"Touch-A Touch-A Touch me, I want to be dirty!!!"
October 27, 2016 4:04 PM

I'm looking for sexy, over the top songs about sexual awakening, kind of like Touch-A Touch-A Touch me from Rocky Horror. Looking for recommendations for similar songs.
posted by twill to Media & Arts (53 answers total) 22 users marked this as a favorite
This is perhaps a little more tongue in cheek than you're looking for but here's a song that never made it to the final stage production of Jekyll & Hyde: the Musical. I was literally just singing it right before I logged in to Metafilter and saw this question. (I do not possess the same vocal range as Linda Eder.)
posted by Hermione Granger at 4:12 PM on October 27, 2016


Faith No More, "Be Aggressive".
posted by bile and syntax at 4:23 PM on October 27, 2016


SaltnPepper, Push it and Divinyls I touch myself
posted by saucysault at 4:30 PM on October 27, 2016


maybe less than over the top...
she-bop, lauper
breakdown, petty
happiness is a warm gun, beatles
centerfold, j.geils
pictures of lily, the who
posted by j_curiouser at 4:46 PM on October 27, 2016


Feeling Love by Paula Cole
You Make My Heart Beat Too Fast by Buddy and Julie Miller
posted by Thorzdad at 4:56 PM on October 27, 2016


Divinyls "I Touch Myself" is definitely a classic for this.

Also, Macy Gray - B.O.B. (note: dancing vibrators in video).
posted by Paper rabies at 4:59 PM on October 27, 2016


Fuck the Pain Away by Peaches.

Fuck and Run by Liz Phair

Gagged and Tied, by That Dog
posted by janey47 at 5:23 PM on October 27, 2016


Well, not over-the-top by today's standards (geesh, kids these days!), but man the intent is all there—especially when she sings

Learnin' from each other's knowing
Lookin' to see how much we've grown


And the only one who could ever reach me
Was the son of a preacher man
posted by she's not there at 5:24 PM on October 27, 2016


Je t'aime moi non plus, Serge Gainsbourg

Nearly forgot, damn my eyes:

Sugar in my bowl, Nina Simone
posted by Diablevert at 5:26 PM on October 27, 2016


More from the world of musical theatre:

Barbara Song from The Threepenny Opera
The Miller's Son from A Little Night Music
The Word of your Body from Spring Awakening
Sodomy from Hair
Contact from RENT

Not from musical theatre:

Leonard Cohen's Light as the Breeze
(His Don't Go Home With Your Hard-On is great too, if not quite what you're seeking.)
posted by sueinnyc at 5:30 PM on October 27, 2016


It can't be just be me that Garbage's "1# Crush" gives the funny pants feelings to.
posted by Kitteh at 5:45 PM on October 27, 2016


I love this question! I think Meat Loaf's Paradise by the Dashboard Light fits the bill in terms of sexy & over-the-top.
posted by sweetjane at 5:48 PM on October 27, 2016


Touch Me from Spring Awakening
posted by meemzi at 6:01 PM on October 27, 2016


Madonna's Like a Virgin. At the cheesiest end of the 80s scale, I give you Samantha Fox's Touch Me.
posted by fingersandtoes at 6:02 PM on October 27, 2016


"My Neck, My Back".
posted by kevinbelt at 6:11 PM on October 27, 2016


Tweet "Oops (Oh My)"
posted by shortyJBot at 6:17 PM on October 27, 2016


Violent Femmes, Gimme the Car.
posted by bunderful at 6:36 PM on October 27, 2016


Eartha Kitt's "I want to be Evil."
posted by wwax at 7:01 PM on October 27, 2016


Denise Lasalle "Lick It Before You Stick It"
Bessie Smith "Need A Little Sugar In My Bowl"
posted by It'sANewDawn at 7:17 PM on October 27, 2016


Kimbra "Teen Heat"
posted by Pearl928 at 7:23 PM on October 27, 2016


Poe "Wild".
posted by Ostara at 7:30 PM on October 27, 2016


I kissed a girl by Katy Perry
posted by St. Peepsburg at 8:11 PM on October 27, 2016


Violent Femmes Blister in the Sun
posted by ActionPopulated at 8:12 PM on October 27, 2016


Sexuality, by k d lang.
posted by bunderful at 8:53 PM on October 27, 2016


Liz Phair Flower
posted by anadem at 8:58 PM on October 27, 2016


Slightly more subtle than Like a Virgin, but not much: Katy Perry Teenage Dream
posted by fingersandtoes at 9:01 PM on October 27, 2016


Criminal by Fiona Apple (the video sure didn't hurt the dirty slinky vibe either).
posted by Candleman at 9:22 PM on October 27, 2016


Hands to Myself - Selena Gomez
Into You - Ariana Grande
Love To Love You Baby - Donna Summer
Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover - Sophie B. Hawkins
I Wanna Be Your Lover - Prince
If - Janet Jackson
Justify My Love - Madonna
posted by SisterHavana at 9:31 PM on October 27, 2016


Rough Trade's High School Confidential

"...the song's narrator is a student observing a sexy female classmate, a "cool blonde scheming bitch" whose activities suggest that she may be having sexual relations with adult men, including the high school principal. The narrator...reveals her own unrequited lust for her: in one of the most famous lyrics from the song, Pope sings "She makes me cream my jeans when she comes my way". The lyrics never explicitly state the narrator's own sex, so they may be read either as Pope speaking from a male perspective, or as a reference to lesbianism."

Video. I was only 5 when it came out, but I still remember the shock it caused in some circles. Some teachers wouldn't play it at middle school dances even though it was still popular. (Still often heard on Canadian FM radio.)

More fabulous dated Canadian smut: Nick Gilder's Hot Child in the City. (Also, "Roxy Roller" -- "Peaches and cream delight. Roxy Roller. Five-bob job. She gets bubblegum on her knees, Down between the seats.")

Bob Seger's Night Moves kinda sounds like generic Seger/70s country-tinged classic rock, but it's really pretty filthy, teenagers figuring out how to ball in "the backroom, to the alley or the trusty woods," "we were gettin' our share," "and oh the wonder, we felt the lightning, and we waited on the thunder."

Very cheesy Canadiana: The Bells, Stay Awhile
posted by kmennie at 9:31 PM on October 27, 2016


Queen, Fat Bottomed Girls
Buzzcocks, Orgasm Addict
posted by michaelhoney at 9:34 PM on October 27, 2016


Morrissey - Skin Storm
posted by cathycartoon at 11:14 PM on October 27, 2016


The Undertones - Teenage Kicks
posted by bluedora at 11:26 PM on October 27, 2016


Van Halen - Hot for Teacher
posted by Special Agent Dale Cooper at 12:02 AM on October 28, 2016


Dunno about awakenings, but Zydrate Anatomy is definitely over the top sexy. Take what you want from these, I guess: Placebo, Nancy Boy, The Pretty Reckless, Goin' Down, Tiffany, I Think We're Alone Now.

I can't help thinking there's a whole bunch of Aerosmith songs that fit the bill, but I'm drawing a blank. Maybe just stick a pin in their discography.

> Van Halen - Hot for Teacher

Huh. The Police, Don't Stand So Close To Me?
posted by Leon at 12:33 AM on October 28, 2016


The Red Hot Chili Peppers's "Sir Psycho Sexy."
posted by johngoren at 2:26 AM on October 28, 2016




Relax -- Frankie Goes to Hollywood
posted by DrAstroZoom at 7:50 AM on October 28, 2016


If you're interest in queer sexual awakening, there's always "Jet Boy, Jet Girl"
posted by SansPoint at 8:09 AM on October 28, 2016


Love Me Unique by Michael Franti. Actually, just check out the entire Love Kamikaze album. There might be a few on there.
posted by Hopeful and Cynical at 8:34 AM on October 28, 2016


Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing
posted by artificialard at 10:26 AM on October 28, 2016


It Ain't The Meat It's The Motion?
posted by BoscosMom at 10:50 AM on October 28, 2016


Oh yeah, you said over wanted over the top, no?

Jungle Fever, the Chakachas
posted by Diablevert at 12:10 PM on October 28, 2016


Going straight for the cheese...
Neil Diamond - Desiree
Bobby Goldsboro - Summer (The First Time)
posted by Billiken at 12:35 PM on October 28, 2016


Haley Reinhardt, "Oh My!"

Not over the top:
Betty Wright, "Tonight is the Night".
posted by Riverine at 12:38 PM on October 28, 2016


The Boomtown Rats: Skin on Skin
Hedwig and the Angry Inch: Sugar Daddy
posted by bendy at 1:31 PM on October 28, 2016


Seconding "Night Moves".

kmennie: I bought that album when it came out. Listened to "Night Moves" so many times that I still remember the lyrics (line-for-line, I just checked). Yet, until today, didn't get the overt sexual significance of

Felt the lightening. And we waited on the thunder.
Waited on the thunder!

Just learned that last Saturday was the 40-year anniversary of the release of "Night Moves". To everyone else who remembers that time like it was yesterday, isn't it...

...funny how the night moves,
When you just don't seem to have as much to lose
Strange how the night moves
With autumn closing in.
posted by she's not there at 1:39 PM on October 28, 2016


"I wanna Kiss You All Over" by Exile.
posted by annieb at 5:14 PM on October 28, 2016


Take me back to your house - Basement Jaxx
I wanna come over - Melissa Etheridge
posted by bunderful at 5:34 PM on October 28, 2016


Also, Halestorm's "I Get Off"
posted by annieb at 5:40 PM on October 28, 2016


Darling Nikki - Prince
Boom Boom (Let's Go Back To My Room) - Paul Lekakis
Do Me - Bell Biv Devoe
Go All The Way - The Raspberries

(This needs to be a Spotify playlist too!)
posted by SisterHavana at 7:25 PM on October 28, 2016


Oops (Oh My) - Tweet
posted by bongo_x at 9:58 AM on October 29, 2016


Ice Cream - New Young Pony Club
posted by praiseb at 11:29 AM on October 29, 2016


Melissa Etheridge "Unusual Kiss" My take is that it's about a threesome, if you pay attention to the lyrics at the end.
posted by annieb at 3:56 PM on October 29, 2016


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