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Long Dark Songs - Winter Solstice playlist

sean [Edit] [Delete] 32 replies 08:58 December 22nd, 2011

Some say today is the shortest day but I wanna revel in the longest night.

What are your favourite long (over 5mins) dark (interpret as you wish) songs?

Made a quick start on a playlist, will add some of your suggestions: http://open.spotify.com/user/seaninsound/playlist/4r5oUT6Kw2DwAWJChbtcAh

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sunn o))) & Boris - sinking belle
dirty three & nick cave - sea bove, sky below

Matt_was_taken | 22 Dec '11, 09:28 | X | ^ This | Reply
thus far, from suggestions on Facebook and Twitter

Mogwai – Music For A Forgotten Future
David Bowie – Warszawa
Nine Inch Nails – 34 Ghosts IV
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)
Colin Stetson – White Pulse Mix - Tim Hecker
Richard Skelton – Of the Last Generation
Jeniferever – Atlantis Arise!
Logh – In Cold Blood
Explosions In The Sky – Six Days At The Bottom Of The Ocean
The Album Leaf – Moss Mountain Town
Sigur Ros – Sigur 8 (Untitled)
Harold Budd – First Light
Sonic Youth – The Diamond Sea
Burial – Untrue
Massive Attack – Protection
Pulp – Sheffield: Sex City
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – motherfucker=redeemer
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
Cult Of Luna – Finland
Magma – Kobaia
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – Song For Bob

sean | 22 Dec '11, 09:30 | X | ^ This | Reply
- lots more added (tonnes more suggestions on Twitter and Facebook, plus I got a bit carried away)
  
  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
  
  sean @sean | 22 Dec '11, 10:40 | X | ^ This | Reply
El Kid – Hypnosis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEGPhix5ylM

jimitheexploder | 22 Dec '11, 09:31 | X | ^ This | Reply
Barn Owl - The Darkest Night Since 1683, surely?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6rnNyswOc4

only_shallow | 22 Dec '11, 09:40 | X | ^ This | Reply

brainfeedr this'd this
- great choice
  
  added
  
  sean @only_shallow | 22 Dec '11, 09:42 | X | ^ This | Reply
- great tune...
  
  from a great album
  
  theescapedslave @only_shallow | 22 Dec '11, 15:33 | X | ^ This | Reply
God Machine - Boy by the roadside

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We-_x8Vcr04

HumanDog | 22 Dec '11, 09:55 | X | ^ This | Reply

DaddyorChips this'd this
Change Your Mind - Neil Young

Murder Mystery - Velvet Underground
Dirt - Stooges

theintl | 22 Dec '11, 10:16 | X | ^ This | Reply
Okkervil River - So come back, i am waiting

wonton | 22 Dec '11, 10:18 | X | ^ This | Reply
Oceansize - Paper Champion / anything off Music For Nurses EP

but preferably Paper Champion.

unfamiliar | 22 Dec '11, 10:24 | X | ^ This | Reply

GoffBoy this'd this
Sunn O))) - Báthory Erzsébet

bulletboy | 22 Dec '11, 10:30 | X | ^ This | Reply
Josh T Pearson - Honeymoon's Great! Wish You Were Here

hanshotfirst | 22 Dec '11, 11:09 | X | ^ This | Reply
errr, Underworld - Dark and Long

Ricky_Ronco | 22 Dec '11, 11:23 | X | ^ This | Reply
- amazed that a certain Electrelane song hasn't made it in here yet either
  
  Loui_Tacceh @Ricky_Ronco | 22 Dec '12, 11:13 | X | ^ This | Reply
Van Der Graaf Generator - A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers

Oissin_ | 22 Dec '11, 11:35 | X | ^ This | Reply

Loui_Tacceh this'd this
- this is the greatest long dark song ever written in my book
  
  but then you may disagree
  
  Loui_Tacceh @Oissin_ | 22 Dec '12, 11:19 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - this said, Kayo Dot - ___on limpid form isn't far behind
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmx7ayXS6LU
    
    ^^^holy mother of god, folks, it's the all-shrieking, all-clattering End
    
    Loui_Tacceh @Loui_Tacceh | 22 Dec '12, 11:22 | X | ^ This | Reply
Lilys - The Turtle Which Died Before Knowing

Jeniferever - Nangijala
Sigur Ros - Svefn G Englar
Mono - The Flames Beyond The Cold Mountain
Wolves In The Throne Room - Cleansing
Corrupted - El Mundo Frio
Stars Of The Lid - Cantus II; in Memory of Warren Wiltze

thekidswhopoptoday | 22 Dec '11, 12:04 | X | ^ This | Reply
Pretty nonsense definition of dark in this thread

WhiteLightWhiteCity | 22 Dec '11, 12:18 | X | ^ This | Reply
- how so?
  
  The OP says interpret as you wish. What's your interpretation?
  
  al_la @WhiteLightWhiteCity | 22 Dec '11, 17:06 | X | ^ This | Reply
Grails

I Led Three Lives

GrandMoffTarkin | 22 Dec '11, 13:06 | X | ^ This | Reply
Coil - How To Destroy Angels

drop_b | 22 Dec '11, 15:35 | X | ^ This | Reply
- yeah this thread is kinda made for Coil
  
  Loui_Tacceh @drop_b | 22 Dec '12, 11:12 | X | ^ This | Reply
any songs from 2012 I should add to this playlist?

sean | 22 Dec '12, 10:13 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Extra Life - Blinded Beast
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeXDFxetVmc
  
  Loui_Tacceh @sean | 22 Dec '12, 11:10 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - ^^^14 minutes of slow-burning, pitch-black psychological disaster
    
    absolutely superb music, listen if you like art-prog, post-rock or w/e
    
    Loui_Tacceh @Loui_Tacceh | 22 Dec '12, 11:11 | X | ^ This | Reply
- anything off the KTL album or the Swans album maybe?
  
  already got one Swans song so maybe not that
  
  scott walker too, cmon DiS
  
  Loui_Tacceh @sean | 22 Dec '12, 11:15 | X | ^ This | Reply
Winter Family - Searching Donkeys
Nico - Frozen Warnings
Kemialliset Ystävät - Kuuma Tomu
Paavohaarju - Sumuvirsi
Vatican Shadow - Worshippers at the Same Mosque
Thomas Köner - Teimo. Schluss.
Pantha Du Prince - Es Scneit
BJ Nilsen - Virtual Resistance
GAS - Untitled 1 (on Zauberberg)
Black to Comm - Forst

etc

incandenza_ | 22 Dec '12, 13:57 | X | ^ This | Reply
ASIWYFA - I Capture Castles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP4_g0Da0gA

Icarus-Smicarus | 22 Dec '12, 14:06 | X | ^ This | Reply