Community Playlist - Long Song Edition

Ding Dong, it's a long song. And a long time coming.

It’s been a while since I’ve done a community playlist and I love both communities and playlists so it feels right to send you out another one to mess around with.

This is how a community playlist works: I’ll share with you my own personal playlist that I have lovingly crafted and you improve it - making it not just a playlist that I love but, hopefully, a playlist you all love too.

This month, I wanted to share with you my ‘Ding Dong - It’s A Long Song’ playlist. I reckon that there’s basically no bad long song. If an artist is being ambitious and experimental and patient and thoughtful enough to make a long song then it’s almost definitely good (I would say there’s a 98% chance of the song being good). But the playlist I’m sharing with you is of my favourite long songs.

Finally, what is a long song? Well it’s about 6 minutes, really, isn’t it? I mean, 5 minute songs are long but 6 minutes is undeniably long. So that’s what we should be aiming for I reckon.

You can tell this is a long song.

Over to you.

First up, here are my favourite 50 long songs from 50 different artists.

Now, in the comments section:

1. Choose a song you want to add.

2. Choose a song you would want to keep.

3. Choose a song you want to remove.

In a week’s time, I’ll compile the results, and send the updated playlist back out to you. That way, you will get a playlist made up of 50 of the best long songs as made by people all over the world.

The more people who collaborate, the better and more representative it’ll be. So let’s go! And don’t worry if you’re not sure about your contributions. Just bloody go for it.

See you in a week!