Re: "Elvis vs. JXL" vs. VersusStyle

> Elliot Chance wrote:
> >
> > On 3/4/07, discHead <stolen-from-nabble@...> 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?