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Monday, Monday
The Mamas & the Papas. Their layered voices make Monday morning sound like a fresh start until the assurances start to come apart. Put this first if you want to hear how a bright harmony can turn into a warning about what the day might bring.
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Manic Monday
The Bangles. The narrator gets out of bed, tries to catch a train, and keeps wishing she could have Sunday back. The quick little details make this a Monday song for anybody who has reached the commute before feeling the weekend was over.
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Rainy Days and Mondays
Carpenters. Monday and rain get grouped together as things that can lower the narrator’s mood for no clear reason. Karen Carpenter sings it close and quietly. Try it when the beginning of the week feels more heavy than frantic.
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Call It Stormy Monday
T-Bone Walker. The song counts out the week after naming Monday and Tuesday as bad days, so listen for changes as the days go by. His electric guitar answers the voice with a freedom that the words about the week can’t offer.
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Blue Monday
New Order. That famous programmed kick drum makes the title feel like the name for a whole mood. The lyric never needs to describe a workday. Put it here for a Monday that would rather move across a dance floor than drag across a calendar.
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I Don't Like Mondays
The Boomtown Rats. A terrible event sits behind the cold refrain, so the title lands very differently from the usual complaints about the start of the week. The piano and clean harmonies make the distance between the sound and the subject especially striking.
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Monday Morning
Fleetwood Mac. The week opens with attraction and by Friday the narrator is thinking about leaving. The clipped guitar keeps the whole plan moving quickly. Put it after the longer Monday complaints for a song that gets through indecision before breakfast.
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Monday Morning
Death Cab for Cutie. A Monday morning marks the beginning of what two people share, with the refrain looking ahead to the marks time leaves on them. The brisk beat keeps that view of growing older from sounding wistful all the way through.
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Ruby Tuesday
The Rolling Stones. Tuesday is the name the singer gives the woman he’s saying goodbye to. The recorder and piano keep the farewell gentle. It fits here because the famous day name can sound like its own little moment in time, even when the song is addressing a person.
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Tuesday's Gone
Lynyrd Skynyrd. A train takes the singer away from home, and the refrain puts a vanished Tuesday next to a relationship that’s slipping away. The unhurried arrangement leaves him time to realize that moving on is going to take longer than catching the train.
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Tuesday Afternoon
The Moody Blues. The day opens a stretch of time when the narrator starts looking closely at what’s around him. Play it for the sense of stepping out of the metronome of a working week, with its mellotron giving the daylight a little haze.
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Sun Comes Up, It's Tuesday Morning
Cowboy Junkies. A woman gets up and measures life after a relationship in ordinary things around the house. Tuesday is part of the precision. The day is so ordinary that all those small changes can be heard clearly.
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Tuesday Heartbreak
Stevie Wonder. Heartbreak has a day attached to it while the narrator still hopes to get another chance. The warm groove leaves the song more persuasive than downcast. Try this to hear what a Tuesday song can do with a saxophone and a gently insistent beat.
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Tuesday Morning
The Pogues. The title pins a bleak wake-up to a weekday and the band gives the feeling a much quicker pace. Spider Stacy sings lead. Choose it for a Tuesday morning that’s easier to face with a full band.
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Tuesday (feat. Drake)
iLoveMakonnen featuring Drake. The night out falls on Tuesday because work gets in the way of the normal weekend schedule. The roomy beat makes a midweek club visit sound like a place where a person can finally take their time.
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Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
Simon & Garfunkel. A man lies awake next to someone he loves, thinking about a crime and his plans to leave. The exact hour makes the quiet folk arrangement feel even more tense. The rest of Wednesday is going to be much harder than this one still room.
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Wednesday Week
The Undertones. A boy counts toward a visit with a girl on Wednesday a week away. The tune gets through that anticipation much more quickly than he can. Play it for a middle-of-the-week song that makes waiting sound pretty good.
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Wednesday Week
Elvis Costello and the Attractions. A relationship mixes desire and irritation while the band keeps changing the pressure. It’s a useful Wednesday comparison with the Undertones’ completely different song of the same title.
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A Wednesday Car
Johnny Cash. The title comes from a joke about whether factory workers are more careful in the middle of the week. Put it in when you want a song in which Wednesday affects the product someone actually takes home.
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Wednesday Morning
Macklemore. Written in the aftermath of the 2016 election, the song imagines what a parent might tell a child about the country the next morning. An anxious first verse makes the later resolve sound like work the narrator is deciding to do.
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Wednesday
Tori Amos. The week’s midpoint is attached to a song that moves through sudden changes of scene and tempo. Pay attention to how the piano shifts under her voice. It’s a Wednesday for a drive with no single thing on your mind.
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