Nobody writes songs about Wednesdays.
No one likes a Wednesday. They’re tolerated at best. Neither loved nor hated they are just, well, Wednesdays.
People write songs about the things they care about. Colours, moods, the seasons of the year, and even the days of the week. But nobody writes songs about Wednesdays. I wonder why?
No one likes a Monday. Back to the grindstone, weekend over and a week of work ahead. Judging by Monday songs it isn’t going to go well.
The Mamas and the Papas knew when they sang about Monday Monday. “Every other day, every other day of the week is fine”, they said “but whenever Monday comes, you can find me cryin' all of the time.” They knew “you just can’t trust that day”.
Similarly the Bangles were anticipating a Manic Monday and said profoundly “It's just another manic Monday (oh-woe) I wish it was Sunday (oh-woe) 'Cause that's my Funday (oh-woe) My I don't have to runday (oh) It's just another manic Monday.” Quite.
Mind you neither the Bangles not the Mamas and the Papas disliked Mondays as much as Bob Geldof and his Boomtown Rats who were not kidding when they said I don’t like Mondays.
The silicon chip inside her head
Gets switched to overload
And nobody's gonna go to school today
She's gonna make them stay at home
And daddy doesn't understand it
He always said she was good as gold
And he can see no reasons 'Cause there are no reasons
What reason do you need to be shown?
I don't like Mondays (Tell me why)
I don't like Mondays (Tell me why)
I don't like Mondays
I wanna shoot the whole day down
If you’re not familiar with what that cheerful little number is about you can read it here, but it might rather spoil your enjoyment of the song.
Another day rolls around and it feels like the week will never end, it’ll be Forever Tuesday Morning. A plaintive cry “If only I was not so lonely. If only I was not so homely. If only I was not so lost within you. Without you my life's gonna be forever Tuesday morning.” Sounds grim.
You can hear about Ruby Tuesday. The Stones attempting to do an Eleanor Rigby, which had been released a few months earlier. But it wasn’t as good as the Beatles. So pretty much par for the course for the Stones really (be sure to let me know if you disagree with that statement, I’m sure someone will).
I mean it’s not very good is it? In the chorus rhyming Tuesday with day?
Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you?
When you change with every new day
Still, I’m gonna miss you
Another day comes to an end and before you know it Tuesday’s Gone - a bloody great song! Lynyrd Skynyrd are certainly gone with Gary Rossington, the last original member dying this week.
So what is interesting about a Wednesday? Nothing. It’s not the start of the week where we mourn the loss of the freedom of the weekend. Or the end of the week celebrating the arrival of the next. It’s just there, unloved, in the middle.
Some people tried to liven it up a bit by calling it “hump day”. Which sounds highly unromantic and not at all spontaneous, but at least gives Wednesday a function.
But that isn’t what “hump day” is, a scheduled activity between two people who once might have had an interest in doing things together but now do because this is the appointed day. No, that’s not “hump day”, there is an even less intimate name for that, if you thought that was possible. It’s called “date night”. The night when middle aged people rekindle their romance by posting photos of themselves to social media to pretend they’re not pretty much just waiting to die at this point.
OK, so there is one song that people might know about Wednesdays. It’s called Wednesday Morning 3AM by Simon and Garfunkel. And do you know when 3am on a Wednesday is? That’s right, it’s on Tuesday Night. Even the one song about a Wednesday is actually about Tuesday night.
Things are starting to look good, the weekend is getting closer, but how will the weather be? Best check on the Outlook For Thursday. DD Smash, they might have no idea about the weather on Thursday, “your guess as good as mine”, but they do know about that other day no one sings about:
Wednesday, don't mention Wednesday
Not a good one at all
Harry Nilsson, John Lennon’s old drinking buddy, and fellow principal member of The Hollywood Vampires knew about a Thursday, exemplified in his song (Thursday) Here’s Why I Did Not Go to Work Today.
Monday is a blues day that goes for Tuesday
Wednesday's just the middle of the week, yeah, mmm
Friday is just another payday, the weekend's just another heyday
But Thursday's surreptitiously unique. That's why I didn't go to work today.
Thursday's got its own peculiar way of saying, "Hey"
Sometimes Thursday makes you want to run away
Thursday's such a crazy, lazy day
Thursday's such a crazy, lazy day
The day you’ve been waiting for all week. Certainly the Easybeats had been:
Monday mornin' feels so bad
Ev'rybody seems to nag me
Comin' Tuesday I feel better
Even my old man looks good
Wed'sday just don't go
Thursday goes too slow
I've got Friday on my Mind
This day is all about finishing the work week and hitting the town on Friday Night. This version by King George, it’s what the young folks refer to I believe as a Sausage. A different Friday Night was had by The Darkness who gave us one of the dorkiest videos ever made, love that album and the list of extra curricular activities.
Meanwhile Robert Smith of the Cure declared that Friday was the day he was in love in this feel-good song.
I don't care if Monday's blue
Tuesday's grey and Wednesday too
Thursday, I don't care about you
It's Friday, I'm in love
Monday you can fall apart
Tuesday, Wednesday break my heart
Oh, Thursday doesn't even start
It's Friday, I'm in love
After your big night out the best thing might be for a picnic and Saturday in the Park. Before the festivities starts again.
Elton John declared that Saturday Night’s Alright (for fighting) and Cold Chisel knew Saturday Night was running out in one of their best, but not most well known, songs:
Saturday night already old
I can feel, the same old cold
Cigarettes to ease my mind
Tell me what you like, no I don't mind
Show me a light, your company
Goes a little way to help me see
The path on which I'm bound
Rather than the things I leave behind
Our old friends from Tuesday, Lynyrd Skynyrd, round off the evening with Saturday Night Special. In an obscure piece of trivial while the concert in this video was being filmed in the UK on the afternoon of the 21st of August 1976 here in New Zealand it was the 22nd and my 5th Birthday. I didn’t have to go to school though, it was a Sunday.
Speaking of.
If there was one song that sums things up on our day of rest it is Easy (like a Sunday Morning) from the Commodores, truly one of the most perfect songs ever written about a Sunday. Sunday Morning from Maroon Five is a good groove. But if you were as big a fan of No Doubt as I was you might want to check out this epic 15 minute live performance of their Sunday Morning.
Oh course if you didn’t relax enough on Sunday morning, you could always try the delightful Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon from Queen.
Poor old Wednesday, nobody really writes songs about it. Still sometimes all the days are important, as in this song also by Queen. A tale of the magic of falling in love, over the course of a week. Seven days that are all important, even Wednesday.
Wednesday I didn't see her
I hoped that she'd be back tomorrow
Oh.
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