Acts that are not on Spotify

wow looking at it now, the og 'set adrift on memory bliss' isn't even on there! that's some serious bullshit. the rest of that album is damn good too.

oof the chameleons strange times isn't there anymore.

Ben Frost has disappeared, except for one early album and soundtracks.

Skee Mask pulled all his music from Spotify
https://ra.co/news/76604

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).

^forgot about this from a year back; went looking for Germs on various streaming platforms and was surprised to find only a few “live” albums.

Neil Young, soon.

He's not exactly known for keeping his promises. And if this is ends up being an idle threat it'll do more harm than good.

I've read he may not be able to pull all his music, as he doesn't have 100% control

Cardiacs' organisation recently took their stuff off Spotify.

yep, neil's mostly gone. that didn't take long. inexplicably, the canterbury house archive series is still there, but some of the songs glitch and just stop playing.

in other news - did you know that the original eddy grant recording of "electric avenue" isn't on there?

spotify committing all sorts of offenses.

I think we discussed Grant at length above

nvm, neil totally gone now.

thanks, gonna go recap.

IIRC Ray Charles's ABC recordings (the stuff he owns post-Atlantic) aren't up there either.

Apologies, should've looked for and expanded the "skipping" link before searching for any mention of Ray Charles.

Most of De La Soul still not there, as I discovered after watching the Spider-Man movie.

Not an act, but a song: Kate Bush's "Experiment IV" isn't on there. It's one of her best; wonder why it's not there.

You can see an artist's entire Spotify catalog, and what regions each release is available in, here:

https://everynoise.com/research.cgi
https://everynoise.com/research.cgi?mode=name&name=kate+bush
https://everynoise.com/artistprofile.cgi?id=1aSxMhuvixZ8h9dK9jIDwL

Thus for Kate we can see that "Experiment IV" is actually available on two different releases, Selection from 'The Other Sides' (2018 Remaster) and The Whole Story, but neither of these are available in the US at the moment. Licensing...

that is cool to know!

over half of the go-betweens catalogue is not there.

looks basically like everything licensed to Beggars is on there, and the earlier / later records (perhaps controlled by the band?) aren't?

Curve is still missing, in the US at least.

xpost: yeah, but forster's later stuff is on there (as is all of mclennan's). just wanted to hear before hollywood for this morning's walk and grrrr.

It's curiously variable by territory, re Go-Betweens. Apart from BYBO, the conventional studio albums are each available SOMEWHERE. eg. https://everynoise.com/artistprofile.cgi?id=4HCubdy7diarb4KZo8etrq

Kinda similar for the solo material, but favouring different territories. eg. I can't access any of the 90s solo LPs whatsoever.
- RF: https://everynoise.com/artistprofile.cgi?id=4yvuCAFk8vERXXBf138h8S
- GM: https://everynoise.com/artistprofile.cgi?id=7tfS18oUEffScrxryTgwyC

^ McLennan's estate people might want to look into that. Even with just one brief compilation of the solo material available in AU, his strongest cities for listeners are apparently still in his country of birth.

CSN have returned, minus the songs written by Young and Joni.

It’s probably just the UK but I’m missing Was (Not Was)‘s two late 80s records What up Dog and Are You Ok, both classics

wtf only just noticed pretty much all the Joni is gone

She removed her catalogue at much the same time Neil Young removed his, back in January.

John Phillips' solo albums have all been removed at some point.

Aside from the Up In Smoke soundtrack, an archival live album, and the "Santa Claus and His Old Lady" single, all of the classic era Cheech & Chong albums are absent from Spotify.

Spotify is noticeably light on comedy albums. Very little Monty Python or Firesign Theater or Richard Pryor. No Eddie Murphy. One album each from Chris Rock and Sam Kinison.

I believe I've said it before but... Eddy Grant

what is the deal

like i'm kinda more mad about that than i am about de la soul at this point. at least i have that stuff on my ipod. plenty of cheap second hand copies of eddy grant stuff on discogs, but i'm not a thousandaire. you can't even buy the og "electric avenue" on like amazon digital. too bad.

also i don't know eddy grant's catalogue nearly as well as de la, so maybe bad comparison because i still have quite a bit of anticipation for eddy grant's music.

Acts that are not on Spotify

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

― Austin, Wednesday, July 18, 2012 11:26 PM (ten years ago)

Whoop!

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/de-la-soul-catalog-spotify-apple-music-streaming-services-1235290216/

excellent news!

yep! we've been geekin out over in De La Soul - Classic or Dud?

Spotify is noticeably light on comedy albums.

Long story here on why:

Last December (2022), Spotify pulled the content of hundreds of comedians, including Kevin Hart and John Mulaney, after it ended licensing negotiations with Spoken Giants, one of the first rights organizations for comedians.

The lawsuits are part of a growing consensus among comedians that streaming platforms need to pay them—as the authors of their jokes—in the same way songwriters are paid royalties for writing lyrics.

I am consistently baffled whenever I look at US Spotify's selection of Let's Active recordings, which consists of:
- Eight 'singles' that are just individual album cuts from 1983's Afoot and 1984's Cypress with the song title superimposed onto the album art (and one, "Waters Part," has the right release year but the wrong album art)
- Nothing off of 1986's Big Plans for Everybody
- Their entire last LP, Every Dog Has His Day, except for one song that is unavailable

...And every release that I mentioned came out on the same label (IRS), so I really have no idea what to make of it all.

Gaetz voted for the Don

wrong thread lol

the first few "tyrannosaurus rex" albums aren't on u.s. spotify. no beard of stars, what a ripoff.

...SUCH A RIPOFF!!!!

That's odd, given that there's a ton of dodgy-looking T.Rex and Bolan stuff on there.

Last December (2022), Spotify pulled the content of hundreds of comedians, including Kevin Hart and John Mulaney, after it ended licensing negotiations with Spoken Giants, one of the first rights organizations for comedians.

Late with this, but thanks for the info!

Pussy Galore's catalog still not on streaming — Spotify has a 16-track sampler that's not mirrored on Tidal, and the Live: In The Red album is on both platforms, but that's it. I thought Matador owned their catalog at this point, so why isn't it out there?

Are there no other Matador releases that aren't on it?

The Techno Animal album Matador put out, The Brotherhood of the Bomb, isn't available. The first and second Unsane albums are.

The sampler (which seems to draw from their albums) says “© ℗ 2017 Pussy Galore,” while Live: In the Red is credited to In the Red Records. So maybe the band does control the studio recordings, and has only authorized the sampler.