Everyone has a sexual rhythm, and not just with respect to how you do it with your partner – no, this is about the heady moments of friction and breathless gasps annotated by music that compounds and heaves your sexual rapport with the one you are attracted to with urgent potency. Now a lot of these songs are on the precipice of love, desire, and lust – some are straight up sexy with their tunes but what binds them all together is the essence of mystery and intrigue. It is the softness of beats, the wetness of words tantalizing your tongue, the buoyancy of your body against someone else’s.
1. Chris Isaak – Wicked Game
What a wicked game you played to make me feel this way
What a wicked thing to do to let me dream of you
What a wicked thing to say you never felt this way
What a wicked thing to do to make me dream of you
2. Donna Summer – I Feel Love
Ooh, you and me,
you and me
You and me,
you and me
You and me
Ooh, I feel love,
I feel love I feel love,
I feel love I feel love
3. Lera Lynn – Ring Of Fire
The taste of love is sweet
When hearts like ours meet.
I fell for you like a child
Oh, but the fire went wild.
4. The National – Slow Show
My leg is sparkles, my leg is pins
I better get my shit together, better gather my shit in
You could drive a car through my head in five minutes
From one side of it to the other
5. Massive Attack – Angel
You are my angel
Come from way above
To love you, love you, love you
6. Blood Orange – Champagne Coast
Finishing eight or nine?
Tell me, what’s the perfect time?
I told you I’ll be waiting
Hiding from the rainfall
7. Madonna – Secret
Happiness lies in your own hand
It took me much too long to understand
How it could be
Until you shared your secret with me
8. George Michael – I Want Your Sex
There’s little things you hide
And little things that you show
Sometimes you think you’re gonna get it
But you don’t and that’s just the way it goes
9. Slackwax – Close To My Fire
Strike a match and set me on fire
Watch it burn and my flames gettin’ higher
You light me up, sweet ‘ole desire
So won’t you come, close to my fire
10. UB 40 – Can’t Help Falling In Love With You
Take my hand
Take my whole life too,
For I can’t help falling in love with you
11. Kylie Minogue- Slow
Don’t want to rush it
Let the rhythm pull you in
This will touch it (Oh)
You know what I’m sayin’
And I haven’t said a thing
Keep the record playin’