Acts that are not on Spotify

I can get it four times over on UK Spotify: the full length from Bete Noire & Platinum Collection, and an edit from two other Best Ofs. All three 87-94 albums are also available.

nothing personal, but it's absolutely screaming tittybonkers that if any given three albums are not available for a fraction of a cent on one particular internet subscription service, people's reaction in 2020 is ever "is there some issue?" rather than "those aren't there"

just the shaping of expectations, that if anybody thinks of a record for any reason, the unquestioned default assumption is that it should be on that service in every territory in the world, at all times

I think it's fair to ask the question given that: (A) all the Roxy/Ferry stuff is controlled by the same party, who generally reissue the catalogue en bloc; (B) all of those albums bar the three in question are up on the service; (C) one of those missing albums is one of the artist's most popular; and (D) the hit single from said album was (up until recently) available on a comp on the service. It feels like there's more to this than 'those aren't there', particularly as mike t-diva points out that they are available on the UK site.

No Cookie Crew! Not in the US, at least.

also posted this on the proper spotify topic, but aaliyah's second and third albums aren't on there. that's absolutely criminal.

periodic reminder:

https://www.complex.com/music/2016/12/aaliyahs-music-isnt-online-and-her-uncle-barry-hankerson-is-the-reason-why

jesus what a clusterfuck.

once or twice a month I really wanna listen to you made me realize by the my bloody valentines without going to youtube for it and I wish they'd just let me give them their moneys through the spotify

You realise that’s not how spotify works

No I don't realize that

All the original Brinsley Schwarz lps left the US service recent-ish(?). Couple of comps and a bunch of archival live albums still there. The band's "This Is:" playlist is about half blacked-out tracks now.

That article about Aaliyah, Barry Hankerson, and Blackground is fascinating. I didn’t know any of that stuff (except, unfortunately, the R. Kelly details). Also didn’t realize her last two albums are oop and hard to come by... need to check if I still have the third one, unfortunately I don’t think so.

i mean, it's on youtube but. . . man, would a reissue be nice.

I looked earlier and couldn’t even find it there. Link?

jams for days and days. . .

Thx!

DJ quik & kurupt's "blaqkout"

once or twice a month I really wanna listen to you made me realize by the my bloody valentines without going to youtube for it and I wish they'd just let me give them their moneys through the spotify

if only there were some widely available, portable, physical medium that would enable you to listen to this song in high res audio

if only it was the 21st century

I just noticed INXS, Underneath The Colours, and The Swing aren't on US spotify. I think they used to be? And I wonder why it's just those three*.

(*Elegantly Wasted is also missing, but eh.)

I don't think Elegantly Wasted has ever been up, and the title track is blacked out on whatever comp it's on.

BlaQKout is there for me.

Wonder why the Another View version of “Ride Into The Sun” is greyed out.

Jim Carroll Band: "People Who Died" is on some various artists comps, and that is it.

― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, May 28, 2019 12:16 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

Not sure when this happened, but the Catholic Boy album is up and copyrighted to Fat Possum (instead of original label Atlantic).

Fat Possum put it out on vinyl last year.

All the original Brinsley Schwarz lps left the US service recent-ish(?). Couple of comps and a bunch of archival live albums still there. The band's "This Is:" playlist is about half blacked-out tracks now.

I got Nervous On The Road as an "Album Pick" today, but only five of the ten songs are playable and the album isn't listed in the discography.

Ada Rook has discovered the cheat code to being "on Spotify" while trying to convince ppl not to use it: a little blurb tacked onto every track directing them to Bandcamp

i like that idea. bandcamp charges nothing to store as much as you want. i wish that more lofi and "home musician" types would switch to bandcamp. but then if that happened, they'd probably start charging, so nvm.

Samantha Gilles - Let Me Feel It is one of my favorite songs from the 80s and I’ve been waiting over 5 years for it to show up on spotify.

It's on YouTube Music!

None of Curve's Anxious Records albums

Seems like a lot of Ray Charles stuff is missing. Only 24 albums there, many of them comps. Ray had like 60 studio and live albums.

someone probly said this heat

i dont reckon bean church is on spotify too :((

Just noticed ZZ Top's Deguello has been taken down.

I wish the Swedish twee-ish band Granada were on north american spotify

Ain't Love Grand by X has been taken down.

And on a related tip, I don't think The Blasters Slash recordings have ever been up aside from the 20 tracks on the old Blasters Collection from '90.

Nothing Painted Blue's early stuff is missing

Global Communication: 76:14 is there, Remotion and Pentamerous Metamorphosis ain't.

Those missing Bryan Ferry albums are up/back up!

Alex Jones is back on!

SOS Band and also Imagination have gone through some fairly recent withdrawal of much of their material that was there before. Extremely annoying.

― nashwan, zondag 10 februari 2019 13:30

Imagination is there for me, and has always been afaik.

― breastcrawl, zondag 10 februari 2019 14:37

my heart jumped when I read that re: Imagination but yup they're still there for me too

― ⅋ (crüt), zondag 10 februari 2019 14:53

Imagination's Body Talk album has now disappeared from my (Dutch) Spotify. It was there until very recently :-(

I just noticed INXS, Underneath The Colours, and The Swing aren't on US spotify. I think they used to be? And I wonder why it's just those three

Listen Like Thieves has also been removed.

I frequently rue the dearth of Rudimentary Peni on Spotify.

The first Moby Grape album is mostly greyed-out for whatever reason.

joanna newsom - absent on spotify, i'm not crying about it, but typical when you want to play someone a song...

yeah I think she was one of the few artists exempted when the Drag City catalog finally became available on Spotify

The Steve Albini thread led me to look up the album he did with Page and Plant, and it turns out none of their albums as Page and Plant are on spotify

Frustrating that the first Savath & Savalas album isn't on there. His other stuff is

Remove KLF from thread

BREAKING: 2021 off to shock good start. Overnight The KLF have arrived on streaming services with a Greatest Hits album and all their videos are now on an official YouTube channel. 2021 is so far justified and ancient. https://t.co/ovE2wKfAbi pic.twitter.com/A4Cm3DQz0v

— 📻 Colin Paterson 📺 (@ColinGPaterson) January 1, 2021