You say shortest day, I say longest night…
Long Dark Songs - Winter Solstice playlist
Over the past few hours, we’ve compiled this Spotify playlist to celebrate the longest night of the year (oh, please don’t moan about it being the shortest day). We asked our messageboarders, our followers on @drownedinsound, and the folks over on our Facebook for their favourite long (over 5mins) and dark (open to interpretation) songs, and here’s where we’ve gotten to after 90mins of suggestions, and a heap of things thrown in by DiS’ editor…
Mogwai – Music For A Forgotten Future
David Bowie – Warszawa
Nine Inch Nails – 34 Ghosts IV
Billy MacKenzie – Pain In Any Language
Scott Walker – Bouncer See Bouncer …
Fever Ray – Memories From When I Grew Up - Remembered by The Subliminal Kid
Björk – Pagan Poetry - Matthew Herbert Handshake Mix
PJ Harvey – We Float
Sparklehorse – Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain (Aka Maxine)
Bon Iver – The Wolves (Act I and II)
Songs:Ohia – Ring The Bell
Colin Stetson – White Pulse Mix - Tim Hecker
Richard Skelton – Of the Last Generation
Barn Owl – The Darkest Night Since 1683
Jeniferever – Atlantis Arise!
The Cure – The Same Deep Water As You
Death Cab for Cutie – I Will Possess Your Heart
Logh – In Cold Blood
Explosions In The Sky – Six Days At The Bottom Of The Ocean
Oceansize – Paper Champion
The Album Leaf – Moss Mountain Town
Sigur Ros – Sigur 8 (Untitled)
Harold Budd – First Light
Sonic Youth – The Diamond Sea
El Kid – Hypnosis
Burial – Untrue
Massive Attack – Protection
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – motherfucker=redeemer
Raime - This Foundry
James Blackshaw – Sunshrine
Dirty Three – Sea Above, Sky Below
Pulp – Sheffield: Sex City
George Michael;Elton John – Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me - Live
Nine Inch Nails – Hurt
Björk – Desired Constellation - Ben Frost’s School Of Emotional Engineering Mix
Fuck Buttons – Sweet Love For Planet Earth
Fennesz – Black Sea
Isis – From Sinking
Cult Of Luna – Finland
Magma – Kobaia
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Song For Bob
Josh T. Pearson – Sweetheart I Ain’t Your Christ
Okkervil River – So Come Back, I Am Waiting
Ulver – Lost In Moments
SUNN O))) meets Nurse With Wound – Dysnystaxis (… a Chance Meeting with Somnus)
Fever Ray – Coconut
The Sisters Of Mercy – This Corrosion
Iron Maiden – Fear Of The Dark
Megadeth – In My Darkest Hour
Depeche Mode – The Darkest Star
Swans – The Sound
Trentemøller – The Mash And The Fury - Original Mix
Klaus Schulze – 1. Satz: Ebene
Sunn 0))) – Che
