Cracked Archive - Music
4 Things That Weren't Always This Terrible
The terrible sucky things of the past were better than today's terrible sucky things.
- By Gladstone
- /
- July 09, 2013
4 'Classic' Albums That Get More Praise Than They Deserve
No matter how expansive and varied a musician or band's catalog of albums may be, for those at the highest levels of popularity, there's always that one album that everyone talks about more than others.
- By Adam Tod Brown
- /
- June 11, 2013
5 Famous Songs That Prove Musicians Don't Understand Science
We don't expect our musicians to moonlight as physicists -- hell, we're lucky if they finish high school. So sometimes they get their science wrong.
- By Winston Rowntree, Amanda Mannen
- /
- June 09, 2013
6 Inexplicably Hostile Interviews With Famous Musicians
There are those musicians who, for whatever reason -- an off-putting comment, a generally grumpy demeanor, the fact that they're opening that night for Sinbad -- are a little less agreeable.
- By Teddy Wayne
- /
- May 31, 2013
The 5 Most Mind-Blowing Predictions Ever Made in Pop Songs
It turns out music is an explosion of guitars, drums, and telling people about stuff before it happens.
- By Jacob Trowbridge
- /
- May 26, 2013
6 Famous Songs Written by the Last Person You'd Expect
It's never widely publicized who did the actual writing, and sometimes it's for good reason.
- By Mike Floorwalker
- /
- May 24, 2013
4 Crazy Reasons Classic Albums Almost Never Got Made
To go along with all of the other difficulties that come with putting together something great, these bands and musicians had to fight through an extra step of insanity before some of their best work could see the light of day.
- By Adam Tod Brown
- /
- May 18, 2013
5 Mind-Blowing True Stories Behind Famous Songs
The secret ingredient was pure insanity.
- By Aaron Short, Sam Jackson
- /
- 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
- /
- 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
- /
- April 20, 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
- /
- 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
- /
- 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
- /
- 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
- /
- March 02, 2013
Viral on Cracked
