NOW! That's What I Call HP!
Oct. 1st, 2010 01:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heidiThis morning, I found out that the wonderful people at NOW! That's What I Call Music rereleased the absolutely adorable original "NOW! That's What I Call Music, which I first purchased in LP form at the record store at Aventura Mall circa December, 1983. I bought it for Duran Duran and Tracey Ullman, but it may've been the first time I heard The Cure and Simple Minds outside of the occasional glimpse on Mtv.
One of the things that's never really bothered me about the HP films, but that I've always been aware of, is that while the films are "set" in this millennium, the books themselves actually take place in the 1990s. It's rarely relevant - maybe when Dudley gets his playstation (months before it's actually released in the UK but whatever) but it's Something Of Note, at least to me.
I've wanted to do some sort of wrap-up project as we approach the release of the last HP films in the next few months, and since I've done so few HP vids, that's what I feel compelled to do - a set of eight vids - one for each film - using a song from the year each book begins: 1991 for PS/SS, 1992 for CoS, etc. (Yes, I know that PS/SS really begins in 1981 but still.)
So I spent this morning talking with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jlh and looking back at the original NOW! compilations for each year in the '90s, then the "Millennium Collection" that the released later in the decade which had some of the same songs, and some different ones, and for most of the years, I can't decide on which song to use!
If you don't like the songs I shortlisted, feel free to name something else from either of the NOW! collections from that year, but please don't choose a re-release. Re-releases are wonderful - believe me, I would love to have a reason to vid DH01 to Don't Dream It's Over - but I want something that sounds like the relevant year. Covers, on the other hand, are great! I mean, if I left out covers I couldn't include Erasure's Take A Chance on Me!
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In other news, I managed to (a) submit FictionAlley in the Pepsi Get Refreshed! Challenge and we'll find out in about four weeks if we're able to be included in the November voting, and (b) get a reservation at the Marriott for Dragon*Con next September, so I can go and be all PR-ish for Ascendio, and see people and have fun and hang out, yay!
Also, tonight? SHOW!
Off to take my sister to the airport....
If you’re on NOW That’s What I Call Music!, you’re a hitmaker. You performed a song that resonated with the public; that’s all that matters.
Then! That's What They Called Music (The AV Club)
One of the things that's never really bothered me about the HP films, but that I've always been aware of, is that while the films are "set" in this millennium, the books themselves actually take place in the 1990s. It's rarely relevant - maybe when Dudley gets his playstation (months before it's actually released in the UK but whatever) but it's Something Of Note, at least to me.
I've wanted to do some sort of wrap-up project as we approach the release of the last HP films in the next few months, and since I've done so few HP vids, that's what I feel compelled to do - a set of eight vids - one for each film - using a song from the year each book begins: 1991 for PS/SS, 1992 for CoS, etc. (Yes, I know that PS/SS really begins in 1981 but still.)
So I spent this morning talking with
jlh and looking back at the original NOW! compilations for each year in the '90s, then the "Millennium Collection" that the released later in the decade which had some of the same songs, and some different ones, and for most of the years, I can't decide on which song to use!If you don't like the songs I shortlisted, feel free to name something else from either of the NOW! collections from that year, but please don't choose a re-release. Re-releases are wonderful - believe me, I would love to have a reason to vid DH01 to Don't Dream It's Over - but I want something that sounds like the relevant year. Covers, on the other hand, are great! I mean, if I left out covers I couldn't include Erasure's Take A Chance on Me!
[Poll #1626408]
In other news, I managed to (a) submit FictionAlley in the Pepsi Get Refreshed! Challenge and we'll find out in about four weeks if we're able to be included in the November voting, and (b) get a reservation at the Marriott for Dragon*Con next September, so I can go and be all PR-ish for Ascendio, and see people and have fun and hang out, yay!
Also, tonight? SHOW!
Off to take my sister to the airport....
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Date: 2010-10-01 05:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-10-01 05:51 pm (UTC)Also, it's weird how hard it is for me to choose between Oasis and Blur these days. Heh.
I am so impressed you got a Marriott room. My friend was trying to get three for Thursday - Monday and ended up with one at the Marriott for Thursday only. One at the Marriott for Friday through Monday, and two at the Hilton for Thursday through Monday, because after Marriott's system crashed and she spent two hours on the phone she said fuck it. It'll be the first time I haven't stayed in the Marriott. Be interesting to see how it changes the con for me.
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Date: 2010-10-01 05:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-10-01 06:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-10-01 06:14 pm (UTC)(Then again, so was the last third of the film.)
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Date: 2010-10-01 06:15 pm (UTC)GAH, why did nobody cover Girlfriend In A Coma back in 1992?
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Date: 2010-10-01 06:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-10-01 06:17 pm (UTC)See you there?
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Date: 2010-10-01 06:20 pm (UTC)And indubitably. I'll be running around, being ridiculous, available for harassment if you need any. ;)
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Date: 2010-10-01 06:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-10-01 07:19 pm (UTC)I've got my NOW 35 (UK) from sometime in late '96 sitting around here somewhere... it was much-loved and still has some of my favorite songs on it.
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Date: 2010-10-01 08:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-10-02 11:07 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-10-04 05:57 pm (UTC)