2000 Great Songs #1382: Morse Moose & The Grey Goose
One of the things I admire most about Paul McCartney is his willingness to fully commit to even his dopiest ideas. We've all heard the tales about him driving his fellow Beatles crazy by insisting on a hundred takes of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer," a song they despised. (Me, I'm proud to be among those gladly defending the track.) And as the ratio of hits to misses shrunk throughout his Wings and solo years, he'd nonetheless make even some of the dreck perfectly enjoyable. Now, I wouldn't call "Morse Moose & The Grey Goose" dreck, but it's probably fair to say it has a lot fewer fans than, say, "Maybe I'm Amazed" or "Band on the Run." Yet I find it endlessly fascinating, and a surprisingly potent closer to Wings' hugely under-appreciated 1978 LP London Town . (Or at least the closer if one doesn't count "Mull of Kintyre," added to the end of the CD release and apparently one of his most successful s...
