Acts that are not on Spotify

Because creating a list together may be useful
Bob Dylan got in there recently, but there are still some big (and some slightly lesser) names lacking.

The Beatles
All solo Beatles apart from Ringo
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Metallica
AC/DC
Frank Zappa
King Crimson
Slade
Tool
Badfinger (apart from the two lesser known Warner albums)
Flower Kings

More?

was gonna say fuckin' flyin a-heads but whoa there they are

Adding Red Hot Chili Peppers. Their 80s albums are in there, but nothing more recent.

I was sure Caetano Veloso and Jorge Ben were absent but now they're there! Anyway:

War
Popol Vuh
Ash Ra Tempel
Perfume
Joanna Newsom
Boredoms
Curtis Mayfield

Everything on 100% Silk, Planet Mu, RVNG, Numero, Sublime Frequencies, Soul Jazz...

kinks, pre-RCA years, which is pretty lol. at least that's how it was last time i checked.

the entire drag city catalog

I think that part of the Kinks catalog is out-of-print period.

Zoviet France

La Monte Young

The Hafler Trio

H.N.A.S.

and so so many more, I continue to laugh bitterly at the starry eyed dreamers who think "everything" is available as a stream.

kinks pre-RCA is '71-Back, and very much in print via Sanctuary/Universal.

Last U.S. CD releases were 1990 and they're not available as downloads on iTunes or Amazon.

I think Sanctuary is administering the Pye/Reprise Kinks rights in the States now. The first three albums were reissued here in the early 2000s via a partnership with BMG. Now they are hooked up with Universal, but perhaps they feel anyne who cares will pick up their imports, which are fairly well distributed here.

You'd think that Universal would want a group as big as the Kinks on iTunes. I wonder if there are other issues.

Oasis, Example, Wretch 32, most Julia Holter.

Roy Harper, except for his debut album.

adele
peter gabriel
momus (creation label era)

Adele has "19" in there, but only the first two singles from "21".

As for The Kinks, "Something Else" is still lacking, but they seem to have most anything else.

Only three Hootie and the Blowfish songs. (Don't ask.)

Peter Gabriel

sorry piscesx, missed your post!

There's some Popol Vuh on there, though one of the playable albums has TAKEDOWN AS PER LABEL REQUEST in the title.

Coil

Also Cosey Fanni Tutti has been pretty vocal about her dislike of Spotify. C&C and TG are in the process of being taken down altogether, I understand.

As for The Kinks, "Something Else" is still lacking, but they seem to have most anything else.

― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Saturday, March 31, 2012 10:07 AM (43 minutes ago)

Maybe in Norway!

Black Sabbath's studio albums with John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne.

they are here in the uk

Red Hot Chili Peppers were added yesterday if you like that kind of thing.

No Rammstein sadly.

I see that the new Peter Gabriel live album is available. Hopefully the rest of his work will follow soon.

Seger

Sugar (and only the Warners Husker stuff.)

None of Def Leppard's popular albums are on there.

i'm not on spotify

only the Warners Husker stuff

No longer true!

That was fast.

Alright, who on this board is from SST?

Sugar's stuff is on there, or at least it was about five days ago. I listened to Copper Blue.

gimme some good news about Seger, guys

It looks like Bureau B, which did a lot of the Sky Krautrock reissues, pulled the rights in the US.

Sandie Shaw. oddly.

King Crimson! Also, more Pink Floyd than a current live album, ffs!

Mainly, there's a Jex Thoth song called "The Banishment" and its melody is almost exactly like the melody line of "Epitaph" but I couldn't cross-compare - at least not in spotify.

A bunch of Peter Gabriel there now

Yellow Magic Orchestra

I just looked and there were only a few odds and sods from Gabriel, certainly no albums.

Kinks seem to be on, plentifully (including Something Else)

King Crimson!

Fripp has determinedly set his face against spotify, the diary on his website has plenty of back-and-forth on this topic.

One album that is on there is "From Good to Great", a tutorial CD by Robt Fripp

No Something Else in US :(

Royal Trux

I just looked and there were only a few odds and sods from Gabriel, certainly no albums

That's weird--I can see all of them (in Australia, anyway)

Boards of Canada
Throbbing Gristle
Severed Heads

all pretty much absent

Only Gabriel that's on Spotify US is that live/orchestra thing from recently.

Greg Kihn.

The fucking DENTISTS. Seriously, Spotify? Yes, a few records are on there. But far from all.

Ulla's album from last year is now greyed out on UK Spotify :(

you can buy it for less than the price of a month's Spotify!

putting your releases on Spotify for a few months here and there might be a more practical use of the service than having everything up regularly

yeah I was gonna say it finally got reissued, see boomkat https://boomkat.com/products/tumbling-towards-a-wall

“finally” lol, well I was really waiting for it anyway

still no catalogue anita baker on us spotify.

the first pj harvey album has disappeared

Christ the soundtrack for Natural Born Killers is a right mess; literally half of it (Patti Smith, Cohen, Jane’s, Cowboy Junkies... ) is missing. Some kind of weird rights issue with the tracks that have dialogue over them perhaps.

The first Verve album has disappeared from streaming services this year.

How is it possible that Ray Charles' Hit the Road Jack is not available on US Spotify?? You'd think it would be the kind of song that's available on a dozen compilations.

a lot of Ray Charles is missing

I always run into the artist whose entire discography is available on Spotify, expect for the album I'm looking for. Marshall Crenshaw's debut for instance.

a lot of Ray Charles is missing

Ah yeah, I should have done a Ctrl-F on the thread before posting. I'm curious whether it's something in common with other ABC label artists or something specific to Ray Charles. I like to imagine there are some high-level negotiations going on, with the estate playing hardball, but the truth is no doubt more mundane.

I also have very little understanding of the rules of when things fall out of copyright. Is it related to when the artist died, or just the date of the recording?

All of Daniel Lopatin's Oneohtrix Point Never stuff is up, but not his Chuck Person ECCOjams.

Is it related to when the artist died, or just the date of the recording?

It's complicated and depends on many factors, including when the work was published, who owns the copyright (individual or corporate entity), etc.

I'm curious whether it's something in common with other ABC label artists or something specific to Ray Charles

It's specific to Ray Charles. When he signed with ABC, his deal gave him-among other things-ownership of his masters. What he was still alive, his people worked out a deal with Rhino for reissue campaign that stalled out after a wave or two of titles (a similar thing happened around the same time with Rhino and Curtis Mayfield & the Curtom catalogue). The Ray Charles Foundation is now working with Concord Records, but all they've put up on Spotify from that era is a single of "Georgia On My Mind" and a Modern Sounds In Country & Western twofer.

That's great detail - thank you.

Glad I could help! On closer inspection, I see also that Genius+Soul=Jazz (Charles's 1961 album on Impulse!) is also up.

Ray has a six disc collection due out in September on tangerine records that will be up on spotify in September
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/y8pntkgn98n9wb0el8ikn/_True-Genius_-Full-Tracklist.docx?dl=0&rlkey=sgfbi25ac7qwsgso1lyqur1yc

very, very unfortunately there is hardly any prime-era Olivia Newton-John on Spotify: yes, her soundtrack hits are there, but apart from those there's just two of her 70s albums and 1985's Soul Kiss.

(the weird thing is that it doesn't seem to be a label thing: it's all MCA. also the stuff that *is* there)

why is it unfortunate?

why are you sic?

??!

beastcrawl, where are you at? I'm seeing most of the 70s albums (but not all) here in the US. Plus we've got Physical.

b*r*eastcrawl is in the Netherlands.

albums I can see:
Have You Never Been Mellow (1975)
Making A Good Thing Better (1977)
Soul Kiss (1985)

missing, along with her other pre-Grease albums, are Totally Hot (1978) and Physical (1981) (“Physical”, the song, is there as part of some random movie’s soundtrack - same goes for “Twist of Fate”).
oh, and half of the Xanadu OS is greyed out, and that includes “Magic”.
(most of her more recent albums are missing as well, but I’m not familiar with those)

there is a compilation called Gold that has all of her hits, but the relevant tracks from those albums are all greyed out here as well

a live album that was the only available source for “A Little More Love” has disappeared after I played it the other week

I’m very upset, as you can understand

apologies for messing up your name!

That's unfortunate. It looks like all the studio albums starting in 1975 are still streaming here, including the Xanadu sdtrk, and what I assume is most or all of what's come after Soul Kiss.

BTW, Hit The Road Jack, along with a whole load of Ray Charles is now on US Spotify.

If you're curious, you can see which of any artist's albums are available in which countries here: https://everynoise.com/artistprofile.cgi?id=4BoRxUdrcgbbq1rxJvvhg9&hide=appears_on

thanx, guess I will have to move to Canada or the US then if I want to fully enjoy ONJ!

Ugh, so much Richard & Linda Thompson unavailable in the US.

ngl i always thought it was beastcrawl too. my b.

sidebar to the main topic here: why are there multiple listings for albums sometimes? like i can get that there's a separate listings for the regular version of an album and then the deluxe edition with all the bonus material. but sometimes i'll see an album just listed twice — the only real difference is that the release year is different (usually the original release and then whenever the remaster came out, i.e. 1972 and then 2006 or something). not really a discrepancy; just mildly confusing.

What that leads to when you're an obsessive 'likers' like me*: you look at the tracklisting, think 'oh, I haven't liked that song', like it, then find out that you'd liked the same song on a duplicate version of the album. That wouldn't be so bad, but then if you spot this and attempt to unlike it to avoid the song appearing twice in your Liked Songs, quite often BOTH versions then disappear from your Liked Songs. It sometimes knows when the track is a duplicate, but sometimes doesn't, perhaps down to whether the bits in the song file are identical. It's a little maddening not knowing how it will behave.

I guess this is tied up with the reason you sometimes get a smattering of songs that aren't grayed out on a complication: presumably Spotify is finding them on a different release that it does have the rights to in your country, and sort of substituting them in. Which I guess is the helpful side of this policy.

*liking every track I like with a view to eventually putting everything in Liked Songs into at least one playlist. I'm very close to having sorted 5,000 songs into their respective year-of-release playlist, for example

also missing: 80s r&b singer O'Bryan (currently *hot* on SMASH HITS singles in the issue 14th of April 1983) - his recent(ish) comeback stuff is there, and (again) Canada and the US have a Greatest Hits album at least, but nothing more - the rest of the world is left empty-handed.

WHERE IS BIZ MARKIE'S GOIN' OFF JESUS CHRIST THIS IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY

I think most of the Biz stuff is OOP/off streaming due to uncleared samples

I mean, some of it is on the best of set that's on there but that is an alltime hiphop classic and it's just not there in its entirety.

Also the original version of Eric B. is President is not on there either. Unbelievble.

i thought the absolutely classic album portrait of cannonball by cannonball adderley wasn't there but that's because i was looking under cannonball adderley and it's listed —along with several other indisputably classic albums— under the cannonball adderley quintet. even though albums like why am i treated so bad! and mercy, mercy, mercy are credited to the same group name on their respective covers but are listed under just cannonball adderley. things that make austin irrationally angry, part ∞. grrr.

The Smithereens: Especially For You isn't up, and all tracks from it are greyed-out on comps. However, you can access an expansive & unique band-sanctioned reissue featuring a live version of the album alongside demos and alternates--everything you could ask for bar the O.G. recordings.

A 1986 release, I imagine this might be copyright reclamation thing.

slim pickings for claudja barry on spotify (in canada anyway)

no Comsat Angels.

Whatever the issue was with parts of the INXS catalogue apparently has been rectified, as it looks like the missing albums are back up, both on their own and in a '80-'93 box set, and Elegantly Wasted (which either was gone for a long time, if it was ever there at all) is available as well.

Why tf are the Biz Markie records no longer on here? I listened to them only a couple months ago

why would you expect them to stay?

I was surprised the only version of "Killing an Arab" by The cure at Spotify is a live version from the Hyde Park Anniversary set. The whole Boys Don't Cry album is unavailable actually.

a) the song might be specifically not available for the same reason that the Hyde Park was a rare example of them singing that lyric in the last thirty years or so

b) that compilation was out of print from 1990 to 2000, and was made redundant* by the deluxe reissues of the studio albums in 2004 - has it ever been available as a digital release in any format / platform?

* although some guy with bennies scorned the mastering of the one exclusive track and posted a vinyl rip to ilx

https://www.newstatesman.com/2018/07/killing-arab-the-cure-single-hyde-park

A Globe of Frogs and Queen Elvis by Robyn Hitchcock don't appear to be on there

That's the albums that are missing, not the songs, which are available

A few Egyptians albums come up under Robyn Hitchcock solo too (it's kind of a mess), but iirc those have always been absent.

There's a bunch of Scientist albums streaming but his most classic ones aren't. There's some weird version of "Rids the World of…" out there instead of the original classic.