Tastytooter
Literotica Guru
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Not just songs that aren't particularly sexy, but those rare tunes that, were you to hear one while in the midst of even the most debauched make-out fest, would make you stand up and leave (but not before apologizing you - you were raised better than that.) The songs that are the aural equivalent of a cold shower.
I nominate Pulp's "This is Hardcore" from the album of the same name. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BmL-7Y1kw8) It's structured brilliantly, building tension that releases somewhere around the middle but then refusing to let the listener off the hook. And I think that's what gives it that sort of...uncomfortable charm. Once the action is resolved, there's all that other business left to cope with, and it seems somehow less satisfying, and infinitely less glamorous. All you want to do is leave, but the end is still further away than the beginning.
I know many hear "This is Hardcore" as the pinnacle of music as sex, and I can see their point. But I've never managed to shake that sense of weariness and regret that shadows every beat and every note.
And you?
I nominate Pulp's "This is Hardcore" from the album of the same name. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BmL-7Y1kw8) It's structured brilliantly, building tension that releases somewhere around the middle but then refusing to let the listener off the hook. And I think that's what gives it that sort of...uncomfortable charm. Once the action is resolved, there's all that other business left to cope with, and it seems somehow less satisfying, and infinitely less glamorous. All you want to do is leave, but the end is still further away than the beginning.
I know many hear "This is Hardcore" as the pinnacle of music as sex, and I can see their point. But I've never managed to shake that sense of weariness and regret that shadows every beat and every note.
And you?
