Song · Marcy Playground
“It's Saturday” by Marcy Playground
From the album Shapeshifter (1999)
“It's Saturday” by Marcy Playground appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations in 1999. It was first released in 1999 on the album Shapeshifter. Its best result is #22 on the 91X Top 91 Songs of 1999. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #119 alternative song of 1999.
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Marcy Playground opened their Shapeshifter chapter in 1999 with "It's Saturday", the first single from their second album, a sly, lazy-limbed thing from a band still living in the shadow of "Sex and Candy". John Wozniak wrote it alone, words and music, and sings lead and plays guitar, with Dylan Keefe on bass and Dan Rieser on drums, the two of them filling in the backing vocals.
It started out as "Teenage Hypochondriac" before the title changed ahead of the album's release, and the old name tells you where its head is: the lyric shares its themes with Shel Silverstein's poem "Sick". It never came close to its big brother's numbers, but it still climbed to 25 on the US Modern Rock chart.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 22 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1999 | 91 |
| 1999 | 95 | 107.7 The End Seattle, WA | The End Top 107 Songs of 1999 | 107 |
| 1999 | 51 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 1999 | 103 |
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