What music gets the juices flowing? I never really had any music I specifically used or anything like that. Just put on whatever felt right or I was liking at the moment in time.
Then one night when I was living in A’dam for a while I brought back a girl who worked in a bar I was a regular in. I put on a album I was listening to while crashing out and having a few joints the night before.
Ballads: Cannonball Adderley . NoteThis is the Amazon site but not because I want you to buy it or anything but you can preview all the songs on this link so you know the kind of music I’m talking about.
Once that music started playing the girl loved it and we started dancing slowly while making drinks, drinks that we never finished
So that worked fine. Later there was another girl and the same thing happened. That album just makes some girls go all swoony. I mentioned this to a friend and he took a copy and reported back that his missus LOVED it and he and her had a great night.
Do you have any more music that knocks it out of the park as it were
Portishead’s Dummy was the gold standard for that when I lived in Oxford in the mid-90’s.
When I was dating the lady who would later become my first wife, a mutual female friend lent me the album, pressing it into my hands with a smile. “I think you two are going to like this,” she said. Right, I thought. My now-ex was pretty distrustful of modern music and preferred Chopin and Beethoven. But I gave it a try anyway…and the results were rather positive.
As we said in my circle of friends, if that album doesn’t move your partner, maybe you need to find someone else.
yojimbo, you played Cannonball Adderley last time I was in your apartment. Did I fail to pick up on something…?
When I was with the last girl who liked any music at all during the time of love, which was quite a while ago (all the others have preferred squelching, grunting, etc.) we regularly listened to Blue Lines by Massive Attack.
I think it went out of print before CDs became commonplace, but my vote is for Ballads by Ben Webster. A lot of the same tunes are apparently on the Manhattan soundtrack.
Back in the day, Best of Bread, side 1, was considered the gold standard for make-out music. But I always preferred Moody Blues - starts out a little faster, then eases into the smooth stuff when you are ready for it.
I’ve had girlfriends with very specific taste in music-to-make-whoopee-by: one insisted on early Pink Floyd. Another preferred talk radio!
