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Lisnaholic 04-27-2019 07:48 PM
From Romantic to Excruciating: The Art of The Duet
 
I'm not a fan of overly romantic songs, and when confronted by two lovebirds cooing to each other in a song I usually watch with a kind of horrified fascination, like "How cheesy can this become?"

So it was with pleasure that I came across this duet which is done with great style and a touch of humour:-



(Back story: Miguel Bosé is actually the uncle of Bimba Bosé, which makes the sexual charge of this video a little odd to say the least. What's sad though is that Bimba (31 years old when she appeared in this video) died just ten years later from cancer that moved voraciously - from breast to liver to brain.)

Anyway, this is a thread for anyone who wants to unburden themselves on the topic of vocal duets; The Good, The Bad and The Cheesy.

Chula Vista 04-27-2019 10:05 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OFMkCeP6ok

OccultHawk 04-28-2019 12:33 PM
Amy Winehouse sounds like she’s making fun of disabled people

The Batlord 04-28-2019 12:40 PM
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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2054270)
Amy Winehouse sounds like she’s making fun of disabled people
That's my job! BTW today my retarded co-worker said "You're not supposed to eat on an empty stomach." He was trying to saying "You're not supposed to work on an empty stomach." Infinite lulz.

Lisnaholic 04-28-2019 04:30 PM
^ ...or as a friend of mine used to say, "You should never drink on an empty stomach. Always have a beer first."

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2054270)
Amy Winehouse sounds like she’s making fun of disabled people
^ Yeah, she has a strange style. Unfortunately Chula doesn't give us his opinion, but tbh I gave up on that song during the xylophone interlude.

To do a decent duet live is as much about acting as it is about singing, and while Esther has a good voice everything else about this duet is pretty cringeworthy imo:-

OccultHawk 04-28-2019 04:49 PM


Live footage is more amusing for video clips but this is a great song.

Oriphiel 04-28-2019 08:04 PM
Some say they're still hugging to this day

Chula Vista 04-28-2019 08:10 PM
^ lol

I like some of Amy. Not the biggest fan of the clip but it's a nice example of what can happen with two very dissimilar voices.

My fave duet of all time:



Seriously though, Under Pressure is pretty damn awesome.

Oriphiel 04-28-2019 08:13 PM

rostasi 04-28-2019 08:21 PM
Louis Prima & Phil Harris

rostasi 04-29-2019 06:40 AM

Psy-Fi 04-29-2019 06:46 AM

Psy-Fi 04-29-2019 07:17 AM

Chula Vista 04-29-2019 10:28 AM
^^^^ That gave me goosebumps when it got to the iso track!

Thank god for Jimmy Miller and what he lent to The Stones during that period!

Lisnaholic 04-29-2019 12:00 PM
One thing that the combined forces of MB do well is explore a theme in music. A lot of surprises in your recommendations so far - especially Dancing in the Street and the song from Jungle Book. Thanks. And thanks to Psy-Fi too, for the info on Gimme Shelter and the gospel song; that young girl on the right really knows how to fire up a crowd by giving her all!

Actually, Stuart Staples is pretty deadpan too, but that suits the lyrics of this song by Tindersticks, Travelling Light (which should not be confused with Travellin' Light by Cliff Richard or Traveling Light by Leonard Cohen):-



Spoiler for Travelling Light Lyrics:
There are places I don't remember
There are times and days they mean nothing to me
I've been looking through some of them old pictures
They don't serve to jog my memory
I'm not waking in the morning staring at the walls these days
I'm not getting out the boxes spread all over the floor
I've been looking through some of them old pictures
Those faces they mean nothing to me no more
I travel light
You travel light
Everything I've done
You say you can justify, you travel light
I can't pick them out, I can't put them in this saddle bag
Some things you have to lose along the way
Times are hard, I'll only pick them out, wish I was going back
Times are good you'll be glad you ran away
Do you remember how much you loved me?
You say you have no room in that thick old head
Well it comes with the hurt and the guilt, and the memories
If I had to take them with me I would never get from my bed
There's a crack in the roof where the rain pours through
That's the place you always decided to sit
Yeah I know I'm there for hours, the water running down my /your face
Do you really think you keep it all that well hid?
No but I travel light
You don't travel light
Everything I've done
It's just a lie, you don't travel light
I'm traveling light
No you don't travel light
I travel light
No, no, you don't travel light
I'm traveling light
You don't travel light

Songwriters: Alasdair Macaulay / David Boulter / Dickon James Hinchliffe / Mark Anthony Stephen Colwill / Neil Timothy Fraser / Stuart Ashton Staples

OccultHawk 05-11-2019 11:49 AM
Looking at Bird by Archie Shepp and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen

The Batlord 05-11-2019 02:26 PM
Does anyone remember that time Rob Halford and Bruce Dickinson were on the same song? Of course you don't cause it was unmemorable and pointless.


Lisnaholic 05-11-2019 05:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg (Post 2056231)
Does anyone remember that time Rob Halford and Bruce Dickinson were on the same song? Of course you don't cause it was unmemorable and pointless.

^ tbh, I couldn't discern two distinct voices in that song, which is a trademark of a vocal duet, surely.

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 2056218)
Looking at Bird by Archie Shepp and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
^ Couldn't discern any voices at all in this, OH. If we include instrumental duets here it's going to be like anarchy !

Don't you have any nice boy-plus-girl songs?!

OccultHawk 05-11-2019 05:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg (Post 2056231)
Does anyone remember that time Rob Halford and Bruce Dickinson were on the same song? Of course you don't cause it was unmemorable and pointless.

Hilarious post

Lisnaholic 05-11-2019 06:16 PM
https://cdn.drawception.com/images/p...SnZWEQ4-12.png :(



^ This is by MM but it is not the lady herself, although to judge from the cameraman's lop-sided attention you might imagine otherwise.

ziggywas 05-13-2019 05:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic (Post 2054176)
I'm not a fan of overly romantic songs, and when confronted by two lovebirds cooing to each other in a song I usually watch with a kind of horrified fascination, like "How cheesy can this become?"
agreed!
so we gotta go for the exceptions in this rule. i got a great one in mind but i ll start with the second that came to my mind:
would you call this a duet? (i m not sure.)
its Aesop with K. Dawson


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FweJYmdiP5k

Lisnaholic 05-13-2019 10:41 AM
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Originally Posted by ziggywas (Post 2056374)
agreed!
so we gotta go for the exceptions in this rule. i got a great one in mind but i ll start with the second that came to my mind:
would you call this a duet? (i m not sure.)
its Aesop with K. Dawson


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FweJYmdiP5k
^ Hey, ziggywas, haven't seen you for a while! I hope all is well with you.

I didn't recognise a single name or title on your duet, so I had no idea what to expect, and discovered an unusual song. Nice.

Here's an old favorite of mine, though not a boy/girl duet:-

Plankton 05-15-2019 01:46 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bLOjmY--TA

Plankton 05-15-2019 01:46 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foGkU6x3eSE

Psy-Fi 05-16-2019 06:53 AM
Charo Bogarin, of the duo "Tonolec" from Argentina, with singer-songwriter Malena Muyala from Uruguay, playing the song "Pasos" by Malena Muyala...





Charo Bogarín y Malena Muyala - Pasos

ziggywas 05-16-2019 01:50 PM
and now for something completely diferrent, the Kim Gordon/Chuck D duet


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTSUwIZdMk


p.s @ Lisnaholic i m good, thanks for asking!! no particular reason we didnt bump into each other these days i guess.

ziggywas 06-05-2019 12:30 PM
Prolapse had two vocalists, one male one female.
also the two vocalists were romantically involved so i guess there were tensions.
a pretty good thing to do about tensions is a song i guess, so here's maybe the best "duet" i can think of:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qroI-VWDNY

Stephen 06-05-2019 03:49 PM
Bobby Womack and Lana Del Rey

Eleanor Rigby 14 01-17-2021 02:51 AM
My favourite duets are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXAlfh6QKQs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLEhh_XpJ-0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0qW9P-uYfM
Although I'm sure there're many more great collaborations.

Lisnaholic 01-17-2021 08:05 AM
Some nice pop duets there, Eleanor. I especially like Ebony and Ivory which does something worthwhile that music is always capable of, but doesn't necessarily do: send a message and example of racial tolerance.

Here's one of the most famous duets of the 60s. Like so much pop, it's a rather manufactured commodity and looking at it today I wondered, what exactly is the product Sonny and Cher are offering ?



Answer, imo: buy into a hippy fairy tale about two good-looking lovers, united in rejecting convention and living in blissful poverty. I feel that they, and the entire audience should be wearing rose-coloured spectacles.

Eleanor Rigby 14 01-17-2021 08:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic (Post 2157023)
Some nice pop duets there, Eleanor. I especially like Ebony and Ivory which does something worthwhile that music is always capable of, but doesn't necessarily do: send a message and example of racial tolerance.

Here's one of the most famous duets of the 60s. Like so much pop, it's a rather manufactured commodity and looking at it today I wondered, what exactly is the product Sonny and Cher are offering ?



Answer, imo: buy into a hippy fairy tale about two good-looking lovers, united in rejecting convention and living in blissful poverty. I feel that they, and the entire audience should be wearing rose-coloured spectacles.
My grandma loves that song lol

Lisnaholic 01-17-2021 08:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Eleanor Rigby 14 (Post 2157026)
My grandma loves that song lol
She and I are probably the same generation ;) Is there a Spanish language version, or does she like the original?

Also, I thought again about what I wrote: maybe there is a time in our lives when it's perfectly valid to hope that love will conquer all. That's what young people deserve: to explore the chance of a happy romantic future.

Eleanor Rigby 14 01-17-2021 09:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic (Post 2157028)
She and I are probably the same generation ;) Is there a Spanish language version, or does she like the original?

Also, I thought again about what I wrote: maybe there is a time in our lives when it's perfectly valid to hope that love will conquer all. That's what young people deserve: to explore the chance of a happy romantic future.
I don't think there's a Spanish version, she likes the original one, and my grandma isn't Spanish. And she's 83.
I think that about 98% of popular music is about happy romantic future lol.


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