EVERYDAY IS LIKE SUNDAY
MORRISSEY
Songwriters: MORRISSEY
& STEPHEN STREET
Country: u. k.
Album: viva hate
Label: h.m.v.
Genre: alternative rock
Year: 1988
Steven Patrick Morrissey (/ˈmɒrɪsiː/; born 22
May 1959), known mononymously as Morrissey, is an English singer, songwriter, and author. He
came to prominence as the frontman of rock band the Smiths,
who were active from 1982 to 1987. Since then, he has pursued a successful solo career. Morrissey's
music is characterised by his baritone voice and distinctive lyrics with recurring themes of emotional
isolation, sexual longing, self-deprecating and black humour, and
anti-establishment stances.
Born to working-class Irish immigrants in Davyhulme, Lancashire,
Morrissey grew up in nearby Manchester.
As a child, he developed a love of literature, kitchen
sink realism, and pop music.
In the late 1970s, he fronted punk rock band the Nosebleeds with
little success before beginning a career in music journalism and writing
several books on music and film in the early 1980s. He formed the Smiths with Johnny Marr in 1982 and the band soon attracted national recognition for their
eponymous debut album. As the band's frontman,
Morrissey attracted attention for his trademark quiff and witty and sardonic lyrics. Deliberately avoiding rock machismo,
he cultivated the image of a sexually ambiguous social outsider who embraced celibacy. The
Smiths released three further studio albums—Meat Is
Murder, The
Queen Is Dead, and Strangeways, Here We Come—and had
a string of hit singles. The
band were critically acclaimed and attracted a cult following. Personal
differences between Morrissey and Marr resulted in the separation of the Smiths
in 1987.
In 1988 Morrissey launched his solo career
with Viva Hate.
This album and its follow-ups—Kill Uncle,
Your Arsenal,
and Vauxhall and I—all
did well on the UK Albums Chart and spawned multiple hit singles. He took on Alain Whyte and Boz Boorer as his main co-writers to replace Marr. During this time his image began
to shift into that of a burlier figure who toyed with patriotic imagery and
working-class masculinity. In the mid-to-late 1990s, his
albums Southpaw Grammar and Maladjusted also charted but were less well received. Relocating to Los Angeles,
he took a musical hiatus from 1998 to 2003 before releasing a successful
comeback album, You
Are the Quarry, in 2004. Ensuing years saw the
release of albums Ringleader of the Tormentors, Years of Refusal,
World Peace Is None of Your Business, Low
in High School, California
Son, and I Am Not a Dog on a Chain, as well
as his autobiography and his debut
novel, List of the Lost.
Highly influential, Morrissey has been
credited as a seminal figure in the emergence of indie rock and Britpop. His
work has been the subject of academic study. He has been a controversial figure
throughout his music career due to his forthright opinions and outspoken
nature—endorsing vegetarianism and animal rights,
criticising
royalty and prominent politicians, and
defending a particular vision of English national identity while
critiquing the impact of immigration on the UK. In a 2006 poll for the BBC's Culture Show,
Morrissey was voted the second-greatest living British cultural icon.
Everyday Is Like Sunday" is the third
track of Morrissey's
debut solo album, Viva Hate,
and the second single to be released by the artist. While the lyric was written
by Morrissey, the song's composer was Stephen
Street. It made number nine in the UK Singles Chart
and remains one of his best-known songs. "Everyday Is Like Sunday",
as well as the single's B-sides "Disappointed" and "Will Never Marry", feature
on the compilation album Bona Drag.
The track has been covered by a number of
other bands, including The Pretenders (on the Original Motion Picture soundtrack Boys on the Side),
by 10,000 Maniacs (as a B-side to their single "Candy Everybody Wants"), the
Armageddon Dildos (on their "Come Armageddon" maxi-single), Estonian 1990s
pop group Mr. Lawrence and Mikel
Erentxun (on his album Acrobatas). Colin Meloy of The Decemberists also covers the track on his solo album Colin Meloy Sings Morrissey. Dave Couse,
former lead singer of A House, has
performed this live with his later band The Impossible and alternative rock
band Fate or Trouble, who released the song as their debut single. A mostly instrumental
version (containing only the title lyric) was used in NFL Network's "When
all you want is football" television ad campaign. As well as inspiring
several cover versions it has also inspired the cult Canadian film Everyday Is Like Sunday.
The lyric is reportedly inspired by Nevil Shute's
novel On
the Beach, about a group of people waiting for nuclear
devastation in Melbourne,
Australia.
The
single was re-issued on 27 September 2010, on CD and two 7"s, including
the unreleased "November the Second", an alternative mix of
"November Spawned a Monster". This re-issue debuted at number 42 on
the UK singles chart. It coincided with the
20th-anniversary re-issue of his 1990 compilation Bona Drag.
Trudging slowly over
wet sand
Back to the bench
Where your clothes were stolen
This is the coastal town
That they forgot to close down
Armageddon, come Armageddon
Come, Armageddon, come!
Everyday is like
Sunday
Everyday is silent
and grey
Hide on the promenade
Etch a postcard
How I dearly wish I was not here
In the seaside town
That they forgot to bomb
Come, come, come, nuclear bomb!
Everyday is like
Sunday
Everyday is silent
and grey
Trudging back over
pebbles and sand
And a strange dust lands on your hands
And on your face
On your face
On your face
On your face
Everyday is like
Sunday
"Win yourself a cheap tray"
Share some greased tea with me
Everyday is silent and grey.
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