Here's the setup: This song is told from the perspective of a man who is conned by three Marvel supervillains into assaulting an officer of the law, under the pretense that this officer is actually a bank robber. That alone should be enough to sell you on it, but just in case it's not, let me assure you that this song is also a damn fine performance by McCartney and company. It's spirited, elegantly produced (as well as anything by Wings is, anyway), and held together by the surprisingly effective marriage of McCartney's typically busy bassline and a resonant yet bouncy keyboard part. It doesn't really sound like anything else the band made, and while that could be said about half of Wings's library, in this case it's definitely a positive thing. And don't forget that kooky plotline! I mean, come on....this is a song whose climax comes with the thrilling revelation: "Then it occurred to me / You couldn't be bad / Magneto is mad, Titanium too! / And the Crimson Dynamo / he just couldn't cut it no mo'! / You were the laaaaaaaaaaw." Comic book rock-n-roll is a tough balancing act, and I think they did a decent job here. < click here to refresh the full Songs That Time Forgot page if you can only see this subpage> |
