music friday: my daily mix
Friday, March 10, 2017
Awhile back, Spotify started creating “Your Daily Mix”. “Play the music you love, without the effort. Packed with your favorites and new discoveries.” Depending on how often you listen to Spotify, you’ll get one or more mixes ... the most I’ve gotten is six. As I type this, I have five mixes, and while the mix titles are mundane (Daily Mix 1, Daily Mix 2, etc.), they are clearly selected to make for reasonably smooth segues. So right now, “Daily Mix 1” includes Jefferson Airplane, Neil Young, Quicksilver Messenger Service and more, while Daily Mix 2 has Jimmy Reed, Professor Longhair, Junior Wells and more. Down at Daily Mix 5, there’s Sleater-Kinney, DEVO, Patti Smith and more. You get the idea.
Here are two songs from each of the current daily mixes:
The Rolling Stones, “Torn and Frayed”
Fleetwood Mac, “I Don’t Want to Know”
John Mayall, “Don’t Waste My Time”
Robert Johnson, “Love in Vain”
Joan Baez, “I Still Miss Someone”
Linda Ronstadt, “Poor, Poor Pitiful Me”
Bobby “Blue” Bland, “36-22-36”
The Everly Brothers, “Up in Mabel’s Room”
Mekons, “1848 Now!”
The Fall, “Flat of Angles”
