# Best Make Out music/Album **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 18, 2010, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-make-out-music-album/550613 "2010-08-18T13:03:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-make-out-music-album/550613/1 "2010-08-18T13:03:58Z")
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](http://www.amazon.com/Ballads-Cannonball-Adderley/dp/B0000633K1) . **Note** This 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 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-make-out-music-album/550613/2 "2010-08-18T13:09:03Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-make-out-music-album/550613/3 "2010-08-18T13:44:08Z")
“Yakkity-Sax,” of course! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-make-out-music-album/550613/4 "2010-08-18T13:47:01Z")
Side One of Led Zeppelin IV. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-make-out-music-album/550613/5 "2010-08-18T13:58:21Z")
**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. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-make-out-music-album/550613/6 "2010-08-18T14:01:58Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > **yojimbo** , you played Cannonball Adderley last time I was in your apartment. Did I fail to pick up on something..? 😉 I have lots of Adderley. It probably wasn’t ballads. Anyway you never get my signals so I gave up years ago 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-make-out-music-album/550613/7 "2010-08-18T14:20:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-make-out-music-album/550613/8 "2010-08-18T14:25:57Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-make-out-music-album/550613/9 "2010-08-18T14:26:53Z")
Lords of Acid - Lust. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-make-out-music-album/550613/10 "2010-08-18T14:27:38Z")
Johnny’s Greatest Hits, by Johnny Mathis. Smooth, sweet, and romantic. Sigh. Trivia points: \> The first “greatest hits” album, which started a trend \> Stayed on the charts for ten years \> Produced by Mitch Miller ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-make-out-music-album/550613/11 "2010-08-18T16:02:25Z")
Diamond Life - Sade ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-make-out-music-album/550613/12 "2010-08-18T16:40:18Z")
_Metal Machine Music_ What? ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-make-out-music-album/550613/13 "2010-08-18T16:46:47Z")
Massive Attack – _Mezzanine_ Anything by Morphine.