# Good stripper music **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 21, 2004, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-stripper-music/270494 "2004-10-21T21:29:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CheapBastid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@CheapBastid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheapBastid)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2004, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-stripper-music/270494/21 "2004-10-21T23:57:31Z")
NIN’s **Head Like a Hole** is an interesting choice. Whenever I hear it in a stripper’s set I think that message is lost on most of the patrons. ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-stripper-music/270494/22 "2004-10-22T00:07:27Z")
Forgot to add my suggestions… I was too busy poking fun at **Eve**. Anyway, Ozzy’s **Desire** would be good, as would his **Tattooed Dancer**. Guns 'n Roses **Welcome to the Jungle** would work, too, I think. Ice Cube’s **You Can Do It (Put Your Ass Into It)** has been a staple at some of the strip bar’s I’ve been, too. Dunno if you like rap, though. Montel Jordan’s **This Is How We Do It** is another one I’ve heard a lot. I’d think Lil’ Kim’s **How Many Licks** would be great for stripping to. **CheapBastid** , I second NIN’s **Head Like a Hole** , and agree with the meaning alluding most people. I’ve seen dancers use Tina Turner’s **Private Dancer** in their sets, and that one is always lost on the patrons. ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-stripper-music/270494/23 "2004-10-22T00:12:08Z")
Just to clarify, I know the lyrics of **Welcome To The Jungle** … but man, that song is just so damn _catchy_. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-stripper-music/270494/24 "2004-10-22T00:47:15Z")
“One of these things is not like the others…” ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-stripper-music/270494/25 "2004-10-22T01:00:36Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > “One of these things is not like the others…” Do I get a prize if I circle it first? ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-stripper-music/270494/26 "2004-10-22T01:03:34Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > For some reason, **Here Comes the Rain Again** by the Eurythmics always seemed like a good stripper song to me. Very sultry, smoky, with a seductive beat. Bruce Cockburn [Sahara Gold](http://www.brucecockburn.com/stealing_fire.html#) click for the lyrics… soft, long slow and languerous, very sexy ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-stripper-music/270494/27 "2004-10-22T01:06:33Z")
Lenny Kravitz - Black Velveteen Lil Jon - Get Low (this one worked pretty well at a party I went to where one of our friends did lap dances after probably 8 MGDs–that was quite an experience) Afroman - Palmdale (same party, nice back beat) NIN - Closer Ludacris - Saturday (Ooh Ooh) Jay-Z - Change Clothes [Majik Most - Majik’s Theme](http://majikmost.com/images/audio/majikstheme.mp3) ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-stripper-music/270494/28 "2004-10-22T01:16:05Z")
Let’s talk about sex (artist?) Billie Jean, etc., etc. (M J) Give me a kiss, etc., etc. (Aerosmith) Girls just want to have fun (Cindi Lauper) Just a gigolo, etc., etc. (David Lee Roth) ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-stripper-music/270494/29 "2004-10-22T01:27:06Z")
> [@ccwaterback](#): > > Let’s talk about sex (artist?) Salt n Pepa? ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-stripper-music/270494/30 "2004-10-22T01:43:15Z")
“The End” – The Doors “Take Me Home, Country Roads”–John Denver “Closer to Fine”–Indigo Girls “Don’t Worry About the Government”–Talking Heads “If This Is It”–Huey Lewis & The News “Fernando”–ABBA “Hurricane”–Bob Dylan “As Tears Go By”–Nancy Sinatra “Orange Crush”–R.E.M. “Brothers in Arms”–Dire Straits ---
**Author:** ![The\_world\_s\_most\_deadliest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@The\_world\_s\_most\_deadliest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_world_s_most_deadliest)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-stripper-music/270494/31 "2004-10-22T01:52:08Z")
If you want to make it easy on yourself, pick up [American Made Music to Strip By](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/103-9523330-8517432) , a remix album of Rob Zombie/White Zombie songs. The title doesn’t lie. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-stripper-music/270494/32 "2004-10-22T02:09:59Z")
Alone in the Dark by John Hiatt? I don’t know from strippers, but that’s the song that Jamie Lee Curtis danced to in _True Lies_. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-stripper-music/270494/33 "2004-10-22T02:20:08Z")
> [@chatelaine](#): > > **CheapBastid** , I second NIN’s **Head Like a Hole** , and agree with the meaning alluding most people. I’ve seen dancers use Tina Turner’s **Private Dancer** in their sets, and that one is always lost on the patrons. And the ones that get it just don’t care what the song is about…there’s a girl taking off her clothes! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-stripper-music/270494/34 "2004-10-22T02:21:32Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > And the ones that get it just don’t care what the song is about…there’s a girl taking off her clothes! 😛 Uh-huh! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-stripper-music/270494/35 "2004-10-22T02:22:06Z")
_Body Movin’_ - Beastie Boys _Breaking the Girl_ - Red Hot Chili Peppers _Deeper and Deeper_ & _Erotica_ - Madonna _Dirrty_ - Christina Aguilera _Do Me_ - Bell Biv Devoe _Doin’ It_ - LL Cool J _Fastlove_ - George Michael _Holler_ - Spice Girls (yes, seriously) _I Get Lonely_ - Janet Jackson _Love Voodoo_ - Duran Duran _No, No, No (Part II)_ - Destiny’s Child _Rock the Cradle_ - Billy Idol _Suerte_ - Shakira _Super Freak_ - Rick James _Turn Out the Lights_ - Nelly Furtado ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-stripper-music/270494/36 "2004-10-22T02:54:41Z")
I just have to poke fun at some of these suggestions. **Crimson And Clover** and **The End** just sound like awful ideas, as does **Girls Just Wanna Have Fun**. My favorite strip club moment was during the song **Beautiful People** by Marilyn Manson. I’m sure the weed and booze had something to do with it, but I’ll never forget it. The song comes on so loud that I couldn’t hear myself screaming a question to my buddy who was sitting right next to me, so I gave up conversation and watched one of the girls dancing. She did the most erotic, undulating dance I’ve ever seen, and the overpowering bass and rhythms of the song combined perfectly with the vision of her that I sat in stunned rapture until the song ended and my buddy smacked my shoulder and asked “where did you go?” I swear I actually felt that I had died and gone to hell, and that hell was indeed the place where all the interesting people were. Damn, I gotta get back to a strip joint; it’s been years now. ---
**Author:** ![Liz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/liz/32/17737_2.png) [@Liz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liz)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-stripper-music/270494/37 "2004-10-22T03:02:15Z")
**The Beautiful People** is an excellent suggestion… I think Manson’s version of **Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of These)** would be pretty awesome, too. ---
**Author:** ![praxim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@praxim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/praxim)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-stripper-music/270494/38 "2004-10-22T03:18:24Z")
> [@fetus](#): > > NIN - Closer Ah, another NIN one where the meaning is lost. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-stripper-music/270494/39 "2004-10-22T03:45:49Z")
> [@Ellis Dee](#): > > I just have to poke fun at some of these suggestions. **Crimson And Clover** and **The End** just sound like awful ideas, as does **Girls Just Wanna Have Fun**. I don’t know, I saw a couple strippers dressed as Catholic school girls licking lolly-pops while **Girls Just Want to Have Fun** was playing. The crowd seemed to like that routine. But I agree on … **The End**??? ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2004, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-stripper-music/270494/40 "2004-10-22T04:06:18Z")
Former stripper here… I always had really good response to: NIN - Closer, Head Like A Hole Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting, Joey Lost Boys Soundtrack - Cry Little Sister Enigma - Mea Culpa, Sadeness Prince - Darling Nikki Scorpions - No One Like You, Rock You Like A Hurricane, Still Loving You, The Zoo Sisters of Mercy - More, Vision Thing U2 - Mysterious Ways, Even Better Than The Real Thing, Numb Depeche Mode - Strangelove, World In My Eyes, I Feel You Duran Duran - Come Undone Pink Floyd - Young Lust Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik Siouxsie and the Banshees - Face to Face (Batman Returns sdtrk) Aerosmith - Dream On Berlin - Sex (I’m a…) Alice Cooper - Poison Love and Rockets - So Alive Melissa Etheridge - I’m the Only One, Like The Way I Do, Similar Features Nirvana - Come As You Are INXS - Suicide Blonde, Devil Inside [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-stripper-music/270494.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-stripper-music/270494.md?page=3)