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Monday, August 30, 2010
Vinyl / Contest Win the LP Reissue of Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg!
Posted by Ned Lannamann on Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:34 AM
Hey, record nerd! Yes, you. We've got something for you which you're going to like.
This is a picture of the new Light in the Attic reissue of the classic Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsboug LP. The 1969 album was released following the success of Birkin and Gainsbourg's scandalous single "Je T'aime... Moi Non Plus," which concludes with Birkin making the sounds of... well, if you've heard it, you already know. And if you haven't heard it, well then:
Light in the Attic's sumptuous reissue includes the following:
32-page full color booklet, original art, English/French lyrics, audio re-mastering by Dave Cooley (the genius engineer behind LITA’s reissue of Histoire de Melody Nelson), and extensive liner notes, featuring an exclusive interview with the lovely and graceful Birkin who helps to provide new insight on this landmark album. The vinyl release is pressed on 180 gram vinyl, and includes a thick gatefold, liner notes, lyrics, plus bonus picture sleeve 7” single featuring the non-album cut “La Chanson de Slogan” b/w “Orang Outan.”Holy merde! But here's the best part. End Hits has a copy to give away to one lucky reader—and that could be you. Here's how to enter: Just leave a comment telling us your favorite record to put on when things get all seductive and sexy-like. Is it Barry White? Is it Ravel's "Bolero"? Is it "Yakety Sax"? Let us know! Over-sharing is encouraged. We'll pick our favorite comment, or just pick a lucky winner at random.
This is a good one—believe us, we thought long and hard about how to rig this so we'd end up with the copy. Alas, it must go to you, the readers. We'll keep comments open until noon on Wednesday. Winners must live in the US (the record label will mail you the vinyl directly). Go to it!
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the XX. there is no better answer than the XX, if you have one, you are incorrect because the proper thing to put on when you want things to get "seductive and sexy-like" is the XX.
of course, the stooges' "LOOSE" from Funhouse is a close second.
followed by the cardigans' "love me"
then you could go down and listen to the trumpet guy on the hawthorne bridge
of course, the stooges' "LOOSE" from Funhouse is a close second.
followed by the cardigans' "love me"
then you could go down and listen to the trumpet guy on the hawthorne bridge
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Songs of the Humpback Whale (Dr Payne). On vinyl. Dual purpose in covering up human sounds easily mistakable for whale song for roommates' benefit, and for getting me in the mood with the slow, seductive moans of the most aptly named creature.
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i will ONLY make flippy floppy to Beck's "Midnight Vultures." it has all the peaks and valleys one would want when rubbing bathing suit parts together. and he sings about Norman Schwartzkoff, Hollywood nuns and bibles. which would make even the most stringent prude loose in the loins.
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David Porter's "Gritty, Groovy, and Gettin' It." What I consider to be the pleasure bath of Stax Records albums. These songs ooze sexual elan the way a muskox oozes musk or the way Razor Ramon oozes machismo (chico!).
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Montell Jordan's "This Is How We Do It".
I gotta get mine in a big black truck.
You can get yours in a '64
I gotta get mine in a big black truck.
You can get yours in a '64
8
Air- Premiers Symptomes. It may only be an EP, but it's my favorite baby making mix made by even more sexy French people.
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I'd have to go with Morphine's "Cure For Pain", because nothing sets the mood like that sexy saxamaphone and swingin' bass.
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Golden Palominos 'This Is How It Feels'. If Lori Carson's voice doesn't send you over the edge, you're probably dead.
Also, Angelo Badalementi's score for 'Fire, Walk With Me'.
Also, Angelo Badalementi's score for 'Fire, Walk With Me'.
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I think I turned on Marvin Gaye's Sexual Healing as a freshman in college, when it was time. I have no idea why, but it worked.
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D'Angelo's "Voodoo." I helped make a baby to this record. Thank you for that D'Angelo. Now please lay off the crack and make another record so I can revive my sex life.
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at the risk of sounding too fitting: "je t'aime... moi non plus." dirty old french man + gorgeous lanky jane orgasms = the sexiest sex that ever sexed.
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Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson. From Serge’s breathy, seductive vocals, to the cello that sounds like a heartbeat, the record undulates a corporeal sexuality that you feel from head, chest and downward.
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Fripp & Eno 'No Pussyfooting' It's hard to figure out just where you are here, you'll never hit the floor, nobody gets hurt.
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@slowgrrl, yet when nationalities are reversed, it just becomes creepy, as in Rod Stewart's Tonight's the Night.
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Once my victim is tied up well and true and just before I make my first cut of the evening I usually put on Tindersticks self titled debut...Stuart Staples voice falls somewhere between a drunk mumbling and a despot lounge singer pining for all the ones that got away.
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I Told You I Was Freaky by Flight of the Conchords. Yes I have it on vinyl and yes I put up the poster.
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in my view playing overtly sexual music is an invitation to female disappointment. i mean, how many of us really have the carnal chops to keep up with marvin gaye or luther vandross, never mind the ohio players or betty davis? don't even get me started on techno/club music; how long can you thrust mechanically at 160 bpm's? i find total female disorientation to be the best possible response to my gropery and as such i keep programmed in my diskchanger wolf eyes, metal machine music by lou reed, "sysiphus pt1-4" from pink floyd's ummagumma, wesley willis' "suck a cheetah's dick", the nixon tapes and nineties tweepoppers the softies "it's love" lp. i'd throw on gainsbourg's "lemon incest" but the women i sleep with tend to be semiliterate in english, nevermind french.
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I've never had a good soundtrack for being in the bone zone. It necessitates overt seriousness, conditions that just don't jibe with the silliness of sex, or my take on the act of doin' it.
I have tried to situationally pick songs I thought would impress. Once, many years ago, I most embarrassingly thought the last song on Ani Difranco's Little Plastic Castles album-a mellow, jazzy, winding 15-minute song occassionally talked over by Ani herself-would both set a mood and impress the stompy-booted, short-haired foxy bi chicks I was into at the time. Wow, was I wrong. I was laughed at twice for putting it on before I gave up on the whole notion of sexy, impressive soundtracks.
I have tried to situationally pick songs I thought would impress. Once, many years ago, I most embarrassingly thought the last song on Ani Difranco's Little Plastic Castles album-a mellow, jazzy, winding 15-minute song occassionally talked over by Ani herself-would both set a mood and impress the stompy-booted, short-haired foxy bi chicks I was into at the time. Wow, was I wrong. I was laughed at twice for putting it on before I gave up on the whole notion of sexy, impressive soundtracks.
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Before I go any further, I must say to urbanegorilla that your lovers should probably inform you that you don't have to "tempo match" the music you are fucking to, it's probably better if you have some variation.
That said, the XX, Portishead, & Air are all great, the only way to come up with the absolute best album to get down to is by the process of elimination. Serge is typically the best possible route to go in most situations as he lived & breathed sexual eroticism & the lowering of inhibitions ("My life revolves around 3 things: women, alcoholism, & gitanes" - SG).
When choosing that album from him, SG&JB's album is the obvious answer. Don't get me wrong, the one with Bridgette Bardot was great, but she doesn't even get close to the purity & grace that Jane Birkin so easily personifies. That & she's a homophobe & conservative now & the thought of that just kills the mood (even though she played Jane Birkin's lesbian lover in a film once, even she coundn't resist).
I digress. Melody Nelson is out as well due to the narrative being based entirely on pedophilia & ends with a tragic & deadly airplane crash. Total buzzkill.
There is simply no better option than Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin. And for those who say that music during sex is laughable, I pity the doldrums that have become your life.
That said, the XX, Portishead, & Air are all great, the only way to come up with the absolute best album to get down to is by the process of elimination. Serge is typically the best possible route to go in most situations as he lived & breathed sexual eroticism & the lowering of inhibitions ("My life revolves around 3 things: women, alcoholism, & gitanes" - SG).
When choosing that album from him, SG&JB's album is the obvious answer. Don't get me wrong, the one with Bridgette Bardot was great, but she doesn't even get close to the purity & grace that Jane Birkin so easily personifies. That & she's a homophobe & conservative now & the thought of that just kills the mood (even though she played Jane Birkin's lesbian lover in a film once, even she coundn't resist).
I digress. Melody Nelson is out as well due to the narrative being based entirely on pedophilia & ends with a tragic & deadly airplane crash. Total buzzkill.
There is simply no better option than Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin. And for those who say that music during sex is laughable, I pity the doldrums that have become your life.
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We have a winner! Congrats to Crown Graphics, whose comment made me stop. And think. For a second. May the Serge/Jane record aid you in making those unknown pleasures turn into known pleasures.
Thanks for all the entries and sexytime record picks! My personal pick has always been and will always be Prince, but it sure looks like I've got some record shopping to do.
Thanks for all the entries and sexytime record picks! My personal pick has always been and will always be Prince, but it sure looks like I've got some record shopping to do.
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