“Monday morning feels so bad | Ev’rybody seems to nag me
Coming tuesday I feel better | Even my old man looks good,
Wednesday just don’t go| Thursday goes too slow,
I’ve got Friday on my mind”
This post would have been exponentially better if I had posted it at 7:00 this morning, when I awoke to start and finish a 16-page paper on statistics. I’ve had Friday on mind since I stepped on the plane back from Canada this weekend. I owe a lot of these posts to brief weekend stints in the Great White North. Andy Frost of Q107 came on at noon on Sunday for his weekly journey from 1965-1975, Psychedelic Psunday, and began with this little ditty. To me, “Friday On My Mind” is pure psychedelia: the dark bass melody, the muffled guitar and vocal harmonies about living for the weekend.
If you haven’t heard of the Easybeats, they’re the most noteworthy Australian pop band to come of the 60s, which doesn’t paint the greatest picture of Aussie rock at the time given their one-hit-wonder status. And if that wasn’t enough, none of the original members were even born in Oz. One for your obscure musical trivia: Easybeats rhythm guitarist George Young is the older sibling of Malcolm and Angus Young of AC/DC fame. I’ll take this over an AC/DC anthem any day.
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