I’ve started playing extremely dramatic classical music like Holst’s Mars, Bringer of War instead of Raffi when feeding my baby and it has made it like 700% funnier. She likes its I like it more than Raffi. 11/10 recommend.
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I would circumsize myself with a rusty can before listening to Raffi.
sep 1, 2025, 11:18 am • 0 0 • view
Aw, I actually do like Raffi. I wouldn’t listen to it on my own, but they’re fun to sing along to with a baby.
sep 1, 2025, 12:01 pm • 0 0 • view
I was trapped on a car ride with my aunt and very young cousin. At the time, I was a teenager. Raffi was on for 2 hours. Never again.
sep 1, 2025, 12:15 pm • 0 0 • view
See, this is where autism has primed me to be a good parent. I can listen to the same song or watch the same movie over and over and over and over again, no problem.
sep 1, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Prokofiev, Suite No. 1, Romeo and Juliet, Op. 1: Death of Tybalt. Takes a great turn toward the end with a superior burping rhythm. (Flew back to the US from London recently with Raffi’s Everything Grows stuck in my head; had been feeding my new grandson a lot during August.)
sep 1, 2025, 7:44 am • 3 0 • view
Adding Prokofiev’s Dance of the Knights, which is my husband’s ringtone on my phone. (He is recently retired from a symphony orchestra’s brass section.)
sep 1, 2025, 7:49 am • 2 0 • view
For the cluster feeding frenzy, “Winter” from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.
sep 1, 2025, 7:58 am • 3 0 • view
We are past cluster feeding and into teething. 😱
sep 1, 2025, 12:00 pm • 1 0 • view
My sympathies. Frozen bagels FTW.
sep 1, 2025, 12:05 pm • 1 0 • view
I think your baby would like Mahler
aug 31, 2025, 4:39 pm • 4 0 • view
(If you don't, Bernstein's Candide is pretty dramatic)
aug 31, 2025, 4:42 pm • 3 0 • view
Bluey: sleepytime. Trust me.
aug 31, 2025, 12:42 pm • 4 0 • view
Came here to say exactly this. Got our 2.5 yr old the hardcover book of the episode recently -- fantastic investment ♥️
aug 31, 2025, 1:47 pm • 1 0 • view
We’re not doing TV yet/I think she’s still too little for Bluey, but I am honestly looking forward to it. I’ve watched it with my friends’ kids and it’s actually really enjoyable (and has good messages!)
sep 1, 2025, 11:52 am • 1 0 • view
How about some Kronos Quartet playing Black Angels? 🤣 Always wondered if you took a baby and told them minor = relaxed, diminished 7th = happy, major = scary, and augmented = sad if they would develop different emotional associations and responses to those triads.
sep 1, 2025, 1:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Some Prokofiev might be nice too 😜
aug 31, 2025, 1:45 pm • 1 0 • view
We’ve listened to Peter and the Wolf, just not during meal times.
aug 31, 2025, 1:54 pm • 1 0 • view
How come you're doing the extremely dramatic classical music? What makes it funny?
sep 1, 2025, 2:03 pm • 0 0 • view
That is fabulous! Might I recommend O Fortuna from Orff's Carmina Burana?
sep 1, 2025, 6:17 am • 2 0 • view
I got the privilege of playing "Mars" in my seventh grade symphonic band class. Cheers!
sep 1, 2025, 11:41 am • 1 0 • view
Yeah I think this is why I was a jazz and classical music baby/small child. It did seem to actually cheer me up and was more fun for my folks.
aug 31, 2025, 1:03 pm • 1 0 • view
(There was a Dinner Jazz show on the local jazz radio station when I was little and my parents discovered that letting me listen to it when going to sleep was a good way to get me to go to bed and bedtime)
aug 31, 2025, 1:04 pm • 3 0 • view
It turns out that babies also like music that *isn’t* super annoying!
aug 31, 2025, 3:50 pm • 3 0 • view
@raffic.bsky.social needs to know this and process the implications!
aug 31, 2025, 2:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Are you snitch tagging me to Raffi?? Bluesky is wild.
aug 31, 2025, 2:53 pm • 4 0 • view
Raffi needs to pivot!
aug 31, 2025, 2:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Sir, you are a Canadian icon and were a huge part of my childhood. I mean no disrespect. I just think it’s funnier to feed my baby mushed up green beans with a different soundtrack.
aug 31, 2025, 2:55 pm • 5 0 • view
Any Raffi shout out is a positive thing! And never forget "there were beans, beans, trying on their jeans in the corner grocery store!"
aug 31, 2025, 2:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Willoughby Wallaby Woo is my favorite because when I sing it with my daughter I can add the names of people we know.
aug 31, 2025, 2:58 pm • 3 0 • view
Fact: were it not for Raffi, I wouldn't be who I am today Fact: you never see Raffi's palms in any of his early vhs videocassettes !
aug 31, 2025, 3:00 pm • 0 0 • view
We’re going to listen to Copeland tomorrow.
aug 31, 2025, 12:54 pm • 30 0 • view
Fanfare for the Common Man
aug 31, 2025, 1:26 pm • 8 0 • view
Strauss’s Thus Spake Zarathustra
aug 31, 2025, 1:28 pm • 10 0 • view
Mussorgsky, "Night on Bald Mountain" and "The Hut on Hen's Legs"
aug 31, 2025, 3:24 pm • 7 0 • view
Yesssss
aug 31, 2025, 3:45 pm • 1 0 • view
We played Stones music to our son. He ended up drummer in a grunge band but is now IT support for NHS. 🎶💻🤷♂️
aug 31, 2025, 2:16 pm • 3 0 • view
the videos must be hysterical! My son often wore more of his meals than he ever ate. the walls and ceilings were proof!
aug 31, 2025, 3:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Did I buy a used copy of the original Fantasia on vinyl and have it shipped from Australia for exactly this purpose? Yes. But it was worth it.
aug 31, 2025, 5:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Bach and B.B King are big hits in our house!
aug 31, 2025, 4:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Symphonie Fantastique. Rite of Spring. Sorcerers Apprentice.
aug 31, 2025, 3:57 pm • 2 0 • view
Symphonie Fantastique and Rite of Spring are a little hornier than what I’m going for, I think.
aug 31, 2025, 4:05 pm • 2 0 • view
Noted!
aug 31, 2025, 4:07 pm • 0 0 • view
But if you do want good kid music, go for Tom Chapin, never Raffi. I was married to a concert pianist, lots of classical in the house.
sep 1, 2025, 11:38 am • 0 0 • view
Play Rossini's The Thieving Magpie, and your baby will love it
sep 1, 2025, 1:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Carmina Burana Night on Bald Mountain Danse Macabre 1812 Overture Rite of Spring & Firebird Suite
sep 1, 2025, 1:21 pm • 0 0 • view
i don't really remember any lullabies so when my kid was a baby i just sang him like, Smells Like Teen Spirit and Baby One More Time
aug 31, 2025, 3:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Can’t believe nobody mentioned The Ride of the Valkyries or the finale to the 1812 Overture, but I’m plugging my personal favorite (and Keith Emerson inspiration), the Troika movement from Prokofiev’s Lieutenant Kijé.
sep 1, 2025, 11:51 am • 1 0 • view