No will look for it, they do have true to form a bizzarre relationship with streaming/downloading. For a weekend or so their back catalogue was on the (I think) amazon mp3 store for downloading – including all sorts of semi-official stuff such as the Jimmy Cauty solar system chillout album. Never clear if it was them or some bootlegger.
Ooo, that’s a great version, isn’t it @markg. Must see if I still have it on tucked away. Sult was, I believe, an RTE TV programme by Donal Lunny, featuring guests like Van. There was a vogue for such things for a while. Common Ground: Voices of Irish music was another.
Thanks,yes you can get the Sult CD on Amazon still,studio version of this is very similar.The other track you may like is by Moving Hearts on their live album,not on Spotify unfortunately….
@markg streaming services particularly Spotify appear to be generally rubbish at various artists and soundtracks – I just checked and a soundtrack as big-selling and mainstream as the Pulp Fiction soundtrack isn’t on there (only as an unofficial playlist); Trainspotting 2 isn’t there, though Trainspotting 1 is but with gaps. Cleary the rights clearances are too complicated unless they have a sinister hatred of the compilation.
Cheers,btw the Santana track on Woodstock,Soul Sacrifice,is on one or two compilations so maybe other artists have done this too,but not Joe Cocker … rip
And DJ mixes are incredibly poorly served on Spotify – for example there is one Global Underground album, nothing on Journeys by DJ or Essential Selection.
that’s a good mix as is LTJ Bukem Logical Progression vol 1 which is also on, but for example Jeff Mills Live at the Liquid Rooms, Coldcuts 70 Mins of Madness or Mixmag Live by Richie Hawtin – these are the Sgt Pepper or the Tommy of the mix CD..
Pedant alert: Logical Progression Volume 1 isn’t a mix, it’s separate tracks (one of my favourite compilations of all time). There are some mixes online, but they’ve all been made (I think by fans) subsequent to the release.
Volume 2 came with a bonus mix CD – MC Conrad chatting over the top of the records. It’s completely awesome, but tricky to come by a digital version.
I wrote to Spotify to comment on this. It seems that ECM have dug their heels in and completely refuse to make any of their catalogue available. I have a certain understanding of their protective attitude towards their intellectual property, but at the same time they are preventing their artists from reaching a far broader audience. They have very loyal buyers, so I suspect they havent really lost any money, but I still think it is a shame.
Your comment really amused me, Arthur, and got me thinking. My odd sentence was partly a result of me being an old curmudgeon, but partly because of me being an old ex-pat ( an expression I hate) curmudgeon.
Cut off from the fertile gushings of Britannia, what happens to someone’s language? Do we who have chosen to live overseas become the linguistic equivalent of gnarled, shrivelled old pot plant that has not been watered for a very long time?
Lemonhope says
Ooh! That’s a corker – The Long Road is another beauty though, I see your Face of Love and raise you The Long Road
Lemonhope says
Markg says
Markg says
Great song,you can get this at least…
bricameron says
How come I can’t get Travelogue and Reproduction by Human League on Apple Music?
moseleymoles says
Not surprising really.
seanioio says
Good shout @moseleymoles The KLF were on for a brief time a few years back & I was very happy for a time but then gutted when they vanished!!
Have you read Ian Shirleys new book ‘Turn Up The Strobe’ A history of The KLF, The JAMS & The Timelords? It is a corker!
moseleymoles says
No will look for it, they do have true to form a bizzarre relationship with streaming/downloading. For a weekend or so their back catalogue was on the (I think) amazon mp3 store for downloading – including all sorts of semi-official stuff such as the Jimmy Cauty solar system chillout album. Never clear if it was them or some bootlegger.
Markg says
Markg says
https://youtu.be/Hlsk8zOYRys
retropath2 says
Ooo, that’s a great version, isn’t it @markg. Must see if I still have it on tucked away. Sult was, I believe, an RTE TV programme by Donal Lunny, featuring guests like Van. There was a vogue for such things for a while. Common Ground: Voices of Irish music was another.
Markg says
Thanks,yes you can get the Sult CD on Amazon still,studio version of this is very similar.The other track you may like is by Moving Hearts on their live album,not on Spotify unfortunately….
Markg says
Markg says
Markg says
Can’t seem to find Woodstock soundtrack,happy to be proved wrong!
moseleymoles says
@markg streaming services particularly Spotify appear to be generally rubbish at various artists and soundtracks – I just checked and a soundtrack as big-selling and mainstream as the Pulp Fiction soundtrack isn’t on there (only as an unofficial playlist); Trainspotting 2 isn’t there, though Trainspotting 1 is but with gaps. Cleary the rights clearances are too complicated unless they have a sinister hatred of the compilation.
Markg says
Cheers,btw the Santana track on Woodstock,Soul Sacrifice,is on one or two compilations so maybe other artists have done this too,but not Joe Cocker … rip
Markg says
minibreakfast says
Beany played an ‘interesting’ version of that by James Last on his Charity Shop Classics stint last Sunday.
Luckily it’s not on Spotify either.
moseleymoles says
And DJ mixes are incredibly poorly served on Spotify – for example there is one Global Underground album, nothing on Journeys by DJ or Essential Selection.
Arthur Cowslip says
My favourite dj mix of all time, Liam Howlett’s Dirtchamber Sessions vol 1, is on there!
moseleymoles says
that’s a good mix as is LTJ Bukem Logical Progression vol 1 which is also on, but for example Jeff Mills Live at the Liquid Rooms, Coldcuts 70 Mins of Madness or Mixmag Live by Richie Hawtin – these are the Sgt Pepper or the Tommy of the mix CD..
Bingo Little says
Pedant alert: Logical Progression Volume 1 isn’t a mix, it’s separate tracks (one of my favourite compilations of all time). There are some mixes online, but they’ve all been made (I think by fans) subsequent to the release.
Volume 2 came with a bonus mix CD – MC Conrad chatting over the top of the records. It’s completely awesome, but tricky to come by a digital version.
Here’s one of the standout tunes from Vol 2…
seanioio says
It is this northern soul stomper by Sonny Til
Tears & Misery – Sonny Til
There are also no artists from the Drag City label which is a sickener for me as no Joanna Newsom albums! (not a popular opinion on this site I know)
duco01 says
Of course, I can’t say categorically that this is the greatest song not on Spotify, but it certainly is a good ‘un:
The beautiful “Eight Winds” by the Sokratis Sinopoulos Quartet on ECM.
Mike_H says
Loads of great stuff on the ECM label, but not a sausage on Spotify.
Kaisfatdad says
Not a single spotty ECM sausage to be had.
I wrote to Spotify to comment on this. It seems that ECM have dug their heels in and completely refuse to make any of their catalogue available. I have a certain understanding of their protective attitude towards their intellectual property, but at the same time they are preventing their artists from reaching a far broader audience. They have very loyal buyers, so I suspect they havent really lost any money, but I still think it is a shame.
Arthur Cowslip says
‘I wrote to Spotify’! Something about that sentence sounds so old fashioned and curmudgeonly it makes me laugh!
‘I wrote a letter to Facebook attaching a Polaroid of my new profile picture so they could update it for me’…
‘I posted a cassette of Now 26 to Spotify because they didn’t seem to have it available and I had already made myself a copy’…
Arthur Cowslip says
No offence intended, obvs!
Lemonhope says
Coming to Viz soon…
Kaisfatdad says
Golly! You’ve outed me as an old-fashioned curmudgeon a charge I plead guilty to.
I posted in the Spotify community?
I dropped a comment on their notice board?
I interacted on one of their threads?
Life was so much easier with an envelope and a 4d stamp.
Kaisfatdad says
Your comment really amused me, Arthur, and got me thinking. My odd sentence was partly a result of me being an old curmudgeon, but partly because of me being an old ex-pat ( an expression I hate) curmudgeon.
Cut off from the fertile gushings of Britannia, what happens to someone’s language? Do we who have chosen to live overseas become the linguistic equivalent of gnarled, shrivelled old pot plant that has not been watered for a very long time?
Carl says
Roy Harper’s The Same Old Rock
Here he is at his 70th birthday gig, with Mr James Page. If you want to skip the chat, the music starts around the 3 minute mark.
Martin S says
Probably something by Slade. They are hardly represented at all (something to do with a Polydor fall out)
Markg says