There are a lot of good songs about Monday so it wasn’t easy to pick just ten, but we did it. But we’re not specifying an order of importance…so here they are…
in no specific order…
The 10 Best Monday Songs
The Boomtown Rats – I don’t like Mondays ( 1979 – inspired by the shooting spree of a 16 year girl in a San Deigo elementary school playground, who declared she didn’t like Monday’s )
The Mamas and The Papas – Monday Monday ( 1966 – it was their only US Billboard Hot 100 number 1 song )
The Carpenters – Rainy Days and Mondays ( 1971 – this song was written by then unknown song writers/composers Paul Williams and Roger Nichols )
The Bangles – Manic Monday ( written in 1984 by Prince for another group but offered to the Bangles and released in 1986 )
Duran Duran – New Moon on Monday ( from their album ‘ Seven and the Ragged Tiger ‘ in 1983, and released as a single in 1984 )
Fats Domino – Blue Monday ( first recorded by Smiley Lewis in 1954, Fats covered his own version in 1956 and received a co-writer’s credit )
Fleetwood Mac – Monday Morning ( from their 1975 album ‘ Fleetwood Mac ‘ and written by Lindsey Buckingham)
Wilco – Monday ( the demo version of this song first appeared on the bonus disc of their 1999 CD ‘ Summerteeth ‘ )
Tegan and Sara – Monday Monday Monday ( from their studio album ‘ If it was You ‘ released in 2002 )
K.T. Oslin – Come Next Monday ( was her 4th and final number 1 hit on the country charts in 1990 )
Wow , songs related to day wise. Good one! I”ll go for the song of tuesday.
I didn’t have to mention it Nate…I was expectin’ you to 😉
uh hello what about t-bone walker’s “stormy monday”. it tops all the songs you mentioned, you must be pretty pathetic not to list stormy monday…