Word: elektra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those numbers are giving metal bands the kind of clout once reserved for pop's biggest stars. In August Columbia Records signed Aerosmith, a hard-rock band with metal overtones, to a $30 million-plus contract. Motley Crue's deal is even sweeter. Elektra Records will pay the Crue at least $35 million, including a $22.5 million advance, for its next five albums. Meanwhile, A&M Records expects big things from Soundgarden, a Seattle-based band that packs the sonic punch of early Led Zeppelin...
Since then, the song has assumed its own separate identity. With Ashokan Farewell as the centerpiece, more than 200,000 copies of the series sound track have been sold, and the album (on Elektra Nonesuch) is making its way into the higher reaches of the hit charts. The single, released Nov. 30, is receiving regular play on country stations...
RUBAIYAT, ELEKTRA'S 40th ANNIVERSARY (Elektra). If a company has to give itself an anniversary toast, this is an intrepid -- and often amusing -- way to do it. Thirty-eight current Elektra artists (from Tracy Chapman to Metallica) polish up some tunes from Elektra's past and take them out for a Sunday drive. Surprise is constant on this 2-CD set, satisfaction frequent, and transcendence (as on Jackson Browne's version of First Girl I Loved) available on request...
...like it than not." Still, he is often willing to gamble on something different. He eagerly signed a politically conscious black singer- songwriter who was a classmate of his son's at Tufts. The result was an SBK success story: Tracy Chapman, whose hits the firm produced for the Elektra label...
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS: FLOOD (Elektra). When they're good, they're winningly whimsical and goofy. When they're off the mark (as in their current cover of the old novelty item Istanbul, Not Constantinople), you just want to lock these guys in their room so they can't come out and play...