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SUPPORT ME ON PATREON\n\nWATCH MUSIC is not a GENRE VIDEOS and MORE\n\nI love naming things. Songs. Albums. Podcasts. Children. The list goes on. Names are powerful. So naturally I\u2019m fascinated by them. In researching this podcast, I wanted to see if anyone has tried to make a comprehensive list of every band name ever in history from all types of music. Nope. And I was kinda happy about that because I would have probably read the whole thing.\n\nInstead, I decided we\u2019d have a little fun. I found five CDs from bands that have days of the week in their names. I looked up ALL the bands with day names that have made any kind of impact (i.e. that I could actually find), and it turns out there are HARDLY ANY. I thought since there are hundreds of songs with day names in them that there\u2019d be at least a few dozen bands, but I could only find 17. Of those only 6 (#s 1, 4, 11, 12, 16 & 17 below) have had any measure of fame. And really it\u2019s only FIVE because one of them (#12) changed their name to Radiohead before hitting it big. I was shocked that the list is that small.\n\nHere it is:\n1. Blue Monday \u2013 hardcore punk band from Vancouver\n2. Happy Mondays \u2013 Manchester Brit pop neo-psychedelia band\n3. Hey Monday \u2013 pop punk band from Florida\n4. See You Next Tuesday \u2013 deathcore & mathcore band from Michigan\n5. \u2018Til Tuesday \u2013 new wave alt rock band from Boston\n6. Tuesday \u2013 punk emo band from Chicago\n7. Dead by Wednesday \u2013 heavy metal band from Connecticut\n8. Wednesday \u2013 Ontario pop vocal band\n9. Wednesday 13 \u2013 aka Joseph Michael Poole \u2013 lead singer of Murderdolls\n10. Wednesday Night Heroes \u2013 Edmonton punk / street punk band\n11. Thursday \u2013 post-hardcore, screamo band from New Brunswick, NJ\n12. Friday Night Boys \u2013 pop punk electronica / power pop band from Virginia\n13. On a Friday \u2013 Radiohead\u2019s original name for their first few years\n14. Saturday Looks Good to Me \u2013 experimental indie pop band from Michigan\n15. The Saturdays \u2013 British-Irish electro pop girl group\n16. Taking Back Sunday \u2013 emo, post-hardcore, pop punk band from Long Island\n17. The Sundays \u2013 dream pop alt rock band from London\n\nAs for the five that I have \u2013 one album from The Sundays, two from Thursday, and two from Taking Back Sunday \u2013 none of these bands are seriously active right now, but when they were I was really into them. The Sundays were one of the best dream pop bands to ever exist. Thursday was one of the pioneering screamo bands, and hailed from my Rutgers University alma mater town, New Brunswick, NJ. Taking Back Sunday blended pop punk with screamo, and came up with some excellent tunes. Those last two bands had TONS of energy you could feel right through the stereo.\n\nThere\u2019s absolutely no question these bands influenced me. The Sundays showed me it\u2019s possible to be soft and cool. The other two bands gave me templates for merging melody and sheer force the way Foo Fighters et al. have done. Check out the album below for some major dream pop influence, and listen to the song after that to hear some major force:\n\nREC \u2013 Sympathy for the Weird\n\nREC \u2013 \u201cThree More Minutes\u201d\n\nDo you remember ANY of these bands? Do you know of other bands with days in their names? Discuss dammit!\n\n\n--- \n\nThis episode is sponsored by \n\xb7 Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app\n\nSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/musicisnotagenre/support\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices