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Hot Gallery: Snakkle Looks Back at Some of Music’s Best and Worst Duets
You never know what’s going to happen when musicians get together in the recording studio. Sometimes the most unlikely collaborators end up making sweet music together, while surefire pairings end up falling flat. Snakkle takes a look at some of the most interesting, entertaining, and just plain unfortunate musical mashups in recent pop history. By Tara Bennett
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Worst: Metallica and Lou Reed’s Album Lulu, 2011
Despite thinking they were an obvious collaboration, the mixing of Metallica music with Lou Reed’s spoken-word lyrics based on the plays of a German expressionist was a real puzzler. Dour, weird (not in a good way), and hard to listen to, Lulu got trashed by music critics and ignored by fans of both artists.
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