I asked this a few years ago, and didn’t get the answer.
KXLU, a college station in L.A., played Everyday’s a Holiday back in the early-'80s. I have the album, but it’s packed away in the storage unit. Who did it?
*Went down to the beach and smoked some ‘sense’
They all laughed 'cause I knew what it meant
Everyday’s a holiday!
(Everyday’s a holiday!)
Everyday’s a holiday!
(Everyday’s a holiday!)
Everyday’s a holiday!
And night time’s a party, too.*[
I remember I bought two albums at the same time, and I thought this was done by The Jazz Butchers (aka The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy); but that album was the one with Peter Lorre, and not Every Day’s A Holiday. I suspect the identity of the band is lost to Time – at least until I empty the storage unit.
It’s completely obscure. I’m sure of the lyrics. Early-to-mid-'80s, kind of Ska, kind of Pop, singer had an English accent. Only heard it on the college station and on the record I bought.
NOTHING is impossible!
The song is actually called Every Day’s a Holiday, Every Night’s a Party, and it’s by the great Aussie punk band The Saints. It appeared on their 1978 album Prehistoric Sounds.
The Saints sound changed radically in 1979 after co-founder and main songwriter Ed Kuepper left. Chris Bailey kept on keeping on and has been releasing Saints album for 30 years now.
Ed Kuepper had some success in pop music and even was with Capitol Records for a while in the late 1980s, and released some excellent pop music albums in the ensuing years, but has never managed to break thru into the big time.
BTW, the album was remastered and re-released in 2006. You can buy it or just buy the mp3 of Every Day’s a Holiday. Every Night’s a Partyhere.
ETA: This info brought to you by Bo, a punk/metal junkie. If it’s punk, I prolly own it. If it’s metal, I prolly own it.
I’m just doing Google-fu, but youtube has a song by an Australian band called The Saints called Every Day’s A Holiday, Every Night’s A Party. There are horns in the band, but they soud more like a '77 punk band to me.
No, they aren’t. They’re really good. Their first 3 albums are excellent punk rock albums. Seriously, they’re on a par with Radio Birdman and Celibate Rifles (for their geographical peers), and had Kuepper not left, they prolly would have ended up expanding their musical horizons like The Clash did: by allowing external musical influences to creep into their already honed songwriting skills.
Unfortunately, they did break up, and Bailey isn’t as talented as Kuepper, and Kuepper had a distinct desire to lose his “edge”.
Good try! But alas, that isn’t the [del]droid[/del] song I’m looking for. The one I’m looking for has more of a Caribbean sound to it. Still looking impossible!
Bo: Celibate Rifles got played a lot on KXLU too, around the same time as Every Day’s A Holiday and Peter Lorre.
Thanks for the links. I was going to check them out but somehow got distracted last night. I kind of needed a change of sound for my music. I’m getting tired of listening to the same old stuff.
Sounds about right. (I did say ‘early-to-mid’ in a subsequent post, and 1986 is ‘mid’. ) I met this girl in '87, and I’m pretty sure I bought the records before that. Pretty sure.
k, I musta skipped that part of that post with my conscious mind. And I should have pulled my Saint’s album off the shelf and listened to it before I posted. I hadn’t listened to that album in at least 10 years, so thanks for reminding me of them, at least.
I can’t really remember the other lyrics. There’s a spoken part where he talks about ‘being on the dole’. I don’t know if he said ‘being on the dole’ or talked about getting money from the dole, or what; just that ‘dole’ was mentioned in a casually spoken section. ISTR that he wouldn’t have minded getting a job, but there were none to be found.
Basically the song was about this guy, obviously 20-something, who spent all of his time having fun because he couldn’t find work and made enough off the dole to live that sort of life. ‘Every day’s a holiday.’
I don’t remember the cover art. I’d rather not guess, since it may or may not have been similar to The Jazz Butchers’ album.
I bought a 12".
I don’t remember the instrumentation. The only backing vocals I remember were male voices basically shouting (although they could have been singing) ‘Every day’s a holiday!’ after the lead sings it. (In parentheses in the OP.)
It’s about 20 miles from hy house. When I’ve gone to look before, I couldn’t find the box with my records. So I assume that, being one of the heavier boxes, it was put in first and is way back in a corner. I’d basically have to empty the storage unit to get to it.
) I met this girl in '87, and I’m pretty sure I bought the records before that. Pretty sure.
