I have a friend who is getting married on a Friday and asked me of any songs that have "Friday" in the lyrics for the DJ to play... all I can come up with is "Friday I'm in Love" by the Cure... Anyone have any others?

There aren't that many good (or even popular) songs about Friday... Saturday, Sunday, and Monday seem to get much more pub. But AMG and AllOfMp3 were helpful in jogging my memory. I just picked out some by artsts I'm familiar with:

Ice Cube - Friday
Raekwon - Friday
Phish - Friday
Joe Jackson - Friday
The Easybeats - Friday on My Mind
G. Love and Special Sauce - Friday Night
Roy Orbison - Friday Night
Mister Cheeks - Friday Night
Fun Lovin' Criminals - Friday Night
Dubstar - Friday Night
Steely Dan - Black Friday
Black Crowes - Good Friday
Genesis - Get 'em Out By Friday
Megadeth - Good Mourning - Black Friday
The Turtles - Somewhere Friday Night

My apologies if some of these are covers of others, I have only personally heard about 2/3 of the above list. Also, some of the above aren't exactly wedding-friendly (can't remember the last time I heard a Megadeth request at a wedding.)

You've obviously not been to the right weddings.

We all come into the world the same way: screaming, naked, and covered in blood. But if you play your cards right, that sort of thing doesn't have to end there.

(Monday I have) Friday on my Mind
(I think the original was the Easybeats)

Monday Morning (Fleetwood Mac)

Flogging Molly - Black Friday Rule
Aqua - Freaky Friday
Beastie Boys - Transit Cop
Special Disaster Team - Friday Night
Daniel Bedingfield - Friday
S Club 7 - Friday Night
The Darkness - Friday Night
Allister - Friday Night
Will Young - Friday's Child
The Specials - Friday Night, Saturday Morning
Saxon - Stallions of the Highway
911 - Party People...Friday Night
Vandenberg - Friday Night
Janis Joplin - What Good Can Drinkin' Do
G. Love and Special Sauce - Friday Night
The Donnas - Friday Fun
Royal Crown Revue - Friday the 13th

Again - no particular suitability for weddings of any of these songs is implied.

-Zeke

Tori Amos - Me and a Gun

not really a wedding song at all. but she says 'Friday'

Aquabats - Pizza Day

Montell Jordan - This is How We Do It

Billy Joel - You may be right
Elton John - Crocodile Rock
ABBA - Dancing Queen

You usually hear these at weddings. They are not really about friday night but they do mention it in the lyrics

I tried to get the band at my aunt's wedding to play "Fifty ways to leave your lover".

The drummer started, but the lead singer/guitarist decided it would be wrong.

Bah. I complained to my aunt later, and she said "that's a shame, i love that song".

I think the best ironic wedding song is "Every Breath You Take". You hear that at weddings all the time because it sounds like a love song on the surface. After actually studying the lyrics, you realize it's about a stalker...

Oh, and I just want to slit my wrists every time I hear Dan Fogelberg played at a wedding.

I think the best ironic wedding song is "Every Breath You Take". You hear that at weddings all the time because it sounds like a love song on the surface. After actually studying the lyrics, you realize it's about a stalker...

You've said that before, but I'm afraid I still don't get it. There's some lyrics here and I still can't find anything beyond a sweet, if slightly drippy, story of unrequited love -- an actual stalker, it seems to me, wouldn't often be ending up under the same umbrella as the object of his or her affection. If the couple's life story includes a bit where one of them overcomes their fear of rejection to pop the question to the other one, it seems jolly fitting.

Or are you saying that all blokes who keep schtumm about an affection they know won't be returned, count as "stalkers"? That seems a little harsh...

Peter

Those, oddly, are the wrong lyrics. They're the lyrics to "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic", which is quite the apt Prufrockian lyric. These are the correct lyrics.

Thanks, Bitt, that's correct.

Yeah, you read the correct lyrics and it's clearly about a guy stalking his ex-girlfriend after their breakup.

I agree about "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" being a straightforward sappy love song.

I've said it before, but the traditional Lohengrin and A Midsummer Night's Dream are also inappropriate.

Neat link, Bitt, thanks!

Didn't know that about those pieces.

Well, this interview would seem to slightly favor your point...

RICHARD: I want to know what is your reason for writing Every Breath You Take? What was the background for that?

STING: Oh, I don't know. Do I have to have a reason for that? Well I suppose it's a pretty dark song. It was written in a pretty dark period in my life: my life seemed to be crumbling. The band I was in was breaking up, my first marriage was breaking up, I was breaking up, things were very bleak and I wrote this very obsessive, paranoid song called Every Breath You Take, which has a sort of seductive charm to it as well and I suppose umm thats why its been a successful song. I think because its so ambiguous; it's both dark and light.

IAN: Right now we are going to play Every Breath You Take from Sting, another unplugged recording. I also heard it was a song about stalking as well, or had been taken that way?

STING: Oh that's rubbish! (laughing)



But this page supports Tony's assertion...

The song is actually about stalking, as Sting explained to critic Bill Flanagan. "It’s about surveillance and owning, controlling someone, but the reaction," Sting says, "has been one of seduction. They [audiences] want this feeling." In live performances Sting has been known to ad-lib "Hurt me, Baby" into the traditional lyrics. The crowd goes wild every time. "It’s the same idea of sadism, of masochism in a romantic relationship," he says.

So who knows. That's the beauty of lyrics, they don't need to mean the same thing to everyone who hears them, and artists like to keep people guessing.

Not a bad time to mention that SongMeanings is back up and running.

So, at best, it's obsessive and paranoid, and is definitely about a romantic relationship. So I think Tony's point stands in intent, if not in wording.

Those, oddly, are the wrong lyrics. They're the lyrics to "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic", which is quite the apt Prufrockian lyric.

Phew, that's a relief -- I'd realised it was completely the wrong song just after making the post, and for a moment I thought one title had morphed into the other in my head in the time it took me to switch tabs in Mozilla and Google for it... the right title on a page with the wrong song's lyrics makes me look at least a little bit less like a nitwit.

Anyway, the last wedding I was at had James's Just Like Fred Astaire, which I thought was a corking wedding song.

Peter

corking is good?

Shed 7 - She left me on Friday

Ow!