Hook-up songs
Posted by jbg926@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 187 comments
What are the songs you remember were seemingly always played at a party, dorm room, your bedroom, whatever when you were trying to get busy with someone?
I'll start
Beyond_Re-Animator@reddit
Roxy Music’s Avalon got me hooked up a lot in the 80s and early 90s
Carlito2393@reddit
Peter Gabriel - Passion, Music For The Last Temptation Of Christ
taughtmepatience@reddit
Dire Straits - Dire Straits on vinyl... go to when trying to seal the deal.
BokChoyJr@reddit
I’m going full albums. Pink Floyd The Wall. It’s very textured, emotional and not rushed. As horny teens it made things pretty spectacular. Honorable mention to The Sky’s Gone Out by Bauhaus.
jlmsw@reddit
Great Bauhaus album!
Pure_Floyd_Smernitch@reddit
Fiona Apple Criminal Portishead anything
TOW2Bguy@reddit
Fiona, Tori Amos, Varuca Salt, The Donnas, Joan Jett, Pat Benetar, Alannah Myles and later Jennifer Page were all artists a gal could play and even this blonde dude got the message that it was about to be on like Donkey Kong!
JudgeJuryEx78@reddit
You just unknowingly did me a huge favor.
For months, I have been trying to remember a song by a foreign band and could only remember the sound, knew no words because foreign, and remembered that it was played a lot for years. It was even frequently featured on General Hospital, back when they obtained big music rights to lure in younger viewers.
For some reason I remembered it as an Arab or Middle Eastern band. I was wrong...that's why it was so hard for me to find!
My mystery song was not Return to Innocence, but another by the band called Sadness (Part 1). As soon as I saw Enigma in the post it all came together. Thank you, internet stranger!
jbg926@reddit (OP)
pedsmursekc@reddit
Sadness is so good
Entire-Flower1259@reddit
Sadeness, I think: he spoke French.
Last_Cod_998@reddit
A friend of mine pointed out that you'll always love the songs that played when you were sexually active.
Correct-Condition-99@reddit
I touch myself, but the divinyls
https://youtu.be/wv-34w8kGPM?si=dM9Rc1MtohhVa3L-
toadgoat@reddit
Everything but the Girl
OkLife7773@reddit
Came here to read this!
Cheers! To every alt girls that ever brought me home back then!
meli_padme@reddit
Pearl Jam -Black
alwaystenminutes@reddit
George Michael - I Want Your Sex
meli_padme@reddit
George Michael - Father Figure
SackBadger2024@reddit
https://youtu.be/bmgqvXXctvQ
Take Me Now - Viscous Pink.
CriticalCurrency5725@reddit
Dude, if I busted out the Night Ranger tapes, moves were about to be made. LMFAO
Winter-eyed@reddit
I can’t wait another minute by high five was playing a lot one summer And that stupid song by color me bad was thumping on all the cars in the early 90s
2ndChanceAtLife@reddit
NIN - Closer to God
pedsmursekc@reddit
NIN + Drakkar or Enigma + Obsession cologne = teen years I'll never forget. Oh, and bonus points if she was wearing vanilla fields.
SquirrelBowl@reddit
Drakkar got me every time
SadCrocodile762@reddit
Enigma for sure. That music was made to get freaky.
RetroRobB89@reddit
The Cure, either Caterpillar Girl or Love Song or Just Like Heaven
TOW2Bguy@reddit
Everything I do, I do it for you.
And Cherry Pie
pedsmursekc@reddit
Hell yeah. Tastes so good, make grown man cry. Lol, I absolutely cranked "Everything I Do" the other day when no one was home - the extended cut.
Ok-Grape-3380@reddit
More than Words!
pedsmursekc@reddit
One of my most memorable experiences happened with that song. Love it, still.
Revolutionary_Gap150@reddit
Mazzy Star (or NIN when feeling spicy)
pedsmursekc@reddit
Mazzy Star was my go to in college, with NIN definitely still in play
Grand_Taste_8737@reddit
Freak Me - Silk
CountHonorius@reddit
How about this one. Art of Noise - Moments in Love
IAmDaBadMan@reddit
Chris Isaak - Wicked Game
Ancient-Cow-1038@reddit
I first danced with her to Crazy For You by Madonna, and first had sex with her to Baby Can I Hold You Tonight by Tracy Chapman.
More_Law6245@reddit
Oh defiantly INXS's I need you tonight! that was always my tart song on the dance floor, worked pretty well for me.
unloosedcoin@reddit
2 nights ago I played Tiffany, I think we're alone now. It worked
blueblocker2000@reddit
Adam Sandler - Lunch Lady Lane
Lopsided_Panic_1148@reddit
If someone played "Lunch Lady Land," I probably would.
MrsRalphieWiggum@reddit
Somebody Kill Me" (Please) is a much better song
spykedaddy@reddit
I’m going with “at a medium pace” for this one fellas
blueblocker2000@reddit
Maybe, but you can't deny that chorus hits hard in the throws of passion.
Antique-Ant5557@reddit
I was wondering, do the kids today put together make-out mixes? Is that still a thing?
Repulsive_Drawl@reddit
I had a friend that swore all it took for him to get lucky was to play Journey.
Lopsided_Panic_1148@reddit
DON'T STOP believin'!
IMTrick@reddit
A have a story about R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A. that will probably never be told.
Lopsided_Panic_1148@reddit
I once got pulled over for speeding while listening to "Jack and Diane," way back in 1988.
MyFaveTortilla@reddit
TELL US
IMTrick@reddit
I would, but I'm really not sure I can without it getting more graphic than a lot of people (including me) would be comfortable with.
MyFaveTortilla@reddit
🤣🤣
BetterGoogleit17@reddit
Red light special by TLC.
Lopsided_Panic_1148@reddit
"I Want Your Sex," duh.
Raul_Duke_1755@reddit
I got my first bj with Lou Reed singing "She kept her head while giving head" and busted up laughing. She wasn't as amused as I was. Take a Walk on the wild side babe!
A_Gringo666@reddit
But she never lost her head
even when she was giving head.
That was Candy. She came from out on the island. In the back room she was everybodies darlin'.
ajn3323@reddit
Violator album by Depeche Mode
efflexor@reddit
Yep, this and Songs of Faith and Devotion
jbg926@reddit (OP)
Stripped was always a good song, albeit not on that album
sixwax@reddit
101 version ftw
waderockett@reddit
Prince, “Do Me Baby” off the Controversy album.
lovepony0201@reddit
Barry White...the entire greatest hits album.
shakeyjake@reddit
Terrance Trent Darby - The Hardline According to
familyguyfan937@reddit
Anything Jodeci and Keith Sweat, Do Me Baby(Prince or Melissa Morgan), Rome, H-Town-Part Time Lover, AL B. Sure, Digital Underground-Sex Packets, RFTW-Love You Down...just to name a few...took weeks to make a hook-up mix tape/cd
silentslady@reddit
U2 - One
pandemicblues@reddit
Sade
subibrat85@reddit
How deep is your love. Bee Gees
OIL_99@reddit
Pony, Justify my Love, Chasing cars
fallcreekprepper@reddit
I had a mix tape just for such situations, it started out as a 90 min cassette, later it became a CD, even now, many of the songs still live on a playlist my wife and I put on to set the mood:
Mazzy Starr - Fade Into You
Def Leppard - Love bites
Fiona Apple - Criminal
Bob Segar - Night Moves
Eagles - Tequila Sunrise
Don Henley - Last Worthless Evening
Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight
Bryan Adams - Everything I do
Those are the ones I can remember off the top of my head. I could go look at my playlist, but it has newer stuff on it as well as stuff my wife added.
CaptainAssPlunderer@reddit
I bet your boyfriend really loved it.
fallcreekprepper@reddit
You're hilarious
Ustob@reddit
My Roomate had "CYPRESS HILL"\~ Temple of Boom Instrumental.
(Insane in the brain album)
\~whenever Dude had a girl i'd know cause he'd put that on.
I'd go outside for a Smoke & come back in & it was off LOL ;D
& even on 25% volume it sounded great w/ surround sound.
Independent_Tough_81@reddit
Eagles, 71 - 75 Meat Loaf, Bat Out Of Hell Zeppelin, Stairway Journey, Escape Pat Benetar Lita Ford Joan Jett Scorpions Priest Bob Seeger Cheap Trick Metallica
Always had tunes cranked, If I didn't have a tape in, it was 98 Rock in Baltimore, MD or 97 Rock in Buffalo
God's I miss the 80s, even the 90s...
Amplith@reddit
Ohhh Baby I love your way
CheesyRomantic@reddit
TLC - Red Light Special Toni Braxton - You're Making Me High Boyz 2 Men - I'll Make Love To You Maximilian / Shaggy - Sexual Healing
PuzzleheadedAbies678@reddit
Towards the end of high school it was Shai, jodeci, Keith sweat, and somehow ironically Nine inch Nails - Closer of all things.
Whichy-Witchy@reddit
My somehow ironically was the entire Live album lol.
I-used2B-a-Valkyrie@reddit
Roxy Music - Avalon (album) Pink Floyd Sade Brian Ferry - Slave to Love
furniguru@reddit
I like how you’re thinking
Funke-munke@reddit
Still loving you-Scorpions
eyeroll611@reddit
Computer Love - Kraftwerk
Crewstage8387@reddit
Feel Like Making Love - Bad Company
Is this Love - Whitesnake
I Wanna Know What Love Is and Waiting for a Girl Like You - Foreigner
Silver Girl, Ever Since the World Began and The Search is Over - Survivor
Love of a Lifetime - Firehouse
Barthle@reddit
Pissing in Your Maggot Filled Ass by Cannibal Corpse
CaptainAssPlunderer@reddit
Definitely my closer when I want her to feel classy as we make love.
Really sets the mood just right.
SunnySTX@reddit
Most Temple of the Dog and Enya songs and my favorite. "At a Medium Pace" by Adam Sandler.
Epic.
CaptainAssPlunderer@reddit
Shampoo bottle is not optional when using that song for sexy time.
TeaVinylGod@reddit
Keith Sweat, Boys 2 Men, Jodeci, Stevie B
sly-3@reddit
After 7 - https://youtu.be/fohpiig8N4U?si=QS3hcIw2z7-n9_Et
Prob would've worked better if I weren't an awkward teenager, but lord knows I tried.
TXtogo@reddit
Always and forever - heatwave
karma_the_sequel@reddit
My man.
TXtogo@reddit
I had a very good friend who was a Q Dog when I was in the army. I was always the only white guy at the parties in Atlanta, so we’d be rocking the funk and all the classics. It was not a bad situation and I had a ton of friends, it was sort of wild.
I think I jammed two lifetimes worth of stuff in before I was 24 years old.. from moving out of my trailer park at 17, partying throughout Manhattan to joining the army and hanging with all those buds.
Always and forever was a big one, all cried out by Lisa Lisa, and at the parties the funk would get everyone moving
Youre-The-Victim@reddit
Jamiroquai= travel without moving Massive attack= mezzanine Portishead= dummy
Complete albums
sixwax@reddit
Mezzanine had gone criminally unmentioned
TOW2Bguy@reddit
The Mezzanine album... specifically Inertia Creeps and Teardrop definitely were background music for a few hookups in Germany.
lanfear2020@reddit
In your eyes
sixwax@reddit
Most effective when serenaded from a boombox while perched on the hood of a car.
mizuaqua@reddit
6 Underground - Sneaker Pimps
sixwax@reddit
Right up there with all Portishead
adelec123@reddit
I remember a guy putting on a Sade cd a little before we started making out lol.
otterfeets@reddit
The Cure - Disintigration
Braincloud@reddit
Oh that’s a good one. Plainsong and Pictures of You remind me so much of complicated relationships and boozy hookup relations lol.
omegared138@reddit
A person with exquisite taste.
Fuzzteam7@reddit
Heartache Tonight 😁
WeakCalligrapher336@reddit
Fade into You, Mazzy Star.
Braincloud@reddit
Great choice!
That-Surprise@reddit
South Park - Shut your fucking face uncle fucka
Lovely_catastrophes@reddit
I sing this to my husband of 29 years almost every damn day.
itusedtorun@reddit
Wicked Game- Chris Issac
Fair-Wishbone-1190@reddit
That's a great song and and a great video. Except I always wanted to the model on his lap tho. Lol.
Pielacine@reddit
Hot video for its time too
SuitablyFakeUsername@reddit
Layla - Derek and the Dominoes
cosnierozumiem@reddit
Oh ya, that whole album brings me back to sloppy high school hookups.
ThreeToedMartian@reddit
Johnny Gill, My My My. Jodeci. Most hair metal ballads.
Aqueouspolecat@reddit
Side one of Led Zeppelin IV.
Absotivly_Posolutly@reddit
Shit! Beat me to it!
Provocating@reddit
Fast times at Ridgemont High quote, lol
vistaculo@reddit
So Houses of the Holy, got it
AwardSalt4957@reddit
Closer - Nine Inch Nails
arawnsd@reddit
Portishead, Dummy.
Iko87iko@reddit
Sexual healing >,lets get it on. Marvin was the panty dropper
arawnsd@reddit
Still is!
rumbo211@reddit
Boyz to Men, Jodeci
TOW2Bguy@reddit
H Town and Silk also enter the chat
Mental-Artist-6157@reddit
Portishead "Dummy" The whole cd. Let it play.
Also Keith Sweat, if it's more of an R&B evening.
Onehundredpercentbea@reddit
Can confirm, a sexy CD so powerful that I got pregnant while on the pill, Portishead doesn't mess around.
Mental-Artist-6157@reddit
DAAAYYYUUUMMM!
eggs_erroneous@reddit
Dummy is a GREAT sex album. 100%
Mental-Artist-6157@reddit
Still holds up! Massive Attack too.
vistaculo@reddit
Lords of Acid
TOW2Bguy@reddit
Definitely
foodweneedfood@reddit
Mike Damone was right. Side two of Led Zeppelin IV.
Aqueouspolecat@reddit
*Side one
foodweneedfood@reddit
Dammit.
Aqueouspolecat@reddit
Side 2 would be for after. ;)
TheRateBeerian@reddit
Portishead
Braincloud@reddit
Erotic City- Prince. In fact, way too many earlier years Prince songs to name lol. 😏
tambor333@reddit
Enya watermark... had a lot of sessions with this album as soundtrack.
Braincloud@reddit
Lol I took that tape and Shepherd Moons, which had just come out, to the hospital and played them during labor when having my first kid 😄
eggs_erroneous@reddit
Purple Rain is awesome because it's awesome and it's like 10 minutes long.
That-Surprise@reddit
Purple Rain is awful and it's single redeeming feature is being just about long enough for you to slink away from the DJ booth for a shit
MaximumJones@reddit
Anything by George Michael
Material-Damage-2759@reddit
You now have me humming “I want your sex”. Thanks for that
That-Surprise@reddit
Try "Last Fistmas"
disturbednadir@reddit
Closer ~ NIN
Ok-Beginning4152@reddit
👆THIS👆
Best hookup song EVER. Great for dancing at a “gentlemen’s club”, too 😉 (actually, the club owner put it on the No Play list bc … idk why that idiot banned it. Wasn’t the point for the dancers to get the “ gentlemen” aroused? 🤔)
Anywho, great sex song. The beat is just right. IYKYK
That-Surprise@reddit
The club owner was sick to the fucking back teeth of hearing it along with every alternative club DJ of that era, trust me
talldogguy23@reddit
Whole album. Portisehead Dummy.
That-Surprise@reddit
Cum to Roads
MaximumJones@reddit
Closer by Nine Inch Nails
That-Surprise@reddit
Starfuckers Inc would be better
CitizenChatt@reddit
Cutting crew -- just died in your arms
lushlife_@reddit
Drive - The Cars
Trolkarlen@reddit
Blue Savannah - Erasure
https://youtu.be/HZPQtb6NWKM
What_if_I_fly@reddit
OMG great song! We included that in our wedding reception music
rdnkgrrl18@reddit
Slow Motion and Pony 🤷🏻♀️
Upstairs_Caregiver53@reddit
If you leave me now—Chicago
PenchantBob@reddit
Stairway to heaven
StarDewbie@reddit
Sweet Thing--Mary J Blige. Ahhh J and I in the back of my Geo Storm. lol
Cold-Inside-6828@reddit
Hey Jealousy by Gin Blossoms
Nubadopolis@reddit
Barry White
xt0rt@reddit
Barry White saved my life
And if Barry White saved your life Or got you back with your ex-wife
Sing Barry White (Barry White)...
xt0rt@reddit
nin - Closer
Strange_Category5207@reddit
What You Won’t Do For Love - Bobby Caldwell
Ok-Rock2345@reddit
Sisters of Mercy, Colors. Just the right beat.
Upset_Peace_6739@reddit
Peter Gabriel - The Passion. (Last Temptation of Christ Soundtrack)
banedarthou812@reddit
“When it comes to making out, whenever possible, put on side one of LED Zeppelin IV”
D_Major20@reddit
Beat me to it!
GidgetXOX@reddit
Fast Times
rinkidinkidoo@reddit
Home Sweet Home and Love Bites
zionzednem@reddit
Cinderella- Don’t know what you got till it’s gone
CynfullyDelicious@reddit
The Main Thing by Roxy Music. Actually, the entire Avalon album. *fans self*
branigan_aurora@reddit
Sarah McLachlan "Possession"
cybeerkeg@reddit
Al_B_Sure!-Nite_and_Day.mp3
GestaltWitch@reddit
Agree w Portishead. Also liked Zero 7
Lord_Nurggle@reddit
My wife and still play the Keith Sweat when it’s time for lovin.
Whichy-Witchy@reddit
Came here to say Nobody or anything else by Keith Sweat (LSG too!) lol.
tangledweebledwevs@reddit
Now you're talkin!
sherriechs87@reddit
Midnight Blue - Lou Gramm
Fickle-Debt8571@reddit
Ahhhhh memories!!
Ustob@reddit
Portishead for sure! ESP 1st album DUMMY.
General_Enthusiasm41@reddit
I would play the Dishwalla cd. Or U2
HereToCalmYouDown@reddit
The Flys -Got You Where I Want You
KurtStation68@reddit
Memory unlocked!
strangefruitpots@reddit
Portisehead-The entire Dummy Album and Erykah Badu- Baduizm were both on loop during fun times in my dorm room freshman year 1997
WeakCalligrapher336@reddit
Sweet Jane, Cowboy Junkies.
Throwaway7219017@reddit
2 Live Crew.
In a shocking development, it did not work out well.
HoosierLarry@reddit
Danzig…She Rides…Her Black Wings
imtherealken@reddit
Night Moves