Everyday Is Like Sunday
A lament for an off-season English seaside town, set to swooning strings.
Morrissey, from Viva Hate (1988)
- Written by
- Morrissey, Stephen Street
- Released
- 30 May 1988
- Length
- 3:32
- Album
- Viva Hate
Released on 30 May 1988, it was written by Morrissey and Stephen Street. Street played bass, modelling the line on Echo & the Bunnymen, with Vini Reilly on guitar, Andrew Paresi on drums and a six-piece string section led by Fenella Barton. The B-sides were "Disappointed", "Will Never Marry" and "Sister I'm a Poet".
The lyric laments a British seaside town out of season, and is reported to draw on Nevil Shute's On the Beach. The faded resort stands for Britain's absurdity. NME called the song glorious, swooning pop. It reached number nine in Britain and number three in Ireland, and a 2010 reissue reached 42. Tim Broad filmed the video in Southend-on-Sea with the actress Billie Whitelaw. Spin and the Guardian both ranked it his best solo song, and a 2013 Canadian film took its name.
Covers and versions
- The Pretenders Recorded for the Boys on the Side soundtrack.
- 10,000 Maniacs
- Colin Meloy
- Mexrrissey
More songs by Morrissey
Suedehead, The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get, First of the Gang to Die, Irish Blood, English Heart, The Last of the Famous International Playboys, Interesting Drug, Dagenham Dave, You Have Killed Me
Sources
- Everyday Is Like Sunday, Wikipedia
- Viva Hate, Wikipedia
- The Moz Singles, Part 7, The New Vinyl Villain (2014-04-27)
- Everyday Is Like Sunday (work), SecondHandSongs