Cracked Archive - Music
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
6 Alternate Album Covers You Won't Believe Almost Happened
Many of these bands almost made history for a different reason -- by producing albums with covers that would have traumatized (or at least confused) a generation.
- By Evan V. Symon , Kier Harris
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- January 25, 2013
The 6 Least Hip Internet References in Song Lyric History
There's a fine line between 'artful inclusion' and 'unskilled name-dropping,' and the following songs dove headfirst into the latter, awkwardly revealing that on the whole, pop stars simply do not use computers.
- By Jason Iannone
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- January 24, 2013
The 6 Most Hilarious Failures in Music Censorship History
Somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 percent of the people reading this think music censorship is stupid.
- By Mike Floorwalker
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- January 20, 2013
The 4 Types of Bar: A Survival Guide
Even though I like bars, they are not all the same. They come in all shapes and sizes, and our young, impressionable readers need a sexy older man with a misspent life to shepherd them
- By Gladstone
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- January 15, 2013
6 Screw-Ups by Famous Bands That Make Spinal Tap Look Smooth
Live music is a fickle beast. Any number of things can go wrong at any given moment, in completely hilarious ways no less.
- By Adam Wears, M.W.
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- December 11, 2012
5 Famous Bands That Are Clearly Ashamed of Key Members
It's a sad fact of life in a band that, sometimes, certain members are going to get a little less attention than others. And some bands take hiding their peripheral members to dizzying new heights.
- By Adam Tod Brown
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- November 27, 2012
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