Okay, Okay, so there are a bunch of Monday "feeling rotten" songs out there and though I am familiar with most of the songs mentioned so far, "I Don't Like Mondays" is favorite of mine.
For other songs not yet mentioned, consider the list on this website: http://schiing.terjefjelde.com/category/lists |posted by schiing on 05.11.07 @ 2:48 pm | 11 Comments |Ten songs about Mondays |1. Rainy Days and Mondays - The Carpenters |from The Carpenters (1971) |“… rainy days and mondays always get me down …” |2. Manic Monday - The Bangles |from Different Light (1986) |“… it’s just another manic Monday / I wish it was Sunday / ’cause that’s my funday …” |3. Monday Morning Church - Alan Jackson |From What I Do (2004) |“… you left my heart as empty as a Monday morning church …” |4. I Don’t Like Mondays - The Boomtown Rats |from The Fine Art of Surfacing (1979) |“… Tell me why? / I don’t like Mondays /I want to shoot the whole day down …” |5. Blue Monday - New Order |from Power, Corruption & Lies (1983) |“… I thought I told you to leave me / while I walked down to the beach |tell me how does it feel / when your heart grows cold …” |6. Monday Tuesday Girl - Big Country |from I’m Not Ashamed [Single CD] (1995) |“…Monday Tuesday girl who are you now? …” |7. Stormy Monday - The Allman Brothers Band |from At Fillmore East (1971) |“… they call it stormy Monday / but Tuesdays just as bad |Lord, and Wednesdays worse / And Thursdays all so sad …” |8. Monday Morning - The Charade |from The Best Is Yet to Come (2005) |“… it’s Monday morning / breakfast ready …” |9. She Left on a Monday - Bic Runga |from Beautiful Collision (2002) |“… she left on a Monday / she’s a siren down the road |in your herringbone overcoat / that you don’t expect to get back …” |10. Monday Night Nothing - Malcolm Middleton |from Into the Woods (2005) |“… on a Monday night I’m nothing / on a Tuesday night I’m nobody |on a Wednesday Thursday Friday night I’m sad …” And, perhaps the oldest Monday song of all, by P.D.Q. Bach: "Monday Morning Flatulence Through a G String" (aka "Malodourous Air on a G String") Now who remembers that, eh? I thought so. :-) But I expect people to contest P.D.Q. Bach's claim to oldest "Bloody Monday" song/musical piece and now await the listing of ancient hymns, chants, and other laments on Monday. :-) -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:39:28 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: >Not that I personally remember when they were first popular, but >here are some more 'Monday Songs': > >This is one of the most unusual #1 song stories ever. You see, "Stormy >Monday Blues" was a #1 R&B hit in 1942 by jazz greats Earl "Fatha" >Hines and Billy Eckstein. > >But the song "Stormy Monday" or "They Call It Stormy Monday," written >by blues guitar legend T-Bone Walker and first recorded in 1947, is a much >more famous and covered song, and has come to be known as "Stormy >Monday Blues." >While both are structurally blues compositions, they are not the same song >at all. > > http://ezinearticles.com/?They-Call-Them-Both-Stormy-Monday&id=445018 > >RS On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Beth Benoit <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know what happened to the text part of this post, but it was > supposed to say that it was Karen Carpenter who sang, "Rainy days and > Mondays always get me down," and it was the Mamas and the Papas who sang, > "Monday, Monday." > > Hope this one goes through.... > Beth > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Beth Benoit <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Showing-My-Age Beth Benoit >> Granite State College >> Plymouth State University >> New Hampshire >> >> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Dr. Bob Wildblood <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> As part of his discourse on the "new" wave of research on the FGHI, Mike >>> Palij wrote: >>> >>> "Mondays aren't so hot either but the Boomtown Rats told us that years >>> ago." >>> >>> And the Mammas and the Pappas told us long before most people, if any >>> ever heard of the Boomtown Rats, "Rainy days and Mondays always get me >>> down." and also give a gloomy out look on "Monday, Monday." But only the >>> oldest of us probably remember that. >>> --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
