Elliot Chance wrote:
On 3/4/07, discHead <stolen-from-nabble@l2g.to> wrote:
> Here are pertinent facts:
> (1) An artist named Jackal XL has a popular remix of Elvis Presley's "A
> Little Less Conversation" that is promoted under the name "Elvis vs. JXL".
Not sure where you got 'Jackal' from. It is "Junkie XL"
Quite right. Junkie XL. I was not having the best of days yesterday, between that and locking my keys in the car at the grocery store. :-)
Elliot Chance wrote:
Because the track is always credited to "Elvis vs. JXL", it stands as artist intent, and therefore becomes its own artist entity.
Okay. Now, assuming that to be the case, let's take a look at the soundtrack for Las Vegas (
http://musicbrainz.org/release/55389086-9068-4457-a239-4178ea527c58.html). Follow the link from the annotation there to the record label's information on that soundtrack. (Their website is down as I write this, so if you can't get to it, let's just treat this as a theoretical exercise.)
Here are the questions raised by the record label's information:
(1) IIRC, they have the track credited to "Elvis Presley (remix by JXL)". Is it still okay to leave the artist as "Elvis vs. JXL"? (I am guessing yes, since this album's credit seems to be the odd one out in this case.)
(2) Another track on the same album is credited to "Wayne Newton vs. the Legion of Doom". How do we decide whether that, too, is a case of "artist intent", or whether it needs to be broken up as per VersusStyle?
--Larry
