Anthems - what are yours

[chaka]

Fugazi- Waiting Room
Sabbath - War Pigs
Zep - Immigrant Song
Tool - the entire album Undertow

[The AD]

Guided By Voices - Bulldog Skin

Good one. The GBV anthem for me is "Tractor Rape Chain."

[crstlextrm]

Sublime- what i got, doin time, badfish, etc...
Verve- bittersweet symphony
Chili peppers- under the bridge
Blind Melon- no rain
Dylan- tambourine man
Gorillaz-feel good inc, clint eastwood
Modest mouse- polar opposites, float on
many others...

[The Reverend Floater]

Rush--Tom Sawyer
Pearl Jam--Porch
Pennywise--Alien
GD--Wharf Rat
SRV--Voodoo Chile (slight return)
Lifesavasa--Me
Spearhead--Oh My God
Metallica--For Whom the Bell Tolls
Wyclef--President
Stones--Moonlight Mile/Sister Morphine/Paint it Black
Janes Addiction--True Nature/3 Days
182--Wendy Clear
Nugent--Stranglehold
Golden Earing--Radar Love
Swollen Members--Breathe
Public Enemy--Louder than a Bomb

[gincognito]

Loser by Beck.

Sick and ashamed and happy (and also Even the Losers by Tom Petty),
d.

[vinzclortho]

(I know this much is) True by Spandau Ballet

[stump832]

back in the day:
Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins (yup, whole thing).
Close to Me - the cure

current:
more than a feeling - boston

[meatdrink9]

Everything in it's right place - Radiohead
Pyramid Song - Radiohead
2+2=5 - Radiohead
Idioteque - Radiohead
Actually just about anything Radiohead

Sigur Ros - Track 8 from ()
Sigur Ros - Gong, njosjavelin

Royksopp - Remind Me

Mum - The land Between Solar Systems

James - Born of Frustration

Flaming Lips
Yoshimi battles the pink robots part1
In the morning of magicians
Do you realize
All we have is now
Race for the prize
waiting for superman
feeling yourself disintegrate

The entire Cure Disintegration album

The entire Depeche Mode Violater album, also Walking in My shoes

The cranberries - zombie

The entire Bjork Vespertine album

Grandaddy - Jed's other poem (beautiful ground) (basically all of sophtware slump)

Blonde Redhead - Misery is a butterfly

TV on the Radio - Staring at the sun

Ladytron - International Dateline

Just about anything Jimmy Eat World

Most of Sufjan Steven's stuff

and for a really embarrassing choice....Madonna - Die another day (great for talking shit back to the mountain after doing something stupid.)

Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentleman we're floating in Space


Just too many to name. I'll geek out and sing like a psycho alone in my car waiting for a stoplight just about anytime. Hell, even if it's a female vocalist.

[Shepherd Wong]

Dr. Octogon. Halfsharkalligatorhalfman, then straight to Blue Flowers revisited. When the beat comes back on Blue Flowers I open my sun roof in my car and pump my fist out of it.

[Woodsy]

bunch a stuff to sound cool and diverse when everyone that knows me knows its "Dead or Alive" -Bon Jovi

fixed, why you frontin R?

[nesta]

Behind Blue Eyes and basically all of Who's Next
Black Dog and basically all of Zep IV
Midnight Rambler and Hot Rocks album
Bob Marley's entire catalog
I find these lists so hard to narrow down

["The Big One"]

Old Crow Medicine Show- Wagon Wheel
Earth, Wind and Fire- September
Cat Stevens- Father and Son

[gincognito]

Weakerthans definitely do something for me. I didn't know them while I was in school, but their tunes bring me back to that time without fail.

Plea From A Cat Named Virtute

Why don't you ever want to play?
I'm tired of this piece of string.
You sleep as much as I do now,
and you don't eat much of anything.
I don't know who you're talking to-
I made a search through every room,
but all I found was dust that moved
in shadows of the afternoon.

And listen,
about those bitter songs you sing?
They're not helping anything.
They won't make you strong.

So, we should open up the house.
Invite the tabby two doors down.
You could ask your sister, if
she doesn't bring her Basset Hound.
Ask the things you shouldn't miss:
tape-hiss and the Modern Man,
The Cold War and Card Catalogues,
to come and join us if they can,
for girly drinks and parlor games.
We'll pass around the easy lie
of absolutely no regrets,
and later maybe you could try
to let your losses dangle off
the sharp edge of a century,
and talk about the weather,
or how the weather used to be.

And I'll cater with all the birds that I can kill.
Let their tiny feathers fill disappointment.
Lie down; lick the sorrow from your skin. Scratch the terror and begin
to believe you're strong.

All you ever want to do is drink and watch TV,
and frankly that thing doesn't really interest me.
I swear I'm going to bite you hard and taste your tinny blood
if you don't stop the self-defeating lies you've been repeating since the day you brought me home.
I know you're strong.

Sick and ashamed and happy (and available here),
d.

[BushwackerinPA]

The Clarks - Cigerate
Phish - Free

[ChowdahRidah]

Phish - Mike's Song > I am H2 > Weekapaug Groove
GD - Sugar Magnolia
Marley - Lively Up Yourself
Public Enemy - Welcome to the Terror Dome
Led Zeppelin - In the Evening
NWA - Express Yourself
Alpha Blonde - Politique & Kokode Rock
GD - China>Rider
MJ - Don't Stop til You Get Enough

[PaSucks]

for some strange reason, this song always reminds me of the summer in between 10th and 11th grade.... tlc waterfalls normally this kind of stuff isn't my thing, but that song is linked in my memory to that summer.

weezer my name is jonas reminds me of being a stupid high schooler, driving up to the ski hill after school on friday. actually, most of that cd is kind of like a soundtrack for those memories.

i'm just now recognizing how poor my tastes in music must appear...

The green and blue albums do that for me too. Takes me back to the summer after senior year, doing nothing but playing hockey and fishing. Life was so much simpler than.

For my anthem though, Dropkicks Fighting 69th, at least for now.



edit: What do we mean by 'anthem'? It seems like it has just turned into a list of favorite songs, to me an anthem would be a song to live by.

[mrryde]

Run to the Hills - Iron Maiden
The Trooper - Iron Maiden
Saniterium - Metallica

[PaSucks]

The Clarks - Cigerate
Phish - Free

I can't spell for shit but that is soooo wrong even I can see it. It is spelled Cigarette, and I am sick of having that band shoved up my ass just because they are from Pittsburgh.

[The Reverend Floater]

fixed, why you frontin R?

And...Bon Jovi...Dead or Alive.



Dammit, Woodsy. Damn you! Damn you and your map of my heart!

[Dr. Send]

Cat Stevens - Miles from Nowhere
Led Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks
Great Big Sea - Merimac (reminds me of the time I sat in a tree to see them for free in Stanley Park)
Alabama - I'm in a Hurry

[runethechamp]

edit: What do we mean by 'anthem'? It seems like it has just turned into a list of favorite songs, to me an anthem would be a song to live by.

I got it right I think

[hop]

2112 by Rush.

Behold the power of MUSIC!!!!!

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

There's lots...here's a few:

Gathering Storm - God Speed You Black Emperor
Saturday and Valentine - Christie Front Drive
Bobby Truck Tricks - Lifetime
To the Rhythm of A Cold Night in Virginia - The Blacktop Cadence
Standing Still Fast - Planes Mistaken for Stars
Rode (For Justin) - Garden Variety
Anything off of Sunny Day Real Estate's Diary disc

Damn...how could I forget this one:

"Gibberish" - Gameface
sample

damn.....1995....memories of my soon to b ex...............

and because I'm bored & sentimental "& slightly buzzed n this hotel room..some .samples from my previous list:


"Gathering Storm" - God Speed You Black Emperor
"Saturday" and "Valentine" - Christie Front Drive (Complete mp3's found! wohoo!)
"Bobby Truck Tricks" - Lifetime
To the Rhythm of A Cold Night in Virginia - The Blacktop Cadence
"Standing Still Fast" - Planes Mistaken for Stars
"Rode (For Justin)" - Garden Variety

[freshies]

baba o' for sure, also, from HS, these songs always bring me back to that time and place in my life, and were "anthems" at one point for me:

million miles away - the plimsouls
don't go back to rockville (all of reckoning, actually)- rem
bastards of young (the whole tim album) - replacements
killing moon - echo and bunnymen
sympathy for the devil and rocks off - stones
baba 'o and love ain't for keepin' - the who
many rivers to cross (yeah, i know, they didn't do the original) and rat in the kitchen - ub40
bizzare love traiangle - new order
all of joshua tree by u2
all of london calling by the clash, esp. the first side


college time comes to mind when i hear these:

any pixes, esp stuff off surfer rosa
gish - smashing pumpkins
nevermind - nirvana
stone roses and happy mondays stuff

[jonesy]

Child in Time-Deep Purple
Dragonfly-Mahogany Rush
Locomotion Breath-Jethro Tull
Misty Mt. Hop-Zepplin
Whoile lot of Rosie-AC/DC