‘There’s people making babies to my music. That’s nice.’ Barry White
The food of love has played on since man first found his beat. A million love songs later, from Brahms’ red light performances to Elvis’s gyrating hips and beyond, the world continues to get it on to music.
Rolling Stone’s Rock & Roll Daily Top Five Sexiest Songs Ever
‘Let’s Get It On’ Marvin Gaye, 1973 ❖ ‘Closer’ Nine Inch Nails, 1993 ❖
‘Darling Nikki’ Prince, 1984 ♦♦♦ ‘Like A Virgin’ Madonna, 1984 ❖ ‘Get Up
(I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine’James Brown, 1970
________ Top 10 Sexiest Songs… Not Actually About Sex___________
‘Got to Give it Up, Ptl’ Marvin Gaye, 1977 ♦♦♦ ‘Love Theme from Spartacus’
Bill Evans, 1960 ❖ ‘Body II Body’ Samantha Mumba, 2000 ❖ ‘Kickstart My
Heart’ Motley Crue, 1989 ❖ ‘A Girl Like You’ Edwyn Collins, 1994 ❖ ‘Party
Hard’ Pulp, 1998 ❖ ‘See No Evil’ Television, 1977 ❖ ‘Lit Up’ Buckcherry,
1999 ❖ ‘Lean Lanky Daddy’ Little Ann ❖ ‘The Immigrant Song ‘Led
Zeppelin, 1970 Source: Stylus magazine’s Staff Top 10
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The Enormous Horns ❖ Sex Pistols ❖ Celibate Rifles ❖ The Slits ❖ Queen ❖ Tool ❖ Helmet ❖ Fanny ❖ Fudge Tunnel ❖ Revolting Cocks ❖ Machine Gun Fellatio ❖ Butthole Surfers ❖ Kiss ❖ Orgy ❖ The Four Skins
‘The way it felt between your thighs/ Pleasure that made you cry.’
Maroon 5, ‘Makes Me Wonder’, 2007