anthemic

You may hear strains of '80s British bands such as Echo and the Bunnymen and the Cure, see common ground with contemporaries such as Arcade Fire and rock to the sound of what the mags call anthemic choruses.

The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines 2010

To address the problem, it ' s running television commercials featuring know-it-all New Yorkers like a hot-dog vendor discussing the art world ' s treatment of Jean-Michel Basquiat and a construction worker holding forth on the " anthemic " appeal of recent Broadway productions.

New Push to Snap Speeders Andrew Grossman 2010

Auf Der Strasse Nach Suden - and the song has a certain "anthemic" qualities that lent itself the wave of protest sweeping Eastern Europe and Germany in particular that year.

The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public 2009

Anyways, Etacarinae plays a kind of anthemic style of crust that I'm not so big on, but they probably make up for their shortcomings in energy, as do many bands in this genre.

We Shot J.R.- Dallas/Denton Music Blog 2009

Enrique Iglesias, and the music is a little melodramatic-it's the kind of anthemic sound that's much more appealling if you can belt out the lyrics along with the recording, which will probably take me a few more listens (of course, I'll be at a disadvantage, seeing as I'm an English speaker, but I've never let that stop me before).

Tablet Magazine 2009

Enrique Iglesias, and the music is a little melodramatic-it's the kind of anthemic sound that's much more appealling if you can belt out the lyrics along with the recording, which will probably take me a few more listens (of course, I'll be at a disadvantage, seeing as I'm an English speaker, but I've never let that stop me before).

Tablet Magazine 2009

You can tell they were "anthemic" because they had entire sections in which the singer sang "oh-way-oh" (or, alternatively "Oh-oh-oh") and the audience joined in enthusiastically without having to worry about remembering any lyrics.

Telegraph Blogs 2009

You can tell they were "anthemic" because they had entire sections in which the singer sang "oh-way-oh" (or, alternatively "Oh-oh-oh") and the audience joined in enthusiastically without having to worry about remembering any lyrics.

Telegraph Blogs 2009

You can tell they were "anthemic" because they had entire sections in which the singer sang "oh-way-oh" (or, alternatively "Oh-oh-oh") and the audience joined in enthusiastically without having to worry about remembering any lyrics.

Telegraph Blogs 2009

Or is Cold War Kids trying too hard to keep up with the shifting sands of this week's anthemic-band-of-the-moment?

Shawn Amos: PLAY > SKIP: This Week's New Music Shawn Amos 2011