What Else Is In The Teaches of Peaches?

June 3, 2008 7:33 PM

I'm looking for musical suggestions that might help me ... fuck the pain away.

Imagine a virtual stripper pole, with that post-1999 ubiquitous Matrix dripping green effect, the only brass in evidence the chutzpah of the exotic dancer in question. I am looking for music with the down-low buzzing tickle you heard lurking under PJ Harvey's "Down By the Water," as lo-fi and unclean in production as a trashed chopper. Electrosleaze coming in over barely-modified square waves like a cheap inverter would make. I'm looking for tunes one could conceivably dance to without gobbling down pills and standing on a jackhammer. Ladytron isn't filthy enough. This should sound like the background music to having unsafe sex with a complete stranger while under the influence of so many narcotics you didn't realize you were about to enjoy some Thai ladyboy.

Touchstone sounds: Lords of Acid, Lust; random bits of TKK; "Frank Sinatra" by Miss Kittin and The Hacker; and of course Peaches' demurely-titled "Fuck the Pain Away." Oddly, none of Peaches' other stuff quite does it for me.

I'm trying to stay away from music where the letters BPM prominently feature on the album cover; I'm avoiding boys in mesh shirts with amyl nitrates; I don't want stuff where it sounds like it is for beepy, clean robots to listen to while they antiseptically beam Bluetooth codes at each other.

Make me unclean.

posted by adipocere to media & arts (78 comments total)

I like Stock Exchange by Meess Keetteen and zee 'Acker better than Frank Sinatra. YMMV, but if you like them at all it's not wonder that Peaches doesn't do it for you.

'One Night in NYC' by the Horrorist is a classic.

There's some pretty raunchy stuff on the compilation 'Suck It And See' but I guess that's more lyrical content.
posted by mkb at 7:52 PM on June 3, 2008

- Wooden Shjips are good for this, but there's no lyrical content usually. The song I'm thinking of is Shrinking Moon for You, it's got a slightly better beat than a lot of their YouTube stuff.
- Similarly Holy Fuck is good for this sort of dirty gritty music, but it is a little BPM-ish.
- The Butthole Surfers are good for this too, particularly stuff from Electriclarryland (Birds & Cough Syrup are two that come to mind)
- Jesus and Mary Chain is sort of the opium version of some of this stuff. Fuzzy but a little lovely, maybe not raw enough.
- Fu Manchu similarly, a little poppy but a very fuzzy sound and can really get going
- L7? Songs like Shitlist and they do a good cover of Let's Lynch the Landlord
- X used to be good for this back in the Los Angeles days but that may be a sort of archaic vibe now.
- The Reverend Horton Heat and the Cramps are a good psychobilly/shockabilly pair - they're a little lyric-heavy but the lyrics are pure sleaze in a lot of ways even when the music may be a little toe-tappin.
posted by jessamyn at 7:57 PM on June 3, 2008

"I'm Coming Down" on Trans Am's Red Line album is a favorite of mine.

"The Pink Room" on the Twin Peaks- Fire Walk With Me soundtrack is sleazy, though perhaps not quite matching with your touchstones.
posted by ISeemToBeAVerb at 8:06 PM on June 3, 2008

In the vein of jessamyn's suggestion, I've been looking for years and nobody makes me feel dirtier or more skeeved out than early Velvet Underground.
posted by crinklebat at 8:06 PM on June 3, 2008

Just about everything by Goldfrapp is sleazy.
posted by Nelsormensch at 8:10 PM on June 3, 2008

This has been doing it for me, lately. I don't know if it's popular or not, but I heard it on community radio and was immediately smitten.
posted by bunnytricks at 8:18 PM on June 3, 2008

NIN - Closer
posted by jkaczor at 8:20 PM on June 3, 2008 [1 favorite]

I tried X, actually went to a show of their not long ago - so bad I left. I actually like Jessamyn's suggestions, but I'm looking for something a little more ... electronic. Just like it was crappy electronic, some beat to hell Casio that got waterlogged one night and has never sounded the same.

Actually, "The Pink Room" is pretty good. Like we're back at One-Eyed Jacks.
posted by adipocere at 8:21 PM on June 3, 2008

I love this kind of stuff. Try Vitalic - for starters 'White Labels', and 'Soulshaker'. I have a great mix that includes a lot of Vitalic's stuff as well as 'Stock Exchange', and it's perfect.
posted by crabintheocean at 8:23 PM on June 3, 2008

Wolf Parade, especially "You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son"
posted by Solon and Thanks at 8:25 PM on June 3, 2008

And a lot of Angelo Badalamenti's stuff might fit the bill - the Lost Highway soundtrack in particular.
posted by crabintheocean at 8:28 PM on June 3, 2008

Mr. Quintron.
posted by neroli at 8:29 PM on June 3, 2008

I'm unclear on the need to avoid narcotics that enhance repetitive music but to seek out narcotics that enhance ladyboys. In my non-experience, these two are often related.

I-f
Add N To (X)
posted by meehawl at 8:32 PM on June 3, 2008

More prehistoric stuff (Less Sleaze - more raunchy lo-fi)

MC5 (Kick out the Jams, Motherfuckers!)
The New York Dolls (the first two albums)
Anything you can find solo by Johnny Thunders(New York Dolls guitarist) before he had his heroin overdose
Iggy and the Stooges.
Sex Pistols cover of the Stooges "NO FUN"

More recent:

My Chemical Romance (specifically THANK YOU FOR THE VENOM and GIVE 'EM HELL, KID)

On Edit: It's definitely not crappy electronic but (hopefully) worth posting anyway
posted by cjets at 8:34 PM on June 3, 2008 [1 favorite]

please try:

-portishead
-radio dept. (spinoff from new order)
-revenge (also spinoff from members of new order)
-blond redhead (the early stuff perhaps more relevant than the recent stuff)
posted by garfy3 at 8:34 PM on June 3, 2008

Also, the DFA remix of Deceptacon by Le Tigre.
posted by neroli at 8:36 PM on June 3, 2008

Kevin Blechdom. Shrill at times, in a very sloppy bouncy sense. It's N2O sleaze says I.
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 8:38 PM on June 3, 2008

AIDS Wolf
posted by loiseau at 8:38 PM on June 3, 2008

Filthy, eh? I assume you're intimately familiar with the flawlessly fucked-up and funky Crisco-disco of D.I.M., ZZT, and SebastiAn. (Bonus: excellent Sebastian remix of Revl9n.)
posted by mykescipark at 8:40 PM on June 3, 2008

Brazilian Girls, "Jique"
posted by neroli at 8:41 PM on June 3, 2008

Big Black.
posted by turgid dahlia at 8:45 PM on June 3, 2008 [1 favorite]

Just about everything by Goldfrapp is sleazy.

Lies! Only the middle albums (Black Cherry + Supernature) are even the least bit sleazy. Way more electro than sleaze. More burlesque than anything. Definitely not lo-fi in any case. "Strict Machine" will likely be the best take-away song for your purposes. A few Frapp remixes on "We Are Glitter" are heavily electroclashy, too. Nothing too fitful, though.

Best I have is Emilie Simon - I Just Wanna be Your Dog [YouTube]. This is more clashy than the album version, but even that is pretty raw. Unfortunately, it's only tangential to the rest of her music.

Thanks for asking. This list is wicked.
posted by cowbellemoo at 8:47 PM on June 3, 2008

Liz Phair - Flower
Pink & Peaches (!) - Oh My God
Massive Attack - Angel
Melissa Ferrick - Drive
Prince - Letitgo (Darling Nikii is too obvious)
Chakachas - Jungle Fever
posted by shothotbot at 8:58 PM on June 3, 2008

Seconding:
Add N To (X)- especially Plug me In or Metal Fingers...
What about...
CSS- Let's make Love and Listen to Death from Above
MSTRKRFT- We are your Friends (Justice Remix)
Justice- Waters of Nazareth, One Minute to Midnight...almost anything from that Cross album
Primal Scream-Kill All Hippies
Pulp- This is Hardcore
posted by dearest at 9:14 PM on June 3, 2008

What?! No mention of The Detroit Grand Pubahs?!?

(The "Pubahs" link is my favorite DGP song.)
posted by Dr. Wu at 9:14 PM on June 3, 2008

Massive Attack - Angel came to mind (already mentioned). At one point this was voted best album to bump uglies to according to some publication I used to read (can't remember which).

Also other trip-hop derivatives: Tricky's Maxinquaye and Pre-Millenium Tension ("I'll fuck you in the ass/Just for a laugh/With the quick speed/I'll make your nose bleed" sung sweetly on "Abbaon Fat Track"), Portishead, etc.
posted by mamessner at 9:27 PM on June 3, 2008

There's always Lil' Louis' French Kiss from way back in the 80s. Because this is so old there are about 5 million remixes of it extant, but one of my favourites is the jungle version of French Kiss by Ed Rush and Optical (just heard it now on random play so how's that for synchronicity)?
posted by meehawl at 9:31 PM on June 3, 2008

Anything by !!! (Chk Chk Chk) might be good...
posted by not_on_display at 9:37 PM on June 3, 2008

I Am X - Kiss and Swallow (Naked but Safe is my favorite track from that album - the whole thing is worth a writhe.)
posted by hyperfascinated at 9:48 PM on June 3, 2008

'Ass' by Mule. Not Gov't Mule, just Mule.
posted by Liosliath at 9:59 PM on June 3, 2008

Take a look at Swayzak, this song in particular.
posted by Horselover Fat at 10:02 PM on June 3, 2008

I'm listening to "Big Girl" by Ghostface Killah. Maybe that would scratch the itch? Especially if you have coke.
posted by [NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] at 10:04 PM on June 3, 2008

Sex on Wheelz - My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
You Used to Hold Me - Xavier Gold
Dominator - Human Resource
Pound - Human Sexual Response
Work This Pussy - Go Bitch Go
Bend My Body Armour - A Split Second
I Give to You - Nitzer Ebb
Strike to the Body - Die Warzau
Headhunter Vol. 1.0 - Front 242
More and Faster - KMFDM
Waiting for Mommie - My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
2nding NIN's Closer.
posted by spinturtle at 10:16 PM on June 3, 2008

Dragonette - I Get Around

Um, Britney Spears last album Blackout.. see Gimme More, Piece of Me, Break the Ice, Toy Soldier, etc. I heard that stuff & was like omg, it's Lords of Acid.

Kelis f/Nas - In Public - a+++ electrosleaze

Ying Yang Twins "Whisper Song" (and this one got a lot of radio play!)

The-Dream Ditch That

Uffie Ready to Uff
posted by citron at 10:17 PM on June 3, 2008 [1 favorite]

Serge Gainsbourg - Harley David
posted by hydrophonic at 10:25 PM on June 3, 2008

You want T. Raumschmiere
You want Atari Teenage Riot
[thirding] You want Add N to X [NSFW]
You want Kid606
You want remixes of DFA1979
You want remixes by Justice

You might want Rob Zombie?
posted by sleeping bear at 10:28 PM on June 3, 2008

Something about "Phenomena" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs gives me that dirty stripper feeling.
posted by apricot at 10:30 PM on June 3, 2008

Sweaty (Shazam Mix) - Muscles

can't stop playin' it...
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 10:53 PM on June 3, 2008

Sex Dwarf / Soft Cell
posted by misteraitch at 10:53 PM on June 3, 2008 [3 favorites]

Maybe:

Silence by Portishead

Spoon by Can

Sex (I'm A) by Lovage

Da Ya Think I'm Sexy by the Revolting Cocks


Instrumental sleaze:

Sickfit by Madvillain

Third World Lover by Kid Koala & Dynamite D
posted by cinemafiend at 10:55 PM on June 3, 2008

I would actually go for NIN's 'Get Down, Make Love' or 'Sin' as opposed to 'Closer'.
crap, I haven't listed to Sin in fucking ages. What an awesome track.

Oh, and seconding Headhunter by Front 242.
posted by GuyZero at 11:22 PM on June 3, 2008

I've always thought of the sound of The Kills as "pure sexual menace". No Wow and Sour Cherry are a couple favorites.

Death From Above 1979 might also work for you.

Note: I *do* work at imeem, but I'm not sure where else you can go to preview whole songs. I don't intend to shamelessly self-link.
posted by strangecargo at 11:52 PM on June 3, 2008 [1 favorite]

Rusko - Cockney Thug (youtube)
Knifehandchop - Dirty New York & the other songs from whatever EP that was on,
Math head - Anything,
Drop the Lime - Anything new, it used to be breakcore now it's street bass/passable electro-sleaze facimile,
Starkey - Anything (mix sets [the Dallas one is great]),
C.L.A.W.S. - C.L.A.W.S. Theme (Passions Remix) & some other stuff,
Aaron Spectre - Say More Fire,
DJ Q - Anything (the bassline/niche genre actually is the soundtrack to most Thai ladyboy-vectored HIV infections, science shows)
The Bug - Run the Place Red (or anything, Bug's production style is filthy)
Modeselektor - Deboutonner
Siriusmo - Femuscle

Wobble Dubstep (mix set)
Grime + Bassline + ??? (mix set)
posted by moift at 12:01 AM on June 4, 2008 [1 favorite]

Try the Electro House channel at di.fm
posted by jontyjago at 12:18 AM on June 4, 2008

YFLMD (You Fuck Like My Dad) by Giant Drag.
Cowboys by Portishead

I'm making this part small because I'm hesitant to let this golden cat out of the bag, but for the sake of helping out: I enthusiastically recommend that you poke around at EPITONIC; it lets you stream (and download) songs from a wide variety of mostly independent bands making really awesome music. You know, sort of like MeMu, but with maybe more pretense and a lot more hair wax.
posted by numinous at 12:34 AM on June 4, 2008

Barry Adamson, your go-to man for low-down sleaze. (warning flash)
posted by Fiasco da Gama at 12:50 AM on June 4, 2008

From the title and reference, i'm guessing you've already got NIN and Peaches on your list.

See what this does for you- Death From Above 1979's "Sexy Results" (MSTRKRFT remix)
Even if you don't like the song, i'd bet the video is right up your alley.
posted by The Esteemed Doctor Bunsen Honeydew at 2:07 AM on June 4, 2008

Yin Yang Twins - Whisper Song
Tom Waits - Shake It
Mark Lanegan - Wedding Dress (also, live.)
Kahimi Karie - Do Me Do Me
Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler
Sebastien Tellier - Sexual Sportswear

Ok, I think the last 2 are helped by the sexy videos, but whatever an association is an association.
posted by inactivist at 2:11 AM on June 4, 2008

yeah, go me for actually reading that post all the way through.
posted by The Esteemed Doctor Bunsen Honeydew at 2:37 AM on June 4, 2008

From a quick scan of what I have lying around, these at least push the "sleaze" button for me, but they might not be electro enough, in many cases.

White Stripes/A Martyr For My Love For You, Seether/Gasoline, 1,000 Homo DJs/Supernaut, Sneaker Pimps/Post-Modern Sleaze/Spin Spin Sugar, Babylon Zoo/Spaceman, Dot Allison/We're Only Science, pretty much the whole of the Spawn soundtrack album, most of Lou Reed's output, Garbage/#1 Crush, Dust Brothers/Medula Oblongata, The Normal/Warm Leatherette
posted by Leon at 2:59 AM on June 4, 2008

Spacemen 3/ Losing Touch with My Mind
posted by InstantSanitizer at 3:25 AM on June 4, 2008

Tittyfuck by Audion (a.k.a. Matthew Dear)
posted by Juliet Banana at 4:03 AM on June 4, 2008

I'm surprised no one has mentioned it yet.

Velvet Acid Christ - Slut

Caught is also good.

Just lame youtube fan-made videos, but at least you can hear the songs.
posted by paradoxflow at 4:25 AM on June 4, 2008

Maybe Sheep On Drugs? They're awful, but definitely the first thing I thought of. Someone's mp3 blog had some 12" of 'em - check hypem.com.
posted by the dief at 4:40 AM on June 4, 2008

There's some great suggestions in here. I thought I'd add this one in.. it's a gritty sound, but not very lyrical.

Bjork - Pluto
posted by czechmate at 5:36 AM on June 4, 2008

Geez, lots of SoD on youtube, huh?
posted by the dief at 6:27 AM on June 4, 2008

i find most of the exciter album by depeche mode to fit the bill (as long as i'm reading what you want correctly).
posted by misanthropicsarah at 6:44 AM on June 4, 2008

Link Wray's "Rumble."
posted by The corpse in the library at 7:04 AM on June 4, 2008

Beat Happening's "Bewitched" (and much of the rest of "Jamboree" or "Black Candy").
posted by The corpse in the library at 7:15 AM on June 4, 2008

Disco D Featuring Princess Superstar - Fuck Me On The Dancefloor (no video, alas).
posted by signal at 7:17 AM on June 4, 2008

I came to chime in with Warm Leatherette but dammit if Leon didn't get here first! I can however provide a link for your aural pleasure.

Sleazetastic.
posted by freya_lamb at 7:27 AM on June 4, 2008 [1 favorite]

Posting a response for my partner who was... ahem... given a time out two and a half years ago:

All of Xtrmntr, by Primal Scream
Lo Fidelity Allstars, Battleflag
Peace, Love and Pitbulls, Hitchhike to Mars
The Fall, Glam Racket
All of Suicide, by Suicide
Warm Leatherette, The Normal
posted by idest at 8:05 AM on June 4, 2008

And also: Peace, Love and Pitbulls, This is Trash
posted by idest at 8:16 AM on June 4, 2008

Kelis f/Nas - In Public - a+++ electrosleaze

Although it does contain possibly the worst couplet of all time:

The pussy or the mouth, that is the question
Like Shakespeare but my erection is the case here

And what is sleazy about Angel by Massive Attack?!

Seconding that Princess Superstar is sleaze on toast. The electro of Perfect Exceeder might sound a little clean for your tastes but its soul is dirty. Also Buck 65.
posted by ninebelow at 8:55 AM on June 4, 2008

DJ Irene
Tool
posted by skewedoracle at 10:30 AM on June 4, 2008

Revolting Cocks, especially Attack Ships on Fire and their somewhat unforgettable cover of Rod Stewart's "If Ya Think I'm Sexy".
posted by felix at 10:38 AM on June 4, 2008

right now i'm listening to bauhaus' "dark entries," and wondering why i'm not, um, in your happy place, as it were.

but i can't believe nobody's mentioned chicks on speed. really? nobody? they're not nearly as bpm-ish as some folks fear.

there's also this song i heard somewhere, "cocaine sex?" i don't remember whose song it is, but that just might, um, fit your bill, as it were . . .
posted by deejay jaydee at 10:53 AM on June 4, 2008

Maybe I don't understand what you're looking for but what about Lovage's, Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By. Particularly Sex (I'm A), and Stroker Ace.
posted by pwb503 at 11:06 AM on June 4, 2008

Anything by Dirty Sanchez. Specifically Get It Wet, Dig It, Fucking on the Dance Floor, and possibly Tranny Sex as well. Bonus points when you realise that she isn't actually a she.

deejay jaydee, you're probably thinking of Renegade Soundwave.
posted by geckoinpdx at 11:53 AM on June 4, 2008

This is an awesome thread! People have already suggested a lot of what I was going to say, so I'll contribute some Raymond Watts-age. What's available on Youtube, at a glance:

Pig - Painiac, The Sick
Schwein - You're My Disease (poppy, but fun)
Schaft - The Hero Inside

There's lots more where that came from. Look for any mid-'90s and newer Pig, and I think Schwein and Schaft only had an album each.
posted by liet at 5:21 PM on June 4, 2008

I just came back in to say that "Turn It Up" by Robots In Disguise, linked somewhere above, is absolutely pure smoking hot sex.
posted by turgid dahlia at 5:36 PM on June 4, 2008

Chicks on speed, Tiga, Vitalic, older Ladytron...
Sounds to me like you're looking for Electroclash.
Yes, I know everybody hates the name/catagory, but hey, it's better than nothing...
posted by lekvar at 5:42 PM on June 4, 2008

David Banner - Play
posted by nitsuj at 7:05 PM on June 4, 2008

deejay jaydee said "but i can't believe nobody's mentioned chicks on speed. really? nobody? "

Eugh. Not sexy. I'd be distracted by the deadpan German voices.

However, Les Georges Leningrad.
posted by loiseau at 8:36 PM on June 4, 2008

Tear you apart - She Wants Revenge

I also like the Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Phenomena suggestion.
posted by clearly at 9:55 PM on June 4, 2008

Definitely check out:

Praga Khan - Breakfast in Vegas

Mount Sims - Yellow Lines
posted by deathofme at 10:18 AM on June 5, 2008

any Avenue D song but especially the Punk Rock Song

Dandi wind - Mafu Cage
posted by bobobox at 3:32 PM on June 8, 2008

Morningwood - take off your clothes.
posted by shothotbot at 6:00 PM on June 9, 2008