The earworm genie gave me a bit of a break this morning.  Of course an earworm was front and center in my head as I opened my eyes, but, unlike most mornings, where I get the merest snippets of songs, this morning I was privileged with a full blown verse.

"Some folks love to see red, some folks never talk about it.

Some folks crave a blue lady, some folks know and still they doubt it.

I'm just no good without it, I'm not a man at all, it makes my skin crawl…"

I even get the orchestral bit that leads up to, but, of course doesn't include, the chorus.

Alice Cooper's "Some Folks" is from his Welcome to My Nightmare LP.  I believe I can says "his," as this is the first Alice Cooper album where he essentially went solo.  As I understand it, for the previous albums Alice Cooper referred to both the band as well as the lead singer, who took the name Alice Cooper.  It's kind of confusing, I guess, but think "Hootie and the Blowfish," if the lead singer was actually named "Hootie."  (D'ya think Darious Rucker ever gets called "Hootie"?  Guess not.)

I quite like Alice Cooper, particularly Cooper the band, and various phrases and riffs from their first several albums often make my earworm playlists.  (Indeed, before I started this blog, the opening guitar riff from Big Apple Dreamin' (Hippo) from the band's underrated Muscle of Love album haunted me for several days.)  I'm sure they, the band Alice Cooper, as well as Alice solo will appear again soon.  Until then, welcome to my earworm nightmare...