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Sunday Shuffle #442

This is the second shuffle I've done today. I tried something new for the first one - using a Spotify playlist I've been adding to since the start of the year of every song or album I chose to play. It was up over 300 songs over more than 20 albums and at least as many single songs. I used shuffle mode for the playlist...and got 5 songs from one album, 3 from another, and 2 from a third. Not what I was looking for, so I scrapped it.

I'll have to go back to the drawing board with ways of incorporating Spotify into the Shuffle every week. Alternatively, I may just aim for 450 of these and call it done for a while, maybe combined with trying to make more playlists again. We'll see.

For now, let's get to the second version of today's ten...

1. Fleeting One/First Aid Kit (7) - last played on 12/26/15
2. It Was A Beautiful Car/M. Ward (8) - last played on 5/22/16
3. Think For Yourself/The Beatles (5) - last played on 3/9/16
4. Beautiful Beat/Nada Surf (9) - last played on 5/28/16
5. Decora/Yo La Tengo (5) - last played on 4/14/13
6. Endless Supply/Pernice Brothers (12) - last played on 1/8/17
7. The Mystery Zone/Spoon (21) - last played on 5/21/16
8. EKG/Wilco (11) - last played on 7/19/16
9. Effigy/Uncle Tupelo (1) - played many times on CD since 1993
10. Knuckles/The Hold Steady (8) - last played on 5/10/15
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