Sunday Sunday
| "Sunday Sunday" | ||||
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| Single by Blur | ||||
| from the album Modern Life Is Rubbish | ||||
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| Released | 4 October 1993 | |||
| Length | 2:38 | |||
| Label | Food | |||
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| "Sunday Sunday" on YouTube | ||||
"Sunday Sunday" is a song by English rock band Blur, included on their second album, Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993). It was released on 4 October 1993 by Food Records as the final single from that album, and charted at number 26 on the UK Singles Chart. This is the highest-charting single from the album (although the lowest-selling single from the album); the record company thought the original album contained no singles, and had the band write the other two singles specifically for single release. The band's original name, 'Seymour', is credited as guest performer on the CD1 single, due to the B-sides being recordings from that era.
The song is a satirical social commentary on traditional British Sunday activities (before the introduction of the Sunday Trading Act 1994, which permitted UK businesses to trade on Sundays). The music video was released in October 1993 and shot in front of Exchange Tower at Millwall Dock in London. It depicts the band members engaging in some of these traditional Sunday activities such as preparing a Sunday roast, a caravan holiday, washing the car and playing with the dog.
The song "Daisy Bell" is a B-side on CD 2. Singer Damon Albarn once mentioned that he would like to make music his grandparents would approve of. Graham Coxon has described the cover versions of "Daisy Bell" and "Let's All Go Down the Strand" as marking "one of the worst moments of Blur's career". CD 2 is subtitled The Sunday Sunday Popular Community Song CD.