Cracked Archive - Music
6 Movie Soundtracks With Secrets You Totally Missed
How awesome is John Williams? So awesome that he used musical notation to tell us that Anakin and Padme boning will eventually lead to galactic genocide.
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- By JM McNab
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Meet The One Woman Who Inspired Every Love Song Ever
This woman is literally one of the most sung-about humans in the history of the species, and her name is Pattie Boyd.
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- By James Netter
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19 Songs You Didn’t Realize Have Weird Hidden Meanings
Surprisingly, drugs are rarely involved in the composition some of the most famous songs of all time.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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12 Well-Known Bands With Weird Stories Behind Their Names
No origin story for a group name will ever top the one for the Dave Matthews Band.
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- By AM Smiley
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7 WTF Musical Supergroups (That Almost Happened)
Our dream supergroups will never actually exist -- but some have gotten closer than others.
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- By Carolyn Burke
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The 16 Most Annoying Things About Music Right Now
Our fans take down the music industry one auto-tuned lick at a time.
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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Songs Even Dumber Than The Fringe Groups Performing Them
When you're writing music with a message, the music is only as valuable as that message.
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- By Kyle Mulholland
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How About We Explain (And Then Ruin) Your Favorite Songs?
Scott Weiland is kind of a creepy dude.
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- By Patrick Coyne
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7 Songs That Become Twisted When You Know Who Wrote Them
Miley Cyrus requested a hit song that 'feels black.' No kidding.
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- By Mark Oliver
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9 Hilariously Homoerotic Rap Lyrics Meant To Be Badass
We, uh, we no longer want to hang out with T.I.
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- By Andrew O'Brien
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5 Origin Stories Of Famous Music That Are Shockingly Creepy
The music industry is shadier than Slim.
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- By Patrick Coyne
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5 Hilarious Attempts By Musicians To Stay On Top
In 1994, an increasingly irrelevant MC Hammer had to change - so he chucked the MC from his name and any dignity/credibility he had with it.
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- By Patrick Coyne
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8 Acts Of Rock Star Debauchery That Would Destroy You
If you're a rock star whose defining work came out somewhere between the years of 1969 and 1994, chances are your body and soul have atrophied into tiny prunes thanks to a decades-long carousel of hedonism.
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- By Adam Wears
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6 Ways Music Controls Your Life (That You Never Knew About)
Music has an almost magical effect on people.
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- By Jim Avery
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17 Famous Love Songs Written By Sociopaths
Love songs are so formulaic you really don't have to listen to the lyrics anymore. Or should you?
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- By Cracked Plasticians
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- 426