Whenever I go on dating sites, which I've done intermittently over the last decade, I'm struck by the way sex and music are linked--nerve.com's dating site asks users to list their favorite bedroom music. I don't have a long list--when I think about it, all I can come up with is Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing," which is such a cliche I'm almost embarrassed to write it here. And two more. A measly list, but who needs music?
Here's my bedroom playlist, below.
1. Sexual healing, Marvin Gaye
2. Anything by Bob Marley
3. Red Red Wine by UB40
Except when I looked at this list more closely, I realized that I came to love these songs in 1983, during my sophomore year of college, when I spent a semester in London. It's safe to say those were among the happiest months of my life: I met and got infatuated with a British student who went to my college and happened to live next door to our Lancaster Gate rowhouse. He was infatuated right back, and adopted me into his crowd of friends. I was in Europe, I had a boyfriend (even better, one with a British accent,) I was in the process of discovering the great museums and art, I visited Rome for the first time, and my urban soul was awakened on the streets and in the mohawked crowds of 1980s, on-the-dole London. One thing I love about traveling, that I discovered back then, is that being in a new place makes everything more vivid, including the things you love back home. The only thing I missed about my college town was the food--back then, London didn't yet have the food thing going on. Pretty idyllic--no wonder I associate the songs I heard in the background during those six months with joy, freedom, excitement and love.
What are your top 5 bedroom songs?
Top bedroom music:
Norah Jones -Turn Me On
Cowboy Junkies - Misguided Angel, I Don't Get It
Loreena McKennitt - The Book of Secrets (entire CD)
Billy Holiday - almost anything
Posted by: Randy | October 18, 2008 at 06:16 PM
Definitely
Dido - Thank you
Posted by: Pham | December 12, 2008 at 03:21 PM