What is the SEXIEST music?

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― Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 14 October 2002 11:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

I can be turned on by pictures and words and totally by communication but not by music even when I realise that's what it's about. It's an incredible buzz but it's either a private non-sharing buzz or a big mass-sharing buzz not the one-on-one buzz sex is. In other words - visual stuff is usually sexy to anyone because it cant specify an audience (ass is ass). Sounds are sexy because of who is making them and to whom.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 14 October 2002 11:38 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sexy should only be used to describe things which are to do with sex.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 14 October 2002 11:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

i know a song can be about sex but not actually be sexy tho thats just down to taste...can the opposite not be true...tho i guess if it makes you feel sexy, aroused or whatever that doesnt necessarily make it sexy in itself

i just think if i had to describe tracks like Mirwais 'Disco Science' or 'Machine Says Yes' i would probably use the word sexy and it would make perfect sense to me

― blueski, Monday, 14 October 2002 11:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

lou reed: metal machine music

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 14 October 2002 12:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dancing can be sexy (to do, I am not saying my dancing is sexy to watch because it plainly isnt) - but the music being danced to isnt sexy.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 14 October 2002 12:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

so how do you describe heavy rhythmic music designed to make people dance sexily?

― blueski, Monday, 14 October 2002 12:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

"danceable". If I was playing that music in my living room it probably wouldnt make me dance sexily, so the sexiness comes from the dancing not the music. There are loads of things you do rhythmically - including sex and dancing but also including knitting.

"Machine Said Yes" - this is pretty but I absolutely can't see how it could be sexy.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 14 October 2002 12:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

maybe i do abuse the term 'sexy' a little as i did the term 'abstract'

or maybe its just the general tweakage and effects of the sounds on the FC Kahuna track, the TB-303-clone sounds like its either being put through a meat-grinder or just 'fucked' in some way...there's lots of 'high-energy' sounds, messing around with frequencies and sonic events that just seems to have some kind of sexual connotation...tho its not like i jack off to it or something. i think the same of Air's 'La Femme D'Argent' - different music, cant dance to it, not much bass but just has some erotic element - perhaps it just comes from me hearing it and matching it with erotic imagery of some kind...but what is it that makes me do that if not something in the sounds and arrangements of them?

― blueski, Monday, 14 October 2002 12:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

Luomo's "Synkro" is one of the silkiest, sexiest tracks I have.

Is that the 3rd track on Vocal City? If so, I agree -- although it's sexy kind of in the same way as a Helmut Newton photograph. It's like an idealized image of sex w/ out the messy body fluids. No real sexual encounter could ever be so perfect.

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 14 October 2002 13:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

'smacking up then having raunchy sex'

then, Matt, then?

uh, anyway Kelis' Wanderland is immensely sexy.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 14 October 2002 14:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

Isaac Hayes Live at the Sahara Tahoe is the sexiest record of all time.

― Dave Beckhouse (Dave Beckhouse), Monday, 14 October 2002 18:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sterling - don't worry, I was being drunkenly flippant - I don't expect said comment to stand up to close scrutiny in the slightest.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 14 October 2002 19:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

haha I was being flippant too. I meant why "then" and not "while"?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 14 October 2002 19:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

for anyone who responded that music doesn't turn them on: i can't imagine my sex life (twisted and unusual though it is) nearly as enjoyable or fulfilling if music wasn't a part of it. am i unfortunate enough to be part of a generation who needs cheap poorly produced porn to get off? and pictures?... what about imagination? isn't the success of music dictated by the way it makes you feel, the images it puts in your head, the emotions it shows you that you can't quite put into words because they're from a past life when you used a different means of communication? (i'm overspiritualizing to make a point). well i wouldn't want to chance on finding myself on the pillow with one of you people. you'd probably do something awful like bite my yum yum.

― rebecca, Monday, 14 October 2002 23:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

Cheesy prog fusion. I mean, its the soundtrack to all those porn movies, so it must work for someone.

sorry - Bite your what?

― Marinaorgan (Marina Organ), Monday, 14 October 2002 23:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

Indeed, Mark, "Synkro" is track three from _Vocalcity_. That's a very interesting take on it; it's almost like what sex seems like when you're fantasizing about it rather than actually having it, the way you sometimes fantasize out (or just plain fail to imagine, is probably more like it) the gritty details and such.

I love the non-rigid syncopation on this track (and on the whole album, really) - the 8th-note programming is slightly swung, slightly slinky, rather than straight-8th boom-tss, and I think that might add to its sexiness. In fact, a lot of microhouse uses this swung pattern; it feels more relaxed, more liveable, it sways rather than pumps.

― Clarke B. (emily), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 01:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

Any genre can be sexy, except crap ones like pop and rap, obviously.

I found this really sexy band the other day, Jucifer. Guy plays drums, girl plays guitar through many amps, sound like My Bloody Valentine meets The Melvins, but with sexy female vocals.

― Callum (Callum), Tuesday, 15 October 2002 15:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

eight years pass...

Right now, and for a long time already, Francoise Hardy's 'La Question' and especially Luomo's 'The Present Lover'.... fuck...

What's yours? I'm specifically not talking "music to make love to"-music, but music that makes you feel all hot and bothered and aroused and.... fuck...

― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 3 October 2011 19:38 (twelve years ago) link

I think bass heavy music is sexy, if used right. So Vocalcity and Baduizm come to mind. There's something enveloping with that type of music, and subtle without any treble in your face.

'What Good' off TPL is kind of sexy in an unsexy way, given the embarrassing lyrics, but the album seems too produced/processed to be sexy for me.

― The Sunspots In Your Eyes Are Actually Cataracts, Mr. Rudich (AWALL), Monday, 3 October 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link

Came here to say Synkro... of course I'm not the first.

― elan, Monday, 3 October 2011 21:28 (twelve years ago) link

Came here to say Synkro... of course I'm not the first.

― elan, Monday, 3 October 2011 21:28 (twelve years ago) link

the answer is Kizomba.

http://ngomasound.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/ngoma8_cover.png?w=584&h=583

mix features Sasha Grey and is NSFW.

http://www.mixcloud.com/djzhao/ngoma-08-saudade/
http://ngomasound.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/ngoma-mix-8-saudade/

― zoom, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 01:12 (twelve years ago) link

Wow, "Synkro" still springing to people's minds 11 years later! I love that...

― Clarke B., Wednesday, 5 October 2011 01:02 (twelve years ago) link

It's just that good!

― elan, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 02:31 (twelve years ago) link

two years pass...

Is Star Me Kitten by R.E.M. a lame answer to this question? Anyway, Star Me Kitten by R.E.M.

― it was discovered that there's no rule that a dog cannot play basketball (bends), Friday, 11 October 2013 23:54 (ten years ago) link

nine years pass...

i need help.

i remember a song that i thought came from an erotic movie. specifically i thought it came from the emmanuelle series. but i've checked emmanuelle's soundtracks and i'm pretty sure i've misremembered.

the song has a synth that imitates a harpsichord or guitar, but with that abstract sound of 1970s synths. it's a trilling synth. the melody is methodical and languorous. it's a high-pitched synth.

it might not be from a movie!

any suggestions for erotic synth music probably from the 1970s?

― bamcquern, Thursday, 1 December 2022 17:48 (one year ago) link

Cocteau Twins are a pretty good soundtrack for getting busy.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 1 December 2022 20:55 (one year ago) link

very easy answer for me, HTRK in general, Psychic 9-5 Club in particular.

― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 1 December 2022 21:03 (one year ago) link

any suggestions for erotic synth music probably from the 1970s?

― bamcquern, Thursday, December 1, 2022 11:48 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Klaus Schulze's Body Love? is there anything else that qualifies??

― frogbs, Thursday, 1 December 2022 21:06 (one year ago) link

There's a fair amount of library music that fits the bill, though I'm blanking on specific tracks/composers atm.

This comes to mind along those lines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1gNFbBH2lM

Also dub techno in general. And Air.

― J. Sam, Thursday, 1 December 2022 21:12 (one year ago) link

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