The Children of Sanchez album by Chuck Mangione
This became a favorite in college (Kent State '79) and still has the power. Oh, my, gotta go find it. Wish the turntable wasn’t broken.
Fumbling Toward Ecstasy–Sarah Maclachlan
Ray Charles
My wife love Bono–So anything by U2
i must agree with MadPoet on dead can dance.
in a similar vein, all the cocteau twins albums have proven invaluable–but especially ‘heaven or las vegas’.
as a friend of mine notes, it’s sufficiently ‘swirly.’
my (ex)gf and i (during high school) found joy division was perfect.
also indispensable at the moment:
any underworld
hooverphonic album ‘a stereophonic sound spectacular’
Too much pressure to try and come in time with the cannon shots at the end!
Who Do You Love - Quicksilver Messenger Service.
Could be that some of our ‘thirty-something’ Straight Dopers are more connected to this than they might realize.
i quite like “I Alone” by Live
good song…
I like Feelin’ Love by Sarah Mclachlan. (I hope that’s the right name of the song. The City of Angels CD is out in my car, so I can’t check right now. dang.)
-Lsura
Way back in the Stone Age, anything by Prince, Sting, Led Zeppelin, or the Cars worked for me. Now I would recommend highly Loreena McKennitt (sp?), the album with “The Mummer’s Dance” on it. The whole album is just transcendently wonderful…
…and “West Side Girls” by the Pet Shop Boys.
Easily the best: any record by the Dirty 3 - no vocals, just long violin/guitar/drum songs.
If you’re in a hurry: The Ramones - Rocket to Russia
And I imagine the first Lucinda Williams record would be a good one, but my SO hates country music, so I guess I’ll never know.
BTW - worst possible is anything by Lydia Lunch: you’re girlfriend will end up beating you up just because you’re a male (and if you’re a girl, you’ll get so angry, you’ll beat your partner up!)
HenrySpencer.
West End Girls. Although I would personally recommend Being Boring, if it has to be PSB. Great sex music, if you ignore the fact that the lyrics are about people dying of aids.
I have to agree with MadPoet and vaporlad on Dead Can Dance. I’ve had some really heavy spiritual trysts to their music.
The soundtrack to The Last of the Mohicans has some incredibly beautiful music on it, also.
I’m with Auntie Pam, Barry White’s voice is sexy !
But I’ll also take Knights in White Satin -Moody Blues
Anything that David Gates and Bread did. ::sigh:: Teenage fantasys.
There are others but, I have to go to bed NOW !
Dark Star – Dead
Terapin Station – Dead
Dick’s Picks #8 (2nd CD) – Dead
I don’t know how long it takes you guys but one song just won’t do it, and who wants to change CD’s in the middle of something important? You could burn a set of tracks but sex is not the time to have songs like ‘Closer’ speckled with Kenny G, so that’s delicate.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned UB40’s Red Red Wine.
That song was huge when I met my wife. Since it’s only about 4 minutes long, I guess side one of that album was what we boinked to.
Sex and music don’t mix any long though. Our kids would know in an instant what we were doing. Blah
Pepperlandgirl picked a good one Wicked Game is awesome.
Amazing. There is so little to add to this list . . .
But, I will add Madonna’s “Erotica”, Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes”, any Enigma CD, “Number One Crush” by Garbage, and “Never Met a Girl Like You Before” by Edwyn Collins.
I would like nothing better than to rut to a live version of Pink Floyd’s Run Like Hell.
MR
Well, just “play it again, sam”.
Just hope your recording doesn’t skip like Bolero did in “10”. I watched “10” just for the acting, really! Just like I buy Playboy for the articles…
Maeglin…
You have just become my New Favorite Person.
I was at Roger Waters’ In The Flesh concert and was dearly hoping he would play Run LIke Hell. He didn’t, and I was sad. They DID finish up with Comfortably Numb which, even though it’s my favorite song on the planet, wouldn’t be very nice to make love to. Maybe a song to play AFTER you’ve finished…?