What music do you have stuck in your head?

[Octave]

Inexplicably, the end-credit song from Hayao Miyazaki's [anime film] PONYO.  It's just a sweet synthy J-pop kids' tune, but on loop it becomes ghastly.  I didn't even see this movie recently!  Maybe not among Miyazaki's very best, though the conversion of the storm-tossed ocean into a living woodblock print (?) was really neat.

[TheGSMoeller]

Inexplicably, the end-credit song from Hayao Miyazaki's [anime film] PONYO.  It's just a sweet synthy J-pop kids' tune, but on loop it becomes ghastly.  I didn't even see this movie recently!  Maybe not among Miyazaki's very best, though the conversion of the storm-tossed ocean into a living woodblock print (?) was really neat.

The only Miyazaki film I have too see. You've built my interest up, perhaps a rental this evening. Is it good for a 3 1/2 year old? Maybe my son would watch it. 

[Lisztianwagner]

I've got the 4th movement Allegro of Glazunov's Violin, as well as Ravel's Alborada del gracioso, stuck in my head for quite a little time; such beautiful, delighful music!

[Mirror Image]

I've had a melody from Vaughan William's Lark Ascending stuck in my head, all day. I think it's gone now . . . 

Nothing wrong with that! Such a beautiful work.

[RJR]

I've got the 4th movement Allegro of Glazunov's Violin, as well as Ravel's Alborada del gracioso, stuck in my head for quite a little time; such beautiful, delighful music!

Alborada is great for late afternoon listening.

[ibanezmonster]

The only Miyazaki film I have too see. You've built my interest up, perhaps a rental this evening. Is it good for a 3 1/2 year old? Maybe my son would watch it. 

One of my favorite Miyazaki, despite definitely not being his most popular. I think a kid that age should be able to enjoy it, too.

[jochanaan]

I've had Mars, from Holst's The Planets, stuck in my head for a while now.  I've tried to exorcise it with Beethoven, Stravinsky and Varese, but it keeps coming back.  I wonder what that says about my current worldview...

[Mirror Image]

I've had Mars, from Holst's The Planets, stuck in my head for a while now.  I've tried to exorcise it with Beethoven, Stravinsky and Varese, but it keeps coming back.  I wonder what that says about my current worldview...

Nothing wrong with that! Holst's The Planets, despite it's popularity both on disc and in the concert halls, is a masterpiece. It doesn't matter how many times I hear this work, it never gets old, but that's what good music does for us. Holst wrote a lot of good music actually.

[Mirror Image]

I've had Delius' Irmelin Prelude stuck in my head all night. It's such a simple, little work, but it's so beautiful and seductive.

[Octave]

Re: Miyazaki's PONYO:

The only Miyazaki film I have too see. You've built my interest up, perhaps a rental this evening. Is it good for a 3 1/2 year old? Maybe my son would watch it. 

Sorry GSM-Greg, I missed your reply until just now.  I think the parents of 3-1/2-year-olds would enjoy and appreciate PONYO maybe more than the kids themselves, who might find stretches of the film a bit "slow"; though maybe this is the case with most of the "best" kids' films?  It is a sweet and vibrant movie, even if not quite as unhinged and florid and even melancholy as some of Miyazaki's earlier movies.  I watched it in Japanese w/subs, however.

[david johnson]

'nothing but the water' by grace potter

[TheGSMoeller]

Re: Miyazaki's PONYO:
Sorry GSM-Greg, I missed your reply until just now.  I think the parents of 3-1/2-year-olds would enjoy and appreciate PONYO maybe more than the kids themselves, who might find stretches of the film a bit "slow"; though maybe this is the case with most of the "best" kids' films?  It is a sweet and vibrant movie, even if not quite as unhinged and florid and even melancholy as some of Miyazaki's earlier movies.  I watched it in Japanese w/subs, however.

Thanks for the reply 

[ElliotViola]

I've had Mars, from Holst's The Planets, stuck in my head for a while now.  I've tried to exorcise it with Beethoven, Stravinsky and Varese, but it keeps coming back.  I wonder what that says about my current worldview...

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[jochanaan]

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That image is missing a kettledrum.

[ElliotViola]

It is chocolate. It misses nothing.

Although it does potentially need some more musicians to perform Mars from the Planets. I don't see a SINGLE viola prominently shown or mentioned, of course...

[Papy Oli]

Now that I have cracked the Tchaikovsky symphonies nut, I have had bits of the 6th's first 2 movements in my head for the last few days. 

I love it !! 

[jochanaan]

It is chocolate. It misses nothing.

Although it does potentially need some more musicians to perform Mars from the Planets. I don't see a SINGLE viola prominently shown or mentioned, of course...

Violas are NEVER prominently shown or mentioned, at least in polite company.   Any more than flutes.