The Summer Solstice falls on June 21st this year, and KEXP will celebrate the longest day of the year by breaking out some of the longest songs in our library! From 6 AM - 6 PM PT, we’ll only play sonic gems that surpass the industry standard of 3:15...by a longshot. Actually, all the songs that we'll play will be over 6 minutes, following the trend that Bob Dylan set with his legendary single "Like a Rolling Stone" in 1965, which clocked in at 6:13. Below is just a smattering of songs that clock in over six minutes, many of which you'll hear on the air today.
| time | artist | song |
|---|---|---|
| 6:18 | UNKLE | Rabbit In Your Headlight |
| 6:25 | LCD Soundsystem | Someone Great |
| 6:27 | Radiohead | Paranoid Android |
| 6:31 | Prince | I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man |
| 6:48 | Yo La Tengo | Ohm |
| 6:53 | Jeff Buckley | Hallelujah |
| 6:57 | Sonic Youth | Teen-Age Riot |
| 7:07 | LCD Soundsystem | Sound of Silver |
| 7:11 | The Beatles | Hey Jude |
| 7:11 | LCD Soundsystem | Get Innocuous! |
| 7:18 | Catherine Wheel | Black Metallic |
| 7:33 | Arcade Fire | Reflektor |
| time | artist | song |
|---|---|---|
| 7:37 | LCD Soundsystem | All My Friends |
| 7:38 | Slint | Good Morning, Captain |
| 7:58 | Black Sabbath | War Pigs |
| 8:00 | Weezer | Only In Dreams |
| 8:17 | Ride | Leave Them All Behind |
| 8:25 | Death Cab for Cutie | I Will Possess Your Heart |
| 8:26 | Destroyer | Suicide Note for Kara Walker |
| 8:27 | Tones on Tail | Rain |
| 8:29 | LCD Soundsystem | Us v Them |
| 8:42 | Built To Spill | Goin' Against Your Mind |
| 8:54 | Tokyo Police Club | Argentina (Parts I, II, III) |
| 8:59 | LCD Soundsystem | Dance Yrself Clean |
| 9:03 | !!! | Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard (A True Story) |
| time | artist | song |
|---|---|---|
| 9:07 | Junior Boys | Banana Ripple |
| 9:11 | Wand | Airplane |
| 9:36 | Bauhaus | Bela Lugosi's Dead |
| 9:57 | Frank Ocean | Pyramids |
| 9:57 | David Bowie | Blackstar |
| 10:04 | Sigur Rós | Svefn-G-Englar |
| 10:15 | Scott Walker | Epizootics |
| 10:40 | Television | Marquee Moon |
| 10:55 | Lou Reed | Street Hassle |
| 11:07 | The Microphones | The Glow |
| 11:10 | The War on Drugs | Thinking of a Place |
| 12:04 | Wilco | One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley's Boyfriend) |
| 14:01 | Thom Yorke | A Choir of One |
| 14:45 | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | Babe, I'm On Fire |
| time | artist | song |
|---|---|---|
| 15:00 | The Orb | Towers Of Dub |
| 15:03 | Van Morrison | When Heart Is Open |
| 15:04 | Wilco | Less Than You Think |
| 15:05 | The Jimi Hendrix Experience | Voodoo Chile |
| 15:06 | The Orb | Spanish Castles in Space |
| 15:07 | Coil | Escalation |
| 15:23 | Underworld | Banstyle/Sappys Curry |
| 15:30 | Van Morrison | Summertime In England |
| 15:33 | Orbital | Are We Here? |
| 15:37 | Prince | Cloreen Bacon Skin |
| 15:38 | Earth | Seven Angels |
| 15:39 | Julian Cope | Hill of Odin |
| 15:43 | The Beta Band | Monolith |
| 15:46 | St. Germain | Street Scene (4 Shazz) |
| time | artist | song |
|---|---|---|
| 15:51 | Melvins | The ANti-Vermin Seed |
| 15:59 | Sunn o))) | Báthory Erzsébet |
| 16:01 | Sunn o))) | Belürol Pusztít |
| 16:17 | Mogwai | Mogwai Fear Satan |
| 16:18 | Snow Patrol | The ligtning strike |
| 16:27 | Godspeed You Black Emperor! | The Dead Flag Blues |
| 16:27 | Godspeed You Black Emperor! | 09-15-00 |
| 16:30 | Brian Eno | 1:1 |
| 16:32 | ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead | Part Two: Strange News from Another Planet |
| 16:32 | Bob Dylan | Highlands |
| 16:36 | Julian Cope | The Glam Dicenn (Parts 3 & 4) |
| 16:36 | Underworld | Juanita/Kiteless/To Dream of Love |
| 16:41 | The Mars Volta | Tetragrammaton |
| 16:41 | Black Mountain | Bright Light |
| time | artist | song |
|---|---|---|
| 16:41 | Neil Young | Words |
| 16:48 | Donna Summer | Love To Love You Baby |
| 16:51 | Subhumans [UK] | From the Cradle to the Grave |
| 16:53 | Joanna Newsom | Only Skin |
| 17:04 | The Orb | Slug Dub |
| 17:09 | The Doors | Celebration Of The Lizard |
| 17:14 | Underworld | Man Loop |
| 17:15 | The Damned | Curtain Call |
| 17:27 | Velvet Underground | Sister Ray |
| 17:33 | Can | Aumgn |
| 17:34 | The Residents | Swastikas on Parade |
| 17:40 | Godspeed You Black Emperor! | Bleak, Uncertain, Beautiful... |
| 17:45 | Godspeed You Black Emperor! | BBF3 |
| 17:47 | The Residents | Six Things To A Cycle |
| 17:47 | Donna Summer | MacArthur Park Suite |
| time | artist | song |
|---|---|---|
| 17:52 | Sunn o))) | A Shaving of the Horn That Speared You |
| 17:53 | Underworld | Spoon Deep |
| 17:56 | Of Montreal | The Hopeless Opus or the Great Battle of the Unfriendly Ridiculous |
| 17:58 | Godspeed You Black Emperor! | East Hastings |
| 18:13 | Neil Young | Ordinary People |
| 18:14 | Brian Eno | Lux 2 |
| 18:14 | Boris | Just Abandoned My-Self |
| 18:19 | NOFX | The Decline |
| 18:28 | Brian Eno | Lux 4 |
| 18:31 | The Residents | Hitler Was a Vegetarian |
| 18:35 | The Decemberists | The Tain |
| time | artist | song |
|---|---|---|
| 18:37 | Sunn o))) | Orakulum |
| 18:41 | George Harrison | Under The Mersey Wall |
| 18:47 | The Orb | A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld |
| 18:57 | Godspeed You Black Emperor! | Antennas To Heaven |
| 19:39 | Massive Attack | Antistar |
| 19:41 | The Bevis Frond | The Shrine |
| 20:03 | Boredoms | House of Sun |
| 20:12 | Mogwai | My Father My King |
