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Do Simple Minds make you want to make out?

"Set It Off" by Peaches (The Teaches of Peaches, 2002)

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"My Sharona" by The Knack (Get the Knack, 1979)

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"Walkin' on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves (Eponymous, 1985)

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A friend of mine once told me that by the time the DJ broke "Don't You (Forget About Me)" at the local Ladies 80s hebdomad, he would have already found a dark corner for a choice girl. "When I hear Simple Minds," he mused, "it just makes me wanna make out."

When I think about setting my makeout sessions to music, I cringe a little. It looks great on screen, but in real life it seems so corny! I'll be damned if I don't weep like Niagara Falls every time Patrick and Demi lock trans-infinitudinal lips to "Unchained Melody" in Ghost, but hell, how can I live up to that? I used to make out to Vespertine, but since I found out it's about Björk's daughter it's lost...well, all of its sex appeal, frankly.

I'm no stranger to "acousticophilia" (thanks, Celestina!). If music can push my buttons, it can certainly push yours.

So, riddle me this, Newsvine: what sexytune§ floats your boat? What balmy ballad tugs at your heartstrings? If you were locked in a room with someone you really despised, what piece of music would get you in the mood?


§If you like to laugh, you should probably check out this link. ADVISORY: Some profanity, but it's in British, you know, so it doesn't count.
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{"commentId":1240774,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}

I'm trying to get a leg up on the playlist I'm constructing with Eric. Consider this research: feedback appreciated!

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Reply#1 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 1:08 PM EST
{"commentId":1240799,"authorDomain":"farmer"}

Bolero!

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Reply#2 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 1:16 PM EST
{"commentId":1240808,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}

Good pick!

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#2.1 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 1:18 PM EST
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{"commentId":1240820,"authorDomain":"stacym"}

Afghan Whigs! 1965 is a playful and flirty album, and Greg Dulli usually has me ready to go.

There's a few Van Morrison tunes as well. Maybe that's cliché, but come on. "I wanna rock your gypsy soul" is a good line.

I'm sure there's more, but that's just off the top of my head.

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  • 2 votes
Reply#3 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 1:21 PM EST
{"commentId":1240824,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}

Oh mannn, Stacy. Van Morrison rocks my gypsy soul! He really does! That song is on my short list.

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#3.1 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 1:23 PM EST
{"commentId":1240843,"authorDomain":"tcervo"}

I was going to toss some Van Morrison in there too...Doesn't really matter which song. Just put on some Van and get busy.

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#3.2 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 1:30 PM EST
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{"commentId":1240834,"authorDomain":"vicaxp"}

I know its newer, but Marc Broussard's The Beauty of Who You Are is amazing!

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Reply#4 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 1:28 PM EST
{"commentId":1240908,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}
I know its newer

Never heard of it, but what's newness got to do with it?

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#4.1 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 1:50 PM EST
{"commentId":1241024,"authorDomain":"vicaxp"}

You should go to Amazon and check it out! As for the newness, from the songs mentioned and the article title, I was thinking older songs/music.

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#4.2 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 2:23 PM EST
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{"commentId":1240918,"authorDomain":"darkside"}

Lollipop by Mika!

...

...what? :-P

Seriously though, what kind of question? I mean there are many different kinds of making out, right? Are we talking frantic horny MIA style with dirty lyrics and a pulse you can feel or are we talking playful laid back Brilliant Green style with casual conversation and understood affection? Dramatic and Soulful making out a la Antony and the Johnsons? Hot three-way makeout action with PJ Harvey in the background being somehow sensuous and excited? How are you playing this?

It's all too much for a boy to think about, now that I think about it...

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Reply#5 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 1:53 PM EST
{"commentId":1240997,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}

Alright, smart guy, I'll bite:

It's New Year's Eve. You just had a big @!$%#-off dinner with champagne your boss can't afford; you head off to the Athenaeum for a ball-dropping extravaganza. The place is bumpin' and the dance floor is a zoo and you get a little sweaty with a good lady friend. As you're catching your breath, you spot a cute girl in a fancy dress across the room. You establish interest and glide on over. You build rapport, you're smiling, she's smiling; there's just a little too much distance between your lips and hers.

What song is going to close the gap?

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  • 4 votes
#5.1 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 2:14 PM EST
{"commentId":1241119,"authorDomain":"adambecker"}
I'll bite

Are you sure he's into that?

Wait, are we still talking about making out?

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  • 7 votes
#5.2 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 2:48 PM EST
{"commentId":1241150,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}
Are you sure he's into that?

Honey, the good ones? They're all into that.

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#5.3 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 2:54 PM EST
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{"commentId":1241179,"authorDomain":"thevineofhob"}

Are you offering? ;-)

I'm leanings towards something instrumental maybe. Why let awkward lyrics get in the way.

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Reply#6 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 3:02 PM EST
{"commentId":1241239,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}

Am I offering what?

(Jeez, Adam. If that's the best you could do, we're going to have to work extra hard on this mix...^^)
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  • 3 votes
#6.1 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 3:15 PM EST
{"commentId":1243272,"authorDomain":"berry"}
I'm leanings towards something instrumental maybe.

Kenny G fan?

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#6.2 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 8:32 AM EST
{"commentId":1243488,"authorDomain":"thevineofhob"}
Kenny G fan?

Instrumental doesn't mean bad :-)

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#6.3 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 10:02 AM EST
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{"commentId":1241222,"authorDomain":"stevetherobot"}

Nope, simple minds don't make me want to make out. I prefer intelligent women.

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  • 7 votes
Reply#7 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 3:11 PM EST
{"commentId":1241245,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}

There it is!! I was waiting for it. Thanks for doing the deed, steve! You're my favourite of all the robots, you know.

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  • 7 votes
#7.1 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 3:16 PM EST
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{"commentId":1241274,"authorDomain":"kylen"}

It's all about the moment, different music for different situations. Instrumentals, classics are good when you want to actually talk before and after. Various pop rock songs are good for more spontaneous spur of the moment fun. Some hard rock songs like one in particular from NIN when subtly just doesn't cut it that also works well in conjunction with a particular song from Ginuwine (if you are male) but I wouldn't recommend either of these until you are fairly sure the other person is thinking what you are!

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Reply#8 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 3:24 PM EST
{"commentId":1241282,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}

Kyle, why don't you show us your science? Think of some simple scenarios and name a song that would benefit each one.

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#8.1 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 3:27 PM EST
{"commentId":1241371,"authorDomain":"kylen"}

For a subtle flair to a evening of discourse where you are going to be or plan to be talking for awhile like say a train ride private car, over for drinks and conversation, unwinding in a group talking about the days goings on I'd suggest Lohengrin by Wagner. It's got the build up, very well recognized and amusing (in our context) pieces to probably surprise people, and some moving moments to make you want to do more than talk.

Rock songs really span most situations where you don't know each other like the club you mentioned before. Not only is it far more likely the DJ can and will play it but they are both more and less subtle and playful. Take the earlier given new years party I'd say Foxy Lady by Jimmy Hendrix - not subtle but funny if you play it right. If you are already close and think non-humorous cheesy would work I'll Be by Edwin McCain wouldn't go wrong. A slightly older one that nearly worked for me once was Juliana Hatfield's spin the bottle, being a nearly though isn't too good of a recommendation I suppose. That scenario was state fair, the spoiler being too close to the porta potties and realizing it too late to save the moment.

For hanging out with old acquaintances reminiscing I would suggest Van Morrison's Brown Eyed Girl. You can actually fit in just about any color eyes and not mess up the rhythm.

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#8.2 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 3:55 PM EST
{"commentId":1241410,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}
Lohengrin by Wagner

Holy @!$%#. You win.

As for "Brown-Eyed Girl", it's a proven thing: two good friends of mine hooked up because of that song. It was her ringer on his phone while they were secretly dating *eyebrows of intrigue*.

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#8.3 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 4:07 PM EST
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{"commentId":1241318,"authorDomain":"cliffpotter"}

What an interesting article, well worth the read. Thanks! (Views edited to save and preserve the innocent!)

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Reply#9 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 3:37 PM EST
{"commentId":1241423,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}
(Views edited to save and preserve the innocent!)

Cliff, we're all adults here, and if Celestina's survey is any indication, there are few among us living without sin. In other words, why don't you give it to us straight? We can take it.

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#9.1 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 4:11 PM EST
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{"commentId":1241329,"authorDomain":"celestina"}

Well, Lovage's "Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By" is classic, it was made for it. As long as you happen to be turned on my music talking about dead people and threesomes and shipwrecks (totally works for me, anyway). Peter Gabriel's "Passion" always gets me, in a completely different way. And I think James Brown is pretty much self-explanatory.

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Reply#10 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 3:40 PM EST
{"commentId":1241441,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}

James Brown...mmm...

Heh, a funny thought just struck me. I'm sitting here in Panera, and school let out, oh, about an hour ago, I guess. All these junior high kids are walking by in their emo pants and American Eagle polos, without the slightest idea our conversation is taking place...and yet, so many of them are just on the verge of finding their first makeout song.

I don't remember what my first song was. My first kiss--my first real kiss--was outside, under a big bald sycamore, with the full moon peeping at me in all that virginity through the branches. @!$%#in' perv, that moon, you know.

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#10.1 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 4:17 PM EST
{"commentId":1241820,"authorDomain":"darkside"}

...I really have to give you a copy of Still Life with Woodpecker...

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#10.2 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 6:03 PM EST
{"commentId":1241844,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}

Ya-huh you do.

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#10.3 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 6:11 PM EST
{"commentId":1242028,"authorDomain":"celestina"}

*smile*

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#10.4 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 7:21 PM EST
{"commentId":1242388,"authorDomain":"hemphill"}

That does sound almost like she's quoting it, the whole thing might bore her...

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#10.5 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 9:44 PM EST
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{"commentId":1241630,"authorDomain":"hemphill"}

Son of a preacher man, a good bit of the modest mouse tracks, crimson and clover, and most smashing pumpkins have all made the list for me.

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Reply#11 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 5:06 PM EST
{"commentId":1241849,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}

Huh. "Son of a Preacher Man" never got the juices flowing for me. Must be a baptist thing...

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#11.1 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 6:12 PM EST
{"commentId":1242034,"authorDomain":"celestina"}

Memory-association can do a lot. I have some very fond memories of "Son of a Preacher Man"...

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#11.2 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 7:24 PM EST
{"commentId":1242394,"authorDomain":"hemphill"}

Not a baptist thing, celestina's right tis a memory thing

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#11.3 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 9:45 PM EST
{"commentId":1245413,"authorDomain":"witchofthenorth"}

Okay nothing was working for me at all until ... "Crimson and Clover" That goes right back to the first slow-dance.

:-) sigh

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#11.4 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 9:07 PM EST
{"commentId":1245920,"authorDomain":"hemphill"}

I have always found the song strangely erotic.

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    #11.5 - Thu Dec 6, 2007 1:31 AM EST
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    {"commentId":1242225,"authorDomain":"zeketyler"}
    Do Simple Minds make you want to make out?

    No. Not even slightly.

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    Reply#12 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 8:42 PM EST
    {"commentId":1242291,"authorDomain":"tcervo"}

    How 'bout:

    "Wicked Game" - Chris Isaak

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    Reply#13 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 9:04 PM EST
    {"commentId":1242707,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}

    gecko, that's actually on some blogger's music-to-@!$%#-by playlist I read recently. While the rest of his selections were...hmm, shall we say a little cliché...I'll give you "Wicked Game". Actually, it took me ages to come around to that song. For years it reminded me of a commercial I once saw.

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    #13.1 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 11:53 PM EST
    {"commentId":1242747,"authorDomain":"scooterdman"}

    Yea, may have seen that video once or twice when I was a kid. I may or may not have taped it off VH1. Can't remember. I have no clue where I used to hide it in my top dresser drawer behind all my older report cards. No idea.

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    #13.2 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 12:14 AM EST
    {"commentId":1242781,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}

    If I could, Ryan, I would clip that comment to Sexy Boys. And maybe Hot-Chicks, for good measure. I love how he plays down the "don't" in the chorus.

    I tell you what: that video is smokin'. Now I don't know how to act. Good work there, R2. Sheesh!

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    #13.3 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 12:32 AM EST
    {"commentId":1242834,"authorDomain":"tcervo"}
    Actually, it took me ages to come around to that song.

    The first time I heard the song was in the movie "Wild at Heart" (David Lynch.) It fit so well in the movie, used during the dead of night driving scenes...That movie made it popular, although it was released 2 years prior, so a video was finally made. That sealed the deal. That's a video that men and women alike call smokin'. Something for everyone.

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    #13.4 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 1:12 AM EST
    {"commentId":1243265,"authorDomain":"darkside"}

    Ha, nice. They played that on VH1? Woulda made my day back in the day...

    It was also really sad. I love the last line.

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    #13.5 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 8:28 AM EST
    {"commentId":1243868,"authorDomain":"scooterdman"}
    It was also really sad. I love the last line.

    I wonder role Helena Christiansen played in the writing of the song.

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    #13.6 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 12:07 PM EST
    {"commentId":1245688,"authorDomain":"celestina"}

    Oh, thank you very much for dredging up the one song I wish I didn't love, but can't help myself. It systematically sends me into tears, but that doesn't mean it doesn't turn me on. It just leaves me all conflicted, in a maybe-good-way, depending on who's in the room in the time (and whether I am going to regret sleeping with them later).

    Ah, Myk. Shall we compose a list of desperately sad songs for people who are uncontrollably attracted to misfortune?

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    #13.7 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 10:52 PM EST
    {"commentId":1245925,"authorDomain":"hemphill"}

    Why bother, we all have mix tapes with the lot of them....

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    #13.8 - Thu Dec 6, 2007 1:32 AM EST
    {"commentId":1246280,"authorDomain":"darkside"}
    Ah, Myk. Shall we compose a list of desperately sad songs for people who are uncontrollably attracted to misfortune?

    I dunno yo I'm trying to cut back. I think I've had just about enough indulgence in self-pity for 2007, next playlist I make is going to be happy.

    (...I know, weird, right?)

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    #13.9 - Thu Dec 6, 2007 8:35 AM EST
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    {"commentId":1242352,"authorDomain":"chasencash"}

    Eric Clapton: You look wonderful tonight

    Eric baby

    Am I showing my age?

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    Reply#14 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 9:31 PM EST
    {"commentId":1243289,"authorDomain":"berry"}
    Eric Clapton: You look wonderful tonight

    When I used to DJ that was a big one that was requested a lot. Some others were, Lady in Red, Kiss and Say Goodbye, Two out of Three Ain't Bad, Angel Eyes, Purple Rain - ok, guess now I'm showing my age! :)

    If you were locked in a room with someone you really despised, what piece of music would get you in the mood?

    Nothing but BEER! (and a Lot of it)

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    #14.1 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 8:38 AM EST
    {"commentId":1243311,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}

    Dave, I'm not sure if this was what you meant, but I really love the idea of good beer being akin to music, so I'll just roll with that like it's what you were going for, OK? ;)

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    #14.2 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 8:51 AM EST
    {"commentId":1243411,"authorDomain":"berry"}
    just roll with that like it's what you were going for, OK? ;)

    Roll with it :)

    Threads like this are interesting because they bring back memories. When I see the names of songs, or when I was thinking about your question I started thinking about different old girl friends and the songs they liked to ...... listen ...... to :)

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    #14.3 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 9:32 AM EST
    {"commentId":1243932,"authorDomain":"chasencash"}

    Thanks David now I feel like an old cliche with that list of songs, but wait it gets worse. My eyes adored you by whoever. Thank God I do not know the artist.

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    #14.4 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 12:23 PM EST
    {"commentId":1243941,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}

    chasen, that was Frankie Valli. :)

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    #14.5 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 12:25 PM EST
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    {"commentId":1242402,"authorDomain":"TheVerbalistx"}

    Anything by Elliot Smith for some reason.

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    Reply#15 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 9:48 PM EST
    {"commentId":1242712,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}

    Mmm. Because dead guys are sexy, I believe.

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    #15.1 - Tue Dec 4, 2007 11:54 PM EST
    {"commentId":1242744,"authorDomain":"darkside"}

    ...did you mark that one on Celestina's survey, then? :-P

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    #15.2 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 12:09 AM EST
    {"commentId":1242783,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}

    Sure did!

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    #15.3 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 12:33 AM EST
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    {"commentId":1242779,"authorDomain":"scooterdman"}

    In college, it was a lot of sappy Dave Matthews and Sigur Ros. The worst would be setting iTunes (or WinAmp back then!) to shuffle, starting to make out to something appropriate, and then bam! You'd get hit with that ridiculous mainstream hip hop track you snagged off Napster for some reason.

    From sensitivity to misogyny in one second. Buzzkill.

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    Reply#16 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 12:32 AM EST
    {"commentId":1242786,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}

    Yeah, speaking of embarrassing lovemaking music, I used to make out to emo all the time. My high school boyfriend was lovingly (mockingly) monikered Dave Emo because he would cry constantly. Man...what have I been doing with my time?

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    #16.1 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 12:34 AM EST
    {"commentId":1243267,"authorDomain":"darkside"}

    baka!

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    #16.2 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 8:29 AM EST
    {"commentId":1243313,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}

    Damare! :P

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    #16.3 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 8:51 AM EST
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    {"commentId":1242792,"authorDomain":"bluemutiny"}

    Any and every Bryan Adams song.

    The last 6 months alone I've listened to over 200 of his songs at least 5,000 times. All day and all night. And I get really flustered when someone quotes lyrics from his songs or such-like.

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    Reply#17 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 12:41 AM EST
    {"commentId":1242801,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}

    Wow. Which lyrics would those be, Robbie?

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    #17.1 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 12:50 AM EST
    {"commentId":1243142,"authorDomain":"bluemutiny"}

    I just did a quick tally in iTunes and the total came to 16,393 for a 6 month period. Only off by about 10,000 in my first estimate :o).

    I prefer all his songs from the Room Service album for the more romantic moods - quite a few soft songs in there (Flying, This Side of Paradise, Not Romeo Not Juliet, Open Road, Room Service) and some nice beaty romantic story-like ones (Eastside Story, She's a Little to Good for Me) and some really slow ones with a romantic base (I Was Only Dreamin', Nowhere Fast and Why do you Have to be so Hard to Love.)

    And yeah, I'm a flop for the romantic songs.

    My favourite right now though would have to be Never Let Go from the Guardian soundtrack, followed by Room Service, Eastside Story, Right Back Where I Started From and The Best of Me. It's really hard to choose what one I love the most because I love them all so much :(

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      #17.2 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 7:00 AM EST
      {"commentId":1243293,"authorDomain":"marilynl"}

      I'd go for Bryan Adams, too, Have You Really Ever Loved a Woman?

      Now, to show my age: Joni Mitchell, I Could Drink a Case of You. Prince, Kiss. Roberta Flack, Killing Me Softly with His Song. For starters. I'm sure there's many more, but gotta go to work now. : )

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      #17.3 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 8:40 AM EST
      {"commentId":1243315,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}

      Hmm. Apparently Bryan Adams is Canada's best export after all.

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      #17.4 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 8:52 AM EST
      {"commentId":1243412,"authorDomain":"marilynl"}

      Don't forget Joni Mitchell, another great Canadian musician, artist, talented beyond words.

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      #17.5 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 9:32 AM EST
      {"commentId":1243416,"authorDomain":"berry"}
      Hmm. Apparently Bryan Adams is Canada's best export after all.

      I though it was You! :)

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      #17.6 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 9:34 AM EST
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      {"commentId":1242815,"authorDomain":"ejronin"}

      You know, I have a book called, "Creating Melodies: A Songwriter's Guide to Understanding, Writing and Polishing Melodies" by Dick Wiessman. It's a relatively simple book and not definative in the realm of advanced music theory, but a concept brought up in the book discusses the idea that people are genetically predisposed to having affinity to certain sounds or kinds of sounds. That, when people hear these sounds it an trigger certain actions.

      This however is in no way stating that Rap makes kids deal or do drugs. However I think what it was implying was that certain sounds or kinds of sound can effect someone in a way that a triggered emotion will alter a decision path.

      Normally, I'd never consider hugging a carpet in my life - it just looks ridiculous. Throw in some [undisclosed substance] and a dirty bass line often found in something like a PMT or Luke Chable track / remix and theres not enough carpet for me TO hug - of course I think [undisclosed substance] played a substantial role in that affair, but still. Remove the bass line and while I was on [undisclosed substance] carpet hugging wouldn't even enter my mind (what little rational thinking and consciously active segments were left)

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      Reply#18 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 12:57 AM EST
      {"commentId":1242822,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}

      Shawn, are you...carpet-hugging...right now?

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      #18.1 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 1:01 AM EST
      {"commentId":1242848,"authorDomain":"ejronin"}

      not for some time have I hugged the carpet... being a father sort of puts carpet hugging in a perspective that makes it all... minuscule on the fun factor. Admittedly, there are times where I reflect on it and wonder... maybe one more time... but I haven't because the risk doesn't justify the gain (secondly).

      On a side note, to answer the article question...

      On others, I've used -

      Once, to be funny, I threw on Marvin Gaye and Barry White... it ended up not funny but effective in a cliched sort of way - can't complain

      Mainly though, when I was free roaming I'd lure my prey in with power ballads like "Every Rose has its Thorn" despite that it was popular 10 years prior to me using it as bait. It said "I know a mainstream power ballad by a washed up artist like no other.

      Guns and Roses "Patience" once, backfired on me... its funny now, but not funny then.. there wasn't enough cold water in the world that helped me that night.

      For me personally

      And finally... I sank really really low once and discovered that Sarah McLaughlin did something evil to me... I'm a sinner that was sinned against, I know, but I'm fine with it and so should you be also. Well, except that there is something about Sarah that still lingers with me. Maybe it's the placido triste in her voice or the sensual articulation in her words...

      More recently, James Holden "Nothing (93 Returning Mix)" has made my mood 180 from negative to positive in way of sexual urges - and without carpet affinity inducing enhancers

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      #18.2 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 1:19 AM EST
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      {"commentId":1243642,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}

      Vote for this comment if you've ever made out to Bon Jovi.

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      Reply#19 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 11:05 AM EST
      {"commentId":1243648,"authorDomain":"tcervo"}

      Vote whore. ;-)

      (Who hasn't made out to Bon Jovi?)

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      #19.1 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 11:07 AM EST
      {"commentId":1243657,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}

      Just making a point...

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      #19.2 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 11:09 AM EST
      {"commentId":1243685,"authorDomain":"thevineofhob"}
      (Who hasn't made out to Bon Jovi?)

      Me.

      Bon Jovi are the scum of the earth and their "music" should never be heard again by human ears.

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      #19.3 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 11:21 AM EST
      {"commentId":1243695,"authorDomain":"tcervo"}

      Back in the day you couldn't escape a Jr. High dance without hearing at least one Bon Jovi ballad. And Bon Jovi ballads, back in the day, drove the girls wild. Bon Jovi ballads at a Jr. High dance were the equivalent of "last call" at a club: easy pickings.

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      #19.4 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 11:24 AM EST
      {"commentId":1243780,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}
      Bon Jovi ballads at a Jr. High dance were the equivalent of "last call" at a club: easy pickings.

      This is still the case at clubs today.

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      #19.5 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 11:45 AM EST
      {"commentId":1243867,"authorDomain":"darkside"}
      Bon Jovi are the scum of the earth and their "music" should never be heard again by human ears.

      You, o partner of mine, have never played Wanted Dead or Alive on Rockband with Ryan on vocals. You can't really go wrong.

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      #19.6 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 12:07 PM EST
      {"commentId":1243981,"authorDomain":"deatienza"}

      Bon Jovi was my senior class song. I forget the actual song. I just remember being shocked at the selection.

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      #19.7 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 12:36 PM EST
      {"commentId":1244032,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}

      That song will always remind me of an after-party I went to for a high school musical I played in (first chair, baby!!). We were in somebody's basement, which was done up to look like a pub. Somebody's mother had made cupcakes with really deeply-coloured icing.

      "It's My Life" came on, we were all dancing, you know. I turn around, and out of nowhere, the quiet, tall, lean Jewish boy who played French horn in the pit with us smashes a blue cupcake into my face! It took me days to get that food colouring out...

      You, o partner of mine, have never played Wanted Dead or Alive on Rockband with Ryan on vocals. You really can't go wrong.

      He already has, Myk. Pity...

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      #19.8 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 12:50 PM EST
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      {"commentId":1243863,"authorDomain":"kymlee"}

      Almost anything Prince...but I suppose thats an obvious choice. I also think Closer by NIN is a very sexy song...

      (Who hasn't made out to Bon Jovi?)

      I haven't and I've never been to a club where Bon Jovi was played...Of course if you're at a reggae club there's so much grinding and wining anyway...I don't supposed the Bon Jovi songs would be necessary. ;-)

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      Reply#20 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 12:06 PM EST
      {"commentId":1243914,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}
      Of course if you're at a reggae club there's so much grinding and wining anyway

      When I go to the indie clubs, I always find the guys with dreads to dance with. Guaranteed to freak!

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      #20.1 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 12:18 PM EST
      {"commentId":1243958,"authorDomain":"kymlee"}

      You know what's up...

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      #20.2 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 12:30 PM EST
      {"commentId":1244040,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}

      That's right, lady.

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      #20.3 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 12:51 PM EST
      {"commentId":1244050,"authorDomain":"prompt"}

      Funny thing about that, I might have dreads in a few months.

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      #20.4 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 12:55 PM EST
      {"commentId":1244054,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}

      Yes, but do you dance?

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      #20.5 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 12:56 PM EST
      {"commentId":1244095,"authorDomain":"prompt"}

      I guess we'll have to see this weekend. I think the appropriate question though is, can you?

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      #20.6 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 1:10 PM EST
      {"commentId":1244169,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}

      *eyebrow*

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      #20.7 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 1:30 PM EST
      {"commentId":1245334,"authorDomain":"deatienza"}

      She's OK.

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      #20.8 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 8:21 PM EST
      {"commentId":1245342,"authorDomain":"thevineofhob"}

      I bet she's bad :-)

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      #20.9 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 8:27 PM EST
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      {"commentId":1244226,"authorDomain":"minvasive"}

      My wife and I saw "Ocean's Eleven" (Clooney et al version) on our first date. The scene near the end where the Philadelphia Orchestra is playing Clair de Lune is where we decided we should have a second date. :)

      As far as fast tracks... I'd say "Everybody's Going to the Moon" by Jamiroquai.

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      Reply#21 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 1:50 PM EST
      {"commentId":1245548,"authorDomain":"witchofthenorth"}

      Okay so then I remembered this one old Rolling Stones blues cover - called "I'm a King Bee". And I mean it's from old vinyl called "Englands Newest Hit-Makers, the Rolling Stones" ... that old. It's got this great dirty slide guitar thing and I found it for you on Youtube with a photomontage that reminds me of why I actually used to think Mick Jagger was hot.

      Watch it and tell me - does Brian Jones look like Brian Ford to you?

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        Reply#22 - Wed Dec 5, 2007 10:06 PM EST
        {"commentId":1245871,"authorDomain":"wbrianwhite"}

        I don't know if any music really makes me want to make out in particular. The closest would be the Pretty Hate Machine album by NIN - always makes me flash back to being in high school and making out with my first girlfriend.

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        Reply#23 - Thu Dec 6, 2007 12:53 AM EST
        {"commentId":1248033,"authorDomain":"ejronin"}

        VAST can make some interestingly evil @!$%#ing happen (fist album only). Particularly if you time it to "pretty when you cry"... I sent that to some stupid... girl when I found out she was cheating... and then pissed in her astringent.

        Stabbing Westward is a good 'grudge @!$%#' band... or if you want to have someone literally eat your face during a make out session...

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        Reply#24 - Thu Dec 6, 2007 5:55 PM EST
        {"commentId":1248402,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}
        grudge @!$%#

        Ooh! I'm all tingly...

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        #24.1 - Thu Dec 6, 2007 8:24 PM EST
        {"commentId":1248623,"authorDomain":"hemphill"}

        I always liked things like ministry for the grudge @!$%#.

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        #24.2 - Thu Dec 6, 2007 10:07 PM EST
        {"commentId":1254080,"authorDomain":"ejronin"}
        ministry for the grudge @!$%#.

        um... GRUDGE @!$%#, not SKULL @!$%#. but since you bring it up... Kitty and Otep are good for poking the ol eye out , as it were.

        Then again.. "Say You're Sorry" can go either way with that

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        #24.3 - Sat Dec 8, 2007 11:27 PM EST
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        {"commentId":1667154,"authorDomain":"christincc"}

        "Black" Pearl Jam
        "Come Down" Bush
        "Hungry" Chris Cornell and Eddie Vedder

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