Hey, it’s Friday, which means music. Lacking any good randomizers, I figured I’d go non-random this time, and list some songs about wizards, given yesterday’s post. Not all of these are Harry Potter, but it’s my list, I don’t care, because wizards are a great topic to mine for music. I’m sure other people have suggestions that are way better, and that’s cool – I’d love to hear more. I know some filkers out there whose binders are full of tunes that are awesome…please share them!

I left the Humdingers off, largely to recuse myself due to self-interest, although I’m just there to play along. Consider that stuff a given.

1. “human hosepipe” – harry and the potters (link)
2. “my dad is rich” – draco and the malfoys (link)
3. “I wish you’d be my witch” – mudbloods (link)
4. “ode to harry” – switchblade kittens (link)
5. “la la luna” – hawthorn and holly (link)
6. “muggles” – mikey mason (sorta link)
7. “the magic of the wizard’s dream” – rhapsody featuring Christopher Lee (link)
8. “journey of the sorcerer” – The Eagles (link)
9. “alone” – witherwings (link)
10. the necromancer” – rush (link)

Of course I have comments. I left them below separately, so as not to wreck the format above, because I’m anal like that. I’ll leave the bad formatting for the stuff below. Again, if anybody is actually reading this, drop your suggestions below! I’m always down for more stuff to listen to.

1. my favorite hatp tune. No other reason.
2. this one makes me laugh
3. great pop song we covered once live. total earworm.
4. first hp song I ever yeard. My friend Karen used to play this band on her college radio show becaue the name made her laugh.
5. fun little go-gos-esque thing. Full disclosure – I’ve played this one on stage with H&H a couple of times.
6. bonus track on Mikey’s Dodecahedron, and a cover of Lorde’s “Royals”. works for me.
7. Christopher Lee. ’nuff said. He was the closest thing in the world to a real-life wizard, and was the very definition of metal
8. No lyrics, and made most popular as the theme to a sci-fi series. Don’t care. love it.
9. Another great little ballady thing. Mandala’s prety great live, btw. catch her if you can.
10. Yeah. Rush. Cool, I guess, but I’ve never been that kind of Rush fan. Included here because I couldn’t come up with a proper Zeppelin tune. Could also easily substitue more Christopher Lee.

Have a good weekend, all!