Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Persistent earworm alert LVI

Let's clarify something.  An earworm isn't always a pejorative label for a song.  One song that I've been glad to have stuck in my mind since Easter is "Every Country Has A Monster," performed by Jonah Heston (Jonah Ray) and robots Tom Servo and Crow in the first episode of the recently released "Mystery Science Theater 3000" reboot.  I  don't know of any other rap song that supports its thesis this well and would work musically with Beck's "Where It's At" before it and Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell's "You're All I Need To Get By" after it.  After watching the first five episodes of the new MST3K series, I'm convinced it's as good as ever.  "Every Country..." is Exhibit A among the reasons why.