NOVEMBER 1996 / $3.95 MAllY STAR SNOOP DOGGY DOGG NEWS AUTHORITY'" JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION CHAKA KHAN CHRIS WHITLEY N SID E SMASHING PUMPKINS FLY HIGH WITH NEW OMPACT NEWS SINGLES BOX SET, DUE NOVEMBER 19 IF LAST YEAR'S EXPANSIVE double CD Mellon Collie and the Unknown" (Missing Persons) and "Dreaming" (Blondie). Infinite Sadness left any doubts as to whether Billy Corgan - the • DISC TWO: "1979," with "Ugly," "The Boy Cherry" (previously CE CUBES mastermind behind The Smashing Pumpkins - is one of rock's most import-only), "Believe " and "Set the Ray to Jerry" (previously , prolific songwriters, the November 19 import-only). release of The Aeroplane Flies High • DISC THREE: "Zero ," along with should dispel them once and for all. "God," "Mouths of Babes," "Tribute to D RELEASE DATES The five-CD singles box set contains a Johnny," "Marquis in Spades," "Pen­ wealth of Pumpkins B-sides, many of nies" and "Pastichio Medley." Notes wh ich have never been available Ferris: "Even though it was released as PDATES & CORRECTIONS domestically, plus five previously unre­ a single, Billboard treated this as an leased cover songs. EP on its charts, because of the num­ "The band came up with the idea as ber of songs and its running length." OUNTRY DEVELOPMENTS a special item to its fans, " Virgin's • DISC FOUR: "Tonight, Tonight," Director of Product Management, Eric plus "Me ladori Magpie," "Rotten Ferris, tells ICE. "This is a collector's Apples," "Jupiter's Lament" (previ­ item for those who want to have all ously import-only), "Medellia of the AZZSPEAK five of the band's singles in one place." .. Gray Skies ," "Blank" (previously import-only) and "Tonight Reprise" The complete breakdown: (previously import -only). LUES UNLIMITED • DISC ONE: "Bullet with Butterfly • DISC FIVE: "Thirty-Three, " with Wings," embellished with "... Said Sad­ "Transformer," "The Aeroplane Flies ly" and the previously unreleased cov­ High (Turns Left, Looks Right) ," "The ULTIMEDIA MUSIC ers "You're All I've Got Tonight" (The Cars) , "Clones (We 're All) " Last Song," "The Bells" and "My Blue Heaven. " By the time the sin­ (Alice Cooper), "A Night Like This" (The Cure), "Destination gles box hits , this single will be available, » CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 HE CD WATCHDOG '" SONY LEGACY LAUNCHES NEW JOHNNY CASH JOINED BY TOM ILiVE FROM THE VAULTS' LINE PEm & THE HEARTBREAKERS OLLECTOR'S CORNER WITH THE WHO, CAROLE KING JOHNNY CASH'S SOPHOMORE American Recordings CD, Un­ chained, finds the Rock and Roll Hall of Farner once again working DIGGING DEEPER INTO THE Sony Music archives of previously with producer Rick Rubin to craft a record that recalls Cash's country OING UNDERGROUND unreleased material, Legacy will launch its new "Live from the Vaults" roots, while it simultaneously strikes out into new musical territory. series on October 29. The inaugural titles are: The Who's two-disc The The CD is due November 19. Who Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970; a two-disc various-artists Unlike its all-acoustic predecessor, 1994's American Recordings, collection titled Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival 1970; and the new disc features the talents of a full band: none other than Tom ARKETPLACE Carole King's The Carnegie Hall Concert:june 18, 1971. Petty & the Heartbreakers, whose involvement began when Petty told "It's another way of addressing the material in the vaults of Colum­ Rubin he wanted to play bass on the Unchained sessions. Asource at bia, Epic and other Sony labels," Mark Feldman, Associate Director of the label tells ICE that Cash readily accepted the offer from Petty, who 1 1 Marketing and Product Development for Legacy, tells ICE. "Some pro­ showed up at the studio with a couple of Heartbreakers in tow. ducers have told us abGur tapes they have found, stacks and stacks of Also lending a hand are Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, who unreleased live recordings from the '60s and '70s. It was pretty much appears on a soaring version of Spain 's "Spiritual," country star standard policy to record almost every live performance by major artists Marty Stuart, whose mandolin solos grace both the Louvin Brothers­ 7 9 throughout the years. We 're just trying to figure » CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 penned "Kneeling Drunkard's Plea" and Jimmie » CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 The CD Watchdog column is designed to alert you to problem CDs, covering anything that frustrates or short-changes the CD buyer. Got a gripe? Jot it down with enough detail to clearly identify it, and moil or fox it in to us. Though we cannot answer all queries, we will investigate and address as many as possible. ® Movie? I doubt that the fan hysteria one hears on the Why the long delay between releases, we asked? "Given disc accurately reflects the crowd's reaction to what was the fact that Apple buyers are often Beatie buyers, " a fourth- or fifth-billed act at an all-day festival. Heatley says, "it's prudent to spread things out a bit, INSTANT COLLECTOR'S ITEM "In particular, there is a trio of female screams that particularly when there might be lots of things they MCA's soundtrack to Grace of My Heart is the subject of seems to occur every 30-45 seconds, albeit at different want to buy. Often we find that they buy the vinyl as an interesting mix-up. Mike Bodayle of San Antonio, levels in the mix. After six or seven songs, I was so dis­ well as the CD. It was that, more than any reason. But TX, was the first to inform us that he bought the CD on tracted waiting for the the day it was released, but instead of hearing Kristen screams to repeat that I Vigard sing the seventh track, "Man from Mars," his CD couldn't finish the disc. played a version sung by the song's composer, Joni It's already made it to Mitchell, in a performance available nowhere else. the used CD store. Do "Then the news breaks that they had recalled it the day you think anyone at before," Bodayle says triumphantly. MCA can comment?" To find out what happened, we contacted Deanna To get a response, we Cohen, listed on the CD as "The Executive in Charge of spoke with Paul Rata­ Music for MCA Records." Cohen tells ICE that the jczak, co-producer of the Mitchell performance was set to appear in both the soundtrack, who tells movie and on the soundtrack album, but at the last ICE that the audience minute the film's director, AJlison Anders, changed her sound works well when mind. Anders decided that, instead of using Mitchell to experienced in a theater sing "Man from Mars" over the scene in question, she along with the movie. wanted Vigard's vocal, just to maintain consistency Any flaws in the back­ throughout the picture. "Creatively, she thought it ground noise that our worked better," Cohen says. reader detected wo uld BADFINGER "Obviously, we were really disappointed, but I said, only become apparent 'Well, I'll put Joni 's version on the record anyway.' It's once the music is separated from the visuals, and played there 's never a perfect time, unfortunately. " not that unusual to have a different version on the repeatedly. "If you see the movie one time, you'd never As for the Apple reissue program in America, we asked soundtrack than what appears in the film , and AJlison notice it," Ratajczak says. Capitol A&R rep Wayne Watkins if the U.S. will be fol­ was very much in favor of the idea. But then Joni "Unfortunately, this was a feature film converted to lowing suit this fall. "No, we are not," Watkins tells ICE. Mitchell's management company phoned to let us know record, so [MCA] didn't have the budget. They gave me "The plan is to regroup a little bit, and instead of just that she didn't feel comfortable having her song on the two days to remix the whole record, which didn't give us tossing the titles out, try to re-analyze the entire catalog soundtrack if it wasn't in the movie. So again, a disap­ time to go back and put all-new crowd noise in it. We and really create some highly visible branding of the pointment, but...fair enough." spent the majority of our time EQ 'ing the music to Apple name. We're discussing it now. The U.K. wants us Cohen and MCA executives then notified their manu­ sound as good as possible for the CD, and worried less to release those titles, but we're just not ready yet, facturing plant of the substitution (Vigard for Mitchell) , about the crowd. because right now, I think we'd do a bad job. I'd rather but the aJbum had already been approved by all parties "We put the crowd in to create that effect because wait, and sacrifice some imports to fans. " and mastered, creating fertile ground for an accident to there was no audience audible at all on the original We asked Watkins if Capitol would ever be issuing happen. AJI of the printed components were corrected, recording," Ratajczak adds, "because it was run off a PA Mary Hopkin 's Greatest Hits, which came out last but the first batch of CDs carried the wrong musical per­ board. It all had to be put in. They're authentic concert year in the UK "We definitely will," he says. "Probably formance - that of brand new Rock and Roll Hall of recordings, but we had to create a full-dimensionaJ, six­ in 1997 ." (It should also be noted that the CD of Badfin­ Fame inductee Joni Mitchell.