Acts that are not on Spotify

The first five or six De La Soul albums are not on there.

wait, so, even if you pay for a subscription the long tracks aren't on there? i figured it was just something for free accounts. mog has all the long tracks.

It can't be song length... the re-issue of Dopesmoker is up there and its a 60+ minute track;

I haven't tested this theory but is it the tracks that are only available on itunes if you buy the full album? Seems like it could be a default setting from some distributors that no-one's changed.

The first five or six De La Soul albums are not on there.

Only "Me, Myself & I"... THANKS SPOTIFY.

I have a vague recollection that the no-long-tracks issue was specific to (or most common with) Universal-related albums?

https://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/long_songs_are_missing

longest track i can think of on a commercial CD from recent(ish) times is Goldie's Mother from Saturnz Return which clocks in at 71 minutes and 53 seconds.
it's present and correct on Spotify uk.

They might be trying to negotiate for higher per-stream payments for long tracks? Would make sense.

Cannot find proper version of Freda Payne's "Band of Gold"

Holland, Dozier, and Holland still own the Invictus catalog. Looks like the last thing to come out were some artist comp CDs in 1996.

What about the Chairmen of the Board comp in the early 2000's?

Yeah, [urlhttp://www.amazon.com/Best-Chairmen-Board-Ten/dp/B0000641A8/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1342895778&sr=1-3&keywords=chairmen+of+the+board]this one? Maybe they licensed it out for that EMI "Ten Best Series."

Yeah, this one? Maybe they licensed it out for that EMI "Ten Best Series."

OK. That comp is not on Spotify either, although "Give Me Just A Little More Time" is because it was on some soundtrack.

(Of course nobody said that comp was on Spotify)

Yeah, it's not on iTunes either.

Cannot find me no muslamic ray guns on Spotify.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIPD8qHhtVU

Placebo!

Not that ILM cares, but the Eagles.

Some days you're just in the mood for "These Shoes", I get it.

"Those Shoes". Whatever.

Album that is not on Spotify: Heat Treatment, by Graham Parker. Listening to Stick To Me instead

Art Bears (anything from Chris Cutler's label, really)

Metallica now on Spotify, Lars Ulrich making the announcement with a Napster co-founder at his side

The principle behind that being...?

Annoyingly, only 1 Died Pretty album is on there.

McCartney and Wings = BACK! it happened at the start of December supposedly, only just noticed.

manilla road was there for while, and now... nada.

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

McCartney and Wings = BACK! it happened at the start of December supposedly, only just noticed.

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