America 250 Rocktober Song #21: "It ('s A Monster)" by Extreme

Well, friends, our monthlong rocking musical journey through the U S of A has come to an end.  Be sure to tune in Monday, as we start GoProvember, a daily look at the most hilarious first-person-filmed biking, skiing, surfing, parkour, and skateboarding mishaps.

But before then, we have one last America 250 Rocktober song, and because it's Hair Band Friday, we're obviously going with a song by a hair band.  Formed in Boston in 1985, Extreme is best known for their acoustic ballads "More Than Words" and "Hole Hearted," which respectively went to #1 and #4 on the Billboard Hot 100.  Like many hair bands who fell into the ballad/power ballad trap, many unfamiliar with their whole catalog assume that's the only type of music they play.  Well, they don't.  They can actually rock quite hard.

"It ('s A Monster)" -- with its awkward and seemingly unnecessary parentheses -- was a track on the band's second studio album, 1990's Extreme II:  Pornograffitti, the very same album that featured the aforementioned massive hits.  The song is an uptempo, rollicking fun song that I could see being a show closer.  From what I can tell, the song appears to be about identifying a being as a monster.