Anthems of the 2000's

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Simple enough. Post songs from this decade that you'd consider anthmic, and give a short little description why. I shall start:

Sufjan Stevens - "Chicago"

The centerpiece of his epic Illinoise album, "Chicago" represents, in my mind, the best open road, escapist anthem since Springsteen's "Thunder Road". It just makes you want to drive across the country and leave all your bullshit behind. Words cannot describe the joy I felt when I heard this song kick in for the first time in Little Miss Sunshine. Perfect.
 
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Maybe Mr. Brightside - The Killers. The video was always on TV (still passes sometimes), and I think it's a very good song.

There's also:
Take Me Out - Fanz Ferdinand. I guess everybody knows that song and it was everywhere, always playing and I got tired of it fast... But it still rules at concerts;)

Wake Up - Arcade Fire. Not really an anthem because it's not very known... But it should be an anthem, it has the potential.

Vertigo - U2. this also was everywhere...

I can't think of anything else now...
 
If you shout... said:
"Anthems for a Seventeen-Year-Old Girl," anyone...?

Broken Social Scene. "anthems" in the title; how can you go wrong? My hat's off to "So Come Back I am Waiting" by Okkervil River. It could be about lots of different things; drug addiction, fear of celebrity, murder, a lost child or simply the words of a man/beast and his search for love and understanding.

So Come Back I Am Waiting

A black sheep boy revolves over canyons and waterfalls.
A black sheep boy dissolves in syringe or in shower stall.

He says
“There’s plenty of time to make you mine tonight,
there’s plenty of time to make you mine.”

He says
“There’s plenty of ways to know you’re not dying,
all right.
Hell, there’s plenty of light still left in your eyes.”

A black sheep boy grows horns,
breathing smoke through his microphone.
The airwaves stretch and they groan, bleeding, birthing his black diapason.

He says
“There’s plenty of things to wear when you come to me,
every color of sleeve to be rolled.
Millions of rolling eyes that still cling to me.
Every language of king is concerned.
So why
did you bawl
from the spell of some old holy song
some liar laughed as he composed,
some liar I loved to control?”

A black sheep boy dissolves
in hot cream, in sweet moans,
in each dead bed and empty home,
in each seething bacterium.

Killing softly and serial,
he lifts his head, handsome, horned, magisterial.
He's the smell of the moonlight wisteria.
He’s the thrill of the abecedarian.
See the muddy hoofprints where he carried you?

And there’s plenty of ways to claim his crimes tonight,
and there’s plenty of things to do on his dime.
And there’s plenty of ways to wear his hide tonight,
you’ve got yours, I’ve got mine.
You’ve got yours, I’ve got mine.
So why
did you flee?
Don’t you know you can’t leave his control
only call all his wild works your own?
So come back and we’ll take them all on.
So come back to your life on the lam.
So come back to your old black sheep man.


“I am waiting on hoof and on hand.
I am waiting, all hated and damned.
I am waiting, I snort and I stamp.
I am waiting, you know that I am,
calmly waiting to make you my lamb”
 
Best of You - Foo Fighters.

Big sound, pounding drums, the lyrics challenge you to rise up shake your fist in the air and scream, it has "oh oh oh ohs", it builds in intensity, and I fell spent by the end of it. ANTHEM.
 
Canadiens1160 said:
Lil' Jon & the Eastside Boyz - Get Low

:yes: Definitely. Great song.

From the windoooooooooooow
to the wall to the wall
the sweat drips down my...


I'll also throw in OutKast's Hey Ya!, so good work namckuR.

Take Me Out was also huge.
 
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