Please help me find the hippie stripper soundtrack of my dreams!
April 2, 2014 3:19 PM   Subscribe

I'm interested in finding songs that are like Massive Attack's 'Angel' and Velvet Underground's 'Venus in Furs' - songs that are a combination of sensual and trancy/trippy. Pandora is not cooperating, so it may be a job best suited to the human ear. I'd eventually like to compose a playlist, so bring on the suggestions!
posted by Selena777 to Media & Arts (41 answers total) 81 users marked this as a favorite
 
The band Black Box Recorder is your friend.
posted by drjimmy11 at 3:21 PM on April 2, 2014 [3 favorites]


If I were a stripper, I'd strip to Strict Machine.
posted by sevensnowflakes at 3:23 PM on April 2, 2014 [4 favorites]


Portishead
Single Gun Theory
posted by pompomtom at 3:23 PM on April 2, 2014 [1 favorite]


Best answer: I believe Glory Box by Portishead is the standard answer to this question.
posted by fshgrl at 3:27 PM on April 2, 2014 [6 favorites]


8MM, Give It Up. Probably other tracks, too
posted by crush-onastick at 3:31 PM on April 2, 2014


Pixies - Is She Weird
Bjork - Army of Me
posted by melissasaurus at 3:35 PM on April 2, 2014 [1 favorite]






Smoke City Underwater Love

The whole album.
posted by sciencegeek at 3:46 PM on April 2, 2014 [1 favorite]




Slightly slower, but Radiohead Street Spirit
posted by Blitz at 3:58 PM on April 2, 2014


FC Kahuna: Hayling
posted by 4ster at 4:10 PM on April 2, 2014 [3 favorites]


"Come to Me" by Björk
posted by milk white peacock at 4:10 PM on April 2, 2014


Julia Holter - Try To Make Yourself A Work Of Art
M83 - Lower Your Eyelids To Die With The Sun

(I only saw the 'hippie stripper' part of the question after posting this. I guess these tracks would make... interesting stripper soundtracks. Like seeing God during a lapdance?)
posted by naju at 4:10 PM on April 2, 2014


Elysian Fields - Live for the Touch or pretty much anything else by them.
posted by therewithal at 4:26 PM on April 2, 2014


Perhaps Morcheeba?
posted by sciencegeek at 4:36 PM on April 2, 2014 [4 favorites]


The band you're looking for is The Black Angels. For a start, anyway.
posted by palmcorder_yajna at 4:55 PM on April 2, 2014 [1 favorite]


Esthero's 'Country Living (The World I Know)'?
posted by Caravantea at 4:56 PM on April 2, 2014




All of that album by Kruder and Dorfmeister is really good (The K & D Sessions).
posted by zscore at 5:51 PM on April 2, 2014


Try on my 6 Underground Pandora station. Plenty of the above mentioned bands, plus Garbage, Mazzy Starr, Amon Tobin, and others.
posted by bfranklin at 5:52 PM on April 2, 2014 [3 favorites]


Austra - Spellwork
Blonde Redhead - The Dress
Phantogram - Mouthful of Diamonds
Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
Tamaryn - The Waves
posted by otolith at 6:01 PM on April 2, 2014


For a more analog sound, try Beats Antique. (Bonus: They often give away older albums.)
posted by wintersweet at 6:43 PM on April 2, 2014 [1 favorite]


This Marvin Gaye/Radiohead mashup: Sexual High
This is a little slow but it always sounds earthy and sexy to me: La Mamounia by Moroccan Spirit
posted by jessamyn at 6:53 PM on April 2, 2014


For anyone with Rdio, I’ve made a playlist of songs mentioned so far (couldn’t find a few of them):

Hippie Stripper Soundtrack
posted by Ryon at 7:03 PM on April 2, 2014 [1 favorite]


Télépopmusik - Just Breathe
posted by Brent Parker at 8:03 PM on April 2, 2014


Another by Tricky: Over Me.
posted by BibiRose at 10:24 PM on April 2, 2014


Elizabeth Fraser singing This Love.
posted by BibiRose at 10:28 PM on April 2, 2014




Supreme Beings of Leisure - Never the Same, good but maybe even a bit too on the nose. Their first self-titled album and Divine Operating System, their second, might be a good place to search for the kind of tracks you're looking for.
posted by C^3 at 10:53 PM on April 2, 2014 [1 favorite]


I don't know how much lyrics count for you - I tend to listen more to harmonies and rhythms and less to lyrics, so my suggestions might not work for you on a lyrics basis, but they all "sound sexy" to me, in a similar-ish way to Angel (though I tend toward the electronic end of things):

Bush - Mouth (Stingray Mix) - SEXY.
Magnetic Man feat. John Legend - Getting Nowhere
Poe - Hey Pretty (Drive-By Remix)
Sietta - What Am I Supposed To Do?
Enigma - Sadeness (really old now, and probably too cheesy/overwrought for a hippie stripper playlist, but still. Gosh do I feel old suggesting this!)
Conjure One - Demon Inside
∆AIMON - Maasym
Garbage - Push It
Peeping Tom ft. Rahzel and Dan the Automator - Mojo
posted by po at 2:26 AM on April 3, 2014 [1 favorite]


Buck 65, Drawing Curtains

Mia Doi Todd, Digital 2.2

posted by Nibbly Fang at 6:44 AM on April 3, 2014 [1 favorite]


This Rebirth of Cool compilation is pretty great.
posted by backwards guitar at 9:37 AM on April 3, 2014


Burial remix of Paradise Circus
posted by yoHighness at 2:21 PM on April 3, 2014


And maybe Cibo Matto - Sugar Water
posted by yoHighness at 2:28 PM on April 3, 2014


Ruby- Paraffin
posted by stagewhisper at 4:22 PM on April 3, 2014


Aluminum Group - w/o the Erte (this sample is the best I could find)
Air - Sexy Boy
posted by hydrophonic at 10:51 PM on April 3, 2014


Death In Vegas - Dirge
posted by ninebelow at 7:07 AM on April 4, 2014


Response by poster: Thanks for the suggestions and playlist, everybody! It's going to be an awesome weekend sorting through it all and discovering more work from the bands mentioned.
posted by Selena777 at 9:43 PM on April 4, 2014


Wicked Beat Sound System. Track 2, I Don't Wanna Know and track 9, Stay With Me 'Til Dawn.
posted by ImsoAeriginal at 3:02 PM on April 7, 2014




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