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.

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

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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!