Sexy Music--Recommendations?

[bashfullyshameless]

Anyone got recommendations for good, sexy music--particularly without lyrics? I find the words distract me somewhat while I write. I live with it anyway, but wordless music is better.

A little gem that I discovered recently, from the BSG soundtrack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2dyN5A12js (I have no idea what scene that is, but I hope it involves someone getting it on with someone when they really shouldn't...)

My "Lit" playlist is dominated by Lords of Acid, a little Sarah MacLachlan and, I'll confess... some Britney Spears. I realize it's cheap pop, but when she sings about wanting to get laid, I totally believe her. Rihanna, too.

Anyway, suggestion on music without words? (And not Enigma, please?)

 

[Emily124]

Hello Bashful.

I like this question, so I'll find some pieces to share with you. I have an auditory sensitivity, and I often receive great pleasure from things I hear. (Have you ever heard of the term eargasm? ) I experience music with my whole body, and so, yes, I have some recommendations for you.

Here are some pieces that really work for me, but they may not for you.

Luka Sulic (de Falla) Ritual Fire Dance

Mischa Maisky (Bach) Cello Suites, Prelude

Adam Hurst- Seduction

I love the cello. The way it sounds, watching someone play it, playing it myself. I think it's the sexiest instrument, so cello music really does it for me.

And, although I've heard this piece a thousand times, it still moves me very deeply:
Beethoven- Moonlight Sonata
It's arguably not overtly "sexy", but it's very powerful, which can be quite sexy, don't you think?

Enjoy.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Bolero--Maurice Ravel. Every time I hear it I imagine some lovely stripping off one slow garment at a time.

 

[lance gt]

I needed the same thing in my story and went with soft jazz, Montreal-style, just to set the mood.

 

[vampwrrr]

Philip Glass always titillates me. Especially the 2nd movement of his Violin Concerto: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFf6p6actPo . Or "Whisper Hungarian in My Ear", by The Toids: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-WkHVJM7PQ . Or, if you don't speak French, (I know that you said "no Enigma", but suck it! ) Sadeness, Violent Remix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRdhla7Qyec

Oh! Or Danse Macabre, by Saint-Saens: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyknBTm_YyM

Or--ugh--stop me now!

 

[Cruel2BKind]

Not nessecarily sexy, but this helps me during sex scenes, especially tender/romantic ones.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQvM4EM0lO8


Inception was such an amazing movie.


And don't kid yourself, the passion on the cello player's face gave you a plot bunny

 

[bashfullyshameless]

The problem with Enigma is the chanting. I LOVE the music. But the chanting always makes me feel like there's some sick priest standing behind me with a perverted leer on his face and one hand in his robes, and that's just not sexy at ALL...

 

[estragon]

Didn't Elliot Spitzer get into a lot of trouble when he asked his staff for a CD of sexy music?

 

[Tio_Narratore]

There's words, I'm afraid, if you don't speak German, just enjoy the melody and the inflections in La Dietrich's voice... And if you do speak German, enjoy the words too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxrgcSm4rxs

 

[Tio_Narratore]

And this from Orff's Carmina Burana. It might be idiosyncratic (I promised I'd never tell how my soprano partner sang it to me in high school, but I'll never forget it), but what can I say... fit ludus ineffabilis, membris lacertis, labiis.

Kathleen Battle's is pretty good, but collect a number of them. I heard a perfectly sensual rendition once on radio, and have searched for it for years with no success.

Enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFq8vH7tPxs

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

I have a playlist called "tacky Euro pop" on my computer. I mostly use it for my boring day-job writing, but I did write a story to a subset of this list. I think it had a bunch of Air (like Femme d'Argent, Talisman, and Mer du Japon), Royksopp (Eple, I think), Attila Marcel from the Triplets of Belleville soundtrack, and maybe even some random Gainsbourg and Stereolab.

Yes, there are words to some of these songs . . . but my French is so terrible that I'm usually able to ignore the words.

They are all kind of slow, but I found them strangely sexy . . . then again, maybe it's just me.

Oh, and it has words, but I also find Jeff Buckley's version of Hallelujah oddly addictive in that same slow, shouldn't-be-sexy-but-it-kind-of-is way. Put it on repeat, and it fades into the background.

 

[desertslave]

I'm biased, I love classical guitar, especially Fernando Sor or Isaac Albeniz.

I'm also very fond of Kitaro. I've done a lot of journaling and random writing to his music.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

And this from Orff's Carmina Burana. It might be idiosyncratic (I promised I'd never tell how my soprano partner sang it to me in high school, but I'll never forget it), but what can I say... fit ludus ineffabilis, membris lacertis, labiis.

Kathleen Battle's is pretty good, but collect a number of them. I heard a perfectly sensual rendition once on radio, and have searched for it for years with no success.

Enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFq8vH7tPxs

The problem with almost all recordings of Carmina Burana is that they are professional singers. Orff wrote that piece specifically for a student choir and any time someone with more polish tries to do it, it just doesn't come out right. Heck, I even did the Drunken Abbot back in university and for me to be hitting a high G# is agonizing. And it should be. So what you probably heard was a student rendition by some really good students!

 

[jomar]

Check out Morcheeba's Big Calm. And Roxy Music's Avalon is old school sexy.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

The problem with almost all recordings of Carmina Burana is that they are professional singers. Orff wrote that piece specifically for a student choir and any time someone with more polish tries to do it, it just doesn't come out right. Heck, I even did the Drunken Abbot back in university and for me to be hitting a high G# is agonizing. And it should be. So what you probably heard was a student rendition by some really good students!

Maybe that's why I was so smitten by my hs gf's singing it to me. That and the setting, the costume, the...but I promised I wouldn't tell.

 

[Emily124]

...Oh, and it has words, but I also find Jeff Buckley's version of Hallelujah oddly addictive in that same slow, shouldn't-be-sexy-but-it-kind-of-is way. Put it on repeat, and it fades into the background.

Tatyana, it's funny that you mentioned the song Hallelujah. I think I've heard at least four different artists perform this song, but my favorite by far is K.D. Lang's version (this one in particular). I feel the same way about it, though. It's completely addictive and surprisingly sexy! I think the kitchen scene is very hot, and of course the part: "and from your lips she drew 'hallelujah'" is orgasmic. This song is amazing, and I go through phases where it's the only song I listen to for days. When I first heard it, I was drawn to it, and I couldn't understand why. I'm not religious and I don't listen to religious music, but there was something about this song. I knew it was more than that. I listened to over and over again until I figured it out. It's one of the most powerful songs I've ever heard.

 

[aim2plz412]

Check out Morcheeba's Big Calm. And Roxy Music's Avalon is old school sexy.

I second this recommendation. In addition, Tricky's "maximque" certainly sets the mood and delivers for those passionate moments. Pure sex.

 

[MemphisMan9]

I just put everything on shuffle these days, but instrumental-wise, surf bands and coffee have been working for a bit.

 

[Saxon Stonedyke]

Enigma~ Water (creativity) that song had to be made for sex....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlytTLFwqbU

It's hard to find but there is a compilation of Enigma songs called Erotic Dreams that includes Water. Sometimes there is a word or two here and there but the whole album is mostly instrumental. I listen to it when I am writing, driving and well, never mind!

I do have to be careful driving though because I am apt to look down at the spedo and discover I am doing 85 in a 45.

 

[LettersFromTatyana]

Check out Morcheeba's Big Calm.

seconded.

Tatyana, it's funny that you mentioned the song Hallelujah. I think I've heard at least four different artists perform this song, but my favorite by far is K.D. Lang's version (this one in particular). I feel the same way about it, though.

I'll check that version out--I've never heard it, thanks.

And for those of us who write at tortoise-speed, from a writerly perspective, it's comforting to know that Leonard Cohen struggled for five years before finishing it.

 

[estragon]

Saxon, take it easy on those Tennessee back country roads! There aren't so many authors I copy edit for that I can afford to lose any!

LfT, great that you're back. If you can spare the time, how about some more Corsica?

 

[topace]

When I'm in a writing mood, I listen to my classical, jazz, or movie soundtracks from my music collection on my computer.

Probably my number 1 favorite is The Lion King soundtrack for album and the James Bond theme for individual track.

 

[fifty5]

Bolero--Maurice Ravel. Every time I hear it I imagine some lovely stripping off one slow garment at a time.

Shit, I wanted to recommend that! I even tried to replicate that snare drum rhythm in a story (tum ta-ta-tum ta-ta-tum ta-ta-ta ta-ta-ta-tum) but it didn't work then and probably still doesn't now.

The one time I heard Bolero live, the snare drummer got special applause at the end - every other musician gets a rest, but that snare drum keeps on going from the start to the finish (and you can thrust in time to it!)

Ignoring the no vocal restriction, try Joe Walsh's Rocky Mountain Way, or practically anything from "Velvet Underground & Nico" At the end of the 1960's I did sound for a show at the original Edinburgh Traverse Theatre (I think I remember two rows of four seats at each side of the stage, though it might have been 3 of five) which involved simulated oral sex (though the lights were low - and I shared a flat with the two actors - so it may not just have been simulated [I still believe it was, because they were into the performance more than exhibitionism]). The sound track came from that album. I think the track I used was Venus in Furs, but almost every track appeals to some kink or other, not to mention the addictive attributes of Heroin!

For first time lesbian sex, Suzanne Vega - Stockings (but listen to all of 'Nine Objects of Desire').

PS There is also Iron Butterfly, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, mostly instrumental.

It all depends if you and your readers are rockers or not

 

[fifty5]

Any more?

Bump.

 

[bashfullyshameless]

Found this in a similar thread on the HT board.

"Tell Me" by Billie Myers - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfWuGnft0KQ

I immediately went to iTunes to download the song. This is so great I want to crank it to eleven and put it on repeat. Hell, this song could've been about a recipe for cookies, but Myers's voice is so awesome and it's got such a great tune I'd still love it.