Song · Guadalcanal Diary
“Always Saturday” by Guadalcanal Diary
From the album Flip-Flop (1989)
“Always Saturday” by Guadalcanal Diary appears on 7 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 1989 and 2003. It was first released in 1989 on the album Flip-Flop. Its best result is #84 on the Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1989. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #188 alternative song of 1989 and #2,821 alternative song of all time.
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Guadalcanal Diary released "Always Saturday" as a single from Flip-Flop, their fourth album and, as it turned out, their last, out on Elektra in 1989, and it got a video to go with it. Don Dixon produced, with Mark Williams engineering, and the band took the record out on a tour of North America.
Critics mostly liked what they heard. The Toronto Star called the album raucous, energizing guitar rock with a brain; the Chicago Tribune heard mainstream rock a shade quirkier than John Mellencamp or Tom Petty and every bit as deserving of the Top 40; and the Gazette noticed some of the melancholy lifting from singer Murray Attaway's voice. The Los Angeles Times, though, figured this underrated band, so often wrongly compared to R.E.M., hadn't done much to change its lot.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 84 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1989 | 105 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 277 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1991) | 500 |
| 1994 | 253 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1994) | 500 |
| 1996 | 226 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1996) | 498 |
| 1999 | 379 | WOXY 97X | WOXY Modern Rock 500 (1999) | 500 |
| 2002 | 1282 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) | 2002 |
| 2003 | 1042 | Fred (XM 44) | Fred XM Top 2044 Songs of All-Time (July 2003) | 2044 |
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