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tracer on another thread:
it would have been fun to talk about "Love is Strange" when it came out - the format, like a boy-girl sing-to-each-other thing, and the disarmingly simple-sounding sentiment whose lyrics pull it deeper than the deepest mystery. "lots of peeeeee-ee-pul - take it for a game!" and then they go ahead and play a game with it! it's meta! it's sincere! round n around we go (also the singers both sound crushingly cute)
-- Tracer Hand (tracerhand@yahoo.com), January 28th, 2003.
this is so otm i have nothing to add...

other conversational duets that bust at the seams with mystery and simplicity?

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 16:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Not too much mystery, but "Obsession" by Animotion is one of the greatest songs ever.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 16:55 (twenty-three years ago)

i like the one on bobby digital in stereo where his bitch is like 'u aint shit, yo clothes aint shit, yo daddy aint shit' ad infinitum. rza is trying to talk to his pal on the phone

― gi66y, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 17:27 (twenty-three years ago)

'Don't You Want Me' - again not much mystery, just a nice game of tennis

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 17:28 (twenty-three years ago)

"Tramp" -- Otis Redding and Carla Thomas
And Shane McGowan wrote two great ones -- "Fairytale of New York" (w/Kirsty MacColl) and "Haunted" (w/Sinead O'Connor -- the last great thing Sinead did, apart from playing the Virgin Mary in The Butcher Boy)

― Jesse Fox (Jesse Fox), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 17:51 (twenty-three years ago)

And yes, I meant MacGowan. D'oh.

― Jesse Fox (Jesse Fox), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 17:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Tindersticks, "A Marriage Made in Heaven"

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 18:50 (twenty-three years ago)

De La Soul "Bitties in the BK Lounge" two couples in one song

― phil jones (interstar), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 19:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Best ever argument duet is The Same Thing It Took To Get Me by Joe Tex and Mable John (Little Willie John's sis).

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 22:23 (twenty-three years ago)

After seeing Tatu's video I realized there really need to be more conversational duets. Not this "Bonnie & Clyde 03"- "I rap profusely, she quotes Prince once" stuff, but desperate, argumentative songs. "Haunted" is a fine example, as is "Fairytale In New York."

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 23:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Prolapse to thredd!

"Every Night I'm Mentally Crucified (7000 Times)"

or "Fob.com"

or "Pull Thru Barker"

probly.

― Charlie (Charlie), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 02:33 (twenty-three years ago)

er, "You Got Me"?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 04:00 (twenty-three years ago)

OTM, gabbneb!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 04:03 (twenty-three years ago)

"Can I Get A..." is the mother of these (tho there are three rappers rilly)

And "Different For Girls" by Joe Jackson where he does both parts himself. "Seniorita" by JT I guess here too, though not as much.

Ja Rule and J. Lo "Ain't It Funny"

Lil' Mo & Fabolous "Superwoman"

Something by X surely?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 08:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Nncy & lee "some velvet morning" hi stirmonster, thanks for the mixxx

― gaz (gaz), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 09:26 (twenty-three years ago)

fuck...this one is tooo easy.the pogues...mates,the pogues...(that's THE kiss,in some kind of welshic-pictic-gaelic...originally named "pogue mahone"((spelling?))which means kiss my as.)"christmas in new york"......changed my whole life.it's like come on eileen meets-don't you want me baby....she doesn't.he doesn't.it's the perfect love song.sadly,the girl in the duet is dead from a freak boating accident.joe strummer(shanes' singular mentor...he handed him a guitar and said get off yer arse shane.start a band.) died from a birth defect in his heart.shane macgowan is ....shockingly...alive.but not well.i relate to him,because he's been getting that "when are you getting your shit together?yer gonnna dieeeeee" treatment for at least thirty five years now.i haven't listened to them for at least 11 years....so that's all the pogues trivia i know.some of their stuff puts me to sleep.i wish they would play this one at starbucks...it would be so funny to watch all those arty farty industry types covered in white,gooey foam when they choke on their vannilla lattes

― georgiaboy, Wednesday, 29 January 2003 19:21 (twenty-three years ago)

.....i read this one a little too quickly...thanks jesse fox......on floor thirteen...."fairytale in new york".....b.t.w......is there any other misinformation in my posting above?please,fix.my memory is shot...i'm hung over...and i'm posting at the public library....so,forgive me.this is why i'm not getting payed for this.ramble on....doot doot doot

― oopsie, Wednesday, 29 January 2003 19:26 (twenty-three years ago)

"In This House That I Call Home", "When Our Love Passed Out On The Couch", others by X.

― matt riedl (veal), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Magnetic Fields from volume three of the 69 love songs box set. A bit cynical perhaps, but the call and response works like magic between Merrit and Claudia Gonson. Excerpt:

Do I drive you up the wall?
Do you dread every phone call?
Can you not stand me at all?
Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
Though I need you more than air
is it true you just don't care?
Are you having an affair?
Yeah! Oh, Yeah!

― Ryan McKay (Ryan McKay), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 22:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Made a tape of this once ... 'conversational' type duets. It included:

Pogues - "Fairytale of New York"
Shoestrings - "Timeline"
Sneeze - "Shaky Ground"
Red Sleeping Beauty - "You're The Kind"
Majestic 12 - "Nothing on TV"
Jesus & Mary Chain - "Sometimes Always"
Rose Melberg - "The Love We Could Have Had"
Lush - "Ciao!"
Cinerama - "Ears"
Haysi Fantayzee - "John Wayne Is Big Leggy"
Sparks & Jane Wiedlin - "Cool Places"
Magnetic Fields - "Yeah! Oh Yeah!"
Beautiful South - "A Little Time"
Heavenly - "C Is The Heavenly Option"
Girlfrendo - "First Kiss Feelings vs. Everyday Sensations"
Glossary - "Truth About You"
Papas Fritas - "Way You Walk"
Toulouse - "Checks and Credit"
True Love Always - "Sunshine"

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 22:54 (twenty-three years ago)

that Dizzy Rascal track is pretty awesome for this

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 23:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Does 'We Need a Resolution' count?

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Thursday, 30 January 2003 04:11 (twenty-three years ago)

The Beach Boys, "Let's Put Our Hearts Together"

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 30 January 2003 04:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Deborah Harry & Iggy Pop, was it? "Well, Did You Evah", anyway (note top ILM spelling!).

― Charlie (Charlie), Thursday, 30 January 2003 05:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Didn't Nancy and Lee do that first?

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 30 January 2003 05:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it was originally Betty Grable and Charles Walters in the Cole P musical Du Barry Was a Lady followed by Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra in the film High Society. I just read Robbie Williams does a version with Jon Lovitz!! Sound hideous.

There was that Nico/Marc Almond duet "Your Kisses Burn". Wasn't as mysterious and simple as I would have liked, though.

― Arthur (Arthur), Thursday, 30 January 2003 06:22 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

Aguas de Marco - Elis Regina and Antonio Carlos Jobim

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay! I love when she starts laughing.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 23:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Aaliyah, "We Need A Resolution"

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Fleetwood Mac, "When I See You Again." I love when Lindsey takes over for Stevie Nicks, whose cocaine use seemed to have turned her vocal cords into a bullfrog.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

There's some nice give and take on the Marvin and Tammi records -- a lesser known one I've loved since I was 7 is "Keep On Lovin' Me Honey."

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

currently have a playlist of:
Ciao!
Fairytale of New York
Sometimes Always - JAMC
Chillout Tent - Hold Steady
Some Velvet Morning
The Dirty Glass - Dropkick Murphys

drawing a blank for more rock arguments

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 19 January 2012 00:00 (fourteen years ago)

Hayes Carll's Another Like You is pretty great too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yZMnEBGMR0

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Thursday, 19 January 2012 00:01 (fourteen years ago)

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