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.