SHE CLAIMED THAT IT JUST AIN'T NATURAL!

Maggie Bell almost steals the show when she comes in with that line at 3:09

Back from a time when Rod was great:

Karen Peris guesting on Natalie Merchant's "When They Ring The Golden Bells":

Certainly, for me, a who-is-that-and-I-want-anything-else-she's-done moment. (Though, don't go back further than Glow.)

is turned from a mildly annoying song into an unholy abomination with the yelping of Kate Pierson. Ditto Candy by Iggy Pop. Ditto every single B52s song.

Is that the sort of impact you mean?

I always loved this. Please welcome Patti Smith:

Never really an R.E.M. fan, I bought that single on the strength of the picture on the cover.

I don't do that very often. I bought the album New Adventures In Hi-Fi on the strength of the single, and after a cracking review in Mojo (can anyone remember who wrote it?). It now sits as one of my absolute favourite albums, by R.E.M. or anyone.

Certainly gets about. One hearing on the radio and I knew I had to buy it.

Kristin Hersh - Your Ghost

Ditto Syd Straw - Future 40's

You made me watch this lovely video for the first time and fall in love with early Tori all over again. This track features Trent Reznor.

I know what music I'm listening to today...

Tori Amos - Past the Mission

Deacon Blue with guest vocals from Jimmy Helms

Gimme Shelter and Merry Clayton.

To Mark Lanegan (Hit the City) and the Desert Sessions.

Conversely Thom Yorke's contribution to the song off Stories of the City... is bloody awful. I normally don't mind him, but he sounds like a caricature of himself on that track.

This is quite new and sublime...

on Billy Nicholl's Would You Believe. From 1:54.

that Unkle video still sends a shiver down my spine.....

How could I forget.

Leftfield and RRRRRRRRRRRRRoots Manuva. The man who single-handedly ought to shame most of the current crop of "grime" "MCs" into going back to work at Dixons Link.

Yes, Neil Hannon, The Word's answer to Stephen Fry, makes a marvelous counterpart to Duke Special on "Our Love Goes Deeper Than This". His mugging in the video is worth the admission alone:

Also, pardon the whiff of nepotism here please, but a friend of mine is the backing singer on this, and I find his contribution adds a whole new dimension to the song:

http://susheelaraman.believeband.com/?lang=en

the contrast between David Coverdale's voice on the verses and Glenn Hughes' on the bridge worked really well on THIS:

(The studio version was a little less, err... 'screamy' though)

EDIT: On behalf of Jon Lord, I'd like to ask the massive if they've ever nailed bits of 4x2 to the side of a musical instrument?

Utah Saints - Something Good

This sounds really dated now, but I still think it's triffic. Kate Bush is a bonus.

(I know), but Jocelyn Brown is a true Legend

count as a guest vocalist?

.

Peter Gabriel and when Kate Bush arrives (phew).

is a help. So if Johnny Cash was your ex father in law, you could always see if he'd sing on your tribute song:

but it's even easier if Johnny was your dad:

Is usually a sign of a good track.

Bjork's "I've Seen It All" being a good example.

Also good are UNKLE's "Rabbit In Your Headlights", Sparklehorse's cover of "Wish You Were Here", Modeselektor's "White Flash" and the Flying Lotus track "World World Laughs With You" all benefit from the dulcet tones of the one they used to call the Salamander at school.

piece of AOR is vastly improved when Maria McKee takes it by her throat:

And what a lovely throat it is...

...when Jan Akkerman threw in the towel with Focus the rest of the boys took an outside-the-box decision and replaced him with TWO other guitarist and a more or less washed-up Elvis impersonator whose act involved splitting his trousers onstage.

Surprisingly perhaps, it worked rather well. Though nobody bought the album at the time.

...lest antone confuse my description with all those other trouser-splitting Elvis impersonators out there, that I was, of course, referring to PJ Proby.

As the way, in my imagination, Carla Torgerson grabbed Stu by his Timothy Everest lapels and said "I'm not doing this unless you start singing properly you mumbling F**k!":

(Tindersticks, Travelling Light)

With Aimee Mann guesting

...comes in half way through Lazy Line Painter Jane by Belle & Sebastian and she really kicks the song into another gear. Never heard of her otherwise.

One that makes me feel all funny is Syd Barrett singing on Kevin Ayers' song A Religious Experience. Their voices blend really well, and Syd is having a right old rave up...he sounds happy and really into it.

so this wins

as guest vocalist on a Steely Dan album:

I know this an old topic, but I have recently heard this one & wanted to share it. I'm loving Bob Smiths vocals;

on Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells. The version on the Quadrophonic mix featured much added alcohol.

Guesting with Richide Cole on New York Afternoon, an old fusion favourite.

Just love this song and if anything will get an old geezer like me on the dance floor this will, ah those halcyon days driving round the home counties in cortinas with girls with gabicci tops and gold chains....(art is lost in soulboy reverie)

The Dame..........backing Mott in a mint green suit