music that evokes the world of HP

[dorapye]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "dan" <lunalovegood at s...> 
wrote:
> So, just listened to the UK band Lorna, who have recently released 
> (indie) a cd, and it struck me that the themes, and sounds, on 
this 
> disc really evoke, for me, the world of the HP books. Not whatever 
we 
> might imagine the WSisters to sound like, but more how, perhaps, 
some 
> of the students might sound, up on stage performing. The lead 
singer, 
> Sharon Cohen, has this, uh, ethereal quality, LBrownish or 
something, 
> and the lead singer is smooth too, vulnerable but not overly so... 
My 
> question is, are there examples of this for other folk in this 
group? 
> I'd be really interested.

Hi, Dan.  I haven't come across Lorna, but I've often wondered if I 
should bring up the same issue on this site, as I have had a similar 
experience with Muse's Asolution.  If you don't have this cd, I 
cannot recommend it strongly enough - it is possibly the most 
powerful and compelling collection of rock songs I have heard 
since...well, since ever, most likely. *Very* dark, haunting, 
passionate, obsessive, bellicose, hateful, desperate, on the edge, 
songs of self-loathing, bitterness and destruction.  

So how does it relate to HP? Well, I'd say it evokes some of the 
themes in OotP...Apocalypse Please would be a good anthem for Harry 
going into the final showdown with LV; Butterflies and Hurricanes an 
melody for Harry's feelings as he reflects on the responsibilities 
that the prophecy has forced on him, and Sirius's death;Ruled By 
Secrecy ..'change in the air, and they'll hide everywhere and no one 
knows who's in control'  a Death Eater's or perhaps an Auror's 
lament?

Ah, well, let me know if any of you know this cd and get any of the 
same feelings listening to it, or if perhaps it's just me!

dorapye