Friday Music Day

FMD: Wake me up when September Ends

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Kernel's learning the days of the week with a song set to the Addams Family tune:

There's Sunday and there's Monday
There's Tuesday and there's Wednesday
There's Thursday and there's Friday
And then comes Saturday
Days of the week *snap snap*
Days of the week *snap snap*
Days of the week, days of the week, days of the week *snap snap*

List of songs that use or reference days, dates, months, time, etc. - Go!

35 thoughts on “FMD: Wake me up when September Ends”

  1. 1. They Might Be Giants “Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas)” A User's Guide to They Might Be Giants
    2. Merle Haggard and the Strangers “Swinging Doors” Swinging Doors and The Bottle Let Me Down*
    3. Massive Attack “Protection”* Protection
    4. Nine Inch Nails “A Warm Place”
    5. Bobby Bare Jr's Young Criminals' Starvation League “Flat Chested Girl from Maynardville (Live in Utrecht, Holland)”* OK — I'm Sorry...

    6. Buraka Som Sistema ft. M.I.A., DJ Znobia, Saborosa, and Puto Prata “Sound of Kuduro” Black Diamond
    7. YUI “Again”* Again
    8. Horse Lords “Bending to the Lash” Interventions
    9. Nadia Reid “Track of the Time” Listen to Formation, Look for the Signs
    T. Cinema Staff “Great Escape (Alternate Version)”* Drums, Bass, 2 (to) Guitars

    *Notes:
    2. How to capitalize this? My personal styleguide (wetware) does not capitalize conjunctions in proper names and titles if they're joining things. However, the album is names for the two hit singles that lead off each side of the vinyl; the article before "Bottle" is from a song title. Should it be “Swinging Doors&rdquo and “The Bottle Let Me Down&rdquo? Do I have to evaluate whether an album is named from a song title?

    3. Vocals by Tracey Thorn (of Everything But the Girl). Compare the capitalization of the conjunction here to that above.

    5. Such a good song. It's got a perfect balance of BBJ's humor and deep feelings of inadequacy. Many of his songs go further to one side or the other. The humor serves the hurt but doesn't override it.

    6. First-season opening theme for "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood".

    T. Second-season closing theme for "Attack on Titan".

  2. "Sunday Morning Coming Down" Johnny Cash
    "Manic Monday" The Bangles
    "Tuesday's Dead" Cat Stevens
    "Friday I'm in Love" The Cure
    "Friday" (That Youtube so bad its-- nope still bad-- song)

    "Long December" Counting Crows
    "If We Make It Through December" Merle Haggard

    "Midnight in a Perfect World" DJ Shadow
    "Midnight" Ice-T
    "3am" Matchbox 20
    "3am" Kleerup ft. Marit Bergman
    "3am" Meghan Trainor
    "3am" Eminem
    "3am" Vybz Kartel
    "6 N the Morning" Ice-T

    1. More:
      "Sunday" Sonic Youth
      "Will You Visit Me on Sunday" Merle Haggard
      "Sunday (the Day Before My Birthday)" Moby
      "Sunday Shining" Finley Quaye (also, remixed as "Sunday Best")
      "Jobless Monday" Mitski
      "Thursday Girl" Mitski

      "Walking After Midnight" Patsy Cline
      "Burning of the Midnight Oil" Jimi Hendrix
      "3am Eternal" the KLF
      "9am" Bad Bad Hats
      "High Noon" DJ Shadow

      "Gone Til November" Wyclef

    2. "January" Thurston Moore
      "Black-Dove (January)" Tori Amos
      "January Twenty Something" Why?
      "February" Matthew Herbert*
      "March of the Pigs" Nine Inch Nails
      "April and the Phantom" Animal Collective
      "The May 4th Movement" Digable Planets
      "When the May Rain Comes" Current 93
      "Snow on the 10th of May" Marit Bergman
      "June 26th, 1999" Deep Puddle Dynamics
      "4th of July (Fireworks)" Kelis
      "July" Low
      "4th of July" Soundgarden
      "Snow in August" Patrick Doyle*
      "Pale September" Fiona Apple
      "September 11, 2011" Jason Molina feat. Will Oldham and Alasdair Roberts
      "Come On October" Caleb Caudie
      "November" Säkert!
      "Cold November" Shannon Stephens
      "December 1971" Current 93
      "25th December" Everything But the Girl
      "December Hunting for Vegetarian F---face" Stars of the Lid*

      *Instrumental

    3. "Super Bowl Sundae" Ozomatli
      "Sunday 8pm" Faithless
      "Sunday Morning" No Doubt
      "Sunday Sports" Bottle Rockets
      "Monday (Every Time I Turn Around)" Bottle Rockets
      "Monday" Caleb Caudle
      "Mondays" Black Uhuru
      "If We're Not Back in Love By Monday" Merle Haggard
      "On Tuesdays" The 4onthefloor
      "Wednesday, My Dear" Trapper Schoepp & the Shades
      "Thursday" Morphine
      "Thursday" The Weeknd
      "Come Thursday" Murder by Death
      "Big Friday" Bonnie Prince Billy
      "Black Saturday" Soundgarden
      "Sunless Saturday" Fishbone
      "Saturday Nights" Hello Saferide
      "Saturday Night" Ozomatli

      "2:00 AM" The Meat Purveyors
      "7 AM" Dirty Vegas

  4. 01. “California” – EMA – Past Lives Martyred Saints
    02. “Obvs” – Jamie xx – In Colour
    03. “Bob Dylan’s 49th Beard” – Wilco – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
    04. “I’ll Always Need You” – Dean Courtney – The Best Northern Soul All-Nighter… Ever!
    05. “Into The Garden” – Parquet Courts – Sunbathing Animal
    06. “What Deaner Was Talkin’ About” – Ween – Chocolate And Cheese
    07. “Tonight” – Supergrass – In It For The Money
    08. “Boyfriend” – Best Coast – Crazy For You
    09. “Your Love Will Blow Me Away When My Heart Aches” – Son Little – Things I Forgot
    10. “Maggot Brain” – Funkadelic – Maggot Brain

  5. 1. Somewhere Only We Know – Keane
    2. Locked Out Of Heaven – Bruno Mars
    3. Cradle – The Joy Formidable
    4. The Boy Next Door – Bill Evans
    5. Infinity – The Xx

    6. Tainted Love – Soft Cell
    7. Come On Eileen – Dexy’s Midnight Runners
    8. Rolling In The Deep – Adele
    9. Today – Smashing Pumpkins
    10. Isn’t It Romantic? – Bill Evans Trio

    B1. Sweet Pea – Amos Lee

    1. I remember that Keane song. It slid in well as bonus-track disc-filler when I burnt the "Garden State" OST to disc for EAR.
      Also: Postal Service and DNTEL

      Is B1 a Tommy Roe cover? /lmgtfm... No. Bummer.
      The breakbeat that opens Tommy Roe's "Sweet Pea" is up there with the "Amen Break" and "Funky Drummer", and far less overused.
      His "Dizzy" has a pretty good breakbeat, too. I scanned a "Greatest Hits" compilation for more good breaks from his records and didn't find any.
      (Bonus: Had my dad, THR, invented himself a pop star alter ego, "Tommy Roe" could have easily been the name he picked. Same first name, and last name truncated after three letters.)

  6. One of my kids learned their days with the same song. It struck me as not quite working. (I mean, they learned the days, but musically...).

    I'll pitch "Friday Night" by The Darkness. Big fan of that tune.

    2. At the jalapeno's preschool concert last spring, the kids sang a bunch of songs that supposedly taught all kinds of concepts. While I'm sure it didn't hurt to introduce them to the names of the days of the week, the months of the year, the continents, etc., I don't know that the kids really understood most of what they were singing.

      I did, however, learn how to count to 8 in Japanese thanks to one of those songs. (The song went up to 10, but I have some sort of mental block and can never make it past 8. Gotta work on that . . .)

  8. 1. Down by the Seaside -- Led Zeppelin -- Physical Graffiti
    2. Fake Plastic Trees -- Radiohead -- The Bends
    3. Look At You Now -- Golden Smog -- Blood On The Slacks
    4. Daisy Glaze -- Big Star -- Radio City
    5. Dorothy's A Planet -- Guided By Voices -- Suitcase 1: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft
    6. Bring The Noise -- Public Enemy -- It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
    7. Raised in the City -- The Replacements -- Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash!
    8. Done -- Built To Spill -- There Is No Enemy
    9. Out The Window -- Yo La Tengo -- A Smattering Of Outtakes And Rarities: 1986-2002
    10. Two Angels -- The Jayhawks -- Hollywood Town Hall

    B1. Sound the Bells -- Dessa -- Parts of Speech
    B2. I Am Produced -- Guided By Voices -- Mag Earwhig!

  10. Amazingly enough there doesn't appear to be any Guided By Voices song related to a day of the week.

  11. No list today; I've been listening to a fair amount of Lydia Loveless in the last week. Also Sturgill Simpson's A Sailor's Guide to Earth.

    CoC and Scot, I'm sorry I didn't mange to find either of you at last Saturday's concert! I would have liked more from LL, but I realize that since she was the opener, that's just how it goes.

      1. She sang about 5 songs* from the new album as well as "Verlaine Shot Rimbaud." Mostly it just had the effect of making me want to see her next time she comes back as a headliner.

        *These definitely included "Midwestern Guys," "Heaven," "Out On Love," and "Real," which was the song she closed with.

        On the topic of that show more generally, a fight broke out during the DBT set. That's . . . not something I've experienced before at a concert. The First Ave security guys were amazing and had it all taken care of very quickly, but it left me a little unsettled.

        1. Fights happen at some shows I attend, but DBT isn't one I'd have expected. On the other hand, it doesn't take much to annoy some people. When free and I were at Sturgill, he deftly avoided a fight.

          A very big dude was somehow offended that we'd made our way in front of him and spent half the set nudging, shoving and eventually elbowing free in the back. I was preparing to step in and get killed (dude had me cleared by easily 6" and 40# and I'm at least a couple inches taller than free) but free smartly wouldn't take the bait and disaster was avoided.

          Some people just don't understand how to function in polite society. Others (maybe the same?) just don't care.

          On the show overall, I'd have enjoyed more Lydia, but wasn't disappointed and the Truckers wailed. Got at least a song or two from darn near every album - some of my absolute favorites were played: Sinkhole and Lookout Mountain to name two.

          1. I greatly enjoyed that they played The Night G.G. Allin Came to Town, even though I was in the process of leaving as they were doing so, as I think they almost never play it. Looking at the setlist they played most of my favorite Cooley songs, some of which at least I was able to catch (Where the Devil Don't Stay, Uncle Frank, Women Without Whiskey). In the context of how current-minded their new album is, and everything else going on, I was struck particularly by the conscious slotting-together of several of their older "economic anxiety" songs early in the set (Devil->Sink Hole->Frank->Goode's Field Road).

          2. What I don't get is that we are all there presumably because we love the music and the band singing. Why fight, why be upset with someone who probably has a lot in common with you?

            The dude at the SS show that Corn talked about was completely taken out of the concert. He truly wanted me to hit him. Why because he was huge and knew that he'd destroy me? But then both of us getting kicked out? No thank you, I was getting my face melted off by Sturgill at the time. Also I fight mean, he might've bitten off more than he can chew :o)

            Too bad LL Didn't get to perform more, hopefully she comes around soon on her own. Especially since last two times in town, she was not the headliner.

        2. not something I've experienced before at a concert.

          In my youth we went to shows to get into fights because punk rock. I've largely grown out of going to live shows these days which is a shame because New Orleans.

    2. It was a fun show and good to see CoC.

      I'm having trouble getting into LL's new stuff, and the larger venue/crowd that wasn't there to see her didn't help. Probably just that the bar was set too high by the first time I saw her at the Entry.

      DBT delivered as usual...long set with lots of deep tracks that seemed to somehow increase the energy level as the night went on. My brother in law could barely stand on a bad knee and I was ready to (reluctantly) leave from about an hour in on, but he thankfully couldn't tear himself away. I think the fact that CoC joined us for the encore helped my stay until the end cause.

      1. I'm having trouble getting into LL's new stuff

        I agree--I don't like the album as well as her earlier stuff. I liked everything live better than on the album, though. (I was on the main floor near the front, which probably helped.) A lot of the songs on the album feel perhaps too polished somehow? I do like "Out on Love" a lot, but it's moodier and has a different feel than a lot of the other songs on the album.

  12. I haven't been good about lists at all these days, largely because I have to type them on my phone because this place is blocked at work. But, the new Epica dropped today, although I haven't had a chance to listen yet.

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