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Day 2: A collaboration between two or more artists

This song has been on my mind since it popped up in my new releases (???) a weekend or two ago, such a heavy dose of nostalgia. My two favorite girl bands from when I was a teenager singing a fun cover for Comic Relief, don't mind if I do 💃🏻 I completely forgot about the random runway cameos 😂

Sugababes and Girls Aloud - Walk This Way
 
Day 2: A collaboration between two or more artists

Monumentally unfashionable then as now, but fuck I love this song, and much prefer it to the original. Again, fight me...

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Mr Tom Jones and The Art of Noise with their cover of Kiss...

 
Day 2: A collaboration between two or more artists

Really embracing the "or more" element of today's prompt...
The Flaming Lips, teaming up with Stardeath and White Dwarfs, on an album also featuring Henry Rollins and Peaches...
They all get together and pay tribute to a Pink Floyd classic. They didn't just cover the song, they covered the whole album!
I prefer the original, of course... but this was an interesting undertaking. And I always enjoyed the album cover, for some reason...

The Flaming Lips, Stardeath and White Dwarfs, Henry Rollins, and Peaches - The Great Gig in the Sky

 
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Day 2: A collaboration between two or more artists

Monumentally unfashionable then as now, but fuck I love this song, and much prefer it to the original. Again, fight me...

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Mr Tom Jones and The Art of Noise with their cover of Kiss...

Can't go wrong with a bit of Tom
 
Day 2: A collaboration between two or more artists
My two favorite things about this one, other than everything, is that this was supposed to be a blind collaboration while they were in the same studio. This was a studio jam session. They laid down the music first, then Freddie would go into the booth and record a verse, followed by David, back and forth, without hearing what the other singer was doing. But David would stand just outside the door and listen to Freddie on the playback speaker, then sneak off before anyone came out.

On the music end, they were creating the music from scratch in the studio as well. John Deacon was noodling around, and came up with the famous bass line. Then he went out to get pizzas, and couldn't remember it when he got back. Luckily, Roger was able to remind him, and Vanilla Ice's career was saved. Or maybe not "luckily..."

"This is our last dance/This is ourselves..." is one of my all-time favorite lyrics from either artist.
 
Day 2: A collaboration between 2 or more artists

I was looking for something sweet, soulful for this, and there are lots of those. But I am still having problems waking up, so I went less...sweet.

In 1987 Public Enemy put out "Bring the Noise" on the soundtrack to Less than Zero. In it, they named dropped Anthrax. Anthrax reached out to PE to do a collaboration on it. Chuck D didn't think much of it, and didn't think the thrash band would take it seriously. Then he heard it. And then the two bands toured together. Per Chuck, Anthrax originally "wiped the floor" with them, requiring PE to up their stage game. I saw them on this tour, late, when both groups were at a fever pitch. It was amazing. And the crowed was too, with two vastly different fan bases (and a bunch of us who loved them both). It should have been a mess. It was entirely not. Both fan bases got on beautifully, and if more of the world were like an Anthrax/Public Enemy show, it would be a better place.

"Bring the Noise," Public Enemy and Anthrax

 
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