So there's a movement to find the movies missing from the internet. Who wants to start this for music? Because some of that has gone missing, too, as you might have noticed, for reasons ranging from twisted business deals to sampling clearances to artists just saying no to somebody forgot to nobody cares. If you're a streaming music fan, you probably know about TOOL, AALIYAH's ONE IN A MILLION and DE LA SOUL's classic catalog, all well-documented cases of albums that have disappeared from the streaming and downloading universes, all with clear (more or less) explanations. I'm more interested in the overlooked, forgotten and unexplained (or at least not very well explained), the albums that are in need of caretakers and champions. The boss wants to know where, for example, N'DEA DAVENPORT's self-titled 1998 album and BRAD's 1993 debut, SHAME, are. Citizen uploaders have done the work of putting them on YOUTUBE, but otherwise they don't seem to be anywhere you can legally stream or download them. This makes the boss unhappy, and when he's unhappy, I'm unhappy. I want to know why 1982's CHILL OUT has gone missing from the BLACK UHURU catalog and where, besides our old friend YOUTUBE, I can hear the BRAINS' original recording of "MONEY CHANGES EVERYTHING" (which doesn't hold a candle to CYNDI LAUPER's reverse-point-of-view cover, but still, it's nice to have the reference). And where did the FAMILY STAND's first album, which has been on my mind lately, run off to? On Monday afternoon, I scrolled through a five-year-old VIBE list of "30 Great Rap Albums Missing From SPOTIFY" and discovered that a bunch of them have arrived after all those years, while many others still linger in the ether. Which suggests a) it can be done, but b) not enough people are trying. Digitizing an album isn't exactly a costly proposition, and distributing it is all but cost-free. Do labels need more interns to tell their bosses what's missing, and hunt the originals down? How can we help? We stand at the ready... P.S. It should be noted that songs and albums have been disappearing since the beginning of time and, thanks to streaming and downloading options, there's probably more music available now than ever before. The number of WILLIE NELSON albums you can find on any decent streaming service is mind-boggling and wonderful; it's quite possible that a record store where you could find that same collection has never, ever existed. But there's no reason why we shouldn’t be trying to fill in all those other holes. Not just to lengthen the internet's long tail, but to preserve our culture, and other cultures, and all cultures that have come before. We can and therefore we should... What songs and albums do you miss most?... TAYLOR SWIFT is LEBRON JAMES... TENCENT reportedly going public on Oct. 18... The Song of the Summer, per Spotify... RIP QUEENETH NDABA and EASTSIDE SNOOP.