Entertainment For Lively Minds
The Best Musical Duos In The World Maybe
Posted by David Wright on 15 January 2010 - 12:02pm.
I’ve just enjoyed watching the first series of Flight Of The Concordes.
Hilarious comedy, but those guys are obviously great musicians, as is comedy act Graham Fellows, aka John Shuttleworth.
Bit of a late starter to the Concordes, but it made me think, who are your favourite musical duos?
I’ll slip in The Pet Shop Boys and The Carpenters for starters, any others?
Although I say duos, you can still include duos who have extra musicians when they perform live etc.
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Simon & Garfunkel
and on a mildly related note, Kings of Convenience.
Kings of Convenience
you got there first Mr Hippo
but I prefer them to S&G
I'd also like to raise you THE KILLS
superb live - one guitar, one drum machine and one singer - sometimes its all you need
Best ever
Mel and Kim anyone?
Ashford and Simpson? Renee
Ashford and Simpson? Renee and Renato? Daphne and Celeste? So many to choose from.....
Oo Ashford and Simpson - good call.
That's just reminded me of Cecil and Linda Womack.
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due to incompetence.
Smith...
... and Wiide?
Richard & Linda Thompson
John Martyn & Danny Thompson
Early OMD
Fripp and Eno
Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders
Marvin Gaye & Tammy Terrell
Mulligan and O'Hare?
Beat Me To It
Was just thinking about them!
Mouth & MacNeal
The Thompsons, as above
Shirley Collins and Davey Graham
Denny & Lucas
Nancy & Lee
Chad & Jeremy
Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton
Peters and Lee
Dickson and Paige
Ike and Tina
Off the top of my head
The Knife - Silent Shout is wonderful, and new one will be worth a punt.
Eyeless in Gaza - One of the UKs best kept secrets.
Erasure - Check out those early albums.
Plus of course the previously mentioned S&G and Carpenters
The mighty KLF
More Swedes
Raveonettes - really enjoying last album 'In And Out Of Control':
Mitchell & Redding..
who used to have a young American guitarist as their foil back in the day.
Becker and Fagen.
...class.
Has to be...
I'll raise you
Hall and Oates
Hall and Oates, quite right
Did you ever see this film of their sterling social work on a derelict London housing estate?!
From The Daily Show
"Our guest tonight is Maggie Gyllenhaal, of the famous team of Gyllenhaal and Gyllenoates."
Bill Evans and Jim Hall...
Dan & John!
Never a wrong time to hear this
Milli, and indeed,
Vanilli. None finer...
Crowded Brothers
The Finn Brothers when they perform (musically) together as Brothers.
Phil & Don
http://open.spotify.com/track/0cvcT5rRnDggLR0I2BJXwz
Known...
...to The Shadows as Drinks Everly and Smokes Everly.
Here's two
The Coward Brothers
Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris
In fact just about anyone and Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris and...
Emu?
Where do I find it?
I can't comment as I hadn't realised she'd ever recorded with Emu. (Wasn't Emu a dumb puppet?)
She will...
she will.
Most perverse....
Soft Cell.... and the looniest, either Suicide or John Otway + Wild Willy Barratt!
Chemical Brothers?
I quite like these two
Speaking of which
Beautiful song.
3 x 2
The Handsome Family are pretty much my favourite band (of any size!).
And they might only be one album old, but I don't think anyone's mentioned Robert Plant and Alison Krauss yet...
Might be in the minority here, but I had an extremely soft spot for Moloko! 'Fun for Me', 'Sing it Back', 'Forever More'... Marvellous!
Some duo here!
DUCKWORTH & LEWIS OF COURSE.....!!
:-).....well if not us how about 'The Reynolds Girls' or 'Peter & Gordon'?
DT.
The Reynolds Girls?
Frankly, I'd rather jack...
Favourite duo? Country...
and her estranged husband, Western.
Bernard Joseph Gallagher and Graham Hamilton Lyle
...are the best musical duo ever. I wish BBC4 in the UK would repeat their appearance on 'Sight And Sound In Concert' from 1978. Art Garfunkel's version of their song 'A Heart In New York' is my favourite single of all time.
Wow. Fair old bit of memory lane rushing by there.
Hows about
- Godley & Creme
- XTC went through a duo stage there didn't they ?
- Blue Nile
- David & David
- Everything But The Girl
- Byrne & Eno
....but going on the reminders mentioned above I'm sure I'll be missing dozens of favourites.
Pooka
It is possible that Swedish duo Deltahead just came and went
But if they did at least they did it in style.
Medicine Head
Johnossi
Trummor & Orgel
White Stripes
Kills