Acts that are not on Spotify

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.

Royal Trux
No Drag City at all.

Right, no Bob Seger. So I went out and bought the CDs because Spotify makes me want to own everything.

If you aren't buying Seger on LP (and 45, actually) you are missing some of his best stuff!

"Mary Lou Mary Lou she took my diamond ring..."

I had the Seger 45s as a kid. I loved "Against the Wind" and "Still the Same". How they would sound today, I don't know.

Did you have "2+2=?" "Heavy Music" and "East Side Story" though?

No.

More eighties bands. I wanted to hear "Real Life" for example.

yeah still no Gabriel proper in the UK.

Pain in the ass. I just watched that "Classic Albums" thing on So and wanted to listen to it. Ugh, not on spotify. I actually had to go dig around my hard drive for mp3s! Felt like the stone ages.

That's totally how I feel when stuff isn't on there. I've often wondered if the Spotify's of the world will move from a flat fee pricing structure to one based more on usage -- ie, where my wife would pay a lower fee for her account but I pay more because I listen more. That would still work out for me -- I mean, $120/yr. is chump change compared to what I used to pay for records.

Along the same lines, I wonder if higher demand artists will end up basically end up getting a higher royalty per listen than others as these models develop.

I wonder if higher demand artists will end up basically end up getting a higher royalty per listen

I might be wrong but I think that's basically what's happening now. Or at least on a per-record-label basis. Not sure about per-artist.

I think that's the case already, isn't it? That major labels are getting higher payouts? I suppose it's justified in theory by the fact that Spotify gets more plays per labor hour (just with uploading and whatever else they need to do) compared with smaller labels.

xp

But it must still not be more than they get w CD sales -- otherwise, Gabriel/Pink Floyd/etc. would already be doing it, right?

I might be wrong but I think that's basically what's happening now. Or at least on a per-record-label basis. Not sure about per-artist.

the problem is that Spotify won't be able to sustain their business model if they have to start actually paying artists

xp i feel you Johnny; that's exactly what stoked my interest. really great doc that.

There are only 3 Shalamar tracks up:(

Shalamar is the bomb. I am thinking of getting premium soon, but would fork over even more if I could have better selection plus less re-recorded crap.

I upgraded to whatever the ad-free status is a while back and haven't regretted it. Thinking of stepping up to the one that allows mobile device streaming because I just got an iphone. Road trips will no longer involve burning a lot of mp3 cds!

Shakey, they have like almost everything already so I don't get "not going to be able to sustain it."

Loads of Shalamar in the UK...

Frank Zappa

Really wishing he had ANYTHING on there right now.

selecter's 'celebrate the bullet' is not on spotify to my annoyance right now

Cortney Tidwell's first album is on Spotify, as is her collaborative album with Kurt Wagner, but not her 2009 album Boys. Wonder why.

I guess the Smithereens are doing one of those gradual catalogue reclamation things, because Green Thoughts currently isn't up.

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.

― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, September 30, 2020 9:34 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

This situation changed a couple weeks ago, as that old Slash comp has been replaced by a new 21-track set with a slightly different tracklisting called Mandatory: The Best of... which is copyrighted to "Liberation Hall" and sounds so much better than that old set.

So maybe those albums will follow?

...and speaking of old bands that used to be on Slash, X has gotten rights to and re-uploaded the Live At The Whisky album from '88, pretty much completing their catalogue reclamation, bar Hey Zeus, and I don't think they themselves even care about that one. The second Knitters album also has been removed, but that one was on Bloodshot, so that one might be transitioning back to the band as that label crash unfolds.

The Germs are still MIA (geddit?) aside from the same old dodgy comps and the Rhino Handmade edition of Live At The Starwood (Darby's last show).

I heard a New Colony Six song tonight on ye olde Satellite Radio, and thought to check them out on Spotify, only to find their first two indie label Garage-era albums are up (courtesy of Numero Group!?!?!), but not the later Sunshine Pop stuff on Mercury.

Cortney Tidwell's first album is on Spotify, as is her collaborative album with Kurt Wagner, but not her 2009 album Boys. Wonder why.

I have wondered about this myself, since Boys is on City Slang, the same label that released the KORT album.

Barely any Go-Betweens!

Yeah, certain albums kind of come and, um, go. Many gone for the time being.

Rodney Crowell's Diamonds & Dirt is greyed-out except some tracks that are also on a Greatest Hits comp. A 1988 title, I imagine this might be another copyright reclamation thing.

^^I just listened to the Crowell ep of WTF, and Maron brings up how hard that album is to find online now (not available on other streamers either); Crowell just talks around that, mentioning that it was a successful record from before he was really good.

Hey Now Hey Now Now

https://www.billboard.com/business/streaming/neil-young-music-returning-spotify-1235631717/

In a new post on his Neil Young Archives website, the legendary artist said the end of Spotify’s exclusive deal with Rogan led to his decision to restore his music to the service. “My decision comes as music services Apple and Amazon have started serving the same disinformation podcast features I had opposed at Spotify,” the post reads – a clear reference to the Joe Rogan Experience, though Young never mentions it by name.

“I cannot just leave Apple and Amazon, like I did Spotify, because my music would have very little streaming outlet to music lovers at all, so I have returned to Spotify, in sincere hopes that Spotify sound quality will improve and people will be able to hear and feel all the music as we made it,” Young continued, before shouting out Qobuz and Tidal, where his catalog also lives, as “High res” streaming options.

Didn’t Spotify still pay Rogan a huge amount of money to keep producing disinformation? (The fact that it’s not exclusive is even worse, from a certain point of view!)

Not to police Young’s decision-making, but the decision (and rationale) is… surprising, I guess, after the stand he took.

At some point since it was last brought up, GI by the Germs has been added (credited to Slash & Rhino, BTW).

Wow, you’re right (it’s on the other services too)

Cardiacs are back up, except for Archive Cardiacs (a compilation from their first two cassette-only releases).

Annoying when an album has certain tracks greyed out. In the UK right now, Perverted By Language is missing Eat Y'Self Fitter and Smile and they're not available on any other release either. Licensing weirdness.

Yeah, that's annoying. I can understand it for compilation albums but always seems odd when it's an artist album and just a couple of tracks are greyed out 🤷‍♂️

Joni’s catalog has returned.

the first steve tibbetts album isn't there. someone needs to jump on that reissue. that fucken album... wheee-hooo, what a ride!

xpost re:randomly unavailble/greyed out stuff-
"what are their names" on the first david crosby album is still unplayable in the usa. i thought maybe his passing would prompt something getting sorted, but no. not even on the deluxe edition.

“Prelude to a Kiss” by Sonny Rollins from the Old Flames album is greyed out on Qobuz and Apple Music

xp Spotify takes a hard anti-doxxing line. It’s on Tidal though.

j-zone connection on the new vw (lol j-zone! nice!) made me look him up. big sigh.

xpost re:randomly unavailble/greyed out stuff-
"what are their names" on the first david crosby album is still unplayable in the usa. i thought maybe his passing would prompt something getting sorted, but no. not even on the deluxe edition.

Yeah, looks like the full album is available finally

The Caretaker. Now available on Spotify!

wow!

might pan out well for him tbh some of those algorithmic ambient lists might work for him