While their first single "Tally Ho" may have launched The Clean, their label Flying Nun, and the entire Dunedin Sound genre, "Anything Could Happen" from 1981's Boodle Boodle Boodle EP has come to be the New Zealand's band trademark hit. The track has everything one would expect from the band - jangly guitars, simple chord-progressions, minimal bass, and quirky lyrics - and manages to be simultaneously melancholy and uplifting.
On "Anything Could Happen," singer David Kilgour searches for answers, from doctors, in empty doorways, from dancers, and out on highways, before reaching the realization that "anything could happen, and it could be right now, and the choice is yours, to make it worthwhile." Kilgour acknowledges life might be tough, but ultimately, it's up to you to figure it all out, doctors be damned.
Make reading this post worthwhile, and stream "Anything Could Happen" now. <EC>
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