Line #45 OneSceneWonder/Music


1	* Music/DireStraits's "Money For Nothing" is well known for the background singing that Music/{{Sting}} does in it. You know, "[[Creator/{{MTV}} I want my emmmmmmmm teeeeeeee veeeeeeeeeee.......]]" (in the same tune of "[[Music/ThePolice Don't Stand So Close To Me]]")
2	* Rockwell's [[OneHitWonder only hit]] "Somebody's Watching Me" featured Music/MichaelJackson (notably in the chorus).
3	* Music/TomWaits pitch-perfect turn as Tommy in Music/{{Primus}}' "Tommy the Cat."
4	* Music/{{Queen}}: Music/DavidBowie joining up for "Under Pressure". Steve Howe playing a relatively short (compared to Music/{{Yes}} and Asia standards) flamenco guitar solo on "Innuendo", which has become a classic and one loads of people around the world try to learn and replicate (oddly appropriate given that Brian May asked Steve to do it because he couldn't manage it). Also, the half-minute operatic section on "'Bohemian Rhapsody" is arguably one of the first things people recall about Queen in spite of being very different to 99% of things the band did before or since.
5	* On the Music/FrankZappa album ''Broadway the Hard Way'', Music/{{Sting}} comes on halfway through and performs "Murder by Numbers".
6	* Music/WeirdAlYankovic does this a lot.
7	** When Al did his pastiche of Music/FrankZappa, "Genius in France," for the album ''Music/PoodleHat'', who did he get to provide solos satisfactorily reminiscent of Frank's? Dweezil, the son of Frank Zappa.
8	** Music/BenFolds provides an ornate piano solo on the same album's "Why Does This Always Happen to Me?"
9	** And when he recorded a parody of Music/TheDoors ("Craigslist") for the ''Internet Leaks'' EP, he enlisted none other than Ray Manzarek to contribute the keyboard parts.
10	** On "Taco Grande" (a parody of Gerardo's "Rico Suave" which appears on the album ''Off the Deep End''), [[Creator/CheechAndChong Cheech Marin]] provides a Spanish spoken-word bridge.
11	** Creator/MaryKayBergman performs less than two seconds of "Pretty Fly For A Rabbi" on ''Running With Scissors''. Specifically, the "for a rabbi" before the second verse.
12	** From UHF, we have the Beverly Hillbillies theme, which is a parody of Money For Nothing. Fitting, then, that Mark Knophler from Dire Straits plays lead guitar on the track. (Weird Al says Knopfler gave his permission only if he could play on the track.)
13	* [[TheEighties 80s]] pop singer Tiffany had a surprise guest appearance by rapper [[Music/BoneThugsNHarmony Krayzie Bone]] on the song "I'm Not Sleeping," on her 2001 "come back album" Color Of Silence''.
14	* [[Music/GunsNRoses Slash's]] guitar solos on Music/{{TLC}}'s "Red Light Special" song.
15	* Music/BoneThugsNHarmony's guest appearance on Music/MariahCarey's ''Butterfly'' album, the most jarring however being ODB on her previous record.
16	* Anytime two highly acclaimed rappers team up, and make a legendary memorable collaboration. [[http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/editorials/id.1374/title.murdered-on-your-own-shit This]] article explores the phenomenon in more detail.
17	** Music/{{Eminem}} is so infamous for upstaging other artists in his features that a rapper getting [[CurbStompBattle generously outrapped]] by their guest rapper is called ''getting renegaded'', in reference to Em stealing the scene on Music/JayZ's "Renegade". (Nas mentioned this on his Jay-Z DissTrack, "Ether"' - "''Eminem murdered you on your own shit!''") Renegading other rappers has become a major part of Eminem's persona.
18	*** Eminem on Music/FiftyCent's "Patiently Waiting".
19	*** Eminem on Music/{{The Game\|Rapper}}'s "We Ain't" even has Game reference "Ether" after going back to his verse -- "''Lo, get Dre on the phone quick -- tell him Em just killed me on my own shit!''" Game would later regret this statement after dissing Eminem for attention in 2022.
20	*** Eminem showing up Music/KanyeWest, Music/{{Drake}} and (arguably) Music/LilWayne on "Forever" was enough to serve as a CareerResurrection for him after taking years off to deal with a drug addiction in between dropping two [[VindicatedByHistory initially]] reviled albums. Notably, both Kanye and Drake rewrote their verses extensively just to avoid getting blown off the track, and still failed. "Forever" became a sports anthem, but people generally only rap Eminem's verse. After appearing to perform his verse live with Drake on the Detroit leg of his tour, Drake ended the song by prostrating himself before Eminem, acknowledging the winner. Eminem bragged about this in 2010's "No Love", where he mocks other rappers for having to rewrite their verses to keep up with him, and also in 2018's "Fall", where he brags, "''the fans waited for this moment like that feature when I stole the show... sorry if I [[{{Pun}} took forever]]''".
21	*** Eminem on Music/LilWayne's "Drop the World" is generally considered either: the highlight of ''Rebirth'', the only good part of ''Rebirth'', or one of only two good parts of ''Rebirth'' (the other being Music/NickiMinaj's verse).
22	*** Eminem on Music/{{Nas}}'s "EPMD 2" is also generally considered to be the high point of the well-received album, and was even [[https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/eminem-curtain-call-2/ cited]] by ''Pitchfork'' as an example of great music made by Eminem in his uneven midlife career.
23	** Bone appearing on Biggie's "Notorious Thugs" track, which is considered a classic.
24	** 2pac appearing on Bone's "Thug Luv" track months after he died.
25	** Phil Collins showing up in Bone's music video for "Home".
26	** Nas and AZ appearing together on the track "Life's A Bitch" on the classic ''Illmatic'' album
27	** Jay-Z on Biggie's "I Love The Dough" song from his ''Life After Death'' cd.
28	** Music/NickiMinaj's verse in Music/KanyeWest's "Monster". Ye initially didn't want to include the song as he was ashamed of how badly he had been outrapped, but eventually swallowed his pride to go through with it.
29	* A rarer-example of the above example is when [[AWildRapperAppears a high-profile rapper appears as a featured artist on a pop or R'n'B (or occasionally more left-field) song.]]
30	** Music/KanyeWest on Estelle's "American Boy"
31	** Music/JayZ on Music/{{Rihanna}}'s "Umbrella" - has the first verse (lasting less than a minute) and disappears for the rest of the song (and album, since "Umbrella" opened up ''Good Girl Gone Bad'')
32	* Whenever [[Music/{{Outkast}} Andre 3000]] turns up on a track, you know he's gonna leave the rest of the song (and arguably album) in his wake.
33	** RickRoss' "Sixteen"
34	** Kelis' "Millionaire"
35	** Gorillaz' "[=DoYaThing=]"
36	** Andre 3000 is even capable enough to be a on songs from ''[[Music/OutKast his own group]]''. ''Mamacita'' and ''Y'All Scared'', two rather generic, guest-driven tracks from ''Aquemini'' that are generally considered as AlbumFiller, have Andre 3k stealing the spotlight and completely reworking the message on both of them.
37	* Music/MariahCarey doing back up vocals for Music/{{Babyface}} on a track called "Every Time I Close My Eyes".
38	* Creator/JamieFoxx's video for "Blame It" has scores of celeb appearances. Creator/AshleyScott from ''Series/Jericho2006'', Creator/RonHoward, Creator/ForestWhitaker, Creator/JakeGyllenhaal, Creator/SamuelLJackson, Music/QuincyJones, Creator/CedricTheEntertainer, Creator/MorrisChestnut, Clifton Powell, Alex Thomas, [=DeRay=] Davis, Joe (R&B singer), Mos Def, Tatyana Ali, Jalen Rose, Bill Bellamy, Electrik Red, Dawn Richard, Keshia Knight Pulliam and [=LeToya=].
39	* Eddie Music/VanHalen providing the guitar solo for Music/MichaelJackson's "Beat It".
40	** Also [[Music/GunsNRoses Slash]] on "Give In to Me" and [[Music/BillyIdol Steve Stevens]] on "Dirty Diana."
41	* Creator/VincentPrice for the [[SpokenWordInMusic closing speech]], and the [[EvilLaugh laugh]], in "Music/{{Thriller}}".
42	** Not to mention his [[SpokenWordInMusic opening speech]] in Music/AliceCooper's "Black Widow" a decade earlier.
43	* Music/{{Avantasia}}: [[Music/{{Kamelot}} Roy Khan]] on "Twisted Mind" from ''The Scarecrow'', [[Music/ScorpionsBand Klaus Meine]] on "Dying for an Angel" from ''The Wicked Symphony''.
44	* Clare Torry's wordless wails on Music/PinkFloyd's "The Great Gig in the Sky," on ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon.'' On an album that is completely full of awesome, she is possibly the most awesomest part of it.
45	** Not the only example from Music/PinkFloyd: The Judge from the song The Trial from ''Music/TheWall'', who only appears in that song, and only for the last minutes or so.
46	** Roy Harper singing on "Have A Cigar" also counts.
47	* Music/EricClapton's guitar solo on Music/TheBeatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", and in turn, Music/GeorgeHarrison's rhythm guitar playing on Music/{{Cream}}'s "Badge".
48	* In turn, Music/EltonJohn plays piano, organ and sings backing vocals on "Whatever Gets You Thru The Night" by Music/JohnLennon, and John playing guitar and singing backing vocals on Elton's cover of Music/TheBeatles' "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" They made a bet that if both got to number one, they would appear in concert together, which came true in 1974, when Lennon appeared onstage at an Elton show in Madison Square Garden to sing both songs and "I Saw Her Standing There". [[TearJerker It would prove to be Lennon's last public concert performance]].
49	* Music/BlakeShelton in Cady Groves' "This Little Girl" music video. He plays a towtruck driver who tows Cady's car while she is still inside it.
50	* Ian Knutson wrote less than 1/4 of "Religion Song (Put Away The Gun)" by EverythingElse.
51	* Sandy Denny's vocals on Music/LedZeppelin's "The Battle of Evermore", the only guest vocalist on any Zeppelin song. Played live the part was usually sung by John Paul Jones.
52	* Music/DavidCrosby and Music/PhilCollins flipflopped this trope; Crosby sang backup on Collins' "Another Day In Paradise", while Collins returned the favor on Crosby's song "Hero".
53	* [[Music/TheYardbirds Jimmy]] [[Music/LedZeppelin Page]]'s guest performance as the lead guitarist on [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Polnareff Michel Polnareff]]'s "[[https://youtu.be/JDkVjrYNyLo La Poupeé Qui Fait Non]]" is an incredibly emotional performance to remember.

Context OneSceneWonder / Music