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Barbe-loving: Your picks for make-out bliss

 
  

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Kali, Queen of Kitteh
19:46 / 10.08.06
I feel like putting together a seduction/make-out mix CD. And if I do, then I feel I have to have some sort of suave move in order to put it on. It's one thing to start making out and there's music already going, but another thing altogether, if you actually stop the enjoyable activity to put something on.

I would also like to state for the record if you're going to make out to a Tom Waits CD, I would recommend The Heart of Saturday Night.
 
 
Chiropteran
20:02 / 10.08.06
It's one thing to start making out and there's music already going, but another thing altogether, if you actually stop the enjoyable activity to put something on.

My old stereo automatically started playing the first CD in the changer when you switched it on. It also came with a remote. The stereo was next to the bed (out of convenient arm's reach), but the remote signal would bounce back if it was pointed anywhere vaguely on the opposite wall; i.e., one could do it without looking. Handy. If done smoothly, and without groping for the remote (under the pillow?), the effect is pure Space Age Bachelor Dorm, uh, Pad.

There have been a few hot summer nights that have resulted in my neighbors and I greeting each other the next morning with knowing grins all around.

Mmm-hmm. One of my ex's had an apartment directly beneath one of my co-workers(!!), which I did not find out until well into the relationship. The loud music was the least of their worries... (This was the CoF/TKK relationship, which didn't help.)
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
20:08 / 10.08.06
Yeah, I've lived in enough places where the walls weren't so much thin as the heater grates were perfect conduits of naughty sounds. I can only imagine how many people I've heard or how many have heard me. The mind boggles.

I would also like to add Garbage to the list of make-out songs. Especially "#1 Crush" and "Fix Me Now."
 
 
Jackie Susann
23:16 / 10.08.06
For me, nothing beats Another Level's 'Freak Me':

Let me lick you up and down
Til you say stop
Let me play with your body, baby,
Make you real hot...
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
13:15 / 11.08.06
Caustic Window: Compilation.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
13:20 / 11.08.06
I feel that I want to add I'm generally a bit squicked by the the concept of deliberately picking out music to bump uglies to/scene-setting in that way. It's a squick, so no judgement on others doing it.

I think more 'me' is when music and sexual stuff randomly collide and meld to create an incredible moment of sensory/sensual Kaboom.

See also, on this score: Autechre, Blechtum from Blechdom.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
13:24 / 11.08.06
I don't know if it's so much scene-setting as it happens to be what plays in the background when you do make out.

Again, I've never deliberately played anything to set a mood, but my first post was about songs that make me want to make out.
 
 
Chiropteran
14:29 / 11.08.06
I feel that I want to add I'm generally a bit squicked by the the concept of deliberately picking out music to bump uglies to/scene-setting in that way. It's a squick, so no judgement on others doing it.

I have to say that I find that statement genuinely confusing (again, no judgement on you for feeling that way, nor am I asking you to explain or defend your feelings), since for me it seems like the most natural thing in the world (some people light candles, some people play music, etc.). Eh, people are different.

I've never made a "seduction" mix, per se, but I have often chosen music specifically for the intimate atmosphere it creates. I suppose on the one hand it might seem to hamper spontaneity, but on the other hand, the relationships where deliberate scene-setting has played the biggest role were already heavily-negotiated to begin with (poly, D/s), so it didn't stand out as objectionally artificial/premeditated.

That said, the spontaneous "moment of sensory/sensual Kaboom" is a magic all its own, I agree. My original list, above, was mainly of that type (planned "scene" music is a lot more specific, but damn if Dandy in the Underworld doesn't bring it on just anywhere).
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
14:41 / 11.08.06
Actually, having reread that, I'm having second thought about what I've said, I think I'm constructing a straw man/othering process/dichotomy, and I think I should probably call bullshit on it.

Your post also underlines something that I certainly do connect to, which is negotiated sexual activity/scene-setting and which, come to think of it, I have done with music/SM scenes.

So, thanks for calling me on it and making me think!
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
14:44 / 11.08.06
I still gonna make that mix CD. Then I'll find a victim.
 
 
Bijou Venus
16:27 / 11.08.06
There are quite a number of songs i really like - although i can generally never remember them when i want to....

Riders on the Storm by The Doors
Pink by Aerosmith
Drive by Melissa Ferrick: really very very sexy. Honestly.
 
 
Bijou Venus
16:39 / 11.08.06
Actually, i've given this some more thought, and the question is, what sort of um, hot under the collar are you thinking of? Slow, gentle, loving? Wild horny fucking? Slow and sensuous? Fun and sexy?

Cos if you want number 2, then say, Peaches, Fuck the Pain Away is really rather good, but absolutely no good for slow and gentle!
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
16:44 / 11.08.06
Good question.

Most of the songs I've listed are for different types of loving. For example, you couldn't be tender during certain Nick Cave songs.
 
 
Ticker
16:47 / 11.08.06
I've made seduction mixes that build up into a crazy frenzy and then linger until slowly becoming more sensual.

Kali, I find it best to give the mix to your victim ahead of time as a courting gift and let it work its magic on their imagination. Then when you're together you use your copy of the mix to reinforce the, um, atmospheric intent.

Basement Jaxx's 'Get Me Off' is a perfect example of a frenzy song me thinks.
 
 
Chiropteran
16:57 / 11.08.06
Kali, I find it best to give the mix to your victim ahead of time as a courting gift and let it work its magic on their imagination. Then when you're together you use your copy of the mix to reinforce the, um, atmospheric intent.

Much agreed.
 
 
Ticker
17:33 / 11.08.06
...in recognition of the B side of luv...

I and a group of friends made a collective heartbreak mix. Each person sent me a title for a song (or the mp3) and I sifted through them to make a mix which was then sent to everyone. we all voted on the best hit-your-heart-with-a-chainsaw selection and the winner got a prize.

Perhaps Barbelith we should make a luv mix and an accompanying anti-luv mix?
I suggest a thread with a time limit in Creation? Perhaps folks could send me their choices via PM and the first ones to fill up a CD are the ones we use? I would be happy to snail mail everyone a CD who participates.

Whatchoo think?
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
17:54 / 11.08.06
I'm game.

Is there any way to charge a CD?
 
 
Ticker
18:05 / 11.08.06
you mean magically? Hell ya!
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
18:47 / 11.08.06
There is? Then you will have to share the secret because I would love to do that to a CD and give it to someone.
 
 
Ticker
18:53 / 11.08.06
Well I'm sure there are many ways. Perhaps you should ask in the Temple so you can get a wide range of choices?
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
19:01 / 11.08.06
Perhaps Barbelith we should make a luv mix and an accompanying anti-luv mix?

I think this was actually done, way back when - there were certainly collaborative mixtape threads, themed, and I think these were two of the themes. I'll see what I can dredge up from the archives.
 
 
Ticker
19:09 / 11.08.06
Oh well I started a new one. Hope the rules are different enough to justify a new thread?

Barbe-Luv & Barbe-AntiLuv Mixes
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
22:01 / 11.08.06
Oh, it wouldn't be a problem anyway, I was just going to try and find the old ones out of interest...
 
 
uncle retrospective
19:06 / 13.08.06
Well I have to say that if Kali ever tried to ensnare me with a mix tape I'd fall off the sofa. You've hit almost all of the songs that work for me, Ribbons by the Sisters of Mercy being my all time fave.
Heartbeats by the Knife is working for me at the monent (well, not as I type, oh, you know what I mean!). Another fave is the amazing, jaw dropping, Trantric Porno by Bardo Pond, the intro bassline as it starts to build is trouser quaking. The problem is the bloody thing won't go on a mix tape, the only thing it will fit with is post rock or shoe gazing. Bah!
 
 
Chiropteran
02:29 / 14.08.06
I'm going to have to add a new(-to-me) song: Scissor Sisters - Lovers in the Backseat. I just checked out the Sisters for the first time, and damn that's a sexy song. A little taste of Gary Numan in there ("oooh," again), only warm and human.

The images it evokes for me don't quite match the lyics, but it still works (sort of): it's one of "those nights," when you're out with friends, four of you - an established couple, plus you and another person you don't know too well (but are thinking you would quite like to) as the third and fourth wheels, respectively. Couple getting busy in the back, the two of you getting increasingly awkward in the front, each wondering what the other expects out of the evening - "Would you like a cigarette, or my hand upon your shoulder?" - and it gets harder and harder not to think about what's happening right behind you, and how attractive this other person sitting so close to you is, and, um, hmm. "There's lovers in the backseat / Jealous glances now I'm looking for another song / On the radio..." It's fraught both with possibilities and acute discomfort (and, possibly, nostalgia).
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
13:12 / 14.08.06
I am taking both of those posts above as compliments.
 
 
Chiropteran
18:56 / 14.08.06
Hmm?
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
20:26 / 14.08.06
I'm just glad you found the song, Lepidopteran.
 
 
Chiropteran
21:03 / 14.08.06
Whaddya know: you did mention that in your first post, didn't you? I came across the song on my own, not even realizing, and raced back to the thread to post about it. Well then, consider yourself duly complimented for electrifyingly good taste.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
13:39 / 15.08.06
Damn, that song is effin' sexy, ain't it?
 
 
Chiropteran
18:50 / 15.08.06
Damn, that song is effin' sexy, ain't it?

Hell, I'm about ready to send the kids to Grandma's and invite the whole thread 'round for a weekender.

On a doom-jazz tip, the appallingly-named Bohren & der Club of Gore sets a throbbing, velvety mood for those humid amour noir nights. "Sexy like a crime scene," if that's your thing (and it is, just sometimes, isn't it?). For the lover with a slooooow hand, and maybe a little bloodplay.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
18:51 / 15.08.06
Count me in if you send the kids out, Lepidopteran.

And yes, I do find crime scenes sexy.
 
 
Chiropteran
19:12 / 15.08.06
And yes, I do find crime scenes sexy.

Oh good, then I'll just go sharpen up my- Heeeeeeeeey. Is this entrapment?

Bohren, official site. (I can only vouch for the albums Sunset Mission and Black Earth. Turn up the bass, carefully.)
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
13:17 / 17.08.06
Entrapment? Do I look like Marg Helgenberger to you?

Chalk outlines, crime scene tape, blood on the floor...

Maybe I should make my own murderous make-out song.
 
  

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