Lots of jazz records are ruined on Spotify the same way.But it is weird how selective that is.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 18 June 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I don't get how that happens. Maybe one particular musician who appears on the tracks will not grant rights and that causes individual tracks to be stripped out?
― dmr, Monday, 18 June 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
Just realized there's no Cap'n Jazz on spotify... On the bright side all the Polvo albums are up!
― Ring brother, ring for me! (Viceroy), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
I think it just comes down to lengths, Spotify just doesn't like long tracks for whatever reason. I was listening to some early Allman Brothers and the albums were on there, but the long epic jams weren't.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think that's it.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
nah that can't be it!
― piscesx, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
Being away from my record collection for the past 2 months I've only had Spotify to keep me warm at night. The lack of Coil is killing me.
― Oblique Strategies, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
mid-period (post green, pre buckingham) fleetwood mac
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not arguing that it definitely is, but I really am struggling to figure out why 7 tracks out of 8 on the same album work, but the 8th won't. They are share the same songwriting credits, so that theory of a sole holdout doesn't wash either. The only reason I brought up the song lengths thing is because whenever I come across an album missing only one or two tracks, its consistently when the songs in question are more than 10 minutes in length.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
The first five or six De La Soul albums are not on there.
― Austin, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
wait, so, even if you pay for a subscription the long tracks aren't on there? i figured it was just something for free accounts. mog has all the long tracks.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
It can't be song length... the re-issue of Dopesmoker is up there and its a 60+ minute track;
― Ring brother, ring for me! (Viceroy), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
I haven't tested this theory but is it the tracks that are only available on itunes if you buy the full album? Seems like it could be a default setting from some distributors that no-one's changed.
― Oblique Strategies, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
Only "Me, Myself & I"... THANKS SPOTIFY.
― pplains, Thursday, 19 July 2012 01:58 (eleven years ago) link
I have a vague recollection that the no-long-tracks issue was specific to (or most common with) Universal-related albums?
― recordbreaking transfer to Lucknow FC (seandalai), Thursday, 19 July 2012 02:06 (eleven years ago) link
https://getsatisfaction.com/spotify/topics/long_songs_are_missing
― recordbreaking transfer to Lucknow FC (seandalai), Thursday, 19 July 2012 02:07 (eleven years ago) link
longest track i can think of on a commercial CD from recent(ish) times is Goldie's Mother from Saturnz Return which clocks in at 71 minutes and 53 seconds. it's present and correct on Spotify uk.
― piscesx, Thursday, 19 July 2012 02:43 (eleven years ago) link
They might be trying to negotiate for higher per-stream payments for long tracks? Would make sense.
― timellison, Thursday, 19 July 2012 02:56 (eleven years ago) link
Cannot find proper version of Freda Payne's "Band of Gold"
― My Elusive Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 20 July 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
Holland, Dozier, and Holland still own the Invictus catalog. Looks like the last thing to come out were some artist comp CDs in 1996.
― timellison, Friday, 20 July 2012 05:56 (eleven years ago) link
What about the Chairmen of the Board comp in the early 2000's?
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 21 July 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, [urlhttp://www.amazon.com/Best-Chairmen-Board-Ten/dp/B0000641A8/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1342895778&sr=1-3&keywords=chairmen+of+the+board]this one? Maybe they licensed it out for that EMI "Ten Best Series."
― timellison, Saturday, 21 July 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, this one? Maybe they licensed it out for that EMI "Ten Best Series."
― timellison, Saturday, 21 July 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
OK. That comp is not on Spotify either, although "Give Me Just A Little More Time" is because it was on some soundtrack.
― My Elusive Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 21 July 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
(Of course nobody said that comp was on Spotify)
― My Elusive Memes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 21 July 2012 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, it's not on iTunes either.
― timellison, Saturday, 21 July 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
Cannot find me no muslamic ray guns on Spotify.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIPD8qHhtVU
― The GeirBot (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 22 July 2012 00:21 (eleven years ago) link
Placebo!
― piscesx, Monday, 30 July 2012 07:14 (eleven years ago) link
Not that ILM cares, but the Eagles.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 6 August 2012 12:51 (eleven years ago) link
Some days you're just in the mood for "These Shoes", I get it.
― pplains, Monday, 6 August 2012 13:59 (eleven years ago) link
"Those Shoes". Whatever.
Album that is not on Spotify: Heat Treatment, by Graham Parker. Listening to Stick To Me instead
― Roadside Prisunic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
Art Bears (anything from Chris Cutler's label, really)
― my other pug is a stillsuit (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 5 December 2012 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
Metallica now on Spotify, Lars Ulrich making the announcement with a Napster co-founder at his side
― Lee626, Thursday, 6 December 2012 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
The principle behind that being...?
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 6 December 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
Annoyingly, only 1 Died Pretty album is on there.
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Thursday, 6 December 2012 23:20 (eleven years ago) link
McCartney and Wings = BACK! it happened at the start of December supposedly, only just noticed.
― piscesx, Sunday, 23 December 2012 23:27 (eleven years ago) link
manilla road was there for while, and now... nada.
― charlie h, Monday, 24 December 2012 00:20 (eleven years ago) link
What's become of Geir? Hasn't posted for months unless I'm mistaken.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 24 December 2012 02:56 (eleven years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 24 December 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
I went and created a music forum on Facebook (in Norwegian) including many of the features I like about this place. Just don't find the time to post here as often, but I haven't abandoned ILX completely.
Read now that Led Zeppelin will be on Spotify shortly as well. Elton John has largely disappeared, but probably just albums disappearing because of some reissue program, I guess.
― The GeirBot (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 01:27 (eleven years ago) link
Regarding Paul McCartney/Wings, it seems the middle part of his solo career is still absent. Everything from "At The Speed Of Sound" through "Tug Of War" missing. I believe they have yet to be reissued on CD as well though, so I guess just a matter of time.
― The GeirBot (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 01:30 (eleven years ago) link
Besides those, "Red Rose Speedway" is absent as well.
g'day Geir.
― charlie h, Tuesday, 5 February 2013 01:32 (eleven years ago) link
The Oasis thing seems strange to me, as obviously their albums are only absent in the US.
On the other hand, Material Issue are unavailable in Europe.
― The GeirBot (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 01:38 (eleven years ago) link
no OM apparently unless i ain't looking hard enough. that kinda sucks.
― charlie h, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 10:35 (eleven years ago) link
nope I think I've looked for them too and no dice. "Ea" exists but its very hard to find them as you might imagine.
― Frobisher the (Viceroy), Thursday, 7 February 2013 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
Southern Lord and Profound Lore Records dont appear to be on Spotify outside of the USA.OM's latest is on Drag City who are not on Spotify at all.
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 7 February 2013 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
Richard Thompson
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 22 February 2013 09:30 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty much everything he's done up to 'Electric' is available in the UK, must be one of those territitorial things. On a less crucial note, no Hootie and the Blowfish.
― fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Friday, 22 February 2013 12:32 (eleven years ago) link