One of our commenters asked about the songs that the major labels focused on in their successful lawsuit against Jammie Thomas; we found it (courtesy of Threat Level) and it’s reprinted after the jump. Behold, the songs that you may want to take out of your shared-music folder pronto:
• Guns N’ Roses: “Welcome to the Jungle”; “November Rain”
• Vanessa Williams: “Save the Best for Last”
• Janet Jackson: “Let’s Wait Awhile”
• Gloria Estefan: “Here We Are”; “Coming Out of the Dark”; “Rhythm is Gonna Get You”
• Goo Goo Dolls: “Iris”
• Journey: “Faithfully”; “Don’t Stop Believin’”
• Sarah McLachlan: “Possession”; “Building a Mystery”
• Aerosmith: “Cryin’”
• Linkin Park: “One Step Closer”
• Def Leppard: “Pour Some Sugar on Me”
• Reba McEntire: “One Honest Heart”
• Bryan Adams: “Somebody”
• No Doubt: “Bathwater”; “Hella Good”; “Different People”
• Sheryl Crow: “Run Baby Run”
• Richard Marx: “Now and Forever”
• Destiny’s Child: “Bills, Bills, Bills”
• Green Day: “Basket Case”
Note the inclusion of “Bills, Bills, Bills” on that list. Someone on the majors’ legal team has quite the sense of humor!
RIAA Trial Produces Playlist of the Century [Threat Level]
IRIS!
That song refuses to be forgotten around here.
Richard Marx? Really?
In her defense, I wouldn’t pay for any of these songs either.
Does this mean that she was into “Don’t Stop Believin’” right around the time it was featured on Laguna Beach?
That list is incomplete and includes one mistake, FYI. Virgin Records (Janet Jackson) removed itself from the trial during or immediately prior to jury selection. The case was originally Virgin et al vs. Thomas but when they pulled the Janet Jackson song, it became Capitol et al vs. Thomas (Capitol-Arista-Interscope-Sony BMG-Warner Bros.-UMG vs. Thomas)
To be fair, I’d find this list much more pathetic if it were a bunch of Dave Matthews and 311 songs. At least the crap is unapologetic crap.
The ironic part was that she could’ve probably gotten all of those on one of those compilation albums like ‘Now that’s what I call overplayed crap!’ or something like that.
Haha, holy shit. Linkin Park, Guns ‘n’ Roses and Sheryl Crow….. I would have charged the full $125,000 for each song if the tard had a playlist of illegal songs like this! I’m betting that Jammie has some kind of financial stability for the RIAA to go after her this much though.
can we get matos to do a column on this list? like, about how this was the playlist chosen by his albino boss while he worked at a banana stand in venice beach in order to pay off the mob for the money he’d borrowed for cataract surgery on the emu that he’d been bequeathed by a sufi mystic in kalamazoo?
or something like that.
Once again, to be fair, does anyone remember anything but songs like this being on Kazaa? I’m sure a few were labelled “Jay-Z – 99 Problems” but, when downloaded, turned out to Sarah McLachlan’s “Building a Mystery.”
Yeah, this list is pretty bad, but save “Iris” and “Cryin” everything else is pretty forgivable. There’s no excuse, now or ever, for those two songs.
Ok, forget the crappiness of the songs for a second. How about someone interview the artists listed for their opinion. Do they agree with the verdict? Do they agree with bringing the case to trial in the first place? If so, what do they see as a justifiable penalty?
I’m predicting there’s a wide gulf between the artists and their masters on the subject.
I thought that “Let’s Wait Awhile” was the property of A&M Music, since that song was on Control and not when Janet was on Virgin (janet. to 20 YO).
I’m with jerry. More to the point, are each of those artists going to get $9000? Somehow, I doubt it.
@xjerryx: After the backlash Lars Ulrich got, I doubt any recording artist will side publicly with the RIAA, even if he or she does support their legal actions.