Sexiest piece of music ever?

Subject: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 12:42 PM

Yes, me again.Just curious as to what people consider the most erotic music ever.Not necessarily a piece that you would wish to have sex to (never a good idea,you end up focusing on someone else's rhythmns rather than each others.) Just a piece with that indefinable "Something". I would opt for Bizet's "Habanera" but have never been able to precisely identify why. Simply prefer to experience it.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 01:18 PM

well...I bascially don't like "best" and "most" polls...why not just "good examples of"?

but...here's a goon example

Ravel's "Bolero", (especially as danced to on skates by Torvell & Dean)

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 01:20 PM

Yellow submarine.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Purple Foxx
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 01:22 PM

Good example is a distinct improvement on my original suggestion.
By accident or design goon example is simply brilliant!

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: kendall
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 01:23 PM

BOLERO

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Folkiedave
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 01:27 PM

Boloer by Torville and Dean?

Bolero by Bo Derek and Dudley Moore - even better!

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Anonny Mouse
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 01:29 PM

Most of Sinatra's "ballads" and torch songs. Say what you will about him, his phrasing and orchesteral arrangements were, to my ear, always spot-on; Bob Shane's "Scotch and Soda" (yep-gotta get a KT song in here-LOL); These days my ears are turned by the clear, rather crystaline female vocals of someone like Alison Krauss, or Sara McLaughlin--even though the tunes need not have ANY kind of romantic/sexual content-they just make me want to curl up with them in front of a roaring fire and some fine wine. Sorry if that sounds dumb. And I'm sure plenty of you can't stand the two examples I cited.

What I DON'T find "sexy" is the Britney Spears/Jay-lo/girly gyrations and scantily clad females appealing to the pre-pubescent teen female (or male) market.

I'm also with the "crew" that finds "best" or "most important" lists impossibly subjective, and usually spread more heat than light. My opinionated 2 cents.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 01:49 PM

The most erotic: Tristan und Isolde. The whole of it. But especially the erotic bits. Admittedly lacking a little in subtlety - just one colossal orgasm.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 01:54 PM

*grin*...that's one typo I'm not even gonna ask to have fixed.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Jeanie
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 02:22 PM

The duet from the show "Miss Saigon" - "The Last Night of the World" - there are moments in that song where the harmonies and the melody just soar to heaven - wonderful.

- jeanie

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: GUEST,Jim
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 02:33 PM

How about WHY DON"T WE GET DRUNK AND SCREW by Jimmie Buffet?

I'm not serious, but neither, I'm sure was the poster of this thread.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: GUEST,My wife wouldn't let me tell you
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 03:20 PM

Doo Waa Ditty - Ry Cooder from Paradise and Lunch

Perhaps not in itself as a tune, but it's the memory of a young lady with a great embouchure playing my flute in time with Ry's playing whilst having the dexterity in her hands and rhythmic freedom to appreciate and keep up with Earl Hines' much freer piano playing.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Benjamin
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 03:59 PM

The andante movement from Manuel Ponce's Sonata Romantica (Homage a Franz Schubert).

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: number 6
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 04:29 PM

"Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat" by Bob Dylan

sIx

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Cluin
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 04:31 PM

I tried f#@king to Bolero once. I didn't find it enhanced the experience at all. I'd rather just listen to it.

But anything beats the constantly ringing telephone we suffered through yesterday.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: kendall
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 04:36 PM

The Tango that was playing in the dance scene of "Scent of a woman" with Al Pachino.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: bobad
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 05:19 PM

Does anyone remember the name of the performer who did that breathless, French "Je t'aime" thing back in the sixties which was kinda sexy in a voyeuristic way?

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Micca
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 05:21 PM

Bobad it was Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, I think

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 05:23 PM

ohhh...I just remembered Edith Piaf singing "Milord"...that used to be played at closing time in a club I went to a couple times. It was sorta a "mood enhancer" for everyone leaving as couples.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Brakn
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 05:24 PM

Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin. stupid thread

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 05:32 PM

"Only the crumbliest flakiest chocolate
Tastes like chocolate never tasted before"


DC

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Anglo
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 05:38 PM

Who was that Irish girl singer a few years ago (maybe 20) who sang "I want to be seduced"? Can't remember her name.. creeping senility...

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: bobad
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 05:45 PM

Digital Tradition Mirror
Seduced

Seduced
(G. Tigerman)

I want to be seduced
I want a man to take me out to dinner
I like to see his eyes getting moody
Thinking 'bout the thought of what flirtin's gonna to

I want him to be real cool
I want him to think about gettin' me right into bed
Have a chat about the Magna Charta, flirtin' my heart strings
"Something's gone" he said

I might demure politely,
But very slightly
If he tries to fondle my knee
But I'm relatively certain
I'll compromise if I know me

I want to be seduced
I want a man to talk to me suggestively
I'd like to hear him say he'll be with me tomorrow morning
Drinkin' hot jasmine tea.

I want him to make me laugh
I want him to make a point of touching me when we talk
Leaving all the jealous girls in the bar
To mumble in their beer and garb

You know it only happens when I'm nappin'
noddin' in reverie
But I wouldn't mind a man
Who wouldn't mind seducing
Right from the minute that we'd been introduced
I wouldn't mind a man
Who wouldn't mind seducing me.

recorded by Mary Coughlan on "Tired And Emotional" (1987)
Copyright Lane Music
MJ

Thanks to Mudcat for the Digital Tradition!

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Emma B
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 05:50 PM

The sexiest? - dancing an eye to eye bourrée to Horses Brawl!
Dangerous!

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 06:48 PM

Damned near anything by Janis Joplin. And I say that not just because of Janis's music, which is indeed sexy, but because of fond memories of the young lady who accompanied me to see her perform in concert in 1970.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Folkiedave
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 06:55 PM

Four female Bulgarian Singers singing in quarter tones in Pecs, Hungary 2004 - Folkloriade. We were waiting for lunch and they started singing.

Awesome.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: David C. Carter
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 07:01 PM

The New Fangled Tango.
"You just sort of...stand there,
And just sort of....do it!"

Can't recall who did that,Maybe Lena Horne.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Peace
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 07:12 PM

Lena did it. Lyrics in this link. Scroll down about half way.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: number 6
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 07:14 PM

'Corcovado'.. sexy voice by Astrud Gilberto and sexy guitar playing by Jobin Gilberto.

sIx

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 07:15 PM

Several by Buffy Sainte-Marie.

97 Men/Don't Call Me Honey
Summer Boy
A Man
Until It's Time For You To Go (but ONLY her version, and specially when she sang it torch-style, in the French language)

I also saw her do the Buddy Holly song "Oh Boy!" live at the El Mocambo in Toronto, and that was about the hottest thing I think I've ever seen done live onstage by a folksinger.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Peace
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 07:16 PM

Easier to read lyics for NFT here.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Don Firth
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 07:21 PM

Program note about Ravel's Boléro:   he wrote it as an exercise in orchestration. Starting out with a fairly straightforward melodic line and a relentlessly repetitive rhythm, he thought of it as "a study in boredom." He set himself to the task of trying to make it musically interesting by altering the orchestration with every repetition of the theme. After setting it to a bunch of different arrangements, he ran out of gas. He'd managed to drag it out for over fifteen minutes, and decided, "Gawd! That's enough of that!!"

The first time it was played in public, Paris, 1928, the audience went a bit nuts. Ravel was surprised, amazed, amused, and a bit mystified. He still regarded it as "a study in boredom."

Further note:   

Ravel once commented, "I have written only one masterpiece. That is the Boléro. Unfortunately, it contains no music." This bon mot expresses the idea that the musical content of the Boléro is not very interesting:   a simple melody is repeated over and over during a 17 minute crescendo. The reason it is a masterpiece is it keeps our rapt attention through the use of extraordinary orchestration. The tone colors are so fascinating and exquisite that the simple modulation from C major to E major at the very end of the piece comes as a breathtaking surprise. Boléro was composed as a ballet for the famed ballerina Ida Rubinstein. The story of the ballet is set in a bar, where a voluptuous dancer stomps and whirls on the tables, exciting the men in the bar until a violent knife fight erupts. A story is told that just after the premiere, a woman in the audience pointed at Ravel and shouted that he was mad. Ravel smiled and said that she truly understood the work.

A few years back, while in a music store rummaging through the records, I noticed a well-dressed, distinguished looking gentleman also looking through the records. Hanging on his arm he had a stereotypical petite thingy with a squeaky, little-girl voice. She looked to be a suicide blonde (dyed by her own hand), wore a blouse that displayed a rather magnificent fo'c'sle, a cleavage that could cause one to dwell on the joys of burrowing like a mole, and a pair of shapely legs amply revealed by a tight skirt that came all the way up to Jericho. I wasn't listening to their conversation, but I couldn't help but overhear some of her comments and it occurred to me that she probably wasn't a nuclear physicist. Sugar-daddy and his bimbo, perhaps? Anyway, the clerk put a record on the store's music system and the sounds of Ravel's Boléro began throbbing through the place. "OH!" squeaked the girl, her little voice piping through the shop like an air-raid siren. "Listen to that!" "Yes," responded the man. "Ravel's Boléro." "Oh, nooooo!" said the girl, "that's the theme from '10'!"

His eyes and mine met. I smile sympathetically. He rolled his eyes and sighed deeply. We went our separate ways. But I couldn't feel too sorry for him. The young lady may not have been top-rate in the intellectual acumen department, but she had her good points. Yes, she certainly did.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 07:47 PM

Kendall, a magical sequence in a terrific film. That tango was Por Una Cabeza, written by Carlos Gardel. You can catch a bit of it here.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Joybell
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 08:08 PM

As a song - Unchained Melody.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: open mike
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 08:20 PM

The first thing that came to mind was
that "French "Je t'aime" thing"
i think it was banned..
but as i recall it
was far from
breathless
quite
breathy,
really.

I am not sure
why there is not
something more recent
that i recall when i think
Sexy or erotic or romantic..
perhaps that would be a good research
topic..

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: frogprince
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 08:40 PM

True short story:
We left the dance, in an outdoor pavilion, before it was over. But it really wasn't that far to our tent. we had just embarked on a little amorous adventure when the DJ put on "Twist and Shout". We damn near injured each other, but we sure had a few minutes of fun.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Gurney
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 08:50 PM

'Stranger on the Shore' played by Acker Bilk, on the e-flat clarionet.
Subjective, of course, because of the memories it evokes.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Bert
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 10:12 PM

Softly, Softly sung by Ruby Murray

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Feb 06 - 10:52 PM

Farewell To Nova Scotia.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Celtaddict
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 02:27 AM

GUEST of 10:52: sung by Seamus?
Peggy Lee did a version of "Fever" that was in my recollection maybe half or less as fast as the only recording I can find, that was seriously steamy.
Roberta Flack's version of "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face."
Liam Clancy has done a handful of songs in that inimitable barely-past-a-whisper rendition that leave me pretty breathless.
And one vocal mannerism that even if it is just a bit of a trick never fails to get me right where it counts: when singing softly, a switch to spoken (also softly) for just a word or few. Heard well in Danny O'Flaherty's first recording of "Daddy's Castle" (on "Rainbow Flight") when he sings of the gifts he wishes to give his daughter, "sweet dreams, the music, no great sacrifice" and speaks the words "the music."
And BillD, we call the typo or misspeak that is better than the original a "bonaprop" and I am going to recall "goon example" as bonaprop for sure!

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 05:20 AM

'If it be your will'- Leonard Cohen.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Morticia
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 06:00 AM

Rubber Ducky as done by that wonderful lady ( Janice?) at the Getaway the year I was there.......

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Ron Davies
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 07:25 AM

Rachmaninoff's 2nd piano concerto, with its surging and falling. Scheherezade (Rimsky-Korsakov)--I've heard this from more than one person (and I like it a lot too)

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Micca
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 08:01 AM

Morty, it was Janice Cole and her rendition is (IMHO Rightly) regasrded as an ESSENTIAL feature of ANY Getaway!!!
other candidates are,
Liebestod from "Tristan and Isolde" by R Wagner
" On the Beautiful Blue Danube" By Johann Strauss
The 2nd Movement of "Eine Kleine Machtmusic" W A Mozart
a lot of Joni Mitchell especially "Blue"
and " Lucia de Lammermoor" Donizetti
and of course,a certain section from "Cosi Fan Tutti" W.A.Mozart as well

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 08:45 AM

Rubber Ducky

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Morticia
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 09:03 AM

Also Faure's Requiem....and, not the words which are a bit naff, but the tune from Witchita Lineman.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Nancy King
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 10:26 AM

Many songs done by Eartha Kitt ("C'est si Bon," for example) would qualify for this list.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 10:52 AM

Rendered right, by me, the song "Stealin'" is IT!!

It said what needed to get said for both of us once-upon-a-time...

Art

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: sharyn
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 12:25 PM

"Manha De Carnaval" from Black Orpheus.

Runnera up:

1) Leonard Cohen's "No Cure for Love":

"I see you in the cafe.
I see you on the bus.
I see you lying down with me.
I see you waking up.
I see your hands, I see your hair,
Your bracelets and your brush
And I call to you -- I call to you
But I can't call soft enough ...."

2) Leonard Cohen's "Dance Me to the End of Love."

("Touch me with your naked hand. Touch me with your glove.")

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Grab
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 02:00 PM

Leonard Cohen - "I'm your man".

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 02:32 PM

Ravel's Bolero consistently gets mention when people debate sensual classical music, and it's personally familiar enough that I can remember why.

By reputation, another that gets cited quite often is Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. Quite frankly it's been so long since I remember hearing it that I don't remember whether I found it "sexy" or not, but apparently a lot of people do, or at least did at one time.

It's possible that in this case the "sex appeal" was as much from the package of baggage that went with the piece. Beethoven wrote it, reportedly, as a "tribute to a friend." There's a novel by Tolstoy with the same Kreutzer Sonata title, that was risqué enough to be banned by the US Postal Service in 1890, and then Governer of New York Roosevelt was compelled to offer his comment that Tolstoy "is a sexual and moral pervert."

It comes to mind mainly because of a thread that's been up recently in which several of us spent a couple of years attempting to identify and find an accessible picture of the painting, Kreutzer Sonata, done by René Xavier Prinet as a tribute to Beethoven. We have after some considerable reasearch identified the painting as the image used in a Tabu perfume ad from the 1950s - cited a few years back as the "longest running advertising theme in US ad history."

The reputation of the music is/was sufficient that I'm told there's a passage about it in Vladimar Nabukov's Lolita.

Now if I could just remember what the piece sounds like...

John

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Don Firth
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 02:39 PM

As I recall, one of the things that makes Peggy Lee's rendition of "Fever" particularly steamy (other than Ms. Lee herself) is that she is accompanied only by a string bass and her own snapping fingers.

Ron, I definitely concur on Rachmaninoff's 2nd piano concerto and Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherezade." Really lush!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 02:46 PM

Drop Down Mama, sung by Tom Rush
Embraceable You, sung by Ella Fitzgerald
Rock Me Baby, sung by Otis Redding
Moondance, by Van Morrison

Maria Muldaur's voice on anything
Al Green's voice on anything

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 03:42 PM

Those Leonard Cohen songs...for sure. Eartha Kitt too.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: ard mhacha
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 04:13 PM

Agricultral Irish girl.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Kaleea
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 05:21 PM

Since I have not heard all of the Music which has been written past, present & future, I could not speculate upon a specific piece of Music.    The sexiest work of Music I have heard, is another category entirely--I'd have to boil it down to a tie.
   When I was in college, a certain boyfriend of mine was passionate about JS Bach. We were listening to the Brandenburg Concerto #2, when he pulled me close & I said, "If you'll do the figured bass, I'll do the piccolo trumpet."
And then there's . . .
   Some years back, I was with a friend who said she had to stop off at the family business to pick something up. She said, "Come on in with me--you'll find this amusing." We went in through the back door, & down the hall from the office was a large room where there were Musicians playing Indian instruments--Sitars, flute, tablas & such. I'd heard ragas before, but nothing like that. She told me it was Classical Indian Music specifically composed for the art of making love. The family business was a brothel.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Brían
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 05:48 PM

I'm surpised no one has mentione anything by Barry White or Marvin Gaye.

Brían

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 09:19 PM

12th Street Rag

Make My Love Come Rolling Down

Die Zuhälterballade

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

||: Liberty subverts equality & fraternity, because its costs are largely borne by the weak. :||

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: bobad
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 09:45 PM

One sexy LP is Julie London "Around Midnight" which has such songs as "Don't Smoke In Bed", "Black Coffee", "Something Cool", "'Round Midnight", "In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning", "You And The Night And The Music". Put this one on your turntable late at night with a nice bottle of wine, candlelight and someone you love - guaranteed romance.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Gurney
Date: 23 Feb 06 - 11:19 PM

Ard Mhacha, can you still talk when your tongue is so firmly in your cheek?

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Trevor
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 09:07 AM

Mmmmmmmm...........

Maria Muldaur

Mmmmmmmm...........

'Midnight at the Oasis'

Mmmmmmmm...........

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: bobad
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 10:58 AM

Isn't there a line in that song that goes "...take you camel to bed"? Hmmmmm!

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: ard mhacha
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 12:34 PM

Sorry Gurney that should have been,"Mick McGilligans daughter MaryAnn.
She has hair upon her chest like any man.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 12:54 PM

It's "send your camel to bed", isn't it? I doubt that Maria was suggesting one copulate with the camel. ;-)

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: frogprince
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 01:08 PM

"The other guys just use the camel to ride into town to the whorehouse"

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 01:33 PM

"Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?"

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 01:43 PM

Yes it does, there is no such thing as premium gum.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: bobad
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 02:15 PM

You're right LH it is "send your camel to bed" that makes more sense than "take your camel to bed" ..... I guess.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: shepherdlass
Date: 24 Feb 06 - 04:26 PM

Ivan Lins' "Comecar de Novo" - no idea what the lyric's about (Brazilian Portuguese) but it sounds damn sexy to me.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: van lingle
Date: 25 Feb 06 - 04:19 AM

Pat Kirtley playing "Planxty Irwin". Sometimes it's played like a stately march but he swings it gently and senuously.
Into the Mystic by Van Morrison.
The Tattler by Ry Cooder (even though it's a tale of infidelity).
Django's "Nuages".

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Feb 06 - 04:38 AM

'Let's Make Love' by the McGarrigals

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Bainbo
Date: 25 Feb 06 - 04:54 AM

It was always Donna Summer's "Love To Love You Baby" - but that was probably hormonal, as I was in early adolescence. I'd also yet to develop any critical faculties! The BBC's ban on the record, which meant I had to listen to it in my bedroom on Radio Luxemburg, probably also added to the allure.

More in keeping with 'Cat sensibilities, it would probably now be anything by Bonnie Raitt - especially the one where she was purring along with John Lee Hooker that she was "In The Mood For Love".

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: samirich
Date: 25 Feb 06 - 05:39 AM

"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" sung by Roberta Flack is nearly always going to come to mind, especially since I heard her sing it live once, it was magical.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: GUEST,Jim
Date: 25 Feb 06 - 11:50 AM

I first thought of SANTA BABY sung by Eartha Kitt.
Another great one is GOOD NIGHT SWEETHEART sung by Sarah Vaughn with Barney Kessel or Mundell Lowe (I can't remember which) and a bass player. Sarah put out two albums, one with Kessel and one with Lowe which had only guitar and bass. They're both worth hunting up.

I'm glad no-one's mentioned Barrie White.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Bainbo
Date: 25 Feb 06 - 11:55 AM

You're The First, The Last, My Everything. Can't remember who it's by.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: John Hardly
Date: 25 Feb 06 - 12:08 PM

Unforgetable - Nat King Cole
At Last
Close Your Eyes - Doris Day
Me And Mrs Jones -- Billy Paul
You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman - Aretha Franklin version
Love Won't Let Me Wait -- Major Harris
Much At All -- Susan Werner

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Don Firth
Date: 25 Feb 06 - 02:07 PM

"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face." Good choice, samirich.

I first heard it sung live by Peggy Seeger at the 1960 Berkeley Folk Festival. Then, about twelve years later, in the movie "Play Misty for Me" (the original "Fatal Attraction"), there was a scene in which Clint Eastwood and Donna Mills are walking along a beach at sunset. During that scene, the background music is Roberta Flack singing "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face."

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: kendall
Date: 06 Jan 12 - 08:31 AM

Before you laugh at this, try it.

Smoke a joint and dance naked to the music of The Cosmos. I wonder what Carl Sagan would think of this?

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: GUEST,Spleen Cringe
Date: 06 Jan 12 - 08:58 AM

Gently Johnny by the Woodbine & Ivy Band featuring Jenny McCormick...

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 06 Jan 12 - 09:05 AM

I used to sing some mildly rude words I had once improvised for Valerie. One night I was whistling the tune absent-mindedly, and she said, "Oh, that's the Mrs Poo-Holes song."

"Yes," I replied. "It's actually Saint-Saens' Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A-minor for violin and orchestra."

"Liar!" she exclaimed.

But it was. And that has my vote.

Here it is on youtube played by Isaac Stern

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD059jkt6bs

~Michael~

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Mooh
Date: 06 Jan 12 - 09:10 AM

Led Zeppelin's first album.

Lots of Bach.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Alan Day
Date: 06 Jan 12 - 11:55 AM

Interesting choice Emma B,It is strange that a dance where neither partner actually touches each other can be sexy, but a bourree is.
Al

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: GUEST,Elmore
Date: 06 Jan 12 - 01:59 PM

'Take This Waltz' by L. Cohen

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Kit Griffiths
Date: 06 Jan 12 - 02:09 PM

"Move Over, Darling" by Doris Day. Always done it for me since puberty!

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Jan 12 - 05:45 PM

Sexy is in your mind so listen to these wordless tunes and watch the images in your inner landscape.


Howard Hanson's Romantic Symphony.

If you don't hear whats happening, you might be a virgin.


Enigma variations, you will know which one.




For a general casual sex mood, Claire d'Lune is fine introduction.



The ultimate is a tantric Indian recording of a raga that would make Don Juan blush.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Joe_F
Date: 26 Jan 17 - 09:03 PM

La vie en rose
Lazy afternoon
Lola
Look me over closely
Jonny

I *think* those would be pretty sexy even if Marlene Dietrich weren't singing them. %^)

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 26 Jan 17 - 09:18 PM

There is a bit in the middle of Michael Tippett's Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli which he stated straight out (years after writing it, maybe in his interview with Anthony Clare?) was an explicit description of the rhythms of fucking.

I've never heard it the same way since. And it hadn't occurred to me before that gay and straight sex would sound so metrically similar.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 26 Jan 17 - 09:33 PM

Cock Up Your Beaver by Carolan. No contest!

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: RTim
Date: 26 Jan 17 - 09:57 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Fa4lOQfbA

Tim Radford

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: gillymor
Date: 26 Jan 17 - 10:24 PM

Nuages by Django Rheinhart. Actually Django could make anything sound sexy.

Samba Pa Ti by Santana

Castle Kelly if you play it slithery enough, particularly the B section.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 27 Jan 17 - 12:09 AM

I was told once that this was musical porn...but the lyrics are double meaninged

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: GUEST,Pete Kiddle
Date: 27 Jan 17 - 03:51 AM

Thinking of traditional songs, there are so many blatent examples, but the ones which instantly spring to mind are;-
Tam Lin
The Weaver and the Factory Maid

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Dave Sutherland
Date: 27 Jan 17 - 08:56 AM

"The Thrashing Machine" Anne O'Neill
"Georgina Bailey" Noosha Foxx

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Jan 17 - 08:59 AM

Fever by Peggy Lee

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: GUEST,Sol
Date: 27 Jan 17 - 09:15 AM

Fever - Peggy Lee
I feel Love - Donna Summer
Happy Birthday Mr President - Marilyn Monroe

Now will somebody open a window, please?

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Jan 17 - 09:42 AM

Strangling The Turkey In The Straw.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Jan 17 - 10:08 AM

Cry Me A River, Julie London

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Jan 17 - 10:10 AM

I think the sexiest of all is Kate Bush singing "Feel It"... does not get any sexier..

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 27 Jan 17 - 10:16 AM

The Habanera from Carmen.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: gillymor
Date: 27 Jan 17 - 10:32 AM

Hansel and Gretel and Ted and Alice (an opera in one unnatural act)
-P.D.Q. Bach

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 27 Jan 17 - 11:06 AM

The coda to the Derek & the Dominoes version of "Layla".

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Jan 17 - 11:40 AM

To be serious, I think agree with you about the Carmen.

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 27 Jan 17 - 03:07 PM

Thank you, Steve. Been there, done that....

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 27 Jan 17 - 03:31 PM

I've seen Carmen a couple of times. It's a sexy piece when it's just audio, but to see the right young lady in action too...you've nailed it! 😜

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: GUEST,
Date: 27 Jan 17 - 04:16 PM

Bell Bird (Pajaro Campana) by the Trio los Paraguayos

a musical orgasm

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 28 Jan 17 - 02:24 PM

I remember reading, as a 15 year old, in some magazine which purported to be authoritative in such matters, that the most effective musical aphrodisiac was Artie Shaw's recording of "Begin the Beguine". The impression given was that it was totally fail-safe .. results guaranteed.

Sadly, in these pre-internet days , I was never able to obtain a copy and put the theory to the test, and now, 55 years later, I cannot help feeling that I have left it too late ...

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: Jack Campin
Date: 28 Jan 17 - 05:42 PM

One lady of my acquaintance said this act did it for her:

Kodo Drummers

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: GUEST,Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 28 Jan 17 - 06:20 PM

This....

Subject: RE: Sexiest piece of music ever?
From: GUEST,Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 28 Jan 17 - 06:22 PM

...because it's so tenderly beautiful...