Music that's better than sex, #2 in a series

[firecat]

Elsenet there was a thread where people were trying to explain to each other the appeal of certain unusual kinks. One of the explanations was "[x] and horniness are both very intense feelings and sometimes the wires get crossed."

That also explains why I feel the way I do about good rock guitar solos.

I don't think having such a reaction toward Prince needs an explanation.

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[senmut]

I always get distracted by how much Dhani Harrison looks like his dad. But yes, one of the BEST performances of this song.

[noelfigart]

Oh yes... That one...

[selki]

Yes, the new director's cut is great. Mmmm!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Sometimes it easy to forget that Prince (among other things) was indeed a ROCK star in the literal sense. I love him. I will always love him.

Edited to add: this also reminds me of a joke in a Veggie Tales song (I don't know if you know them, Christian children's cartoon videos and songs which had vegetables as characters). They did an 80's song and Bob the Tomato says (when the guitar solo starts) says, 'You know, Junior, what was big in the 80's? guitar solos. I'll go get some milk and be back' [to sing the chorus when it's over].

[firecat]

The Veggie Tales joke reminds me of the Drums Must Not Stop shaggy-dog joke. Here’s one version I just swiped:

Jungle Drums

An anthropologist went to study a far-flung tropical island. He found a guide with a canoe to take him upriver to the remote site where he would make his observations. About noon on the second day of travel up the river they began to hear drums. The anthropologist asked his guide, "What are those drums?"

The guide turned to him and said, "Drums okay, but VERY BAD when they stop."

As they traveled the drums grew louder and louder. The anthropologist was nervous, but the guide merely repeated, "Drums okay. Drums not bad. When drums stop, then very bad!"

Then the drums suddenly stopped. Terrified, the anthropologist yelled to the guide: "The drums stopped! What now?"

The guide crouched down, covered his head with his hands and said, "Guitar solo."

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Ha, ha! I love it!

[silveradept]

From what I am given to understand, a lot of Prince's guitar solos and performances inspired horniness in their listeners and viewers, so I'm not sure this is a matter of the wires getting crossed so much as it is them working along their intended pathways.

That said, I really enjoy this cover version of the song every time I hear it.

[firecat]

Yeah, that’s why I said having this reaction to Prince doesn’t require an explanation. But I also have it to the music of Joe Satriani and other less pointedly erotic performers.

[silveradept]

I'm sure we could find plenty of people who wrote about how music these days was all about sex and sexuality and temptation, regardless of what time period we're writing about, but I take your point.

[firecat]

Oh, certainly.

A wave of vulgar, filthy and suggestive music has inundated the land. Nothing but ragtime prevails, and the cake-walk with its obscene posturings, its lewd gestures....Our children, our young men and women, are continually exposed to its contiguity, to the monotonous attrition of this vulgarizing music. It is artistically and morally depressing and should be suppressed by press and pulpit. -- Musical Courier, 1899