[Music] Your Rarities - The unpopular songs

[Icy Gull]

Spotify is for people who are too unimaginative/lazy and/or mean to get themselves a proper record/cd/download collection imo

You never own it either so stop paying and all your music just disappears

For that reason I am OUT

I regularly have this very argument with my kids too

Can I name one of my vinyl albums/singles that haven’t been played for 20 years plus?

 

[zefarelly]

I use spotify, for convenience, in the car, and at work. occaisionally at home, If I want to listen to music properly its in the music room and on vinyl played through my hi-fi.

As many of us have ecclectically beautiful tastes in music, If you do use spotify you quickly realise a lot is missing. why my band puts its stuff up there I don't know, its a significant contributor to us being financially unviable.

 

[chaileyjem]

i thought this might be a fun thread recommending music.
All these things are true by the way.
- Spotify has a vast long tail catalogue of obsurities and rarities - as well as The Beatles and so on.
- You can subscribe to Spotify and have a big record/download/vinyl collection.
- You can subscribe but still agree that it could do more to support songwriters/music industry.

now thats out of the way. Here's the rather good Dead Famous People .
https://open.spotify.com/track/1NVlnfxYkUbyW7EAUPLG0Q?si=6E3qPMunTNCm3LCs2wHulQ

 

[Icy Gull]

i thought this might be a fun thread recommending music.
All these things are true by the way.
- Spotify has a vast long tail catalogue of obsurities and rarities - as well as The Beatles and so on.
- You can subscribe to Spotify and have a big record/download/vinyl collection.
- You can subscribe but still agree that it could do more to support songwriters/music industry.

now thats out of the way. Here's the rather good Dead Famous People .
https://open.spotify.com/track/1NVlnfxYkUbyW7EAUPLG0Q?si=6E3qPMunTNCm3LCs2wHulQ

I am jesting BTW, all my family love Spotify except me

 

[Barnet Seagull]

Possibly good thread ruined by Spotify criterion. Let us know when you’ve removed it.
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For clarity, the purpose of the Spotify requirement was to validate no. of plays and therefore obscurity - not to push anyone who doesn't have it do do so. I wrongly believed that the play count was in the web version (where no sign up is necessary) but have since discovered it isn't.

Unfortunate but there it is.

 

[Barnet Seagull]

rare but popular
Choosey Susie
The Stranglers

256,000 plays - I think not obscure enough.

 

[Dick Head]

The Big A = the Big M - Gary S. Paxton

<1000 plays

https://open.spotify.com/album/2cxV0pBO4GwSckqJ6xl8c9?highlight=spotify:track:1XSw21V3vJ1MJeoQxUYOKF

 

[zefarelly]

I am jesting BTW, all my family love Spotify except me

I pay for a family account, my wife, son and particularly my mother as she long since lost her record collection, love it.