Cracked Archive - Music
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
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
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
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
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
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
These are four music videos with important lessons for the modern YouTube user.
- By Luke McKinney
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- June 09, 2012
'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 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
♪ ♫ I wish I was specialllll / But I’m a THIEF ♪ ♫
- By Mohammed Shariff
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- May 29, 2012
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
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
Mankind has always been fascinated by two things: cultural differences, and butts. This week I'm going to study each of these things by examining the least white album covers of all time.
- By Seanbaby
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- April 01, 2012
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