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At present I am about as far out of HP fandom as it is possible to be without actively loathing (or, I suppose, not having read) the series, but that being said --
I have just spent half the afternoon listening to Wizard Rock and it is entirely
lizbee's fault.
The last time I checked out any WR it was Harry and the Potters and I thought it was lame, so I never bothered to listen further. But this guy -- he's actually good -- like, professional-quality-I-could-imagine-hearing-this-on-the-radio good.
The first one I listened to (and which grabbed me right away) was "The Flying Motorbike", but "Luna" has a zany Scissor-Sisters-meet-the-Bee-Gees vibe that made me laugh out loud, and "What You Believe" is my current favorite. And it really doesn't matter if you haven't read the books, either; you might even enjoy the lyrics more if you haven't.
Is that a rec? Why yes, it is. Go now and check out the album preview of Musical Decree Number Twenty-Four.
I have just spent half the afternoon listening to Wizard Rock and it is entirely
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The last time I checked out any WR it was Harry and the Potters and I thought it was lame, so I never bothered to listen further. But this guy -- he's actually good -- like, professional-quality-I-could-imagine-hearing-this-on-the-radio good.
The first one I listened to (and which grabbed me right away) was "The Flying Motorbike", but "Luna" has a zany Scissor-Sisters-meet-the-Bee-Gees vibe that made me laugh out loud, and "What You Believe" is my current favorite. And it really doesn't matter if you haven't read the books, either; you might even enjoy the lyrics more if you haven't.
Is that a rec? Why yes, it is. Go now and check out the album preview of Musical Decree Number Twenty-Four.
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Date: 2008-04-08 09:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-09 03:12 am (UTC)This reminds me of my colleague's 10-year-old son's comment when we had Harry and the Potters play at the library. "They're geeks", he said - or words to that effect. "Yes," his mother and I agreed. "They are geeks. That's the point!"
But seriously, charming boys though Paul and Joe are, they can't sing. No arguments there. There is, however, a lot of good and clever and funny stuff out there in Wizard Rockdom. Some of it is even very musical. I'd recommend Romilda Vane and the Chocolate Cauldrons - Amy has a lovely voice. And my sister just recommended a really, really clever band called Peeved. He wrote a song called "the Ballad of Percy Weasley". You can find both of them on myspace - and I will go forthwith and check out the singer you have mentioned.
Oh - others we've been positively impressed by recently, in addition to Whompy (the Whomping Willows), who's got some of the cleverest lyrics going - Swish and Flick and Nagini We both love Nagini's "James isn't cool".
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Date: 2008-04-09 04:15 pm (UTC)