Cracked Archive - Music
19 Famous Musicians Before They Were Photoshopped
The musicians you know and love haven't always looked that way. We asked you to show us what they looked like before their publicists demanded an electronic touch up.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- August 19, 2012
5 Songs the Internet Thinks Are by the Wrong Artist
Although humans have been getting stuff wrong for centuries, in recent years the Internet has really facilitated these mistakes. Some putz uploads a song incorrectly to YouTube or Napsteresque sites and suddenly hordes of young newbs fill their minds with flawed data, perpetuating the error.
- By Gladstone
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- August 14, 2012
5 Insane Music Videos That Predate MTV
Back in the day, what with the lack of special effects technology and all, people had to resort to some pretty bizarre (but always entertaining) stuff to get the point of their music across to the camera.
- By Adam Tod Brown
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- July 15, 2012
6 Mind-Blowing Early Music Careers of Famous Musicians
Even if you love their music, often musicians are doing what they're doing only because they realized at some point in the past that making any money was going to require them to radically shift gears.
- By Daniel Crow
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- July 09, 2012
5 Famous Songs Everyone Thinks Are by the Wrong Artist
Some songs are more well-known than the artists who made them hits. And sometimes less-talented music-listeners wrongly attribute those songs to the wrong artists. That's the premise of this article. Songs that people think are sung by artists who never sung them.
- By Gladstone
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- July 07, 2012
6 Songs People Apparently Think Are by the Wrong Artist
Even though your musical knowledge may be impeccable (and mine most certainly is), I thought I'd list a bunch of well-known songs that you've probably wrongly attributed to other artists.
- By Gladstone
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- June 28, 2012
30 Rejected Versions of Great Album Covers
Back in the day, a great album cover was the difference between selling a lot or a little albums. Here are some artists that clearly made the right choice in the end.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- June 25, 2012
4 Music Videos on YouTube That Will Make You a Better Person
These are four music videos with important lessons for the modern YouTube user.
- By Luke McKinney
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- June 09, 2012
5 Upbeat Songs You Didn't Realize Are Depressing (Part 2)
'We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue/And then we'll take it higher.' And by higher, they apparently mean extraordinarily depressing.
- By Adam Tod Brown
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- June 02, 2012
The 4 Most Baffling Trends in Old-Timey Album Covers
The cover art on records from the 1950s and 60s is so confusing and removed from reality that it looks like it was created in an alternate dimension.
- By Soren Bowie
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- May 31, 2012
7 Famous Musicians Who Stole Some of Their Biggest Hits
♪ ♫ I wish I was specialllll / But I’m a THIEF ♪ ♫
- By Mohammed Shariff
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- May 29, 2012
The 5 Worst Attempts to Start a Catchphrase in Rap History
Plenty of rap-coined words and phrases catch on and make it all the way to mainstream vocabularies, sometimes seriously, (blunt, dope, chill, grill [meaning teeth] all have their origins in rap and all are more or less accepted by the majority of Americans), and sometimes ironically, (there was a period in the early 2000s when everyone added
- By Daniel O'Brien
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- May 18, 2012
6 Popular Upbeat Songs You Didn't Realize Are Depressing
Sure, melodies and even the occasional chorus might stick in a person's head, but the actual meaning of the song often goes unnoticed. And sometimes that's a good thing ...
- By Adam Tod Brown
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- April 19, 2012
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