In honour of the new issue of Too Much Sex & Violence (get your copy here), here's ten great songs that directly mention S-E-X in the title. Of course, there are millions of songs about doing the wild thing that don't mention the S-E-X word... but if I started sorting through all those, we'd be here forever...
And no, I didn't count 'sexy' songs. Or 'sexual' songs. Those will be on separate lists. Pay attention at the back!
10. George Michael - I Want Your Sex
I can hear you sniggering and you can stop it right now. I still maintain that 'Faith' was a great pop album, but you probably had to be there. It was also one of the first albums I bought again on CD (when I finally got a CD player), though that was a few years later. It reminds me of the first time I took a girl out on a date. Picked her up in my dad's car and drove her home afterwards. She even invited me in for a coffee. Did I get any...?
Did I heck.
9. Beck - Sexx Laws
This is basically Beck trying to be Prince, as is the whole Midnight Vultures album. Which is pretty silly. There's only one Prince. Beck is better being Beck. Still, this was a catchy enough single. I'd never seen the video before - who knew Jack Black was in it?
8. Soft Cell - Sex Dwarf
"WARNING," says the youtube poster, "this is one of the most controversial music videos ever made because it contains lots of sexual stuff."
Hmm. Looks like a very bad Little Britain sketch to me. Still, it's Marc Almond at his most extreme, and that's always worth a listen.
7. The King Blues - Sex Education
He never had a little chat with his Dad
It weren't his Mum who enlightened this lad...
It's the evil internet where kids get their sex education these days. A timely, if depressing, assessment from The (ever-excellent) King Blues.
6. T'Pau - Sex Talk
And we're back to the 80s with (as I've confessed before) one of my earliest pop star sex idols. And she even sings about Spider-Man in this song... swoon!
5. The Vaccines - Post Break-Up Sex
The track that first brought this noisy bunch of ruffians to my attention last year. Because they put "sex" in the title, obviously.
4. Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Sex & Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll
It's all his brain and body needs...
3. The Divine Comedy - Generation Sex
Generation sex
Respects
The rights
Of girls
Who want to take their clothes off
As long as we can all watch that's okay
And generation sex
Elects
The type
Of guys
You wouldn't leave your kids with
And shouts "off with their heads" if they get laid
Lovers watch their backs
As hacks
In macs
Take snaps
Through telephoto lenses
Chase Mercedes Benzes through the night
A mourning nation weeps
And wails
But keeps
The sales
Of evil tabloids healthy
The poor protect the wealthy in this world
2. James Brown - Get Up (I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine)
The original Mr. Lover Man. Shabba, my arse.
1. Pulp - Sheffield: Sex City
Which brings us to one of the most shameless pervs in rock: our Jarv. This has long been one of my favourite Pulp songs, and not just because I recognise a lot of the places he mentions. It fair drips sleazy atmosphere, it does.
Oh the things we saw:
everyone on Park Hill came in unison at four-thirteen a.m.
and the whole block fell down.
The tobacconist caught fire,
and everyone in the street died of lung cancer.
We heard groans coming from the T-reg Chevette:
You bet, you bet, yeah you bet.
And that is why I wish Jarvis Cocker would find the time to write a novel.
So those were my sex songs. Remember, sexy and sexual get their own lists. But what does it for you, baby...?
