“Catch Me Now I'm Falling” by The Kinks

"Catch Me Now I'm Falling" is the second track on Low Budget, the Kinks' 1979 album, and it finds Ray Davies taking aim at America's allies. His symbol for a country in dire straits is Captain America himself, taking a fall.

Davies produced it and sings lead, with Dave Davies on guitar, Jim Rodford on bass and Mick Avory on drums, and the song gives room to a string of solos on different instruments, riding a riff that owes a nod to "Jumpin' Jack Flash". Arista put it out as a single in the US, backed with "Low Budget", and in the Netherlands, where "In a Space" took the flip side.

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