Why Fight It? The Harry Potter Mix
My daughter isn't even four yet, but Kid Lulu, presumably through juvenile osmosis, was infected with full-on Harry Potter fever last weekend. It was kinda cute for awhile, until she (1) wacked me in the crotch with a broomstick and then (2) demanded that I lift both her and said broomstick up and fly her around the house like a Quidditch star, thus ensuring a hernia in her wheezy Old Man and black scuff marks on most of our white walls. Oh well.
One of the things I like most about J.K. Rowling, and why I don't mind all the hype, is that she's an obvious newspaper reader. Her characters are always checking out the Daily Prophet. I like that. Newspapers are in disarray these days, so any rah-rah for the biz is welcomed. Maybe as a result, more kids will pick up the paper, read my stories and then call me and tell me how much I suck. One can only hope.
Because I'm always on the lookout for a cheap playlist tie-in, let's do a Harry Potter Mix, something for the nerds to listen to when they write their creepy fan fiction about Ron and Harry in a Diagon Alley bathhouse. Crank it up, you horny Muggles:
1) That Old Black Magic -- Ella Fitzgerald
2) Abracadabra -- Steve Miller Band
3) The Wizard -- Black Sabbath
4) Don't Mess With the Dragon -- Ozomatli
5) White Unicorn -- Wolfmother
6) Witchy Woman -- the Eagles
7) Scars -- Papa Roach
8) I Put a Spell on You -- Screamin' Jay Hawkins
9) Curse -- Audioslave
10) Let's Hear It for the Boy -- Deniece Williams
Sean Daly is the pop music critic for the St. Petersburg Times. His CD collection -- from Journey to Dylan, Prince to U2, Public Enemy to Stan Getz -- is much bigger and better than yours.
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Magic - The Cars
Dragin Attack - Queen
Bark At The Moon - Ozzy Osbourne
Magic's Wand - Whodini
The Power Of Love - Huey Lewis and the News
Magic Power - Triumph
Scar Tissue - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Ghost Of You - Psychedelic Furs
Evil Ways - Santana
Posted by: bassnote | July 24, 2007 at 09:24 AM
Witchcraft, Frank Sinatra
Magic Carpet Ride, Steppenwolf
Puff, the Magic Dragon, Pete Seeger
Do You Believe in Magic? Lovin' Spoonful
Pinball Wizard, The Who
Posted by: KMcG | July 24, 2007 at 09:24 AM
Scar Tissue!! Damn, that's a good one, Bassnote.
Puff the Magic Dragon. Cheeky. I like that, too.
Posted by: Sean Daly | July 24, 2007 at 09:56 AM
No "Magical Mystery Tour"?
Posted by: Walter Cox | July 24, 2007 at 11:50 AM
You can't have a Harry Potter mix without including "Do the Hippogriff" from the Goblet of Fire. I think a couple guys from Radiohead were in the band that played the song in the movie, and Jarvis Cocker was involved with the soundtrack somehow...
And yes, I realize I know way too much about Harry Potter, and that I need a life. :)
Posted by: erin | July 24, 2007 at 12:16 PM
I forgot an obvious one:
You Can Do Magic - America
Posted by: bassnote | July 25, 2007 at 11:33 PM