Acts that are not on Spotify

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

also missing:

Van Morrison- Tupelo Honey
almost all Lucio Battisti
Gil Scott-Heron- Winter in America
almost all Henry Cow

Dr Phibes & The House of Wax Equations

this is what I'm missing :
Angry Samoans
Poison Idea
Spaceman 3

Nina Nastasia & Jim White - You Follow Me has disappeared sadly. It was there a few weeks back.

sometimes it's worth checking Deezer, that service has some things the others don't

Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson's Bridges album is missing, so the good version of We Almost Lost Detroit is not available. :(

wtf, Brian Jackson plays TONTO on that album!?

oops, apparently Scott-Heron and Jackson's involvement with TONTO is well known: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_(Gil_Scott-Heron_and_Brian_Jackson_album)

Aside from the expanded Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, none of Ray Charles' ABC recordings are up.

Basehead. The fuck

Looking up Gang of Four, the only album from early days that's up in toto is Hard. All of the classic tracks on "This Is Gang of Four" playlist are sourced from various artists comps/playlists.

Is this a regional thing? I've got Entertainment!, Solid Gold and Songs of the Free as well as Hard.

Possibly? I'm in the US and just double checked on my desktop with the same result: Hard; Mall; Content; What Happens Next; Live...In The Moment; and Happy Now are the only albums listed alongside the sole comp, which appears to be archive live album released a couple years ago.

They used to be available in the US, but got yanked probably around a year ago.

Not sure why Hard remains, as I'd assume it falls under the same deal with WB in the US.

Hard is copywrited directly to the band on the version that's up rn.

Air Miami’s Me. Me. Me. and Fuck You, Tiger — both co-releases with 4AD — aren’t on Spotify or the other streaming services, though the band’s other (Teenbeat) stuff is.

Those Teenbeat/4AD releases must be restricted somehow; even though Unrest’s 4AD stuff is present & accounted for(?)

I noticed the Morphine albums on Geffen showed up a few days ago. Rejoice!

Lil' Louis. From his heyday, only "French Kiss" and a few scattered tracks/remixes are on my (Dutch) Spotify. No From The Mind of Lil' Louis or Journey with the Lonely unfortunately.

Not much from Hamilton Bohannon, sadly.

Only 2 Boredoms releases :(

there are various 4ad things missing, not sure why. Like the first Throwing Muses album.

oh wait, that's missing from apple music, dunno about spotify

The early Gang of Four albums are back up!

...in America!

Only 2 Boredoms releases :(

Yeah - looks like Spotify and YouTube Music both have Wow2 and Super Roots 10, whereas Tidal has Wow2 and Super Ae. (Tidal has the edge here.)

Weirdly, the second Judee Sill album is up but not the first.

hmm. It's up on my Spotify.

Oh ok, must be a regional thing (I'm in Europe).

As I indicated in another thread, the Tabu records stuff that used to be on there a few years ago (I have a bunch of old playlists with that stuff) is no longer on there. Don't know how long this has been the case, as I have a lot of the mp3's, but I miss putting that stuff on my playlists!

https://www.discogs.com/label/4196-Tabu-Records

That’s weird, it seems to be the other way around here on my (Dutch) Spotify.

I posted this upthread a year ago:

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)!

― breastcrawl, zondag 10 februari 2019 12:49 bookmarkflaglink

But I checked earlier today because of your post on the S.O.S. Band thread and all their Tabu albums are back up here. (So are the Alexander O’Neal and Cherelle albums, but I’m not sure they ever disappeared. I played some O’Neal last year)

Yeah, I did some digging on Spotify forums, and some other folks were complaining that the Tabu catalogue is no longer available, at least on Spotify in US. Shame, a lot of that is classic to me, and essential to a lot of the playlists I make. I have a lot of mp3's, but I like to have streaming versions for mixes.

As long tail streaming content comes and goes, I always imagine crafty rights-holders wearing tinted glasses and loud shirts cussing into landline phones as they try to eke more pennies from their properties.