One Day Like This by Elbow - Song of the Decade

Artist Info

Elbow are an alternative rock band which formed in Bury, Greater Manchester, England in 1990 while at sixth-form college. The band consists of Guy Garvey (vocals, guitar), Mark Potter (guitar, vocals), Pete Turner (bass), Craig Potter (keyboards) and Richard Jupp (drums). Over the band's 18 year career they have released four studio albums, four EPs and ten top fifty singles in the UK. The band are named after a line in the BBC TV mini-series The Singing Detective which says that the word Read more...

Elbow

Song Stats

Highest chart position:

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Awards

Best song musically and lyrically
Ivor Novello Awards (2009)

Comments (51)

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lauralatch

@ 2:37pm on 3 December 2009

How is this not at the top?...Why is this behind several nippleback songs?

lusciousliz

@ 8:59pm on 1 December 2009

I first heard this song, and indeed Elbow ,on the Glastonbury coverage last year and it blew me away.I thought this was a song of such stature that I wouldn't buy the album because I just didn't believe that it was possible to top that song and I didn't want to be dissapointed. How wrong could I be!! It is phenominal, but " One day like this" is a unique piece of. Every element of it is incredible and my day changes as soon as I hear the opening chords. I am still in awe of it every time I play it.

Jonnysthing

@ 9:31am on 1 December 2009

Good song...but number 2 in the Song of the Decade? Honestly?! Madness...

chizzleface

@ 6:17pm on 30 November 2009

Just watching Elbow with Chantage and the BBC Concert Orchestra sends shivers down my spine, this song is one of the most beautiful songs ever written, Garvey's lyrics are definitely the most intelligent of any pop artist of this generation. Stunning, shimmering, sexy, and this is the song I want my first dance to whenever I get married.

Phillisc

@ 4:38pm on 30 November 2009

rosie, how wrong can you be. A truly moving and beautiful song, anthemic and without doubt the finest song of the last ten years. Elbow are to the noughties what Radiohead were to the nineties.

susanvox

@ 12:01am on 30 November 2009

the first time i heard this song i was moved to tears...i got into them about 8 years ago and felt they never got the recognition they deserved...but look at them now! ;-)

rosie0001

@ 10:12pm on 29 November 2009

this song is good but honestly it´s not the song of the decade

charliemillie

@ 1:46am on 28 November 2009

this is a fantastic song which is executed perfectly. Elbow are truly amazing live

charliemillie

@ 1:44am on 28 November 2009

Have your say...

BfcBez

@ 3:35pm on 26 November 2009

A perfect song for any decade delivered with the style and grace that only Elbow can do without trying. Best heard with 20,000 others I have found as well.