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"Believe"
Song

"Believe" was the second single from The Chemical Brothers 2005 studio album Push the Button. The single was released in early May 2005 and peaked at #18 in the UK Singles Chart (see 2005 in music). Kele Okereke, lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the indie rock band Bloc Party is featured on vocals. The song was featured in the 2005 snowboarding video "Flavor Country" by Sandbox.[citation needed] It also samples the opening of Daft Punk's "Face to Face".[citation needed]

Composition

Rolling Stone's Bill Werde called the song "a club-anthem-in-waiting," c "the urgent yelp" from Okereke while delivers the line "[1]

John Bush from AllMusic described: "[The song] agonizing over an energized electroshock production composed of equal parts Prince and Chicago acid house."

Critical reception

While reviewing Push the Button, Robert Christgau called the song along with "The Big Jump", "rock the block."[2] Thump, "an electronic music and culture channel" from Vice, listed the song as one of the duo's fifteen best collaborations, ranked at number 12.[3] Bill Werde

Music video

The video was premiered on MTV on March 18, 2005.

The music video for the song was directed by Dom and Nic, contains scenes filmed at the now defunct MG Rover Longbridge plant now owned by SAIC . It starts out with a man watching women in an exercise video dance on a window TV in a store, possibly spoofing the then-recent video for Eric Prydz's single "Call On Me". The man turns out to be a paranoid factory worker terrified of the automated assembly robot he operates, possibly under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs or possibly painkillers, as he has a cast on his left arm. He imagines the machines watching and threatening him, seeing them outside the factory, chasing him before disappearing. Finally, even after quitting his job, the man is pursued to the top of the building by one of the arms, where it lunges at him before disappearing. He runs onto the street, and sees multiple machines lumbering toward him, and his view of the world disintegrates into a mess of geometric shapes and colours. He collapses, laughing hysterically as robots disappear once again.

Track listings

In the UK

  • CD 1 CHEMSD22
  1. "Believe" (Edit)
  2. "Giant"
  • CD 2 CHEMSDX22
  1. "Believe" (Extended Version)
  2. "Spring"
  3. "Believe" (Erol Alkan's 'Feel Me' Re-Work)
  4. "Believe" (Video)
  • 12" CHEMST22
  1. "Believe" (Extended Version)
  2. "Galvanize" (Abe Duque Remix)
  3. "Giant"

In Australia

  • CD 8699502
  1. "Believe" (Extended Version)
  2. "Spring"
  3. "Believe" (Erol Alkan's 'Feel Me' Re-Work)

References

  1. ^ Werde, Bill (27 January 2005). "The Chemical Brothers: Push The Button : Music Reviews". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 24 November 2007. Retrieved 26 May 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  2. ^ Robert Christgau. "The Chemical Brothers". robertchristgau.com. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
  3. ^ [1]
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