Acts that are not on Spotify

What's become of Geir? Hasn't posted for months unless I'm mistaken.

I went and created a music forum on Facebook (in Norwegian) including many of the features I like about this place.
Just don't find the time to post here as often, but I haven't abandoned ILX completely.

Read now that Led Zeppelin will be on Spotify shortly as well. Elton John has largely disappeared, but probably just albums disappearing because of some reissue program, I guess.

Regarding Paul McCartney/Wings, it seems the middle part of his solo career is still absent. Everything from "At The Speed Of Sound" through "Tug Of War" missing. I believe they have yet to be reissued on CD as well though, so I guess just a matter of time.

Besides those, "Red Rose Speedway" is absent as well.

g'day Geir.

The Oasis thing seems strange to me, as obviously their albums are only absent in the US.

On the other hand, Material Issue are unavailable in Europe.

no OM apparently unless i ain't looking hard enough. that kinda sucks.

nope I think I've looked for them too and no dice. "Ea" exists but its very hard to find them as you might imagine.

Southern Lord and Profound Lore Records dont appear to be on Spotify outside of the USA.
OM's latest is on Drag City who are not on Spotify at all.

Richard Thompson

Pretty much everything he's done up to 'Electric' is available in the UK, must be one of those territitorial things. On a less crucial note, no Hootie and the Blowfish.

I'm seeing lots of Richard Thompson stuff and I'm in the US.

weird, now he is suddenly on it, i swear there wasn't even his name on spotify this morning. or maybe i misspelled his name...

Hall & Oates. Weirdly there are over a dozen cheap fake compilations of the stuff they were doing separately in the late 60s, but none of the real deal.

That's odd - I can see loads of thir stuff, including 70s albums. Try searching for "Daryl Hall & John Oates" instead of "Hall & Oates".... weirdly, this made a difference on the iPad app.

Ok looks to me like Dary Hall & John Oates has all those fakey compilations, a couple of their 70s albums, and one best of with the 80s singles - but if you look under just Daryl Hall, all their 80s stuff is there. Stupid Spotify.

Search under just "Daryl Hall" and a lot of their 80s stuff comes up

Poor Oates.

Oddly enough this is not the case in MOG, where everything is properly under Hall & Oates.

Before i deleted my account, they didn't have any Ben & Bruno

xp PROPERLY would put it under Daryl Hall & John Oates. Hall & Oates is informal shorthand.

Hey, Spotify. If I happen to make a playlist which contains artists you don't feature, you're not going to hurt my feelings if you just leave that slot blank.

In fact, I would prefer it. I don't know who this is singing "I'm Losing You" from a John Lennon tribute album, but perhaps there is a reason why I didn't have that version in my playlist.

"What Is Life" and possibly 1 or 2 other George songs were recently removed.

Those same 3 or 4 Lennon songs are still streaming however.

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The first one I'm playing is Momentary Lapse because fuiud it's got some of Gilmour's most awesome solos.

pplains, are you saying the original track was later replaced by a cover version or something?

Here are a dozen albums from 2013 that I'd like to hear but haven't gotten around to, since I listen to pretty much everything via Spotify these days and they're not on there:

Bitchin' Bajas, Bitchitronics (Drag City)
Blondes, Swisher (RVNG)
Boards of Canada, Tomorrow's Harvest (Warp)
Bill Callahan, Dream River (Drag City)
Cassie, RockaByeBaby (Bad Boy)
Chance the Rapper, Acid Rap (mixtape)
El-P/Killer Mike, Run the Jewels (Fool's Gold)
The Field, Cupid's Head (Kompakt)
David Grubbs, The Plain Where the Palace Stood (Drag City)
Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog, Your Turn (Northern Spy)
Thundercat, Apocalypse (Brainfeeder)

(I guess not *quite* a dozen, but almost.)

RockaByeBaby is showing up for me, I don't know if this is a UK/US thing

Hmmm, yeah, the only 2013 release for Cassie that I'm seeing is the "Summer of Love" single.

Run the Jewels was a free mixtape, probably some sample clearance issues keeps it off Spotty.

not sure if any Drag City stuff is on Spotify

Cassie's is also a mixtape, check Datpiff

ditto Chance- Acid Rap

wonder why The Beatles are dragging their heels?

Oh, I know I *can* get some of this stuff elsewhere. But Spotify has become so convenient for me as a one-stop shop, and there's a million things I'd like to hear that *are* on there, that I end up just not bothering with the stuff that's not.

yea none of the drag city stuff is on spotify. i did find most of smog/bill callahan's stuff on grooveshark, which you don't need to sign up for. it's a clunky site but i appreciated being able to stream the older smog albums.

Spotify is the act of pretend forgetfulness

2 Beatles songs have been on Spotify for a while, "Misery" and "Besame Mucho."

Hm. Never come across anything actually performed by the Beatles. Usually it is just tributes and covers.

But yeah, those two are there. I hear music divine.

I love Drag City, they are good folks who've released tons of great records over the years, but I can't say I understand the way they seem to be dragging their feet with the digital thing. I mean, fine, you don't really believe Spotify is a good way to get your artists paid fair enough, but I kinda can't believe they are still holding out against mp3 downloads with their vinyl.

Spotify's rates are really shitty.

Like, it isnt even worth it. With the vinyl they probably at least break even for most of their acts.

It's better than receiving $0.00 from mp3 pirates.

If Spotify is still at the half penny per stream payment rate, the equivalent of a million selling, ten-track album at ten average plays per album would mean $500,000 in income with zero overhead.

I mean, I realize that's only 50 cents per album, but maybe the rates will go up if Spotify is able to generate more revenue. Or maybe they won't - maybe that's just a new model.

• The Necks

If you're more likely to buy music if you pirate music (which seems to be the case, right?) and its also true that if you listen to Spotify then you're less likely to buy music (is that true? I'm sure I read somewhere it was) then maybe Drag City have made the call that its better for the bottom line to stay away.

i still find pirating music to be kind of a pain in the ass and in most cases not worth it, especially as a music-discovery tool. you have to do a google search, find some blog that still has working links to the mp3s, then go to some ad-ridden torrent or bullshit MEGAUPLOAD site, download your files, etc. so since drag city doesn't have a relatively easy way to discover its music, the less likely i'm going to take time to explore their artists (and then later go buy their albums). easier discovery of music, for me, means more new music i'm going to listen to (obviously), and the more new music i hear, the more i'm going to buy music.

like i'm not going to spend time pirating some minor bonnie prince billy record to see if i should buy it. it just seems tedious. more likely, i'm just not going hear it until there is an easier way to spend enough time with the album to help me decide it i should buy it.