10 Greatest Rock And Roll Collab Songs

10. I Will Dare - The Replacements and Peter Buck

In the era of MTV, the college rock scene had their own unique sound going on. At the time when the biggest names in music were Billy Idol and Michael Jackson, you also had bands like the Pixies and Sonic Youth pushing the boundaries of what you could do with indie rock. It just felt like one big club, and you'd sometimes find two legends together on one track every now and again.

After shedding some of their hardcore skin on Hootenanny, Let it Be was the first time that the Replacements really tapped into their strengths, cheekily taking the Beatles album title and slapping it on songs about disaffected ballads about being a punk in the gutter. While I Will Dare is probably the closest thing that they had to a radio hit at the time, part of the appeal came from the guitar solo, which came courtesy of Peter Buck from R.E.M.

And even though both bands were not necessarily the biggest acts in the world, you can really hear Buck's trademarks all over this song, as the guitars get a lot more jangly and more refined than what Bob Stinson's freakout solos could have hoped for. This might not have been able to light up MTV's playlist or anything, but it was a step in the right direction. Who knows? Maybe this band full of losers actually had a shot at going the distance.