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.