Acts that are not on Spotify

I don't think any of Aaliyah's albums have been in the digital realm besides Age Ain't... because of who holds the rights.

Well, I guess around the time I started using it (2013)...
Actually, I still have the album "Aaliyah" in my library (or at least, some kind of "shadow" of the album : its cover, title and many of the track although some appear "not available") !

aaliyah records came and swiftly went from spotify a few times in some countries but iirc it was a case of someone claiming they had the rights then it being proved that they didn't

Downtown Science

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6avHw4F4js

I heard the De La Soul albums are coming soon

Ceramic Hobs (just one song in a comp)
The Ghostwriters (Charles Cohen & Jeff Cain)

A few Split Enz albums are missing (including True Colours).

Can’t find “There’s Some Whores In This House”!

Went looking for ‘Eurovision’ by Telex and there’s not much by them available.

Virginia Astley is almost entirely absent from Spotify. For shame.

that’s a p gross and entitled thing to say. she doesn’t owe anybody free access to her work.

I didn't mean shame on her, just that it's a shame Gardens... isn't on there. Anyway, it's the whole premise of this thread isn't it?

comsat angels are absent from u.s. spotify aside from two weird comps

John Zorn in general

yep! discovered this when i was in the mood for naked city recently. painkiller *is* on spotify though (i guess bc their records were on earache)

oh and i see i should've searched for the comsat angels itt too

I didn't mean shame on her, just that it's a shame Gardens... isn't on there. Anyway, it's the whole premise of this thread isn't it?

Astley presumably controls 90% of her catalogue though

then again this appears to be there in the US?

Being called gross and entitled is my favourite way to start a Saturday.

Yeah sic, that was pretty Afro, lol

*aggro! (LOL)

FP my phone for racism

Jim Carroll Band: "People Who Died" is on some various artists comps, and that is it.

Somehow, 2pac’s « California love » (single version) which was available until a few weeks ago has now disappeared.

About 30% of albums nominated for the current ambient poll are not on Spotify. Records by Fripp & Eno, Zoviet France, Andrew Chalk, Hiroshi Yoshimura, La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela, Organum, Thomas Köner, Klaus Weise and Tetsu Inoue, for example. Not necessarily surprising...

AMM.
They have 4 Keith Rowe recordings, but funnily the profile photo is not him but a reggae singer with the same name.

Slade are finally on it.

First Belinda Carlisle album was added recent-ish.

I'm not a Tool fan but apparently they were one of the "last holdouts": https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/30/20746735/tool-music-spotify-apple-music-digital-streaming

The dams are breaking

lots of classic electronic from pre-2000 is missing from spotify for whatever reason

nearly all music ever made is missing from Spotify for whatever reason

Joanna Newsom is still keeping out. And De La Soul, the latter apparently against their own wish (samples trouble). Jay-Z will largely stay on Tidal as long as Tidal exists (which might not be long). Split Enz are only available in Oz and Telex just disappeared. Captain Beefheart is in there, but nøt his most famøus album.

Those names (perhaps save for Ee La Soul) are a good bit more marginal though.

Besides Slade and Tool, King Crimson aøso recently got there. Apparently nøt Fripp aolo though.

Samples not really the reason for the De La Delay (why would it affect p much every track in your catalogue).

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.

― Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Friday, March 30, 2012 7:53 PM (seven years ago)

these are all still not-on-Spotify, afaik

Certain Split Enz albums are up in America.

Samples not really the reason for the De La Delay (why would it affect p much every track in your catalogue).

Tommy Boy's streaming deal was 90% to Tommy Boy, 10% to De La. De La objected to this publicly and urged people to listen to the two non-Tommy Boy albums that are on Spotify (no idea why Geir thinks they aren't on it); Tommy Boy appear to have said "fuck it, you can't have anything then."

De La also released their old albums for free

I can also see more recent De La Soul albums there.

nearly all music ever made is missing from Spotify for whatever reason

can't be posted enough

De La also released their old albums for free

not really. they downloaded their own albums from a Russian pirate site and put them in a zip file, once.

I can't think of any seminal act whose work is more criminally unknown/unavailable

Possibly stretching the term 'seminal' here, but Dave Clark's handling of the Dave Clark Five catalogue by keeping it off the market has been astonishingly dumb. Although I see now that a hits album and a few LPs finally went up on Spotify this year.

surprised not to find 70s east mids comedy folk group Roaring Jelly on there in some form but no great loss except unsatisfied nostalgia

put them in a zip file, once

like, they didn't even notice there were no ID3 tags

xxxpost well yeah but I doubt Tommy Boy was happy about that

I doubt Tommy Boy gaf

Laurie Anderson's Big Science was unavailable for a long time but last month I noticed it's up.

huggybear

Hugo Largo

a lot of groups missing albums-- only the first two Budgie records are there