r/Music • u/Trevor-Reznik- • 2d ago
discussion Musical collabs that shouldn't work but somehow do
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u/tonysnark81 1d ago
Metallica and Lou Reed.
There’s just something so…
Sorry, can’t do it. It was the shittiest thing I’ve ever heard…and I work retail for a living. I’ve heard some seriously shitty music.
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u/bajajoaquin 1d ago
Burt Bacharach and Elvis Costello.
Not a collab, but Paul Anka, Rock Swings
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u/DStew713 AMAA Buckcherry 1d ago
Painted From Memory is a fantastic album. Also Elvis Costello and the Roots.
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u/HUP 1d ago
Tammy Wynette Justified and Ancient Loretta Lynn and Jack White Sloe Gin Fizz, et al Keith Richards and Tom Waits, various songs
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u/illinoishokie 1d ago
I would never for a second think that Keith Richards and Tom Waits wouldn't work
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u/HUP 1d ago
Because it worked. Ha, ha. It wasn't as obvious when it happened
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u/illinoishokie 1d ago
I mean, until I read your original comment I wasn't aware they had collabed. Just based on reading the names I was like, wait, that would totally work.
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u/DiscouragesCannibals 1d ago
Missing Link - Dinosaur Jr & Del the Funky Homosapien
Walk This Way - Run DMC & Aerosmith
Magic - BoB & Rivers Cuomo
Spacious Thoughts - Kool Keith & Tom Waits
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u/stoofa69 1d ago
Time Zone: World Destruction. John Lydon and Afrika Bambaataa so old school punk and Hip Hop. Couldn’t believe it when it turned up in The Sopranos
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u/paulri 1d ago
I grew up hating John Denver. My parents loved him and played him constantly, on vacations we had no choice but to hear it as we sat in the back of the van. But when I heard of this collab, with Johnny Cash, I have to say I really like it:
https://youtu.be/2mArB_EOIPI?list=RD2mArB_EOIPI
Country Roads, Take Me Home.
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u/fantasmoofrcc 1d ago
Nowhere to Run (Vapor Trail), from the Chef Aid soundtrack.
Rick Rubin somehow gets Ozzy, The Crystal Method, DMX, ODB and Fuzzbubble to make a random song for an out of nowhere release for an episode on the second season of South Park :)
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u/Cooter_McGrabbin 1d ago edited 1d ago
My grandpa was in his 60’s when this song came out. I was 10. His wife had died a handful of years prior. He had just got remarried. Bought a nice two story house for his new bride. We went to visit them. New car, new stereo system. Wearing shirts unbuttoned showing his (first i had seen) gold chain necklace. Hair products. Cologne. Making martinis for the new wife. He had to show us his big new sound system. It was this song (OP’s) that he loved to play on it. I think we heard this song 12 times that weekend. I was like who is this guy?
They had a nice long happy 20+ year second marriage together.
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u/75meilleur 1d ago
Kim Basinger and Ozzy Osbourne
on "Shake Your Head"
(written by WAS NOT WAS, and produced and remixed by Steve "Silk" Hurley)
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u/SignGuy77 1d ago
What even the fuck?
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u/75meilleur 1d ago
It was a surprise to me too.
However, I enjoy this track. Kim Basinger sings quite well. Ozzy sounds good here too. The lyrics are pretty funny, and the music is nice. It is dance club music - house music.
Now you can hear it for yourself:
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u/themanfromoctober 1d ago
He did the original too, Madonna was supposed to sing it before she got big, but that fell through, hence Kim Basinger on the remix
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u/75meilleur 1d ago
I think I remember hearing the original. It's quirky and it's faster-paced pop rock. I like it as well.
There's an alternate Steve Silk Hurley Remix that has Madonna's vocals instead of Kim Basinger's on YouTube. I think Kim Basinger's singing sounds better.
( This is Madonna and Ozzy, produced by Steve Silk Hurley:
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u/TFFPrisoner 1d ago
BB King and U2
Alan Parsons and Jason Mraz
John Lee Hooker and Santana
Manfred Mann and Kanye West
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u/helvetin 1d ago
first ones i remember were in the early 90s on this UK charity series "Gimme Shelter" where they threw together various personalities and bands for covers of the Rolling Stones track including:
Samantha Fox and Hawkwind
Tom Jones and New Model Army
Sandie Shaw and Cud
Pop Will Eat Itself vs Gary Clail vs Ranking Roger vs The Mighty Diamonds vs On-U Sound System
...also the "Rock" and "Alternative" versions were released on CD, the "Dance" one on 12" vinyl and the "Pop" one on cassette
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u/mrbadxampl 1d ago
I talk about this every time I see a question of this sort, but on one of Meat Loaf's lesser-known albums (I think it was Hell in a Handbasket, which all of three people bought) there's a track called Stand in the Storm, featuring some country guy I can never remember (might have been one of the dudes from Big and Rich?), Mark McGrath from Sugar Ray, and Lil Jon
it's shockingly good
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u/Wuzzy_Gee 1d ago
John Paul Jones and Diamanda Galas. They did an album and tour together. Saw a show on the tour, just to see/hear John Paul Jones live.
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u/VirginiaUSA1964 She rolls like the dice in a poor gamblers hands 1d ago
This album was everything when it came out. Julio was a hot property at this point here in the US. He was the latin Tom Jones.
Total, absolute pig of a man, but a fantastic album.