Best (or worst) collaborations

Trollheart · 06-14-2017, 12:58 PM

Odd that I don't see a thread about this already, but anyway. Some of my favourites.

Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush - Don't Give Up

David Bowie and Bing Crosby - Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth

U2 and BB King - When Love Comes to Town

**Frownland** · 06-14-2017, 01:15 PM

There's a few collab threads but they all focus on favourites/best.

Colin Stetson and Mats Gustafsson - Stones

Take two of the best modern saxophonists in the game and it should be mindblowing, right? Nope. This album is essentially two solo pieces simply laid on top of each other. I say that as a person who loves messy free improvisation. There's not enough musical dialogue to sustain more than five minutes of this lazy album. It might have just been their first time jamming together for a live performance, but the end result is incredibly disappointing.

Another album that lays the artists' sounds over each other in just the laziest, least-inspired way possible is Sun Kil-Moon and Jesu's first collab.

The ideal collab for me is when it comes out to something totally different from the artists' original work without sacrificing or diluting their sound. Instead of the above artists following the formula of a + b = c, they went with a + b = b + a and it's so ****ing boring.

**Exo** · 06-14-2017, 01:29 PM

I'm not one for cliche answers but this is without question the worst collaboration I've ever seen ever.

**Frownland** · 06-14-2017, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo

I'm not one for cliche answers but this is without question the worst collaboration I've ever seen ever.

Imagine if you could get in on some of that cocaine though.

**Exo** · 06-14-2017, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

Imagine if you could get in on some of that cocaine though.

Chula Vista · 06-14-2017, 01:42 PM

Worst: Agree about Jagger and Bowie. Still the most cringeworthy video ever.

Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin collaborating was also a trainwreck.

Trollheart · 06-14-2017, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Exo

I'm not one for cliche answers but this is without question the worst collaboration I've ever seen ever.

I doubt there's anyone who'd disagree with you on that.

I wouldn't say best by any means, but still, two artists at the top of their game at the time...

grindy · 06-14-2017, 02:07 PM

Worst.

Percy Howard, Charles Hayward, Fred Frith & Bill Laswell - Meridiem

So, this is basically Massacre, one of the most amazing free rock bands ever.
And then there's Percy Howard, whose vocals are just so ****ing cringy, I've never been able to listen to more than one track on this. Is the music itself at least good? I seriously don't know because the vocals just suck the joy out of everything going on here. What the hell were those three thinking collaborating with that clown?

Trollheart · 06-14-2017, 02:08 PM

As for one of the worst.... Dear God, no.

**Frownland** · 06-14-2017, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by grindy

free rock

06-14-2017, 12:58 PM	#1 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Best (or worst) collaborations Odd that I don't see a thread about this already, but anyway. Some of my favourites. Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush - Don't Give Up David Bowie and Bing Crosby - Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth U2 and BB King - When Love Comes to Town __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	There's a few collab threads but they all focus on favourites/best. Colin Stetson and Mats Gustafsson - Stones Take two of the best modern saxophonists in the game and it should be mindblowing, right? Nope. This album is essentially two solo pieces simply laid on top of each other. I say that as a person who loves messy free improvisation. There's not enough musical dialogue to sustain more than five minutes of this lazy album. It might have just been their first time jamming together for a live performance, but the end result is incredibly disappointing. Another album that lays the artists' sounds over each other in just the laziest, least-inspired way possible is Sun Kil-Moon and Jesu's first collab. The ideal collab for me is when it comes out to something totally different from the artists' original work without sacrificing or diluting their sound. Instead of the above artists following the formula of a + b = c, they went with a + b = b + a and it's so ***ing boring. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.* d e a f b o x

06-14-2017, 01:29 PM	#3 (permalink)
Exo All day jazz and biscuits Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: NJ Posts: 7,354	I'm not one for cliche answers but this is without question the worst collaboration I've ever seen ever. __________________ LastFM SUPREME POO BAH MODERATOR EXTRAORDINAIRE

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Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Worst: Agree about Jagger and Bowie. Still the most cringeworthy video ever. Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin collaborating was also a trainwreck. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

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grindy . Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: . Posts: 7,201	Worst. Percy Howard, Charles Hayward, Fred Frith & Bill Laswell - Meridiem So, this is basically Massacre, one of the most amazing free rock bands ever. And then there's Percy Howard, whose vocals are just so **ing cringy, I've never been able to listen to more than one track on this. Is the music itself at least good? I seriously don't know because the vocals just suck the joy out of everything going on here. What the hell were those three thinking collaborating with that clown? __________________ A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.**

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Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	As for one of the worst.... Dear God, no. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018