WEAKEST guest spots of all time

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I mean any song where a guest performer is quite clearly out of their depth, b-list, floundering in their own uselessness, or just plain desperate.

― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 9 October 2003 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

heh heh..."TOM EWING'S ILM featuring..."

― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 9 October 2003 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Betty Blowtorch ft Vanilla Ice - Size Queen

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 9 October 2003 13:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I was never much impressed by the Furious Five's cameo on Duran Duran's much-maligned cover of "White Lines". This is not to suggest that they shouldn't have been there or were out of their depth (one could credibly suggest that it was indeed the Durans who were foolishly horsing around in the wrong end of the pool), but couldn't they have come up with something more that "say 'rock', c'mon y'all" and "put'em up, put'em up, put'em up!"?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 October 2003 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Richard Ashcroft's and, to a slightly (but only slightly, mind) lesser extent, Wayne Coyne's contributions to Chemical Brothers tunes were both pretty bloody naff.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 9 October 2003 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I hate to speak ill of the so-recently departed but many years ago I saw UB40 at Reading Festival when they were joined on stage by Robert Palmer. Unfortunately whilst the band were playing in was up on the stage, the key Mr. Palmer was singing in was somewhere down in the mud underneath it. Positively painful to listen to.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 9 October 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Can anyone report on the Sum 41/Iggy Pop collaboration from "skull Ring"?

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Thursday, 9 October 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Miccio?

― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 9 October 2003 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Jay-Z's contribution on "Flip Flop Rock", next to Killer Mike and Big Boi, sounds like it's straight off Parappa the Rapper.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 9 October 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

How about examples of the woeful underuse of a talented guest performer?
For example, Slash's contribution to Michael Jackson's Black Or White consists solely of a standard-issue sus4 riff that could have been knocked out by any old session guitarist.
Mary Margaret O'Hara's almost-inaudible backing vocal in Moz's November Spawned A Monster also springs to mind.

― Palomino (Palomino), Thursday, 9 October 2003 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Is Darryl "The Munch" Jones still considered a "guest" in the Rolling Stones?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 9 October 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

How about totally inappropriate guests like KRS-One on REM's "Radio Song"? Stipe: I love this rap stuff, let's put a rapper on our album!

― BrianB, Thursday, 9 October 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Chuck D on 'Kool Thing' is pretty underwhelming.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Thursday, 9 October 2003 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, the Ludacris and Konkrete contributions to Tomb of the Boom" are more pointless than the Jay-Z verse of Speakerboxxx

― Chris O., Thursday, 9 October 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I dunno, I liked Ludacris' verse on that. Khujo's verse on "Reset" is a little off-putting too in that it doesn't even have anything to do with what Big Boi/Cee-Lo are talking about.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 9 October 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Dr. Dre on Michel'le's "Nicety" is almost as bad as Madonna's "American Life" verse.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 9 October 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Simon Le Bon on Band Aid... he sounds like he's singing Chinese Opera drunk.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 9 October 2003 20:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Hahahahaha

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 9 October 2003 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Eazy E on "For tha Love of Money" on the first Bone Thugs n Harmony...they are sailing off into the spooky gangsta unknown while Eazy sounds like a Kurtis Blow's foul-mouthed younger brother....

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 9 October 2003 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I've just heard the Panjabi MC "Beware of the Boys" version with Jay Z on it, and he's basically just rapping over that start bit of the UK single edit of the original song before the vocals start, like he's a hip 'n' funky disk jockey from Radio Norwich!!!!

I can't wait till he does a rap over Clive Dunn's "Grandad" in the bit just before Clive Dunn starts singing, and they release it as a "new" version, which subsequently got loadsa airplay on MTV Base!!!!! That would be really cool!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Friday, 10 October 2003 09:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Bryan Adams on that Glass Tiger song

― dave q, Friday, 10 October 2003 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Stephane Grappelli on Wish You Were Here - ha, actually, no, it just amuses me that he's so low in the mix.

― Damian (Damian), Friday, 10 October 2003 09:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Metallica and Ja Rule

― , Friday, 10 October 2003 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah that has to be the worst song ever.

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 10 October 2003 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

How shit can a guest spot be when the song they're guesting on is itself a steaming pile of fecal expellant itself?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 10 October 2003 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Chuck D on "Kool Thing" wasn't kool.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Friday, 10 October 2003 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah Ian, Tell it like it is.

― jed (jed_e_3), Friday, 10 October 2003 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Simon Le Bon on Band Aid... he sounds like he's singing Chinese Opera drunk.

*sighs*... here we go again....

― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Friday, 10 October 2003 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Jay-Z's contribution on "Flip Flop Rock", next to Killer Mike and Big Boi, sounds like it's straight off Parappa the Rapper.

-- nickalicious (nza2342...), October 9th, 2003.
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meanwhile on "Poppin' Tags", Jay and Twista make Mike and BB sound like amateurs.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 10 October 2003 22:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I was thinking of Jay-Z when I opened this thread too. "Frontin'," specifically (too damn brief!) but yeah, "Flip Flop Rock" was pretty pedestrian as well. His appearance on "beware of the Boys" is awesome though.

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Saturday, 11 October 2003 01:46 (twenty-two years ago)

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