Sexy songs/explicit lyrics

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<p>I haven’t been in the cafe much and don’t think I have ever actually posted here but thought this might be the place to try to start a silly little discussion.</p>

<p>I was having a conversation with my D about explicit lyrics and the attraction kids seem to have to songs and genres which feature them. She listens to a lot of country and has fairly conservative music tastes but I shared with her that the songs my friends and I used to crank up in high school and college were also likely to have sexual overtones. While they didn’t use the language we all knew what was being discussed. </p>

<p>That got me to thinking about the “sexy songs” of the 70s and 80s which were examples.</p>

<p>Breakdown-Tom Petty
You Shook Me All Night Long-ACDC
Tonght’s the Night- Rod Stewart</p>

<p>and though it is not overtly sexual I have always felt like Don Henley’s The Boys of Summer sounded like it was</p>

<p>Thought it might be fun to hear the ones you remember.</p>

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<p>And the 60’s:</p>

<p>Respect (Aretha’s version). It’s not just about ‘respect’ in the sense we usually think of that word, but also about sex. “Sock it to me” and “give me my propers when you get home” are explicitly sexual references.</p>

<p>Please Please Me, The Beatles</p>

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<p>Miracles (Jefferson Starship) - I had a taste of the real world when I went down on you</p>

<p>immediately comes to mind, but when listening to old rock with my daughter, other sexual references are prevalent! Mama’s got a squeezebox, daddy never sleeps at night!</p>

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<p>Micracles, Jefferson Starship</p>

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<p>I hate these filthy songs of today–why can’t we have the clean songs of decades ago, like “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road?”</p>

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<p>How about the cheesy, syrupy, “Afternoon Delight”</p>

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<p>Come on baby do you do more than dance?</p>

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<p>The Knack had great naughty lyrics:
“My Sharona”
“Good girls don’t, but I do”, still cracks me up.</p>

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<p>You can go back further and get a lot dirtier with any number of fantastic blues artists from the 20’s and 30’s.
Just one of many…“Youve Got to Give Me Some” by Bessie Smith</p>

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<p>Shakin’ by Eddie Money.</p>

<p>Centerfold by J. Geils Band.</p>

<p>And it’s precisely because I was watching Starlight Vocal Band sing Afternoon Delight in concert at the tender age of 13 that I don’t worry about the lyrics of today.</p>

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<p>:) these are great!</p>

<p>Hunt you made me laugh! I agree totally and lets not forget “Let’s Get Drunk and Screw”</p>

<p>mommabear: I had never thought of that as a sexual reference. I just thought the music kept him awake! LOL</p>

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<p>I notice the lyrics in my kids music, when I listen. I don’t go nuts, but I do see it.</p>

<p>I do get caught when my older teens are in the car and I have a throwback CD in with:
Jackson Browne - Cocaine
Commodores - Brick House
Billy Joel - Capt Jack
Steve Miller - The Joker
The Police - Roxanne
Van Halen - Running With the Devil
Backman-Turner-Overdrive - You Ain’t Seen Nuthin’ Yet
Jimmy Buffett - Let’s Get Drunk and Screw… it’s is so catchy, not even hard rock, lol</p>

<p>Nothing overt, but you do cringe a bit when you are at a stoplight jamming air guitar, singing about drugs and…oh yea, note to self, kids in car…don’t look like you’re having that much fun!</p>

<p>A couple of newer ones that make me wiggle when the kids are around are
Phil Vaser - I’ll Take That as a Yes
Toby Keith - Stays in Mexico…well a bunch of Toby Keith, he’s patriotic but his lyrics :o
Big & Rich - Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy</p>

<p>I’m sure there are some I’m forgetting & probably have crossed posts while I checked my itunes lists. I don’t think ‘our’ music was as overt as it was just really, really suggestive. One foul word isn’t going to make me squirm as much as an entire song suggesting sex or drugs. I won’t monitor their music, they’re too old for that, but if you are asking what my comfort level is, I guess that would be the difference.</p>

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<p>I just read a funny anecdote about “Brick House.” Rob Zombie did a cover of it for one of his movies, and when he heard a tape of it, Lionel Richie volunteered to do the vocals because Zombie couldn’t say “howwssse” correctly.</p>

<p>“Baby Got Back” is one that we (cringingly) enjoy in our family.</p>

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<p>Also from the 20’s and 30’s is Cole Porter. ‘Let’s Do It’, ‘I Get a Kick Out of You’, and ‘My Heart Belongs to Daddy’ come to mind.</p>

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<p>I don’t think anyone’s mentioned “Let’s Get Physical”? I can picture Olivia Newton John with a headband and spandex pants but she wasn’t singing about exercising!</p>

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<p>Just have to add these…</p>

<p>George Michael… I Want Your Sex
Madonna - Like a Virgin
Nothing vague about there.</p>

<p>Foreigner - Hot Blooded</p>

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<p>This made me laugh, because somehow this became my son’s “theme song” in high school. He says that occasionally when he walked into class, someone would begin playing it on their iPhone. It seems the teachers were mostly tolerant of this kind of dorky humor.</p>

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<p>Our family cringe-inducer is Barbie Girl by Aqua. “Kiss me here, touch me there, hanky-panky.” “You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere.” Yikes. Yet we all bebop to it like it’s not naughty. As soon as my 10-year-old daughter gives an indication that she gets it, the MP3 will be deleted.</p>

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<p>“Only the Good Die Young”, Billy Joel</p>

<p>And I never realized how bad the lyrics were until I listened to “Greased Lightning” on the Grease soundtrack with my kids.</p>

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<p>^ Oh, how my mother hated that Billy Joel song! </p>

<p>Exile’s “Kiss You All Over” was considered pretty racy stuff among my Catholic school girl crowd. </p>

<p>I’m still repressed enough that I will only crank up the volume to “Chelsea Hotel No. 2” when the kids aren’t home.</p>

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<p>Robert Palmer: I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On
Rod Stewart: Maggie May
Joni Mitchell: Raised on Robbery</p>

<p>Mantori - I work with 5 year olds and I can’t tell you how often they sing songs they’re listening to at home, that I’m sure their parents wouldn’t want them singing outloud at school. Pretty funny.</p>