They were playing karaoke singers. She at least was supposed to be a total amateur. I liked that movie and thought the scene with the father and daughter singing and reconciling was pretty cool.

In other news:

Best Duet Ever - William Shatner & Henry Rollins on the Hasbeen album!

RAINFORESTS ARE THE DEVIL! WE'VE GOT TO KILL THE DEVIL!

notmtwain: They were playing karaoke singers. She at least was supposed to be a total amateur. I liked that movie and thought the scene with the father and daughter singing and reconciling was pretty cool.

Going to have to agree. The movie wasn't really my thing, but the scene made a lot of sense in context of the movie, and the duet itself was fine.

And I used to like "The Girl Is Mine" as a kid. Wonder if it completely sucks now? Time to youtube it.

That was one of my ex's favorite songs. Thanks for the bad memories subby!

This list is incomplete without Islands in the Stream.

/Dancing In The Streets doesn't belong here.

Boritom: In other news:

Best Duet Ever - William Shatner & Henry Rollins on the Hasbeen album!

Man you need to get your facts straight, the best duet in history is:
WIlliam Shatner and Joe Jackson, Common People.

An easy mistake to make.

Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?

notmtwain: They were playing karaoke singers. She at least was supposed to be a total amateur. I liked that movie and thought the scene with the father and daughter singing and reconciling was pretty cool.

Ahhh, the "...but...but...context!?" argument.

wolvernova: Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?


Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercial and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost.

notmtwain: They were playing karaoke singers. She at least was supposed to be a total amateur. I liked that movie and thought the scene with the father and daughter singing and reconciling was pretty cool.

Yeah but Maya Rudolph and her brother wrote that movie. I think it was supposed to be more of a satire than it turned out to be. I doubt she could really take anything that seriously...especially Karoake. That and Paul Giamatti doing his "K speak" and picking up a "shadow." Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

Sybarite: wolvernova: Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?


Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercial and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost.

Zombie Paul Allen approves what you are saying

/had lunch with him last Thursday in London

notmtwain: They were playing karaoke singers. She at least was supposed to be a total amateur. I liked that movie and thought the scene with the father and daughter singing and reconciling was pretty cool.

THIS. Huey Lewis was excellent playing a traveling karaoke hustler who suckers people into betting against him in a karaoke contest and takes their money.

And I don't think the song was terrible. Paltrow also did a decent cover of "Bette Davis Eyes" in that movie, but the a cappella version of Freebird at the end was one of the best songs from that movie.

Outside of that movie, some my favorite duets:
- "Gulf Coast Highway" with Emmylou Harris and Willie Nelson (that shiat'll make you cry)
- "I Won't Back Down" with Johnny Cash and Tom Petty. My wife heard this and was like "Johnny Cash is awesome, but that other guy who does the backing is terrible", and I had to explain to her that "the other guy" wrote the song.
- "Waiting for Tonight" with Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks

I have to agree about "Opposites Attract" being on the list. Also, "Crazy in Love" should be on there, since Beyonce can sing, but Jay-Z can't rap for shiat.

Bono and Frank Sinatra

Both of Sinatra's Duets albums were a disgrace. Pathetic that the first one was the biggest selling album Sinatra ever released.

Sybarite: wolvernova: Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?


Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercial and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost.

In '87, Huey released this, Fore, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics.

Boritom: Best Duet Ever - William Shatner & Henry Rollins on the Hasbeen album!

That is on the mix in my car's CD player right now. I farking love that track. Common People is awesome too.

Worst duet, worst cover, worst anything (new window)

Sybarite:

He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humour.

Ummm... Seriously this list is weak without:

I got You Babe

Summer Lovin' ("Summer Nights")

Paradise by the Dashboard Lights

Stimutax67: Boritom: In other news:

Best Duet Ever - William Shatner & Henry Rollins on the Hasbeen album!

Man you need to get your facts straight, the best duet in history is:
WIlliam Shatner and Joe Jackson, Common People.

An easy mistake to make.

I think it is quite possibly the best song ever recorded. Period.

notmtwain: They were playing karaoke singers. She at least was supposed to be a total amateur. I liked that movie and thought the scene with the father and daughter singing and reconciling was pretty cool.

It was good enough that she was offered a record contract.

luckily, she was smart enough to say no.BoringNickName: - "I Won't Back Down" with Johnny Cash and Tom Petty. My wife heard this and was like "Johnny Cash is awesome, but that other guy who does the backing is terrible", and I had to explain to her that "the other guy" wrote the song.

I'd add Johnny Cash & Joe Strummer doing Bob Marley's Redemption Song. simply beautiful.

Lipspinach: Stimutax67: Boritom: In other news:

Best Duet Ever - William Shatner & Henry Rollins on the Hasbeen album!

Man you need to get your facts straight, the best duet in history is:
WIlliam Shatner and Joe Jackson, Common People.

An easy mistake to make.

I think it is quite possibly the best song ever recorded. Period.

I've been saying that for a long time. The original was a very good song, but Shatner's speech-singing added the necessary level of contempt and disgust at the girl to the lyrics that just didn't make it into the original.

I remember that. I thought she sang pretty well.

I came for the Patrick Bateman monologue. I will be leaving with a decapitated hooker wrapped up in a tarp.

I actually liked that movie, and soundtrack, when it came out. Strange, strange casting though.


/Maria Bello is a man.

Beavis and Butthead and Cher - i got you babe

best duet ever?

BoringNickName: THIS. Huey Lewis was excellent playing a traveling karaoke hustler who suckers people into betting against him in a karaoke contest and takes their money.

And I don't think the song was terrible. Paltrow also did a decent cover of "Bette Davis Eyes" in that movie, but the a cappella version of Freebird at the end was one of the best songs from that movie.

I would vote that duet for one of the creepier ones out there. A father and daughter singing about having sex crosses the creepy line. Well, it could have been worse: they could have sung Paradise by the Dashboard Light.

Maybe they weren't referring to the song in the context of whatever movie you're talking about, but in the context of a single. Because it was released as a single and that single is farking horrible.

Uzzah: I came for the Patrick Bateman monologue. I will be leaving with a decapitated hooker wrapped up in a tarp.

This thread would be entirely meaningless to me if it were not for the chance to quote that movie, read other people quoting it, and seeing that above picture with the ax. If it were a Phil Collins thread, I'd hope that someone would post the pic of him pointing at the camera/mirror.

Oh, come on - you gotta love The Girl Is Mine.

/I DON'T BELIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVE IT!

MisterBill: A father and daughter singing about having sex crosses the creepy line. Well, it could have been worse: they could have sung Paradise by the Dashboard Light.



Concur.

themirth: Concur

FTW

What the hell? That's a great song. Bah.

/didn't see the movie

Which one of them is married to Chris Martin?

I'll stick up for Huey and the News forever.

Back in the 80's Bruce Hornsby and The Range couldn't make the double bill because they got snowed in at Seattle, so Huey said to the audience, "That's not fair for you guys to get shorted." so they played about every song they've ever done.
It was a 2 and a half hour concert. It was awesome!
That's class.

I think you have to define what makes a bad duet. It's a given that if one or both of the singers can't (sing, that is) then the duet is bad. Assuming that, then

a) The song doesn't fit one or both of their styles.

b) The song's content is creepy with both of them. You can't imagine these two people singing this song too each other.

c) The two's styles don't fit - Bono and Sinatra, e.g. Both fine singers, just not good together.

That being said, I like GP singing. Everying time I have heard her sing I really liked her. So no more GP hating, or I'll start singing. Then you'll hear pain.

/I Like Huey also.

Dumb-Ass-Monkey:
I'd add Johnny Cash & Joe Strummer doing Bob Marley's Redemption Song. simply beautiful.

Came here to say this. My favorite song ever.

Frank Sinatra and Nancy...
Something stupid is right!



/and creepy lyrics, considering the relationship.

Namey Namerson: Worst duet, worst cover, worst anything (new window)

omg I thought that was going to be a joke, but no. could anything be more wrong?

Namey Namerson: Worst duet, worst cover, worst anything (new window)

clicked on out of curiosity,saw Celine Dions name and quickly clicked off

themirth: +1 for Arrested Development. Bravo.

Yeah, I love the song, right up to the point where the father and daughter are talking about makin' love.

Namey Namerson: Worst duet, worst cover, worst anything (new window)

AHHHHHHH!!! Kill it with fire!!!! I saw that Shania Twain did a cover of the song also. Brain can't compute such uber suckage.....

/Celine FTL

Namey Namerson: Worst duet, worst cover, worst anything (new window)

I hate you. For that may your playlist only include Celine Dion.

I think it was the BEST duet ever.
pitch and timing perfect with lot's of feeling.

/but it was kindda creepy the whole daughter/father thing.

mofomisfit: Maybe they weren't referring to the song in the context of whatever movie you're talking about, but in the context of a single. Because it was released as a single and that single is farking horrible.

I bought that single and I liked it.

/on vinyl
//get off my lawn

yes i agree,,,,that song makes me freakin cringe...as a 4th degree black belt in karaoke, i will never see that movie, because i know that song is from it. (correct my grammar all ya want i am lit right now..just gettin back from [u guessed it] karaoke)...
and i have to hear that song pretty much anytime i go grocery shopping...

i liked parachutes, but after seeing coldplay on SNL....geez..they suck...bad. I mean A REALLY BAD band....they must be so produced it's unbelievable

/still like the paracutes album

i mean parakeets album