Sunday, 6 February 2011

Music for a Sunday morning

Maybe it's the power of advertising, but when I think of Sunday mornings, I think of the languid, lazy Commodores song, "Easy". And this Halifax advert from the mid-80s is the reason.
Sunday seems to lend itself to such leisurely interpretations. And why not - Sundays are a day of rest, after all. But isn't Sunday also the day that creepingly reminds us we have to go back to work and grind it out for another week? Where is this sense in the Commodores track? If anything, Sunday's should be more like this:



But, if we're being a little more upbeat, perhaps Alan Partridge got it right with his dim-witted interpretation of the U2 song, Sunday, Bloody Sunday.

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