Cover art for The Cure’s ‘Friday I’m in Love’ single. [Wikimedia Commons.]
Songs and Days of the Week – ‘Friday I’m in Love’ by The Cure
Songs, like any art form, tend to crystallise around certain core themes, issues or, to put it more technically perhaps, nodal points. One such central focus is days of the week.
I would enjoy hearing from Almanackers about a favourite song or songs that mention a day of the week in the title. An option is to then say a little about how the day or days relate to the song(s) as a whole. That said, please respond to the topic in any way you like.
Given that today is Friday, some choices immediately spring to my mind. The one I’ll put forward is ‘Friday I’m in Love’ by British band, The Cure. The song was was written by Perry Bamonte, Boris Williams, Simon Gallup, Robert Smith and Porl Thompson. It was released as a single in 1992. As many would know, the song is melodically strong, both in terms of vocal line and guitar riffs, and every day of the week gets mentioned in the lyric. Elements of whimsy, dreaminess and light-headedness (all befitting of love) are to the fore. The refrain ‘It’s Friday, I’m in love’, is, to me, an irresistible hook. All in all, the song is like a lovely hallucination.
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Kevin Densley is a graduate of both Deakin University and The University of Melbourne. He has taught writing and literature in numerous Victorian universities and TAFES. He is a poet and writer-in-general. His sixth book-length poetry collection, Isle Full of Noises, was published in early 2026 by Ginninderra Press. He is also the co-author of ten play collections for young people, as well as a multi Green Room Award nominated play, Last Chance Gas, published by Currency Press. Other writing includes screenplays for educational films.
The Easybeats Friday on My Mind – is very similar in its theme and also covers everyday of the week.
Thanks, Sal, for bringing up an absolute Friday classic!
The Happy Days theme
Good one, Swish – yes, all of the days of the week get a mention here. Classic fifties-sounding, even if it was actually first recorded in the 1970s.
Some selections from my virtual iPod
Monday Morning Gunk (Radio Birdman)
Tuesday (Hummingbirds)
Wednesday Week (Undertones)
Thursday (Pet Shop Boys)
Friday’s Blue Cheer (Ed Kuepper)
The Saturday Boy (Billy Bragg)
Sunday Mornin’ Coming Down (Kris Kristofferson)
Great stuff, Swish! Many thanks for these – some I knew, some I’ll have to check out. But that’s the fine thing about Almanac threads such as this – one learns news songs and develops new favourites as the process goes along.
Friday Kind of Monday – very young Johnny Farnham
Monday Monday – Mamas & Papas
Ruby Tuesday – Rolling Stones
Wednesday Morning 3am – Simon & Garfunkel
Looking for the Heart of Saturday Night – Tom Waits
Lazy Sunday – Small Faces
Couldn’t think of a Thursday song
Excellent stuff, PB. Many thanks for these.
The Whispering Jack tune is a bit of a curiosity!
Hi Almanackers!
Just a song to kick Saturday along: ‘Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting’ by Elton John, the first single from his Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album (1973).
And now, Sunday! This is such a simple, fun exercise. Join in.
Here’s a song that’s been a favourite of mine since I first heard it as a kid, ‘Lazy Sunday’, by English band Small Faces (1968). Great clip, too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXeRB-3nDR8
Agree re: the irresistible hook of ‘Friday I’m in Love’.
A couple of my favourites are:
Tuesday’s Gone by Lynryd Skynyrd
Tuesday Morning by The Pogues
I can think of quite a few;
Ruby Tuesday -Rolling Stones
Friday’s Child-Nancy Sinatra
Every day is Like Sunday-Morrisey
Manic Monday-The Bangles
Saturday Gigs-Mott the Hoople
Sunday Morning -Velvet Underground
Blue Monday-New Order
Gloomy Sunday -Bille Holiday
Tuesday Morning -The Pogues
Sunday Girl-Blondie
Saturday Night-Cold Chisel
Saturday Night-Skyhooks
Another Saturday Night-Sam Cooke
10.15 On a Saturday Night-The Cure
Lazy Sunday Afternoons -Small Faces
Don’t Like Mondays-Boomtown Rats
Wednesday Week -The Undertones
Closed on Sunday -Kanye West
I Met Him On a Sunday -The Chirrelles.
Police on my back, The Equals and The Clash
Come Monday, Jimmy Buffett
Livingston Saturday Night, Jimmy Buffett
Pleasant Valley Sunday, The Monkees
Sunday Roast, Courtney Barnett
Another Saturday Night, Sam Cooke
Almost Saturday Night, John Fogerty
40 miles to Saturday Night, Paul Kelly
Thanks, Greg A for your fine choices. Listening back to Lynyrd Skynyrd’s ‘Tuesday’s Gone’ reminded me what a great band they were – love that languid, lyrical Southern-style guitar riff, too. And ‘Tuesday Morning’ by The Pogues – love that, also!
Thank you to Carl and Rick, too – so many excellent songs in your selections.
‘Songs with a day of the week in the title’ – certainly fertile ground! Cheers!
Loving the songs suggested here.
Can add-
“Monday’s Experts” by Weddings Parties Anything
“Saturday Night Palsy” by TISM
Hi Luke.
You’ve added two beauties – I was particularly hoping an Almanacker would add ‘Monday’s Experts’! (I would have posted it today if no one else did.)
And your selection of the TISM song made me listen to ‘Greg, The Stop Sign!’ at 6.25 AM!
And yes, ‘Home on Monday’, by Little River Band (1977).
Tuesday’s Dead by Cat Stevens
Saturday’s Child by The Monkees
Thanks for these, Les – one, from Cat Stevens’ golden era, and another from the bunch of Monkees sixties.
classics..
I’ll throw in another song in relation to Tuesday: ‘Love You till Tuesday’ by David Bowie, from his first album and also a single in 1967.
‘Wednesday Week’, an Elvis Costello and the Attractions song (1978), written by Elvis Costello.
Couldn’t resist … ‘Saturday Night Palsy’ by TISM, first released on their debut album, Great Truckin’ Songs of the Renaissance (1988), then as a single in 1989.
As I write this at half time of the Prelim – Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting [and stealing hubcaps]
Careful if you are in the Cross tonight with those disaffected visitors from the south.
Ah, Swish – I am far, far away from the potential scenes of crimes such as you describe.
Pleased to see Collingwood not in the Granny, playing my beloved Geelong!
Friday: Rebecca Black
Tuesday: You Am I
Tuesday afternoon: Moody Blues
Lazy day: Moody Blues
The diary of Horace Wimp: Electric Light Orchestra
One day week: International Submarine Band
Thanks for these selections, Liam – and for the pleasant reminder of the years this Almanac song theme series has been running.
Mist on a Monday morning: The Move
Thanks for this one by The Move, Liam.
Almost Saturday Night, John Fogerty
Sunday Love, Bruce
The Wish, Bruce again – It ain’t no phone call on Sunday, flowers, or a Mother’s Day card/It ain’t no house on a hill with a garden and a nice little yard/I got my hot rod down on Bond Street, I’m older/But you’ll know me in a glance/We’ll find us a little rock ‘n roll bar and, baby, we’ll go out and dance
Wednesday, Prince – Saturday night I called you/You weren’t even home/Needed someone to talk to/Hate it when I’m all alone/Contemplating suicide from twelve o’clock till two/If you’re not back by Wednesday/There’s no tellin’ what I might do
A few heavy hitters there, Rick – Fogerty, Bruce and Prince. Many thanks for these songs.