Strip-hop? (Ugh... sorry I couldn't resist.)
October 13, 2012 2:49 AM   Subscribe

What's the best downtempo/trip-hop/lounge type song for a striptease?

I'm thinking of songs in the vein of Massive Attack's Angel and Thievery Corporation's Lebanese Blonde, but I'm open to anything as long as it's roughly within those or related genres.
posted by désoeuvrée to Media & Arts (22 answers total) 54 users marked this as a favorite
 
Best answer: How about Tricky - Hell is Round the Corner?
posted by tim_in_oz at 3:03 AM on October 13, 2012


Sneaker Pimps "6 Underground" would be a decent choice.
posted by kuanes at 3:05 AM on October 13, 2012 [4 favorites]


River - HUFF THIS!
posted by iamkimiam at 3:24 AM on October 13, 2012 [2 favorites]


Oh, also I'm Your Girl - Eleni Mandell
posted by iamkimiam at 3:32 AM on October 13, 2012




Best answer: How could it possibly be anything other than Portishead ? ?
posted by Homeboy Trouble at 4:05 AM on October 13, 2012 [9 favorites]


yeah seconding Portishead, a band I don't even particularly like, but can definitely recommend for something like this
posted by dogwalker at 4:17 AM on October 13, 2012


Best answer: 2wicky. The right music, the right lyrics, and a nice little build around 2:30 for the denouement.
posted by googly at 4:34 AM on October 13, 2012 [1 favorite]


Best answer: I've Been Thinking by Handsome Boy Modeling School is SERIOUSLY IT.
posted by cybele at 4:41 AM on October 13, 2012 [4 favorites]


More specifically, Portishead - Glory Box.
posted by muddgirl at 5:11 AM on October 13, 2012 [3 favorites]


Most of Blue Lines would work.
posted by Runes at 6:02 AM on October 13, 2012


Mini Skirt by Esquivel. Complete with sexy whistling.
posted by jbickers at 7:06 AM on October 13, 2012


Best answer: Emika - Drop the Other
posted by Senza Volto at 7:40 AM on October 13, 2012 [1 favorite]


DJ Krush (f Esthero) - Final Home
posted by box at 8:40 AM on October 13, 2012


Portishead is certainly what came first to mind. It seems like there should be a lot in Morcheeba's oeuvre, too. Maybe something from Comfort Stand's free Wakka-Chikka Wakka-Chikka porngroove compilation? It has moaning.
posted by mumkin at 8:56 AM on October 13, 2012


You absolutely need to grab some tracks from Lovage:

Lifeboat
Stroker Ace
Strangers On A Train
Sex (I'm A...) (cover of an 80s band, Berlin)

As for Portishead, the version of Sour Times from "Roseland NYC Live" has to be listened to. The audio version can be heard at this link. Plenty of sexy choices on that CD.

Other strip-hop possibilities:
Is This Real, Lisa Hall

Meant To Be (Perfecto Chills), Infusion

Underwater Love by Smoke City

Water by Sneaker Pimps

Playground Love, Air

Until the Morning, Thievery Corporation

Mad about You, Hooverphonic

Lay Me Down, Supreme Beings Of Leisure

Floater by Waldeck

Hell is Around The Corner by Tricky (uses music from Portishead)

Dance Naked Under Palm Trees By Mo' Horizons

Not strip-hop but similar slow and sexy tempo:

Sleep (Solarstone´s Afterhours´ Mix), Conjure One

Nina Simone, Feeling Good.

PJ Harvey, The Northwood.

Crazy by Katie Noonan

Miss Li, Don't Try To Fool Me.

For more uptempo and fun stuff, try Imelda May and the Super Mario Remix of Ninch Inch Nails' Closer.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 9:36 AM on October 13, 2012 [3 favorites]


A super sexy yet classy one is: The World Outside by the Devlins. It plays in the movie Closer during a scene in which Clive Owen finds Natalie Portman (the dancer) in an underground strip-club.
posted by meg_s98 at 10:13 AM on October 13, 2012


So yes, Portishead is canonical for this sort of thing. And anything off Massive Attack's Mezzanine (esp. "Black Milk", "Inertia Creeps", "Dissolved Girl"). Or actually, "Paradise Circus" from Heligoland, now that I think of it.

In a lighter but still slinky trip-hoppy mood: Supreme Beings Of Leisure, "Never The Same" (the video has one word censored in the middle, you can probably guess which one) and in a more silly-sexy vein, "Last Girl on Earth".
posted by en forme de poire at 11:35 AM on October 13, 2012


Oh, and if you want instrumental... "Sun is Shining", DJ Krush/Toshinori Kondo.

And fuck, can't believe I forgot "Six Days" by DJ Shadow. Though part of the appeal is undoubtedly the Wong Kar-Wai video.
posted by en forme de poire at 11:41 AM on October 13, 2012


Oops Oh My - Tweet ft. Fabolous & Missy Elliot surely?? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leHeUWjGYSA
posted by stevedawg at 3:14 PM on October 13, 2012


Response by poster: Thanks everyone, these are all amazing...
posted by désoeuvrée at 6:22 PM on October 13, 2012


Response by poster: It seems like there should be a lot in Morcheeba's oeuvre, too.

Ooh Trigger Hippie.
posted by désoeuvrée at 6:42 AM on October 19, 2012


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