We’re all about the lame gimmick post heres at Another Form of Relief. Or, if I’m entirely honest, we’re all about the lazy posts that write themselves. This kind of random post breaks up the constant pimping of new artists a little though, so they work well enough for me.

As you can see, we have a bunch of songs that aren’t connected in any way other than them all having monday in the title. I’m half kicking around the idea of doing one of these for each day of this week, but it could prove a little tricky as there aren’t a lot of songs that relate to the midweek days. Note to new artists: Take that song you’re writing about saturday nights and convert it to thursdays! Someone needs to balance these things out a little.

MP3 – Monday Morning (expired) (from Different Class, 1995)
Ok, hands up, who can name a single Pulp song that isn’t called Common People or Disco 2000? Nope, didn’t think so. It’s kind of a shame really. I’ve never been a big fan of Pulp, and I myself was guilty for a long time of completely ignoring anything they did other than those two songs. That was until last year when I picked up ‘Different Class’ on the cheap and discovered it was actually a very good, consistant album. ‘Monday Morning’ is one of my favourites from the album, a tale of an aimless life spent solely living for the short term excitement of the weekend.

MP3 – Monday (expired) (from Being There, 1996)
One of the most flat out rock ‘n’ roll songs to come from Wilco, so it’s fitting that it’s all about rock ‘n’ roll and the lifestyle of a band. There’s a certain timeless feel to this song, in that you could tell me that it came from the 60s, 70s or whatever and I probably wouldn’t really question it. In another act of indie blasphemy, I really don’t like the kind of music that Wilco puts out these days, but I really like this. I couldn’t really tell you why though, other than a nice and vague “it rocks” type answer.

MP3 – Monday Monday Monday (expired) (from If It Was You, 2002)
Ah, the joy of a fucked up relationship song. This song has absolutely no relation to monday other than the fact the chorus is simply the word “monday” sung twelve times over. No matter though, it’s a great song, going through the shitty part toward the end of a relationship (“Your house or mine / I don’t really care about it anymore / I close my eyes /I make myself unhappy so you’ll go”) in an alarmingly catchy way.

MP3 – Monday Night (expired) (from Down To The Promised Land: 5 Years of Bloodshot Records compilation, 2000)
As Ryan Adams songs go, this is one of the more simplistic, but it’s still pretty good. The lyrics aren’t anything to write home about, but I like the blending of both acoustic and electric guitars.

MP3 – Monday Night Nothing (expired) (from Into The Woods, 2005)
Malcolm Middleton (of Arab Strap) is someone I plan to write about in more detail in the future, but for now, we have this wonderful song for his latest album. Middleton writes incredibly depressing songs. Which leaves him with quite a dilemma on this album as apparently he’s quite happy at the moment. As he sings on this song, “Well it’s only a matter of time before I feel like shit again / I’m a happy army marching to defeat”. Cheerful stuff, no? He delivers all of this in a flat Scottish accent, although given the nature of the songs, this detachment works very much in his favour. It’s not too gloomy though, Middleton is another who writes depressing songs with music that sounds far too catchy for it’s lyrics.

I’ve really enjoyed putting this post together actually, so I might see how running this over the course of the week goes. It’s probably going to crash and burn around, oh, I don’t know, tuesday, but we’ll see how it goes. I have a few ideas for songs I can use, so it shouldn’t be a complete disaster.

Like mp3 blogs? Like music videos? It seems Derek from Good Weather For Air Strikes has come up with something in the “how the hell did no one think of this sooner?” line of thinking.. a music video blog. Each video featured is available to download rather than just streaming, and certainly looks like an interesting project. Head on over to Videoteque and check it out.