out steal them from another artist.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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- 768
