There is something irresistible about songs that pin emotion to a day on the calendar. Rock, metal, and punk artists have used Mondays, Saturdays, and Sundays as shorthand for dread, freedom, routine, rebellion, and release. Here are songs that put a day of the week right in the title.
“Sunday Bloody Sunday” – U2
“Blue Monday” – New Order
“Ruby Tuesday” – The Rolling Stones
“Rainy Days and Mondays” – The Carpenters
“Monday, Monday” – The Mamas and the Papas
“Monday Morning” – Fleetwood Mac
“Manic Monday” – The Bangles
“I Don’t Like Mondays” – The Boomtown Rats
“New Moon on Monday” – Duran Duran
“Stormy Monday” – T-Bone Walker
“Tuesday’s Gone” – Lynyrd Skynyrd
“Tuesday Afternoon” – The Moody Blues
“Tuesday’s Dead” – Cat Stevens
“Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.” – Simon and Garfunkel
“Wednesday” – Drive-By Truckers
“Wednesday’s Song” – John Frusciante
“It’s Only Wednesday” – Crash Kings
“Thursday” – Morphine
“Thursday’s Child” – David Bowie
“Thursday” – Pet Shop Boys
“Like a Summer Thursday” – Townes Van Zandt
“Friday I’m in Love” – The Cure
“Friday on My Mind” – The Easybeats
“Black Friday” – Steely Dan
“Friday Night” – The Darkness
“Friday Night” – Beth Orton
“Friday” – Ice Cube
“Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting” – Elton John
“Saturday Night Special” – Lynyrd Skynyrd
“Saturday in the Park” – Chicago
“10:15 Saturday Night” – The Cure
“Almost Saturday Night” – Dave Edmunds
“One More Saturday Night” – Grateful Dead
“Saturday Night” – Bay City Rollers
“Saturday Night” – Misfits
“Saturday Love” – Cherrelle
“Saturday Sun” – Nick Drake
“Sunday Morning” – The Velvet Underground
“Sunday Morning” – No Doubt
“Sunday Morning Coming Down” – Kris Kristofferson
“Pleasant Valley Sunday” – The Monkees
“Everyday Is Like Sunday” – Morrissey
“Sunday Girl” – Blondie
“Sunday” – The Cranberries
“Sunday Rain” – Foo Fighters
“Sunday Kind of Love” – The Harp-Tones
“Gloomy Sunday” – Artie Shaw
“Seven Sundays” – Extreme
“Sunday Bloody Sunday” – Black Sabbath
“Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” – Black Sabbath
“Saturday Night Forever” – Ryan Adams
“Saturday Nights” – Twenty One Pilots
“Saturday’s Child” – The Monkees
“Sunless Saturday” – Fishbone
“Get ‘Em Out by Friday” – Genesis
“Thursday in the Danger Room” – Run the Jewels
“Monday Morning Rock” – Marshall Crenshaw
“Come Monday” – Jimmy Buffett
“Friday Night, August 14th” – Funkadelic
“Living It Up (Friday Night)” – Bell and James
“Book of Saturdays” – King Crimson
“Drive-In Saturday” – David Bowie
“Thursday” – Squirrel Bait
“Thank God It’s Monday” – NOFX
“Saturday Night Palsy” – TISM
“Loving You Sunday Morning” – Scorpions
“Dancing Through Sunday” – AFI
“Six Ways ‘Til Sunday” – Rise Against
“Black Sunday” – Coheed and Cambria
“Broken Sunday” – Saliva
“Sunday Morning” – Maroon 5
“Saturday Night” – Cold Chisel