# Interesting Cracked.com Music Paleoarchaeology Article Today **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 11, 2011, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-cracked-com-music-paleoarchaeology-article-today/577919 "2011-04-11T01:19:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2011, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-cracked-com-music-paleoarchaeology-article-today/577919/1 "2011-04-11T01:19:06Z")
I don’t know a ton about music but I thought this article was fascinating. They give examples of musical styles that have recorded examples years or more before they supposedly ever existed. The #1 pick is a black rap song recorded in 1968 and, although it is part of a comedy album, I can’t deny that it is a real rap song. I am writing mainly to share but also get other people’s perspectives and maybe some other examples of such things. A response like ‘there is nothing new under the sun’ is true in one sense but not helpful in this thread. > **[6 Songs That Were Decades Ahead of 'Groundbreaking' Music](https://www.cracked.com/article_19094_6-songs-that-were-decades-ahead-groundbreaking-music.html)** > > The only thing that can explain songs like these? Time travel. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2011, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-cracked-com-music-paleoarchaeology-article-today/577919/2 "2011-04-11T01:31:27Z")
I do recall Pigmeat Markham and that’s clearly the best choice. But I’d be surprised if he were the first to do something like that. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2011, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-cracked-com-music-paleoarchaeology-article-today/577919/3 "2011-04-11T01:45:52Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > I do recall Pigmeat Markham and that’s clearly the best choice. But I’d be surprised if he were the first to do something like that. Robert Preston doing his spoken-word best in THE MUSIC MAN comes pretty close. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2011, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-cracked-com-music-paleoarchaeology-article-today/577919/4 "2011-04-11T02:25:32Z")
I’m trying to figure out how Ms Hardy is particularly like the Smashing Pumpkins, or particularly unlike her contemporaries. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2011, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-cracked-com-music-paleoarchaeology-article-today/577919/5 "2011-04-11T03:24:58Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > I’m trying to figure out how Ms Hardy is particularly like the Smashing Pumpkins, or particularly unlike her contemporaries. I dunno, the droning guitar that the song starts with (and then moves to the background) sounds pretty un-1964 to me. I was quite surprised to hear it. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2011, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-cracked-com-music-paleoarchaeology-article-today/577919/6 "2011-04-11T03:36:06Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > I’m trying to figure out how Ms Hardy is particularly like the Smashing Pumpkins, or particularly unlike her contemporaries. I saw what they were getting at, sort of, but my first thought at hearing Mlle. Hardy was “sounds sort of Velvet Underground”. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmundex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@Sigmundex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmundex)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-cracked-com-music-paleoarchaeology-article-today/577919/7 "2011-04-13T04:14:46Z")
Rap went downhill after Blowfly let loose with this one, circa 1973… and it’s NOT work safe… https://www.youtube.com/embed/cOoZDtszCII?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=PL1E28AD066F351275 ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-cracked-com-music-paleoarchaeology-article-today/577919/8 "2011-04-13T04:53:03Z")
Instead of Pigmeat Markham, I would have included the Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/interesting-cracked-com-music-paleoarchaeology-article-today/577919/9 "2011-04-13T05:21:10Z")
> [@Sigmundex](#): > > Rap went downhill after Blowfly let loose with this one, circa 1973… and it’s NOT work safe… > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOoZDtszCII&playnext=1&list=PL1E28AD066F351275](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOoZDtszCII&playnext=1&list=PL1E28AD066F351275) Blowfly rules. He and [Rudy Ray Moore](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Voxp3ckwJZ0) were the shiznit before there even was shiznit.