# Music that immediately turns you on **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 16, 2015, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-immediately-turns-you-on/737742 "2015-11-16T21:58:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2015, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-immediately-turns-you-on/737742/1 "2015-11-16T21:58:31Z")
During my last sexual relationship (summer of 2000), I went from Indiana to my then-girlfriend’s house in South Carolina. A few months earlier, knowing that I like Irish music, she bought me a gorgeous CD, [Dan Gibson’s Celtic Awakening](http://www.amazon.com/Solitudes-Celtic-Awakening-Dan-Gibson/dp/B00001X5B5). When the two of us started getting… ahem… physical with one another, I liked to play that CD. It’s very relaxing and spiritual. She was gone when autumn came, but I still love that CD, and have it on my XBox 360. It still brings me back to those times, in her bed, and in the shower. What are your fondly-remembered albums and songs that get you in the mood? ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2015, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-immediately-turns-you-on/737742/2 "2015-11-16T22:11:34Z")
Dark and ambient music works for me. Massive Attack’s _Mezzanine_ is a favorite. And since I came of age in the 90s, Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You” and Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game” were the soundtracks to many groping sessions. ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-immediately-turns-you-on/737742/3 "2015-11-17T00:23:00Z")
A lot of Brian Jonestown Massacre, in particularly "Anemone "and the whole of _Methodrone_. With four sides, you can have just about every kind of sex to that album… “Gimme Shelter” by the Stones. “Heaven or Las Vegas” by the Cocteau Twins. The Lemonheads’ “Paint It Black.” The lyric, “…and I’ll shake you” gives me chills. > [@SaharaTea](#): > > Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You” Seconded. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-immediately-turns-you-on/737742/4 "2015-11-17T01:19:31Z")
Moving over to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-immediately-turns-you-on/737742/5 "2015-11-17T01:56:34Z")
Sade - “The Best of…”. Something about her voice. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-immediately-turns-you-on/737742/6 "2015-11-17T02:08:54Z")
**Morphine - You Look Like Rain** : [Morphine - You Look Like Rain - YouTube](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WkSzV6jAkhQ) Listen to it. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-immediately-turns-you-on/737742/7 "2015-11-17T02:37:56Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Sade - “The Best of…”. Something about her voice. Sade is sexy. That’s all there is to it: everything about the lady is sexy, especially her voice. > [@WordMan](#): > > **Morphine - You Look Like Rain** : [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WkSzV6jAkhQ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WkSzV6jAkhQ) > > Listen to it. I once read an article about Morphine back in the late 1980s that described them as “the sound of pure sex”. * * * [Barry White - I Only Want To Be With You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e_1IGH8bZE) is almost certainly at the top of my list. The whole 1994 album is excellent, but by the time it got to this song (the third), my girlfriend at the time and I were usually tearing each other’s clothes off. Good times! ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-immediately-turns-you-on/737742/8 "2015-11-17T02:39:38Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > During my last sexual relationship (summer of 2000), I went from Indiana to my then-girlfriend’s house in South Carolina. A few months earlier, knowing that I like Irish music, she bought me a gorgeous CD, [Dan Gibson’s Celtic Awakening](http://www.amazon.com/Solitudes-Celtic-Awakening-Dan-Gibson/dp/B00001X5B5). When the two of us started getting… ahem… physical with one another, I liked to play that CD. It’s very relaxing and spiritual. > > She was gone when autumn came, but I still love that CD, and have it on my XBox 360. It still brings me back to those times, in her bed, and in the shower. > > What are your fondly-remembered albums and songs that get you in the mood? none, because I’m not a 13-year-old bullshitter. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-immediately-turns-you-on/737742/9 "2015-11-17T02:45:44Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > none, because I’m not a 13-year-old bullshitter. Why da snark? ---
**Author:** ![Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enter_the_Flagon)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-immediately-turns-you-on/737742/10 "2015-11-17T05:05:20Z")
^^ Somebody’s been going without. The soundtrack to my best memories consists of a Cocteau Twins compilation, a Roxy Music compilation, and a Grace Jones compilation. Nowadays, the soundtrack would harken back to that old Country song, “It Takes Me All Night Long Just to do What I Used to do All Night Long.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-immediately-turns-you-on/737742/11 "2015-11-17T06:52:43Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > none, because I’m not a 13-year-old bullshitter. This is a warning for you, don’t make posts like this again unless you’re in the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-immediately-turns-you-on/737742/12 "2015-11-17T11:14:40Z")
> [@SaharaTea](#): > > Dark and ambient music works for me. Massive Attack’s _Mezzanine_ is a favorite. Yep, yep. That was one of my favorites back in the day when I used to listen to music when getting intimate. Another one with a particular girlfriend was Nine Inch Nails albums (this would have been _Pretty Hate Machine_ or _Downward Spiral_.) Or, if I was feeling sophisticated, Miles Davis’s _Kind of Blue_. I don’t think, though, that I’ve listened to music during sex in well over a decade now. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-immediately-turns-you-on/737742/13 "2015-11-17T14:13:07Z")
Sonic Youth’s [Bull in the Heather](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JGBNkLM9_8) ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-immediately-turns-you-on/737742/14 "2015-11-17T15:33:07Z")
_Let’s Get it On_ - Marvin Gaye. The moment I hear that opening riff my mind goes “Awww yeeeaah!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-immediately-turns-you-on/737742/15 "2015-11-17T15:45:03Z")
I guess I’m not wired that way, but many songs do bring me back to a specific time and place and if that was a sexy time then, well… But it’s got nothing to do with the music. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-immediately-turns-you-on/737742/16 "2015-11-17T16:11:00Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > _Let’s Get it On_ - Marvin Gaye. The moment I hear that opening riff my mind goes “Awww yeeeaah!!!” It immediately came to mind, too, but I wanted to keep my recommendation for the Morphine song simple and clean. **pulykamell** - yeah, Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue is perfect for a long, relaxed bit of romance. ---
**Author:** ![NeonMadman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58f4c7/32.png) [@NeonMadman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NeonMadman)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-immediately-turns-you-on/737742/17 "2015-11-17T16:52:07Z")
When we were teenagers, my wife and I necked in my bedroom to _Time of the Season_ by the Zombies (a current hit at the time). Hearing it nowadays brings back fond memories and it’s still a bit of a turn-on. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-immediately-turns-you-on/737742/18 "2015-11-17T21:14:06Z")
What, no Bolero? lol For me it’s the blues. Any blues, really. It is, after all, the musical representation of the sex act. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-immediately-turns-you-on/737742/19 "2015-11-17T21:22:04Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Yep, yep. That was one of my favorites back in the day when I used to listen to music when getting intimate. Another one with a particular girlfriend was Nine Inch Nails albums (this would have been _Pretty Hate Machine_ or _Downward Spiral_.) Or, if I was feeling sophisticated, Miles Davis’s _Kind of Blue_. I don’t think, though, that I’ve listened to music during sex in well over a decade now. Thirding Massive Attack, that was my first answer. And seconding NIN. I like Downward Spiral, Pretty Hate Machine, Broken, and The Fragile. Had an old girlfriend who liked making out to The Eagles Hotel California album. I had no problem with that. The hip-hop/R&B station works well, just not rap. ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-immediately-turns-you-on/737742/20 "2015-11-17T21:34:04Z")
The Philadelphia Experiment The part in Brown Eyed Girl where he sings about “making love in the green grass…”