Choose your vocalists for Basement Jaxx's next album

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Choose some vocalists (the more iconographic the better) that you would like to see appear on their forthcoming triple lp Intelligent Lucky Mannequins (the one in which they cut loose and make the party tracks they always wanted to).

My hopes:

Betty Davis (if she is still alive)
Grace Jones (ditto)
Joyce Sims (I want her to have more than 3 classic tracks - and curious how she goes in a cluttered enviorment)
Prince (just fufill their lifelong goal)
Morris Day, Sheila E, or Jill Jones (if Prince says no)

― Jedmond, Monday, 12 January 2004 06:48 (twenty-two years ago)

beth ditto. morrissey. kendra smith

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 12 January 2004 06:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark E. Smith
Elephant Man
Ben Gibbard
Huun-Huur-Tu

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 12 January 2004 07:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Elephant Man seems terribly predictable...it just wouldn't surprise me at all if they used him. Ben Gibbard could be really interesting.

Jandek!

― OCP (OCP), Monday, 12 January 2004 07:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Beyonce. Meth. Mike Patton ha ha. Princess Superstar. Jonsi from Sigur Ros (NOT in a minor key though). Kongar Ol' Ondar. Cee-Lo. Oh boy Cee-Lo would be bad-ass. Busta. No, Busta and Q-Tip. Shit yeah.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 12 January 2004 07:56 (twenty-two years ago)

JT.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 12 January 2004 08:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Wayne Coyne
Laetitia Sadier
Howe Gelb

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 12 January 2004 08:02 (twenty-two years ago)

A tequila-drunk Doseone paired up with a sleep-deprived Mariah Carey.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 12 January 2004 08:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Mavis Staples

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 12 January 2004 08:08 (twenty-two years ago)

done.

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 12 January 2004 08:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Bjork
Ludacris
Missy (after the 4 My People remix)

― Nick H (Nick H), Monday, 12 January 2004 09:24 (twenty-two years ago)

C-Man

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 12 January 2004 10:26 (twenty-two years ago)

the dude from the Rapture. And Harrison Crump.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 12 January 2004 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Romanthony.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 12 January 2004 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Luke Jenner

― willem (willem), Monday, 12 January 2004 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Nice suggestions already: Morrissey; Mark E Smith; Wayne Coyne; Howe Gelb;

My additional nominations: Frank Black; Nick Cave; Jaz Coleman; Howard Devoto; Bob Dylan; John Foxx; Pete Murphy; Prince Far-I; Robert Smith; David Thomas; Ari Up; Tom Waits.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 12 January 2004 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

RuPaul, Prince, William Shatner, Joss Stone.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 12 January 2004 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Elephant Man seems terribly predictable...it just wouldn't surprise me at all if they used him. Ben Gibbard could be really interesting.
Jandek!

Here I seem to be operating on the principle of the more unlikely/obscure the better..... er.

― OCP (OCP), Monday, 12 January 2004 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

bette davis...! i think she's been dead for like 15 years, sorry :/

anyway I nominate, uhhh... edie brickell

― Adrian (Adrian Langston), Monday, 12 January 2004 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Betty Davis. Dead. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!

I had sort of expected this, but I'd treated her like Sly Stone DO NOT INQUIRE

Do not fucking tell me if Sly is dead. I repeat, do not fucking tell me if Sly is dead.

― Jedmond, Monday, 12 January 2004 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Betty Davis is not dead. At least not according to AMG, and the brief web research I just did.

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 12 January 2004 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Sly is not dead.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 12 January 2004 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank you

― Jedmond, Monday, 12 January 2004 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe they could get sly then? he'd be good.

also pete cetera.

― mullygrubber (gaz), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

ack, I thought you meant the actress, what the hell is wrong with me

― Adrian (Adrian Langston), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Sande Marinovich
Bon Scott
Gruff Rhys
Common
Jona Lewie

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 12 January 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I can confirm that Bon Scott is dead. Sorry.

― Jedmond, Monday, 12 January 2004 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

If we're picking long gone vocalists then I suggest black Michael Jackson.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Britney Spears
T-Boz
Andrew WK
Betty Boo

― Nick H (Nick H), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Robert Smith
girls from W.I.T.
Slarta John
a drunk 12 year old Japanese girl
Mike Skinner (why not)

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Momus

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

All the ones you'd think I'd pick (easier than typing it out, really)

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

grace jones would be a joy to my ears.

ethel merman
aidan moffatt vs. sister sledge in a rambling rant/disco fusion.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Yamatsuki Eye.
Twista.
Hope Sandoval.
On the same song.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

good call on Grace Jones but anything they did with her would probably sound too much like 'Cish Cash' i imagine

i should've said Andre 3000

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

eartha kitt

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

- Jaz Coleman
- Hugh Cornwell
- Mark Hollis
- Julian Cope

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

geddy lee and the kid who sings on The Clash's "Career Opportunites". safe.

― search and delete, Monday, 12 January 2004 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

marilyn manson and the cast of 'the sound of music'.

actually, come to think of it, just the cast of 'the sound of music'.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

The kid in the Seelenluft song.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

john darnelle

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Monday, 12 January 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Axl Rose
Tony Bennett
Jimi Tenor
Lenny Kravitz
Apache Indian

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 12 January 2004 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

and Bobby Conn

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 12 January 2004 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Puffy Ami Yumi

― Nick H (Nick H), Monday, 12 January 2004 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

this thread is a pale shadow.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 12 January 2004 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Jake Shears!

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Monday, 12 January 2004 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

(He's the singer from the Scissor Sisters)

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Monday, 12 January 2004 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Leonard Cohen, Kool Keith, Kim Deal, David Lee Roth, and Sean Paul.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 12 January 2004 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

David Lee Roth really would be a great match!

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Monday, 12 January 2004 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Diamanda Galas
Jay-Z
Bruce Dickinson

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 12 January 2004 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Nate Dogg!!!!

― Nick H (Nick H), Monday, 12 January 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh. I was going to suggest Bruce Dickinson as well.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 12 January 2004 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I can confirm that Bon Scott is dead. Sorry.

???

*cough*

Er, of course I meant the other non-dead Acker Derker fella - Brian Johnson.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 12 January 2004 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I say again; William Shatner. I think this is just about a done deal.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 12 January 2004 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Donald Fagen

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 12 January 2004 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Rick Astley

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 12 January 2004 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Stacy Q and Jane Child

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 12 January 2004 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Leonard Nimoy.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 12 January 2004 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

MC Skat Cat.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 12 January 2004 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Bernard Sumner! I mean, he lives for this sort of thing!

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 12 January 2004 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

A Bernard Smuner/Ian McCulloch duet!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 12 January 2004 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

the "irish tenors"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 12 January 2004 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)

JT.

Nice try. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 03:08 (twenty-two years ago)

WHY NO LOVE FOR JAMES TAYLOR?

anyway, George Michael, for starters. Ludacris seems like an obv choice. or would that be "too much"?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 03:16 (twenty-two years ago)

oops, I wasn't first with Luda. hmm. Robert Plant? ani difranco? if you scoff, you've never heard her really sing. Billy Idol? Joan Jett? Marta Sebastyen? Martha Wash?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 03:27 (twenty-two years ago)

ian sevenious

― twelve, Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like to hear Grace Jones, too.

― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 04:34 (twenty-two years ago)

helen love

― keith m (keithmcl), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Cindy Lauper

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 07:21 (twenty-two years ago)

nickalicious 100% OTM!!

― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 07:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll second that

― Jedmond, Tuesday, 13 January 2004 09:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Cronos from Venom dueting with Bonnie "Total Eclipse of the Heart" Tyler

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Mr Blobby!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Geir Hongro

― Nick H (Nick H), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Eve
Twista
Sarah Whatmore
Morris Day (otm)
Michelle 'Liberty X' Heaton in 'Being Nobody' spoken word mode
Martika
Taja Sevelle
A Camille cameo (like 'Hot 'N' Cold', I guess)
Mike Flowers

― Barima (Barima), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Bill Drummond!

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 13 January 2004 20:31 (twenty-two years ago)

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