Sex + music = ????

Inspired by this most baffling exchange:

Weirdly enough, even though I'm a bif Prince fan, I don't think I've ever used him as sex music. Must correct this when I get the chance.

Nah, skip it. Sex does not really require music at all.

― Eighteen straight. I think that's a record. (kenan), Sunday, June 6, 2010 9:03 PM (Yesterday)

IMO, sex does not *require* music, but hwy not put two of the most fun & awesome things in the world together? I know this equation doesn't always work (like the Seinfeld where George kept trying to incorporate eating and sex), but here, music makes the whole thing even better. It hardly makes it worse, anyway (though the guy for whom I put on Current 93 I think would disagree).

Do you like music on during sex, or does it just get in the way (and if so, could you explain, bcz I totally do not get this)?

Music added to sex can a) be a magnificent enhancement and b) a handy and considerate way of covering up some of the noise for your housemates or neighbours

Classic if you'd much rather be having sex with the person who made the music. That way you can closer yr eyes and just pretend it's actually them.

Not that I've ever done this, mind you.

"Oh, Prokofiev..."

radio: "Like a Bat Out Of Hééééééllll"

"Ummm... can you roll over? I'm suddenly not in the mood anymore."

haha yeah, I would love to be able to choose music for when other people have sex

Yakety Sax

yakety sax sex

lololol

Songs/albums which resulted in a partner verbally requested that I turn off the stereo:

-Sir Mix-A-Lot, "One Time's Got No Case"
-The Fairfield Four, The Bells Are Ringing (a cappella gospel)
-Dock Boggs

Albums which seemed to enhance things:
Velvet Underground, VU
The Ultimate Otis Redding

"verbally requesting" -- agh.

ah, Otis

can we have some good suggestions that aren't 70's soul now plz

Gabba

btw 70's soul would be a turn-off for me...it's too blatant, plus the first girl I had a thing with liked to play it for sex and it caused cognitive dissonance

John Phillips Souza

^^ not joking, this was actually super fun

basically this is great if both parties feel it's great but is bad if one of them finds music distracting or irritating

wonder what sex to Arvo Pärt would be like

dunno, you'd have to ask him

Pärtly good, Pärtly bad I'd imagine

you're Arvo a laugh

if you feel like Messiaen with yr lady, be sure to Satie Ligeti-sson any Penderecki from the shuffle playlist

positive experiences:
Van der Graaf Generator (we didn't actually have intercourse, tbh)
The Cramps - "Human Fly"
Xenakis
free jazz - Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman

transcendent: ex-sex to the John Cale cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah"

always feels kinda creepy to me: music by people i'm friends with/regularly see at shows & parties

Wondering if this is a good rule of thumb: you can't go wrong with anything with "Ascencion" in the title?

well you're listening to someone who can't spell for a start

cd 1 of james brown star time is perfect

can we have some good suggestions that aren't 70's soul now plz

Recommending sexytime music to other people seems weird to me. Everyone already knows what they like, musically. Find something in your collection that isn't creepy or inappropriate & let the good times roll.

uh, LJ, you're the one you mentioned Messaien ...

and whoops - that's with an "s" not a "c" - i'm 'tarded.

lol oops

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Messiaen

hahaha oh shit you just played yourself

like, I'm semi-tempted to SB out of sympathy at that selfpwn

SB if you wish, but Messaien's "Ascension" is awesome sex music imo

STOP SPELLING MESSIAEN LIKE THAT

I EVEN LINKED WIKIPEDIA AND YOU STILL SPELT IT LIKE THAT

If you're that concerned about the spelling of a composer's name or a song title, as opposed to the possibility for sexual gratification they can provide, then I think you have a problem.

I'm only concerned because you tried to correct me with an incorrect spelling! Not actually furious, more crassly rubbing in the pwnage with CROWING ALL-CAPS

like, seriously, accept that you got rinsed and carry on - Messiaen will still be awesome to fuck to in the morning

you know that someone can accept that they embarrassed themselves on a message board without continuing to post about it in order to get back on topic in an otherwise awesome, fun thread, right???

alternatively if someone tries to counterzing but in the process only hardens the initial zing, they should display more humility than to be all 'blah well you have a problem', especially if they've REDOUBLED the zingtensification by continuing to ignore the correct spelling of a composer whose music is pleasurable to hear while undertaking the sexual act

btw the last 10 posts have been a metasexual exchange, soundtracked by Mahler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4J-SuktYVs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGHwWwQw3tc

if the sex is REALLY cathartic...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGJoTxl2CTc

hey wait start time vol 1 is late50's early 60's soul!

the end result of this thread is gonna be some cruel thinking where somebody is gettin w/lj and then at the moment of truth spells messiaen wrong and the rest of the book is called Tristram Shandy I guess & you can find it down at the library

<3

"May she be cursed in eating and drinking, in being hungry, in being thirsty, in fasting, in sleeping, in slumbering, in walking, in standing, in sitting, in lying, in working, in internet messageboarding, in resting, in pissing, in shitting, and in blood-letting"

won't turn it off if something's playing, but i always kinda associated going out of the way to put some on with like, sophomore year goth sex or something even though i understand that plenty of people go for it. sex sounds plenty good on its own imo

iltmi buds will have to get me drunk in person to hear stories of underrated aerosmith's early romantic experiments along these lines but let it suffice to say that you will lol for days.

god I hope Yngwie Malmsteen is involved

like, personally

"ayo Aerosmith, I dig what you're...oh my, pardon my interruption"

i would never spoil music by having sex to it

If I'm going to be very naughty with music playing, I insist that I NOT be the one who picked out the music. I've had too many experiences of people asking me to change the music because it was getting on their nerves -- not during sex (to my recollection), just in general. Having that happen during sex would make me feel like I was doing it all wrong from the get-go. It would throw me off. And even if I never got a request to turn it off, I would be paranoid that she doesn't like it but is only being polite.

Even in the case of the music selection not being mine, that would mainly serve the purpose of allowing me to relax enough to forget completely about what music is playing. During sex I tend to be paying rapt and careful attention to many things, but music is not even close to being on that list. Sometimes because I have thighs clamped over my ears.

Acrobatic!

i dont like this its distracting & just kinda weird

"Hits from the Musicals" never really worked out ime.

Now whether that's because I could never resist singing along or w/e I just couldn't say.

Sex + music = susic

Although I can think of a few experiences where music was a positive contributing factor, generally not really into susic. Am a pretty aural person when it comes to bedroom type activities so prefer no music most of the time.

Sex+ music = Sexi cums

darraghmac - was it the original cast recording of "Cats" - maybe she thought that you were a closet furry

it was kinda across the board, so i could go from howard keel to julie andrews in a few short thrusts.

let's call the whole thing getting off

as in, "The Hills are Alive (grunt) with the sound (uhh grunt uhh) of music (grunt uhh uhh uhh uhh)?"

eh i thing i'd remember having sex with a boar tbh

Tragically near-miss potential threesome involved a gal (management-consulting college recruiter), a gal (soon to be the lover of a famous fiction editor), me, John Coletrane, and Johnny Hartman, the latter two on vinyl.

I admire your sticking to your guns, but I personally would have turned down the music.

Coletrane, Jesus.

First Gear: Three Gymnopedies
Second Gear: Giant Steps
Third Gear: Bolero
Fourth Gear: Carmina Burnana
Postlude: The Secret of Assocation

(Coltrane, I mean.)

Sex + music = susic

― i be like... ham (crüt), Monday, June 7, 2010 10:55 PM (Yesterday)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_i6uqG9wYo

http://991.com/newgallery/Phil-Collins-Sussudio-279226.jpg

^^^ wld probably not have sex to either of those songs, ideally

If I was about to have sex w/a dude, and he put on Sussudio, I'd grab my clothes and run for my life, though maybe I've just seen American Psycho too many times.

At least there would be some humor to it, compared to candlelight, silk sheets, and suddenly "In The Air Tonight" begins.

sex w/ a non-dude, however, requires no jacket

Dunno about actual shaggin, but for makeouts, you can't beat woozy shoegaze. Put on some Slowdive or Ulrich Schnauss, and I'm happy.

man more people need to hear the work of u. schnauss, you got a lot of seducing to do

kenan - literally clamped, like with hardware?

Obviously.

Ok, if I were to put on music and categorize it a la Eazy, it might look like this:

First gear: Cocteau Twins Victorialand
Second gear: Soul II Soul Keep On Movin'
Third gear: TIE - Luomo Vocalcity/Thomas Fehlmann Visions of Blah
Fourth Gear: Pictureplane Dark Rift
Postlude: Enrico Caruso Historical Recordings

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/fuck-to-house.jpg

Oh, man, bros, I forgot, if you want to seal the deal:

http://daniellanois.bracketeers.com/images/challengers/124412593111_full.gif

Oh, and, along similar lines:
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/080620/cds/emmylou-harriss_l.jpg

I'm an American, I don't have stick shifter sex like you others.

Bill Evans, sure.
Keith Jarrett, if there's any moaning whatsoever on the album, no.

Only trouble with jazz is if you're playing some box set or reissue with extra tracks, and you get "My Funny Valentine" or whatever, fine, smooth, you got it, and then it's followed by "My Funny Valentine (Alternate Take)," which is pretty much the same as the first, and then that ends, and you've gone from second base back to first, and then "My Funny Valentine (Alternate Take 2)" starts and at that point you gotta get up.

That's hilarious. I read that aloud to Julia.

Bill Evans doesn't make me feel sexy, though. He makes me feel like paying attention to what I'm listening to.

I once sealed the deal after the girl put The Postal Service on. If you ever want to feel bad about the sex act, this is a great way to do it.