Cracked Archive - Music
6 Classic Album Covers That Were Originally Horrifying
If cooler heads hadn't prevailed, history might remember all of these differently.
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- By Jacob Trowbridge
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378 6 Famous Musicians Who Swiped Their Biggest Hits from Others
Many times 'what it takes' has less to do with talent and more to do with the capacity to take songs someone else rejected or flat-out steal them from another artist.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Famous Musicians Who Correctly Predicted Their Own Death
Who knows when and how death's grim hand will come to us? Musicians, apparently.
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- By Sam Jackson, Ryan Menezes
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6 Hit Songs You Won't Believe Are Insulting Celebrities
Some of the most famous songs in history were written as direct insults to actual people.
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- By Amanda Mannen
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5 Insane Lost Verses That Change the Meaning of Famous Songs
There are often dark secrets hiding in the lines your favorite musicians cut from famous songs.
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- By Ryan Menezes
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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.
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- By Teddy Wayne
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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.
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- By Jacob Trowbridge
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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.
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- By Mike Floorwalker
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5 Mind-Blowing True Stories Behind Famous Songs
The secret ingredient was pure insanity.
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- By Aaron Short, Sam Jackson
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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.
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- By Ross Jones-Morris
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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.
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- By Mike Floorwalker
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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.
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- By Rani Baker, Dwayne Hoover
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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.
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- By Mark Leonardson, J. Wisniewski, Rich Solomon, Chris Snipes
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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.
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- By Evan V. Symon , Kier Harris
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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.
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- By Jason Iannone
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- 702
