Cracked Archive - Music
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
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- 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
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- 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
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- May 18, 2013
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
Eyebrow-Arching Facts About 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
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