That is a damn good call and opens up a whole new avenue to explore. I'm not a fan of Texas but Sharlene Spiteri's rendition of "You Can Say What You Want" at the Brit Awards with Method Man was fantastic.
The Was Not Was/Kim Basinger/Ozzy Osbourne 90s tune Shake Your Head has to be up there, surely?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF86IyrxptU
And if anyone fancies adding it, Sir Christopher Lee had a long association with Death Metal and had quite a back catologue of albums and EPs.
Love the Burroughs song. In a very similar vein (pun intended), Will Self collaborated with Bomb the Bass for this track where he explains the difficulties he has extracting morphine from soluble kaolin that he buys from various chemists and the effect that it has on his arms. Apparently it...
Maybe I'm doing him a disservice but it does look an awful lot like it to me. It's also coincided with an appallingly bad and lazy string of covers albums. Nick Cave went through a similar phase, the nadir being that God awful moustache that he grew.
Gonna have to pick you up on this one. The Miley Cyrus / Flaming Lips collaboration isn't so unusual when you realise that it coincides with Wayne Coyne's mid-life crisis and it's made him a very pervy old man. He seems obsessed with getting people (especially women) naked. There was a gig that...
Here's an absolutely brilliant pairing: Billy Mackenzie, lead singer of 80s indie darlings The Associates and electro-rockers Apollo 440. It comes from the Apollo 440 album "Electro Glide In Blue" which is, in my humble opinion, one of the greatest albums of all time. There's not a single track...
Sorry matey, been really busy. How about a couple of Nick Cave duets. There's obviously the Kylie and PJ Harvey songs, also the Shane McGowan - all from the Murder Ballads album but instead I'll offer these two:
Two of my biggest musical heroes here, Nick Cave and Johnny Cash covering Hank...