Monday's Song : The Easybeats - Friday On My Mind (1966)

 

Monday evening, but still Monday and as today's song says, I have Friday on my mind. This song was co-written by Easybeats guitarists George Young and Harry Vanda, who were the primary songwriters in the group (Young is the older brother of Malcolm and Angus Young from AC/DC). 

This song has quite a buildup. After the opening cymbal crash, it’s just a staccato guitar for the next 20 seconds underscoring Stevie Wright's vocal where he runs through the days of the week, explaining why Monday-Thursday don't excite him. The bass finally comes in as he gets closer to the weekend. Finally, 30 seconds into the song, we hit Friday and the drums come in to play. This energy carries into the chorus, where we hear about the plans for the weekend. But then it's back to Monday, and we do the "five-day drag once more." This time, however, the tempo is faster and he's even more optimistic, knowing that his time will come. The second chorus is even more energetic and repeats to close out the song. All of this is packed into 2:47, making it one of the more distinctive and energetic hits of the era.

Friday Rocks with AC/DC

 

This Friday we plug in the amplifiers, because I think that we all need a little noise sometimes and as AC/DC say: “Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution”

So many songs and so much energy cannot be limited to one compilation, but I chose songs, spelling "Friday Rocks" with their initial letters and added some more, with the word “rock” in the title.

With the eternal "schoolboy" Angus Young at the forefront and the voices of the late Bon Scott or Brian Johnson, AC/DC has been pursuing a music career that does not seem to stop and they supply the rock fans with a necessary source of power and energy, for almost five decades now.

 

 

DMW # 31 : V.A. - The ΄΄G΄΄ Project

Choosing songs for a compilation is a process that pleases me, on the one hand because I have the opportunity to listen again to some of my favorites, but also to remember a lot of others, that for a long time I had forgotten their existence in my music collection.

It all starts with an idea, that is born at a given moment and although completion is sometimes easy and sometimes takes time, it is always fun. The choice of the title of today's compilation was also fun, but in the end I avoided my initial, probably "obvious" and might "provocative" choice.

In the "G" Project you will find songs starting with G, performed by artists [solo or bands) with G as the initial letter of their names.