Anthem of 2009!

[.onelove.]

Fairly sure Saxon was 2007.

Anyway, I don't care how many times it's been played, When I Look At You still gives me shivers when dropped on a proper system.

[uncle bill]

I agree that the closest 2009 has to an anthem is Digidesign.

Other top tracks:

Kode 9 - Black Sun
Pinch - Midnight Oil
Darkstar - Aidy’s Girl Is A Computer
Boxcutter - Mya Rave
Starkey - Gutter Music VIP
Jamie Vex’d - Radiant Industry
Burial & Four Tet - Moth
Hyetal’s - We Start A Fire
Silkie - Head Butt Da Deck / Purple Love / The Horizon
Guido's - Orchestral Lab

and probably a whole load of others I can’t remember right now. Not all "bangers" as such.

[magma]

also i dont see whats wrong with starting a thread like this?

i suppose there isn't but the 'anthem' culture is part of the problem and the reason why wobblers take over...

generally anthems are lowest common denominator.....when i look at you is alright but bats in the belfry was sorely underappreciated for it's genius...mainly because it was good music

I'd say the exact opposite. Anthems need melodic or lyrical parts that lots of people can hum along or sing along to... that's what gives them the anthemic quality. It's often a bad thing applied to music (stadium rock!), but just occasionally, something special creeps through.

Hearing the entirety of Corsica Studios singing along to Digidesign during the Purple Threeway earlier in the year and hearing countless DJs let the melody creep out of their sets cemented it as an anthem for me.

haha

when i hear the word anthem i think of queen...

Then I don't blame you for being worried about it getting applied to Dubstep tunes!

Strangely, I instantly think of Land of Hope and Glory whenever I see the word anthem...

[webstarr]

hyph mngo
Silkie - Test
Joker - Purple City
Untold - Just for You
Quest - The Unknown

These are my percy ingles anyway

[tobo]

Hearing the entirety of Corsica Studios singing along to Digidesign during the Purple Threeway earlier in the year and hearing countless DJs let the melody creep out of their sets cemented it as an anthem for me.

This is why its the only contender for 'anthem'. Because everytime it's played (and that's alot, even after 8 months since release) everyone starts singing along. Its slightly eerie, but awesome.

[Pistonsbeneath]

i don't remember saying that!

[Hibbie]

Terrible year for dubstep

Jog on

[loopdigrrr]

datsik - war against the machines.

[Pada]

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if i had to choose my personal favourite track from dubstep this year it would probably be LV - cctv or burial - foster care

No way was CCTV 2009 or has the year gone seriously slow...?

[Pistonsbeneath]

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if i had to choose my personal favourite track from dubstep this year it would probably be LV - cctv or burial - foster care

No way was CCTV 2009 or has the year gone seriously slow...?

i didn't hear it until the dub echoes cd..i know it was out on hyperdub before that but i'm pretty sure it was this year...

aha

nah it was july 2008..checked discogs

i guess for me it's burial 'foster care' then

[mercutio]

digidesign is the only thing i have heard a club singing along to so it hato be that tune for me

[dubduck]

Untold - Stop what youre doing (James Blake remix)

[hackman]

digidesign is the only thing i have heard a club singing along to so it hato be that tune for me

mala - eyez always gets a sing along

[86.]

silkie - test

[cubase]

if by "anthem" you mean a tune that gets played out every 10 seconds

emalkay - when i look at you

[malstromabuser]

Hyph Mngo init

Couldn't agree any more! Big tune

[G31]

G31 - Smoked a Spliff gets my vote.....
Soundcloud




lol

[alexchuck]

this year reminds me of emalkay - explicit

[gwa]

Hyph Mngo init

wet look >

[n0ir]

if by "anthem" you mean a tune that gets played out every 10 seconds

emalkay - when i look at you

this

although I hate the tune!

other contenders : Hyph Mngo, Digidesign, Purple City