The Dandy Warhols - Everyday Should Be A Holiday

What this video is

Released in early 1998 as the second single from ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down (Capitol Records, July 1997), 'Every Day Should Be A Holiday' arrived at the height of the band's major-label debut campaign. The song satirises work-culture drudgery with a hedonistic, escapist lyrical voice — a distinctly anti-grunge counter-posture from a Portland band consciously positioned against the Nirvana-angst orthodoxy of the…

Why it matters

A canonical example of late-1990s American neo-psychedelia's commercial crossover moment, the video documents The Dandy Warhols' positioning as Capitol Records' answer to Britpop: polished enough for Top 40 radio but art-school enough for indie credibility. The fast editing pace and warm,…

The director

David Palmer and Sidney Bartholomew are cited as co-directors of this video in a secondary encyclopedia source. No independent primary-source confirmation (label credit sheets, industry databases, or director interviews) was located during research to verify…