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r1' I-111 717.112N BERG (Continued from page 74) SR-71 lead singer/guitarist Mitch Allan for "Right Now," No. 23 on this issue's Modern The single is the first release off of SR -71's turned a dead -end relationship into a break- Rock Tracks chart. debut RCA album, "Now You See Inside." Allan's imprint Wonderboy, notably with out hit with a great one -liner. "It's a great summer song," says Allan. "I can approach to writing songs for the disc first in- the act Shaft. He says, "You know when you're dating some- see it playing in a convertible going down the high- volved putting a simple chord and melody togeth- With the "Now" series belatedly body, and things are good, but they're not great, er. He says, "I'll take a tape recorder and play established as a major U.S. commer- and they're pressuring you for more? You're not these raw elements into it while singing some `da cial success 17 years after its U.K. `I think that in the unhappy or anything, but at the same time, you good -time roc k is das' or 'la las.' The song will then usually write debut, Berg can take pleasure don't want to end the relationship, and you've just coming back' itself, and if it doesn't, most of the time it won't trans -Atlantic achievements of the begun to realize that you're not in it for the same work well. man who brought him into the -Mitch Allan, SR -7l reasons they are." "I constantly write lyrics down," he continues. record business. Allan had been trying to decide what to do "Somebody will say something, and I'll think it's Berg, an ex -media buyer, was about this relationship when he woke up one morn- way. I think that good -time rock is coming back. I cool and write it down. I have notebooks full of hired in 1975 by then EMI Records ing with the line "She may not be Miss Right, just remember growing up as a kid in the '80s, and sentences, and I'll look for something that match- managing director Bob Mercer, who she'll do right now" stuck in his head. He wrote it there was so much expression on all the records. es the melodies I'm working on. I'll grab that line, now is the Los Angeles -based senior down in a notebook and later used it as the basis We've never left what we grew up on." and the song just wraps around it." VP of UTV Records. According to Mercer, UTV is now celebrating U.S. sales of the first three American Billboard JUNE 17, 2000 Billboard® JUNE 17, 2000 "Now" compilations of almost 6 mil- lion copies, with "Now 4" set for release July 18. TracksTM Under Mercer's wing at EMI's Mainstream Rock Tracks.. Modern Rock then newly established TV division, TRACK TITLE ARTIST N rn TRACK TITLE ARTIST Berg enjoyed spectacular success I IMPRINT /PROMOTION LABEL t-= 3 3 'J 3 o ALBUM TITLE (IF ANY) MPRINT'PROMOTION LABEL I- 3 _i N 3 3 O ALBUM TITLE (IF ANY) with "20 Golden Greats" compila- tions by such artists as the Beach --Nos No. 1 ow-- No. 1 --. .-- Boys, Glen Campbell, and the Su- I DISAPPEAR 2 weeks at Nd I METALLICA KRYPTONITE 5weeksatNo, I 3 DOORS DOWN 1 2 7 1 1 13 0 "MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2" SOUNDTRACK HOLLYWOOD t 0 THE BETTER LIFE REPUBLIC/UNIVERSAL t premes, all of which topped the U.K. 20 KRYPTONITE 3 DOORS DOWN WITH ARMS WIDE OPEN CREED charts in 1976 and 1977. Mercer re- 2 1 10 3 3 1I THE BETTER LIFE REPUBLIC/UNIVERSAL t HUMAN CLAY WIND -UP calls that when he hired Berg, "I WITH ARMS WIDE OPEN CREED ADAM'S SONG BLINK -182 CD 3 3 9 3 2 2 14 HUMAN CLAY WIND -UP t ENEMA OF THE STATE MCA t wanted to find some way of being JUDITH A PERFECT CIRCLE 4 4 9 SOUR GIRL STONE TEMPLE PILOTS ® 5 7 8 ® able to use television as an advertis- MER DE NOMS VIRGIN t NO. 4 ATLANTIC t cost SOUR GIRL STONE TEMPLE PILOTS ing medium. Given its structure 6 6 9 WONDERFUL EVERCLEAR NO. 4 ATLANTIC 10 7 24 3 0 t SONGS FROM AN AMERICAN MOVIE, VOL. ONE: LEARNING HOW TO SMILE CAPITOL t at that time, I needed someone who NOTHING AS IT SEEMS PEARL JAM 6 4 4 8 © 8 9 8 JUDITH A PERFECT CIRCLE knew more about it, and Bergy was BINAURAL EPIC MER DE NOMS VIRGIN t OTHERSIDE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS hot to trot. 7 7 5 21 PARDON ME INCUBUS CALIFORNICATION WARNER BROS. 7 5 6 32 t MAKE YOURSELF IMMORTAL/EPIC t "Bergy is unique in the sense that OF MEN NICKELBACK 8 8 16_ OTHERSIDE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS this is pretty much what he has done THE 8 6 5 25 ® BROS. CALIFORNICATION WARNER t GODLESS U.P.O. for 25 years. I have never heard him O 9 13 9 F00 FIGHTERS NO PLEASANTRIES EPIC 9 9 8 12 BREAKOUT THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE ROSWELL/RCA t say the dreaded words `I want my MAKE ME BAD KORN 10 10 9 18 CHANGE (IN THE HOUSE OF FLIES) DEFTONES own label,' and I think that's a very ISSUES IMMORTAL/EPIC t 12 18 4 CI WHITE PONY MAVERICK VOODOO GODSMACK good thing. When he speaks about 11 11 10 31 RESORT PAPA ROACH GODSMACK REPUBLIC/UNIVERSAL t 11 18 20 9 LAST listen, be- INFEST DREAMWORKS t this business, you'd better F00 FIGHTERS 12 12 18 6 BREAKOUT MAKE ME BAD KORN cause there isn't anybody that comes THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE ROSWELURCA t 12 10 7 18 ISSUES IMMORTAL/EPIC t close to his experience and feel for AiRPOWER ABSOLUTELY (STORY OF A GIRL) NINE DAYS -No 13 11 10 10 it, and the feel element is consider- SATELLITE BLUES AC /DC THE MADDING CROWD 550 MUSIC /550 -WORK t 13 19 34 3 STIFF UPPER L P EASTWEST /EEG able. It's not the research -based AIRPOWER business everybody seems to think." AIRPOWER SIMPLE KIND OF LIFE NO DOUBT 14 20 21 6 - - -- RETURN OF SATURN TRAUMALNTERSCOPEt As Berg recalls, EMI did not start LAST RESORT PAPA ROACH 14 20 25 7 INFEST UREAMWORK$ t TAKE A LOOK AROUND LIMP BIZKIT releasing the multi- artist compila- 15 16 22 8 HIGHER CREED "MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2" SOUNDTRACK HOLLYWOOD tions in earnest until 1978, when its 15 17 14 41 HUMAN CLAY WIND -UP t I DISAPPEAR METALLICA 16 15 15 7 dance collection "Don't Walk Boogie" NO LEAF CLOVER METALLICA "MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2" SOUNDTRACK HOLLYWOOD t 16 16 15 29 1. S & M ELEKTRA/EEG BOYZ -N -THE HOOD DYNAMITE HACK reached No. He acknowledges that t- CI 14 16 7 ME INCUBUS SUPERFAST FARMCLUB.COWUNIVERSAL t to go into 11 14 12 29 PARDON majors were persuaded MAKE YOURSELF IMMORTAL/EPIC t SO SAD TO SAY THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES 18 13 12 11 that market by the huge U.K. suc- SILVER FUTURE MONSTER MAGNET PAY ATTENTION BIG RIG/ISLAND /IDJMG t 18 15 16 12 "HEAVY METAL 2000" SOUNDTRACK RESTLESS MATCHBOX TWENTY cess in the early 1970s of such com- 19 21 17 8 BENT CHANGE (IN THE HOUSE OF FLIES) DEFTONES MAD SEASON LAVA/ATLANTIC t 19 23 31 3 panies as K-tel, Arcade, and Ronco. WHITE PONY MAVERICK VOODOO GODSMACK 20 19 11 18 "They certainly paved the way," HOME STAIND GODSMACK REPUBLpyUNIVERSALf 20 13 11 19 DYSFUNCTION FLIP/ELEKTRNEEG "Now the majors are t 10 DAYS LATE THIRD EYE BLIND he says. pretty 21 22 23 7 MACHINE BUSH BLUE ELEKTRA/EEG f much dominant, although Undies 21 18 21 6 WARM THE SCIENCE OF THINGS TRAUMA t SLEEP NOW IN THE FIRE RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE 22 17 14 17 like] Ministry of Sound have found AMERICAN BAD ASS KID ROCK THE BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES EPIC 22 24 22 6 t THE [is] in HISTORY OF ROCK TOP DOG/LAVA/ATLANTIC t RIGHT NOW SR -71 their own niche. Telstar still 23 28 33 4 NOW YOU KNOW FULL DEVIL JACKET SR -71 RCA 23 25 23 12 the marketplace -[it owns] some FULL DEVIL JACKET THE ENCLAVE/ISLAND /IDJMG MOBY 24 26 26 6 PORCELAIN good repertoire now. We're always IF CREED V2 24 21 17 24 WHAT PLAY HUMAN CLAY & "SCREAM 3" SOUNDTRACK WIND -UP competition." t NOTHING AS IT SEEMS DEARL JAM aware of the TAKE A LOOK AROUND LIMP BIZKIT 25 23 13 8 25 31 35 4 BINAURAL EPIC He is also pleased that the U.S. "MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2" SOUNDTRACK HOLLYWOOD STUFF LIMP BIZKIT 26 24 25 15 BREAK industry is shrugging off its tradi- STUPIFY DISTURBED FLIF 26 28 33 5 SIGNIFICANT OTHER /INTERSCOPE t THE SICKNESS GIANT /REPRISE t of ALL MY FAULT FENIX TX tional wariness compilations, STUFF LIMP BIZKIT 21 29 28 8 21 22 19 16 BREAK FENIX TX DRIVE-THRU /MCA t which, says Berg, could not be more SIGNIFICANT OTHER FLIP/INTERSCOPE t LETTERS STROKE 9 BENT MATCHBOX TWENTY 28 27 27 9 misplaced. "We've got all the proof 28 27 24 7 NASTY LITTLE THOUGHTS CHERRY/UNIVERSAL MAD SEASON LAVA/ATLANTIC t pun- TOTALIMMORTAL THE OFFSPRING under the sun to say that the STIFF UPPER LIP AC /DC 29 30 30 6 29 26 20 18 "ME, MYSELF & IRENE" SOUNDTRACK ELEKTRA/EEG ters, not just in the U.K.