1 | [[quoteright:350:[[Music/{{The Cure|Band}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/friday_im_in_love_cure.png]]]] |
2 | [[caption-width-right:350: [[DontExplainTheJoke It's "Friday, I'm in Love."]] By Music/{{The Cure|Band}}.]] |
3 | |
4 | ->"''Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday, to-day it is Friday, Friday... Tomorrow is Saturday, and Sunday comes afterwards...''" |
5 | -->-- '''Music/RebeccaBlack''', "Music/{{Friday}}" |
6 | |
7 | A ListSong (or poem) that lists the days of the week. Typically, it'll list all seven of them, saying a little something about each of them. |
8 | ---- |
9 | |
10 | |
11 | |
12 | !! Examples: |
13 | [[foldercontrol]] |
14 | !! The whole week |
15 | [[folder:Nursery Rhymes]] |
16 | * ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday%27s_Child Monday's Child]]'': |
17 | -->Monday's child is fair of face, |
18 | -->Tuesday's child is full of grace... |
19 | * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Grundy Solomon Grundy]], born on a Monday... |
20 | * French example: |
21 | --> ''Lundi matin, le roi, la reine et le p'tit prince'' |
22 | --> ''Sont venus chez moi pour me serrer la pince'' |
23 | --> ''Mais comme j'étais parti'' |
24 | --> ''Le petit prince a dit'' |
25 | --> ''Puisque c'est comme ça nous reviendrons mardi'' |
26 | --> ''(Mardi matin...)'' |
27 | ---> ("Monday morning, the king, the queen, and the little prince came to my place to shake my hand. But since I was out, the little prince said, If that's the way it is, we'll come back on Tuesday." etc.) |
28 | ---> The last verse (''Dimanche matin...'') ends ''Puisque c'est comme ça, nous ne reviendrons plus'' ("If that's the way it is, we won't come back anymore"). |
29 | * The various Days of the Week songs taught in schools, usually to the tune of "Oh My Darling, Clementine," "Alouette" or "[[Franchise/TheAddamsFamily The Addams Family theme]]". |
30 | [[/folder]] |
31 | [[folder:Folktales]] |
32 | * "The Two Hunchbacks" (#90 in Calvino's ''Italian Folktales'') includes a verse of this type. |
33 | [[/folder]] |
34 | |
35 | [[folder:Songs]] |
36 | * Music/TheBeatles: |
37 | ** "Lady Madonna" (Except Saturday). |
38 | ** "She's Leaving Home" (Wednesday and Friday only) (from ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand''). |
39 | ** Visual: The singalong for "Eight Days a Week" on the Beatles' cartoon show ends with a picture of a girl representing each day of the week. When it gets to a picture of an eighth girl, a question mark is shown next to it. |
40 | * "Blue Monday" by Music/FatsDomino, also done by Music/BobSeger among others. |
41 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKQtcirM26M Burger Pattern]]" by The Fat Boys lists Monday-Thursday and implies that today is Friday. |
42 | * "Days of the Weak" by Cab City Combo. |
43 | * "The Diary of Horace Wimp" by Music/ElectricLightOrchestra references events on all days but Saturday. |
44 | * "Freeze Frame" by Music/TheJGeilsBand, mentioning Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. |
45 | * "Friday I'm in Love" by Music/{{The Cure|Band}} (see cover image). |
46 | * "Friday on My Mind" by Music/TheEasybeats (Monday through Friday). |
47 | * "Garbage" by Music/TISM |
48 | --> Monday night is 50s night\ |
49 | Tuesday night is 60s night\ |
50 | Wednesday night is 70s night\ |
51 | Friday night is Thursday night-- |
52 | * ''Gesällvisan'' ("Journeyman's Song"), a Swedish song which describes how said journeyman does absolutely nothing for the entire week. |
53 | * The ''Series/HappyDays'' theme song. |
54 | * "Here Comes The Weekend" by Music/DaveEdmunds. |
55 | * "I Gotta Feeling" by Music/BlackEyedPeas. |
56 | * "I Met Him On A Sunday" by The Shirelles. |
57 | * "I'll Always Remember The Song" from TheMusical ''Romance/Romance''. The characters relate how they go to see an outdoor band every night for a week and keep hearing the same polka tune (and falling in love to it). |
58 | * "Judy Blue Eyes" by [[Music/CrosbyStillsNashAndYoung Crosby, Stills & Nash]] uses five of them during the "what have you got to lose" section. |
59 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RePriPCmlro MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, PARTY!]] |
60 | * "Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday Night" by Supe & The Sandwiches. |
61 | * "Never on Sunday". |
62 | * The Creator/{{One Saturday Morning|AndABCKids}} theme song to the block on ABC. |
63 | * "One Week" by [[WordSaladTitle Shonen Knife]]. |
64 | * "Opportunity" by Music/GammaRay. |
65 | * "Pieces of Me" by Ashlee Simpson goes from Monday to Wednesday. |
66 | * Music/{{Queen|Band}}: |
67 | ** [[Music/ANightAtTheOpera "Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon"]] revolves around the narrator describing his weekly routine, which grows increasingly eccentric with each day. |
68 | ** [[Music/Jazz1978 "In Only Seven Days"]] revolves around the narrator giving a day-by-day account of a week-long vacation he spends. Starting on Monday and ending on Sunday, each day corresponds with a different moment in the narrator's vacation and his romance with a girl that he meets on the beach.. |
69 | * "The Rest Of The Week She's Mine". OlderThanRadio: Billy Murray recorded the song around 1909, in which his girl was busy every day -- "Saturday she teaches, Sunday she preaches / but the rest of the week, she's mine!" |
70 | * "Saturday's Child" by Music/TheMonkees, with each day of the week representing a different type of girl. Excerpt: "If you love a Wednesday / You'll live your life apart now / And if you love a Thursday / She's gonna break your heart so / I'm in love with Saturday's Child!" |
71 | * "7 Days" by Craig David. |
72 | ** Music/{{Tripod}} had one (most likely a parody of Craig David's "7 Days") -- it got cut off pretty quickly though: |
73 | -->Met my baby on a Monday\ |
74 | [[BreadEggsMilkSquick Dumped the body]] on a Tuesday\ |
75 | [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Went to the movies]] on a Wednesday\ |
76 | [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Went to the movies]] on a Thursday\ |
77 | [[RuleOfThree Went to the movies]] on a Friday-- |
78 | * "Seven Days of the Week (I Never Go To Work)" by Music/TheyMightBeGiants. |
79 | * "Seven Drunken Nights", the classic pub song. Usually, it limits itself to five actual verses in CD recordings, but it's a safe bet that the narrator got especially sloshed on the remaining two. |
80 | ** That, and the other two are really, ''really'' [[BawdySong bawdy]]. [[spoiler:Short and bowlderized, he catches her in the act. Also, many versions end with a jab at the supposedly inferior ardor of Englishmen.]] |
81 | ** There are several German versions of "Seven Drunken Nights". The most well-known one is "Trunkenbold", originally by Klaus & Klaus (actually only sung by Klaus Büchner), later CoveredUp by Torfrock (still with the same Klaus Büchner singing the choruses). |
82 | * "Seven Nights To Rock" by Music/BruceSpringsteen. |
83 | * "She's The Sweetheart Of Six Other Guys" by The Happiness Boys. The 1928 song has a chorus about the clothes that this "flapper" wears on the various days of the week. The singer takes solace in the ostentation of his sweetie -- "But those furs and that ring didn't cost me a thing / 'cause she's the sweetheart of six other guys". |
84 | * "Six Days" by DJ Shadow. |
85 | * "The Story of my Old Man" by Music/GoodCharlotte. |
86 | * "Sunday, Monday or Always" by Music/FrankSinatra. |
87 | * "Sunday Kind of Love". The classic jazz hit. |
88 | * "Thursday's Child" by Music/DavidBowie. |
89 | * "Wednesday's Song" by John Frusciante. |
90 | * "weeeek" by the Johnnys Jimusho boyband NEWS. Although the days are (obviously) listed in another language, the song definitely qualifies. |
91 | * "Police on My Back", originally by The Equals, later CoveredUp by Music/TheClash: |
92 | -->"Running Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday / What have I done, what have I done?" |
93 | * "Your Chosen Misery" by Warrel Dane. |
94 | * "I Could Break Your Heart Any Day Of The Week" by Music/MandyMoore. Appropriately. |
95 | * "Days of the Week" by Music/StoneTemplePilots. |
96 | * "The Gasman Cometh" by Music/FlandersAndSwann. Monday morning the gasman comes to fix a pipe handle, but tears up the floorboards in the process, forcing the singer to call in the carpenter next day, who shorts out the lights... |
97 | * "Happy Birthday to Me" by Bulldog Mansion, from the second episode of ''Series/ThereSheIs'' Even though most of the song is in Korean, the days of the week are in [[GratuitousEnglish English]]. |
98 | * "Friday I'll Be Over You" by Allison Iraheta ("Monday, Tuesday we were cool / Wednesday, I found out 'bout you / Cause Friday I'll be over you.") |
99 | * "Friday Night" by S Club 7 ("Monday, Tuesday come and go / Wednesday, Thursday sometimes slow / Friday comes, just like a dream / We'll party until it's time to leave.") |
100 | * Several Christian songs about praising the Lord "every day of the week". An example that comes to mind is the Hokkien song "Jin Jian Hor" (It's So Good). |
101 | * "Glamorous Sky" by Mika Nakashima. A J-pop example. |
102 | * "Bounce with Me" by DJ OZMA. Another J-pop example. |
103 | * "Weekend Magic" by Music/{{BIGMAMA}}. A J-rock example. [[GratuitousEnglish Though it uses English words for the days of the week]]. |
104 | * "Except for Monday" by Music/LorrieMorgan. ("I'm on a big roll now / Except for Monday, which was never good anyway / Tuesday, I get a little sideways / Wednesday, I feel better just for spite..."). |
105 | * "What a Beautiful Day" by Chris Cagle is a variant, listing off various days in a relationship ("Day one, I stumbled through hello on Fifth Avenue / Day two, we grabbed a bite to eat and talked all afternoon...") |
106 | * "Seven Days" by Mary J. Blige. |
107 | * "Why Don't You Write Me?" by Music/SimonAndGarfunkel (Monday-Friday). |
108 | * A children's song sung to the tune of "My Darling Clementine". |
109 | * There's another children's song to the tune of the theme song from ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' |
110 | --> ''Days of the week (snap snap)'' |
111 | --> ''Days of the week (snap snap)'' |
112 | --> ''Days of the week, days of the week, days of the week (snap snap)'' |
113 | --> ''There's Sunday and there's Monday'' |
114 | --> ''There's Tuesday and there's'' ''[[FridgeBrilliance Wednesday]]'' |
115 | --> ''There's Thursday and there's Friday'' |
116 | --> ''And then there's Saturday'' |
117 | * "Seven-Day Fool" by Jully Black. |
118 | * "Seven Nights to Rock" by [[Music/NickLowe Nick Lowe]] |
119 | * "Hard to Get" by Starclub ("Monday monday go away... I'm sick and tired of Tuesdays, Wednesdays could be better... wet and windy Thursday, one more day 'til Friday.") |
120 | * Music/RebeccaBlack's infamous "Music/{{Friday}}" and its sequel, "Saturday". |
121 | * "I will love you Monday (365 days of the year)" by Aura Dione. |
122 | * "Someday I'll Be Saturday Night" by Music/BonJovi. |
123 | * "Friday Night" by The Darkness which covers all but the weekend. |
124 | * "Long Live the Weekend" by The Living End. |
125 | * "I Like the Weekends", an in show example on ''Series/KidsIncorporated''. |
126 | * "Days of the Week" from ''[[Series/TheSunnySideUpShow Sunny Side Up]]''. |
127 | * ''Series/SproutHouse'', ''Sunny Side Up'''s SpiritualSuccessor, has several. |
128 | * "His Girl Friday" by Music/TheAcademyIs... . |
129 | * "Seven Days of the Week" by Grandaddy (performing as Arm of Roger). |
130 | * "Isang Linggong Pag-ibig" (One Week Love) by Imelda Papin. The classic Filipino song. |
131 | * "Conway" by Reel 2 Real. |
132 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EONBwwoQxRw Sore Yuke! Oha March]]" by Fruits Punch. |
133 | * "Diary Of A Wimp" by {{Music/Space}}. |
134 | * "Armenia City in the Sky" by Music/TheWho. |
135 | * "I Got Stripes" by Music/JohnnyCash: |
136 | -->''One, two, three...'' On a Monday, I was arrested; on a Tuesday, they put me in a cell; on a Wednesday, my trial was attested; on a Thursday, they said guilty and the judge's gavel fell... |
137 | * "Solomon Bites The Worm" by The Bluetones (Solomon being the up top mentioned Solomon Grundy, of course). |
138 | * "I've Got Six Days To Cheat" by Robby Roadsteamer, about cheating on a girlfriend six days a week with a different girl each day. It covers every day except Sunday. Although the line for one day strays from that ostensible topic entirely: "Thursday I wash my balls in the sink!". |
139 | * "Tired of Sex" by Music/{{Weezer}} mentions a different girl for each day of the week: "Monday night, I'm making Jen. Tuesday night, I'm making Lyn..." |
140 | * "Thursday", a "Friday" parody by Creator/ConanOBrien, teaches that Thursday comes one day before Friday, one day after Wednesday, and [[ShapedLikeItself one week before Thursday]]. |
141 | * "Tuesday's Child" by All About Eve. |
142 | * "Seven Days" by Music/{{Sting}} combines it with UncommonTime. |
143 | * "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush," with clothes being washed on Monday, ironed on Tuesday and so on. |
144 | * "There are Seven Days" from ''Series/BarneyAndFriends'', a song about learning the days of the week. |
145 | * "Satellite of Love" by Music/LouReed from ''Music/{{Transformer}}'' (Lyric: "Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday to Thursday with Harry, Mark and John.") |
146 | * "Love You Till Friday" by Music/TheReplacements also mentions Saturday. |
147 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efLcgUQmyT8 "Saturday Love"]] by 1980s R&B singer Cherrelle. ("Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday Love"; also, "Never on Sunday, Monday's too soon, Tuesday and Wednesday just won't do...") |
148 | * "Every Day of the Week," a 1957 tune by the Students. [[labelnote:Trivia]]The flip side, "I'm So Young", was later covered by Music/TheBeachBoys on their ''[[Music/TheBeachBoysToday Today!]]'' album.[[/labelnote]] |
149 | * "Call it Stormy Monday" by T-Bone Walker, a blues standard. |
150 | * "You're My Star" by Music/{{Stereophonics}}. Only Saturday is not mentioned. |
151 | * "Days of the Week" by Music/StoneTemplePilots |
152 | * "Mix Up, Mix Up" from Music/BobMarley's ''Music/{{Confrontation}}'' |
153 | --> ''They're so much stumbling blocks right in-a our way'' |
154 | --> ''Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday'' |
155 | --> ''There's so much wanting, so much gaining, so much have done'' |
156 | * "Here Comes That Sound Again", a 1979 disco club hit by Love De-Luxe. ("When Monday comes around I'm always feelin' low"..."Tuesday is a drag"..."Wednesday lets me down"..."Thursday gets around"..."But Friday is my friend because I know that soon it's gonna be Saturday") |
157 | * "Waiting for Love" by Music/{{Avicii}} lists all seven days: he's heartbroken Monday through Wednesday, waiting for love on Thursday, partying on Friday and Saturday, and then on Sunday waiting for love again. |
158 | * "Forever Works for Me (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)" by Neal [=McCoy=]: |
159 | -->I can see you Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, how 'bout Friday night?\ |
160 | We might as well spend the weekend getting all our plans just right\ |
161 | 'Cause now that I know together works for you, forever works for me |
162 | * "Days of the Week" by Charlotte Martin. |
163 | * "I'm Better Off Without You" by Miwa Gemini. The bridge lists how her relationship fluctuates from day to day over the course of an average week. |
164 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYd2CJae0mA "Monday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Friday"]] is an Imperial Japanese Navy (and later Maritime Self Defense Forces) song extolling the work ethic of Japanese seamen. The title ironically originated from a navy lieutenant's grumbling about how they never got a break on the weekends. |
165 | * "Hanging Out the Linen Clothes" is similar to "Mulberry Bush," with the titular garments being washed on Monday, hung on Tuesday, etc. |
166 | * "This Little Light of Mine", in one version from the 1986 [[Music/KidsPraise Kids Praise 6]] album: |
167 | -->Monday gave me the gift of love,\ |
168 | Tuesday peace came from above,\ |
169 | Wednesday told me to have more faith,\ |
170 | Thursday gave me a little more grace,\ |
171 | Friday told me to watch and pray,\ |
172 | Saturday told me just what to say,\ |
173 | Sunday gave me the power divine\ |
174 | To let my little light shine. |
175 | * "See Saw" by The Moonglows: |
176 | -->Monday, it's a huggin' and a kissin'\ |
177 | And Tuesday, somethin' I've been missin'\ |
178 | Wednesday, ev'rything is fine\ |
179 | Thursday, you done changed your mind\ |
180 | \ |
181 | Friday, it's the day we make up\ |
182 | Saturday, the day we break up\ |
183 | Sunday, things are goin' all right\ |
184 | Monday, you want to start up fightin' |
185 | * "Funky Weekend" by The Stylistics mentions Monday through Friday. |
186 | * "Weekend" by Mick Jackson has the chorus chant "Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday night." |
187 | * "Mo Di Mi Do Fr Sa So" by Music/EinsturzendeNeubauten. |
188 | * "A Good Day is Hard to Find" by [[Music/TheBeautifulSouth Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbot]] runs through every day of the week, and why they all suck. Even the weekend. |
189 | * "Sunday" by Buster states that the other six days of the week suck because Sunday is the only time the singer gets to see his girlfriend. |
190 | * "Finally Friday" by Music/GeorgeJones (also cut by Earl Thomas Conley) mentions Monday through Friday. |
191 | * "God Bless Saturday" by Music/KidRock states that Monday through Friday suck because of work and Saturday is the one bright spot in the entire week. |
192 | * "0 week old" from ''Anime/PriPara'' has a verse where Falulu lists the days of the week and what she does on each day. |
193 | * "Oh, wann kommst du?" by Daliah Lavi, one of her biggest hits in German with in which she rattles down all seven days of the week in one go several times. |
194 | * "Pizza Day" by Music/TheAquabats, an anthem about school lunches. |
195 | -->Monday, hotdogs\ |
196 | Tuesday, tacos\ |
197 | Wednesday, hamburgers and chocolate milk\ |
198 | Thursday, sloppy joes and burritos in a bag\ |
199 | Friday was pizza day, the best day of the week\ |
200 | It always came with salad and a side of cold green beans |
201 | * "Saturday" by Music/TwentyOnePilots mentions Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and, of course, Saturday. |
202 | * The 1988 Steven Curtis Chapman song "Tuesday's Child" uses the Monday's Child poem as part of a framework for the song's chorus. |
203 | * "Days of the Week", by satirical musician Damaskas, is a montage of some 50 songs that mention days. It starts with Sunday, then Monday etc. until the entire week is covered. Played occasionally on The Dr. Demento Show. |
204 | [[/folder]] |
205 | |
206 | [[folder:Commercials]] |
207 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CCROasz8F0 Hulk Hogan]] in a Japanese commercial for... a heater? or something? [[spoiler: Also apparently the week has two Thursdays.]] |
208 | * A commercial for dog food explained "Why dogs never get tired of Chuck Wagon" with a montage: "7 ways for 7 days". |
209 | -->Monday, serve regular Chuck Wagon dry\ |
210 | Tuesday, regular CW moist\ |
211 | Wednesday, Chuck Wagon Chunky Chicken Flavor dry\ |
212 | Thursday, CW CCF moist\ |
213 | Friday, mix the two dry\ |
214 | Saturday, mix the two moist\ |
215 | On Sunday, add cream sauce |
216 | [[/folder]] |
217 | |
218 | !!Specific days of the week |
219 | [[folder:Sunday]] |
220 | * "Tell Me On a Sunday" from Creator/AndrewLloydWebber's musical... ''Tell Me On a Sunday''. |
221 | * "Easy (Like Sunday Morning)" by the Commodores. |
222 | * "Sunday Morning" by Music/{{Maroon5}}. |
223 | * The (Little) Rascals' "Groovin'" (...on a Sunday afternoon...) |
224 | * "Sunday Best" by Washington. |
225 | * "Pleasant Valley Sunday" by Music/TheMonkees. |
226 | * "Sunday Bloody Sunday" by Music/{{U2}} from ''Music/WarU2Album'' |
227 | * "Gloomy Sunday", the infamous [[BrownNote "Hungarian suicide song"]] that has been CoveredUp by Music/BillieHoliday and others. |
228 | * "Sunday Will Never Be The Same" and "Sunday Morning," by Spanky and Our Gang. |
229 | * The Music/VelvetUnderground has "Sunday Morning" from ''Music/TheVelvetUndergroundAndNico'' (Sunday and Monday). |
230 | * "Blue Sunday" by Music/TheDoors. |
231 | * “Sunday” by Music/DavidBowie. |
232 | * “That Sunday, That Summer” by Music/NatKingCole. |
233 | * "Dimanche à Orly" - Gilber Bécaud [[note]] Translation: "Sunday at Orly". Orly is an airport in Paris [[/note]] |
234 | * "Put on Your Sunday Clothes" from ''Theatre/HelloDolly''. |
235 | * "Sunday Morning Coming Down" (written by Kris Kristofferson; best known for Music/JohnnyCash's cover version). |
236 | * "Whiskey on a Sunday" by the Dubliners and several others. |
237 | * "Immer wieder sonntags" by German duo Cindy and Bert. (The title was so iconic way back then that a music show took the title.) |
238 | * "Sunday Morning Nightmare" by Sham 69. |
239 | * "What Are You Doing Sunday" by Tony Orlando & Dawn. |
240 | * "Another Park, Another Sunday" by Music/TheDoobieBrothers. |
241 | * "Everyday is Like Sunday" by Morrisey. |
242 | * "Lazy Sunday Afternoon" by The Small Faces. |
243 | * "On a Sunday Afternoon" by Lighter Shade of Brown (Sunday and Monday). |
244 | * "Raining on Sunday" by Radney Foster (Sunday and Monday). |
245 | * "Sunday Girl" by Music/{{Blondie|Band}}. |
246 | * "Sunday in the South" by Shenandoah. |
247 | * "Sunday's Best" by Music/ElvisCostello. |
248 | * "That's What I Love About Sunday" by Craig Morgan. |
249 | * "Loving You Sunday Morning" by the Scorpions. |
250 | * "Beautiful Sunday" by Daniel Boone. |
251 | * "Another Sunday Morning" by Black Raven. |
252 | * "Sunday Morning People" by The Honey Cone. |
253 | * "Black Sunday" by Music/JethroTull. |
254 | * "[[Music/ConfessionExecutiveCommittee Sunday's Secret]]" (Nichiyoubi no Himitsu) by Music/HoneyWorks. |
255 | * "Sunday in New York", the title song from a 1963 RomCom. |
256 | * "Cruising Down the River" (On a Sunday Afternoon) by Russ Morgan. |
257 | [[/folder]] |
258 | |
259 | [[folder:Monday]] |
260 | * "Manic Monday" by Music/TheBangles (Sunday and Monday). |
261 | * The Mamas and Papas, "Monday, Monday". |
262 | * "Monday Blues" by Music/{{EXOCBX}}. |
263 | * "Blue Monday" by Music/NewOrder (available on ''Music/PowerCorruptionAndLies'') |
264 | * "Rainy Days and Mondays" by the Music/{{Carpenters}}. |
265 | * "Monday Monday Monday" by Music/TeganAndSara. |
266 | * The Boomtown Rats' "[[HatingOnMonday I Don't Like Mondays]]". |
267 | * "Monday Will Never Be The Same" by Music/HuskerDu. |
268 | * "Every Monday Morning Comes" by Music/{{Suede}}. |
269 | * "Monday Morning" by Music/DeathCabForCutie. |
270 | * "Bombs on Monday" by Melanie Martinez. |
271 | * "Monday Morning" by Music/FleetwoodMac (Monday and Friday). |
272 | * "New Moon on Monday" by Music/DuranDuran. |
273 | * "Memphis Monday Morning" by Bobby "Blue" Bland. |
274 | * "Monday's Melancholy" (Getsuyoubi no Yuuutsu) by Music/HoneyWorks. |
275 | [[/folder]] |
276 | |
277 | [[folder:Tuesday]] |
278 | * "Tuesday Afternoon" by Music/TheMoodyBlues. |
279 | * "Tuesday's Gone" by Music/LynyrdSkynyrd. |
280 | * "Ruby Tuesday" from ''Music/BetweenTheButtons'' by Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}. |
281 | * "Everything's Tuesday" by Chairmen of the Board. |
282 | * "Groovy Tuesday" by the Smithereens. |
283 | * "Tuesday Morning" by Music/ThePogues. |
284 | * "Casimir Pulaski Day" by Music/SufjanStevens (mentions Tuesday, Sunday and, implicitly, Monday). |
285 | * "Tuesday's Dead" by Cat Stevens. |
286 | * "Tuesday Heartbreak" by Music/StevieWonder. |
287 | * "Church on Tuesday" by Music/StoneTemplePilots. |
288 | * "Hooray for Tuesday" by the Minders. |
289 | [[/folder]] |
290 | |
291 | [[folder:Wednesday]] |
292 | * "Wednesday" by Music/ToriAmos. |
293 | * Bomb the Music Industry! has "Wednesday Night Drinkball." |
294 | * "A Wednesday Car" by Music/JohnnyCash. |
295 | * "Wednesday's Child" by Matt Monro (Wednesday and Friday). |
296 | * "A Wednesday in Your Garden" by Music/TheGuessWho. |
297 | * "Any Wednesday" by The Royal Guardsmen. |
298 | * "Wednesday's Promises by [=HoneyWorks=]. |
299 | [[/folder]] |
300 | |
301 | [[folder:Thursday]] |
302 | * "Thursday" by Music/{{Morphine}}. |
303 | * "Thursday" by Music/PetShopBoys. |
304 | * "(Thursday) Here's Why I Did Not Go to Work Today" by Music/HarryNilsson. He lists the other days, but the song is about how "Thursday's surreptitiously unique." |
305 | * "Thursday" by Music/{{EXOCBX}}. |
306 | [[/folder]] |
307 | |
308 | [[folder:Friday]] |
309 | * "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)" by Music/KatyPerry. |
310 | * "Come Friday" by Music/AaronTippin. It had an alternate mix called "It's Friday", intended to be played only on Fridays. |
311 | * A special case is "Suds & Soda" by Music/{{dEUS}} from ''Music/WorstCaseScenario'', which shouts the word "Friday!" as background vocals at various points throughout the song. |
312 | * "Music/{{Friday}}" by Music/RebeccaBlack is one of the most famous modern examples of a "Day of the week" song. "Friday! Friday! Gotta get down on Friday!" |
313 | * German singer Reinhard Mey pokes fun at the usual superstition in "Ankomme Freitag der 13.". [[spoiler: After all DisasterDominoes have fallen - it turns out it's actually Thursday 12th.]] |
314 | * "Black Friday" by Music/SteelyDan. |
315 | * "Aloha Friday" by Kimo Kahoano (Monday and Friday). |
316 | * "Friday Night in Dixie" by Rhett Akins. |
317 | * "Friday's Good Mornings" (Kinyoubi no Ohayou) by Music/HoneyWorks. |
318 | [[/folder]] |
319 | |
320 | [[folder:Saturday]] |
321 | * "Another Saturday Night" by Music/SamCooke (later covered by Music/CatStevens). |
322 | * "Saturday Nite" by Blitzen Trapper. |
323 | * "Saturday in the Park" by Music/{{Chicago|Band}}. |
324 | * "Saturday" by Rachael Cantu. |
325 | * "Saturday" by Music/{{Soulwax}} |
326 | * "A Roller Skating Jam Named 'Saturdays'" by Music/DeLaSoul. |
327 | * Music/EltonJohn, "Saturday Night's All Right (for Fighting)". |
328 | * The Bay City Rollers' "Saturday Night" (S! A! T-U-R! D-A-Y! NIGHT!). |
329 | * Cold Chisel - "Saturday Night" (Saturday and Sunday). |
330 | * "Saturday Night" from Whigfield. |
331 | * Deconstructed by Wade Bowen's "Saturday Night", in which he asks, "So why does everybody love Saturday night?" because with his broken heart, he sure isn't enjoying it. |
332 | * "Sabado Nights" (Saturday Nights), a song by 90's Filipino rock band Rizal Underground. |
333 | * "Saturday Clothes" by Gordon Lightfoot. |
334 | * "Everybody Loves Saturday Night" by, among others, the New Christy Minstrels. |
335 | * "Let's Kill Saturday Night" by Robbie Fulks (also recorded by, among others, 5 Chinese Brothers and Pinmonkey) |
336 | * "Sunless Saturday" by Music/{{Fishbone}}. |
337 | * "Saturday Night Fever" by the Lordz of Brooklyn. |
338 | * "Saturday Night At The Movies" by the Drifters. |
339 | * "Saturday Night" by the Music/{{Eagles}}, later covered by Billy Dean. |
340 | * "Joe Harper Saturday Morning" by Music/VanMorrison. |
341 | * "Dancin' (On a Saturday Night)" by Barry Blue. |
342 | * "Juke Box Saturday Night" by Music/GlennMiller. |
343 | * "Louisiana Saturday Night" by Mel [=McDaniel=]. |
344 | * "American Saturday Night" by Brad Paisley. |
345 | * "Small Town Saturday Night" by Hal Ketchum. |
346 | * "Weapon for Saturday" by LOLO. |
347 | * "Almost Saturday Night" by John Fogerty. |
348 | * "Saturday Night Fish Fry" by Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five. |
349 | * "One More Saturday Night" by Music/TheGratefulDead. |
350 | * "Saturday Night Out" by the Searchers. |
351 | * "Saturday Night Didn't Happen" by Reparata and the Delrons (Saturday and Sunday). |
352 | * "Come Saturday Morning" by the Sandpipers. |
353 | * "It's Another Saturday Night" by the Cockroaches (their successor group Music/TheWiggles eventually retooled the song to "Dorothy the Dinosaur" in 1991). |
354 | [[/folder]] |
355 | |
356 | [[folder:Mixed]] |
357 | * Music/TheVelvetUnderground’s "All Tomorrow's Parties" from ''Music/TheVelvetUndergroundAndNico'' (Thursday and Sunday). |
358 | * "Seven Days a Week" from ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' surprisingly only names Saturday and Monday. |
359 | * The Gershwins' "The Man I Love" (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday). |
360 | * The old folk song "In the Jailhouse Now", heard in ‘’Film/OBrotherWhereArtThou’’: "I found out last Monday, he got caught last Sunday..." |
361 | * "Cruel War" by Music/PeterPaulAndMary (Sunday and Monday). |
362 | * "Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go With Friday on Saturday Night?" by Al Jolson (Saturday and Sunday). |
363 | * "It Sure Is Monday" by Music/MarkChesnutt: |
364 | -->I had a ball Friday, Saturday, and Sunday\ |
365 | But it's all over now and it sure is Monday |
366 | * Music/JimmyBuffett's "Come Monday" is ''almost'' a pure Monday song, but for one mention of wanting to go hiking on Tuesday. |
367 | * "Weekend Love" by Chicken Shack: |
368 | -->From Monday to Thursday you can't be found\ |
369 | From Friday to Sunday you're always hangin' around |
370 | * "Chain Gang Bound" by Josh White and his Carolinians: |
371 | -->'Twas on a Monday, Monday I was 'rrested\ |
372 | And on a Tuesday, Tuesday I was tried\ |
373 | And on a Wednesday, Wednesday I was sentenced\ |
374 | And on a Thursday, lordy on a Thursday chain gang bound |
375 | * "Saturday Is the Loneliest Night of the Week" by Music/FrankSinatra (Sunday, Monday, Friday and Saturday). |
376 | * "Will You Be Staying After Sunday" by Peppermint Rainbow (Sunday, Monday and Friday). |
377 | * "I Don't Have to Be Me ('Til Monday)" by Steve Azar (Monday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday). |
378 | * "Long Monday" by John Prine (Friday through Monday). |
379 | * "Tuesday Night" by the Josh Abbott Band (Monday, Tuesday and Friday). |
380 | * "Love You Till Tuesday" by Music/DavidBowie (Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday). |
381 | * "Friday" by Riton and Nightcrawlers featuring Mufasa and Hypeman with uncredited vocals by Samantha Harper (Friday, Saturday, Sunday). |
382 | * "Hello Monday" by Music/GaelicStorm ("Paid on Thursday, Gone by Sunday, Hello Monday, here we go again") |
383 | * "When I Get Paid" by Music/JerryLeeLewis (Monday through Thursday). |
384 | [[/folder]] |
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