Acts that are not on Spotify

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

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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

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I see a comp up called Solid State Logik

yeah, that’s the one

Eddy Grant is on Spotify but "Electric Avenue" is not -- why?

Is the rest of the 2008 Deluxe Edition of the album available in your territory, just not that song?

https://open.spotify.com/album/31PZoM7xs7wuWL9wLZ6KTw

^that entire album is greyed out for me (here in the US)

four songs from this comp are greyed out, including "Electric Avenue"

searching for the track just brings up the same track name used by other artists (I assume some are covers?)

(also can't find the Grant track on YouTube Music or Tidal, fwiw)

gonna go out on a wild limb of speculation and imagine that Spotify used to have the album but its license has expired or been withdrawn

three minutes ago, the radio was playing Dynamite by BTS. Now it is playing an advertisement for car insurance -- why?

All four greyed-out songs were originally released on Grant's own ICE label, and the CD version of that comp credits both ICE and what appears to be a compilation-only licensing company of Grant's, so maybe he specifically withdrew the license from Mercury.

It's on UK Spotify but only on a Best of Jamaica comp and spelled as Electric Avennue

that’s not the real Eddy Grant tho

Several Grace Jones albums on Spotify, but not Slave to the Rhythm, frustrating.

Ah i did wonder, what with the spelling xp

yeah, you got my hopes up there for a sec!

I don't think The Blasters Slash recordings have ever been up aside from the 20 tracks on the old Blasters Collection from '90

I wonder if there is some issue with Spotify and Slash Records, as the first Knitters album and the Germs' GI/MIA aren't up (the only Germs' stuff up are dodgy-looking posthumous releases and a few studio cuts on V/A comps).

why would there have to be an issue?

Slash has worked with a few different other labels for production and/distribution, with some stuff ending up on the shelf with different licencees than they started out with (X owning their first two albums, early Violent Femmes stuff now with Concord Music Group).

Fear's The Record, most recent reissue on Slash in 2018, P and C to Slash on Spotify

The Blasters, on Slash in 1981 but m/d by WB with Warner cat#s from 1982, last reissue in 2010 on an indie reissue label but m/d by Rhino with (P) to Warner. P and C to Slash on Spotify but "marketed by Rhino"?!

Slash has a distro deal with Rhino. The Blasters albums on the label were collected with unreleased tracks in a two-disc collection from Rhino, and iirc individual album reissues were briefly available from Wounded Bird.

I could see the Germs' stuff (which Rhino once handled) possibly reverting to the band and/or their handlers. Rhino eventually handled the first two X albums but never reissued the Knitters album (the CD was from Slash/London), so maybe that went back to the band too.

What I'm saying is there's a lot of Slash stuff on the service that's administered by parties friendly with Spotify (Rhino, Warner Bros.), but since the case isn't as clear on those titles I named, perhaps there was something to it.

In related news, I see X's Ain't Love Grand is back up and credited to the band's own label, so they got the rights back on that one.

yeah but Fear seems to be owned totally by Slash - the 2018 LP reissue even has the 1981 cat # on it.

the "?!" = what sort of marketing spend and manhours is AT&T putting into advertising that this old Blasters album is available on Spotify

Rhino send a press release announcing they're moving all their digital releases to be HBO Max exclusives, 15 minutes before AT&T firing everyone who works for Rhino

SYNERGY

FWIW, the Spotify version of that Blasters album is half greyed out for some unknown reason.

Wendy Carlos

MBV; entirely removed. Is that a new thing?

Yeah, I noticed that also, everything My Bloody Valentine has once again disappeared from Spotify. I think Kevin Shields is the one to blame in this case.

https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/dwight-yoakam-guitars-cadillacs-tracks-removed-amid-lawsuit/

Dwight Yoakam has a section 203 case against Warner (re: getting copyrights back after 35 years), which makes me think X and their people are reacquiring/have reacquired that Knitters album, as they've very active using section 230 to get their albums back, and it now meets the criteria.

"they've been very active"

MBV have been off UK Spotify for quite a while. Loveless and Isn't Anything both still on US Spotify.

Euro Spotify only shows two remix tracks, all other My Bloody Valentine is gone.

I think Kevin Shields is the one to blame in this case.

there is no blame

Not MBV just in general but I've never quite understood how some studio albums have a number of tracks greyed out whilst others on the album aren't. Are tracks licensed individually then?

Like it makes sense that it happens on compilations albums by various artists but always puzzled me why it sometimes happens on studio albums by one artist

Probably different publishing agreements for songs with different writers?

Spotify can link up the same recording across multiple albums, so sometimes when you see a mix of available and grayed-out tracks on an album, it's because THAT album isn't available in your region at all, but the non-grayed songs also appear on some other album (or compilation) that IS available, so Spotify is still allowed to play them.

(But yes, song-by-song licensing issues do happen, too.)

looks like no acts are on Spotify at the moment, at least for me. trying to listen to the ILM top 77 tracks playlist and it will only play like 10 seconds of a track then it just stops.

so i wanted to hear the david axelrod remix of unkle's "rabbit in your headlights" and not only is it not on spotify, i can't find it available anywhere to hear online. the single is cheap on discogs, but what the hell?

so i wanted to hear the david axelrod remix of unkle's "rabbit in your headlights" and not only is it not on spotify,

well, until now, i had no idea such a thing existed (its not obvious from discogs listings ..).
i have the underdog version, but still.
thanks for ruining my evening.

but what the hell?

the majority of recorded music is not available to hear online