4 Lesser-Known Halves of Music Duos Who Deserve Your Respect

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4 Lesser-Known Halves of Music Duos Who Deserve Your Respect

By Adam Tod Brown
April 24, 2014 162,829 view

Second fiddle is a hard instrument to play, especially when you know you deserve better. That the go-to term we use to describe the less important half of a duo is a music reference is evidence that this is a situation that comes up on an especially regular basis in that industry.

We talk about some of the famous second halves from music history who deserve more respect on this week's Unpopular Opinion podcast ...

... where I'm joined by Al Jackson, a comic you can see playing the role of Al Jackson on the FXX show Legit, and Randall Maynard, who designs shirts for Cracked and such.

We kick off the talk about underrated other halves by talking about one of my favorites ...

#4. Big Boi (Outkast)
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#3. Lindsey Buckingham (Fleetwood Mac)

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Right off the bat, yes, I know Fleetwood Mac isn't a duo, but I appreciate your complimentary mathletics and the accompanying comment all the same. Besides, depending on whether they have J.K. Rowling or whoever the **** that is on keyboards, the other people are just the rhythm section, which means they only matter if they suck. They don't, though, so the only people anyone talks about are Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. Also, before they joined Fleetwood Mac, they recorded an album as a duo.

Just a heads up, that video is sort of NSFW on account of the fact that it's a still image in which you can sort of see one of Stevie Nicks' nipples and totally see both of Lindsey Buckingham's. So, someone is getting an erection -- don't say I didn't warn you.

Anyway, Stevie Nicks gets way more attention, but Lindsey Buckingham is far and away the most important piece of the Fleetwood Mac puzzle, just ahead of drugs and seething contempt for each other.

Everyone in this picture wants to kill everyone in this picture.

Proof of Lindsey Buckingham's importance to your parents' favorite band can be found on the 1990 album Behind the Mask. What can't be found on that album is Lindsey Buckingham. He left after 1987's Tango in the Night and was replaced by Billy Burnette. And Rick Vito.

And a total lack of shame.

That's right: It took two people to replace what Lindsey Buckingham brought to the band. One was expected to pick up his songwriting duties, the other was to fill his lead guitar spot. Neither was even remotely capable of doing either. The resulting album is so terrible, the band isn't even on the cover.

They just want it to look like they might be from a distance.

It's also worth noting that most Fleetwood Mac albums these days, like the aforementioned Tango in the Night or 2003's Say You Will, start out as Lindsey Buckingham solo projects. You know who else makes solo albums? Stevie Nicks makes solo albums, and not a one has turned into a "Fleetwood Mac" album.

If none of that does anything for you, just remember that Lindsey Buckingham is also the man responsible for one of the finest movie theme songs of all time, and he did it all by his lonesome.

That alone makes him more important than the rest of Fleetwood Mac, if nothing else.

#2. Flavor Flav (Public Enemy)

#1. Meg White (The White Stripes)

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