# Impossible song ID **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 17, 2009, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-song-id/521574 "2009-12-17T01:50:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-song-id/521574/1 "2009-12-17T01:50:33Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-song-id/521574/2 "2009-12-17T04:46:15Z")
Not a response, but just an excuse for me to post my own obscure 80s [Holiday song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3DsfGffOdM). 😛 ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-song-id/521574/3 "2009-12-17T05:11:17Z")
Either it’s really obscure or you’re completely wrong about the lyrics. I couldn’t find anything through Google. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-song-id/521574/4 "2009-12-17T05:15:33Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > Either it’s really obscure or you’re completely wrong about the lyrics. I couldn’t find anything through Google. 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. I told you it’s impossible! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-song-id/521574/5 "2009-12-17T05:51:38Z")
**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 **Saint** s 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 Party_ [here](http://www.amazon.com/Prehistoric-Sounds-Saints/dp/B000ROAACW/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1261028472&sr=1-5). 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. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-song-id/521574/6 "2009-12-17T05:52:22Z")
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. On edit: [link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqlfD8sEVo4) ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-song-id/521574/7 "2009-12-17T06:05:35Z")
They’re actually pretty [good](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-GueNOKolo). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-song-id/521574/8 "2009-12-17T06:34:06Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > They’re actually pretty [good](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-GueNOKolo). 🙂 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”. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-song-id/521574/9 "2009-12-17T07:09:12Z")
It occurred to me that some people might not know who [Radio](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1KNrPBVOrY&feature=related) [Birdman](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIkod60zViM) & [Celibate](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMD5qovTZmU) [Rifles](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljtVLiqZRIs) are. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-song-id/521574/10 "2009-12-17T16:30:53Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > **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_. > [@cornflakes](#): > > 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. > > On edit: [link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqlfD8sEVo4) 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_. ---
**Author:** ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-song-id/521574/11 "2009-12-17T19:26:32Z")
Duke Reid? [http://www.amazon.com/Everyday-Is-A-Holiday/dp/B0010VYDEW](http://www.amazon.com/Everyday-Is-A-Holiday/dp/B0010VYDEW) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-song-id/521574/12 "2009-12-17T20:18:23Z")
The thing is, I think you have some detail(s) wrong. See, _Peter Lorre_ was released in 1986, on **The Jazz Butcher vs. Max Eider** EP _Conspiracy_. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-song-id/521574/13 "2009-12-17T21:38:29Z")
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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-song-id/521574/14 "2009-12-17T21:45:31Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > The thing is, I think you have some detail(s) wrong. See, _Peter Lorre_ was released in 1986, on **The Jazz Butcher vs. Max Eider** EP _Conspiracy_. 1. 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. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-song-id/521574/15 "2009-12-17T22:11:12Z")
Could it be “Holiday” by **The Other Ones**? It had a bouncy island feel to it… [lyrics website link](http://www.smartlyrics.com/Song156299-The-Other-Ones-Holiday-lyrics.aspx) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-song-id/521574/16 "2009-12-17T22:26:24Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-song-id/521574/17 "2009-12-17T22:30:19Z")
Need more detail. Male singer? low voice? high pitch voice? UK accent? any other lyrics you can remember? Do you remember the cover art? Did you buy a CD or an LP? Any backing vocals? do you remember the instrumentation? were there horns? strings? keyboards? Last, where is your storage unit and why not just go down there and look thru yer stuff? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2009, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-song-id/521574/18 "2009-12-17T23:35:45Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Need more detail. > > Male singer? low voice? high pitch voice? UK accent? any other lyrics you can remember? Male singer, medium-pitch voice, UK accent. 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.’ > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Do you remember the cover art? > > Did you buy a CD or an LP? 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". > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Any backing vocals? do you remember the instrumentation? were there horns? strings? keyboards? 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.) > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Last, where is your storage unit and why not just go down there and look thru yer stuff? 😃 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. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2009, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-song-id/521574/19 "2009-12-18T03:16:41Z")
[Tupelo Chain Sex](http://www.myspace.com/tupelochainsex) **NOTHING** is impossible! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2009, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-song-id/521574/20 "2009-12-18T03:37:08Z")
Tupelo Chain Sex!!! :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: :smack: I **KNEW** that if I heard the name, it would be immediately familiar! ‘Wend down to Bill’s beach house’. I got that wrong. Outstanding detective work! How did you find it? 😕 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impossible-song-id/521574.md?page=2)