Posted October 9, 200717 yr 1 Foggy Dew – Sinéad O’Connor & The Chieftains 2 Fairytale Of New York – Kirsty MacColl & The Pogues 3 Under Pressure – Queen & David Bowie 4 Where The Wild Roses Grow – Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue 5 Walk This Way – Run DMC & Aerosmith 6 Islands In The Stream – Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton 7 You're All I Need To Get By - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell 8 What Have I Done To Deserve This? – Dusty Springfield & Pet Shop Boys 9 Don’t Give Up – Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush 10 Some Velvet Morning – Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra 11 Little Drummer Boy – Bing Crosby & David Bowie 12 Dancing In The Streets – Mick Jagger & David Bowie 13 Barcelona – Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé 14 Interlude – Morrissey & Siouxsie 15 Je T’aime… Moi Non Plus – Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin 16 Justified and Ancient – The KLF & Tammy Wynette 17 Stan – Eminem & Dido 18 Teardrop - Massive Attack & Liz Fraser 19 I Want You - Inspiral Carpets & Mark E Smith 20 This Mess We’re In - PJ Harvey & Thom Yorke 21 Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart - Marc Almond & Gene Pitney 22 Do They Know it’s Christmas? – Band Aid 23 Love Hurts – Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris 24 Don’t Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John & Kiki Dee 25 Smooth - Rob Thomas & Santana 26 Miss Sarajevo - Passengers (U2 & Pavarotti) 27 When Love Comes to Town – U2 & BB King 28 Girl from the North Country – Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash 29 What A Wonderful World - Shane MacGowan & Nick Cave 30 7 Seconds - Youssou N’Dour & Neneh Cherry 31 E Bow The Letter – REM & Patti Smith 32 You’re The One That I Want - John Travolta & Olivia Newton John 33 Setting Sun – Chemical Brothers & Noel Gallagher 34 The Saints Are Coming – U2 & Green Day 35 Parklife – Blur & Phil Daniels 36 Something Stupid - Frank & Nancy Sinatra 37 Crying – KD Lang & Roy Orbison 38 Well Did You Evah? – Debbie Harry & Iggy Pop 39 Relight My Fire - Take That & Lulu 40 Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves - Aretha Franklin & Annie Lennox Do you agree with this list?
October 9, 200717 yr Some of these can't be considered duets. The Chemicals and Massive Attack are not duets neither is Band Aid (or am I being too pedantic as usual!)
October 9, 200717 yr Love the list :cheer: :cheer: I would add Kristin Hersh & Michael Stipe - Your ghost :wub:
October 9, 200717 yr Some of these can't be considered duets. The Chemicals and Massive Attack are not duets neither is Band Aid (or am I being too pedantic as usual!) no man i'm with you. i dont what to say about this list.
October 10, 200717 yr 21 Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart - Marc Almond & Gene Pitney Do you agree with this list? If you want to be pedantic about this list you could single this record out and argue that this is not a ‘duet’, but rather two gentlemen who just happen to be singing the same song at the same time with no ‘suspect overtones’ (more like ‘the Proclaimers’ than a love song between two lovers). On the other hand, I would have not included this record on a list like this because you have to remember that this was really only a record that was ‘tacked’ onto the end of the re-issue of the ‘Stars We Are’ album; an after-thought in fact. The ‘Stars We Are’ was one of the best LPs of the late 1980s, and whereas Almond’s solo recording of the record was good it is outshined by the majority of the other tracks, including two amazing collaborations with Nico and Agnes Bernelle. The Nico track ‘Your Kisses Burn’ was one of the very last tracks Nico recorded before she fell off her bike and died; and the contrast between her dark deep deadpan voice and Marc’s more theatrical tones are just amazing. The other track is ‘Kept Boy’, a duet between Agnes Bernelle as an older lady (but I imagine more Barbara Cartland, than ‘urban cougar’) and her younger ‘kept boy’ as played by Marc Almond. I think this record is best described as a ‘tragic love story’ even though the song’s subject matter is twisted and not as straight forward as the definition that I have just given. The song is akin to a ‘West End’ play that has been condensed into a three-minute pop song; and is both theatrical and ultimately disturbing. Finally, whilst I am the subject of Marc Almond and twisted love ‘duets’, may I remind you of another great record called ‘A Lover Spurned’. This is another amazing record by Marc Almond and features the actress Julie T. Wallace from the BBC Television series ‘The Life and Loves of A She-Devil’. You might remember the video for this single, which was directed by the French photographic duo ‘Pierre et Gilles’, which looked like ‘Pee-wee Herman’ (Paul Reubens) had visited the ‘Eurotrash’ set. I think it is time that all of Marc’s promotional videos were released on one DVD as my ‘Soft Cell/Marc Almond’ greatest ‘Memorabilia’ video needs updating.
October 10, 200717 yr agree with the list?... not personally, but there are some corkers in there, my fav being lee hazelwood and nancy sinatra 'some velvet morning'... but weve discussed these recently :)
October 10, 200717 yr I dont see George Michael & Aretha Franklin I knew you were waitin for me, which is a classic. A few good ones in the list but alot of c**p aswell
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