Cracked Archive - Music
'Neckbeard Deathcamp' Is The Protest Band We Need Right Now
Pure, simple, unfiltered mockery.
- By Adam Wears
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- July 27, 2018
Reggae Black Panther's The Craziest Thing You'll See All Day
God bless you, Spice, for this service to thirsty nerds everywhere.
- By Adam Wears
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- July 25, 2018
5 Famous Songs That Mean The Opposite Of What You Think
Most songs are about boning.
- By Patrick Coyne
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- July 02, 2018
The Crazy Implications Of A Gorillaz/Powerpuff Crossover
Ace, the new Gorillaz band member, might just destroy our reality.
- By Cedric Voets
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- June 01, 2018
6 WTF Post-Fame Lives of One-Hit Wonders
Some one-hit wonders refuse to go quietly into the night.
- By Rani Baker, Nathan Kamal, Kel Fabie, Greg Tuff, Peter I. Santiago
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- May 01, 2018
5 Depraved Things You See Working Backstage At Concerts
Pro tip: you don't want to be the venue worker who doesn't recognize My Chemical Romance.
- By Evan V. Symon
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- October 20, 2017
6 Absolutely Godawful Follow-Ups To Hit Novelty Songs
Having your novelty song go big is bittersweet, which is why it's no wonder that most bands follow them up a with some weird, embarrassing, desperate stuff.
- By Ira Brooker
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- October 16, 2017
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.
- By JM McNab
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- September 05, 2017
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.
- By James Netter
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- August 26, 2017
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.
- By Cracked Plasticians
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- May 26, 2017
Why History Should Have Prepared Us For Ja Rule's Trickery
Ja Rule? More like 'Ja Fool,' right guys? Right? Hello?
- By Tom Reimann
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- April 30, 2017
Realities of the Rock Star Life 50 Years After Fame
Once upon a time, the Hermits were bigger than the Beatles. Here's what we learned talking to one of the band members.
- By Kevin Ducharme, Ryan Menezes
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- April 29, 2017
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.
- By AM Smiley
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- April 15, 2017
7 WTF Musical Supergroups (That Almost Happened)
Our dream supergroups will never actually exist -- but some have gotten closer than others.
- By Carolyn Burke
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- March 30, 2017
How Defining Yourself By The Art You Consume Is Destructive
To challenge DMB's perfection was like arguing that the sky wasn't blue or that sailing wasn't the best thing ever or that Toyota pick-up trucks weren't reliable.
- By J.F. Sargent
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- February 07, 2017
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