s&d: Nancy and Lee-style M/F Duets

You know the ones... deadpan hardman and done-wrong spitfire trade verses and hook up for the chorus... like "Sometimes Always" by Jesus & Mary Chain.

Or even not-exactly Nancy & Lee-ish ones like "Fairy Tale of New York" or "Je T'Aime... Non Plus".

Sorry if this has been done - did a quick search

What was that one with Jarvis and Miki from Lush?

I call this 'Goat 'n' Gal". Gainsbourg and Birkin of course. My favorite example from the recent past is Belle & Sebastian's "Lazy Line Painter Jane". A good one from last year is "Time is Kindling", by Niobe (with David Grubbs).

destroy: the Kills. They get this wrong almost every outing. Nice amp tone, though.

Dean & Britta kind of set out to work this territory.

There's a pretty good, obscure 80's indie track called "Our Heads Are Spinning" by Mass Tango that does this over a neat/weird chord progression.

Goat 'N' Gal nails it!

Cornershop has a great one called Good To Be On The Road Back Home that reminds me a bit of Lazy Line Painter Jane.

an obvious one, i guess...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsd6WXisgLk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pQObXNIQvo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8srgfw7GDkM

Guilty pleasure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bLOjmY--TA

X's "Hungry Wolf" doesn't have the overblown arrangement, but it's got the overblown metaphor. I consider this approach to be the apogee of heterosexual camp, and the fact that Nick Cave's offerings in the form are pretty meager suggests he is not a generous lover/

(Posts and then runs for cover...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I83wBgIxT1g

I was unsold on the apogee of heterosexual camp angle for a second there until I remembered Sonny and Cher.

I like that Heavenly song!

This..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s361NDi7Do

Tindersticks - Travelling Light

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFfOgtTEji4

extra points for having the girl from rough trade shop in the video

Don't You Want Me by Human League, obvy

pretty much every Porter Waggoner/Dolly Parton duet

Waylon Jennings "I Got You" but I'm blanking on who his partner is - its not Jessi Colter, its one of the Carter Sisters I think...

not quite what you're looking for, but ...
Songs where a guy and a girl go back and forth arguing
Guy and Girl Rap Duets

Does Elis Regina & Antonio Carlos Jobim's "Águas de Março" count in this realm? It's one of the greatest things ever recorded anyway.

if we're gonna cite bossa nova might as well drop Girl From Ipanema in there

What was that one with Jarvis and Miki from Lush?

http://www.discogs.com/image/R-1061435-1189092167.jpeg

Mmmm... The XX?

Gram 'n Emmylou.

to me, this album is the obvious choice:

http://arabestia.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/balladotbs.jpg

this is my obvious choice

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41P5T3YMYYL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

(Lisa Germano + Howe Gelb + Calexico)

that is a v. good album, it's true

A nice one that might be forgotten is Mike Johnson and Tiffany Anders "I Don't Love You".

op8 (terrible name) even do a version of Sand

> What was that one with Jarvis and Miki from Lush?

Ciao! apparently. not ringing any bells here. i probably have a copy somewhere though. nope.

"Written by Miki Berenyi. Performed by Lush with Jarvis Cocker on guest vocals." um, not sure about that.

(it's on lovelife)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xVs4I_VfVY

3/4 of their stuff tbh

Marc Almond & Sally Timms: "This House Is a House of Troubles"

yeah that op8 record really is great - despite the awful name and cover art. hard to find these days, I think.

it's on emusic iirc

lydia lunch and nick cave - done dun

and maybe some others with rowland howard in "honeymoon in red"

on the nick cave-spin-off tip, those anita lane/mick harvey gainsbourg records have their moments for this sort of thing.

Forgot to mention Candy Now! a.k.a. Blag Dahlia from the Dwarves and Angelina Moysov from Persephone's Bees

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lwZ63ZePL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

Codeine Velvet Club seem to have their moments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8TQabtsbuQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKN6E2XuvHM

whoaaaaaa nice!

Ute Lemper & Neil Hannon - Split

Tiffany Anders & Boyd Rice - 'Absense Makes the Heart Grow Fonder' from the Grace of My Heart soundtrack

Patti Paladin & johnny Thunders Copycats
realised teh other day that I never got a physical copy of the album. The single of Crawfish was sublime though.

Iggy Pop & Debbie harry might have had more mileage too. NOt sure if there is much more tahn teh one sone song.

Rowland S Howard and Lydia Lunch which wasa meeting that reoccured several times 82 cover of Nancy & Lee, later full lp as Shotgun Wedding and I think a tour sseveral years later which may have begat a live lp.

Blixa Bargeld singing nancy & Lee duets with himself on teh Neubauten cover s of Nancy & Lee and other warped folk things in the mid 80s.

Tindersticks have a few of these. As well as Travelling Light mentioned upthread there's also Buried Bones, Sometimes It Hurts, Hey Lucinda.

You know the ones... deadpan hardman and done-wrong spitfire trade verses and hook up for the chorus... like "Sometimes Always" by Jesus & Mary Chain.

Or even not-exactly Nancy & Lee-ish ones like "Fairy Tale of New York" or "Je T'Aime... Non Plus".

Sorry if this has been done - did a quick search

― Brio, Wednesday, 3 February 2010 14:17 (eleven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

This came up on my YT feed the other day - never seen before, a gloriously awkward performance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfEvgf2DdTQ