Acts that are not on Spotify

I mean, some of it is on the best of set that's on there but that is an alltime hiphop classic and it's just not there in its entirety.

Also the original version of Eric B. is President is not on there either. Unbelievble.

i thought the absolutely classic album portrait of cannonball by cannonball adderley wasn't there but that's because i was looking under cannonball adderley and it's listed —along with several other indisputably classic albums— under the cannonball adderley quintet. even though albums like why am i treated so bad! and mercy, mercy, mercy are credited to the same group name on their respective covers but are listed under just cannonball adderley. things that make austin irrationally angry, part ∞. grrr.

The Smithereens: Especially For You isn't up, and all tracks from it are greyed-out on comps. However, you can access an expansive & unique band-sanctioned reissue featuring a live version of the album alongside demos and alternates--everything you could ask for bar the O.G. recordings.

A 1986 release, I imagine this might be copyright reclamation thing.

slim pickings for claudja barry on spotify (in canada anyway)

no Comsat Angels.

Whatever the issue was with parts of the INXS catalogue apparently has been rectified, as it looks like the missing albums are back up, both on their own and in a '80-'93 box set, and Elegantly Wasted (which either was gone for a long time, if it was ever there at all) is available as well.

Why tf are the Biz Markie records no longer on here? I listened to them only a couple months ago

why would you expect them to stay?

I was surprised the only version of "Killing an Arab" by The cure at Spotify is a live version from the Hyde Park Anniversary set. The whole Boys Don't Cry album is unavailable actually.

a) the song might be specifically not available for the same reason that the Hyde Park was a rare example of them singing that lyric in the last thirty years or so

b) that compilation was out of print from 1990 to 2000, and was made redundant* by the deluxe reissues of the studio albums in 2004 - has it ever been available as a digital release in any format / platform?

* although some guy with bennies scorned the mastering of the one exclusive track and posted a vinyl rip to ilx

https://www.newstatesman.com/2018/07/killing-arab-the-cure-single-hyde-park

A Globe of Frogs and Queen Elvis by Robyn Hitchcock don't appear to be on there

That's the albums that are missing, not the songs, which are available

A few Egyptians albums come up under Robyn Hitchcock solo too (it's kind of a mess), but iirc those have always been absent.

There's a bunch of Scientist albums streaming but his most classic ones aren't. There's some weird version of "Rids the World of…" out there instead of the original classic.

Baby Girl is coming to Spotify 🙏 pic.twitter.com/1fDcB6HvaE

— Spotify (@Spotify) August 5, 2021

My Bloody Valentine finally on here then.

Are Galliano or Pixies on yet? (at work can't check, just curious)

Is Pixies a geographical one?

As pretty sure they've been on UK Spotify for a good while

I keep getting Pixies live tracks nearly every week on my Release Radar. Galliano have 3 albums on, UK at least.

hmm interesting, I will have another look later

(maybe it was just Roofing Tiles that I couldn't find)

That wasn’t on. In Pursuit…, A Joyful Noise…., and The Plot Thickens.

Pixies are on US Spotify
They've released 17 live albums over past year?

A Guy Called Gerald went back to having practically nothing on it some time earlier this year (the Voodoo Ray single at least having appeared in 2019 I think)

yeah just got home. fucking swear pix were not on spotify when i checked about 6 months ago. nice tho.

Today I received in my Release Radar a few chapters of a German audiobook of The Taming of the Shrew.

the first Throwing Muses album.

― akm, Monday, April 27, 2020 7:24 AM

still not on there. limbo isn't either. unforgivable.

the weeknd's new album title dawn fm has predictably made me want to listen to p.m. dawn, and while a bunch of their albums have been added to spotify, their hit debut of the heart...: the utopian experience is still missing

it's gotta be that beatles sample, right?

wow looking at it now, the og 'set adrift on memory bliss' isn't even on there! that's some serious bullshit. the rest of that album is damn good too.

oof the chameleons strange times isn't there anymore.

Ben Frost has disappeared, except for one early album and soundtracks.

Skee Mask pulled all his music from Spotify
https://ra.co/news/76604

the Germs' GI/MIA aren't up (the only Germs' stuff up are dodgy-looking posthumous releases and a few studio cuts on V/A comps).

^forgot about this from a year back; went looking for Germs on various streaming platforms and was surprised to find only a few “live” albums.

Neil Young, soon.

He's not exactly known for keeping his promises. And if this is ends up being an idle threat it'll do more harm than good.

I've read he may not be able to pull all his music, as he doesn't have 100% control

Cardiacs' organisation recently took their stuff off Spotify.

yep, neil's mostly gone. that didn't take long. inexplicably, the canterbury house archive series is still there, but some of the songs glitch and just stop playing.

in other news - did you know that the original eddy grant recording of "electric avenue" isn't on there?

spotify committing all sorts of offenses.

I think we discussed Grant at length above

nvm, neil totally gone now.

thanks, gonna go recap.

IIRC Ray Charles's ABC recordings (the stuff he owns post-Atlantic) aren't up there either.

Apologies, should've looked for and expanded the "skipping" link before searching for any mention of Ray Charles.

Most of De La Soul still not there, as I discovered after watching the Spider-Man movie.

Not an act, but a song: Kate Bush's "Experiment IV" isn't on there. It's one of her best; wonder why it's not there.

You can see an artist's entire Spotify catalog, and what regions each release is available in, here:

https://everynoise.com/research.cgi
https://everynoise.com/research.cgi?mode=name&name=kate+bush
https://everynoise.com/artistprofile.cgi?id=1aSxMhuvixZ8h9dK9jIDwL

Thus for Kate we can see that "Experiment IV" is actually available on two different releases, Selection from 'The Other Sides' (2018 Remaster) and The Whole Story, but neither of these are available in the US at the moment. Licensing...

that is cool to know!

over half of the go-betweens catalogue is not there.

looks basically like everything licensed to Beggars is on there, and the earlier / later records (perhaps controlled by the band?) aren't?