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".