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rl'1 M41111L7_ ï-;itN AGE BY CARRIE BELL Soul Coughing's M. Doughty used to think he second recording session for `El Oso.' " The first line refers to a San Jose, Calif., tourist was a prolific songwriter. "When I was Once completed, the song revisited the common trap, the Winchester Mystery House. It's a 160 - young, I would write songs upon songs upon Soul Coughing theme of the languishment of love. room, $5.5 million Victorian mansion built by a songs in notebook after notebook," he says. "Like "I tend to cast my romantic difficulties in the most woman who was trying to please the spirits that 10 songs a day. Then it occurred to me that in 20 supposedly haunted her and to find the key to songs, there'd be two good lines." eternal life. "We're not that deep," says the New `Maybe it's a So he did what any sensible writer would do- subject best not Yorker. "But I would like to go there. I was a big combine lines. It's a technique he applied to "Cir- broached in a pop '. 'Ripley's Believe It Or Not' fan in my youth." cles," at No. 23 on this issue's Modern Rock Tracks. song' Truth be told, Doughty says the mission, despite -M. Doughty, Soul Coughing " `Circles' took me, like, four years to write. The rumors, is to make a living at music. "I could buy third verse was in another song from years ago a 4 -track and be Emily Dickinson about it. I could HITS' when I lived in New York, in 1995. The chord was dramatic light possib e, even going so far as to talk make a song, put it in a drawer, and after my death a '96 thing in London. First couple of verses were of the supernatural,' Doughty says. "I'm not re- they will auction it off at Sotheby's for a million written while I was living in Florida. The actual ally a believer, but I f. rid it interesting. Maybe it's dollars. But I want to deal with the culture and package was finished back in New York during the a subject best not broached in a pop song." society of now" IN

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Mainstream Rock Tracks,. Modern Rock TracksTM TOKIO Week of September 20, 1998 TRACK TITLE ARTIST Y Y Y N z TRACK TITLE ARTIST r c' 3 ALBUM TITLE IF ANY) IMPRIN I /PROMOTION LABEL , 3 _i 3 ,L; O ALBUM TITLE (IF ANY) IMI`RIN PROMOTION LABEL -'- Q_ tO Doo Wop / Lauryn Hill * * *No.1 * ** * * *No.1 * ** ® Celebrity Skin / Hole WHAT'S THIS LIFE FOR 5 weeks at No. 1 CREED CELEBRITY SKIN 2 weeks at No. 1 HOLE 1 1 1 18 1 3 7 03 Life Is A Flower / Ace Of Base MY OWN PRISON WIND -UP 0 CELEBRITY SKIN DGCIGEFFEN ®I Love You / Debelah Morgan PSYCHO CIRCUS KISS INSIDE OUT EVE 6 2 2 7 2 2 1 25 0 PSYCHO CIRCUS MERCURY EVE 6 RCA OO I Will Wait / Hootie And The Blowfish SLIDE GOO GOO DOLLS FLY AWAY LENNY KRAVITZ 5 8 5 © My Favorite Mistake / Sheryl Crow Q3 5 9 14 Q3 DIZZY UP THE GIRL WARNER BROS. 5 VIRGIN FATHER OF MINE EVERCLEAR Kind And Generous / Natalie Merchant THE DOWN TOWN DAYS OF THE NEW 4 4 7 13 4 3 3 20 SO MUCH FOR THE AFTERGLOW CAPITOL DAYS OF THE NEW OUTPOST/GEFFEN ® Life / Des'ree ONE WEEK BARENAKED LADIES CELEBRITY SKIN HOLE 5 3 2 18 Day After Day / Julian Lennon 9 10 6 STUNT REPRISE ® 0 CELEBRITY SKIN DGC/GEFFEN FLY AWAY LENNY KRAVITZ Boy You Knock Me Out / Tatyana Ali INSIDE OUT EVE 6 © 9 14 7 8 8 12 5 VIRGIN © EVE 6 RCA O Too Much, Too Little, Too Late / Silver Sun INTERGALACTIC BEASTIE BOYS 7 6 5 19 SPACE LORD MONSTER MAGNET 360 7 7 6 21 HELLO NASTY GRAND ROYAL/CAPITOL ® Hey Now Now / Swirl POWERTRIP A&M NEVER THERE CAKE ® The Way / Fastball SOMEHOW, SOMEWHERE, SOMEWAY KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD BAND 14 20 4 8 ® PROLONGING THE MAGIC CAPRICORN /MERCURY 6 4 14 TROUBLE IS... REVOLUTION /REPRISE History Repeating / Propellerheads I THINK I'M PARANOID GARBAGE 9 7 6 14 KIND OF LOVE ARE YOU ON AEROSMITH VERSION 2.0 ALMO SOUNDS /INTERSCOPE 9 4 5 13 WHAT Featuring Miss Shirley Bassey ARMAGEDDON: THE ALBUM COLUMBIA SAVE TONIGHT EAGLE -EYE CHERRY 10 12 12 13 ® Circle / Swan Dive DRAGULA ROB ZOMBIE DESIRELESS WORK 10 11 11 9 HELLBILLY DELUXE GEFFEN SINGING IN MY SLEEP SEMISONIC ® Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You / Lauryn Hill 11 11 11 7 THAN YOU METALLICA FEELING STRANGELY FINE MCA © The Boy Is Mine / Brandy & Monica 11 10 7 12 BETTER RELOAD ELEKTRA/EEG PERFECT THE SMASHING PUMPKINS 12 8 4 17 Looking For Love / Karen Ramirez SLIDE GOO GOO DOLLS ADORE VIRGIN 12 12 17 4 DIZZY UP THE GIRL WARNER BROS. THIRD EYE BLIND Hinoatarubasho / Misia 13 10 9 13 JUMPER THIRD EYE BLIND ELEKTRA/EEG THE DOPE SHOW MARILYN MANSON I Wanna Hold You Tonight / 13 13 13 8 GOT YOU (WHERE I WANT YOU) THE FLYS MECHANICAL ANIMALS NOTHING/INTERSCOPE 14 15 16 9 HOLIDAY MAN DELICIOUS VINYUTRAUMA Ralph MacDonald BLUE ON BLACK KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD BAND 14 15 14 39 FIRE ESCAPE FASTBALL TROUBLE IS... REVOLUTION/REPRISE 16 15 10 ® Love Letters / Ali a ALL THE PAIN MONEY CAN BUY HOLLYWOOD MACHETE BROTHER CANE ® Kokoronishimaimashou / Thoko Furuuchi 15 14 12 11 LULLABY SHAWN MULLINS WISHPOOL VIRGIN 18 17 7 a SOUL'S CORE SMG/COLUMBIA Ruffneck / Freestylers YOUR LIFE IS NOW JOHN MELLENCAMP 16 16 18 5 THANK U ALANIS MORISSETTE JOHN MELLENCAMP COLUMBIA 11 19 - 2 Lady Marmalade / All Saints SUPPOSED FORMER INFATUATION JUNKIE MAVERICK/REPRISE STILL RAININ' JONNY LANG 11 26 33 3 FLAGPOLE SITTA HARVEY DANGER ® Oye / Gloria Estefan WANDER THIS WORLD A&M 18 13 10 28 WHERE HAVE ALL THE MERRYMAKERS GONE? SLASH/LONDON /ISLAND ® Ogiyodiora / Lee -Tzsche GOT YOU (WHERE I WANT YOU) THE FLYS 21 27 THIS LIFE FOR CREED 18 6 19 17 13 17 WHAT'S HOLIDAY MAN DELICIOUS VINYL/TRAUMA MY OWN PRISON WIND -UP The Air That I Breathe / Simply Red g GOT THE LIFE KORN THE DOPE SHOW MARILYN MANSON Silly Man / The Tony Rich Project CI 17 19 20 22 21 8 FOLLOW THE LEADER IMMORTAUEPIC r.ILCHANICAL ANIMALS NOTHING/INTERSCOPE To SOMETIMES IT HURTS STABBING WESTWARD Come Me / Satoshi Tomiíe 23 30 6 JIVE AN' WAIL THE BRIAN SETZER ORCHESTRA 20 21 21 18 13 JUMP DARKEST DAYS COLUMBIA THE DIRTY BOOGIE INTERSCOPE True Colors / Phil Collins

ALL THE KIDS ARE RIGHT LOCAL H True To Your Heart / 98' And Stevie Wonder 21 19 24 8 T PACK UP THE CATS ISLAND * * *AIRPOWER* * * ALL THE KIDS ARE RIGHT LOCAL H ® If You Tolerate This Your Children Will BOOGIE KING THE SCREAMIN' CHEETAH WHEELIES 22 23 22 8 24 28 7 PACK UP THE CATS ISLAND CI BIG WHEEL CAPRICORN/MERCURY Be Next/ Manic Street Preachers SOFT SECOND COMING ® Save Tonight / Eagle -Eye Cherry 23 22 29 5 * * *AIRPOWER* * * SECOND COMING CAPITOL CIRCLES SOUL COUGHING ® World Without You / Trine Rein PSYCHO MAN BLACK SABBATH 23 24 25 5 24 NEW 1 EL OSO SLASH/WARNER BROS. REUNION EPIC ® Priye -A (The Player) / Jephte Guillaume FLY (FOR A WHITE GUY) THE OFFSPRING 7' FIRE ESCAPE FASTBALL 24 NEW I PRETTY Tumetai liana / The Brilliant Green 25 29 32 AMERICANA ALL THE PAIN MONEY CAN BUY HOLLYWOOD COLUMBIA GOT THE LIFE KORN ® Love Unlimited / Fun Lavin' Criminals IT'S ALRIGHT CANDLEBOX 25 24 9 26 20 15 17 CI FOLLOW THE LEADER IMMORTAUEPIC HAPPY PILLS MAVERICK/WARNER BROS. Boogie Mi Vista / Matt Bianco SWEETEST THING U2 IRIS GOO GOO DOLLS 26 NEW 1 27 25 23 25 THE BEST OF 1980-1990 ISLAND ® Happy Ever After '98 / Julia Fordham "CITY OF ANGELS" SOUNDTRACK WARNER SUNSET/REPRISE

FUEL ® I Don't Want To Miss A Thing / Aerosmith FINGER ELEVEN 21 27 31 3 BITTERSWEET 28 32 35 4 QUICKSAND SUNBURN 550 MUSIC TIP WIND -UP ® Another Day Goes By / Dakota Moon MY FAVORITE MISTAKE SHERYL CROW 26 I DON'T WANT TO MISS A THING AEROSMITH 28 29 6 29 27 21 21 THE GLOBE SESSIONS A &M ® Intergalactic / Beastie Boys ARMAGEDDON: THE ALBUM COLUMBIA THE DOWN TOWN DAYS OF THE NEW ® Perfect / The Smashing Pumpkins MY SONG JERRY CANTRELL 29 28 28 14 30 18 16 21 DAYS OF THE NEW OUTPOST /GEFFEN BOGGY DEPOT COLUMBIA DAYSLEEPER R.E.M. Got The Life / Korn 30 NEWS 1 AN AMERICAN BAND JACKYL UP WARNER BROS. ® The Knock / U.N.K.L.E. 31 36 - 2 WE'RE CHOICE CUTS GEFFEN IT'S LIKE EVERLAST 31 36 2 WHAT ® The First Night/ Monica - WHITEY FORD THE BOY FUEL SINGS BLUES TOMMY 32 38 2 BITTERSWEET SUNBURN 550 MUSIC SPACE LORD MONSTER MAGNET ® Soul Glow/ Great3 32 31 30 11 POWERTRIP A &M BITTER PILL MOTLEY CRUE Rock With You / D'influence 33 NEW 1 MOTLEY CRUES GREATEST HITS MOTLEY/BEYOND MUSIC STAY (WASTING TIME) DAVE MATTHEWS BAND 33 30 27 15 ® My Heart Will Go On / Celine Dion SINGING IN MY SLEEP SEMISONIC BEFORE THESE CROWDED STREETS RCA 34 35 39 4 FEELING STRANGELY FINE MCA DO THE EVOLUTION PEARL Remember When / Color Me Badd 34 34 2 JAM ® SUREFIRE (NEVER ENOUGH) ECONOLINE CRUSH YIELD EPIC 35 37 40 3 Selections can be heard on THE DEVIL YOU KNOW RESTLESS DRAGULA ROB ZOMBIE 35 40 - 2 HILLBILLY "Sapporo Beer Tokio Hot 100" PRETTY DELUXE GEFFEN 36 NEW I FLY (FORA WHITE GUY) THE OFFSPRING ONLY WHEN I LOSE MYSELF DEPECHE MODE AMERICANA COLUMBIA 36 38 37 3 every Sunday 1 PM -5 PM on THE SINGLES 86 -98 MUTE/REPRISE ROCKS ROD STEWART J- WAVE /81.3 FM in TOKYO 31 31 31 5 NICE GUYS FINISH LAST GREEN DAY WHEN WE WERE THE NEW BOYS WARNER BROS. CI NEW 1 NIMROD. REPRISE DU HAST RAMMSTEIN 38 33 34 17 AVA ADORE THE SMASHING PUMPKINS SEHNSUCHT SLASH/LONDON /ISLAND 38 37 39 22 ADORE VIRGIN 10,000 HORSES CANDLEBOX 39 NEW 1 ONE MORE MURDER BETTER THAN EZRA 81.3 FM J-WAUE HAPPY PILLS MAVERICK/WARNER BROS. 39 32 32 6 HOW DOES YOUR GARDEN GROW? ELEKTRA/EEG DO THE EVOLUTION PEARL JAM 40 I SOMETIMES IT HURTS STABBING WESTWARD 40 - 40 NEW 1 Station information available at YIELD EPIC DARKEST DAYS COLUMBIA

Compiled from a nabonal sample of airpl y supplied by Broadcast Data Systems' Radio Track service. 1 I 1 Mainstream rack stations and 75 modem rock stations are electronically monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Songs ranked by number of Gatections. http: / /www.j- wave.co.jp Q Tracks showing an increase in detections over the previous week, regardless of chart movement. Airpower awarded to those records which attain 800 detections Mainstream Rock) o 1,100 d tections (Modem Rock) for the first time. Videoclip availability. ®1998, Billboard/BPI Communications

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