The Age Old Question: A Podcast for Music Fans · Rich Price and Clint Bierman

What Is The Best Day Of The Week In Music?

April 24, 2023·55 min·3 clips

“I don’t like Mondays” was written after the 1979 Cleveland Elementary School shooting in San Diego.

Rich Price and Clint Beerman open by framing days of the week as a recurring songwriting subject. They set up the episode as a debate about which day has been celebrated best in music. The setup is simple, and the energy stays conversational from the start. They move straight into examples. Monday gets "Monday, Monday" by the Mamas and the Papas. Tuesday brings "Tuesday's Gone" by Leonard Skinner. Wednesday shows up through "Wednesday Morning 3 AM" by Simon and Garfunkel. Thursday appears with Jim Croce's "Thursday." Friday lands with "Friday, I'm in Love" by The Cure. Saturday comes in through Sam Cooke's "Another Saturday Night." Sunday closes the run with the Commodores' "Easy Like Sunday Morning." The list gives the episode its shape and its momentum. The hosts treat each song as both a familiar title and a cue for reaction. They sound like two people building an argument in real time. The exchange stays warm and loose. The conversation never feels over-rehearsed. Along the way, the episode picks up listener comments. One listener, Crash McKenzie, sends praise and suggests Lucius as a strong harmony example. The hosts respond by cueing up a Lucius track called "Tempest." Their response shows how easily the show moves from comment to song. It also reinforces how much they like hearing from listeners. Another listener, Blake, writes from a long flight and says the podcast helped him get through eleven hours of a sixteen-hour trip from Cape Town to New York. The hosts clearly appreciate that kind of note. They respond to the distance and the effort. They also point out that reviews, likes, and follows help the show surface more widely. Blake's message leads them into more listener feedback. He mentions an earlier episode on guilty pleasure and brings up "We Are the World." That sends the hosts into a memory about recording the song onto tape and replaying it over and over. The story is one of the episode's most vivid turns. It captures the old habit of making a favorite song into a private obsession. The podcast keeps returning to the idea that there is a whole episode inside a single song. That attitude fits the series well. The hosts like finding out how much there is to say about a familiar thing. They seem happiest when a simple prompt opens into a bigger memory or a better story. The episode also keeps the show's community-minded outro energy. They invite listeners to follow them on Instagram and Facebook, leave comments, and check out Patreon. None of that crowds out the main conversation. It just keeps the tone tied to an active listener relationship. The structure stays steady throughout. The hosts pose a question, test it against examples, react to listener notes, and keep the whole thing moving. Their style favors quick consensus and easy interruption over polished formal argument. That makes the episode feel lived-in rather than scripted. The biggest pleasure here is recognition. The songs are widely known, so the debate starts with shared reference points. From there, the hosts can spend their time on taste, memory, and small distinctions. That is where the show sounds most itself. The episode also benefits from the hosts' comfort with digression. A listener comment can become a song cue. A song cue can become a memory. A memory can become a joke or a reminder to support the show. The path is not straight, but it keeps coming back to the question at hand. By the end, the hosts sound convinced they have solved their own puzzle. They close with the confidence of people who have spent enough time with the evidence. The listener is left with a simple but satisfying premise: music has its own calendar, and this episode is an argument about which day wins.

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A relaxed music-fandom discussion that moves cleanly through seven day-of-week songs.

This episode takes a straightforward fandom question and keeps moving, working through day-of-week songs with an easy, familiar rhythm. Rich Price and Clint Beerman steer the conversation with song picks, listener notes, and small personal memories, which gives it a relaxed,…

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