i’m thinking that the reference to draco and the malfoys being bitter was more of a play on the CHARACTER the band embodies than the members of said band.

of course brian and bradley are incapable of bitterness in real life.

And to quote one of my most favorite homilies, “just because you don’t like someone, doesn’t mean you don’t love them.”

Now everyone go out and do something incredibly silly today.

Love isn’t all cuddles and hugs and teddy bears — it’s WORK. It’s effort, it’s blood sweat and tears, it’s honesty, it’s communication, it’s defending those you care about no matter what the circumstances. Haven’t you people ever read Harry Potter?!

I’m teasing, of course. But seriously. If I didn’t write multiple bitchy blogs and a couple of hate mails in response to this, I’d be going against my nature.

Wizard rockers show their love in so many ways. We spend half our time together hugging. It’s okay to break character every once in a while and kick some ass. I’m sorry, but I’m not ever going to back down from my thoughts and opinions, never ever. If I risk the respect of MTV journalists, colleagues and acquaintances in the process, then so be it.

Marry me. All of you.

YOU are the responses we need. holy crap, everybody needs to get over themselves, myself included. My big revolutionary blog will only remain because I love the comments.

Let’s just stop being jerks. And make babies. And music or whatever.

Music related site/magazine/thingy releases an End of Year Top X list because no one can be bothered to actually do any work after Thanksgiving?

Check.

People piss and moan about the relevancy of the list and how band X was/was not included on the list or was listed to high/low on the list?

Check.

People piss and moan about how the music related site/magazine/thingy is stupid and hasn’t been relevant in years/never was relevant?

Check.

People say things using words that don’t properly express what they really mean and haven’t really considered the full ramifications of what they’re saying anyways resulting in them spending even more time back pedaling and trying to better express themselves?

I’m going to put that down as a may be.

People feel compelled to tell everyone how they don’t care about the list and how it doesn’t effect them anyway?

Check.

People try to make peace between the various parties?

Check.

Someone posts a smart ass comment attempting to point out how silly and repetitive the entire situation is, but probably only ends up pointing out how good he is at sticking his foot in his mouth and annoying people?

uh… Hi Guys!

OK, I think we’ve got all the bases covered. Thanks to everyone for playing along in this little holiday tradition. We’ll see you all around this time next year when we do this all over again.

I love you all for supporting each other.

Does the list mean anything to me? No.

Does MTV mean anything to me? No.

I wouldn’t mind a wizard rock list of the top 350 bands. That might cover it.

EVERYBODY rocks.

Overall, this really isn’t even an issue, it happened, now move on.
-Ashton

Matthew, despite the fact that the ‘pedia runs on blogging software, we genuinely attempt to remain an unbiased media organization. I don’t think I was off in my statement and the majority of responses so far seem to be in support of that =)

I love everyone’s reactions, pro and con.

The reaction to this reminds me of why I love the wizard rock community. Who cares about MTV? Love is all you need.

MTV covered wizard rock in the first place because it was already an international phenomenon. Otherwise they wouldn’t have bothered. And wizard rock became an international phenomenon because a lot of people worked really hard to build and strengthen the community over time. It was a five-year process beginning with Harry and the Potters’ first tour, and it got a huge boost when Draco and the Malfoys and The Remus Lupins started taking their bands seriously, and it got an even bigger boost when fans came together an organized groups like the Wizard Rock group on myspace, or websites like the one we’re currently looking at. This phenomenon is a culmination of the efforts and enthusiasm of literally thousands of people.

The community has had its little bubbles of drama and conflict, but I think that those of us who remain really close to the community sometimes forget that there are seriously hundreds of thousands of wizard rock fans out there, and that most of these people aren’t involved in the drama. They simply love the music and enjoy it on a regular basis. When something happens to threaten or cheapen or misrepresent the community, in my opinion it’s wonderful to see people rise up and stand for what they believe in.

I’m FOR plenty of things. I’m for wizard rock. I’m for the HP Alliance. I’m for DIY ethics. I’m for sharing the wealth. I’m for skills sharing with other bands. I’m for my friends and my family.

I’m also for speaking your mind when you see something that’s wrong with the world around you.

The fact that the wizard rock community is banding together to be AGAINST something is just fitting too perfectly into the behind the scenes world of it that I’ve been subject to the last 6 months or so (see bloggery).

Let’s find something to be FOR, not AGAINST.

Become the love you claim.

For Merlin’s sake.

It’s always good when there is publicity for Wizard Rock but this isn’t a way a lot of fans wished to see it.

I feel that I have said enough on this subject, but I will repeat here.

I fully agree with Matt, there is no need for a top ten list of wrock. I have never felt the need to order my favorate bands, because my opinions on that matter change on a daily or sometimes hourly basis. It all depends on what I feel like listening to at that point and time.

A lot of my feelings about this music are not just the recorded songs, its remembering how I felt, or how awesome some of those songs are live, or lets not forget the actual storys behind the songs. This list shows that the author did not even extend her knowlege of wrock past who she met in New Orleans, or who she has heard about through the grapeline. This disapoints me, there is so much more out there to be discovered and enjoyed, why put this out there except to make MTV look good.

I can’t deny that the publicity is good for the bands. It is, any free publicity is good, but at the same time as a true fan, its sort of anoying to see something like this put together, the simple words “in my opinion” would be great but they were hidden within a paragraph about all of the top 10′s for the year.

The title was also a sticking point, none of the bands would ever be bitter about being higher or lower than someone else. I’ve seen most of you interact, you all seem to get along pritty well and you all seem to support one another to no end.

I am just disapointed. I was at first angry, but now its more disapointment. MTV fails again.