The most sensual music?

[lovage]

Tunes for loving

I'd have to say that the best music I've heard for loving would be the inspiration behind my name, Lovage. They only released one CD,

Music To Make Love To Your Old Lady By.

http://www.bigbaer.com/nathanielmerriweather_lovage.htm

Electronic, Trip Hop and Jazz fused into one for this, with campy yet sensual lyrics. The sound quality is pretty bad on the site I posted above, but it's an idea of what they're about.

 

[shereads]

Boz Scaggs ... "We're All Alone"

Yes! I had forgotten all about Boz Scaggs. That was a great song, thanks for bumping it up in my memory.

 

[frustratedpoodle]

That's a tough one, and I don't know that many people would agree with my own choices. I think we can rule out polka music and anything that has yodelling in it though. I guess I'd have to put in a vote for Bruce Springsteen's "I'm On Fire". I'm not much of a Boss fan, but that song is just so damned hot and sweaty. You can almost smell the gasoline.

In my day, Jim Morrison lowered a lot of zippers too.

---dr.M.

I gotta agree about "I'm On Fire". This song came out when I was in junior high, and it was one of the first songs to ever spark my sexual imagination. There is an urgency to it that underlies the easy sound. Not a big Boss fan either, but that song, as well as "Tunnel of Love", have always represented the sexy to me.

I haven't read all the responses yet, but I have to add in my personal sexy faves whether someone else has mentioned them or not:

What Is & What Should Never Be- Led Zeppelin
Natural One- Folk Implosion
Roads-Portished
Slave To Love-I forget the name of the guy who sang it at the moment.
Three Days-Jane's Addiction (this song started my threesome fetish that has yet to be fulfilled)
Almost anything by Sade can put me in the mood.

The Poodle

 

[Flashlight7.5]

Fun topic

Anything by Morcheeba is make-out music. I second the votes on Ravel's "Bolero" and anything by Lords of Acid (music solely made for fucking, I think) I'm stunned that no one has mentioned "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails.

frustrated poodle wrote: "Three Days-Jane's Addiction (this song started my threesome fetish that has yet to be fulfilled)"

Just lay off the all the heroin that was involved during Perry Pherrel's tryst when you finally get around to it, and it will be even better.

 

[frustratedpoodle]

Re: Fun topic

Anything by Morcheeba is make-out music. I second the votes on Ravel's "Bolero" and anything by Lords of Acid (music solely made for fucking, I think) I'm stunned that no one has mentioned "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails.

frustrated poodle wrote: "Three Days-Jane's Addiction (this song started my threesome fetish that has yet to be fulfilled)"

Just lay off the all the heroin that was involved during Perry Pherrel's tryst when you finally get around to it, and it will be even better.

Yeah, I think I can manage keeping away from hard drugs in general. Besides, I always figured, wouldn't the sex be drug enough?

 

[Guest]

Saddest sexy song, and first country-ish song that I ever really listened to:

Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me."



Here in the dark
in these final hours
I will lay down my heart
And I'll feel the power
but you won't

You can grieve in advance for relationships you haven't even started yet, by listening to this a time or two. In fact, it should cure us of entering relationships - but it's too romantic, so it doesn't work.

Try Candy Dulfer's instrumental version. That sax gives me goosebumps through all the scars and callouses.

 

[steve w]

Doc - you stole my thunder! I was all set to mention "Deacon Blues" and there you went and did it yourself! "Babylon Sister" would also work pretty much instantly. Although most Stax or Motown stuff would qualify, as would many a Springsteen song, my fave would have to be "The Fuse" by Bruce - way too much simmering passion to be ignored. In my younger days, "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" might have hit the spot, as would Robert Plant's "Big Log"

 

[KaramelSundae]

Pioggia dura...

...just rain, baby.

The sweet sound of raindrops pounding against the roof and the window make me hot...I love walking around my house naked and when it rains, I walk out onto the back patio. My backyard is covered with foliage, so I have plenty of privacy.

...when it's wet outside, I'm wet inside.

 

[JenniferMidnight]

Being a singer it's almost frustrating for me to listen to music while making love. Music becomes "the other woman" (or the other man). My mind, body and soul can't help but go to the music, be taken away by the music - and then I must decide - as there is no half and half here....it's ALL or nothing.

But separately...that's a different set of cir{cum}stances for me. Yesterday, I was driving home from work and Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb came on the radio. I cranked it up and leaned back into the headrest listening to his hypnotic voice.

The guitar break eased itself in and my mind went to a delicious place - a kiss. A kiss that has been waiting to happen for so long...originating from an exquisitely sensual tension between two people that finally gets to be played out. A kiss that you get lost in.

As the guitar break started to build I imagined my body being touched and teased....but nothing penetrating except our tongues into each other's mouths. Then our body movements and connecting force matched the climaxing sounds of the 6 strings...eventually wailing and pleading...so desperate....so powerful...

Wow! Did it take me to somewhere 'wonderful'! I think that song could be an exception for me.

I'm lucky (or maybe not!?) that i didn't cum in the car. I was driving. ~smile~

Great thread Sappholovers

 

[Guest]

Heartbeats.

 

[frustratedpoodle]

Doc - you stole my thunder! I was all set to mention "Deacon Blues" and there you went and did it yourself! "Babylon Sister" would also work pretty much instantly. Although most Stax or Motown stuff would qualify, as would many a Springsteen song, my fave would have to be "The Fuse" by Bruce - way too much simmering passion to be ignored. In my younger days, "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" might have hit the spot, as would Robert Plant's "Big Log"

Big Log... that is a classic. I recall listening to that song as a kid, but it had no real meaning for me (other than Robert Plant being a god to me) until my honeymoon, where we were listening to it on a gorgeous Caribbean beach and it fit the mood to put us in the mood. I can't believe that I didn't think of posting that song before.

Along the Robert Plant vein, I always that that Ship of Fools, though lyrically it wouldn't necessarily inspire sex, it is romantic in sound as well.

Gotta say that there is a lot of qualifying Motown stuff, and just too much to even mention that hasn't already been mentioned in these posts.

The Poodle

 

[Sappholovers]

KaramelSundae

KaramelSundae

Now if you lived in Seattle area.....that would be interesting...

I live in Southern California, but I grew up in NJ....and I miss one aspect of the weather in NJ: the thunderstorms on a hot, humid August day that would clear the atmosphere--as refreshing as an orgasm when moist and steamy with desire.

I also miss the fireflies on a summer night....

I like how you remind us that the most sensual music can be nature's own music..... the music of thunderstorms, the music of surf swelling...cresting...crashing.... the music of a woman scaling up the octaves of orgasm..... or her voice dropping down an octave, getting more guttural, afterwards.....

 

[Angeline]

Huh.
It's good to see that I'm different now and then.

Doors is great for a mosh pit, James Brown for a party. But intimate moments? Naah. And I fail to see how wnything abot the Beatles can be considered sexy. Bloody brilliant pop music, yes. But sexy? Don't get me wring, it is all great music, but most of it you actually have to concentrate on to appriciate. I'd be to busy having sex.

Best mood music for sex (and remember, there are very different kinds of moods, and sex): Rachmaninov, selected Beethoven, Aphex Twin's ambients, Blige, Badu, Sade and other contemporary soul music, Hooverphonic, Archive and other alternative downtempo electopop acts. Sets a good athmosphere, and is not in the way.

#L

Listen to Happiness is a Warm Gun, which maybe is more a Lennon song than a Beatles song--it's about guns, sex, or heroin or maybe all three, but oh my it's hot. Lennon could exude sex appeal--not Pauly cutesy, but very masculine. Some of his solo stuff--like Jealous Guy--on his first solo release is sexy to me cause it's so incredibly intimate.

And Springsteen (well I'm from Jersey too) but Spirits in the Night, Fire, For You--those are verrry sexy songs to me.

Lately I've been listening to Lucinda Williams, who can be very sexy.

And yup, lotta that Motown stuff gets to me, but for pure unadulterated sex appeal in music it's blues, blues, blues. Listen to the late great Jimmy Rushing sing--

Baby, what's on your worried mind
Baby, what's on your worried mind
Keep me bothered and troubled all the time

or better yet Billie Holiday, dragging behind the beat on Fine and Mellow or You've Changed. Uh huh. A little candlelight, Billie, slow dancing--it's all over.

P.S. Gauche--I'm with you on Joan Armatrading--she has an incredible voice.

 

[Angeline]

Doc - you stole my thunder! I was all set to mention "Deacon Blues" and there you went and did it yourself! "Babylon Sister" would also work pretty much instantly. Although most Stax or Motown stuff would qualify, as would many a Springsteen song, my fave would have to be "The Fuse" by Bruce - way too much simmering passion to be ignored. In my younger days, "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" might have hit the spot, as would Robert Plant's "Big Log"

Oh yes--Steely Dan has some great stuff too. Time Out of Mind on the Gaucho cd gets to me.

 

[upfront]

Has anyone ever made love to a Bruckner symphony? You need lots of stamina - one climax after another for 70 minutes. (Wagner operas are unrealistic; who wants to get up to change the CD?)

 

[Angeline]

Has anyone ever made love to a Bruckner symphony? You need lots of stamina - one climax after another for 70 minutes. (Wagner operas are unrealistic; who wants to get up to change the CD?)

Wagner? lol. Morning you silly guy.

 

[upfront]

Wagner? lol. Morning you silly guy.

Morning sweetie

OK, how about:

Richard Strauss's Metamorphosen
Rachmaninov's second and third piano concertos
Chopin's First Ballade
The slow movement of Mahler's Fifth Symphony
Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin (OK, just the "letter scene" from Act I if you don't fancy fucking for two hours!)
Pergolesi's Stabat Mater
The Prelude or Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde

(Maybe I'm doomed to a life of masturbation?)

 

[JenniferMidnight]

unleashing storms

Wow! Upfront did you just bring me back!

In my house, when I was growing up, there was nothing like a glorious Fall, sunny day with Rachmaninov's piano concertos blasting through our house (that was mom's doing). I remember as a child they used to excite me (not sexually - just made my body tense...heart beat a little faster).

*brb - gonna go route thru my inherited vinyl collection* ~grin~

 

[upfront]

Re: unleashing storms

Wow! Upfront did you just bring me back!

In my house, when I was growing up, there was nothing like a glorious Fall, sunny day with Rachmaninov's piano concertos blasting through our house (that was mom's doing). I remember as a child they used to excite me (not sexually - just made my body tense...heart beat a little faster).

*brb - gonna go route thru my inherited vinyl collection* ~grin~

I love rediscovering music that comes with resonances, connotations and vivid remembrances of times long since passed.

It may be music I had in the car at a certain time, years ago, and have not heard since. I listen to it again and I am transported back to a time when life was very different, and trickles of recollection seep into me.

Not that this has anything to do with sex.

 

[Sappholovers]

Reply to Angeline

If you love Billie Holiday (and Bessie Smith), I also highly recommend Dinah Washington (especially "Teach Me Tonight," "Baby, You've Got What it Takes" and a classic version of "What a Difference a Day Makes").

Springsteen gets a man (and woman?) ready to prowl with "Hungry Heart" and "Walking the Back Streets." Now those are songs I would play when younger before going out (along with Jefferson Airplane's "Somebody to Love").

 

[JenniferMidnight]

am music

Today as I was driving home in my car I heard a song (title unknown) and the chorus lyric struck me as being rather silly at first...but the damn 4 lines are still bouncing around in my head... so I'm passing them on to you all ~grin~ (can you do that and they go away????)

God is a DJ
Life is a dance floor
Love is the rhythm
You are the music


Sorry, I just had to do it...

 

[KenJames]

Re: Pioggia dura...

...just rain, baby.

The sweet sound of raindrops pounding against the roof and the window make me hot...I love walking around my house naked and when it rains, I walk out onto the back patio. My backyard is covered with foliage, so I have plenty of privacy.

...when it's wet outside, I'm wet inside.

Thank you for reminding me. Rain is so erotic. You inspired me to write this. I haven't done the music yet, but I'm working on it.

I think it's going to rain . . .

Listen to the rain, falling in the night
Listen to the thunder, rolling through the dark

Listen to the rain, beating on the window
Listen to the thunder, shaking the whole world

Our bodies press together, the world is wet and dark
Can you feel my heart beat?
Can you feel our hearts beat?

Listen to the rain, dancing on the roof
Listen to the thunder, crashing out like drums

Listen to the rain, it's going to fall all night
Is the thunder in the sky, or is it in our hearts?

I love the rain . . . and you

"Midnight Rain" – Forbidden Planet

 

[mgetzhoff]

Classical music for sex

From a working classical musician-

Here's a few odd ones for you classical music lovers!

Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe

also

Ravel; La Valse
Favorite conductor quote, "This is about my three favorite things; music, dance and sex, not necessarily in that order!"

And for giggles, the overture to Strauss; Rosencavalier
Favorite conductor quote to explain the musical explosion in the brass section, "If you can't figure out what this part means, you need to ger out more!"

 

[Sappholovers]

more suggestions from classical music

Mgetzhoff,

Thanks so much for your contributions to this thread about the eroticism of various pieces of classical music. The anecdotes from the conductors are so telling...and funny.

I will be playing Ravel's "La Valse" tonight.

I noted at the opening of this thread that Rodrigo's "Concierto de Aranjuez" may be my favorite piece of classical music to accompany lovemaking. It is quieter and softer--with more open spaces in the music, I feel--than, say, pieces by Rachmaninoff and Ravel, but it also rises in its refrain to a beautiful, haunting lyricism that mimics the feel for me of peaking to the verge of orgasm....and beyond.

The thread welcomes more classical music recommendations (and more anecdotes).

I have also had musicians tell me that they prefer not to listen to music during lovemaking as their ears becomes too distracted....as the ear turns to the music rather than remaining more focused on the non-verbal music of sex itself.

 

[upfront]

Re: more suggestions from classical music

Mgetzhoff,

Thanks so much for your contributions to this thread about the eroticism of various pieces of classical music. The anecdotes from the conductors are so telling...and funny.

I will be playing Ravel's "La Valse" tonight.

I noted at the opening of this thread that Rodrigo's "Concierto de Aranjuez" may be my favorite piece of classical music to accompany lovemaking. It is quieter and softer--with more open spaces in the music, I feel--than, say, pieces by Rachmaninoff and Ravel, but it also rises in its refrain to a beautiful, haunting lyricism that mimics the feel for me of peaking to the verge of orgasm....and beyond.

The thread welcomes more classical music recommendations (and more anecdotes).

I have also had musicians tell me that they prefer not to listen to music during lovemaking as their ears becomes too distracted....as the ear turns to the music rather than remaining more focused on the non-verbal music of sex itself.

"Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands, and all you can do is scratch it!" (the conductor Thomas Beecham to a cellist)

There are hundreds of priceless Beecham quotes, many undoubtedly apocryphal ...

"No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me."

"Try everything once except folk dancing and incest."

"Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away."

As for sexy music, I personally find Rodrigo's concerto a little hackneyed (great music certainly, just unfortunately clichéd). I agree on Daphnis and Chloe. Bolero (Ravel again) is wonderfully erotic, but only if you manage to keep in mind Bo Derek and not the ice-skater Jayne Torville!