Redhill Records News !!!: Sex and music

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_roll

"The phrase "rocking and rolling" originally described the movement of a ship on the ocean,but by the early 20th century was used both to describe the spiritual fervor of black church rituals and as a sexual analogy. A retired Welsh seaman named William Fender can be heard singing the phrase "rock and roll" when describing a sexual encounter in his performance of the traditional song "The Baffled Knight" to the folklorist James Madison Carpenter in the early 1930s, which he would have learned at sea in the 1800s; the recording can be heard on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website"

Plenty of artists have used sexuality as a part of their act. Whether in the subject matter of their song lyrics, double entendres and suggestive titles or in their image on stage and in photographs.

The half-naked ( or nude) woman on an album cover is one of the oldest tricks in the book of any smart ad-agency.
Usually these sexy sirens, buxom babes and voluptous vixens have little to do with whats actually inside the sleeve.
(This subject deserves a blog text of its own and we will skip the subject matter for now.)

In this blog text we shall focus on 60´s,70's and 80´s funky MUSIC and it's erotic undercurrents.

To include Rock, pop etc. would be too huge an endeavor to tackle in a single blog post. It is enough to remind the reader of the gyrating pelvis of Elvis, the on stage penis-flashing antics of Jim Morrison of The Doors and the huffing and panting of allegedly masturbating-in-the-studio Donna Summer on her first hit record "Love to love you baby". Not to mention Samantha Fox, Sabrina Salerno & Danuta Lato and the rest of the 80's titty-queen pop-stars.

Madonna hit it big with "Like a Virgin", "Erotica","Justify my love" and released the explicit "Sex" photo-book featuring the singer in various stages of undress with other celebrities and models.
George Michael sang " I want your sex", later he was busted for having gay sex in a toilet.
Kiss had a hit song called " Lick it Up" while the heavy metal group WASP sang " Animal (Fuck like a beast)" and shocked concerned parents and christian organisations.
The singer Blackie Lawless has recently found Jesus and is now a born-again christian.
Lil Louis had a huge hit in 1989 with " French kiss", featuring a female voice vocally simulating intercourse on top of a house music backing track, slowing down and speeding up , as an emulation of a extended orgasm.

If you look at today's pop stars, they blatantly use sex to sell their music.
Flashing their scantily-clad booties in videos and singing about all kinds of perverted acts. It has become a cliché, almost, with botox-filled prostitutes posing as musicians and horny teenagers swallowing the bait, hook, line & sinker. Not realizing they have fallen victim to another genious marketing plan of the evil multinational corporations dominating the music production of today.
At least for me there is nothing essentially erotic about this. The music is over-produced and emotionally cold. The artists, like cheap prostitutes high on crack, not unlike mechanical dolls or strung-out dancers in a strip club. Empty shells unable to feel or project any genuine human warmth.

Shock rocker Marilyn Manson continually exposed himself as well as having gay sex on stage and self-admittedly sexually tortured groupies in the back room. No musical talent but still want to be a famous rock star? No problem! Just cause a scandal and the papers will write about it!
He is now facing charges for multiple counts of rape. Not very sexy.
Other groups accused of abusing their fans sexually are Scooter and Rammstein of Germany.

But, there are some genuinely sexy records.
For this we have to delve in to the archives of past decades and dig the funky vinyl crates of yesteryear. Behold as I reveal to you, the Sexiest records of all time!

The most erotic, titillating, stimulating,
suggestive, throbbing music has to be Funk.

These famous sexy funk hits ;
James Brown " Sex machine", Marvin Gaye " Lets Get it on" & "Sexual healing", Labelle " Lady Marmelade", Prince " Sexy MF" are just the tip of the iceberg. Beneath the surface we find a motherlode of less known erotic funk masterpieces, potent musical aphrodisiacs that excite the mind and make your body climax on the dancefloor.

Here is a selected list of some of the best erotically-themed, sexually arousing and straight up
"porn-funk" records out there.

MARVIN HOLMES & JUSTICE - "GIMME SOME TONIGHT"