I'm looking for suggestions for unusual musical collaborations. I'm talking Henry Rollins and William Shatner or Tiny Tim and Brave Combo. I'm not sure if I want to include things like Elton John and RuPaul or Cher and Beavis & Butthead.

Can anyone help me out?

Snoop Dogg and Charlotte Church.
Huey Lewis and Lemmy.
Vanessa-Mae and Violent Femmes.




Oh, were you wanting real collaborations?

Phil Collins and Bone,Thugs & Harmony on "Home"
Danzig & Electric Light Orchestra on "You and Me"
Iggy Pop & B-52s chick on "Candy" (I've always liked this one)
R.E.M. and KRS-1 on "Radio Song" (Another one I like)

Aerosmith and Run D.M.C. - Walk This Way == Sure it is all and well, now, but then it was unheard of.

Nelly and that country singer on whatever song they did.

KLF and Tammy Wynette: "Justified and Ancient"
U2 and Luciano Pavarotti: "Miss Sarajevo"
U2 and Johnny Cash: "The Wanderer"

Debbie Gibson and The Circle Jerks, "I Wanna Destroy You"

Bing Crosby and David Bowie: "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy"

not sure if this meets your criteria, but there are a lot of rap songs that sample songs that are kind of "pairing"

Drexl, don't forget Bono and Frank Sinatra: "I've Got You Under My Skin"

Rob Zombie and Lionel Ritchie.

no joke. They did a pretty good remake of "Brickhouse."

Judgement Night soundtrack:
1. Just Another Victim - Helmet/House Of Pain
2. Fallin' - Teenage Fanclub/De La Soul
3. Me, Myself & My Microphone - Living Colour/Run-DMC
4. Judgment Night - Biohazard/Onyx
5. Disorder - Slayer/Ice-T
6. Another Body Murdered - Faith No More/Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E.
7. I Love You Mary Jane - Sonic Youth/Cypress Hill
8. Freak Momma - Mudhoney/Sir Mix-A-Lot
9. Missing Link - Dinosaur Jr./Del The Funky Homosapien
10. Come And Die - Therapy?/Fatal
11. Real Thing - Pearl Jam/Cypress Hill

The Spawn soundtrack (from the producer of the Judgment Night one):

1. (Can't You) Trip Like I Do ~ Filter & Crystal Method
2. Long Hard Road Out Of Hell ~ Marilyn Manson & Sneaker Pimps
3. Satan ~ Orbital & Kirk Hammet
4. Kick The P.A. ~ Korn & The Dust Brothers
5. Tiny Rubberband ~ Butthole Surfers & Moby
6. For Whom The Bell Tolls (The Irony Of It All) ~ Metallica & DJ Spooky
7. Torn Apart ~ Stabbing Westward & Wink
8. Skin Up Pin Up ~ Mansun & 808 State
9. One Man Army ~ Prodigy & Tom Morello
10. Spawn ~ Silverchair & Vitro
11. T-4 Strain ~ Henry Rollins & Goldie
12. Familiar ~ Incubus & DJ Greyboy
13. No Remorse (I Wanna Die) ~ Slayer & Atari Teenage Riot
14. A Plane Scraped It's Belly On A Sooty Yellow Moon ~ Soul Coughing & Roni Size

Also:
KRS-One and Goldie - "Digital"
U2 and Johnny Cash - "The Wanderer"
Jay-Z and Linkin Park - Collision Course album
The two Handsome Boy Modeling School albums have some interesting collaborations

Oh and the U2 fun doesn't stop yet--U2 with Willie Nelson: "Slow Dancing" (found on the "If God Will Send His Angels" Import Single)

Yeah, that wasn't ELO. It was "The Power and Fury Orchestra" which was essentially, just an orchestra......not a band. Danzig and ELO would be something insane, though. Danzig wrote "13" with Johnny Cash, though. And co-wrote "You and Me" and "Life Fades Away" with Roy Orbison for the film Less Than Zero.

Wyclef Jean, Pharoahe Monch and Kenny Rogers - "Dub Plate"

jimmy page & puff daddy

I think of that more as "unfortunate" rather than "unusual"

Wu Tang Clan and System of a Down - Shame on a *****
Public Enemy and Anthrax - Bring the Noise

The Judgement Night ST is awesome.

Just thought of another one...

Ozzy Osbourne, the Crystal Method, DMX, and Ol' Dirty Bastard - "Nowhere to Run"

Robert Plant and Tori Amos - "Down By The Seaside" (Plant crashes his own tribute album)
Tom Jones and Tori Amos - "I Wanna Get Back With You"

Rhapsody and Christopher Lee

Ozzy Osbourne & Dweezil Zappa: "Staying Alive"

yeah, I remember reading that in Metal Maniacs. it's not that bizarre, seeing as Lee just reads stuff and adds to the atmosphere. he is, like 85 years old or something, so I guess it is pretty unusual

If your bringing up Tori, its hard not to mention Tori Amos and MJK on Mohamed my friend

Celine Dion and R Kelley