Best/Worst Music Collaboration

[bulldogtragic]

Best: Bowie and Queen. Brilliant.

Worst: Bowie and Jagger. Agree with Family Guy, worst song and film clip ever. " it happened and we let it happen.

[EasternWest]

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Best: Bowie and Queen. Brilliant.

Worst: Bowie and Jagger. Agree with Family Guy, worst song and film clip ever. " it happened and we let it happen.

Under Pressure is a fantastic, great, super song. The lines "Love's such an old fashioned word" and "Love dares you to care for the people on the edge of the night" give me chills every time.

I'm no great Ben Harper fan, but the below cover is remarkable.



Also love the Public Enemy/Anthrax "Bring The Noise". Not for everyone though.



I defy anyone to find a worse collaboration/cover than below. I can't even make myself name them.

[LostDoggy]

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Bring the Noise is awesome, love that song!!

Aerosmith/Run DMC 'Walk This Way' is another good collaboration.

[KT31]

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Bring the Noise is awesome, love that song!!

Aerosmith/Run DMC 'Walk This Way' is another good collaboration.

One I was thinking of Suz.

[Hotdog60]

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I thought this worked well.

[Eastdog]

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Bring the Noise is awesome, love that song!!

Aerosmith/Run DMC 'Walk This Way' is another good collaboration.

Those rap and rock collaborations paved the way for nu metal/rap rock in the 1990s.

[EasternWest]

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I thought this worked well.

Really? I regard that as a travesty. Each to their own of course, but it turned a simple love song into an overblown harpy wail. Couldn't stand it.

Those rap and rock collaborations paved the way for nu metal/rap rock in the 1990s.

That's a pretty good point ED, so maybe we should be blaming them for Limp Bizkit and Korn?

[Sedat]

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That's a pretty good point ED, so maybe we should be blaming them for Limp Bizkit and Korn?

Limp Bizkit and Korn aren't crap because they are 'nu-metal', they are crap because they are crap. Compare their insipid recordings to a masterpiece like 'Angel Dust' from Faith No More - they are not a million miles apart stylistically but Angel Dust is light years ahead in quality and impact.

The worst collaboration I've heard was completely unnecessary - U2 rerecording 'One' with Mary J Blige. The original is almost the perfect song - all the raw emotion of the original was wiped away by overblown faux-emotion and was transformed into a shitful mess of a song.

[LostDoggy]

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Limp Bizkit and Korn aren't crap because they are 'nu-metal', they are crap because they are crap. Compare their insipid recordings to a masterpiece like 'Angel Dust' from Faith No More - they are not a million miles apart stylistically but Angel Dust is light years ahead in quality and impact.

Laughed out loud reading that Sedat.

[EasternWest]

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Limp Bizkit and Korn aren't crap because they are 'nu-metal', they are crap because they are crap. Compare their insipid recordings to a masterpiece like 'Angel Dust' from Faith No More - they are not a million miles apart stylistically but Angel Dust is light years ahead in quality and impact.

I'm not really into FNM, but you should feel dirty for even putting those three bands in the same paragraph, regardless of your intent .

[Doc26]

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Liked Iggy Pop's and Kate Pierson's (The B52's) Candy back in the early 90s

[KT31]

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Liked Iggy Pop's and Kate Pierson's (The B52's) Candy back in the early 90s

Great song.

[KT31]

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Queen and Bowie - Under Pressure.
Good Charlotte and Avenged Sevenfold -The River
Dire Straits and Sting Money for Nothing
Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks - Stop Draggin My Heart Around
Peter Gabrial and Kate Bush - Don't give up
Chrissy Hinds and UB40 - I Got You Babe
Nick Cave and Kylie - Wild Colonial Boy
U2 and Green Day - The Saints Are Coming
Michael Jackson and Steve Stevens - Dirty Dianna
Santana & Rob Thomas - Smooth
Clarence Clemons & Friends - You're a Friend of Mine
Most Calaborated - Bob Geldof - Do They Know Its Christmas.
All time favourite Phil Lynott and Gary Moore - Out in The Fields.

[jeemak]

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Great get with Anthrax and Public Enemy.



Questionable, but I was a certain age when Cave and Kylie came out.....

[Hotdog60]

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All time favourite Phil Lynott and Gary Moore - Out in The Fields.

I didn't think this was a collaboration being they were both members of Thin Lizzy but after a little browsing it was after Thin Llzzy broke up.

But yes it's a great song.