Thread: What music do you play while shaving???

KQAC 89.9 FM, an all-classical music station delivering a wide variety of genres within the classical music umbrella. Always something for everyone who enjoys classical music. They are also on the web as allclassical.org.

I am usually alone in the house as I shave, so I generally sing between strokes.
Usually the lather, brush, and esp the razor determines.

So yesterday I attempted a gibberish 'Santa Lucia' as I shaved with my A. Sanelli.
I cannot say why. Most singing is while lathering.

I think I am quite good sometimes!

Lathering the neck must be good for the vocal chords I think!

Aloha!

I never mentioned playback chain in detail yet;

I'm an Audiophile and a Jazz Aficionado, so music is my life, other than shaving of course. I have quite a few vintage high fidelity stereos in many rooms of my homes. I'm into Vinyl (records to the older guys) but I also do FLAC digital music files (lossless) and have hundreds of albums stored digitally. I have receivers and amplifiers and tuners from Marantz, Yamaha, Pioneer, McIntosh, Bose.... the list goes on. I have a Bose Wave Radio in my shave den. This is small enough to fit in the bathroom well, and it's mostly plastic so the moisture won't hurt it much. On this I have a Bluetooth Receiver so I can stream music from my phone to the Wave Radio. iPhone users can get an Airplay receiver to beam music to a stereo system without loss of audio quality. Bluetooth is OK (especially Apt-X Codec Bluetooth) but you do lose some fidelity. iPhones solved this years ago by using WiFi to beam music instead of Bluetooth frequencies. I usually play either music I've got stored on the phone, or i go with a live-stream of something via the internet like a terrestrial Jazz station or something eclectic like monocle.com (mentioned earlier).

I can't imagine spending all the time I do in the shaving den without music. But Carlosppena's comment upon opening this thread rings true. I like to "Hear" my razor (straight or shavette cutting whiskers - not so much DE) as audio feedback is important to me getting the shave done right. So I don't crank my shave den music at warp factor 9. Just loud enough to enjoy it and still be able to get audio feedback on the razor cutting wiskers.

Mahalo!

-Zip

Precisely why I cease singing during the actual shave!

Seriously, Back to Razorfeld's post. I was in a big habit of listening to the local classical station.
They shut it down. These days, I mostly go to the satellite TV and pick from most any genre. Classical seems best for straight shaving.

At least for me.

My wife knows I'm shaving when she hears AC/DC coming from my shave den, at level warp factor 9, then it's time to leave me alone, but I sometimes listen to something soft like, the Eagles , Bruce Springsteen, or Grand Funk Railroad, being in Memphis you would think I would lean to the blues, but I,m a classic rock kinda guy, now the wife she's all about jazz and the blues, she even used to be a singer in a band that played n Beale street years ago. Tc

Originally Posted by Razorfeld

KQAC 89.9 FM, an all-classical music station delivering a wide variety of genres within the classical music umbrella. Always something for everyone who enjoys classical music. They are also on the web as allclassical.org.

KING FM 98.1 - Classic Radio Inc. out of Seattle Washington got to be the best for classical music. Which is what I always listen to, shaving or thinking about shaving or whatever I'm doing. If you enjoy the classics, once you've tuned into KING you're done looking for other sources of music.

Originally Posted by kruppstahl

KING FM 98.1 - Classic Radio Inc. out of Seattle Washington got to be the best for classical music. Which is what I always listen to, shaving or thinking about shaving or whatever I'm doing. If you enjoy the classics, once you've tuned into KING you're done looking for other sources of music.

I felt that way for a long time tuning in to WQXR Classical Radio New York City broadcasting from the Empire State Building. The "Radio station of The New York Times" they used to call it back then because they featured New York Times articles and news between Classical music. When I lived in Upstate New York years ago, the cable TV company actually piped it in on their FM band tap (a feature cable companies offered before Digital Music Streaming and the Internet) via microwave link from New York City. State-of-the-art stuff at the time. Listening to an FM station 200 miles away via a cable TV FM Tap was amazing back then. So that was where my FM dial on my stereo usually hung out.

Then I went back to Jazz and it's been Jazz ever since. I've been in love with Jazz since I was 17. But I do appreciate Classical music. Especially Mozart.

Currently streaming WUCF Jazz Radio from Orlando, FL. Otherwise I'm streaming CJRT Jazz Radio from Toronto.

Aloha!

-Zip

This morning feeling retro.....

"In The Wee Small Hours" - Frank Sinatra (vinyl)

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