# Best Songs To Have Sex To **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 15, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-to-have-sex-to/195440 "2003-08-15T18:48:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Isabelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@Isabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isabelle)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-to-have-sex-to/195440/1 "2003-08-15T18:48:50Z")
What musical artist can really put you in the mood for sex? Or rather what artist “enhances” your pleasure while doing it? I would have to vote for Barry White or my all time favorite Prince! ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-to-have-sex-to/195440/2 "2003-08-15T18:59:37Z")
Katchaturian Sabre Dance Entry of the Gladiators Both of those songs are likely to cause rug burns during the act. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-to-have-sex-to/195440/3 "2003-08-15T19:00:56Z")
hmmm… I like Orff’s “Carmina Burana”… especially _O Fortuna_ and _Also Sprach Zarathustra_ by Richard Strauss they really speak to my “inner greatness”… ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-to-have-sex-to/195440/4 "2003-08-15T19:06:44Z")
Either Zamfir or The Beastie Boys. ---
**Author:** ![Spooge\_Demon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Spooge\_Demon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spooge_Demon)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-to-have-sex-to/195440/5 "2003-08-15T19:11:11Z")
Most definately Portishead or Fiona Apple…but especially Portishead. All that record scratch makes me kinda tingly. ---
**Author:** ![UnwrittenNocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/6de8d8/32.png) [@UnwrittenNocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UnwrittenNocturne)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-to-have-sex-to/195440/6 "2003-08-15T19:12:11Z")
NIN “Closer”…if only for that line (you know that one) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-to-have-sex-to/195440/7 "2003-08-15T19:13:21Z")
Barry White is so cliche’. Play what ever the both of you like. Keep in mind, if you do it right you may want to consider upgrading to a 6 disc changer ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-to-have-sex-to/195440/8 "2003-08-15T19:24:31Z")
speaking of “Closer” by NIN… check out W.A.S.P.'s “Animal (Fuck Like a Beast)” kind of a theme song… ---
**Author:** ![nahtanoj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@nahtanoj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nahtanoj)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-to-have-sex-to/195440/9 "2003-08-15T19:25:09Z")
The first Enimga CD. You can actually plan a whole seduction around it. Nahtanoj ---
**Author:** ![UnwrittenNocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/6de8d8/32.png) [@UnwrittenNocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UnwrittenNocturne)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-to-have-sex-to/195440/10 "2003-08-15T19:27:00Z")
We actually vary according to mood. The, um, shall we say, claws and teeth and whips and stuff goes industrial - NIN, Razed in Black sorta stuff Or it can be as gentle as Wolfsheim’s “Kein Zuruck” ---
**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-to-have-sex-to/195440/11 "2003-08-15T19:28:59Z")
“Dark Side of the Moon”, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Sarcastro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@Sarcastro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarcastro)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-to-have-sex-to/195440/12 "2003-08-15T19:58:09Z")
No sex music has ever been better, or will ever be better, than Massive Attack’s album _Mezzanine._ Spectacular nekkid music. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-to-have-sex-to/195440/13 "2003-08-15T21:01:11Z")
“999 green bottles sitting on the wall” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-to-have-sex-to/195440/14 "2003-08-15T22:50:23Z")
From the _Travels_ album, the Pat Metheny Group’s _Are You Going With Me?_ ---
**Author:** ![Spooge\_Demon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Spooge\_Demon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spooge_Demon)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-to-have-sex-to/195440/15 "2003-08-15T23:32:49Z")
Dark Side of the Moon? hmm…yes, I can Imagine copulating like an epileptic carp during ‘Any Colour You Like’… ---
**Author:** ![moejuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@moejuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moejuck)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2003, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-to-have-sex-to/195440/16 "2003-08-15T23:45:00Z")
Tommy the Cat by Primus How can you beat a line like “she came slidin’ on down the alleyway like butter drippin’ off a hot biscuit.”? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-to-have-sex-to/195440/17 "2003-08-16T01:41:50Z")
Songs? You need a good _album_. Although I’ve got good memories of some things that happened after Gov’t Mule’s version of Catfish Blues. Douglas Adams talks at length in _So Long, And Thanks For All the Fish_ about some Dire Straits album, I’ve always wondered which one that was. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-to-have-sex-to/195440/18 "2003-08-16T03:55:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sarcastro \* > \*\*No sex music has ever been better, or will ever be better, than Massive Attack’s album _Mezzanine._ Spectacular nekkid music. \*\* Actually, Massive Attack’s new album 100th Window is a better soundtrack for sex, but, unlike Mezzanine, it isn’t really any good for anything other than mood music. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-to-have-sex-to/195440/19 "2003-08-16T04:01:06Z")
As far as single songs go, the instrumental version of Furious Angel by Rob Dougan (its on the Matrix soundtrack, if you want to check it out) is pretty damn good. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-to-have-sex-to/195440/20 "2003-08-16T04:22:36Z")
Singles: Don’t Let Go (Love) - En Vogue You’re Making Me High - Toni Braxton Astounded - Van Bran 3000 I’m So Excited - The Pointer Sisters Crazy On You - Heart [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-songs-to-have-sex-to/195440.md?page=2)