Future

Rip It Up, Issue 213, 1 May 1995, Page 8

Future

RECORDINGS

Elvis Costello, Kojak Variety (Warners) — covers album, songs written by Bob Dylan, Little Richard, Randy Newman, Ray Davies, Willie Dixon, Bacarach & David, the Beatles, Dan Penn and Mose Allison etc. Paul Weller, Stanley Road (Go! Discs) — guests include Steve Winwood on keyboards, Noel Gallagher on guitar and Dr Robert on bass. Fugazi, Red Medicine (Dischord). Bob Marley, Natural Born Mystic (Island) — 15 tracks including previously unreleased tracks from late 19705, 1980 & 1981. The Verve, A Northern Soul (Virgin) — guest clapper is Liam Gallagher. Bjork, Post (Polygram) — produced by Nellee Hooper with tracks co-written with Tricky and DJ Howie B. Johnnette Napolitano & Holly Vincent, Vowel Movement (Atlantic) — ex Concrete Blonde and Holly & Italians vocalists. Teenage Fanclub, Grand Prix. Therapy?, Internal Love (Polygram). Ride, Tarantula (Warners) — cover Small Face’s’ 'That Man’. Wet Wet Wet, Picture This (Polygram). The Muffs, Blonder & Blonder (Warners) — produced by Dookie man Rob Cavallo. Drummer Roy McDonald is ex Redd Kross. Black Grape, We're Great When We're Straight (Radioactive / BMG) — Shaun (Happy Mondays) Ryder’s new band. Scott Walker, Tilt. The Shamen, Axis Mundi (One Little Indian). Filter, Short Bus (Warners) — vocalist/guitarist Richard Patrick, ex Nine Inch Nails. Traci Lords, 1000 Fires (Radioactive/BMG) Fall, Cerebral Caustic. Eddie Money, Love & Money (Wolfgang) Marc Almond, Adored & Explored. Jimmy Somerville, Dare to Love. Marianne Faithfull, A Secret Life (Island). AOTEAROA Jan Hellriegel, Tremble (Warners). Bailterspace, Wammo (Flying Nun) Superette, Rosepig (Flying Nun EP) — 5 songs from Dave Mulcahy, ex JPSE). Nixons, Special Downtime (Pagan) Banshee Reel, An Orchestrated Litany of Lies (Loaded) Able Tasmans, Store in a Cool Place (Flying Nun) Glen Moffatt, Somewhere In New Zealand Tonight (Sun Pacific) FUNKY Rosie Gaines, Closer Than Close (Motown). Michael Jackson, History Book 1 (Epic) — two disc pack, 16 greatest hits andls new songs including duet ‘Scream’ with Janet Jackson — 150 minutes. Ice T, Ice T XI Return of the Real (Virgin). Isaac Hayes, Branded (Pointblank/Virgin) Cypress Hill, Temple of Boom (Sony). Freddie Jackson, Private Party (Scotti Bros) Naughty By Nature, Poverty’s Paradise. NPG (New Power Generation), Exodus (Liberation) — 21 songs. Herbie Hancock, Dis Is Da Drum (Mercury). HEAVY Brutal Juice, Mutilation Makes Identification Difficult (Interscope/Atlantic). Soul Asylum, Let Your Dim Light Shine (Columbia). Morbid Angel, Domination (Giant). Ugly Kid Joe, Menace to Sobriety. Bad Brains, God of Love (Maverick / Warners). Babes In Toyland, Nemesisters (Warners) — cover Sister Sledge's ‘We Are Family'. Tad, Infrared Riding Hood. Bodycount, Violent Demise (Virgin). Clutch, Clutch (East West / Warners). Green Apple Quick Step, Reloaded (Medicine) — co-produced by Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard. Clawhammer, Thank the Holder Uppers (Interscope/Warners) — fave band of Epitaph label owner Brett Gurewitz. Def Leppard, Slang (Mercury).

The Mother Hips, Back to the Grotto (American) Skid Row, Subhuman Race (Atlantic). ROOTS ■ __ Jerry Lee Lewis, Young Blood (Sire) — three tracks co-authored with producer Andy Paley and standards by Bobby Darin, Coasters, Hank Williams, Jimmy Rodgers etc. .■ - -; , < John Prine, Lost Dogs & Mixed Blessings (Oh Boy). Nick Lowe, The Impossible Bird (Upstart). Bob Dylan, MTV Unplugged (Sony). Jimmy Buffet, It’s About Time (Island). Robert Cray, Some Rainy Morning (Mercury). Bela Fleck, Tales from the Acoustic Planet (Warners) — guests Chick Corea, Branford Marsalis. Al Stewart, Between the Wars (Mesa) Bunny Rugs, Talking to You (Shanachie) — Third World singer goes solo. Warren Zevon, Mutineer (Giant/BMG). Tuck & Patti, Learning How to Ry (Epic). Carlene Carter, Little Acts of Treason (Giant). Tony Joe White, Lake Placid Blues (Polygram). MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS Tank Girl (Elektra) — Devo revive their ‘Girl U Want’ while Joan Jett and Paul Westerburg duet on a Cole Porter song. Courtney Love is credited as executive music co-ordinator.' : ' TRIBUTE ALBUMS ■ ' * • MARVIN GAYE — artists are Bono with ‘Save the Children', Madonna & Massive Attack ‘I Want You', Stevie Wonder ‘Stubborn Kind of Fellow’, Neneh Cherry ‘Trouble Man’, Sounds of Blackness Mercy Mercy Me’ & ‘God Is Love', Nona Gaye ‘Time to Get it Together', Public Enemy ‘lnner City Blues', Rosie Gaines ‘Distant Lover’ and Public Enemy What's Going On’. lAN CURTIS — artists include Smashing Pumpkins (appearing as Star Children), Dave Navarro, Mazzy Star and Moby. FUTURE REISSUES Joy Division, Permanet: The Best Of (London) — extra tracks include an Arthur Baker remix of ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart', ‘These Days', 'Atmosphere' and ‘Transmission’ (live); Jim Morrison & the Doors, An American Prayer (Elektra / Warners) — previously unreleased tracks ‘Babylon Fading’, ‘Bird of Prey', ‘Ghost Song'. Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Soup (MCA) — 13 tracks from various posthumous releases remastered by Alan Douglas to make a coherent album plus one previously unreleased instrumental ‘New Rising Sun'. Frank Zappa, We’re Only In It For the Money (1968); Lumpy Gravy; Overnight Sensation (1973); Apostrophe; Does Humour Belong In Music?; London Symphony Orchestra Vol.l & 2 (Ryko) Zappa supervised remastered reissues. Ry Cooder, Ry Cooder (Warners). Marvin Gaye, The Master (Motown box set). Stone Roses, The Complete (Silvertone). Doobie Brothers, Doobie Brothers (Warners) — 1971 debut. . Gladys Knight, Anthology (Motown). Michael Jackson, Anthology (Motown). Smokey Robinson, Anthology (Motown). Randy Newman, Randy Newman (Warners) — 1968 debut. . ' Randy Newman, Live (Warners) — solo at Bitter . End, 1971. .. - ' Johnnie Ray, Greatest Songs (Curb). Modern Jazz Quartet, Dedicated to Connie (Atlantic) — previously unreleased 1959 concert. > . Miles Davis, The Complete Live at the Plugged , Nickel 1965 (Columbia) —r eight CD boxed set. Patti Page, Greatest Songs (Curb). America, Homecoming (Warners). - Beach Boys, Smile Era (Capitol) —3-CD set. Eric Burden & War, Best Of (Avenue/Rhino). David Johansen, From Pumps to Pompadours (Rhino). ’ 7 7 . ' ‘ The Complete Stax / Volt Soul Singles 1972-1975 V 01.3 (Stax/Fantasy) — 215 more tracks from the Memphis soul label. ■

Drummer Alan Wren has left the Stone Roses and is replaced by Robert Maddox. After only two months the band have also left Guns N’ Roses manager Doug Goldstein ... lan Astbury cancelled the final dates of the Cult USA tour due to “nervous exhaustion” ... Morrissey and Roger Daltrey (Who) sent wreaths to Ronnie Kray’s funeral ... the Beastie Boys plan to release a live album ... there is an unreleased double CD of Eazy E with collaborators as diverse as Slash and Roger Troutman of Zapp ... Bill Berry is back on the drum seat as REM resume touring, starting May 15 in California ... Damon Albarn of Blur is recording a single with Tricky and ex Fun Boy Three singer Terry Hall ... Frank Black has left the 4AD label after disappointing sales for his solo albums ... Flavor Flav has been found guilty of firearms offences and will be sentenced on May 18. He may face a year in jail ... Capitol have signed the Viper Room party band known as P Members include Johnny Depp and Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers. Guests include Flea, Benmont Tench (ex Tom Petty) and Steve Jones (ex Sex Pistols) ... Bob Marley’s fiftieth birthday concert at London’s Wembley Arena on June 1 features the Wallers, Ziggy Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Pato Banton and Rita Marley with Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt ... the Sugarcubes have reformed minus Bjork as UNUN ... the Stranglers are doing a twentieth Anniversary tour ... the Dave Dobbyn album Twist has been certified Platinum, that’s 15,000 sales in NZ ... Mick Harvey of the Bad Seeds is doing an album of songs written by French singer Serge Gainsbourg ... Cult guitarist James Stevenson has reformed his band Gene Loves Jezebel to record two new songs for inclusion on a Best Of album

... EMI have sold the famous old residential Manor Studio in Oxfordshire for three million pounds. A who’s who of English music from the Sex Pistols to Queen have recorded there since it was founded in 1971 ... RCA have purchased the Buddah and Kama Sutra catalogues ... the highly regarded USA hi-tech sales chart system Soundscan has been introduced into Japan ... Ice Cube will star in the South Central-based comedy Friday ... this month’s water safety tip is from Sweden. Suede were on a ferry between Germany and Sweden when the engines failed. With the ferry drifting along the Swedish coast, the crew opened the bar and everything was free. All the passengers Were rescued ... Moana & the Moahunters play the Canadian Key West Music Convention in Vancouver May 11-13 and then play Hawaii on May 16 ... on French TV Brett Anderson duetted with Terence Trent D’Arby on Neil Diamond’s ‘Cinnamon Girl’ ... Warners are releasing on sell-thru video Neil Young’s 1983 cult anti-nuclear movie Human Highway starring Devo, Dennis Hopper, Dean Stockwell and Neil, as a motor mechanic ... USA Funkfest ‘95 tour stars Cameo, Teena Marie and the Gap Band ... the British court has ordered Guns N’ Roses to repay the $412,000 concert advanced by a Madrid promoter whose show was cancelled when the venue was declared unsafe by authorities r-.. entries for the Smokefree Rockquest close May 31. Entry packs are available from High School music teachers or the NZ Rock Shop. Winners of the Festival Records Faith No More Competition are David Brunton of Woodville, Damien Cairns of Christchurch and Katrina Blue of Glenfield, Auckland.