It's not hard to see why users love Spotify: the streaming service has rejuvenated the music industry for fans who were being squeezed for every penny by the singles market and who were being forced towards the piracy market. It's also not hard to see why artists won't ever fall over themselves to love the system. Having made a bigger slice of royalties previously, they were suddenly presented with less money and the guarantee that the quality their creations would stream in would be compromised. After decades of contending with record labels who were more than happy to dip their hands into artists' pockets to get rich off someone else's talent, that must have felt like a kick in the teeth. Inevitably, there are quite a few big artists who have been very vocal in their dislike of streaming services, and Spotify in particular - whether because of a perceived lack of quality, or simply because of money - which is why some of them have taken the opportunity to switch over to Apple Music or withhold their back-catalogue entirely. And that's a shame, because there are some fantastic artists that have forgone their place in all of our Spotify libraries. From pop, to metal, to rock and rap, there's something to disappoint just about every kind of fan out there. And in some cases, the songs that are missing are instant classics that every music fan deserves to have in their collections.
13. The End Of The Line - The Travelling Wilburys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwqhdRs4jyA What started out as something of a joke by George Harrison, and an opportunity for him to hang out and make music with some of his best friends in the industry turned out to be one of the greatest side projects that any of The Beatles were involved with. It probably helped Harrison that those friends were Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty. The super-group made inevitably beautiful music, blending each of their styles to create an irresistible pop-folk sound on which they shared equal billing. It's a little like being invited to a buffet where there's no filler and being able to eat as much as you want. Sadly, the enigmatic band and are absent from Spotify, which you have to think is precisely as they'd have liked it. And if there has to be a biggest tragedy of all their missing songs, the delightful 'The End Of The Line' (haunted somewhat by the death of Roy Orbison) probably deserves the nod.
