Acts that are not on Spotify

Lamb Lies down on Broadway is on Canadian spotify

Noticed that some different Throwing Muses albums have been added and others may be removed.

Lamb Lies Down is on UK Spotify, too.

It's on US Spotify now too. Maybe they're following our thread.

Anita Baker

Chairmen of the Board

Anita Baker is on Dutch Spotify - nothing post-Rhythm Of Love though

Five Anita Baker albums and a Best Of on UK Spotify. Also loads and loads of Chairmen Of The Board.

Must be a US-only omission?

I see her listed as an artist with only one song from 2012 listed.

But there are at least two dozen playlists listed that include her better-known stuff, even though they don't appear in her profile. It's weird.

The only version of Give Me Just a Little More Time available in the US seems to be a re-recording, iirc. I was so bummed out when I couldn't find the original single!

Here's Giving You the Best that I've Got

Nomeansno. Just the Biafra record, a compilation and the In The Fishtank session.
I've played that compilation album way too much this year, since I don't have a CD player anymore.

Chairmen of the Board

None of the Invictus catalogue is on Spotify except for one Laura Lee album. No Freda Payne, Honey Cone, etc.

The Zwan album doesn't seem to be on there, at least in U.S. (just an unrelated act called "Zwan," with two 2017 releases)

Zwan CD went out of print fast and it's never been available in digital retailers iirc. Corgan is attempting to write it out of history.

Interesting (and too bad, it's a good one...)

"Voodoo Ray" doesn't seem to be on Spotify or Google music.

(in the U.S.)

David Keenan's Wheeler 18

Voodoo Ray is only on a couple of compilations available on UK Spotify but this sort of thing changes all the time and none of Gerald's albums before Essence appear.

Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss

The S.O.S. Band. Their two last albums without Mary Davis are there, and “Take Your Time (Do It Right)” is available as part of a soundtrack album, but there’s nothing from their Jam & Lewis heyday.

However, on Spotify’s own playlist for them, all the big songs are there, but they’re greyed out for me. What’s the deal with that? Are they accessible in some countries but not in others? (I’m in the Netherlands myself). And if so, why? I want to listen to their “beatbox ballads” (as they’re apparently called)!

SOS Band and also Imagination have gone through some fairly recent withdrawal of much of their material that was there before. Extremely annoying.

Iirc that Pantha Du Prince album got deleted due to an uncleared sample in Saturn Strobe

Bright Phoebus by Lal & Mike Waterson was on Spotify but removed a few moths ago

Imagination is there for me, and has always been afaik.

xps to nashwan

my heart jumped when I read that re: Imagination but yup they're still there for me too

I noticed a while back that some of Alexander O'Neal's stuff had gone from UK SPotify (Hearsay is back but the s/t album isn't), his stuff is owned by the same label as S.O.S. band (Tabu).

Kind of a weird one here, but the original recording of Joe Walsh's "All Night Long" from the Urban Cowboy soundtrack isn't on Spotify (or, iirc, iTunes). Live versions with the Eagles and on his own from 2016 are up tho.

It's hard finding a few of those Urban Cowboy songs.

weird, i thought i posted in this thread a couple of days ago.

i can't find a single album by the incredibly prolific jazz saxophonist steve lacy, who put out albums on dozens of record labels. there is a steve lacy in spotify but it's not the same guy, and none of the "real" steve lacy's albums are misfiled under him. i find this bizarre!

I've def listened to his monk album on Spotify before, maybe a temporary/regional rights thing

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1BEsuwAkTQMG50TeHB5qny?si=jv9tufMlSR-qF7thQ3PmTw

there it is! i dunno - now when i search for him i see a list of alternative artists with that name and he's right there. i must have overlooked it somehow. really weird though, i thought i had scoured those search results.

thanks!

I noticed yesterday there's a lot more Laurie Anderson on US Spotify than there has been in the past, but I dunno how long it's been there.

It bums me out when young producers have or use the same name as jazz musicians, and then eclipse them in terms of profile (Steve Lacy, Bob Moses, Richard Davis, etc).

(young Steve Lacy is cool though)

It bums me out when young producers have or use the same name as jazz musicians, and then eclipse them in terms of profile (Steve Lacy, Bob Moses, Richard Davis, etc).

Funny; I was looking up Irish blues-rock guitarist Rory Gallagher the other day and now there's some house/techno artist with that name who's put out about a half dozen singles and EPs with super generic cover art.

Belinda Carlisle has only four regular LPs up: Her two most recent (the Yoga one and the French one); Runaway Horses; and Heaven On Earth. You can probably shrug off the '90s albums, but it's weird that her solo debut--which was a pretty big record--is MIA on the service.

why, is everything else IRS released on Spotify?

The Go-Gos' albums are! (not the reunion one tho)

that is weird then, as you’d guesspect her first solo was on the same contract

maybe she thinks it sucks & asked for it to go OOP?

Sad that so much Homestead and other indie I listened to in the 80s isn't on there (Happy Flowers, Breaking Circus). A few years back, I lost most of my LPs and cassettes through flood and mold and don't feel like replacing everything.

I heard the Homestead guy trashed a bunch of the master tapes(?) Like when Sebadoh III was reissued, they had to use a 2nd-generation source for the master (which is f’in tragic — for that of all albums). I wonder if that has anything to do w/it.

Why is The Predator missing "We Had to Tear this Motherfucker Up"?

xp One of my favorite ‘80s “indie” bands, Das Damen, is represented by the three SST releases in the middle of their catalog; but their debut is absent (it was on Ecstatic Peace, but I think SST reissued it), as is their great final LP (on Twin/Tone) and the 1991 Sub Pop EP that closed out their career.

None of Death of Samantha’s albums (all on Homestead) appear. Only a 2013 LP of re-recordings

Thankfully, Dinosaur Jr.’s debut (a Homestead release) is there.

Can’t find Skunk (just other bands called Skunk). Is Twin/Tone not represented at all?