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#Uplifting6Music - what should be on the ultimate uplifting music playlist?
Alex Burnard, Content Producer
Help create the ultimate uplifting playlist.
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#Uplifting6Music - what should be on the ultimate uplifting music playlist?
Alex Burnard
Content Producer
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HAPPY NEW YEAR. How’s you head?
On Sunday January 1st Now Playing we are compiling a playlist around all those songs that give you that lift you need to get on with things. Songs that make you run up some steps in a tracksuit and punch the sky. Your up and at ‘em songs. Hello 2017, good riddance 2016!
Why? Because it’s the start of a new year that’s why, and we’re going to get you in the right mood for the brand new year. A clean slate. A fresh start (boy do we need it after last year).
So what songs make you feel lifted. What songs make you stare into the middle distance and say to yourself, “yeah, I can do this”, in a really meaningful way. Maybe a slight glisten in your eye from tears of inspiration. I
s it something like Sam Cooke’s ’A Change Is Gonna Come’, or Don Henley’s ‘Boys Of Summer’ or Friendly Fires ‘Paris’ or David Bowie ‘Heroes’ or Janelle Monae ‘Tightrope’ or Jackie Wilson (You’re Love Keeps Lifting Me) ‘Higher And Higher’…you get the idea.
You choose the…
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#YourYear6Music - what should be on the ultimate 2016 playlist?
Alex Burnard
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2016 aye. What a year.
We are not going to list the many things that have happened but yeah, it hasn’t been a good one has it, or has it?
This Sunday’s Now Playing is all about 2016 and what songs hold significance you this past year; what memories they hold for you, good and bad.
Brexit. Trump. Syria.
David Bowie. Maurice White. Prince. Leonard Cohen. Sharon Jones.
A lot of bad has happened but there MUST be some good; we want both. We want to hear the bad and the good things that have happened to you this year, the year of 2016, and what song reminds you of these times, and why.
The songs can be new, the songs can be old, but the constant is the certain memory or time in 2016 that a certain song is attached to.
You choose the music, so get your best 'Your Year' suggestions to Tom via the hashtag #2016review6Music to help create the playlist. Comment on the Now Playing Facebook page, here on the blog, email nowplaying@bbc.co.uk or drag tracks onto our Spotify playlist.
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#Dylan6Music – what should be on the ultimate Bob Dylan inspired playlist?
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I don’t know if you heard, but in October Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature for ‘having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition’. Putting him in the company of Dario Fo, Toni Morrison and Samuel Beckett…in the process redefining the boundaries of literature.
This Saturday on December 10th he collects the prize at the official ceremony in Stockholm. Well, Patti Smith is; apparently Bob is too busy….
So on this Sunday’s show we’re doing a Bob Dylan inspired playlist. Makes sense.
Much news coverage surrounded the Nobel Prize for literature being awarded to the 75 year old US singer songwriter poet artist, the first time it has ever been awarded to a musician. What followed brought more column inches, when he went silent for a very long time, being branded “impolite and arrogant” by a member of the academy.
Finally, two weeks after the award was announced, on 29 October, the singer phoned the…
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#Rave6Music - what should be on the ultimate rave playlist?
Alex Burnard
Content Producer
On Friday BBC’s My Generation stopped in the year 1989, and on 6 Music, all day, we were transported back to that year. All the info on the day is here.
So this Sunday we thought we'd do a rave playlist as this is the decade rave was born. Not only that, Danny Rampling will be in the studio talking about his career and helping us sift through your suggestions.
Ahhh 1989 aye, halcyon days.…
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#Style6Music - what should be on the ultimate style playlist?
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To mark T Shirt Day on Friday 25th Nov on 6 Music (where Steve Lamacq asks you to wear your old band t shirts to work, send a photo in, and then we play a track by the artist on your t-shirt), we are asking you create a playlist around the theme of style.
Throughout the day on Friday, from Shaun Keaveny through to the inventor of T Shirt Day himself, Steve Lamacq, listeners are asked to send in…
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#KateBush6Music - what should be on the ultimate Kate Bush playlist?
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On Now Playing this Sunday we have the world exclusive first play of an excerpt from Kate Bush’s forthcoming live album.
Before The Dawn’ features songs recorded live during Kate’s run of 22 sold out shows in 2014 at London’s Hammersmith Apollo. It was the first time the singer had performed live since her 1979 ‘Tour of Life’ which culminated at the same venue, then called Hammersmith Odeon.
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#Cohen6Music - what should be in the ultimate Leonard Cohen playlist?
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You want it darker? It just got darker.
On Friday morning Canadian singer, songwriter and poet Leonard Cohen passed away at the age of 82.
This Sunday we curate a playlist around the great man, what should be on it?
The news was announced on his official Facebook page on Friday morning (GMT).
"It is with profound sorrow we report that legendary poet, songwriter and artist, Leonard Cohen has…
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#Support6Music - what should be on our ultimate support act playlist?
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What’s the best support act you’ve ever seen?
Indie shoegazers Ride have been touted as possible openers for Oasis on their rumoured imminent reunion tour.
Despite Supersonic director Mat Whitecross suggesting the Gallagher brothers and co. are more likely to reunite when there’s less pressure on them, bookies have stopped taking bets on Oasis reforming in 2017.
On this…
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#Horror6Music - what should be on the ultimate horror playlist?
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John Carpenter is coming for you this weekend….
The cult director behind Halloween, The Fog and Village Of The Damned brings his classic horror soundtracks to the UK to perform them live in Manchester, London & Liverpool.
Not only did Carpenter direct the ground-breaking slasher film that sealed his reputation as an auteur, he also composed the score. His electronic, two-note motif for…
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#RoughTrade6Music - what should be on the ultimate Rough Trade playlist?
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In 1976, Geoff Travis started a shop that would change the face of music in the UK. On Sunday, Now Playing @ 6 Music celebrates the independent spirit of Rough Trade 40 years on.
To help us with this none other than founding father of Rough Trade, Geoff Travis AND co-owner Jeannette Lee will be joining us live in the studio, sharing stories of the shop, label and influence on UK culture of the last 40 years.
