Comments on: Strip-hop? (Ugh... sorry I couldn't resist.)

Question: Strip-hop? (Ugh... sorry I couldn't resist.)

désoeuvrée — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 02:49:03 -0800

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.

By: tim_in_oz

tim_in_oz — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 03:03:23 -0800

How about Tricky - Hell is Round the Corner?

By: kuanes

kuanes — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 03:05:39 -0800

Sneaker Pimps "6 Underground" would be a decent choice.

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 03:24:51 -0800

River - HUFF THIS!

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 03:32:44 -0800

Oh, also I'm Your Girl - Eleni Mandell

By: knile

knile — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 03:37:20 -0800

By: Homeboy Trouble

Homeboy Trouble — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 04:05:12 -0800

How could it possibly be anything other than Portishead ? ?

By: dogwalker

dogwalker — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 04:17:30 -0800

yeah seconding Portishead, a band I don't even particularly like, but can definitely recommend for something like this

By: googly

googly — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 04:34:22 -0800

2wicky. The right music, the right lyrics, and a nice little build around 2:30 for the denouement.

By: cybele

cybele — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 04:41:14 -0800

I've Been Thinking by Handsome Boy Modeling School is SERIOUSLY IT.

By: muddgirl

muddgirl — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 05:11:55 -0800

More specifically, Portishead - Glory Box.

By: Runes

Runes — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 06:02:41 -0800

Most of Blue Lines would work.

By: jbickers

jbickers — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 07:06:17 -0800

Mini Skirt by Esquivel. Complete with sexy whistling.

By: Senza Volto

Senza Volto — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 07:40:27 -0800

Emika - Drop the Other

By: box

box — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 08:40:29 -0800

DJ Krush (f Esthero) - Final Home

By: mumkin

mumkin — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 08:56:26 -0800

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.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:36:49 -0800

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.

By: meg_s98

meg_s98 — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:13:29 -0800

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.

By: en forme de poire

en forme de poire — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 11:35:24 -0800

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".

By: en forme de poire

en forme de poire — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 11:41:28 -0800

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.

By: stevedawg

stevedawg — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 15:14:57 -0800

Oops Oh My - Tweet ft. Fabolous & Missy Elliot surely?? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leHeUWjGYSA

By: désoeuvrée

désoeuvrée — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 18:22:23 -0800

Thanks everyone, these are all amazing...

By: désoeuvrée

désoeuvrée — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 06:42:58 -0800

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

Ooh Trigger Hippie.