Greatest Duets
Haven't seen a thread about duets on here in a while, I guess because with a lot of indie bands it's pretty common nowadays with bands like Broken Social Scene and Dirty Projectors et al.
There's something I really love about duets, maybe it's the hopeless romantic in me, but when you get the harmonizing right you can really have something amazing. It's a fine line though between faux emotional lovey bullshit and a genuinely great sounding song.
Post your favourite duet and why with a youtube link. I'll start with this classic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb-SVPJM4L4
It still sounds incredible to this day. Pretty interesting lyrics and manages different time signatures between verses without it sounding jarring. I want to meet this Phaedra.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtfipeRNOrg
Islands In The Stream - Kenny Rogers And Dolly Parton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiwcOaaRo1Y
I'm not taking the piss. It's a song that I used to love as a kid before I knew who was cool and who wasn't. It's just a great tune.
i like this version too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfORU_DKp0w
As far as indie duets go, it may not necessarily be billed as a duet
but I've always thought of Belle & Sebastian's Lazy Line Painter Jane as a duet. It's the first B&S song that I heard. Brilliant song. I love Monica Queen's voice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I42Q-EU50s
Titus Andronicus - To Old Friends And New
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNHdHBtAdzA
this has to count right?
I've been enjoying this James Yorkston/Jill O'Sullivan one lately
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YvluNn7YRc
a recent favourite, Andrew Bird and St. Vincent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OecM1x7iVPU
Also Postal Service's nothing better is a particularly good example of the back-and-forth of a duet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmaEYrmrY4I
obvious answer, but it is brilliant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDpnjE1LUvE
Cave/Kylie
Bjork and Yorke
Sadly not quite as good as it sounds, but not bad either
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V1Lov1U9mU
Liz Fraser and Jeff Buckley
Officially unreleased 'all flowers in time bend towards the sun' recorded when they were a couple. http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=oRNeGC7k5J8&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DoRNeGC7k5J8
Tindersticks do this well
Travelling lIght (with Carla Torgerson)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFfOgtTEji4
SOmetimes it hurts (with Lhasa de Sela)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkxuxajhQMA
Lodger - I'm Leaving
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Bkefy8zSec
Great tune that kind of got lost in the post-Britpop late 90s - if I remember rightly one of Supergrass was involved.
Cerys Matthews & Tom Jones?
Nah, just kidding, that was a horrisonant catenation of idiopathic Fray Bentos.