if somebody can answer this they will make my festivus.
back in my first 2 years of university (lets say 97/98) I was a very unhappy lad. one day the campus radio played a song, the last 2/3s of which I taped. It became my glum anthem, singing of which in my head got me through a lot of crap.
I left that crappy university, became much happier, and lost the cassette. But still every few months I find myself wanting that song. Is there anyone out there who can identify it from these lyric fragments that I remember:
chorus:
"All in all it was not a banner day
In fact it was pretty awful, but in the usual way
Nothing I can be proud of, nothing good to say
All in all it was hardly a banner day"
verse fragments:
"everybody says "how are you today" everybody says just fine (fine!)
Lunch at the local grease pit, it cheap and hey I don't mind"
"...and have myself a beer...
...give the TV girls a leer..."
and that's all I got.
Kind of a moderate tempo straight forward rockish feel, maybe like Mojo Nixon on a very slow day. Possibly late 80s non mainstream. I dunno. maybe not.
that's how I remember it anyway.
anyone?
― Hugh Stimson, Wednesday, 22 December 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)
one year passes...
go to myspace and check out the band "starkz" they have a song called banner day and i cant remember where ive heard this song before .maybe this is the one . sorry if its not..
― tony russo, Monday, 22 May 2006 02:55 (twenty years ago)
This thread is now the number three google hit for "not a banner day".
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 May 2006 04:31 (twenty years ago)
four months pass...
Crikey, no action for 2 years and then whack, three on a given day in may. what's up with that.
The Starkz was a good notion but no dice, they have song called "banner year", which isn't the right one.
Years later, I'm still vexed by this question.
― Hugh Stimson (hughstimson), Monday, 25 September 2006 05:02 (twenty years ago)
seven years pass...
Hugh... I'm going to rock your world today. 7+ years later, here's your answer my friend:
It's "Banner Day" by the great, great Jerry Jerry & The Songs of Rhythm Orchestra. If anybody deserved a documentary tonight it's them.
Here's the song, as a super bonus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7r8DJRMFSo
― UnbelievableGuy, Friday, 25 October 2013 09:52 (twelve years ago)