I've had conversations with friends in the past that compared two similar singers or bands, and such conversations frequently diverged into a tangent about how cool it would be if those two worked together. So, today I figured I'd open up a Lounge thread about it.
Ground rules: If you're going to post, please explain your reasoning. While it might be fun to simply say, "Wouldn't it be awesome if we could have Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and Buddy Holly together," that doesn't really advance the conversation or really expose other readers/posters/lurkers to musical ideas that they might not otherwise be fully aware of. So please explain a little bit about the people you're talking about, and show how they link together, why they might work together. Using dead musicians is completely fair game, as is using active bands but referring to a time when they were better than they are now.
So, with no further ado, I'll toss out my "SuperBand."
I'd like to see a collaboration between Deborah Harry, Pat Benatar, and Lita Ford.
These three are pretty much the unquestioned queens of hard rock / classic rock. Their voices and styles influenced many acts that came afterward, and they each showed the world that women could rock, each in their own way.
Deborah Harry, as the lead singer and frontman of Blondie, created quite a few hit songs. While her early works like Heart of Glass and The Tide is High betray her disco roots, she quickly evolved beyond that, with both hard-rocking songs like Call Me and experimental works like the proto-rap song, Rapture.
Pat Benatar showed the world that female singers weren't all about teenage-styled sighing over boys. She brought a more mature perspective, with many of her songs being about the pain that love can bring. Most famous for Love is a Battlefield, other songs like Hell is for Children, Promises in the Dark, and Hit Me With Your Best Shot also showed that she'd experienced some of the biggest heartbreaks possible, and yet soldiered on, battered but unbroken. And her song Invincible, aka the theme song for the movie, The Legend of Billie Jean, was an anthem for self-reliant women everywhere.
Lita Ford isn't as well-known as the other two, but one of her songs is one of the most famous "Heavy Metal" songs of all time - Close My Eyes Forever, a duet she wrote and sang with Ozzy Osborne. Many people misattribute the song to Ozzy, but it's entirely Lita's creation. Named the Queen of Heavy Metal (despite the fact that most of her work was technically hard rock, not heavy metal), she had two albums in her solo career before becoming the frontman and lead singer for The Runaways. Her other reasonably well-known songs include Back to the Cave and Kiss Me Deadly.
Ground rules: If you're going to post, please explain your reasoning. While it might be fun to simply say, "Wouldn't it be awesome if we could have Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and Buddy Holly together," that doesn't really advance the conversation or really expose other readers/posters/lurkers to musical ideas that they might not otherwise be fully aware of. So please explain a little bit about the people you're talking about, and show how they link together, why they might work together. Using dead musicians is completely fair game, as is using active bands but referring to a time when they were better than they are now.
So, with no further ado, I'll toss out my "SuperBand."
I'd like to see a collaboration between Deborah Harry, Pat Benatar, and Lita Ford.
These three are pretty much the unquestioned queens of hard rock / classic rock. Their voices and styles influenced many acts that came afterward, and they each showed the world that women could rock, each in their own way.
Deborah Harry, as the lead singer and frontman of Blondie, created quite a few hit songs. While her early works like Heart of Glass and The Tide is High betray her disco roots, she quickly evolved beyond that, with both hard-rocking songs like Call Me and experimental works like the proto-rap song, Rapture.
Pat Benatar showed the world that female singers weren't all about teenage-styled sighing over boys. She brought a more mature perspective, with many of her songs being about the pain that love can bring. Most famous for Love is a Battlefield, other songs like Hell is for Children, Promises in the Dark, and Hit Me With Your Best Shot also showed that she'd experienced some of the biggest heartbreaks possible, and yet soldiered on, battered but unbroken. And her song Invincible, aka the theme song for the movie, The Legend of Billie Jean, was an anthem for self-reliant women everywhere.
Lita Ford isn't as well-known as the other two, but one of her songs is one of the most famous "Heavy Metal" songs of all time - Close My Eyes Forever, a duet she wrote and sang with Ozzy Osborne. Many people misattribute the song to Ozzy, but it's entirely Lita's creation. Named the Queen of Heavy Metal (despite the fact that most of her work was technically hard rock, not heavy metal), she had two albums in her solo career before becoming the frontman and lead singer for The Runaways. Her other reasonably well-known songs include Back to the Cave and Kiss Me Deadly.
Comment