I am ashamed to admit that I'm seriously sitting here listening to the Venga Boys. And not only listening to it (voluntarily I might add) but cheerfully bobbing my head along to it while I read my contract law textbook. I may even be wiggling in my seat a little.
You see, I discovered a while ago that Sunday nights tend to be the most depressing night of every week. You KNOW that you're going to have to get up early the next day, you know you have work due, and more than anything you know that you have a week of work ahead of you. While I understand why Garfield didn't like Mondays, I still reckon Sunday nights are worse. It's 20:23, I have a test AND an assignment due in the coming week, and the awesome weekend that is over. In fact, it's quite well summed up by Douglas Adams in the following quote:
“In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness which starts to set in at about 2:55, when you know that you've had all the baths you can usefully have that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the papers you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o'clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.”
Sundays, in a word, suck. But I have come up with an amazing method to rid oneself of Sunday night blues and get vaguely comfortable with the week ahead, if not exactly amped. My secret? Lame, happy over-the-top music.
Seriously.
Try it.
My plan originally started when I was thinking about having to get up early in the morning. I vaguely recalled a Venga Boys song about "another day of stress and sorrow" and decided to download it to complement my depro Sunday night mood. Now I'm happily singing along rather loudly to Uncle John from Jamaica. My mood has been lifted and I feel less angsty about the week ahead! And so before I depart to continue with my law studying (and so that I have an excuse to jam alone to the Venga boys for a few more minutes) I present to you:
The Ultimate Sunday Night Blues Music List
- Uncle John from Jamaica - Venga Boys
- Shalalalala - Venga Boys
- Boom boom boom boom - Venga Boys
- Well, anything by the Venga Boys to be honest.
- Life is a Highway - Rascal Flats
- Suddenly I See - KT Tunstall
- We Go Together - Grease
- The Bird and the Worm - Owl City
- Walking on sunshine - Aly and AJ
- The Lazy Song - Bruno Mars
- Bad Moon Rising - CCR
- It's Tough to be a God - Elton John (yes it's a Disney song. Don't judge :P )
- All Summer Long - Kid Rock
- I Just Had Sex - Lonely Island ("So this one's dedicated to them girls that let us flop around on top of them...")
- Thriller -Michael Jackson (and yes you have to dance along)
- Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
So there you have my happy-clappy Sunday night music. Yes it's lame. Yes it's horrifically cheerful and weird and strange. But if you're not smiling after listening to this bubblegum-pop list, then I'm afraid there's no hope for you. And if you think this is bad, I have a confession to make:
I listen to Nickelback. AND I LIKE THEM.
Suddenly this list isn't looking so bad, is it? :P
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