# Songs to listen during the act of baby-making **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 28, 2000, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-listen-during-the-act-of-baby-making/43004 "2000-11-28T07:37:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-listen-during-the-act-of-baby-making/43004/1 "2000-11-28T07:37:41Z")
My favourites are Moody Blues ‘Nights in White Satin’ and J.J. Cale’s ‘You Keep Me Hanging On’. ---
**Author:** ![Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-listen-during-the-act-of-baby-making/43004/2 "2000-11-28T07:51:15Z")
The Overture of 1812. The cannonfire is a nice effect. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-listen-during-the-act-of-baby-making/43004/3 "2000-11-28T07:52:13Z")
It depends on the mood. If I’m going for the candlelight/romantic/mushy thing, I have to go with instrumental music. What the hell, I already admitted to eating things like Circus Peanuts and Easy Cheese–I might as well admit this too. My favorite has to be “Silhouette” by [sub]Kenny G.[/sub] Anyway, when I’m not in that kind of mood, rather the opposite, I find that oddly enough, “Sweet Dreams” by Marilyn Manson works well. I know, I know, I’m a complete freak. Laugh and point, if you must. ---
**Author:** ![Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-listen-during-the-act-of-baby-making/43004/4 "2000-11-28T07:54:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by evilbeth \* > \*\*It depends on the mood. If I’m going for the candlelight/romantic/mushy thing, I have to go with instrumental music. What the hell, I already admitted to eating things like Circus Peanuts and Easy Cheese–I might as well admit this too. My favorite has to be “Silhouette” by [sub]Kenny G.[/sub] > > Anyway, when I’m not in that kind of mood, rather the opposite, I find that oddly enough, “Sweet Dreams” by Marilyn Manson works well. > > I know, I know, I’m a complete freak. > > Laugh and point, if you must. \*\* Easy Cheese is good. I’m kinda fond of what little I’ve heard of Kenny G, too. but you like Circus Peanuts. and for this–I can never forgive you! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-listen-during-the-act-of-baby-making/43004/5 "2000-11-28T07:54:58Z")
Well, if it’s just the Circus Peanuts that did you in, I guess I could give them up! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-listen-during-the-act-of-baby-making/43004/6 "2000-11-28T07:56:41Z")
I hate Kenny G. If I could, I would stick his damn sax up his arse. I also hate the fact that people think that we, french, are only able to make love with Je T’Aime Mon Non Plus playing in the background. Non. But a guy that really pisses me off is Kitaro. That’s music to sooth even the hardest penis in the world. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-listen-during-the-act-of-baby-making/43004/7 "2000-11-28T08:02:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Uniball \* > \*\*I hate Kenny G. If I could, I would stick his damn sax up his arse. > > \*\* Many people feel this way. Why exactly do you hate him? Is it the music or is it something more sinister I haven’t picked up on yet? I am truly curious about this phenomenon! ---
**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-listen-during-the-act-of-baby-making/43004/8 "2000-11-28T08:14:46Z")
I hate Kenny G cause he’s BORING. He’s worse than Muzak. He’s the Jean-Michel Jarre of the sax world. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-listen-during-the-act-of-baby-making/43004/9 "2000-11-28T08:22:46Z")
Okay, just wondered. ---
**Author:** ![stofsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@stofsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stofsky)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-listen-during-the-act-of-baby-making/43004/10 "2000-11-28T12:37:55Z")
Billy Paul “Me & Mrs. Jones” Marvin Gaye “Let’s Get it On” ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-listen-during-the-act-of-baby-making/43004/11 "2000-11-28T12:57:22Z")
“Nurture my pig” by The Reverend Horton Heat. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-listen-during-the-act-of-baby-making/43004/12 "2000-11-28T14:26:06Z")
Pretty much anything from Massive Attack’s “Mezzanine” album. ---
**Author:** ![katie1341](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/91b2a8/32.png) [@katie1341](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/katie1341)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-listen-during-the-act-of-baby-making/43004/13 "2000-11-28T14:29:37Z")
Just about any early Van Morrison; “Kind of Blue”, Miles Davis. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-listen-during-the-act-of-baby-making/43004/14 "2000-11-28T15:03:40Z")
Ralph Vaughan Williams “Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis” - 16 minutes that just unfolds. multiple musical climaxes. “The Lark Ascending” just very pretty and romantic ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-listen-during-the-act-of-baby-making/43004/15 "2000-11-28T15:13:22Z")
Nothing, and I mean _nothing_, compares to Sade. Turn up the bass, and man, you’ll be bouncing the brillo in no time. Mmmm. Sade. ---
**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-listen-during-the-act-of-baby-making/43004/16 "2000-11-28T15:15:48Z")
This is a topic I’ve discussed before - and my choices really run the gamut. “Shadowboxer” by Fiona Apple Alice in Chains - “Would”, “Heaven Inside You” ::giggle::, “Man in a Box” ::double giggle:: “Today” and “Adore” by Smashing Pumpkins “Sweetest Taboo” & “No Ordinary Love”, etc., etc., by Sade “Brown Sugar” & “Cruisin’” by D’Angelo (I know Smokey Robinson did “Cruisin’” originally, but I think D’Angelo’s version is sexier) …and my number one all-time favorite sex song: “Low” by Cracker. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-listen-during-the-act-of-baby-making/43004/17 "2000-11-28T15:18:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Uniball \* > \*\*I hate Kenny G. If I could, I would stick his damn sax up his arse. > \*\* But what music would you listen to while doing this? ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-listen-during-the-act-of-baby-making/43004/18 "2000-11-28T15:23:53Z")
Run Like Hell - Pink Floyd Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin Kashmir - Led Zep Libera Me - Verdi (Requiem) ---
**Author:** ![jesuslynch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@jesuslynch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesuslynch)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-listen-during-the-act-of-baby-making/43004/19 "2000-11-28T15:42:39Z")
Ride of the Valkeries - Wagner ---
**Author:** ![stofsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@stofsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stofsky)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-listen-during-the-act-of-baby-making/43004/20 "2000-11-28T16:01:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by katie1341 \* > \*\*Just about any early Van Morrison; “Kind of Blue”, Miles Davis. \*\* Hey, what say we get together and “listen to some music” (is that what the kids are calling it nowadays?)? Love “Kind of Blue”–that quintet was some of both Miles’s and Trane’s finest work. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-listen-during-the-act-of-baby-making/43004.md?page=2)