Acts that are not on Spotify

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?

No Live Skull (a Homestead/Caroline band). Looks like anyone wanting to get into this slice of the ‘80s rock scene needs to pick up the copious cheap vinyl, like I did 20 yrs. ago!

The Pere Ubu discography on Spotify is very, well, “spotty” (for a fairly major band with lots of albums

Yeah, Live Skull! I used to like them! A big chunk of my youth is missing. :( Kind of sad, makes it harder for the younger folks to check out these bands.

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?

Yeh, I dunno? I actually went looking and found loads of other well-known IRS stuff on the site (Concrete Blonde, Wall of Voodoo, REM, Fine Young Cannibals etc.). And theoretically there shouldn't be a rights issue, as the album was produced under IRS's distro deal w/MCA, who Carlisle moved over to for Heaven On Earth. You can get "Mad About You" and some of the other singles from the album via the two (almost identical btw) Belinda hits comps available on the site.

I don't know about the others, but Concrete Blonde has released all their albums again themselves. I don't know if the rights reverted from IRS and Capitol or not (and does IRS even still functionally exist?). Maybe the Belinda debut is hung up in some limbo somewhere because no one knows where the money goes.

(almost identical btw) Belinda hits comps

this is an idiotic thing to still happen on streaming services

The s/t Live Skull and expanded Cloud One were definitely on Spotify at one point..

does IRS even still functionally exist?

Nope. They initially folded in the mid-'90s under EMI's stewardship, who then revived the label in the early '10s, first as an outlet for Blogger-Indie stuff, and then as a Alt-Country (!) concern that also went quickly under. AFAICT, everything IRS is under the Universal Music umbrella now, due to them owning A&M (who controlled the '85-back catalogue) and EMI ('86-up). FWIW, I noticed on the AMG--not the best source, yes--they credit Belinda as being on EMI International. So you're probably right about nobody know where the money goes within the company.

In other news, I noticed the first two Dramarama LPs (which Rhino reissued w/extras in the '90s) aren't up.

Just saw that "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" by the Walker Bros. is blocked on US Spotify.

Victoria Williams has a few albums out there, but her best, Swing The Statue, isn't.

Paul McCartney's "Spies Like Us" is not on Spotify.

I suppose it's been mentioned already but Dre's The Chronic is still not available.

apple billionaire iirc

yeah but 2001 is on Spotify !
And Murder was the Case is not available while the rest of Snoop's output is...

presumably sample rights issues then? I've been wanting easy streaming access to Murder was the Case for years now...

if you don't mind not paying: whole album, playlist

yeah, i may need to pay for youtube eventually as listening to ads is against my religion... dunno if that's monetized?

anyways, been too long; this sounds great

listening to ads is against my religion

youtube ads are maddening if you're using the app, but if you haven't been using browser adblockers since 2003, catch up!

Good player to get around all the missing stuff, as it pulls from youtube and other sources - mac/pc/linux desktop only though - https://github.com/nukeop/nuclear/releases/tag/v0.4.4

don't know if this is the right thread for this, but at least some of those "deleted" myspace songs (many of which were not on spotify, or really anywhere else) were lying around and are now on archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/myspace_dragon_hoard_2010

(unfortunately, the songs I'm specifically looking for I'm about 0 for 20 on, but there is undoubtedly a lot here)

Yeah The Chronic and Murder are on youtube but it's not very convenient (and the sound quality is not great, I suppose).
That's soooo annoying...

Regarding Aaliyah, that's weird because I'm pretty sure all her albums were available on Spotify for a while...

I've been checking since around 2013 and have only seen one

I'm eternally bummed that there is nothing from Invictus / Hot Wax on Spotify, mp3 or other streaming services (besides YouTube), but that's been an eternal problem. You have to get them via expensive imports in US. Maybe some day....

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Well, Aaliyah was definitely available because... I had it in my Spotify library !

(I mean the album, of course)

David C Lowery
‏@davidclowery
15h15 hours ago

12/x If you have China travel plans. Don't go listening to any of the Tibetan Freedom Concert performances on Spotify.... Oh wait those performances aren't available on Spotify. Odd.