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#Uplifting6Music - what should be on the ultimate uplifting music playlist?

2016-12-22T18:22:54+00:00

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 music, so get your best uplifting song suggestions to Tom via the hashtag #Uplifting6Music 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.

#YourYear6Music - what should be on the ultimate 2016 playlist?

2016-12-15T11:38:27+00:00

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.

#Dylan6Music – what should be on the ultimate Bob Dylan inspired playlist?

2016-12-07T14:33:38+00:00

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 academy's permanent secretary, Sara Danius, to say: "I appreciate the honour so much. The news about the Nobel prize left me speechless."

Then to top it off, he’s not attending the ceremony this Saturday. Instead, Patti Smith is stepping in to perform one of his best know tracks, and read out a speech written by him.

What a diva.

Anyway what to suggest for a playlist around a man considered one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century, both musically and culturally… well we could play 2 hours of Bob Dylan, we don’t mind. Anything from his 37 albums. Have you seen him live on his so called ‘Never Ending Tour’? If so, what was that like and what song stood out for you?

Were you there when he ‘went electric’?

Influencers: Little Richard and the songwriting of Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams.

Those he influenced: everyone; Patti Smith, David Bowie, Johnny Cash, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young…not going to list them all.

You choose the music, so get your best Bob Dylan suggestions to Tom via the hashtag #Dylan6Music 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.

#Style6Music - what should be on the ultimate style playlist?

2016-11-24T15:08:06+00:00

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 pictures of them wearing their band t shirts – then 6 Music play a song by the band on your t shirt – specific song requested by you of course.

THE DAY EVEN HAS IT’S OWN EMOJI, just search #TShirtDay on twitter. All the info is here.

So in kind of keeping with this event, we thought we would dedicate a 2 hour playlist to the theme of STYLE. It’s very broad we know because you can argue that essentially, every musician and artist since the beginning of time had a style…so you can go wherever you want with this, as long as it’s around the theme of style.

Bowie, Ferry, Dylan, Hendrix, Bush, Pistols, Simone, Sinatra, Strokes, Ross, Cave, Cohen…all had great style.

We are not going to list them all…

Or songs about style or fashion, like 'Baggy Trousers' by Madness, 'Dedicated Follower Of Fashion' by The Kinks or even 'Handbags And Gladrags' by Rod Stewart...

You get the idea.

You choose the music, so get your best art suggestions to Tom, via the hashtag #Style6Music 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.

#KateBush6Music - what should be on the ultimate Kate Bush playlist?

2016-11-16T14:38:18+00:00

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.

The first night of the shows prompted a complete media frenzy with the Evening Standard declaring that the show was "an extraordinary mix of magical ideas, stunning visuals, attention to detail and remarkable music – she was so obviously, so unambiguously brilliant, it made last night something to tell the grandchildren about."

But we are not only playing some exclusive stuff, we want your Kate Bush related suggestions as well, which means…

Anything from Kate Bush’s 10 studio album’s or one of her 25 top 40 charting singles? I mean, would could just play loads of KB could't we?

Those she has influenced: Tori Amos, Alison Goldfrapp, Bat For Lashes, Coldplay, Erasure, Wild Beasts…

What influenced her? Glam rock, folk music & classical music influenced Bush greatly along with bands like Roxy Music and Peter Gabriel, whom she later collaborated with. Bush is also heavily influenced by literature – Wuthering Heights (obvs), while "Cloudbusting" was inspired by Peter Reich's autobiography, for example..

What about fellow artists who have topped the singles chart as a teenager? Kate Bush’s debut single ‘Wuthering Height’s’ was released when she was just 19...

You choose the music, so get your best art suggestions to Tom, via the hashtag #KateBush6Music 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.

#Cohen6Music - what should be in the ultimate Leonard Cohen playlist?

2016-11-11T10:43:31+00:00

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 passed away," the statement said.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau led tributes to the singer, who was known for hits including Hallelujah and Dance Me to the End of Love. "It is with deep sorrow that I learned today of the death of the legendary Leonard Cohen,"

Mr Trudeau said in a statement. "He will be fondly remembered for his gruff vocals, his self-deprecating humour and the haunting lyrics that made his songs the perennial favourite of so many generations."

Tributes poured in online from all corners of the entertainment world:

Russell Crowe: ‘Dear Leonard Cohen, thanks for the quiet nights, the reflection, the perspective, the wry smiles and the truth”

Boy George: “We have lost a great artist, poet and poignant force of energy. R.I.P. Leonard Cohen”

Bette Midler: “Leonard Cohen has died. Another magical voice stilled”

The world once again is in mourning. What a week. What a year. What should be on the ultimate Leonard Cohen playlist?

The singer's hits including Suzanne, Bird on the Wire and I'm Your Man or everything from his 14 studio albums.

Those he influenced: Nick Cave, Suzanne Vega, Nirvana, Rufus Wainwright or those that have covered his music like REM, Regina Spektor, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash…

Contemporaries of the 60’s folk circuit when he was touring his poetry with Bob Dylan, Joan Baez & Joni Mitchel.

What influenced him, in his own words: “Every time I turn on the radio, I hear something good. Every time I pick up a magazine, I read some writing that is distinguished. My pace and viewpoint is being influenced continually by things I come across. You recapitulate the whole movement of your own culture. Occasionally we are touched by certain elaborate language, like the language we associate with the Elizabethan period, with the King James translation of The Bible, or Shakespeare. In certain moments you are influenced by very simple things. The instructions on a cereal package have a magnificent clarity. You’re touched by the writing in National Geographic — it represents a certain kind of accomplishment”

Or we could just play 2 hours of Leonard Cohen, just saying.

You choose the music, so get your best art suggestions to Tom, via the hashtag #Cohen6Music 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.

#Support6Music - what should be on our ultimate support act playlist?

2016-11-04T09:37:55+00:00

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 week’s Now Playing, we want to celebrate the opening acts, the first on the bill, the warm up artists, so we’d like your suggestions for the best support bands you’ve ever seen.

All artists need to start somewhere, and getting a support slot on a big tour can be a breakthrough moment. But if the venue is half empty and the crowd don’t care, it’s not always an easy gig. A great band can turn the situation to their advantage and win a legion of new fans in the process. Florence and the Machine was exposed to a whole new audience by sharing a bill with MGMT. A little known band called Coldplay supported hot prospects Terris in the year 2000, and look what happened to them.

In 1981, Prince walked onstage to a crowd who’d come to see the Rolling Stones. On that first night, faced with an hostile audience, he lasted 15 minutes. The next night, he returned, unbowed, on his path to glory. That secured his place in a vote for the best opening act in music history, as voted for by readers of Rolling Stone magazine.

The winner of that poll? Jimi Hendrix, who in 1967 opened a series of shows for the Monkees.

So share your memories of the best support acts you’ve ever seen with us, to make up our #Support6music playlist. Which opening acts outshone the headliners? Which beloved bands would you have never discovered but for a support slot? Which double bills were the oddest juxtaposition of genres?

You choose the music, so get your best support band stories to Tom, via the hashtag #Support6Music 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.

#Horror6Music - what should be on the ultimate horror playlist?

2016-10-28T09:08:55+00:00

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 Halloween set the gold standard for film soundtracks in any genre. Not since Psycho had there been a horror film so powerful.

“I had the theme already written for years. It was just something I’d tinkered out on the piano. I played 5/4 time on an octave on a piano, that’s all it was. I hadn’t necessarily applied it to Halloween, it was just sitting there and I thought, Oh, I’ll use this. That works okay. I’m not an accomplished composer of symphonies, I just do basic, straight-ahead, riff-driven music.” John Carpenter

These UK dates see him take to the stage accompanied by his son Cody Carpenter, godson Daniel Davies and a full backing band, performing his classic film score themes and recent releases from Lost Themes I and II.

Carpenter is not the only master of the horror movie soundtrack. Goblin brought early analogue synthesized sounds to the Giallo classic Suspiria and 1979’s Dawn of the Dead. Lalo Schifrin crafted his best music for Amityville Horror and had a hand in The Exorcist score.

So lock yourself in the house with Now Playing on Sunday, and tell us what should be on our #Horror6music playlist. Does Mica Levi’s score for Under the Skin give you thrills? Did David Lynch’s soundtrack to Eraserhead make it unforgettable? Do you relish the Berberian Sound Studio soundtrack by Broadcast when you’re home alone? And do we play Mike Oldfield’s theme for The Exorcist or not?

You pick the music, so get your suggestions for the best horror movie soundtracks to Tom via the hashtag #Horror6Music 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.

#RoughTrade6Music - what should be on the ultimate Rough Trade playlist?

2016-10-21T06:52:01+00:00

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.

"Record shops bred music, they bred fans, they bred labels... from Warp to Rhino, they were where everything started, and still are" Martin Mills, chairman of Beggars group.

Starting out life as a record store in West London, Rough Trade grew into a separate label headed up by Travis who was joined in 1987 by Jeannette Lee. Now, the label has one of the finest rosters of talent of any indie in the UK. The shops host countless in-store gigs every day and Rough Trade Magazine is the only place where Jonathan Richman can solve your problems. Then there’s the annual Counter Culture compilation series which has been championing Rough Trade artists from obscurity since 2002.

A concert to celebrate the best of the label this weekend pairs three artists from the early years with three adventurous counterparts from more recent history. John Grant’s collaboration with Wrangler (feat Stephen Mallinder) explores the connections between Grant’s brooding ballads and Wrangler’s dark-edged electronica. Scritti Politti bring their art-pop influence to bear on the future-dance of Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor. The Pop Group experiment with a post punk aesthetic they share with Protomartyr.

The label has released music from so many seminal bands that there’s an embarrassment of riches for you to choose from to make our #RoughTrade6music playlist. So as well as telling us what track you’d like to hear, share your reason why, and your memories of the original shop in Kensington Park Road.

Young Marble Giants, The Raincoats, Delta 5, Weekend, Robert Wyatt, Aztec Camera, The Smiths, Camper Van Beethoven, The Strokes, The Libertines, Boris and Vivian Girls. Rough Trade released them all, and much much more.

You choose the music, so get your suggestions for the best of Rough Trade releases to Tom via the hashtag #RoughTrade6Music 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.

#Dub6Music - what should be on the ultimate dub playlist?

2016-10-13T18:23:50+00:00

“Every object have a shadow, you have to find the shadow. Every song could be dub, you have to find the dub. It’s a simple as that” Mad Professor.

On Now Playing this Sunday, Mad Professor, Dennis Bovell and Sly & Robbie join Tom to trace the story of dub from the 70s on. After punk, dub is the biggest sound to have come out of the decade, so to mark the end of BBC Radio 6 Music’s My Generation 70s season, it’s time for dub to take a bow.

Heavy bass-led soundsystems were bouncing round Jamaica from the mid-20th century. When R&B started to dry up, enterprising operators started making their own music.

Legend has it that dub was created when Ruddy Redwood, operator of the Supreme Ruler of Sound system (SRS) went to Treasure Island studios to run off some exclusive tracks on acetate, but the engineer forgot to put the voice in the mix. These acetates were known in soundsystem culture as dub plates. And dub was born.

That’s how reggae producer Bunny Lee tells it, in the definitive documentary Dub Echoes. Out of this scene emerged pioneers like Sly & Robbie and the Firehouse Crew, rhythm creators who made Channel 1 a destination for deep bass.

Meanwhile, King Tubby was experimenting with studio electronics and sound in his electrical repair shop in Kingston. Central to the mix was the Roland RE-201 Space Echo, a combination tape echo and reverb introduced in 1974. Originally used by 60's beat groups like The Shadows, it’s been used since by bands from Radiohead to The Orb, Portishead and Jean Michel Jarre.

“That bass drum is a living being” Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry

So many genres owe their origins to dub pioneers, and we want to hear them all on this Sunday’s Now Playing. From drum ‘n’ bass, to dubstep, from The Slits to Massive Attack, dance music as we know it would be nothing without dub at it’s core.

Tune in on Sunday at 6pm to find out how 70s dub had a progressive and lasting effect on the British music scene, and share your favourite dub-inspired tracks with us to make up our #Dub6music playlist.

You choose the music, so get your track suggestions and stories to Tom via the hashtag #Dub6Music 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.

#Beatles6Music - what should be on our ultimate Beatles playlist?

2016-09-15T14:43:14+00:00

One half of the most influential band in history graced 6 Music with their presence this week.

Sir Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and director Ron Howard spoke to Shaun Keaveny about the new Beatles film 'Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years'.

Using existing live film, rare and unseen footage, the producers have weaved together a picture of The Beatles as a vital force onstage. A companion album ‘THE BEATLES: LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL’ recorded in the summers of ’64 and ’65 coincides with the film.

On this Sunday’s Now Playing, we want to hear your favourite Beatles-inspired tracks, to create our #Beatles6music playlist. What are your favourite songs from the band, their contemporaries and artists who owe a debt to the Fab Four?

“On their cover of Roll Over Beethoven you can almost hear the rumblings of proto-punk, while She Loves You sounds almost as sweet as on record.” Gwilym Mumford, The Guardian

Some bands wear their heart on their sleeve when it comes to the debt they owe the Beatles – maybe that’s why you love them. There’s almost no artist working with guitars today who hasn’t been influenced by the band, so let your imagination go wild. Where did The Beatles lead you?

You pick the music, so get your suggestions for the best Beatles inspired tracks to Tom via the hashtag #Beatles6Music 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.

#SoundSystem6Music – help create the ultimate sound system playlist

2016-08-25T11:41:29+00:00

It’s Carnival weekend! A celebration of the capital’s Caribbean communities; their cultures and traditions, which has been taking place since 1964.

This weekend Notting Hill, Ladbroke Grove and Westbourne Park in London get taken over for two days; hundreds of people descend on these parts of London to drink, eat and dance in the streets to the varied and very loud sound systems; live music from reggae to dub to salsa to ska; soca floats & steel bands or just to the music being blasted out of single speakers in people's front gardens.

Add to this it’s also Pride weekend, Leeds Carnival not to mention carnival’s in Nottingham, Scotland, Manchester and Leicester, all in August.

Plus there's a load of carnival inspired programmes across the weekend on 6 Music, all the info is right here.

So with all this, we thought we'd hand the 2 hours over to you guys to create the ultimate sound system playlist.

So it's over to you, where would you go for your fix of music at a carnival – whether it’s reggae dons Channel One, who have had the same spot at Notting Hill Carnival since 1979! Or The Disco Hustlers, who play, well yes, Disco. Or maybe you fancy some Rock n Roll so you head over to Gaz’s Rockin Blues soundsytem, maybe you want to really lose yourself, and head to Rapattack – who play everything from ’70s funk jams to ’90s house classics, right up to new R&B and hip hop bangers.

Or your more of a steel pan, Calypso or Soca person? What get's you moving?

This is your sound system, what carnival music do you want to hear on it?

You pick the music, so get your sound system inspired suggestions to Tom via the hashtag #SoundSystem6Music to help create a playlist. Comment on the Now Playing Facebook page, here on the blog, email nowplaying@bbc.co.uk or drag tracks onto our Spotify playlist.

#Knebworth6Music - what should make our ultimate live music event playlist?

2016-08-04T17:42:31+00:00

On 10 / 11 August 1996, the biggest band in Britain staged two homecoming gigs which were to go down in history.

Knebworth was a venue that had long been associated with the biggest acts in rock history; Queen, Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones had all played there to massive crowds.

Enter, Oasis. The Gallagher brothers had already placed themselves as the true bearers of the flame, and their plan was for nothing less than world domination.

They hired the biggest PA, the biggest video screens, and reportedly sold over 250,000 tickets for 2 consecutive performances. This moment could be seen as the last great Britpop performance; nothing after would match its scale.

So let’s go back to that weekend twenty years ago to create a #Knebworth6music playlist. What would you like to hear in our celebration of this momentous moment in live music? Maybe you were blown away by one of the support bands - Prodigy, Ocean Colour Scene, Charlatans and Manic Street Preachers all played their part.

We’re not just talking about one weekend though, this Sunday’s Now Playing is all about the biggest live music event you ever had the privilege of being part of. If you think there’s a live music moment from the last sixty years that’s bigger than Oasis at Knebworth, let’s hear it.

Have you still got your tickets from the gig? Or an amazing story about meeting your best friend in the queue? We want your stories, ticket stubs, photos and memories of Knebworth and more.

You pick the music, so get your suggestions to Tom via the hashtag #Knebworth6Music and help build the playlist. Share your memorabilia and memories on the Now Playing Facebook page, here on the blog, email nowplaying@bbc.co.uk or drag tracks onto our Spotify playlist.

#Space6Music - what should make our ultimate space playlist?

2016-07-28T15:14:21+00:00

What does space sound like?

If Jack White achieves his ambition to play a record outside of Earth’s atmosphere, space will sound a bit like… well Carl Sagan actually.

White’s label Third Man Records announced this week they have built a “space-proof” turntable called The ICARUS CRAFT. On July 30th they attempt to play the first phonographic record in space — a gold-plated 12” master of Carl Sagan’s “A Glorious Dawn”.

Speaking of Sagan, the inaugural bluedot festival brought 15,000 people to the Jodrell Bank Observatory last weekend. In 1994, NASA scientist and broadcaster Carl Sagan gave a speech in which he coined the phrase ‘pale blue dot’ to refer to our home planet.

In the glow of the Lovell Telescope, illuminated by an original lightshow from Brian Eno, was an intergalactic festival of music, science, arts, culture and the exploration of space.

So on this week’s Now Playing, we want to explore the sounds of the universe, and compile a playlist of your space-related suggestions.

Maybe we should start with ‘Hello Moon Can You Hear Me?' - a remix of sounds from space by producers Jim Spencer and David Tolan working in collaboration with Jodrell Bank's Tim O'Brien. The track includes signals from spacecraft at the dawn of the space age, the death throes of an exploding star and the sounds which flooded through the Universe after the Big Bang.

Perhaps there’s a track that sounds like it came from outer space, from AURORA to Zappa. Sun Ra’s Space Is The Place? Or maybe you’re more of a Jesus and Mary Chain fan, and fancy hearing ‘Lost Star’.

You choose the music, so get your recommendations for tracks that are out of this world, to Tom via the hashtag #Space6Music and help build 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.

#Psychedelia6Music

2016-07-21T15:09:40+00:00

Time to expand your mind…….

Join Now Playing this week on a trip through psychedelia, in honour of BBC Music’s My Generation Season.

6 Music has been exploring the outer limits of 60s counterculture all week and now it’s your turn. From the psychedelic peak of White Rabbit to the sun drenched bliss of MGMT via George Clinton’s Funkadelic, we want your suggestions for our #Psychedelia6Music playlist.

When a generation of British R&B bands discovered LSD, conventions were questioned. From out of the bohemian underground and into the pop mainstream, the psychedelic era produced some of the most ground-breaking music ever made, pioneered by young improvising bands like Soft Machine and Pink Floyd, then quickly taken to the charts by the likes of the Beatles, Procol Harum, the Small Faces and the Moody Blues, even while being reimagined in the country by bucolic, folk-based artists like the Incredible String Band and Vashti Bunyan.

This Sunday Tom needs your help to celebrate the lasting impact of psychedelia on music and popular culture, from the 60s onwards.

From songs directly inspired by LSD experiences, to 21st century psych freakouts, share your favourite tracks from the outer limits and let’s journey down the rabbit hole together.

You choose the music, so get your recommendations for psych jams to Tom via the hashtag #Psychedelia6Music and help build 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.