Sexiest piece of music ever?

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