10 Completely Insane Musician Team-Ups (That Actually Happened)

4. Tom Jones And The Cardigans Burn Down The House

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBjuoMy9FUU There is a generation of people who remember Burning Down The House as one of Talking Heads' great, bonkers P-Funk influenced early singles, and a highlight of their classic concert film Stop Making Sense. There is another, later generation of people who remember Burning Down The House as the tinny, terrible 1999 comeback song for Welsh crooner Tom Jones, in collaboration with Swedish popsters The Cardigans. If you are in the latter camp: sorry. By the 90s, Jones' star was fading somewhat. Back then, he had still steadfastly refused to stop dying his hair, so he often looked like he had smeared a jar of Marmite on top of his bonce. He had also not had a hit in years, and wasn't yet a judge on The Voice, a perfect place for self-promotion (when he wasn't spinning around on those fun chairs). So he decamped to the studio to make Reload, an album of covers where he recorded with hot young things like Robbie Williams, the Stereophonics and Space. We repeat: this was the 90s. Whilst Burning Down The House remains the single most insane duet on the album - both the track itself, and the people who Jones was singing with, best remembered for My Favourite Game, with it's farty guitar work and DVLA-disapproved video - it was actually the LP's only original track, Sexbomb, that launched Jones back into the stratosphere. Go figure.