Cracked Archive - Music
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The drawback of making a subtle point in song about the human condition is that nobody pays attention to subtle points in songs.
- By Andy Kneis
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- November 21, 2012
These music videos would have been destroyed by production committees, and only exist because the Internet is a thing. And the world is better for it.
- By Luke McKinney
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- October 23, 2012
There are cover songs that add absolutely nothing new and are a success merely for the artist's ability to ape everything that was good about the original. Here are five covers, competently played, but with shockingly little imagination.
- By Gladstone
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- October 19, 2012
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
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
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
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