The Best ‘Monday to Sunday’ Songs

As a parent of three young children, the distinction between weekdays and weekends that once punctuated my life is no longer relevant. Weekends are instead swamped by the demands of a trio of little princesses, and putting out spot fires such as who has control over the iPad, which Shopkins belong to whom, and encountering meltdowns over such large-scale matters as the size of the Freddo Frogs I brought home as a treat.

“Mine is too big!” the middle child wails. Beautiful stuff.

In TDBK – The Days Before Kids – each day of the week had a specific feel; the wincing and, at times, wallowing of Monday and Tuesday; the speed humps and pub trivia of Wednesday; the getting-there anticipation of Thursday; before Friday and Saturday bestowed a fallacy of freedom.

Sunday has always been a different beast. It’s a day of merriment for settled souls; for others, it can be a default of headaches and grey skies. Reality invariably bites on the last day of the week; it’s no wonder there have been so many memorable songs written about Sunday.

I started sketching out a list of ‘Monday to Sunday’ songs with a plan to whittle it down to 10. That proved too hard, so I went with 15. Here they are:

1.  One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley’s Boyfriend) Wilco (2011)