Music to shave to?

[WotansBart]

Hey y'all, I was wondering what (if anything) you listen to while shaving. I'm finding that my choice of music has a significant effect on my shave- Debussey or Chopin = long smooth shave with no nicks or burn, Radiohead or Weezer = aggressive and fast, sometimes close but usually a bit bumpy, Doc Watson or Johnny Cash= somewhere in between.

Thoughts... ?

 

[HoratioCaine]

I like your choice of Debussy or Chopin...serene and sophisticated. Sometimes I like to go with Duran Duran, a la Rio, and imagine I'll be courting supermodels on my yacht once I'm groomed well enough to be up to the task. I have yet to play The Who so I can imagine I'm a Miami PD CSI palling around with Emily Procter - something about that blood-curdling scream at the end is a little too unnerving when I'm running a blade over my jugular vein.

 

[mrbeckett]

Latelty I've been listening to Coletrane Live in Paris while I shower and shave.

 

[HoratioCaine]

Latelty I've been listening to Coletrane Live in Paris while I shower and shave.

Miles' Kind of Blue is a good choice, too.

 

[Johnnie Walker]

Sinatra hands DOWN!!!!

 

[WotansBart]

Sinatra hands DOWN!!!!

Hadn't even thought of old blue eyes- brilliant!

 

[The Nid Hog]

Tango, of course. For me, it's Piazzolla or nothing at all. What else captures the melancholy splendor of the wet shave?

 

[curtis909]

another what do we listen to thread... and to think i started one long ago lol....

Well here goes

Carlos Santana all day all the time...

 

[Jethro1984]

All kinds of stuff. Mostly new music. But I do enjoy Dave Matthews Band for a slow relaxing shave.

 

[Kbennett]

Coltrane, Monk, Davis or Parker. I swear the shaves are better when these guys are playing.

 

[danster.shay]

Ain't that a Kick in the Head. I was playin' The Best of Dean Martin while shaving the day my wife gave me my surprise wedding.
Seriously.
5 years this April. I didn't see it coming.

 

[hypo_style]

I love to listen to Chick Webb & his Orchestra (with Ella Fitzgerald on vocals) while I shave.

 

[Topgumby]

Tango, of course. For me, it's Piazzolla or nothing at all. What else captures the melancholy splendor of the wet shave?

Sinatra hands DOWN!!!!

Sinatra's "September of My Years" captures the melancholy splendor of the wet shave pretty well...

Once upon a time a girl with moonlight in her eyes
Put her hand in mine and said she loved me so
But that was once upon a time, very long ago

Once upon a hill we sat beneath a willow tree
Counting all the stars and waiting for the dawn
But that was once upon a time, now the tree is gone

How the breeze ruffled through her hair
How we always laughed as though tomorrow wasn't there
We were young and didn't have a care, where did it go?

Once upon a time the world was sweeter than we knew
Everything was ours, how happy we were then
But somehow once upon a time, never comes again
Once upon a time, never comes again

 

[Venom]

I am in agreement with Sinatra!!

 

[HoratioCaine]

Sinatra's "September of My Years" captures the melancholy splendor of the wet shave pretty well...

Yes, but Piazzolla evokes the "flawed confusion of human beings...worn away as by acid by the labor of hands, impregnated with sweat and smoke, smelling of lilies and of urine, splashed by the variety of what we do, legally or illegally...as impure as old clothes, as a body, with its foodstains and its shame, with wrinkles, observations, dreams, wakefulness, prophecies, declarations of love and hate, stupidities, shocks, idylls, political beliefs, negations, doubts, affirmations...."

Nothing against Sinatra, but can he do that?

 

[Topgumby]

Nothing against Sinatra, but can he do that?

Oh yeah, and while eating scrambled eggs off a call girl's chest, too.

 

[HoratioCaine]

Oh yeah, and while eating scrambled eggs off a call girl's chest, too.

You know, if I did that, I wouldn't be melancholy in the least.

 

[Saxmoore]

So happy to see so many people with good taste! I have a shavelist that I put on shuffle which has Basie, Sinatra, Ben Webster w/ Oscar Peterson, Sinatra with Basie and Coltrane.

I'm thinking a particular Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto would be sublime. Also some Delius.

Jerry

 

[Koss]

I enjoy classical or light jazz. Tried classic rock but I ended up getting more into the music then the shave! Don't want to do that!

Mostly I just listen to my podcasts I download from various shows I like. Or news from npr.

 

[mdunn]

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