10 Worst Music Collaborations Of All Time

1. Mick Jagger/David Bowie

What really constitutes a bad collaboration? Even though plenty of dreadful artists get together with equally terrible artists to form a great wall of suck, a truly bad collaboration goes a little bit deeper. No....a collaboration stings all the more when you realize that both artists can do so much better.

The '80s didn't really treat any of the classic rock stars too kind, with the Rolling Stones having some of the more cringey material on albums like Dirty Work. However, it's another thing entirely when Mick Jagger decided to sing a duet with the Starman himself David Bowie on the Motown classic Dancing in the Street. While the original '60s version was far from the best thing that Motown had ever put out, it certainly has its place in history as a decent track. Blowing it up to '80s level cheese is a whole different thing though.

From one line to the next, each of these men seem so out of their element, as they both try to bring some form of charisma to this lifeless track. Despite Bowie actually doing a better job, Jagger's rock and roll shout does this song no favors, almost as if he's bringing in on the session in the middle of the take. Complete with one of the most unwatchable videos in the history of MTV, Dancing in the Street sounds like two dads getting together and putting together what they think rock and roll is.

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