sex in PJ songs

JH6056 said:

brianlux said:

Just off the top of my head, here are some songs about sex:

Led Zeppelin: "Whole Lotta Love". Some great guitar work from Page but, the lyrics? I love Zep but really, this one should have been a pass.

Bad Company: "Feel Like Making Love". Yeah, well OK dude, have a great time. One of the most heavy handed 70's rock songs ever but one of many good reasons punk evolved.

Rolling Stones: "Brown Sugar". Keith rips it up with some great licks and Mick proves that he is sexually color blind. Okey dokey, LOL!

John Mayall: "Brown Sugar". Same title, totally different song, same basic message: "Us Brits dig them black chicks." Okey dokey x 2, LOL!

Starland Vocal Band: "Afternoon Delight". Heard this in a thrift store the other day and ran for my life, jumped in the car and blasted some Dinosaur Jr as loud as my battered ears could take it.

Paul Westerberg: "What Ever Makes You Happy". Contains the best sex-related song line I can think of off the top of my head: You`re starving for affection/ I guess sex just lets you down. A sweet and sad song, like all of Paul's best.

So my conclusion? If your gonna sing about sex, make the listener cry or laugh but don't expect a gold star. I'm glad PJ has, for the most part, very much dodged this topic in their songs.

I like your list, but just for the record, although the Stones "Brown Sugar" was - in their twisted way - a "celebration of Black women", no one should be confused: the lyrics are about having sex with slave women, literally. And sex with slaves was almost never consensual on the slave's part, so in essence it's a song celebrating raping Black women, which is about as f***ed up as it gets:

Gold Coast slave ship bound for cotton fields
Sold in the market down in New Orleans
Scarred old slaver knows he's doin' all right
Hear him whip the women just around midnight

Brown Sugar, how come you taste so good
Brown Sugar, just like a young girl should

Drums beatin' cold, English blood runs hot
Lady of the house wonderin' when it's gonna stop
House boy knows that he's doin' all right
You should have heard him just around midnight

Brown Sugar, how come you taste so good
Brown Sugar, just like a young girl should

Brown Sugar, how come you dance so good
Brown Sugar, just like a black girl should

I bet your mama was a tent show queen,
And all her boyfriends were sweet sixteen
I'm no school boy but I know what I like
You should have heard them just around midnight

Brown Sugar, how come you taste so good
Brown Sugar, just like a black girl should

I said, yeah, yeah, yeah, wooo!
How come you, how come you dance so good
Yeah, yeah, yeah, wooo!
Just like a, just like a black girl should
Yeah, yeah, yeah, wooo!




.....ANYWAY! Just off the top of my head.... Rock and Roll is a distillation of American vernacular music. Music that is obsessed with sex, love, and courtship when it isn't about God or murder, or all at once. Listing Rock songs about sex is an endless task. My point is that if you listed the biggest and best Rock bands of all time, PJ would be among the most intellectual and least sexual lyrically. I think it's because of their roots in 80's punk and their intentional contrast to LA Hair Metal. ... or something like that..