Some things work together so well, it’s hard to imagine them apart. In the food department, you’ve got peanut butter and jelly, or bacon and just about anything edible. For literature and TV, there’s Sherlock and Watson, and a certain straight-laced chemistry teacher and his reckless, drug-addicted former student. Music’s no stranger to fusion either (the industry calls them collaborations or mashups), but very few are as unexpectedly mind-blowing as DJ Danger Mouse’s “The Grey Album“, which marries The Beatles’ “The White Album” with Jay-Z’s “The Black Album”.
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