Thread: Shaving Music

So, for those of you that intentionally slow down and enjoy your shave (not making any judgements!) there is one thing that I personally feel enhances the experience:

Proper music.

So, let's get together some music! Titles of tracks, albums... etc.

Here's my current shaving playlist, which I actually got after playing Fallout 3. The list is all from public domain albums, so redistribution in the way that these guys have done it is legal! YAY!

GNR -- More Where That Came From at Fallout 3 Nexus - Fallout 3 mods and community

Though Fallout 3 does not have an official soundtrack, the mp3's for Galaxy News Radio, the station that plays these songs, can be ripped from the game's file directories. If you get a chance, I'd suggest getting the game!

I feel that the swing jazz music really exemplifies the aura or atmosphere I try to set when shaving.

I also really like to listen to an Israeli band called Hadag Nahasch (the transliteration, if you want to find the actual Hebrew, just throw Hadag Nahasch into google) who are a hip-hop group that performed several songs from the movie Don't Mess With The Zohan. Hadag Nahasch strays on the smooth jazz side of hip-hop with a lot of their songs, and can make one feel much more calm, while at the same time, making one feel like the Zohan!

Mika's Life In Cartoon Motion is another favorite, simply because of the wide variety of styles on one album, bringing together lyrical talent, musical creativity, and a good sense of fun.

Also, a little Tom Waits, John Coltrane, and Randy Newman do the trick! I love the variety of musical creation exemplified by Coltrane and Waits' use of alternate sound as an instrument, and who doesn't love to listen to Randy Newman?

The two last things to mention are the soundtrack to Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and Stereolab, a great smooth electronica band from Britain (UK members may want to correct me on this) who tend to defy the genre of techno with easy and smooth, but at times exciting, mix.

So, what do you listen to?

Karl

Most classical does fairly well. Ludovico Einaudi is an amazing pianist and one of my favourite composers, worth checking out.
Yiruma is also a great pianist and leans more towards wordless love songs. Might be good for any guys who shave their wife's legs.

The Rolling Stones, Jumpin Jack Flash, Street Fightin Man, 19th Nervous Breakdown; The Who doing Baba ORielly(While doing Pete Townsed jumps from the counter and toilet, complete with fully swinging arm ) and then theres always The Fixin to die rag by Country Joe Mac Donald when I am in a more somber mood. All good music to shave by.

NPR .

death metal, of course
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gojira-from the sky, is the last thing i shaved to

Originally Posted by nun2sharp

The Rolling Stones, Jumpin Jack Flash, Street Fightin Man, 19th Nervous Breakdown; The Who doing Baba ORielly(While doing Pete Townsed jumps from the counter and toilet, complete with fully swinging arm ) and then theres always The Fixin to die rag by Country Joe Mac Donald when I am in a more somber mood. All good music to shave by.

I couldn't do it. My feet would start tapping, I would start to get nostalgic. my head would start bobbing up and down...

A lot of Rat Pack, Nat King Cole, Bobby Darin, that kind of stuff. Sometimes some Adrea Bocelli, Sublime, Los Panchos (Guitar trio from way back in the day), the Wallflowers, Brooks and Dunn. My musical tastes are all over the place : ). I try not to listen to stuff that gets me too worked up while I have a blade on my face, Sublime is the exception on occasion. No Rage Against the Machine or Slip Knot, not until a little later in the day.

Serg

On the weekends I tune into Pandora and use one of my stations either Slayer Radio or Trip Hop.

Trip Hop is nice to listen too, so is Mazzy Star.

Silence. Even the sound of running water annoys me when I'm shaving. No idea why, I just like it completely silent.

metal. when I shaved this morning it was Gogoroth, album "Destroyer, or About How to Philosophize with the Hammer" I think yesterday it was Nile.

also, sometimes Shostakovich, which is technically classical music, but is very much metal in spirit and execution. (death metal and post-rococo classical music are extremely similar from a composing standpoint.)