Music to strip to … need ideas

[AwkwardMD]

If you want something a bit more swinging, you also had Queen:

Queen is an excellent choice.

 

[CX726577]

Wipeout! (Surfari's version)

 

[lovecraft68]

Since I've mentioned it I've had this song in my head. This video was a mini obsession in my younger days. This woman looks like she'd leave you in shreds and I'd have been fine with it.

 

[THBGato]

If it's in Paris, it's got to be France Gall "Ella, elle l'a" which came out in 1974. Absolutely filthy bassline. Very sexy guitars too:

 

[THBGato]

There's also Serge Gainsborough & Jane Birkin "Je t'aime.... mon non plus" A biut older, being from 1967, but it never really goes out of fashion:

 

[TheRedChamber]

Since I've mentioned it I've had this song in my head. This video was a mini obsession in my younger days. This woman looks like she'd leave you in shreds and I'd have been fine with it.

Another great example of a music video we never got to see on Top of the Pops at the time...

 

[lovecraft68]

Another great example of a music video we never got to see on Top of the Pops at the time...

I first saw this on "video jukebox" which was some MTV rip off back in the late eighties.

 

[Bramblethorn]

1978, British:

 

[munch2much]

The Sabre Dance? I mean, why keep them waiting

 

[Writer61]

1978, British:

I think you might be onto something.

Thanks.

 

[Rob_Royale]

1980 - For the time period you just cant beat this one.

 

[StillStunned]

How about... "Strip"?

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Well, how about Elton John’s Sweet Painted Lady? 1973, British, one amazingly slinky beat and nobody is going to be confused about its subject.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Led Zep's Kashmir.

The ultimate fucking song (after Ravel's Bolero).

 

[AwkwardMD]

Led Zep's Kashmir.

The ultimate fucking song (after Ravel's Bolero).

Kashmir is a rock solid choice

EDIT: I stand by Ace of Spades as the best option presented so far, but Kashmir or Queen would be totally acceptable.

 

[Voboy]

Led Zep's Kashmir.

This is not a bad notion. It would also sound believably retro and unusual as a choice for the second dance, around 1990 or so.

I doubt anyone was stripping to Kashmir during the nineties.

 

[MelissaBaby]

1980 - For the time period you just cant beat this one.

I don't know about Paris, but strippers in America are still dancing to that.

 

[lovecraft68]

I hated this song until my forty fifth birthday when my wife used it to show off what she'd picked up in two years of modern dance classes. She borderline drunk which made it even more fun.

 

[Writer61]

Thanks all for your replies.

I have gone with 'Da ya think I'm sexy?' by Rod Stewart. The release date is a couple of years' before the character first performs, it is British (relevant to the story line), it reached #2 in the French charts, so would be familiar/available and the lyrics seem appropriate too.

The piece I am working on includes the 1990 reprise. If I ever write the character's back-story then I might need more suitable music from the period up to 1982ish.

 

[intim8]

I am hampered by chronic lackus rhythmus. Any suggestions?

I've always wanted to write a scene where somebody strips to Yakkety Sax.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

I've written a strip tease scene to Cold Hard Bitch by Jet. That was good. An even better strip tease scene to a song that I wrote called Stripper by a ficticious band in the same story.

 

[SimonDoom]

Led Zep's Kashmir.

The ultimate fucking song (after Ravel's Bolero).

It's a great song but an atypical choice for a stripper song. A good stripper song usually has a strong mid-to-slow tempo 4/4 downbeat. Kashmir features different tempos layered over each other in a way that makes it one of the strangest popular songs ever. It would require a stripper with a sophisticated sense of rhythm.

 

[intim8]

It would require a stripper with a sophisticated sense of rhythm.

I'd like to meet that stripper.

 

[Britva415]

I am hampered by chronic lackus rhythmus

So are half the strippers

 

[MelissaBaby]

I've written a strip tease scene to Cold Hard Bitch by Jet. That was good. An even better strip tease scene to a song that I wrote called Stripper by a ficticious band in the same story.

I'm guessing I'm the only person who has written a story in which strippers dance to Oh Come All Ye Faithful, at Lit or elsewhere.