22. I'll Believe in Anything

Song: "I'll Believe in Anything"
Artist: Wolf Parade
Album: Apologies to the Queen Mary
Year: 2005
Length:  4:37
Label:  Sub Pop Records
Rating: 9.2 (out of 10) for the album via Pitchfork

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If you can, block out the baggage of its built-in hype machine and take this stuff for what it is. I still remember the excitement felt when I first heard Modest Mouse more than a decade ago. At the time, my friend and I talked about how it sounded like this or like that or whatever, but beneath the snobbery and geeky influence-detecting, we were excited, and so obviously into what the band was doing. If given the chance, Wolf Parade should engender similar scenarios: In a few years, other folks will still remember where they were when they first heard Apologies to the Queen Mary.

One of the most impressive debut albums to appear in recent years, this track comes from the deservedly praised combination of Spencer Krug and Dan Boeckner, with name-checking influences from Arcade Fire, Frog Eyes, and Mr. Modest Mouse himself, Isaac Brock, who produced the album.  In the two short years since the release, Spencer has come out with two spectacularly brilliant Sunset Rubdown albums.  Dan has released his own stellar Handsome Furs album.  And both have appeared on numerous side projects.  A Wolf Parade follow-up might be the most anticipated album of all-time (at least for me), but at this point we have to be satisfied with the brilliance on record here.  And my favorite song on the album has become my favorite Spencer song, the truly wonderful "I'll Believe in Anything."  From the Pitchfork review...

Krug's key tracks also come toward the album's end: the regal swagger of the Frog-Eyed "Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts"-- note its absolutely sublime vocal cadences and group hug-- and "I'll Believe in Anything", one of my favorite tunes of the year. (Diehards can scope out an eviscerated take on Krug's Sunset Rubdown album, but in either hip-shaking form it's unexpectedly moving.) Tangy video-game synth, half-Moon drums, and pretty guitar reps embrace a maniacally charming Krug come-on: "Give me your eyes, I need sunshine/ Your blood, your bones/ Your voice, and your ghost." Boeckner's guitar distorts, the keys trill, Krug somehow finds even more energy in his pocket, and the fucker continues for another two-and-a-half blissful minutes with a shopping list of promises of escape and hope that culminates with: "I'd take you where nobody knows you/ And nobody gives a damn either way."

The song explodes around the 1:50 mark, at which point I defy anyone and everyone not to crank up their speakers and be lost in the music.  Truly, truly magical.  A ragged anthem for the new millennium.
 

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#22 Favorite Song of All-Time

Give me your eyes, I need sunshine
Give me your eyes, I need sunshine
Your blood, your bones, your voice
And your ghost

We've both been very brave
Walk around with bowed legs
Fight the scary day
We both pull the tricks out of our sleeves

But I'll believe in anything
And you'll believe in anything
Said I'll believe in anything
And you'll believe in anything

If I could take the fire out from the wire
I'd share a life and you'd share a life
If I could take the fire out from the wire
I'd share a life and you'd share a life
If I could take the fire out from the wire
I'd take you where nobody knows you
And nobody gives a damn
Said nobody knows you
And nobody gives a damn

(Crank the volume, please)
and I could take another hit for you
and I could take away your trips from you
and I could take away the salt from your eyes
and take away the spitting salt in you
and I could give you my apologies
by handing over my neologies
and I could take away the shaking knees
and I could give you all the olive trees
and look at the trees and look at my face and look at a place far away from here

Give me your eyes
I need sunshine
Give me your eyes
I need sunshine
Your blood
Your bones
Your voice
and your ghost

We've both been very brave
Walk around with bowed legs
Fight the scary day
We both pull the tricks out of our sleeves

but I'll believe in anything
and you'll believe in anything

If I could take the fire out from the wire
I'd share a life and you'd share a life
If I could take the fire out from the wire
I'd share a life and you'd share a life
If I could take the fire out from the wire
I'd take you where nobody knows you
And nobody gives a damn
I said nobody knows you
and nobody gives a damn
I said nobody knows you
and nobody gives a damn either way
About your blood
your bones
your voice
and ghost
because nobody knows you
and nobody gives a damn either way

Comments

[Chris]

I don't see why everyone likes this one so much. Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts all the way.

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i don't see why people don't realize that people aren't the same and never will be and actually sometimes think things and like things other people don't and that sometimes the people who think people should like the same things they do are often assholes.

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