Spotify - anyone heard of it?

I respect Drag City's position honestly

As little as I care about listening to the Beatles myself, I'm sort of happy that I can now play them for my kids without some sort of oldfangled musical disc aparatus.

Um, I think Neil Young and Prince are on Spotify in the US btw -- are you in the UK?

anyone happen to know the legalities of uploadeing a parody track to Spotify?

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There are loads of "cover" versions, i.e. with band names that are sooooo similar to the real name, I believe actual Parody tracks are covered by the Free Speech regulations.

xp they are not on Spotify in the US (well, there are a few terrible Geffen-era NY records)

Unless it changed recently, I am sure that I have listened to a bunch of classic Neil Young and Prince records on Spotify.

prince used to be on there but not for like a year now iirc

yea it changed they are no longer there

looks like Beatles 1, red album, blue album, past masters and the core original albums. no BBC or Anthologys yet. also no Mono? weird.

xp mark g thanks!

spotify mysteriously uninstalled itself from my mac

No Domino Records either, I think.

I think I would jump ship for whatever service got the full Tzadik catalog.

Streaming has ended for me. I hope this is ok for my fans. It's not because of the money, although my share (like all the other artists) was dramatically reduced by bad deals made without my consent. It's about sound quality. I don't need my music to be devalued by the worst quality in the history of broadcasting or any other form of distribution. I don't feel right allowing this to be sold to my fans. It's bad for my music. For me, It's about making and distributing music people can really hear and feel. I stand for that. When the quality is back, I'll give it another look. Never say never.

Streaming is the worst audio in history. If you want it, you got it. It's here to stay. Your choice. Copy my songs if you want to. That's free. Your choice. All my music, my life's work, is what I am preserving the way I want it to be. It's already started. My music is being removed from all streaming services. It's not good enough to sell or rent. Make streaming sound good and I will be back.

- Bernard Shakey

i thought spotify was playing music on Ogg Vorbis format at 320Kbps? or at least for premium? personally speaking i can't hear the difference between a FLAC and 320.

in another quote neil said that it was worse sound quality than AM radio so i mean...also neil is an insane person fwiw

neil you can hook nicer speakers up to your laptop man

once you go PONO you can't go back

I think Spotify on its higher quality settings sounds pretty good, no idea what he's talking about tbh.

And I'm one of those people that complains about the shitty cymbal sound in mp3's.

yeah like i said 1) he's still trying to sell a competing device & service and 2) dude's blasted his ears w/crazy horse for decades

Laptops are the worst computing in history.

domino was there as recently as this week in the us, as my billion ffs listens can testify

Whoops, must have been thinking of some other label. My bad.

solo john, paul, george, ringo all there too (last time i checked, paul was and george wasn't)

the worst quality in the history of broadcasting or any other form of distribution.

Has he just heard kids playing music through their phones on the bus and thinks that's what streaming is?

He's like the coffee shop that won't make my latte with skim milk because they think it is the worst quality in the history of milk or any other form of dairy.

Except they also won't believe you that not all milk is skim milk.

solo john, paul, george, ringo all there too (last time i checked, paul was and george wasn't)

xp or that they are the only one with the whole milk toblerone

I don't need my music to be devalued by the worst quality in the history of broadcasting or any other form of distribution.

This is how I feel about Beatles remasters too.

I had a bunch of Prince albums saved back when his catalog was online, now they are still on my list but when I click to open them they're empty :(

I wonder if there's a plan to add the Beatles anthologies to Spotify?

Look, the Beatles stuff is showing plays of <1000 right now. So stop reading this thread, go to Spotify, and let's get You Know My Name (Look Up the Number) to #1 asap.

Ha, believe it or not, that is exactly what I did just before clicking on this thread and reading your post.

Played that tune on Spotify, to clarify.

You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)?

See, I told you all Spotify's sorting methods were fucked up.

xp Yea I was kinda hoping I could hear "Not Guilty" or "Leave My Kitten Alone." Guess not.

Yup, I was hoping to hear the "Sugarplum Fairy" version of "A Day In Life."

the weirdo xmas fanclub collages woulda been cool today but they were never commercially released in any form so i wouldn't expect that out of nowhere.

It's insane they haven't released those.

counterpoint: streaming does suck actually ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The artist bio for the Beatles is pretty wonderful at the moment. I hope people are taking screen shots. Apparently Mark Ronson is a big fan of their chart-topping sin-gles. Tom Petty liked them too.

I'll never forget the time when Skrillex said, "The Beatles sin-gles, and this is irrefutably true, invented everything I take for granted."

Lol.

Kevin Howlett, I'm glad you were chosen to introduce the world to the Beat-les on this moment-ous occasion.

I think we can all agree with Kevin Howlett that Tom Petty summed the Beatles up best, "We grew up with the Beatles and grew up trusting them. They could have chosen to do anything, and they chose to do good, which is a great example for the rest of us." I'm going to spend Christmas eve thinking about those words, and I hope you will too.

marianas trench deep

B-b-but what did Bobby Gillespie say about them?

"The six new songs in the film and the number one 'Hello, Goodbye' completed a momen-tous year of recording. Three more tracks from 1967 remained unreleased until they were heard in the movie Yellow Submarine premiered in 1968. The film's imaginative animation evoked the 'psychedelic' spirit of Sgt. Pepper to reveal the triumph of Love over Evil."

It's like you're in an office thinking, "who should write about the Beatles to introduce them to the huge new Spotify audience on this momentous occasion when the biggest band in the history of rock and roll makes their catalog available for streaming?" Greil Marcus. Nah, he'd just go on about the Futurist Manifesto. Thomas Pynchon? Nah, he'd never write liner notes. Hey wait, what about Kevin Howlett!

Ha exactly. I was considering posting "Who wrote that? Mark Lewisohn? Richie Unterberger?"