Sunday Bloody Sunday

Updated 7:36 pm 8/21/06
WE HAVE A WEDNESDAY!

Picked the kids up from camp today. They were happy to see me, but they're exhausted.

Cool.

The bus got in a half-hour late, in other words: right on time. No one ever expects the bus from camp to arrive on time, do they?

So while I was waiting, I listened to the radio, and "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" comes on. I wondered if this was planned by some DJ who thought it was cool to play a Sunday song on a Sunday.*

More likely, it was just plopped there by the Indiscriminate Song Selector used by some stations to make it seem like there's someone in the soulless bowels of Corporate Radio who actually gives a shit about the music.

One time, I heard "Psycho Killer" played right after "Strawberry Fields Forever." Think about it.

Anyhow.

I started thinking about songs with days in them. I tried to think of at least one title for each day. I haven't come up with all of them yet, and some days have more than one song.

I'm sure there's more out there. Can you come up with any? I'd say no fair Googling to come up with song titles, but I have no way of enforcing that. However, it is fair to Google the names of songs you know to confirm the artist (and also that it's really the name of the song. After all, the real name of Simon & Garfunkle's "Feeling Groovy" is "The 59th Street Bridge Song."***), or to find out the artists name if you don't know it.

Here's the list so far:

SUNDAY:

• "Sunday, Bloody Sunday"-U2
• "Sunday's Will Never Be the Same" -Spanky and Our Gang***
• “Sunday Morning” - Maroon 5 (thanx, Åsa!)
• “Sunday morning break-up” - Christian Walz (thanx, Åsa!)
• "Gloomy Sunday" - Billie Holliday (thanx again, Åsa!)
• "Every Day is Like Sunday" - Morrisey (thanx, Dear Lovey Heart!)

MONDAY:

• "Monday, Monday" -The Mamas and the Papas***
• "I Don't Like Mondays" -Boomtown Rats (thanx, Biddie!)
  
• "Manic Monday" -The Bangles (thanx, Jessica!)
• "Blue Monday" -New Order (thanx, Clint!)

Which led me to remember:

• "Blue Monday" -Huey Lewis & the News
• "Blue Monday, Blue Day" - Foreigner
  

TUESDAY:

• "Tuesday's Gone with the Wind" -Lynrd Skynrd
• "Ruby Tuesday" - Rolling Stones (thanx, Happy Cadbury!)
• "Tuesday Afternoon" - Moody Blues (thanx, Moody Cadbury!)
• "Tuesday's Heartbreak" - Stevie Wonder (thanx, Dear Lovey Heart!)
• "Tuesday's Dead" - Cat Stevens (thanx, Dear Lovey Heart!)

WEDNESDAY:

• "Wednesday Morning, 3AM" - Simon & Garfunkle!
  

THURSDAY:

FRIDAY:

• "Friday (I'm in Love)" -The Cure
• "Friday Night" - The Darkness (thanx, Heidi!)
  

SATURDAY:

• "Another Saturday Night" -Cat Stevens
• "Saturday Night" -Bay City Rollers***
• "Mister Saturday Night Special" -Lynrd Skynrd
• "Saturday Night's All Right For Fighting"- Elton John
• "The Heart of a Saturday Night" -Tom Waits
• "Saturday Night" - Earth Wind & Fire (thanx, Dear Lovey Heart!)

As you can see, Saturday's got a commanding lead. Understood, since it is the most anticipated evening of the week. But there's got to be more Friday songs than that. And someone, somewhere must have written about Wednesdays and Thursdays. Dontcha think?

If ya got any songs, let me know. I'll put them in here, and attribute them to your brain.

And if you're even thinking about contributing "Everybody's Working for the Weekend" by Loverboy, don't.

Yeharr

*You know the type--the sort that plays the Doors' "Riders of the Storm" everytime it rains.**
**OK--so maybe they don't do that anymore. They did it in the 1980's.***
***No, I'm not an old fart.****
****Am not.