Back On The Job

I have moved Brother Buble and his most cool jazzy version of the Spider-Man theme song to heavy rotation in the soundtrack of my day. It may be heresy to say this but I think it is slightly better than the version by the Ramones which I also love.

You know the theme is pretty amazing to begin with if it can stand up to many different successful interpretations by musicians. And who doesn't already know all the words? If like me you grew up with the cartoon (1967) which was the only animated superhero that was on TV in those days.

The first year's episodes of that series was awesome. All of Spidey's best villains were there - Doc Ock, Rhino, Sandman, Electro, Green Goblin, Scorpion, Vulture. Even J. Jonah Jameson acted and sounded like you always thought he would when you read the comic.

The least said about the later episodes the better. Those were some trippy chapters. You could be forgiven for thinking that the creative team must have taken mushroom or LSD when they were putting that craptastic season together.

On the 'You Tubes' I found this mashup of Buble's version with footage from the much missed 'Spectacular Spider-Man' cartoon from a few years ago.

That series was set back in the days when Peter Parker first put on the costume. They really captured the acrobatic nature of Spidey's powers perfectly as you can see from the above clip. Gwen Stacey is Peter's love interest not Mary Jane. The struggles Peter goes to balance being a kid and a superhero while keeping his secret from those closest to him got equal story time to the more flashy webslinging stuff.

If you have never seen it, it is worth tracking down the dvds. If you have kids who missed this one first time around, you owe it to them to do something about that deficiency in their upbringing.