Acts that are not on Spotify

Because creating a list together may be useful
Bob Dylan got in there recently, but there are still some big (and some slightly lesser) names lacking.

The Beatles
All solo Beatles apart from Ringo
Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd
Metallica
AC/DC
Frank Zappa
King Crimson
Slade
Tool
Badfinger (apart from the two lesser known Warner albums)
Flower Kings

More?

was gonna say fuckin' flyin a-heads but whoa there they are

Adding Red Hot Chili Peppers. Their 80s albums are in there, but nothing more recent.

I was sure Caetano Veloso and Jorge Ben were absent but now they're there! Anyway:

War
Popol Vuh
Ash Ra Tempel
Perfume
Joanna Newsom
Boredoms
Curtis Mayfield

Everything on 100% Silk, Planet Mu, RVNG, Numero, Sublime Frequencies, Soul Jazz...

kinks, pre-RCA years, which is pretty lol. at least that's how it was last time i checked.

the entire drag city catalog

I think that part of the Kinks catalog is out-of-print period.

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.

kinks pre-RCA is '71-Back, and very much in print via Sanctuary/Universal.

Last U.S. CD releases were 1990 and they're not available as downloads on iTunes or Amazon.

I think Sanctuary is administering the Pye/Reprise Kinks rights in the States now. The first three albums were reissued here in the early 2000s via a partnership with BMG. Now they are hooked up with Universal, but perhaps they feel anyne who cares will pick up their imports, which are fairly well distributed here.

You'd think that Universal would want a group as big as the Kinks on iTunes. I wonder if there are other issues.

Oasis, Example, Wretch 32, most Julia Holter.

Roy Harper, except for his debut album.

adele
peter gabriel
momus (creation label era)

Adele has "19" in there, but only the first two singles from "21".

As for The Kinks, "Something Else" is still lacking, but they seem to have most anything else.

Only three Hootie and the Blowfish songs. (Don't ask.)

Peter Gabriel

sorry piscesx, missed your post!

There's some Popol Vuh on there, though one of the playable albums has TAKEDOWN AS PER LABEL REQUEST in the title.

Coil

Also Cosey Fanni Tutti has been pretty vocal about her dislike of Spotify. C&C and TG are in the process of being taken down altogether, I understand.

As for The Kinks, "Something Else" is still lacking, but they seem to have most anything else.

― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Saturday, March 31, 2012 10:07 AM (43 minutes ago)

Maybe in Norway!

Black Sabbath's studio albums with John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne.

they are here in the uk

Red Hot Chili Peppers were added yesterday if you like that kind of thing.

No Rammstein sadly.

I see that the new Peter Gabriel live album is available. Hopefully the rest of his work will follow soon.

Seger

Sugar (and only the Warners Husker stuff.)

None of Def Leppard's popular albums are on there.

i'm not on spotify

only the Warners Husker stuff

No longer true!

That was fast.

Alright, who on this board is from SST?

Sugar's stuff is on there, or at least it was about five days ago. I listened to Copper Blue.

gimme some good news about Seger, guys

It looks like Bureau B, which did a lot of the Sky Krautrock reissues, pulled the rights in the US.

Sandie Shaw. oddly.

King Crimson! Also, more Pink Floyd than a current live album, ffs!

Mainly, there's a Jex Thoth song called "The Banishment" and its melody is almost exactly like the melody line of "Epitaph" but I couldn't cross-compare - at least not in spotify.

A bunch of Peter Gabriel there now

Yellow Magic Orchestra

I just looked and there were only a few odds and sods from Gabriel, certainly no albums.

Kinks seem to be on, plentifully (including Something Else)

King Crimson!

Fripp has determinedly set his face against spotify, the diary on his website has plenty of back-and-forth on this topic.

One album that is on there is "From Good to Great", a tutorial CD by Robt Fripp

No Something Else in US :(

Royal Trux

I just looked and there were only a few odds and sods from Gabriel, certainly no albums

That's weird--I can see all of them (in Australia, anyway)

Boards of Canada
Throbbing Gristle
Severed Heads

all pretty much absent

Only Gabriel that's on Spotify US is that live/orchestra thing from recently.

Greg Kihn.

Yeah I don’t think she’s ever had her albums on there

I look song cycle by van dyke parks like once a year to see if it's dropped

^^It's up in America.

...but Parks' albums between Clang of The Yankee Reaper and Orange Crate Art aren't.

(so Jump! and Tokyo Rose)

smh main source breakin atoms

― MUFFY TEPPERMAN WAS THE OG KAREN (Austin), Sunday, January 19, 2025 8:07 PM

fyi this is back

...but half the album is missing smh

Sample clearance probably? Although I'm seeing a trend for new records where only a part of the full record is on streaming services.

John Mulaney's got good taste:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DJe3H0XvW9D/

lol the beefheart completist! who knew?

also i pulled strange times off an external drive for myself recently. "swamp thing" is on spotify due to being licensed to a compilation, but other than that, yep: it's been absent for a few years. i think it's that geffen era; sun and the moon stuff isn't on there either (darn shame imo).

nvm, just looked and yeah it's definitely something with the geffen stuff because the independently released sun and the moon ep is on there, but not the full length (which was on geffen, ofc).

also re:jm's picks―
that's wild trout mask replica isn't on there. i just assumed it was one of those canon classics that would never go anywhere. otherwise upon looking, i see that the delicious 4 hour, 5 disc grow fins box set that i never had extra money for is on there, so i'll catch up with you guys later.👍🏻🎧

love that thing, esp disc 5

A ton of Henry Kaiser albums disappeared from Tidal in the last few months, very frustrating.

Buckingham Nicks

I think they used to be on there, but currently not

I wonder how hard it is to get your digital distro to pull music from Spotify but leave it on other dsps, or to pick and choose when releasing. I haven't started looking it into it yet but that's definitely how I want to do it for future releases, and I should really see about asking labels to pull past ones from Spotify.

xpost I don't think it's ever come out digitally (legally)

wow, it's wild to me that they would pass up such an obvious cash in opportunity

Well, they're already both rich af and they hate each other, so...

With Distrokid, it's a matter of unchecking the box that says "Spotify" when you're uploading something new.

Xpost

They were listening to us:

On Monday, a billboard featuring the album cover of the pair’s 1973, pre-Fleetwood Mac era album, “Buckingham Nicks,” popped up above Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California.
With the date Sept. 19 below, it is all but confirmed that a reissue was on the horizon.

Maybe I can will a Sunset Boulevard billboard for a new Disco Inferno album.

I wonder how hard it is to get your digital distro to pull music from Spotify but leave it on other dsps, or to pick and choose when releasing. I haven't started looking it into it yet but that's definitely how I want to do it for future releases, and I should really see about asking labels to pull past ones from Spotify.

very easy ime, pick and choose your preferred services

Lobbying my family hard to switch from Spotify, but they are very resistant. They like the playlists, they like not having to need a separate podcast app. It's annoying, cuz last thing I want to do is have to subscribe to my own service in addition to keeping Spotify, especially knowing all the companies are terrible anyway.

I wanted to listen to Double Nickels on the Dime on my way home from work last night but it's off Apple Music for some reason - looks like almost every other Minutemen release is available and no general SST issues.

It’s on Tidal, in UK at least.

As noted on the ilm My Bloody Valentine thread, their music now is not on Spotify or Apple Music in the US of A, and maybe elsewhere

https://www.reddit.com/r/fantanoforever/comments/1njzrw6/my_bloody_valentine_has_seemingly_removed/

Massive Attack just removed their music, I think.

Massive Attack is on Qobuz still. MBV largely unavailable too except for the aforementioned records.

They have xp

Still there atm but will be disappearing soon

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/sep/18/massive-attack-remove-music-from-spotify-to-protest-ceo-daniel-eks-investment-in-ai-military

this latest reason to protest spotify seems a bit naive to me. are bands that are against european military investment like, dimly aware of the ukraine war and just think it’s fine?

i get that it might be better for ek to step down and not make spotify seem tied to a military company when it really isn’t, but it seems inevitable that china will want to sell cutting edge drone crap to russia and russia will want to test it in lithuania or moldova.

i’m all for bands holding out for more money from streaming services but this argument just feels oblivious to the current world.

It's a really simple argument - they pay less than basically any other streaming service, they support AI and other ways to screw artists, and their CEO invests in killing people.

I recently moved to Tidal. If they start investing in autonomous weapons, I'll find another service or just play records (which is 75% of my listening anyway).

yep i hear you. royalties, ai elevator music. so do you see news about ukraine and think, “good for russia, wonder what they will do next”

None of the streaming services has ever been able to to agorithmically create a curated "based on your interests" playlist better than some good DJs at a freeform community radio station. Streaming for me is 99.9% for playing albums; if I want a mix, I turn on WFMU, WREK, XRAY-FM, etc. A little bit of familiar, a lot of new.

I wish there was more Homer and Jethro on the streamers. Everything I’ve heard by them has been really brilliant and hilarious.

Yes, they are awesome!

Outside of the big names, Old-Time Country is pretty poorly served on streamers-lots of missing recordings and inferior rerecords.

yup

George Jones in streaming is a chaotic mess

I notice that Henry Cow’s albums have disappeared.

Recently subscribed to Qobuz and am happy to be able to easily listen to Joanna Newsom again. Bummed that there is still no sign of Curve anywhere (but Bandcamp), though.

Back in September Massive Attack made a big stink and said they were removing their music from Spotify. But here we are a few months later and ... it's still there. Anyone know what's up? Everyone else that made similar statements of protest had their music more or less vanish with the flip of a switch.

Yeah, I was wondering the same. I'm not complaining though as I listen to a lot of their stuff at this time of year

They did post (last month) about a lot of new music coming next year and specifically said it won't be released on Spotify so perhaps they've run into problems getting their existing catalogue removed

Has R. Fripp ever commented on why the League of Gentlemen (1980 band) aren't available on streaming platforms?

Just saw on Reddit that the Travelling Wilburys has been removed from most streaming services, although for the time being Spotify still has 7 different songs up that are on curated playlists.

boo

counterpoint: yay

BOO!

(boo that they're gone from all, not just Spotify)