Songs About… Fornicating

It’s springtime in America.

Well, for a given value of spring in some parts of the country.

Anyway, springtime means spring fever, and the link between music and sex is well-documented, multi-faceted and enjoys a long and robust history. There are songs to woo, songs about The Act, songs about the morning after… every aspect of the coupling dance that goes on between humans has had a song written about it at some point. Hell, if you took away all of the songs related to getting someone into bed, you might have two albums left in your whole music collection.

Some of NTSIB’s Twitter friends helped us put together a list of favorite songs about the dirty, ugly, funny, horrifying, ecstatic, beautiful act of sex, and we present the list here with some accompanying video highlights. (No, not those kinds of video highlights.)

Submitted by @austinlucasIND:
Songs About Fucking, Big Black

Submitted by April (@nowthissound):
“Call of the Playground”, Shudder to Think
Gentlemen, The Afghan Whigs

Submitted by @amanjo:
“Full Grown”, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

Submitted Jennifer (@rufus_):
“First of May”, Jonathan Coulton
“Closer”, Nine Inch Nails
“The Man That I Am with My Man”, The Hidden Cameras
“Cheat On Your New Lover With Me”, Jail Weddings
“Pink Cadillac”, Bruce Springsteen
“Cream” and “Little Red Corvette”, Prince
“Supernova”‘ Liz Phair
“Striptease”, Hawksley Workman
“I Want Your Sex”, George Michael
“I Touch Myself”, The Divinyls

Submitted by @Truersound:
“Who Were You Thinking Of?”, Texas Tornados

Submitted by @cowbelle78:
“One For The Cutters”, The Hold Steady (for the line “getting nailed against dumpsters behind townie bars”)

Submitted by @davepolak:
“Why Me, God? (Everybody’s Fucking but Me)”, Durwood Douche

Submitted by @lilykerson:
“Fucking in Rhythm and Sorrow”, The Sugarcubes
“I Like Fucking”‘ Bikini Kill
“Orgasm Addict”, The Buzzcocks
“Pony”, Ginuwine

Submitted by @leighbee:
“Sex (I’m a…)”, Berlin
“Let’s Get it On”, Marvin Gaye

Submitted by @simon2307:
“Squeeze Box”, The Who

Submitted by @andiamkate:
“Angel”, Massive Attack

Submitted by @popa2unes:
“She Makes Me Feel Big”, The Fools