White Man Sleeps by Kronus Quartet.
No, wait, that's sweaty jungley make-out music. Does that count?
Almost any Al Green-- "Love and Happiness" "Let's Stay Together"
Ann Peebles "I'm Going to Tear You Playhouse Down"
Sweaty jungley make-out music is perfectly fine. People might want to use this as a resource to make more than one mix - polite-don't-know-if-something's-gonna-happen music, tearing-each-other's-clothes-off music, etc.
Will you be blogging the event, Becks?
nina simone-- "sugar in my bowl" and/or "feeling good" are two good ones but damn, there are a lot more. Try her version of "suzanne" too. mmmmmm.
a lot of jeff buckley's stuff always does the trick for me.
Pulp, esp. This is Hardcore; Tricky, Maxinquaye if things get serious or even a little "dark".
I think a lot depends on what your cheesy limit is. I've always liked Prince's "Slow Love" for this sort of thing, and in recent years have come to appreciate Roberta Flack's "Feel Like Making Love", which made me cringe when I was a kid. But listen to the percussion, it's fantastic. I can totally see the latter being way too cheesy for some people, though, and a smaller group thinking the same about the Prince song.
I'm not sure about it as mood music, but I've long thought that Richard and Linda Thompsons' "A Heart Needs a Home" among the best pop love songs around, at least the version that appears on Guitar/Vocal. The other one lacks the sweet guitar playing and has harmonies on the lead vocal that are a little too smooth.
Reading in preview, I second the idea of pretty much anything by Al Green. Ann Peebles is also good, but I'm not sure about "I'm Going Tear Your Playhouse Down"--great song, but I'm not about the theme. Maybe something else from the same record? It's been a while since I've listened to it, so I'm having trouble making a suggestion.
The Chill Out Album. Just awesome -- check it out.
Girl From Ipanema.
Also a lot of stuff by Andrew Bird (sample lyric: "some other night we can get together, and I want to tie your wrists with leather"), but this perhaps depends on the person.
No advice, but two odd anecdotes.
1. An extremely attractive woman once said to me, "If I'm not listening to Motörhead, I'm not having sex."
2. When I was a teenager, and had only been sexually active a few months, my then girlfiend and I got busy while Tom Waits' Rain Dogs was on the stereo. Afterwards she said: "That was incredible! What was that music!?" I felt upstaged.
Nora Jones--Come Away With Me
Tracey Chapman--I am Yours
Van Morrison--Tupelo Honey
I'm not great on music, so this might be either wrong or cliched, but "Kind of Blue" seems like it would do the trick.
You people have sex differently than I do. Another former lover and I used to have sex a lot listening to Dream Less Sweet by Psychic TV.
John Martyn
Cassandra Wilson
Miles, early or late, but not the 60s crossover stuff.
"Astral Weeks," Van Morrison. Even better than Tupelo Honey for the purpose, I think. And even better than it was in my youth, now that you don't have to get up every 20 minutes to turn the record over.
Depends on whether you're looking for makeout background music, or a seduction mix.
For the former: Lovage. Paula Cole's "Feelin' Love."
For the latter: Air, Massive Attack, Sigur Ros?
Sweet. I can have sex with one fat englishman.
Also, might be worth trying Cat Power's "The Greatest."
I recommend playing The Who's "Fiddle About" on repeat while attempting sexual intercourse.
16: madam george is one of my favoritest songs ever. back in the days of mix tapes I had it on a tape twice in a row so I didn't have to rewind it. this despite the fact that it is also my stepfather's favorite song ever, so, you know, uphill slog. I don't really feel I can make good recommendations to get busy to without knowing more generally what kind of music you like...I favor rare groove myself, but that's edging right up to the barry white, so I don't know.
a friend of mine was friends with barry white's daughter in middle school and used to go over to their place in LA a lot. everything was purple and white, with shag carpeting up to your ankles. the white family ate TV dinners on individual folding tables in the living room.
I don't know if this is common, but music with intelligible vocals can sometimes bring me out of the mood. It's like there's someone else there. Most of my nineties formative experiences were backed by Peter Gabriel's Passion and the Piano soundtrack. Stop laughing! Nowadays a lot of string quartets and non-smoove but non-annoying jazz.
19: What? No. No Cat Power. Too depressing for sex.
Girl From Ipanema.
Like Kraft macaroni and cheese, it's the cheesiest.
"Astral Weeks," Van Morrison.
Back when I was a teenager and first getting into this record, I used to think he was singing "I've got a hormone high." Which seemed appropriate at my age.
Oh man, this thread was made for me. Music is a very important component of my sex life.
It has to have a good beat and feeling without being too obvious. Come on, "Let's stay together"? I love that song, but no.
That said, this list obviously reflects my indie-ish taste. But still, these are really good for this purpose.
Unmade Bed - Sonic Youth (off Sonic Nurse, seriously, people who think you don't like Sonic Youth, check this song
out).
Unwind (Washing Machine) - Sonic Youth
Iron & Wine/Calexico - Burn that Broken Bed
There There (Hail to the Thief) - Radiohead
Sweet Jane - Cowboy Junkies
The entirety of The Cure Mixed Up album, but particularly "Lovesong" and "Lullaby."
Jose Gonzáles, "Crosses" and "Heartbeats"
Massive Attack, "Teardrop" (actually, a lot of Mezzanine is pretty good for this purpose)
The entirety of Portishead Dummy, but particularly "Roads"
One more Robot/Sympathy - The Flaming Lips
Jóga - Bjork
Run - Air
Tears are in Your Eyes - Yo La Tengo
Of course, you asked for songs, so I gave you songs, but I'm more of a "listen to a whole album" kinda girl, generally. Some of my favorite selections in re: albums are Sigur Rós, (), Van Morrison, Astral Weeks, Radiohead, Amnesiac, South San Gabriel, Welcome, Convalescence, Explosions in the Sky, Those who tell the truth shall die, those who tell the truth shall live forever (maybe doesn't appeal to everyone, but for those that it might, i.e. if you've ever felt any instinct of liking for either Godspeed or Mogwai, get this album).
Christ, ok, that's enough for now. One more word, a lot of the songs in the top list are thought of as kind of soft-ish, mellow. Don't. Play them loud. Especially any Yo La Tengo.
20: Damn. Too obvious and trite?
Sweet! I didn't preview and now I see some suggestions have been duplicated.
(I kid -- actually making out/having sex is another thing I have not done a lot of while listening to music -- I don't seem to be able to combine music-listening with other activities very well. I guess I could picture doing "it" with like Crosby, Stills and Nash on the stereo, or some other music that was extremely familiar and I did not have to pay much attention to.)
31 -- the preferred usage is "Pwned".
Two recommendations are better than one!
The only music that has ever made me want to have sex is Massive Attack's song "Karmacoma", so I would just play that over and over, maybe interspersed with a different Massive Attack song every now and then.
Oh yeah, and the Interpol album, Turn on the Bright Lights is a good choice, too, especially for something a little less slow than other stuff I've recommended.
Especially with their albums other than ( ), Sigur Rós could lead to really majestic sex.
Silvana's recommendations surpass any other possible recommendations. This thread is over.
Not recommending: "Anthrax" by Gang of Four, "In the Flat Field" by Bauhaus, or anything by Crass.
For making out/sex that's a little more sweet/lovey-dovey rather than intense (contra my Interpol recommendation), I recommend Iron & Wine, The Creek Drank the Cradle album.
Making out music and sex music are two different things - one requires rhythm I think (therefore Iron & Wine would not qualify).
The worst music for either purpose, though, would probably be anything by Les Georges Leningrad.
Yeah, Cassandra Wilson. Blue Light 'til Dawn, esp. Robert Johnson's Come On In My Kitchen.
Do you need a rhythm in the song to know when to thrust, Ned?
I think not.
Stuff like Al Green always seems cheesy to me. Maybe it's just that I don't care for that type of music and don't know many people who do so someone playing it makes me think "cheesy seduction music". I also totally associate it with college guys.
I actually like Al Green, Becks, but I agree with you.
Oh yeah, and the Interpol album, Turn on the Bright Lights is a good choice, too
Especially if you can time your petite morte to the "subway she is a porno" line.
A girlfriend and I once got busy to Dowland's Lachrimae.
Christiansands by Tricky, but none of the rest of that album. For no words, the first Tortoise album.
OT Celebrity Sidenote: I went to a small showcase for some local comics last night, and as my friend came back from the bar with my beer, I looked up and saw John C. Reilly standing right next to me, where he stayed for the duration of the show. Also, I believe at least three members of Wilco were there.
spew. No sex for any of you people, ever. Particularly not the one who suggested Norah Jones. If it were not for the demographic consequences, I would also slap a lifetime ban on the Van Morrison "Astral Weeks/Tupelo Honey" crowd. So you lot are only allowed to have sexs for procreative purposes and must stop instantly on achieving your target family size. God groping gracious, people.
Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians".
dsquared, your righteous (and correct) Norah Jones hatred has been misdirected at Van Morrison. Please recalibrate.
#43: I have no idea why someone, having specifically been told "No Barry White", would have thought "how about Al Green? That's completely different".
Jesus wept, Massive Attack fans. Somebody get me a price on a container-load of Bromide.
Herbie Hancock's "Headhunters" album (though "Future Shock" would actually be better).
I can never hear the music over the mocking laughter. What's the point?
in that case I recommend "That Nigger's Crazy" by Richard Pryor.
Dude--Gang of 4 could totally work. So could Mission of Burma.
Some emo punk would also work--Get Up Kids, totally.
I also think Massive Attack's Mezzanine is awesome for teh sex.
I agree Gang of Four could work. Just not "Anthrax".
Best makeout soundtrack: a wicked thunderstorm.
I can never hear the music over the mocking laughter. What's the point?
It'll be The Smiths for you, then, and skip the sex.
I have no idea why someone, having specifically been told "No Barry White", would have thought "how about Al Green? That's completely different".
Because, aside from being music made by black people in the 1970's, they actually are quite different? I wouldn't think, for instance, that because someone objected to Van Morrison, they'd automatically do the same to Elvis Costello. Yes, White and, um, Green are both r+b, but they have very different styles and sounds.
57 couldn't get it any exactly righter.
Music for 18 Musicians: sweet jesus yes.
I win, I think, with the greatest sex album ever committed to disc.
Disagree that White and Green are different sounds, btw. The orchestration is very similar and basically all 1970s soul records had the same production. Viz:
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For makeouts and otherwise, Depeche Mode works quite well, especially their singles collection from 86-92. This might not work if the other person actually listens carefully to the lyrics. MBV's Loveless is also quite pleasant ambient make-out/love-in music. Otherwise, I tend to listen to music with a decent beat and non-intrusive vocals. If you're down with house music, that works well. I also second all the Massive Attack recommendations.
Particularly not the one who suggested Norah Jones. If it were not for the demographic consequences, I would also slap a lifetime ban on the Van Morrison "Astral Weeks/Tupelo Honey" crowd.
your righteous (and correct) Norah Jones hatred
I have a million dollars worth of experience and cannot even give it away to you Nora Jones haters. Suit yourselves. And get off my lawn.
Tiny Mix Tapes has probably covered this, although I can't vouch for their mixes.
I have always had good luck with Barney Kessel's swing version of Bizet's Carmen, although this is mainly because it irritates the living hell out of anyone other than myself ("Oh for crying out loud, will you take that off! No baby, you take that off". In my dreams).
yay music!
yay sex!
yay sex & music!
silvana: I'm with you on the whole album approach. the explosions in the sky is good; not as good as early godspeed, but good. On a similar note a silver mount zion could work. Particularly `he has left us....' somewhat along the lines of sigur ros for being in the background (not for style). Or `born into trouble and the sparks fly upwards' which is a better album anyway.
If you think Iron & Wine has a lack of rythm problem, Perhaps boards of canada type stuff for quiet background.... otherwise, also consider `our endless numbered days'
Otherwise depends on the people & mood. Definitely some miles or early coltrane, if the post-rock above isn't to taste. This is all music you can forget is there .... except you must play it loud as silvana noted!
what about edgier stuff?
`Nasty International' by new wet kojak has been known to work extremely well.
Some boredoms, like `vision, creation, newsun' or `seadrum/house of sun'. Somewhat connected: The whole flaming lips album mentioned above.
Mouse on Mars: radical connector.
Holy Fuck s/t
(especially old) tom waits (mentioned above) is good. just not `bone machine', for sex.
parts of the wrens `meadowlands'.
ok, enough of that, I could go on for ages.... haven't even touched on dance music. or good afro-cuban, or....
Based solely on the music recommendations, it seems that -- of unfogged commenters -- I would most enjoy having sex with silvana (who reminds me that I somehow left Portishead off my list).
Woo!
I went to college during the al green refractory period. Nobody listened to any seventies soul at all. They didn't play it on the radio or in movies. I got "al green's greatest hits" based on a recomendation in some book without hearing any of the songs before. I was amazed.
soubzriquet: based on your recs, Jackie O'Motherfucker would probably float your boat.
I sex only to the marches of John Phillips Souza.
68: I like your style, though I'd claim Mouse on Mars and Holy Fuck to be dance music.
I'm still a little unsure how these threads go on Unfogged. Should we just let loose with random recommendations or keep it to a tiny number? Music recommendations are particularly tough because there's so little discussion that can be done; it just ends up as lists.
Disagree that White and Green are different sounds, btw. The orchestration is very similar
The orchestration is similar to about 3/4 of the artists that recorded during the period--that doesn't really show anything. Guitar, bass drums, keyboards, horns, and strings. White is far more orchestrated, using bigger bands and more ornate arrangements. Vocally the two could not be more different, though almost everyone in pop is different from Barry White--not too many bass voices on lead out there. White is far closer to disco, while Green is a smoother, late expression of Memphis soul and gospel. If you were saying that Isaac Hayes (solo) and Barry White sounded a lot alike, that would be a different matter.
The remark that "all 1970s soul records had the same production" and the appeal to Amazon's customer suggestions are so lame, I'm going to pretend they didn't come from internets royalty such as yourself.
72: fair enough... there is a blurry line around `dance music' and some of that is over it. categories: bleh.
I'm going to have to jump in again. damn.
some amazingly good music-for-sex is somewhat obscure funky old organ jazz, like `all cow, no bull'
actually lots of funk/fusion stuff, too.
actually lots of funk/fusion stuff, too.
That's because it sounds like a porn soundtrack.
Yeah, Portishead is an excellent choice, esp. with the bass jacked up. Of course, my current squeeze doesn't like nearly as much bass as I do generally, and since I'm mostly picking the music, I acquiesce and turn the damn bass down.
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69: whereas I seem destined to a threesome with Tim and mcmc. WTF with the dance music? You're supposed to be going for orgasms, not epileptic seizures.
77: you've been listening to the wrong albums. or the right porn, or something.
Also Benjamin Biolay, "Negatif," would work well. (Think of a cross between Moby and Serge Gainsbourg, sort of).
Re Cat Power being depressing (#24), not anymore I think -- "The Greatest" is good Memphis sound with positive mental attitude.
You mock, Clownae, but I've had some seriously good sex to Beethoven's symphonies.
"MBV's Loveless is also quite pleasant ambient make-out/love-in music."
I keep thinking I am hearing the wrong album, or have my mixer tuned wrong, or something. Everybody else seems to hear Friip & Eno or Jon Hassell in Loveless.
Billy Holiday. Slow tenor sax, like Stitt or Ammons. Cocorosie.
79: you're assuming of the wrong sort of dance music, methinks.
I agree with 82, especially the track "Love & Communication" off that album is perfect. In fact, it's on several of my many iTunes lists created for this purpose.
You'd think that The Shaggs would do the trick, but you'd be mistaken.
87: absolutely. It isn't her best album ... but much more suited to the purpose.
Tia can make it four on the strength of 83.
Listening to South American music is too cheesy-seeming, I think, for most Americans (unless you're fucking an actual South American), but Devendra Banhart's "Quedate Luna" (off Cripple Crow) is a good indie substitute.
has anyone mentioned billy holiday yet?
if not, damn.
has anyone mentioned billie holiday yet?
if not, damn.
arg. my embarassing typo in 92 preserved for posterity.
OMGZ how could I forget my favorite slow sex album of late, Low, Things We Lost in the Fire. Blasting that first track, "Sunflower," is pure fucking makeout awesome.
silvana, the overlap in (parts of?) our music collections might be scary.
Not read the previous comments, so possibly pwned, anyway:
David Godin's "Deep Soul from the Vaults" - there are 4 of these (i think) all full of classic rare deep soul stuff.
Tom Waits, "Swordfishtrombones" - don't know why it works, but it just does.
Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" - mentioned already, I'm sure.
Miles Davis "In a Silent Way"
Miles Davis "Bitches Brew" - maybe not everyone's cup of tea. It's not really 'smooth' mood music, but still, great. On the very first 'date' with an ex g/friend we came home from the pub and I hit play on what was in the tape player, and it was 'Spanish Key' from that album. I suspect she thought I was a bit like the big bald guy in 'Manhunter'.
Bjork, too, I think, has been mentioned. But 'Vespertine' is great mood music and, bonus, is basically all about fucking, anyway. Seriously, the (oblique) lyrics on that are filthy.
Portishead, 'Dummy' - I see it has been mentioned, but still, it's great. And anyone who dismisses it as coffee-table music can fuck off...
I see dsquared has mentioned some classic early 70s Herbie Hancock stuff. Ditto lots of other 70s wig-out funk - Charles Earland, that sort of thing.
84 -- I'm hoping Alex was not around?
alternate response to 84 -- Did it make you feel like invading Poland?
silvana, the overlap in (parts of?) our music collections might be scary.
Indie has a way of doing that. I'm now damn near certain that I've crossed paths with her at a Chicago concert sometime in the past year or so.
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady by Mingus
Almost anything by Roland Kirk
Jimi Hendrix
Django Reinhardt
and occasionally Kermit the Frog, emanating from across the airshaft in my NYC apartment.
Nice one on the Mingus.
'Blues and Roots' is also good, for that sort of thing.
96: Yeah, clearly, although I disagree that Godspeed is better than EITS, but hey that's just me, I'm an EITS fangirl. And on topic, have had some spectacular sex to their music.
I'm going to Austin City Limits in a couple of weeks and am facing a serious dilemma: Explosions in the Sky and Iron & Wine are playing at the same fucking time. Fuck.
99.--But really, doesn't everybody?
JAC, did you have a particular concert in mind?
I actually don't go to as many concerts as I'd like, but I plan on changing that this year.
Blasting that first track, "Sunflower," is pure fucking makeout awesome.
"pure fucking makeout awesome" s/b "pure fucking erectile dysfunction."
C'mon—Iron & Wine (and Calexico), Low, My Bloody Valentine? Overlap with sedative music = 1:1. Folks, we're trying to get something accomplished here. I'll bet on Stevie Wonder and Bill Withers.
'Smasher, my illusions of you are shattered.
106: that's ok ... i've had some spectacular sex to both of them (erm, not at the same time). We can agree to differ. Have you checked out a silver mt. zion (ephram's main post-godspeed project) ?
And. Damn. I've got exactly the same problem with ACL.
I still own all those discs, if that rescues my chances at all.
re: Bill Withers,
I don't know about the aphrodisiac effect of his music but my wife and I were watching some old footage of him on TV the other week and she remarked that he was i) damn handsome and ii) manly looking in a way that most modern singers are not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZwKUxjVxB8&mode=related&search=
Oh yeah, and the drummer in that clip is the ur-funk drummer.
113: 'smasher, it's allright to admit you need a little audible help to keep going. just don't project your problem on the rest of us.
112: I have not. It's been on my list of things to check out for a while though. Along with a million other things. Sigh.
Other egregious cross-listing at ACL: Cat Power and Okkervil River. Wtf? Although I think I'm pretty decided on that one: Cat Power is fickle, so I'll see her if she's playing, and just get my fix on the other score from Centro-matic. Mm, Centro-matic. I miss Texas.
Interesting. I don't think there's ever been music playing when I've made out/had sex. Don't you find it very distracting? You know how sometimes you're driving along, blasting music, but get lost and have to break out the map, and will someone shut off that damn noise now because you need to concentrate?
Anyway, clearly Eye of the Tiger is the way to go.
And Robert Johnson's Come On In My Kitchen is one of history's great songs, whether it gets you lucky or not.
I think I had sex one time with "Graceland" playing, and that it was enjoyable. Plus I may have been stoned.
And just now I thought, "Let it Bleed" would probably be good for sex, as might "Exile on Main Street".
Ogged, I've dated guys like you. It didn't work out.
Your point is well-taken, but sex is not like driving.
Centro-matic!
One Explosion in the Sky worked at the video store adjacent to the coffee shop at which I worked through college, and he traded video rentals and late fee amnesties with me for free apple juice. He would flip out to know that people from the Internet were talking about having sex to his albums.
116: i'm solving that one by going to the okkervil after show. cat power is fickle, so I'll see her if I can. I'm in texas for now, so some of these acts are easier to see than others. A bunch will be in NO for voodo-whatever-you-call-it too .....
but yeah, ACL organizors: wtf?
JAC, did you have a particular concert in mind?
Not really, since I just looked through the thread again and realized none of those artists have played here recently. It just seemed like a safe bet with the number of concerts I go to and the overlap in tastes. If I had to guess, I'd say you were also at Pitchfork Festival, eh?
Off-topic, you should see some shows in the next couple months if you're still in Chi-town. The number of great concerts coming up is amazing. Between now and mid-November I'll be seeing:
Touch + Go 25th Anniversary Fest (yay !!! and noise rock!)
Girl Talk
Man Man
Asobi Seksu
Subtle
Thunderbirds Are Now!
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah + Architecture in Helsinki
Ladytron (also pretty good for sex) + CSS
the dudes from DFA and The Juan MacLean DJing
Junior Boys (definitely good for makeouts + sex)
TV on the Radio
The Futureheads
Gang Gang Dance
Madlib + Peanut Butter Wolf
Hot Chip
Plus there's several more shows that I'd go to if I had the time, or didn't have work the next day, or if they weren't the same night as another concert.
That is a good list. I'm keeping a link to that for future reference. And yeah, I was at the Hideout last night (I love you, Devil in a Woodpile, also, sidenote: the guitarist kind of looks like 'Smasher), and saw posters for Touch + Go, and am trying to decide whether to buy tix.
silvana: how long are you in texas for? daniel johnston is playing in houston at the end of the month..... (how's that for a hard show to catch?)
124: Actually, I keep a frighteningly organized list in Word of appealing concerts coming up in Chicago with the dates/artists/venues/prices of each show that catches my eye, so that I can remember them even if I don't buy advance tickets. If you want, I could just email that through to you, since it also includes all the shows I probably can't make it to like Spank Rock, Supersystem, 2 Many DJ's, Art Brut, etc.
There is a new club in san francisco where the headliners come on at midnight. Three upcoming shows are esg, !!!, and the slits. Curse you for late shows new club in san francisco.
125: Not very long, I'll just be there for ACL and maybe a couple days on either side, vitising my peeps.
And yeah, I saw that. I think my Houston friends are going.
Also, 'Smasher, if you saw any Centro-matic shows in Austin at any time between 2000 and 2004, I think I was at all of them.
Music during sex in the late 60s and early 70s was a problem, in that I kept getting up every twenty minutes to flip or change records. Radio sucked, and no, I would never stack my albums. Have to clean them with the anti-static brush, of course. Women would sometimes doubt my priorities and focus. Can you imagine?
Robert Johnson's "All my shrimps have died" is good to have available if things don't go well.
Around 1983 -6 there were quite a lot of pop faking-orgasm records, one by a British porn star whose name I forget. Then there's that Donna Summers thing, and the grandmother of the genre is "Teach me Tiger" by ?Stella Stevens??
Some might like Julie London, especially with Barney Kessel ("They call her Julie" vol. 1). Very classy and sultry.
I have it on good authority that Bitches Brew is effective. The guy who told me many years ago that "Bitches Brew makes girls hot" used to get, if you'll pardon the expression, more ass than a toilet seat. I was initially going to object to the exclusion of Barry White, but anything that can be construed as even remotely cheesy is dangerous. Once during some, um, afternoon delight, the next-door neighbors put on some porn-soundtrack-sounding thing while they were working in their garden. We had a good laugh, but that was pretty much that for the day. I think B wins this one with 57; I remember a night outside with an old girlfriend under a thatched roof in Molokai during a big storm, and was that ever teh hott. As for the rest of the recommendations, I am so not having sex with the vast majority of you unless you bring earplugs.
They're easy. You do have to be gentle, though.
has anyone mentioned billie holiday yet?
I can't listen to Billie Holiday anymore without thinking of David Sedaris singing the Oscar Meyer Wiener jingle. Fortunately, that totally puts me in the mood.
132: even better now; a few years ago they released the rest of the bitches brew sessions. It's all good stuff so you can stack up 4 CD's and not worry about changing music for a while.....
Check out David Byrne and Marisa Monte doing "Waters of March" on Red Hot + Rio.
I'm with Ogged on this one; and submit in evidence the only really funny thing published in the (Murdoch) Times last year, the start of a piece by Cailtin Moran:
"PERSONALLY, I can't listen to music while 'making out'. As a former music journalist who's married to another music journalist, any potential selection would be a minefield.
Take a fairly standard track, such as Marvin Gaye's classic bunk-up anthem Let's Get it On. Thirty seconds of deep, meaningful physical communication would be broken with: 'You'd never believe Marvin Gaye was freebasing cocaine when he recorded this, would you? Most coke albums have the treble very high, eg, Be Here Now, Addicted to Love, etc, but this has a perfectly balanced mid-range. On reflection, I think Let's Get it On is probably second in my Tracks that Surprise You When You Find out the Artist Was on Crack When He Recorded Them list. With Smokey Robinson's Being With You at No 1, obviously. Stop! Come back! Have I put you off?'
" 'No -I'm just going to Google the release dates. It would settle my mind to be able to put them in chronological order'."
[I can't give a link because it's all paywalled now and I got this copy thrugh the local library sytem]
Fie on 26. Beyond 10, all of Getz & Gilberto. If you think that's cheesy, I can't help you. Also, Astrud Gilberto.
I'm surprised that nobody but Andrew's journalist has mentioned Marvin Gaye. (Who, I should hope people agree, is not Barry White or Al Green.)
Agreed with slo. Getz's breathy phrasing when he opens that solo is just sexy. I find that my hips involuntarily sway when that part comes up.
The Velvet Underground, "Venus in Furs" would probably work with the right person. Actually "Heroin" could be good as well.
140: I'm guessing most people figured it was too obvious (I did.)
re: 141
Apropos, not much...
British jazz pianist, Stan Tracey, says that Getz was emphaticaly not a nice man.
His quote, in a recent documentary, was something like: 'Getz was the sort of guy who washed his hands before he took a piss, due to the respect with which he held that particular part of his anatomy'
British jazz pianist, Stan Tracey, says that Getz was emphaticaly not a nice man.
Terry Teachout, recently: "It’s not that artists are an especially well-behaved class of people. (Two words: Stan Getz.) "
I'm not really an expert on such matters but I always suspected that shpongle would be good makeout/sex music
From Teachout: "if there’s been a truly great creative artist whose sins against humanity amounted to much more than first-degree talk, I'm unaware of it."
Some might nominate Riefenstahl.
Oh yeah, and re: Stan Tracey and mood music...
Stan Tracey's own 'Starless and Bible Black' from his classic 60s 'Under Milkwood' album, with Bobby Wellins on tenor sax. It's like nothing else you'll hear.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Tracey
135 is tragic.
But understandable.
If we're going to restrict ourselves to listening to music by nice people, we may as well all go out and buy a set of ear plugs. Or buy a lot of Stan Tracey records.
re: 151
Tracey himself doesn't come off particular well in the same documentary. He freely admits to having been a heavy user of heroin himself at one time, and at less than admirable personal behaviour. He seems to be making the point that Getz was a particular bastard -- even by the not particular high standards of that scene at that time.
The fact that he was a bastard wouldn't stop me liking his music if I really thought it was great, though.
No, you have to dissociate. If you like bossa nova, Getz played it as well as anybody. If you like white boy rhythm and blues, a nasty little woman beater called Brian Jones put together quite a useful outfit. Goodman was the greatest white swing bandleader and when he died the joke went: "The good news? he's dead. The bad news? he didn't suffer." Lunceford was the greatest black swing bandleader until his band walked out when they caught him embezzling their wages. The beat goes on.
And apparently Bach was a surly bugger and Mozart was an arrogant little shit. Probably we should not be told.
Also, Lunceford was the greatest black swing bandleader? Basie and Ellington are chopped liver? (Though the main point of 153 is correct.)
If we're going to restrict ourselves to listening to music by nice people
Just for the record, I don't think anyone's saying we should.
I can't believe the first thing I did, aside from shower, after getting to the hostel was find a place to go online! and then go to unfogged! (Guess what was playing at the reception desk when I checked in? Sufjan Stevens, "That Song From Illinois With The Line 'I made a lot of mistakes'"—though if it were the woodwind arrangement from the end of "Oh God, Where Are You Now (Long List of Places)", that would be (ever so slightly) more thread-appropriate.)
TRUE FACT: since I don't believe in playlists, I used to just queue up in XMMS a bunch of tracks that I thought/knew would work well, even if I couldn't remember exactly what they sounded like, and then later when one came on, I wouldn't recognize it and would be sore tempted to go to the computer and check. Sometimes I succumbed! But never when makings out were actually underway.
Which is the Björk song with the line "coincidence makes sense only with you" (shut up! It's the only line I can remember)? Is that Jóga? There's a great version of Hyper-Ballad w/ the Brodsky Quartet on whichever of Post and Telegram is the remix one.
Also, the entire output of the Elysian Fields was designed with this in mind.
Do you need a rhythm in the song to know when to thrust, Ned?
Consequently, you should listen to a loop of "Hair Pie" and "Hair Pie Bake Two". Or The Cure, and Trio S, "Davy Lowston". Probably also some Dirty Projectors, potentially, or the Skygreen Leopards, Oren Ambarchi, Windy & Carl, usw. I bet a lot of improv stuff would work too: SirJacq/Berthiaume/Teale, or the record Fred Frith recently made with Carla Khilstedt and someone else, or that one that I completely can't remember except that it's one of the few Rune Grammofon releases to feature zero Nordic musicians. Or the more balladistic improvised pieces of which there are several. One would of course have to check. Richard Youngs' song-oriented albums (except the new one which sucks) or something like "The Sea Is Madness" if you're weird. The Dead Science, David Thomas & Two Pale Boys. Oh, and how could anyone omit music made by an acquaintance of ac's and LizardBreath's? Charming Hostess's "Mi Dimandas", a thousand times over. Shee-it. Similarly, the track by Nils Řkland that's on the Rune Grammofon comp Money Will Ruin Everything Popol Vuh's "The Venus Principle". Some of Bill Frisell's music for that Gerhard Richter exhibition (maybe! I can actually remember very little about it, though apparently I thought the last track is very pretty! though as with everything, it all depends on where come from? and where go to?)
Uh, that song from The Bends. "Bulletproof".
Or you could just do all the covers of "Black is the Color" that you can find. Or just put on a Necks album. Or the albums made by Loren Mazzacane Connors and Makoto Kawabata. I don't care, because, obviously, I have an expansive idea of what music is good for making out to. (But I hasten to add that the Beefheart suggestion is not serious.)
The person who might like Jackie-O Motherfucker might also like the No-Neck Blues Band. Noël Akchoté has some interesting Django-derived pieces.
124: Actually, I keep a frighteningly organized list in Word of appealing concerts coming up in Chicago with the dates/artists/venues/prices of each show that catches my eye, so that I can remember them even if I don't buy advance tickets.
What, the Reader and Chicago Rash Audio Potential ain't goodenough for ya?
That was a long comment, wasn't it? I think I should eat something.
all of Getz & Gilberto
There is a Brazilian café near my house that plays an eternal loop of Brazilian music. I have obviously spent too much time there--it having, for a long time, the only decent coffee in my neighborhood--because I would instantly lose all desire to live, much less make out, were someone to put on Brazilian music for aphrodisiac purposes.
What, the Reader and Chicago Rash Audio Potential ain't goodenough for ya?
Errr.. actually, no. Though thanks for clueing me into Chicago Rash Audio Potential, I didn't know about that one beforehand. The Reader definitely misses stuff sometimes, and CRASH doesn't even seem to try and follow shows at The Metro, Schuba's, etc. Plus, I'm really bad at remembering scheduling conflicts unless I keep a list by date. I only started it after a couple occasions where I bought tickets to conflicting concerts.
Plus, y'know, gotta have something that I keep organized.
So help me God, I once made a makeout mixtape that included "Kiss the Girl" from The Little Mermaid. No, I don't know what I was thinking.
Others: In Your Eyes (Peter Gabriel), Without You (Motley Crue), Wonderful Tonight (Eric Clapton), Desperado (The Eagles), and... I don't remember the rest. Which is probably a good thing.
Since the days of #162, I matured in my musical tastes, and I must say that #9 has it exactly right.
makeout mixtape that included "Kiss the Girl" from The Little Mermaid. No, I don't know what I was thinking.
Wow. Actually, the all-Disney makeout tape would be fascinatingly creepy.
Not that I have any entitlement to make fun -- I simply have no musical tastes.
159: You'll be first against the wall. 74 won't save you.
"That Song From Illinois With The Line 'I made a lot of mistakes'"
Chicago.
Is that Jóga?
Yes.
I think Sufjan Stevens is too pure to be sullied by the trappings (and I mean sounds and smells) of sexual activity, and I'm glad no one has suggested it here.
Many audiophiles believe that you can make a CD sound more lifelike by coating its outside edge with some water-based lube. Some audiophiles may already have done this to copies of Illinois!
Well, if it's in the interest of making the listening experience better, I guess that's ok, as long as no one puts any santorum on it.
Standpipe, you're pulling my chain, aren't you? I request internetical proof.
(Welcome, btw. Have a fruit basket.)
The torch is officially passed to teofilo.
I request internetical proof.
Proof. Only it wasn't lube, it was green magic marker.
For best results, use with this volume knob.
I'm not new, I'm a regular commenter under a new handle. Although I never did get a fruit basket, so, thanks, teo.
Wait, I think Bridgeplate is serious. Whatever happened to using green marker on the inside edge of the CD?
If there is some arcana about "treating" one's CDs, it's news to me.
I might be serious. There was that thing about green marker, after all.
175: D'oh! I even clicked through to your blog and didn't realize.
175 - Whoa! Notable handle change, that. Like Teo, even with clicking through, I didn't put 2+2 together (and still thought you were a dude).
Cool. Glad to hear it has nothing to do with Joey from Friends.
That's kind of a problem I'm facing. I didn't even realize that when I picked it, 'cause I'm a big television-ignorant dork.
I don't care, though, I think.
It's the "M," which I totally read as "monsieur."
Apparently correctly, she says, after reading the link.
It does, in fact, stand for "monsieur."
I second 182, which is where my head was.
Hey, get your head out of my comment!
"Comment" conceptualized as physical object makes me think it is a euphemism for "semen." Let's just hope no one's got this.
(credit to SB for the link in 190).
Thanks. In light of 190, let's hope no one notices that the original link text referred to my "drinking problem".
Huh. Well, anyone who's blogrolled my dusty place has to have been here for awhile or want to placate the regulars. Welcome again, M. Leblanc, and let the speculating on who else you are or have been begin!
Psst, JM, take a close look at her blog and think about it.
If you're having a problem with premature vernaculation, talk to your doctor about a vernaculate correction.
(Side effect include nausea, dizziness, and in rare cases, a rubbernecked penis.)
Or not. Who really needs to know with whom one is conversing? Only a small-minded person, I say!
fucking tags, should be vernaculate correction.
Vatican II established the doctrine of the vernaculate conception.
I got 197 even without the link. Perhaps I should cut back on the blogs.
Well, it was kind of the punchline, and thus more memorable than your average blog-witticism.
Repeat: I am teofilo, and I am not a blogoholic.
I've actually cut back on the political blogs a lot. Now it's just Yglesias (now in one easy-to find location!), Drum and Marshall. But I still keep up with Unfogged religiously, even though I have no home internet access and it's a pain in the ass to lug my laptop to the library every evening.
You can shorten your stay in Purgatory by saying ejaculations.
See, that's 10 years right there.
Pretty much the only blogs I read belong to Unfogged posters/commenters, and a few that belong to real-life friends of mine. And Yglesias.
Speaking of blogaholics, I told myself I was going on hiatus yesterday (from posting and commenting), and look what I'm doing right now.
I wish there were some way I could find out on how many days of the past year I've commented on this blog. I think it's probably five out of seven. That's fucked up.
Not just hiatus; unfogged hiatus.
As was observed earlier this week, commenting here is a vocation.
Seriously, I know we're all supposed to secretly disdain blogging, but saying "I'm not going to visit Unfogged anymore" is a lot like saying "I'm not going to hang out with my friends anymore." Crazy talk.
Of course, I'm speaking for Joe Unfogged Reader; I continue to hate you all.
The blog reading habits question is interesting. There was a time when I used to read Atrios, Kos, Drum, etc. obsessively, and then I pretty much stopped cold right after Doofus got another term. Now I just want blogs to make me laugh.
Laugh at ogged.
216: Indeed. Though I hear it can be done. At least until you get cancer or something and realize who really loves you.
I haven't been reading any blogs lately except this one. Hell, I haven't really been reading my own all that much. But even before the craziness of the last month, I was mostly reading blogs written by people I've come to like as author functions, and skipping the political ones except for once in a blue moon.
217: Strange position for someone who was on hiatus until recently. Also, you've got me addicted to userstyles now, and not in a good way. The disappearing toolbar is kind of freaking me out.
I read only blogs that make me laugh. Then I say stupid shit in their comments.
Best album for love-making: Drag by kd lang.
So, once upon a time, there was a guy who was always correcting other peoples' grammar and speech practices and what not. But he was really only capable, or so it seemed, of doing so
…while he was high. Any number of substances (some more legal than others) would do the trick, but there was one among them, found during the course of his many travels, that he found particularly efficacious and convenient to keep on his person. As he carefully guarded the true name of this, his stimulant of choice, to the rest of the world it came to be known only as the stricture-stickler's upper.
I wish Veiled Conceit was updated frequently.
And I'm with the people who find music during sex distracting.
Though I must say that I'm listening to the latest Neko Case album right now, and it kinda makes me want to have sex, but mainly it makes me want to have sex with Neko Case.
McManly's right about kd lang. Although it would kind of suck to know that your partner was thinking the whole time, "kd lang, now there's a hottie."
What I meant by that, of course, is that I find kd lang incredibly hot.
There's a lesbian chick at my school so hot that, like kd lang, all the straight chicks want to have sex with her.
Is she the same kind of soft butch type? B/c I knew a woman like that in grad school. She had the most goosebump-inducing voice, which didn't exactly help.
There's a lesbian chick at my school so hot that...all the straight chicks want to have sex with her.
Pornography, I knew you would never decieve me.
Yep, soft butch. Mostly just butch, but unbelievably pretty in a girl way.
Um, one point I would like to bring up....I don't understand why anyone would listen to VOCALS while actually having sex - instrumentals only please! Whatever genre floats your boat, but why would you want to be distracted by lyrics? That's only for makeout sessions, IMHO. Save the words for when you are actually paying attention....
m. leblanc, if that is her real pseudonym, has me thinking I might want to do something similar with my own pseudonym.
"You're Gonna Miss My Love" by Lou Rawls.
Speaking of pseudonyms. You might want to use one, if you joke about drug use on your mysp/ace page and are applying for law firm jobs.
"Oh Papa", Vetiver, except that the opening (bowed bass) sounds, arguably, like three oggs.
