December 4th, 2004 by Jemaleddin Cole

Draw­ing from Ben Rayner’s tape col­lec­tion, Joe Clark asked What’s miss­ing from iTunes Music Store Canada? so I fig­ured I’d see if the US ver­sion has any better selection.

Miss­ing from the US and Cana­dian stores:

• Base­head
• Black Box
• Meryn Cadell *
• Chalk Circle
• Anne Clark
• Dis­si­den­ten
• Heaven 17
• Human League (though there is a trib­ute album)
• Jobriath
• Tagada Jones
• Manau
• Moev
• National Lampoon
• Sons of Freedom
• Tool (WTF?!)
• Pete Townsend
• Bob Wiseman

On the Amer­i­can site, but not Canadian:

• Big Coun­try (3 albums)
• Caberet Voltaire (2 albums)
• Isis (1 album)
• Love (3 albums)
• Pro­claimers (2 albums)
• Under­world (5 albums)

More albums on the Amer­i­can store than the Cana­dian store

• Impe­r­ial Teen (2 albums instead of 1 album)
• Monty Python (6 albums instead of 1 album)
• Scooter (42 albums instead of 1 song)
• Mike Watt (3 albums, and a dupli­cate par­tial album instead of 2 albums)

Same number of albums on both stores:

• Sloan (2 albums)

Of course, I’ve only even heard of 11 of those acts, so I’m not really sure if it’s a good thing or a bad thing that I can’t pur­chase so many of them on iTunes.

Which of course brings me to a larger point: I only get what Joe Clark is up to about 20% of the time, but his writ­ing seems so "in the know" that I keep read­ing, hoping that I’ll catch on. In the post that started this dis­cus­sion, he clearly has some­thing against Ben Rayner (hence the quotes around music critic), but I have no idea why, from read­ing the Joe’s page. It can’t be the selec­tion of bands, because I know for a fact that Joe likes some of them. I’m cer­tainly not in any posi­tion to tell him what to put on his page, but it would cer­tainly be help­ful if there were a bit more expla­na­tion and a bit less, "are you cool enough to get my allusions."

* Not having thought much about her since buying two of her CDs in col­lege (on the rec­om­men­da­tion of a very good friend, who, in ret­ro­spect, may have been coming on to me) and lis­ten­ing to them a few dozen times each year, I was amazed to find out that Meryn has a live­jour­nal. Also of note, she recently real­ized that she’s a trans­sex­ual and started her tran­si­tion this past summer. Good luck, Meryn!

One Response to “What’s found in iTunes Music Store USA?”

1. I just got my 2000t and all of my songs are skip­ping in iTunes, and I cant figure out why. If some­one could help me out and tell me how to fix this I would really appre­ci­ate it because its dri­ving me crazy. Thanks for the replys.

   — Tobias November 28th, 2006 at 12:03 pm #