Monday, December 3, 2007

Artist: Iron & Wine
Song: Sodom, South Georgia
Album: Our Endless Numbered Days

From: anonymous

I'm an eighteen-year-old American girl who identifies as bisexual.

The guy in question has been a friend of mine since elementary school, and the night that this particular encounter happened was the Fourth of July. He'd just broken up with his first girlfriend, so I invited him to spend the Fourth with my family because I didn't want him moping around. He ended up sleeping over because it got so late; I put music on my iPod speakers and we started talking. Music is really important to both of us, and the guy holds some musical significance in my life, as he introduced me to a lot of the indie music that I love. I changed it to the Iron & Wine album Our Endless Numbered Days because we both love Iron & Wine.

I can't pinpoint when it happened, but suddenly we're making out on my bed to Iron & Wine. There's so much there on that bed - we've been friends for so long, he's only kissed one girl as opposed to my admittedly extensive experience, we both have attractiveness/insecurity issues ... but somehow Iron & Wine melts it all away. It definitely tinged the encounter ... that boy touched me like I was made of glass, fingers trailing the valley between my hips and ribs with something like wonder.

Anyway, we made out for ages, certainly the entire album. I only chose that song because it's both of our favorite.

Sunday, December 2, 2007

Artist: Leonard Cohen
Song: The Future
Album: Blossoms of Heaven, Ashes of Hell bootleg


From: anonymous

This was not so much a specifically selected song as much as a song that came up on my iTunes after my partner and I had been fucking for a while. But when it did begin, we both looked at each other and said, "Wow, this is song is really perfect for what we're doing." We had been listening to Leonard Cohen songs for a while, many of which were very sexy, but somehow this one was the one we took notice of. I had a certain feeling of "look at me fucking to this ideal Leonard Cohen song" after noticing it, but I think that might have just made things better. In any case, we had UNBELIEVABLY FUCKING GREAT SEX, and maybe the sensation of listening to the perfect song for the moment helped.

I'm a straight twenty-year-old girl; my partner was a straight thirty-eight-year-old guy. This was just one out of many times that we had great sex with each other. Leonard Cohen is now, in my mind, the ideal music for hot older/younger sex.
Artist: A Tribe Called Quest
Song: Oh My God
Album: Midnight Marauders


From: anonymous

Bio: anonymous (please) straight white dude

I'd been in a relationship for several years that just didn't have alot of hot sparks--the sex was predictable, orchestrated and vanilla.Generally I was playing along with what I thought she foundromantic--dim lights, candles and gentle music like ben harper or norajones. The first sexual encounter I had after breaking up with herwas so hot to me in part because it just didn't need any pretense forus to be on each other. The lights were on and the album "midnightmarauders" by "a tribe called quest" was playing. One song that stands out in my memory is "oh my god."
Artist: The Cure
Song:The Same Deep Water As You
Album: Disintegration


From: Skye Maule-O'Brien

I'm a white woman who identifies as straight....

Um so I have old school sex and more contemporary ones....

The older one actually comes from a really important album by the Cure- Disintegration. I have the CD and still listen to it - I havetransferred the CD onto a mini-disc with about 5 other albums thatsort of conjure up the same feelings - but not all the same way - some are a lot more positive than others.I would have to say "The Same Deep Water as You", from the albumDisintegration is probably the most special, but other important onesare the songs "Disintegration", "Plainsong" and "Untitled" on the samealbum. To me the songs are about sexual power, loss, pain, and my ownidentity as I was maturing into a sexually active young women. At thetime I was dealing with a lot of sadness, intense feelings andemotions that at the time I did not know how to deal with. When Ilisten to this album now it is more about empowerment through myexperiences and learning about myself and how to learn to love mydeeper darker sides that maybe not everyone shares. The references todeath, rebirth and water all really speak to me personally. Buthonestly this is a side of me almost NO ONE ever gets to hear about -it's definitely the serious intimate side of my sexuality, but it'snot the only side of me.

The more contemporary CD that I like and is also on the mini-disc Icreated a couple years back. It is Lovage, by Dan the Automator, MikePatton, Jennifer Charles, Kid Koala. The album is called 'Music toMake Love to Your Old Lady By" ... and he isn't joking around! Thereare 2 songs on that album that really touched me in my heart and clitoris! hahah! no but serious they are very sexy songs. "Sex (I'ma)" is probably my favorite for sexiness and hotness and then "AngerManagement" is the other good one. These are much more positive in myown sexual memory, compared to my younger more troubled Cure years.Also it speaks more about the person I am now I guess - but stillholds a special, sexy, and emotional place in my heart.

I have a lot of other less serious songs and music that I associatewith sex, sexuality and empowerment - like some George Michael, SaltN' Peppa, N.E.R.D. Sade, Depeche Mode, Air, Felix da house cat, Lordsof Acid, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult (actually very important inthe earlier years too), but I guess because sex is an intimate encounter and also reaches deep into parts of my head that I find hardto articulate I felt it was more important for me to share songs thatmove me emotionally as well as sexually. The Cure is probably less connected to SEX than Lovage is, but both are connected to my sexuality.

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Artist: Hot Chip
Song: Over And Over
Album: The Warning


from: BeTo

This is one of the songs that was playing during a sexual encounter.

Friday, November 23, 2007

Artist: Led Zeppelin
Song: Ramble On
Album: Led Zeppelin II


From: anonymous

Biographical Info:
I'm a 26 year old Caucasian female. I like boys.

My sexy sound story:
When I was younger I had quite a few fling-type relationships with men. I had a number of shitty experiences being that I was very naive and gullable as a young woman. Afterwards I refused to let my guard down or let myself be vulnerable to anyone, so I never really spent much time with one particular man. When I was about 20 or 21 I met a guy at a party and we started dating very casually. We had sex the night I met him, and I assumed it would end there, so I was surprised when he called me. He was older than me and seemed very kind and grounded, which was unlike the sorry collection of douchebags I had dated previous to him. The first time I went to his apartment, we had a few drinks and listened to music through his satellite TV. We have very similar tastes in music - both of us were into 70s rock like Zeppelin and Pink Floyd - so we quizzed each other on how long it took each of us to guess the song after the first few bars. After some quizzing and a heated discussion about the Eagles, we ended up in his bedroom. The TV was still blasting music - we were too distracted to turn if off - and I can remember hearing one of my favourite Led Zeppelin songs, "Ramble On," starting to play as we were having sex. The song is loud and fast and always makes me want to move, so I focused on it as we were having sex and it made everything feel even better. I remember wanting to yell "fuck yeah!" (but I didn't, because that would have indeed been very awkward, for both of us) - I felt completely happy and confident in that moment and I couldn't imagine a better song to have played right then. Even though I stopped dating the guy shortly after that, there were no hard feelings between us, and I look back on that moment as one in which I felt totally empowere, in control, and satisfied (and, interestingly, I have no recollection of the sex itself, but only of the song and how I felt at the time).

Other info:
The song, it seems, is what makes that sexual encounter memorable for me (without it, I don't think I'd ever have thought of that encounter otherwise). Led Zeppelin, for me, is really empowering and makes me think of independence and strength (it's loud, it's hard, it's full of intent), so in that moment I felt totally in control of the situation, like I was enjoying myself and he (as terrible as it sounds) was simply there to provide that for me. There was no way he was going to take advantage of me, and no way that I would let down my steely guard. That sounds kind of tragic, I know, but I sort of felt like "I'm getting what I want from you" and, depsite the fact that he was a very nice guy, that made me feel powerful -in an 'i'm-samantha-jones-and-i'm-fucking-like-a-man' type of way .
Artist: Explosions In The Sky
Song: First Breath After Coma
Album: The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place


From: Brad

Playing the song on repeat was a mistake but i didn't realize it was on repeat until after the affair.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Artist: Morphine
Song: Test Tube Baby/Shoot 'Em Down
Album: Good


From: Greg

Male 23 East Coast Canada Greg

The song is rather rambunctious, and we did have sex for the whole duration of the album, (Good) which is, in it's entirety; amazing. But this particular person was not very into having sex with music, he said it made him feel like he was in a movie and this creeped him out, so the sex was not as great as it could have been or was when we weren't listening to music and he was more comfortable. But I still always want to roll around on the floor like a cat in heat when I listen to this album.

Type of player: CD player, CD.
Artist: Fischerspooner
Song: Emerge
Album: #1


From: Peter

In the summer of 2004, I spent a fun and rather drunken night out with one of my closest friends, who just happens to share both my sex and my sexual orientation. We decided to stop by his apartment for post-night out cigarettes and chatter. I had made him a mix CD in the months prior for reasons I dont remember, and he decided to put it on in what I remember as a way to show me he actually listened to it even though I didn't think he did. Somewhere in the middle of the dozen or so tracked CD, Fischerspooner's Emerge came on. Its a really sexy song.. fast but sensual beats, very suggestive if not totally explicit lyrics.. Anyway, I don't know how much of it was the song or how much of it was the general sexual tension that had been a longstanding fragment of our until then platonic relationship, but "Emerge", about fifteen seconds in, led us to do the same. The fact that his best friend at the time was also my boyfriend is a separate (though important) part of the story. Whenever I hear that song I can smell the musky mix of cologne and sweat that he smelled like that night. It was an isolated event, and didn't cause any damage, but if that song ever comes on I can only think of him, and I'd like to think he does the same.
Artist: Bach
Song: Saint Matthew Passion

from: anonymous

-i listen to every thing in general, from prog to industrial to psychedelic,
-it felt very dramatic and funny at the same time, like in a movie lol,
-unfortunately i don't remember if it's been played on cd or record :(
-we chose it because it felt like it (it was a rainy day)
Artist: Blue 6
Song: Sweeter Love (Jay's Full Vocal Edit)
Album: Deep and Sexy: A Wave Music Compilation


From: Marcus

-your biographical info
Marcus (36), a Vancouver-based faerie and UBC Grad student

-how your musical choice affected your sexual encounter
I got in the habit of listening to Deep and Sexy when a fuck buddy came over. At one point I realized I was subconsciously timing sex to coincide with it, hoping we'd finish before it ran out. 'Sweeter Love' would usually coincide with the plateau before the final orgasmic crescendo.

-what type of technology you used to play your soundtrack
Initially it was a CD in my stereo. After downloading it to my Mac, I played it for sex the first time and the song had order changed. It was an odd and pleasant surprise.

-why you chose that particular work
My buddy Robb gifted me the CD for the specific purpose of sex music.

-any other thought or reflections
Can't wait to have a new sex soundtrack.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Artist: Profanatica
Song: Unto Us He Is Born
Album: Profanatias De Domonatia

From: INIR

-your biographical info:
gay male, 36, caucasian.

-how your musical choice affected your sexual encounter:
unexpected request during a one off.
had some great sex because i was able to play music i actually would have liked to have sex to in the first place. it obviously changed the dynamic of the encounter and likely made it more aggressive.

-what type of technology you used to play your soundtrack:
computer, mp3

-why you chose that particular work:
it was the loudest and most aggressive song i could find at the time it was requested.

-any other thoughts or reflections:
i usually listen to this type of music alone, so having it play during sex was very interesting. i would definately be interested in repeating the experience as i find it was very important to set the mood for the situation that was requested also.
the occasion being a one off also was situated in fetish/roleplay so i suspect i wouldn't have much of a chance playing during a 'romantic' engagement...but i think it would be interesting!



Monday, November 19, 2007

Artist: Nina Nastasia
Song: Too Much in Between
Album: Dogs


from: anonymous

1) bio: semi social male 1/2 of the time who cannot for the life of him make up his mind...
2) used within "proper" relationships and "one nighters" not so much as for aid but for atmosphere of the inevitable
3) actual cd's played on a proper stereo.
4) these albums are stellar in their own right. classics even. great for the intended "mood" of a given encounter and, therefore, your project. just great and honest music.
5) thoughts: i still keep f@#king it up!

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Artist: VNV Nation
Song: Solitary (Covenant's Deathstar Disco remix)
Album: Solitary EP


from: anonymous

I am a Montreal-based writer who has always been torn between the organic sounds of sex and the sound of sexy music. That is why I usually choose ambient techno with drippy, liquid blips and other human stuff.

In a recent sexual encounter with myself, in which I tried something brutal and experimental to test my physical limits, I had to play VNV Nation's Solitary (Deathstar Disco - Covenant). I chose that song because it is brooding and intense, a building layer of sound that I could bury myself under as the orgasm hit and I screamed into the pillow. The song pushed me through whatever fear I had, and helped me extract what I needed to out of the pain. It was an MP3 file, so the treble was sharp enough to nail itself into my brain and stick with me through the experience.

Thank you for letting me participate in this project. I never would have otherwise thought to share this with anybody.

Friday, November 16, 2007

Artist: Khan
Song: Jet Lounge Blues
Album: 1-900-Get-Khan


From: Mark Ambrose Harris

I think I started using music during sex less as a mood setting, but more so as a sort of sonic camouflage. I didn't want my boyfriend's roomates to hear us, so I would always insist on having music on. Though, looking back at the situation, I don't know if Bjork's Vespertine, or The Hidden Camera's Missassauga Goddamn were necessarily loud enough albums to serve such a "soundproofing" purpose.

More recently, in my own apartment, I would actually turn my stereo speakers towards my roomates' rooms whenever my partner and I were engaged in any sort of sexual activity. One album I started using was Khan's 1-900-Get-Khan. But besides just being music to drown out our own noise, I began to appreciate the sonic palate of the album as kind of sexy, sleazy, moody, and bodily. I've actually used this recording quite a bit. So now whenever my partner hears the album's opening track, Jet Lounge Blues, he knows what I have in mind.
Artist: Grace Jones
Song: Slave To The Rhythm
Album: Slave To The Rhythm


From: AM

i played slave to the rhythm by Grace Jones the night that a guy i liked(who later became my partner for 15 years) first came over to my place. we were sitting on the floor by the couch, and as it played i leaned back and swayed to the rhythm. he started kissing my neck and by the time my room-mate walked in half an hour later, we were rolling around on the floor.quite an ice-breaker.
Artist: Stereolab
Song: Changer
Album: Switched On, Vol. 1


From: Genny D.

Bio: Canadian in New York City, string of lovers, always noncommittal artistic types.

Technology: Played on his Mac.

Afterthoughts: Afterglow severely affected by cat allergy.

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Artist: Dave Mathews Band
Song: Crash Into Me
Album: Crash


From: anonymous
Artist: Consolidated, featuring the Yeastie Girls
Song: You Suck!
Album: Play More Music


From: R. Kelly Clipperton
Artist: Placebo
Song: Black-Eyed
Album: Black Marked Music


From: Dr. Bristar Emorocker, the New Original