This was popular last time out, so let's go round again with another seven posts featuring three songs that have a day of the week in the title. Inevitably, it's Thursday.
In case you were wondering, there won't be a part III of this series, simply because certain days just don't have enough good songs about them. I would have been snookered for today if not for the suggestions The Swede made last time around. So let's kick off with one of those: Donovan from 1965 (unmistakably), with Jersey Thursday.
Let's bring things a little more up-to-date (though still seventeen years old) with another suggestion, this time from Khayem. This is Thursday by Asobi Seksu, an American shoegaze outfit that I know nothing about. I love this though. It's quite hard to make out singer Yuki Chikudate's vocals, and maybe that's part of the attraction. See what you think.
And here's one I found myself: Jim Croce was a folkie singer-songwriter most famous for Bad, Bad Leroy Brown. He had lots of US chart success, very little over here. This track, entitled simply Thursday, is from his last album I Got A Name, which was released three months after Jim had died in a plane crash.
Isn't it Friday yet?
"In case you were wondering, there won't be a part III of this series, simply because certain days just don't have enough good songs about them."
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Danny O'Keefe - 3.10 Smokey Thursday
Harry Nilsson - (Thursday) Here's Why I Did Not Go to Work Today
Chip Taylor - Fort Worth Thursday Night
David Axelrod - Holy Thursday
Leonard Herron - On a Thursday Morning
Little Man Tate - Pay Day's Thursday
Icicle Works - Sweet Thursday
Morphine - Thursday
The Futureheads - Thursday
The Chameleons - Thursday's Child
Spearmint - Thursday's Figure
And in case you're wondering, I didn't use google. They all came from the overweight hard-drive. Sigh.
It's a good point, well made. There may be a part III... just not for a while. Also, I need to sort my digitised music out, it's all over the place, and there's no way I could easily do this kind of search. Do you use any particular software to wrangle your overweight hard-drive's collection of MP3s?
DeleteMedia Monkey. It's much better at coping with large collections that Windows Media Player.
DeleteExcellent, cheers.
DeleteDifficult to compare these three as very different genres but maybe Jim Croce's song has the edge for me. I think I remember him best for Time In A Bottle but hadn't realised he was yet another artist to have died in a plane crash, at only 30. Awful.
ReplyDeleteWere the Asobi Seksu vocals in English - very hard to decipher but a lovely sound to it. I think I caught the words, "crying out," at one point but I could be wrong.
There's something in Yuki's delivery that makes those Asobi Seksu lyrics indecipherable at times. Here are the lyrics (I think!):
DeleteOn gentle ground, I waited for you
In drops of dew, I wished that I were you
With heavy hands, I reached out for you
My skin soaking wet, my eyes searched for you
It seems you lost your way
You've let it all fall apart
Nothing's left here but you
All you do is remind me
Now that we've lost our way
The rest can all fall apart
All I see here is you
All it does is remind me
With sharpened tongue, I cried out for you
And must I refrain now that I need you
The autumn wind feels as if it were you
And swayed through the fields where I once held you
It seems you lost your way
You've let it all fall apart
Nothing's left here but you
All you do is remind me
Now that we've lost our way
The rest can all fall apart
All I see here is you
All it does is remind me
Whistle through your window
We act the same as you
Whistle through your window
We act the same as you.
Well, I only got two words (almost) of that. Bit sad really but thanks.
DeleteI utterly love it though, despite inpenetrable lyrics.
DeleteYou're doing a fine job plucking these day related tunes from the ether. I was thinking that this could start something whereby every now and then your followers(is that the right word for blog readers?) challenge you with a category with which to find songs for. I'm sure we could come up with some dastardly ideas.
ReplyDeleteI think maybe I like that idea, maybe not! I may come to you for the first such challenge, mate, but not until next month at the earliest as free time is a luxury at present.
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