One of the more intriguing albums we’ve had in the office recently is Raising Sand, a collaboration between Alison Krauss and Robert Plant. It’s hardly the most conventional of pairings. She: a winsome bluegrass balladeer. He: the leonine metal god famous for bellowing about Valhalla. Yet, somehow, it works brilliantly. Unlike these utterly abysmal duets…
Dolly Parton and Sylvester Stallone
From the “madcap” – ie “wretched” - 1984 film Rhinestone. This clip finds Stallone singing with all the grace and poise of a man being viciously garrotted with piano wire.
Michael Jackson and Eddie Murphy
In 1993, the man who would one day impregnate Scary Spice launched an equally scary solo career. Remarkably, he managed to enlist the help of Michael Jackson for gibberish non-hit Whatzupwitu.
Gwyneth Paltrow and Huey Lewis
Taken from the film Duets, the unlikely pairing’s cover of Smokey Robinson’s Cruisin’ was actually a sizeable US hit in 2000. Ominously, Lewis – who now earns a minimum $200,000 a gig on the college reunion nostalgia circuit – intends to release new material this year.
Primal Scream and Kate Moss
In which La Moss sings with such wafty tunelessness as to make Bobby Gillespie sound like a leather-lunged vocal colossus. Taken from 2002’s Evil Heat – the most drug-blasted album in the career of rock’s most drug-blasted band – you have to wonder if even the Scream themselves remember recording this Lee Hazlewood/Nancy Sinatra cover.
Happy Mondays and Karl Denver
One can only imagine the cocktail of psychoactive chemicals that led Shaun Ryder’s gang to collaborate with the wizened Scottish yodeller best known for a version of Wimoweh. The resulting track, Lazyitis, a single in 1989, caused a minor resurgence of interest in Denver, convincing Factory Records to release a “Madchester” remix of Wimomeh. Needless to say, it sank without trace.
Aerosmith, Britney Spears, N*SYNC
Those who today claim that Justin Timberlake is some kind of avant-pop maverick would do well to watch this footage of the bum-fluffed one gyrating and crotch-grabbing like an utter berk at the 2001 Superbowl. Nelly and Mary J Blige also embarrass themselves by appearing in this truly rancid rendition of Walk This Way.
4:28 PM | 22/08/2007
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you missed the pia zadora + jermaine jackson horror
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