10 Musical Collaborations That Didn't Really Work

10. Fade In Out - Oasis and Johnny Depp

Not every song on this list has to necessarily be an all time trainwreck. When you have two great players come together on a project, sometimes the energy just doesn't work and you're left with something that's more disappointing than anything else. And if we're talking star power, a song like Fade In Out should have been a much bigger deal than it ultimately became.

Since this was the moment where Oasis were on top of the world, Noel Gallagher wanted to bring in a handful of guests to contribute something to the record. Just like Paul Weller had played the iconic guitar solo on Champagne Supernova, the slide guitar on this song was performed by Johnny Depp, and you wouldn't know it if you weren't told just now. While Depp is definitely a competent guitar player for the likes of The Hollywood Vampires, hearing him on this song is nothing more than musical window dressing, just adding another track to the layers upon layers of guitars on Be Here Now.

And it's not like the song is all that bad either. If you listen to what happened when Oasis took to the road, the live version of this song sounds absolutely amazing, almost evoking the same kind of vibe that you would get from a song like Headshrinker. All we're left with in the studio is just a wash of guitars, with Noel trying to make it sound as large as possible. Then again, making a song sound as big as possible isn't going to mean a thing if you don't make it sound good as well.