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20 Requests for KEXP's "The Longest Songs on the Longest Day" Program
20 Requests for KEXP's "The Longest Songs on the Longest Day" Program
by Dave Segal • Jun 20, 2019 at 12:31 pm
Now this is a concept I can get behind. On Friday, June 21, Seattle radio station KEXP salutes the summer solstice by playing long songs during daylight hours. What is long, in KEXP's programmers' ears? Tracks whose duration surpass the 6:13 of Bob Dylan's 1965 folk-rock classic "Like a Rolling Stone." That song was the breakthrough which convinced record companies that tracks longer than the standard single length of two to three minutes could captivate radio listeners and scale the upper regions of the charts.
In a press release, Kevin Cole, host of KEXP’s Afternoon Show and Chief Content Officer, said, “All great music matters. Celebrating the longest songs on the longest day of the year is a way to not lose sight of how a three minute build-up, a two-minute bridge, or a four minute instrumental breakdown can get our hearts pumping and our bodies dancing. In a world of short attention spans and instant gratification, this is an aural reminder that some of the most enriching experiences in life take time—sometimes even more than 6 minutes and 13 seconds!”
Hear! Hear! Let's hope this becomes an annual tradition. So, with this notion in mind, I'd like to request some songs for KEXP's DJs to spin for this auspicious occasion. Even if these suggestions go unheeded, as I suspect most of them will, perhaps Slog's readers will get turned on to some music that will build attention span muscles to unprecedented dimensions. Deep breaths, everybody...
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by Dave Segal • Jun 20, 2019 at 12:31 pm
Now this is a concept I can get behind. On Friday, June 21, Seattle radio station KEXP salutes the summer solstice by playing long songs during daylight hours. What is long, in KEXP's programmers' ears? Tracks whose duration surpass the 6:13 of Bob Dylan's 1965 folk-rock classic "Like a Rolling Stone." That song was the breakthrough which convinced record companies that tracks longer than the standard single length of two to three minutes could captivate radio listeners and scale the upper regions of the charts.
In a press release, Kevin Cole, host of KEXP’s Afternoon Show and Chief Content Officer, said, “All great music matters. Celebrating the longest songs on the longest day of the year is a way to not lose sight of how a three minute build-up, a two-minute bridge, or a four minute instrumental breakdown can get our hearts pumping and our bodies dancing. In a world of short attention spans and instant gratification, this is an aural reminder that some of the most enriching experiences in life take time—sometimes even more than 6 minutes and 13 seconds!”
Hear! Hear! Let's hope this becomes an annual tradition. So, with this notion in mind, I'd like to request some songs for KEXP's DJs to spin for this auspicious occasion. Even if these suggestions go unheeded, as I suspect most of them will, perhaps Slog's readers will get turned on to some music that will build attention span muscles to unprecedented dimensions. Deep breaths, everybody...
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