Peeved - The Year Harry Went Emo

Peeved are relatively new to me. First heard them on the Siriusly Smiling album, I went on to get their Wizard Rock EP of the month, but this song remains my favourite. Maybe it’s because its a nice bit of british wrock, (welsh to be exact), but they certainly have an individual style.

Message Behind The Song: Everyone was thinking this while reading OoTP, and Peeved managed to capture that thought with the use of some power guitar and no-nonsense lyrics.

Best Time To Listen To It: Whenever Harry acts like a little bitch in the 5th book. Which is basically all the way through.

Why I Like It: Maybe it’s the strong accents, maybe its the cutting rhymes. Unsure why I love this song, but I do.

Best Lyric: “He misses Sirius Black, and Michael Gambon’s acting’s crap.”

After a moment, he came out with Severus Snape. When I asked him why, he launched into a long meaningful conversation about how he is the most interesting character throughout the books, because he always keeps you guessing. You find out he’s such a sad and depressed figure, and at that moment you feel real sympathy for him. There are so many characters who find happiness in the end, but Snape never does, and that has a certain lifelike beauty to it. All the main characters fall in reciprocal love, but Snape’s is unrequited. He’s such an important character for people to relate to, because everyone at somepoint in their lives has loved someone who didn’t love them back. Then he added Snape has pretty awesome one liners.

Oh darn if I didn’t think marriage was an oppressive instrument of patriarchy, I would’ve married that boy right there and then.

Harry And The Potters - Voldemort Can’t Stop The Rock

Harry And The Potters were the band that started it all, both for the genre and for me. I love their DIY music style, and how that although they aren’t the greatest pair of singers in the world, they make up for it with passion.

Message Behind The Song: This is something of a classic wrock song. It embodies everything the genre stands for. Nothing should stop you doing what you love.

Best Time To Listen To It: Whenever you feel like wrocking out.

Why I Like It: I just love the repition of the title lyric towards the end, just over and over to the same catchy beat. Awesome.

Best Lyric: “And we won’t let the dark lord ruin our party, Just like Tipper Gore tried with the PMRC!”