busybeeburns Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 What makes a perfect festival anthem? A great, soul-stirring melody? A simple lyric that everyone can sing along with? Or is it simply a question of timing – that glorious, unplannable collision of time and place, when a band catches a wave of mainstream exposure, and find themselves playing for a 50,000-strong crowd on the very day their album rockets to Number One? Whatever it is, some tracks never fail to spark utter mayhem when unleashed at festivals. Here’s our Top 5… Hey Jude There’s no excuse for not knowing the words to that epic outro… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv1wf27GE0c The Scientist Coldplay’s majestic, wide-screen tearjerker was custom-made for the big occasions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w7WJYQpBk0 Seven Nation Army At festivals that riff always becomes a gloriously dumb communal singalong: “Duh-duh-DUH-duh-duh-DUUUH-duh.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz4kbuqteFA Knights Of Cydonia Traditionally played either at the very beginning or very end of Muse’s set, the crunching riff at the end never fails to spark field-wide moshpit carnage. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7uMvimbEAI Fluorescent Adolescent Surely destined to be the big crowd-pleaser at Glastonburythis year … you can hear the mass singalong already. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjL-EJV9sk0 http://news.q4music.com/2007/06/the_ultimate_festival_anthems.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berrywoman Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 gotta LOVE Muse.... they're playing Madison Square Garden this summer here in NYC..... very impressive!! :wink3: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crawlinwithin Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 well i'm glad hey jude is number one, but why is seven nation army and flourescent adolescent in there? don't understand those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudiger10 Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 from the video i understand seven nation army. but isn't it a little early to post a new arctic monkeys song? especially when there is so many other sing-a-long songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pony Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 i really don't undestand what some of those songs are doing on that list while the following footage exists: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ebqcbn0ieKU as for Muse, the performance of Time Is Running Out from Glastonbury 2004 was faaaaaaaar more impressive as a sing-along anthem than the Knights Of Cydonia video on that list. as much as i dislike Muse, i have to admit that this was amazing: http://youtube.com/watch?v=RIZO6-fYmdI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Rose Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FtKYOtOIkE Beats everything by the Arctic Monkeys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crawlinwithin Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 hahaha its the land of confusion video.... oh wait maybe not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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