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Results from a random sample of 100 Nerve Personals users who responded to the question, "Song or Album that Puts me in the Mood."
Of users who answered the question, the following percentage get turned on by . . .
Prince: 6%
Portishead and/or Massive Attack: 9%
The holy sex trifecta (Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, and/or Al Green): 18%
T-Rex: 5%
'90s shoegazer rock (My Bloody Valentine, Sonic Youth, Morphine): 43%
guilty '80s pop (Depeche Mode, the Cure, Peter Gabriel) 30%
musicians lifted from Rolling Stone's "Bands to Watch" list: 24%
musicians lifted from "Pure Moods": 4%
Classical music: 14%
Gangsta rap: 8%
Of users who didn’t answer the question, the following percentage…
Quibble about meaning of "the mood:" 36%
Disregard the mood and just list their favorite music: 52%
Mention their eclectic tastes and a long list: 22%
State that they realize doing so is a cop-out: 1%
Are always in the mood: 13%
Name a non-musical sound to demonstrate that putting them in the mood is easy: 5%
A list of items cited by this last group:
A stiff breeze
A reading of the phone book
A sine wave
An a capella rendition of “Pop Goes the Weasel”
Selected responses:
"Let's Get This Party Started, The Humpty Dance, and Baby Got Back. Ideally a medley of all three."
"The 'All Things Considered' theme song."
"Forever in Blue Jeans. You want to get me in my pants, play Forever in Blue Jeans. It's like rhinoceros horn."
"The soundtrack to 'The Sound of Music.'"
"Salt n Pepa – Push It.”
"Anything but New Age, which is basically sexual Kryptonite."
"good lord, i'm male; what doesn't?"
"you will not be oh-so-impressed with my musical tastes, trust me."
"the increasing rhythm and intensity of your speechless breath"
"That William Shatner record. Rrrrawwwr."
"In Your Eyes," but only when it is blasting out of John Cusak's boom box in Say Anything"
"Everyone says they have eclectic tastes, so just to be different I'll say I have eccentric tastes." n°
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