WARNING: I ramble on about music in this one, so feel free to skip to the two versions of the song/s I’m rambling on about. Really. Be my guest. I won’t mind.
Once upon a time, way back in 1981 (A.K.A. The Dork Ages), a Canadian band called Lover Boy released a noise assemblage called “Everybody’s Workin’ for the Weekend.”
You may have heard it. A few hundred thousand million times.
The year before that, another Canadian band called The Kings released a dual tribute to L’Espirit du Weekend: “This Beat Goes on/Switchin’ to Glide.”
As a person who has a negative amount of musical talent and once inflicted G.B.H. on his G.P.A. by taking a music theory class, here’s the best comparison I can give of the two songs:
Lover Boy’s highly contrived effort was overplayed the second time* a DJ dropped the needle†.
The Kings’ effort might be overplayed if a radio station started playing it when it was released and played it non-stop until about … Now.
However, I discovered last night The Kings released a version of the two songs in 1979. It can only be classified as NCH-BOIR‡.
Observe. I mean, listen. Whatever, just click the damn links: