Thoughts?

• George Clinton & Frank Zappa
• Prince & Bootsy Collins

Wendy & Lisa and Paul Thomas Anderson

Bjork and Kate Bush

Aimee Mann & Wendy & Lisa

Wendy & Lisa and Teena Marie

Trina & Tyga

Patti LaBelle & BeBe Winans (wait...did they?)

Mariah Carey & Christina Aguilera

Metalica & Korn (wait...did they?)

Diddy &

HotGritz said:

Trina & Tyga

Patti LaBelle & BeBe Winans (wait...did they?)

Mariah Carey & Christina Aguilera

Metalica & Korn (wait...did they?)

Diddy &

!!!!!!!

Stevie Wonder and Donny Hathaway

Marvin Gaye and Todd Rundgren

Chaka Khan and Betty Davis

Aretha Franklin and James Brown (in the '70s lol)

Marilyn McCoo & Walter Williams

Swing Out Sister & El DeBarge

Brand New Heavies & Michael Jackson

Kraftwerk & Michael Jackson (Mike really requested to work with them in the mid 80's, but was turned down)

Stevie Wonder & Jose Feliciano

Stevie Wonder & Howard Jones

Stevie Wonder & Raul Midon

Jose Feliciano & Donny Hathaway

Charlie Wilson & Michael Jackson

Johnnie Taylor & Sam Cooke

Johnnie Taylor & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Sting & Prince

The Eagles & Michael Nesmith

Kathy Sledge, Denise Pearson, or Ralph Trevant & Michael Jackson

Digable Planets & Herbie Hancock, Lonnie Liston Smith, or Marvin Gaye

Jill Scott & Burt Bacharach

Madonna & Deee-lite

Roger Troutman & Johnny Guitar Watson

Esperanza Spalding & Rhoda Scott Trio

A supergroup with Minnie Riperton, Chante' Moore, Deniece Williams, Syreeta Wright, Kimberly Brewer, & Shanice Wilson

MickyDolenz said:

Kraftwerk & Michael Jackson (Mike really requested to work with them in the mid 80's, but was turned down)

Would have LOVED to have seen the stage production/performance that would have come from THAT collaboration.

MickyDolenz said:

Stevie Wonder & Jose Feliciano

Johnnie Taylor & Sam Cooke

Johnnie Taylor & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Sting & Prince

Madonna & Deee-lite

I would buy those albums without hearing note-one.

MickyDolenz said:

Roger Troutman & Johnny Guitar Watson

What a powerfully strong combination THAT would have been! And now that you mention it, I'm REAL sorry that never happened (...that we know of).

Prince+RickJames

sosgemini said:

Wendy & Lisa and Paul Thomas Anderson

Bjork and Kate Bush

Aimee Mann & Wendy & Lisa

Wendy & Lisa and Teena Marie

There are TONS of artists I'd like to see W&L produce, actually.

BklynBabe said:

Janet and Ciara, with a hot dance video! Aaliyah and Ludacris. Aaliyah, Brandy, and Monica.

Are you okay?

MickyDolenz said:

A supergroup with Minnie Riperton, Chante' Moore, Deniece Williams, Syreeta Wright, Kimberly Brewer, & Shanice Wilson

Are you shooting for something only dogs could hear?

Olivia Newton John & Debbie Harry (remake French Kissin' In the USA & Rapture! )

Freddy Mercury & George Michael

Burl Ives & Aretha Franklin (for a xmas song)

Rick James & Alexander O'Neal

Ciara & Lil Momma

Lyfe Jennings & Jaheim

None. I'm for folks doing their own thing.

i've always wondered what a bjork and beck album would sound like if they ever

recorded one.

now that i've heard the beck produced/co-written "IRM" by charlotte gainsbourgh

i'm even more sorry that he never recorded a record with bjork.

they should do so in future perhaps he can tempt bjork back into the realm

of beats and, you know, melodies and such. lol.

Quincy Jones would've done WONDERS for Marvin Gaye & Phyllis Hyman.

Stevie Wonder and the TONTO crew cooking something for Denice Williams & Patrice Rushen would've been fabulous too.

vainandy said:

None. I'm for folks doing their own thing.

OH come the fuck on! I know you have a few collaboration fantasies that you'd love to see materialize.

And I'm talking musical here so don't go nympho on me now

PDogz said:

What a powerfully strong combination THAT would have been! And now that you mention it, I'm REAL sorry that never happened (...that we know of).

I don't think my adrenaline level can take that much rhythm. Two of my FAVE rhythm guitarists letting it loose, with Johnny singing and Roger following it up with a talkbox and his ridiculously high drum pattern. Just imagining it is wild

Maxwell & D'Angelo

novabrkr said:

Maxwell & D'Angelo

tha's sexy

Harlepolis said:

vainandy said:

None. I'm for folks doing their own thing.

OH come the fuck on! I know you have a few collaboration fantasies that you'd love to see materialize.

And I'm talking musical here so don't go nympho on me now

Well, I'd love to watch Michael Henderson and Howard Hewitt suck each others dicks.....

But no, I see all this collaborating as one of the things that eventually ruined music and made it all sound alike. The Barkays had their own producer, Allen Jones, who pretty much have them their own sound. He also produced other lesser known groups like Ebonee Webb and Kwick and that was fine. The Solar Records artists had producers that gave them their own sound. Rick James and Prince both had their own sound and acts that had their own sound. Same with George Clinton, Parliament/Funkadelic, etc. Everyone either had their own sound themselves or were part of a set of groups that had their own sound.

When folks started deciding they wanted particular outside producers, everything started sounding alike. In the early 1980s, it was great when Nile Rodgers produced Diana Ross and Stevie Wonder produced Jermaine Jackson because it wasn't hugely widespread. But in the late 1980s, everybody wanted either Jam/Lewis or LA/Babyface to produce them. They did a lot of great stuff but most of the good stuff that was on the radio at that time was starting to sound alike and they were wearing the sound out. When the 1990s came along, more and more people wanted someone established to come in and produce them and everything really started sounding alike but unlike the 1980s, when they wore a sound out in the 1990s, they didn't let it go. They just continued wearing it out.

Now that I think about it, if ever there were two people I'd like to see on stage together, would be Prince and Wayne Cooper from Cameo. They have two of the baddest falsettos I've ever heard and I'd love to see them just battle it out. Them whores can do some hollerin' I tell you.

I don't think I would have liked to have seen them record together though because one of them would have to sacrifice their sound if they recorded a new song together. Prince would either have to give in to the Cameo sound or Wayne would have to give in to the Prince sound. Although Wayne didn't really have his own sound because it was Cameo's sound, when they stray from the group, it's too tempting for them to leave it for good and we all know what that means when they leave the group and go solo....they drop the funk and make weak shit. You know me, I'm always thinking about the consequences that might happen in the long run in the future. Better to not have a great brief collaboration if it could possibly jeapordize some future longterm funk and instead end up with a lifetime of adult contemporary.

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I'm surprised no one said these two yet:

musicjunky318 said:

I'm surprised no one said these two yet:

How about throwing TTD in with them. They might come up with something more interesting than All For Love by Bryan Adams, Sting, & Rod Stewart.

musicjunky318 said:

I'm surprised no one said these two yet:

If the thread had been posted over in the Prince section, the majority of responses would have been those two. We're into a whole lot more artists over on this side.

vainandy said:

Now that I think about it, if ever there were two people I'd like to see on stage together, would be Prince and Wayne Cooper from Cameo. They have two of the baddest falsettos I've ever heard and I'd love to see them just battle it out. Them whores can do some hollerin' I tell you.

Lammastide said:

MickyDolenz said:

A supergroup with Minnie Riperton, Chante' Moore, Deniece Williams, Syreeta Wright, Kimberly Brewer, & Shanice Wilson

Are you shooting for something only dogs could hear?

Not really. I'm more into female singers with pretty voices over gospel style vocals or big voices.

Madonna and Michael Jackson

And I would love to see Ricky Martin and Enrigue Inglesius have sex!!!!!!!!!

vainandy said:

Harlepolis said:

OH come the fuck on! I know you have a few collaboration fantasies that you'd love to see materialize.

And I'm talking musical here so don't go nympho on me now

Well, I'd love to watch Michael Henderson and Howard Hewitt suck each others dicks.....

But no, I see all this collaborating as one of the things that eventually ruined music and made it all sound alike. The Barkays had their own producer, Allen Jones, who pretty much have them their own sound. He also produced other lesser known groups like Ebonee Webb and Kwick and that was fine. The Solar Records artists had producers that gave them their own sound. Rick James and Prince both had their own sound and acts that had their own sound. Same with George Clinton, Parliament/Funkadelic, etc. Everyone either had their own sound themselves or were part of a set of groups that had their own sound.

When folks started deciding they wanted particular outside producers, everything started sounding alike. In the early 1980s, it was great when Nile Rodgers produced Diana Ross and Stevie Wonder produced Jermaine Jackson because it wasn't hugely widespread. But in the late 1980s, everybody wanted either Jam/Lewis or LA/Babyface to produce them. They did a lot of great stuff but most of the good stuff that was on the radio at that time was starting to sound alike and they were wearing the sound out. When the 1990s came along, more and more people wanted someone established to come in and produce them and everything really started sounding alike but unlike the 1980s, when they wore a sound out in the 1990s, they didn't let it go. They just continued wearing it out.

Wow, bringing Michael Henderson up, that's like tying a bow on 1980 and presenting it as a gift to someone. A beautiful and hairy bow. I was looking for some information on him and found this great quote on Wikipedia.

Before working with Miles Davis, Henderson had been touring with Stevie Wonder, whom he met at the Regal Theater in Chicago while warming up for a gig. Davis saw the young Henderson performing at the Copacabana in New York City in early 1970 and reportedly said to Wonder simply "I'm takin' your bass player."