Top Ten Strangest/Most Interesting Pairings In Music

You won't believe who is at number 1

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Slash and Fergie– Song : Beautiful Dangerous Artist: Slash Album: Slash

Off of his 2010 eponymous album the song features Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas. While Fergie's GNR’essque singing and Slash’s guitar riffs go together not all that bad the lyrics are a little creepy. On top of the creepiness of the lyrics, the music videos is all the more cringy.

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Every Time I Die and Brendon Urie – Song : It Remembers Artist: Every Time I Die Album: Low Teens

Off of Every Time I Die’s 2016 album Low Teens , the music video is just as strange as the collaboration between Every Time I Die and Panic at the Disco’s vocalist Brendon Urie. The song has elements of desert rock and punkish super sonic instrumentation; some parts of the song Urie provides harmonies along with Every Time I Die vocalist Keith Buckley. In a behind the scenes video for It Remembers posted by Every Time I Die’s record label Epitaph Records via Youtube, director of the music video Brandon Dermer talked about the music video and the inclusion of Urie in the video. “ So the concept was really birthed from... I had a idea and the band had an idea… Brenden Urie came out, which was incredible; he’s got an Every Time I Die tattoo on his entire arm and I was like ‘I think we’re going to be good friends.”

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#8 Anthrax and Public Enemy – Song: Bring The Noise Artist: Public Enemy Album: Apocalypse 91 The Enemy Strike Back

Cited as one of the earliest rap metal songs to hit the airwaves, Bring the Noise starts off with Anthrax delivering their signature thrash metal sound. The song soon after transitions into members of Public Enemy rapping over a thrash metal inspired instrumental accompanied by DJ scratching to remind the listening audience that Bring the Noise is still a hip hop song. The music video is fun and energetic and really captures the essence of these two genre’s of music flowing with harmony.

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#7 Aerosmith and Run DMC – Song : Walk this Way Ft Aerosmith Artist: Run DMC Album: Raising Hell

This song is an earlier predecessor to Anthrax and Public Enemy’s song this song samples Aerosmith’s song Walk this way. This song borders between sampling and just blatantly ripping off the original song, but to Aerosmith’s justice they were featured in the video and the song revamped their career. The music video depicts a wall between both groups symbolizing the divide between hip hop and rock music.

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#6 Korn and Ice Cube – Song: Children of the Korn Artist: Korn Album: Follow the Leader

Off of Korn’s third album ‘Follow the Leader’, the song features hip hop legend Ice Cube providing angsty bars over Korn’s enthrallingly eerie music detailing the frustrations of being a GEN-X kid. Lead singer Jonathan Davis on his verses on this song detail how he was once an outcast, but through the success of Korn has become a celebrity as well as the issues that comes with fame. The term ‘Children of the Korn’, a nod to the Stephen King film with the same name, is a term used to refer to Korn’s fans.

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#5 Metallica and Lou Reed – Artist : Metallica, Lou Reed Album: Lulu

Released Halloween 2011 this album was collaboration between former singer songwriter Lou Reed and Metallica. A lot of the song off of Lulu are just Lou Reed doing spoken word over instrumentation provided by member of Metallica. Every so often, lead singer and Guitarist James Hetfield lends a hand in delivering off kilter lyrics; most notably in the second track of this album “The View” in which Hetfield says in the outro of the song “I am the view I am the table I am the view I am the table…” The album, upon its release, received polarizing reviews.

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#4 Kendrick Lamar and Imagine Dragons – Performance Songs: M.A.A.D. City and Radioactive

In 2014 Alt-Rock band Imagine Dragons and Hip-hop artist Kendrick Lamar teamed up for an energetic live performance of both of their signature songs M.A.A.D. City and Radioactive. Their performance masterfully transitions back and forward from atmospheric and harmonious to dark and gritty, with out loosing complete integrity. One famous moment from the Grammy performance was centered around Taylor Swift, who was enjoying the performance.

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#3 Michael Jackson and Eddie Van Halen – Song: Beat it Artist: Michael Jackson and Eddy Van Halen Album: Thriller

One of the most famous musical collaborations to occur in music in the 20th Century, Beat It was one of Michael Jackson’s most successful songs. The catchy pop and guitar riffs provided by Eddie Van Halen combined elements of Hard rock and pop music into one.

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#2 Eminem and Marilyn Manson – Song: The Way I am (Live) Artist: Eminem and Marilyn Manson Album: Marshall Mathers LP

On Eminem’s song The Way I am, off of the Marshall Mathers LP, Eminem references the events that happened during the Columbine Massacre claiming that people were putting the blame on Marilyn Manson for inspiring the two young killers to murder everyone. While touring for the album Marilyn Manson joined Eminem on-stage to provide backing vocals during the songs hook.

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#1 The Beach Boys and Charles Manson: Song – Never Learn Not to Love (Original Title: Cease to Exist) Artist: The Beach Boys and Charles Manson Album: 20/20

Before The Beach Boys released their song ‘Never Learn Not to Love’ off of their

1969 album 20/20, the song was entitled Cease to Exist and was originally given to lead singer of The Beach Boys Dennis Wilson. Of course The Beach Boys changed the song title due to controversy that surrounded Manson.