I can’t believe nobody has mentioned the following yet:
Anything by Portishead
The Cure’s album “Disintegration”
Roxy Music’s album “Avalon” (with great sexy sax on the title track and throughout)
Lovage’s “Music To Make Love To Your Old Lady By” (an entire concept album of trip-hoppy sex music, featuring Mike Patton of Faith No More and Mr. Bungle, and Jennifer Charles of Elysian Fields)
I hesitate to mention Dave Matthews Band’s album “Crash,” but it works wonders if you’re in college (or even better, if the girl is).
And Massive Attack is good too, in the same vein as Portishead (although I’m not a Massive Attack expert).
Pepe Deluxe - Beat Experience
Pulp - Common People (After Smoking Fags and Playing Pool… ;))
Animotion - Obsession (Steamy 80s Porn Style)
Nine Inch Nails - I Want To Fuck You Like An Animal (Animal Sex)
Heh…we played this in my guitar class a few months ago, and I was very tempted to bust the chops of the teacher (on whom I have an immense crush) by asking him, “So, could you give us a little back-story on the lyrics? I mean, what’s it about?”
I have not tried this, but Leftfield - Original. It’s not the lyrics… it just has that rhythm and makes me think of amber lighting and wet hair and warm breath on flesh.
Oooo, I just remembered two more instrumental songs from movie soundtracks that I like to listen to while in the throes of passion: “Love on a Real Train” (Tangerine Dream, Risky Business (which, btw, I actually got to live out that scene a few times)), and the opening theme to Conan the Barbarian (Basil Poledouris). The second one sounds as if something big is about to happen and it gets my blood pumping.
Unfortunately, all we had was their Make It Big album. After Careless Whisper and Last Christmas we knew it was a bad idea. It’s a good thing that we didn’t start macking once we heard, “Jitterbug…”