Prog and Spotify

As Spotify has opened in the US as well and there's a fair deal of prog available there, a thread where people can link to the albums they find might be a nice project. Perhaps an index could be made at some point too, if someone wants to take on such a project.

I've started to collect Spotify links for albums that at some point have been released by Progrock Records in a thread you can find here.

Later on I'll dig up Spotify links for albums released by Musea Records. I'll update this post when that occurs.
Should be fun to see if this topic interest people around here :-)

It's great. I'm currently using it to try out albums on my Amazon wishlist and figure out if I want to buy them or get rid of them. So far gotten down to 15 from 30 or so 

Good thread. I have only recently joined Spotify, and have, in a very short space of time, become a huge fan. 

I've been LOVING Spotify (but not the commercials.... :/ ) I think that a whole list of prog rock albums on there would be far too huge. It seems that most albums are on there. Most of the discographies of Genesis and Yes are on there. There's nothing from King Crimson which comes as no surprise. There's not much from Pink Floyd either.

Edited by Jake Kobrin - August 09 2011 at 23:25

A mere three albums from the catalogue of 90's label SI Music were on Spotify. Links and list of all label releases here.

Jake Kobrin wrote: If you didn't see this in the other thread, I compiled a list of Prog Epics on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/user/jkobryn/playlist/3Ra3aYtq2BudqwgLyEGsoZ

I did notice and I transfered it to my playing lists. Going through the pieces I haven't heard right now. Thanks for your effort.   Really appreciated.

As a new prog artist, we're wary of Spotify (from the artist's point of view, that is). Been reading a lot of arguments for and against it. It pays independent artists very little. But is that better than nothing? At the moment we're not on, but could be convinced.

BlakeMcQ wrote: As a new prog artist, we're wary of Spotify (from the artist's point of view, that is). Been reading a lot of arguments for and against it. It pays independent artists very little. But is that better than nothing? At the moment we're not on, but could be convinced.

spknoevl wrote: BlakeMcQ wrote: As a new prog artist, we're wary of Spotify (from the artist's point of view, that is). Been reading a lot of arguments for and against it. It pays independent artists very little. But is that better than nothing? At the moment we're not on, but could be convinced.   Spotify pays artists very, very little, which is one of the reasons Robert Fripp refuses to allow the KC catalogue to be played.  I recall reading somewhere that even Lady Gaga received a payment of less than $200 last year for all the plays of her music on Spotify.  I know my own payments are next to nothing; according to my report I receive $.001 per play.    I have to admit that I do use the free service - but only to check out artists before I buy their music.  I would never subscribe to Spotify.

Yeah, the artist's profit from it is basically nothing. I mainly use it to check out albums I couldn't listen to anywhere else (and that list is surely long..)

Spotify is a good tool for me to "try before I buy", but I do not, and probably will not, subscribe, given that most of the albums I buy I would buy anyway.