Our list continues (see previousy: Part One: The Top 50-41)Today, some jazz, a country legend, obviously Madonna, and some unusual choices, we'll admit...
40. A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
Yes, we know it's about God (the supreme love, that is.) Luckily, there are only three spoken words on the entire album-- the rest is just great sweeping background music. You could also try just about any Coltrane album, including Blue Trane.
39. On Fire - Galaxie 500
They didn't know how to play, sing, or write songs. Maybe that's why they were so much better than anybody in the summer of '89. Something about Dean Wareham's eyes... or maybe his voice, which sounded like it was recorded in an empty stadium... either way, like your married lover, this album gets better and hotter with age. Choice line: “You said/it's time to get your clothes off...”
Leave The Planet
38. I Like To Score – Moby
The throbbing dance beat of his earliest hits gets us, well, throbbing. The title itself also seems appropriate for this list.
Go [LP Version] [LP Version]
37. American Recordings (Vol. 1) - Johnny Cash
Because he covers Glenn Danzig, for Christ's sake. If acoustic guitars and a deep, authoritative voice singing about a “Tennessee Stud” doesn't turn you on, check to be sure you're not an asexual organism.
Johnny on Later with Jools Holland
36. The Days of Wine & Roses – The Dream Syndicate
Ex-leader Steve Wynn is doing a tour this summer that will feature every track of this flawless guitar assault on the New Wave era. Choice line: “When you smile/I don't know what to do/because I could lose everything in a minute or two.” Hehe... minuteman.
When You Smile
35. Escondida – Jolie Holland
Featuring two of the prettiest and most heartbreaking songs ever recorded, it's no wonder Tom Waits came out of hiding four years ago to trumpet this album's release. Best to be gentle when someone new puts this on-- trust us, we know from experience.
Darlin Ukelele
34. Tepid Peppermint Wonderland - The Brian Jonestown Massacre
A few years back, we caught America's greatest live band/train wreck from the back of a club full of New Yorkers. When their set ended, we turned around to exit and realized Patti Smith had been standing behind us the whole time. She looked like she'd just been mindfucked-- her eyes were about to pop out of skull. Patti, under her breath: “Wow.” The kinkiest chicks we've met all swear by this one, so here it is...
One of the famous BJM fight scenes from the award-winning doc "Dig!"
33. Bitches Brew – Miles Davis
It's not as romantic as Kind of Blue or even Someday My Prince Will Come, but if you're into kinky sex, voodoo, or anything out of that Madonna movie “Body of Evidence,” like burning each other or whatever you'd do on a normal Nerve date, you could probably get off to this. Hell, it's essential music anyway.
Pharaoh's Dance
32. Erotica – Madonna
It's entirely possible that somebody out there has personally wanked it to each one of these songs. And for that matter, all of Madonna's repertoire.
31. Different Class – Pulp
“I've been sleeping with your wife for the past sixteen weeks, smoking your cigarettes, drinking your brandy, messing up the bed you chose together. And in all that time I just wanted you to come home unexpectedly one afternoon and catch us... at it... in the front room!” “...Didn't get much rest at first, the headboard banging in the night...” “When you raise your pencil skirt like a veil before my eyes, like the look upon his face as he's zipping up his fly.” “How the hell did you get here. Semi-naked in somebody else's room. I'd give my whole life to see it... just you... in your underwear.” But all spoke-sung in a very creepy way... this 1995 must-have would've been #1 if we hadn't been so weirded out...
The legendary career-making performance of "Common People" at Glastonbury 1995. Ironically, this song features none of the lyrics we've quoted above, a testament to how many sex(y) songs there are on this record.
To be continued tomorrow, with The Top 30-21 albums...
Previously:
The 50 Sexiest Albums You Must Own (50-41)
