Cracked Archive - Music
5 Celebrities Who Get Way More Hate Than They Deserve
I'll make a joke about anything if the situation calls for it. But sometimes, believe it or not, I'm only joking. That's as true for 'awful' celebrities as it is for anyone or anything else.
- By Adam Tod Brown
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- October 14, 2012
5 Terrifying Origin Stories Behind Popular Children's Songs
As nauseatingly wholesome as children's songs may seem, sometimes there are corpses buried under those mountains of spaghetti.
- By John Kroes
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- September 21, 2012
The 10 Most Ridiculous Album Cover Trends of All Time
With an industry full of people getting paid loads of money to make decisions that don't matter, people are going to play it safe. Which is where you get trends like these.
- By C. Coville, Chris Holmes
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- September 14, 2012
5 Sappy Songs That Deserve Heavy Metal Makeovers
Metalheads, please don't school me on what bands are actually Metal or what Metal is. For the purposes of this column, I'm using the term somewhat loosely to convey loud, guitar-based rock played with dark intensity.
- By Gladstone
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- September 01, 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
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
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