Siriusly Smiling
| Album | |
|---|---|
| Album Title: | Siriusly Smiling |
| Producer: | Jarrod Perkins |
| Type: | compilation |
| Date: | 05 October 2008 |
| Medium: | digital |
| Fandom: | Harry Potter |
| Performer(s): | various |
| Other: | charity album to benefit the NFFR |
| External Links: | Siriusly Smiling on Myspace Siriusly Smiling on iTunes |
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Siriusly Smiling is a wizard rock compilation album released to raise money for the National Foundation for Facial Reconstruction. It was put together by Jarrod Perkins of Gred and Forge and features twenty different wrock bands.
The album art was created by Frankie Franco III.
Song Backgrounds & Themes
Harry and the Potters, one of the bands on the album, writes:
- "All bands were asked to write and record a song with the only criteria that “ALL OF THE SONGS SHOULD BE FUNNY”. We recorded our song, Vernon Dursely [sic], at our parent’s house in September 2008. Paul played the ukulele and Joe played the slide whistle."[1]
Many of the songs are meta in nature: "The Year Harry Went Emo" describes Harry's OotP characterization and also includes a critique of Michael Gambon's acting (in the lyric "He misses Sirius Black / And Michael Gambon's acting's crap"),[2] and "Creepy Mustache" is about film!Remus's unusual facial hair. Others humourously appeal to fanon tropes and themes, such as Gred and Forge's "Brotherly Love", a song about Weasleycest.
Track Listing
- "Dobby Bang Your Head" by The Blibbering Humdingers
- "Creepy Mustache" by Remus and the Lupins
- "Brotherly Love" by Gred and Forge
- "Werewolves > Zombies" by The Remus Lupins
- "Miss Bulstrode" by Justin Finch-Fletchley & the Sugar Quills
- "An Entering Hogwarts First Year Expresses His Concerns" by The Mudbloods
- "Every Time..." by Catchlove
- "Worth Fighting For" by The Butterbeer Experience
- "Lavender Brown" (Acoustic) by Tom Riddle and Friends
- "Again Dennis?" by Creevey Crisis
- "Vernon Dursley" by Harry and the Potters
- "Reflection on the Human Condition #1" by The Whomping Willows
- "Give It Up" by Oliver Boyd & the Remembralls
- "The Human Cold Shower" by Hogwarts A History featuring Split Seven Ways
- "1st Year Haircut" by Draco and the Malfoys
- "Snog Song" by The Moaning Myrtles featuring The Butterbeer Experience
- "Pansy Looks Like a Dude" by Neville's Diary
- "Keep Your Branch to Yourself" by Tonks and the Aurors
- "The Year Harry Went Emo" by Peeved
References
- ^ Harry and the Potters. We Are Harry and the Potters - Discography. (Accessed 16 August 2012.)
- ^ "The Year Harry Went Emo" Lyrics at jackfrompeeved's Tumblr. 01 March 2011. (Accessed 09 March 2014.) The transcription of the lyrics omits "acting's" from the quoted line, but it is present in the recording.