Every Day Should Be a Holiday

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"Every Day Should Be a Holiday"
Single by The Dandy Warhols
from the album ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down
Released15 July 1997
Length4:01
Label Capitol
Songwriter(s) Courtney Taylor-Taylor
Producer(s) Tony Lash, Eric Hedford, Courtney Taylor-Taylor [1]
The Dandy Warhols singles chronology
"Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth"
(1997)
"Every Day Should Be a Holiday"
(1997)
"Boys Better"
(1998)

"Every Day Should Be a Holiday" is a song by American alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols. It was released in 1997 as the first single from their second studio album, ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down . The song was featured in the movie There's Something About Mary and included in the official soundtrack album. [2] Considered one of their most commercially successful tracks and a "classic" of their repertoire, it peaked at #29 on the UK Singles Chart. [3] [4] [5] The song has also been included in the compilation album The Capitol Years 1995–2007 . [6] [7]

Contents

Personnel

Track listing

All tracks are written by Courtney Taylor-Taylor.

Original 1997 release
No.TitleLength
1."Every Day Should Be a Holiday"4:02
2."One (Ultra Lame White Boy)"3:11
3."Head"3:17
1998 version
No.TitleLength
1."Every Day Should Be a Holiday"4:03
2."Ride" (live)4:43
3."It's a Fast Drivin' Rave Up with the Dandy Warhols Sixteen Minutes" (live)7:18
4."Genius" (live)7:03

Charts

Chart performance
Chart (1998)Peak
position
UK Singles (OCC) [8] 29 [9]

References

  1. "Every Day Should Be a Holiday - The Dandy Warhols". Genius.com.
  2. Thomas Erlevine. "There's Something About Mary - Original Soundtrack". Allmusic.
  3. "Every Day Should Be A Holiday". Chart Stats. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
  4. Cameron Atfield. "The Dandy Warhols Brisbane review: Eatons Hill Hotel, Saturday, October 29, 2016". The Sunday Morning Herald.
  5. Zack Ruskin. "Concert Review: The Dandy Warhols Need No Confetti at 25th Anniversary Show". Variety .
  6. Jonathan Keefe. "The Capitol Years 1995–2007". Slant Magazine .
  7. Stuart Berman. "The Capitol Years: 1995–2007 - The Dandy Warhols". Pitchfork .
  8. "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company.
  9. "Every Day Should Be a Holiday by Dandy Warhols". officialcharts.com.