Cracked Archive - Music
5 Mind-Blowing True Stories Behind Famous Songs
The secret ingredient was pure insanity.
- By Aaron Short, Sam Jackson
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- May 09, 2013
The 4 Ballsiest Career Moves by Famous Musicians
These were important artists with huge followings who had no need to change course or rock the boat.
- By Gladstone
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- April 27, 2013
4 Great Lead Singers With Inexplicably Terrible Solo Careers
More often than not, when the creative force behind a band branches out on their own, the end result just leaves you longing for the days when they had a few extra people around to share the work.
- By Adam Tod Brown
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- April 20, 2013
If You Could Tell Companies One Thing About Their Products
It seems like the things that frustrate us the most about the products we use are the things that never change. It's as if the people making this stuff don't use it themselves. We go ahead and tell them that you're all thinking about their products.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- March 29, 2013
23 Mind-Blowing True Stories Behind Famous Songs
Music fans spend a lot of time trying to find meaning in the songs they know and love. Well, it turns out a lot of our most popular songs have meanings that are a lot more bizarre than we would've thought possible.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- March 18, 2013
5 Great Songs to Immediately Ruin a Party
What if you want to hold a confusing party? What if you, the malevolent puppet master that you are, expressly invited those poor bastards who'll return your calls for mind games and bacon-wrapped dates? Simple -- just turn on any of these five songs.
- By Cyriaque Lamar
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- March 09, 2013
5 Famous Online Copyright Crusaders Who Are Total Hypocrites
Here are some hilarious examples where the very people in charge of policing the Internet for potential copyright violations fall astray of the laws themselves.
- By Ross Jones-Morris
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- March 06, 2013
The 5 Most Embarrassing Past Lives of Famous Musicians
It turns out the package that some of history's most beloved artists were wrapped in when they first entered our collective consciousness is often the product of several aborted attempts to get their shtick down perfect.
- By Mike Floorwalker
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- March 05, 2013
The 5 Most Unintentionally Hilarious '80s Music Videos
A thousand years from now, anthropologists will chalk up the 1980s as a mythical era akin to King Arthur's Camelot or when people drove blue-green Saturns.
- By Kristi Harrison
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- March 02, 2013
5 Things Record Labels Don't Want You to Know They Do
Here are a few things record labels don't want you to know that they still do in an effort to separate you -- and the artists -- from your hard-earned cash.
- By Rani Baker, Dwayne Hoover
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- February 19, 2013
The 5 Least Necessary 'Greatest Hits' Albums of All Time
To honor the day when I made Cracked the luckiest site on the Internet, here's an update to the very first article I was ever paid money to write. These are five more of the most unnecessary greatest hits albums of all time.
- By Adam Tod Brown
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- February 02, 2013
5 Iconic Songs Despised by the People Who Created Them
Sometimes musicians slap together what they think is their worst song, only to see it become the hit that makes them famous.
- By Mark Leonardson, J. Wisniewski, Rich Solomon, Chris Snipes
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- January 31, 2013
4 Classic Rap Albums That Ruined Rap Music
When it comes to rap music history, some of the very worst the art form has to offer started with some of the finest albums the rap music genre has ever produced.
- By Adam Tod Brown
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- January 27, 2013
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