Acts that are not on Spotify

Poking into a little corner of stuff I'm interested in -- I find almost no Henry Cow (just a Peel Session), no Art Bears, very little Bob Drake, no Hail/Susanne Lewis, etc. A good amount of Fred Frith, but mostly albums from the 2000s. Is it possible that the ReR/Cuneiform scene is not generally represented on Spotify?

Btw - French Frith Kaiser Thompson's "Life, Love, Larf & Loaf" (one of my favorite albums!) is actually on here -- but credited to "By various artists," so hard to find unless you search one of the song titles...

Most of them seem to be on Apple Music.

iProg

Henry Cow would be a nice addition. They're a band I'd like to be more familiar with.

I am perpetually annoyed that I cannot put Wiley & Ms. D - "Heatwave" in my pop funtimes playlist.

Roger Miller's catalogue is very spotty. Mostly comps. Maybe it all got divvied up to different labels at some point?

Peter Gabriel albums arriving next week. https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/05/peter-gabriel-spotify/

o wau

I haven't been this excited since "Midnight Blue" on Lou Gramm's Ready or Not album, which was forever grayed out, became streamable. I'm not even kidding.

praise geir

if i touch the little microphone and say "fuck off", will the app stop asking me to use voice control?

Bikini Kill (except select tracks on the Punk Singer soundtrack)

Mickey by Toni Basil is not on Spotify for some reason.

it is in the uk.

might have something to do with her lawsuit:

Basil claims that a company called Razor & Tie Direct has been illegally licensing her song and image without her consent for decades, due to numerous rights transfers that she also allegedly did not authorize.

A thread revive reminded me to check, and there's a lot more High Llamas on Spotify now than the last time I looked.

How come Lamb Lies Down is the only Genesis album not on the service?

Hole’s Live Through This is still missing while all the rest is available. Annoying.

Almost like an empty cavity that is surrounded by other ample materials.

xp Weird, Live Through This is on US spotify

PM Dawn

How come Lamb Lies Down is the only Genesis album not on the service?

Yeah this is odd, 'Acts that have one album missing from Spotify even though the rest of their back catalogue is on there' is definitely a thing, some others I've noticed:

Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey
Saves the Day - Stay What You Are
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica

Just noticed My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is finally on there. Hooray!

bet it's not the proper version

Live Through This is also on Euro spotify

bet it's not the proper version

noticed, based on p4k's recent sunday review, that Clube De Esquina isn't available in full on Spotify. side 4 is chopped off, most prominently

Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is, oddly, on Tidal for some reason

Lamb Lies down on Broadway is on Canadian spotify

Noticed that some different Throwing Muses albums have been added and others may be removed.

Lamb Lies Down is on UK Spotify, too.

It's on US Spotify now too. Maybe they're following our thread.

Anita Baker

Chairmen of the Board

Anita Baker is on Dutch Spotify - nothing post-Rhythm Of Love though

Five Anita Baker albums and a Best Of on UK Spotify. Also loads and loads of Chairmen Of The Board.

Must be a US-only omission?

I see her listed as an artist with only one song from 2012 listed.

But there are at least two dozen playlists listed that include her better-known stuff, even though they don't appear in her profile. It's weird.

The only version of Give Me Just a Little More Time available in the US seems to be a re-recording, iirc. I was so bummed out when I couldn't find the original single!

Here's Giving You the Best that I've Got

Nomeansno. Just the Biafra record, a compilation and the In The Fishtank session.
I've played that compilation album way too much this year, since I don't have a CD player anymore.

Chairmen of the Board

None of the Invictus catalogue is on Spotify except for one Laura Lee album. No Freda Payne, Honey Cone, etc.

The Zwan album doesn't seem to be on there, at least in U.S. (just an unrelated act called "Zwan," with two 2017 releases)

Zwan CD went out of print fast and it's never been available in digital retailers iirc. Corgan is attempting to write it out of history.

Interesting (and too bad, it's a good one...)

"Voodoo Ray" doesn't seem to be on Spotify or Google music.

(in the U.S.)

David Keenan's Wheeler 18

Voodoo Ray is only on a couple of compilations available on UK Spotify but this sort of thing changes all the time and none of Gerald's albums before Essence appear.

Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss

The S.O.S. Band. Their two last albums without Mary Davis are there, and “Take Your Time (Do It Right)” is available as part of a soundtrack album, but there’s nothing from their Jam & Lewis heyday.

However, on Spotify’s own playlist for them, all the big songs are there, but they’re greyed out for me. What’s the deal with that? Are they accessible in some countries but not in others? (I’m in the Netherlands myself). And if so, why? I want to listen to their “beatbox ballads” (as they’re apparently called)!