Cracked Archive - Music
The 6 Most Hilarious Failures in Music Censorship History
Somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 percent of the people reading this think music censorship is stupid.
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- By Mike Floorwalker
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1195 6 Screw-Ups by Famous Bands That Make Spinal Tap Look Smooth
Live music is a fickle beast. Any number of things can go wrong at any given moment, in completely hilarious ways no less.
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- By Adam Wears, M.W.
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6 Popular Songs You Didn't Know Have Dark Hidden Messages
The drawback of making a subtle point in song about the human condition is that nobody pays attention to subtle points in songs.
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- By Andy Kneis
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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.
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- By John Kroes
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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.
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- By C. Coville, Chris Holmes
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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.
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- By Daniel Crow
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7 Famous Musicians Who Stole Some of Their Biggest Hits
♪ ♫ I wish I was specialllll / But I’m a THIEF ♪ ♫
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- By Mohammed Shariff
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The 6 Most Elaborate F-Yous From Musicians to the Industry
Most musicians have to put up with record company executives being interfering dicks. Not all bands let them get away with it, though. Every now and then, through luck, opportunism or having balls of brass, some get to fight back.
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- By Kevin Forde, Alex Strine
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6 Hit Songs Written By the Last Person You'd Expect
When you actually sit down to look at the songwriting credits on famous tracks, the writers often come way the hell out of left field.
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- By Adam Tod Brown, Chris Dennison
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6 Classic Songs That Were Supposed to Be Jokes
Every so often a song explodes into the mainstream completely by accident, tearing up the charts to the surprise (and sometimes chagrin) of the musicians responsible.
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- By Colin Murdock
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5 Famous Hidden Song Meanings (That Are Total B.S.)
Many classic songs have mythical (and often dark and disturbing) alternate meanings that fans insist are true. They're almost always wrong.
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- By Chris S.
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5 Bizarre Dark Sides to Modern Orchestras
What do has-been rockers and orchestra players have in common? Drugs, horrific injuries and low pay, of course.
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- By Lillian Marx
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Rock Timeline: From Classic Rock to Modern Crap [COMIC]
Pay special attention to the thievery panel. You might learn something.
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- By Winston Rowntree
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6 Songs That Were Decades Ahead of 'Groundbreaking' Music
The only thing that can explain songs like these? Time travel.
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- By M. Asher Cantrell
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6 Musicians Who Accidentally Crapped Out Masterpieces
The music industry spends millions trying to chart trends, isolate demographics and generally predict the necessary ingredients for a No. 1 single. But every now and then a song comes along that makes it all the way to the top end of the charts by sheer fluke.
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- By Johnny Lepper
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