Cracked Archive - Music
Claiming to personally know a song's true meaning, it turns out, is just setting yourself up for disappointment.
- By Gladstone
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- April 26, 2015
These songs were great, but how did their insane videos elude the pop culture history books?
- By Jason Iannone
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- April 25, 2015
Sometimes an iconic trademark came about less by design and more by necessity.
- By Paul Blank
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- April 16, 2015
It turns out some petty squabbles live on forever in album form.
- By Cedric Voets
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- April 12, 2015
A tribute is supposed to be respectful. You already knew that, but the people you'll read about on this list clearly did not.
- By Adam Tod Brown
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- March 12, 2015
Despite our endless harmonious yammering, we still write song after song from messed-up viewpoints that make it clear we actually have no clue what love is.
- By Jason Iannone
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- February 22, 2015
Some songs about what's traditionally the saddest of all possible subject matter come out sounding like feel-good party anthems.
- By Adam Tod Brown
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- January 22, 2015
Your favorite song might be the one the band hates the most.
- By Diana Cook
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- January 16, 2015
It's 2015! That means all sorts of fun new things will be happening. Music will not be one of those things.
- By Adam Tod Brown
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- January 02, 2015
Sometimes, an entertainer's musical side job reveals a whole other side of their personality.
- By Chris Berglund, Sam Jackson, JM McNab
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- December 21, 2014
It turns out Christmas carols riddled with double entendre have actually been around for decades.
- By Mark Hill
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- December 20, 2014
Anyone can guess what the fun part of being in a band entails. The pain-in-the-ass part, on the other hand, is more unknown.
- By Will Kriegshauser
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- December 20, 2014
There are certain things songwriters do that seem almost guaranteed to produce a bad song, but they keep doing it.
- By Gladstone
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- December 14, 2014
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