WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CD, OR LP FOR LOVEMAKING ?
Dec 26, 2002 at 11:12 AM Post #34 of 71
Definitely turntable. More tactile. The one advantage of having a cheaper automatic turntable: repeat. Therefore, I'd have to say side 1 of Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On, the second act of The Magic Flute, and surprisingly, the second side of Abbey Road.

If it must be CD, Portishead's Dummy for the gloomy type, The Cure's Disintegration for the wavy type, and very surprisingly Sunny Day Real Estate's Diary.
 
Dec 26, 2002 at 11:02 PM Post #35 of 71
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Originally posted by huy_ha
Definitely turntable. More tactile.



Well if that's what you're going for, use a reel to reel.

I heard a movie critic in the 90s note that turntables have replaced reel to reel as props when they want to have a "big tit machine."
 
Dec 27, 2002 at 8:38 PM Post #36 of 71
(I can't beleive I'm saying this, but....)

KennyG's Christmas album was nice, or so Mrs. Redneck thought.

(I'm voting Bolero )
 
Dec 29, 2002 at 9:07 AM Post #37 of 71
Just remembered: I've got a record from the early 70s of Bolero played on a moog with an overlay of a woman's passionate moaning. It's a riot, but too ridiculous to actually play during lovemaking.

I've also got the original album-side-long version of Love to Love You Baby from early in Donna Summer's careeer. This is only slightly less ridiculous than the moog Bolero.
 
Dec 30, 2002 at 8:07 PM Post #38 of 71
Funny thing about the Bolero: Everyone thinks it's about an orgasm but Ravel himself was apparently asexual. We have no idea who, if anyone, he slept with. In the annals of the Secret History, that means he was probably gay.

Which doesn't mean Ravel's music has to be devoid of visceral physical energy. But his most characteristic music often is. I think of Ravel when I recall Yeats's description of Keats looking at life "through a sweet shop window." In most of his work, Ravel has a childlike delicacy. He also has the perfectionism of a consummate pastry chef.

Personally, I don't advocate listening to classical music during sex, since I already think too much. But if I did, I'd choose Ravel's piano music long before the Bolero. People describe the Bolero as an endless climax, but I'd say it's closer to being endlessly repetitive. Whereas the piano music is liquid and sensitive, which fits a couple's changing rhythms.

Also: I think the kind of music one picks has to do with the particular partner, mood and level of alertness. Downtempo is good for certain sleepy encounters, but for a woman who wants to feel heavenly about getting hammered allegro vivace, I'd choose vintage LTJ Bukem or something a bit newer (Total Science, for example). For women in their mid-to-late thirties, I've found Vampiros Lesbos to be OK, as well as Transient Waves and the soundtrack to Gil Occhi Freddi Della Paura. (Some used to ask for K&D and Thievery, which was frighteningly mundane, but like any hypnotized bachelor, I appeased them nonetheless (mostly with Matthew Herbert).) Monolake's Cinemascope and Gravity can be good for mechanical encounters, though I just saw a not-younger woman last week who couldn't take Monolake's "repetition" (read: grim dryness), so I played Casino vs. Japan instead (equally repetitious but brighter and lighter). The best cut for my purposes: "Ionized." There's something pleasant about feeling a comb filter rise through you slowly during the act.

And of course there are times when you want no music whatsoever, just something to drown out certain frequencies. In which case I'd choose the completely arhythmic: Nuuk, or Permafrost. And sometimes you want nothing playing at all, especially when your partner is talkative and has a great accent.

What I can't have playing are male vocals of any kind. I don't even think I could keep it up listening to male hip hop -- which is perhaps one of many reasons I won't get the chance to know Asia Argento.

OT: I thought I should mention certain films that have proved fruitful as preludes to musical or a cappella encounters: Dellamore Dellamorte (aka, Cemetary Man), by Michele Soavi; The Night Porter.
 
Dec 30, 2002 at 9:32 PM Post #39 of 71
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OT: I thought I should mention certain films that have proved fruitful as preludes to musical or a cappella encounters: Dellamore Dellamorte (aka, Cemetary Man), by Michele Soavi; The Night Porter.


if anna falchi can't get your juices flowing, please check your pulse.

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Dec 30, 2002 at 9:38 PM Post #40 of 71
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Originally posted by redshifter
if anna falchi can't get your juices flowing, please check your pulse.

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I appreciate the disclaimer.
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- Chris
 
Jan 30, 2009 at 12:24 AM Post #42 of 71
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Originally Posted by Zanth /img/forum/go_quote.gif
Hmmm...amateurs the lot of you.


Ravel - Bolero.

26 minutes of non-stop progression to one of the biggest climaxes in "classical music." It was written for sex, guys. Seriously. Do yourselves a favour. Go and get a copy.


rent the movie "10"
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Jan 30, 2009 at 4:11 AM Post #43 of 71
"Love, I stepped in it once."

When I used to have sex I always preferred dream pop music, music like the Cranes do. That's because I am a sensual lover and not someone trying to do an imitation of an ape having sex.
 
Jan 30, 2009 at 4:37 AM Post #44 of 71
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"Love, I stepped in it once."

When I used to have sex I always preferred dream pop music, music like the Cranes do. That's because I am a sensual lover and not someone trying to do an imitation of an ape having sex.


+1, the thought of any other species reproducing is a maaajor turnoff
 
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