"Everyday Is Like Sunday" is the third track of Morrissey's debut solo album, Viva Hate, and the second single to be released by the artist.

Upon release, the single, featuring the B-sides "Disappointed", "Will Never Marry", and "Sister I'm a Poet", saw commercial and critical success, reaching number nine in the UK and garnering rave reviews for its evocative lyrics and bombastic music.

Since its release, "Everyday Is Like Sunday" has become one of Morrissey's most successful songs and remains critically acclaimed by modern writers.

[2] The song's lyrics, which commemorate the dreariness of a seaside town in the off-season,[3] were reportedly inspired by Nevil Shute's On the Beach,[4] a novel about a group of people waiting for nuclear devastation in Melbourne, Australia.

"[6] Street recruited drummer Andrew Parisi and guitarist Vini Reilly to round out the studio band.

Ned Raggett of AllMusic called the song "the unquestioned highlight of Viva Hate" as well as "one of Morrissey's most memorable numbers in and out of the Smiths."

He elaborated, "Street's orchestrations fit the melancholic surge of the music to a T, while Morrissey's portrait of a "seaside town that they forgot to bomb" is evocative and given a bravura vocal.

"[14] The Guardian also named it first on their list of top Morrissey songs, writing, "The reason it's one of his strongest early singles is because it exists in a masterfully imagined, ennui-laden world of its own.

Here, in the 'seaside town that they forgot to bomb', there’s no acrimony or draining divorce – just drudgery in the world's snooziest holiday destination.

In a September 1992 edition of Q magazine, Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde (who would later record her own version of the song) said that the "lyric to 'Everyday Is Like Sunday' is, to me, a masterful piece of prose."

[16] In Morrissey's autobiography, he recalls that REM's Michael Stipe told him that he was "very jealous" of "Everyday Is Like Sunday" and that it made him consider going solo.

[9] Billie Whitelaw appears in a supporting role as does Cheryl Murray and Lucette Henderson as a young fan.

[18] Morrissey performed the song on his solo debut on Top of the Pops, appearing in a The Queen Is Dead T-shirt and a blazer.