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Old 07.04.2008, 12:11 PM   #1
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I was just listening to a band of someone from this board (who shall remain nameless) and I noticed that while it wasn't very good, what made it abysmal was that it entirely lacked sex. Utterly, utterly sexless. Like NIN. Who are basically Prince but without the sexy bits. Or Westlife. In spite of all their songs being about girls and love and stuff, there is absolutely nothing sexy about the music itself.

Meanwhile, it doesn't really matter what the Cramps sing, they're just sexy.

So, two questions - if you like sexless music (which you probably do if you don't understand what I mean), why?
second, which bands are sexy in spite of that not really making sense? I'm thinking TG and the like (but not necessarily industrial).

Or am I blathering crap?
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Old 07.04.2008, 12:34 PM   #2
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Your not. I've always considered Sonic Youth sexy, whilst not often lyrically about such things. For example, I've very nearly got the horn before from listening to Kim's vocals on Doctor's Orders and Blink. It's interesting when discussing SY lyrics a couple of monthes ago alot of people claimed Dude Ranch Nurse was "about sex", but theres very little lyrically to suggest thing, it's just a sexy track. I shall have a think about other bands too.
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Old 07.04.2008, 01:07 PM   #3
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Your not. I've always considered Sonic Youth sexy, whilst not often lyrically about such things. For example, I've very nearly got the horn before from listening to Kim's vocals on Doctor's Orders and Blink. It's interesting when discussing SY lyrics a couple of monthes ago alot of people claimed Dude Ranch Nurse was "about sex", but theres very little lyrically to suggest thing, it's just a sexy track. I shall have a think about other bands too.

Yeah! Shaking Hell, Shadow of a doubt... that's precisely what I mean, that sort of sex that's almost threatening...
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Old 07.04.2008, 01:27 PM   #4
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I get it, and I think it's a very good and thought provoking thread. However it will invariably descend into similar territory to the 'hot chicks in bands' thread.
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Old 07.04.2008, 03:36 PM   #5
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NIN sexless? Argh. Sex and NIN is almost like a drug.
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Old 07.04.2008, 03:42 PM   #6
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Yes, TG, definitely. Goa trance makes me think of up-for-it Israeli girls in sarongs with back tattoos.

Metal is not sexy at all. And strangely, despite the fact that it's all about sex, I find Serge Gainsbourgh's music very asexual.

The Cramps are very sexy indeed, but more when they aren't being explicitely sexy in their lyrics. Human Fly is just filthy.

I rarely find sexy lyrics particularly effective, although The The's Infected album is quite dirty. Ditto everything by Soft Cell.
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Old 07.04.2008, 04:39 PM   #7
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Old 07.04.2008, 04:46 PM   #8
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I rarely find sexy lyrics particularly effective, although The The's Infected album is quite dirty.
Yes, sleazy rather than sexy. I sometimes forget how good Infected is.

"She was lying on her back
with her lips parted.
Squealing like a stuffed pig
I was going through the motions
faking the emotions,
and wriggling around like a lizard in a tin."
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Old 07.04.2008, 04:56 PM   #9
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Yes, sleazy rather than sexy. I sometimes forget how good Infected is.

"She was lying on her back
with her lips parted.
Squealing like a stuffed pig
I was going through the motions
faking the emotions,
and wriggling around like a lizard in a tin."

I bought it again recently on CD. Its production has dated quite badly but still stands up as a good album. Strangely, tracks I was never that into at the time (Heartland, for example) are the ones I listen to far more now. 'Angels of Deception' and 'Sweet Bird of Truth' will always be a classic at Rail towers though. It's a strange album really. Completely of its time, but somehow unlike any other produced during it. One the decade's best definitely.
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Old 07.04.2008, 04:58 PM   #10
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Ditto everything by Soft Cell.

"Seedy Films"=amazing
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Old 07.04.2008, 05:00 PM   #11
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Who's that in your avatar dr666?
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Julian Cope. Yours?
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Old 07.04.2008, 05:08 PM   #13
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NIN sexless? Argh. Sex and NIN is almost like a drug.

Yeah, valium.
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Old 07.04.2008, 05:11 PM   #14
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Julian Cope. Yours?
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Old 07.04.2008, 05:11 PM   #15
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Yeah, valium.
More like...

No I can't think of anything witty.
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Old 07.04.2008, 05:12 PM   #16
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Julian Cope. Yours?

it's that girl from Missouri he posted two times in the Hot Chicks IN BANDS thread about, everyone should know her name by now...
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Old 07.04.2008, 05:41 PM   #17
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Metal is not sexy at all. And strangely, despite the fact that it's all about sex,

teenage/repressed homo-eroticism
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Old 07.04.2008, 05:46 PM   #18
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Metal these days is way more about Satan and/or the forest and/or properly applying the roll of a 20-sided die than sexual relations of any kind.

Except for grindcore, or course. Sexual relations with festering severed limbs=always a good time.
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Old 07.04.2008, 05:53 PM   #19
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Haha. Black metal can have a strangely kinky side to it I suppose.
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Soft Cell are filth - their only non-sexy song was sex dwarf, which is all over the EBM scene, because that's a scene about speed and not sex. I have a theory about happy hardcore whereby it's all about sex-metaphors about drugs, as opposed to drug-metaphors about sex. I still love it though.
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