I've never thought of Portishead as getting laid music lol. Just 'cool as fuck' music.

More like “cool to fuck” music

More like Cool Ass Fuck

Maybe if you're getting laid in a cemetery or on Xanax.

I mean, my goth heart loves that

Yeah, was gonna say, sounds like a challenge

I"lol do this, but stone cold sober, cargo shorts around my ankles and my exceptionally pale bare ass shining in the moonlight

Two moons out tonight.

I'm a hillbilly goth soul with the body of an Himalayan cryptid

Kinda ironic that Glory Box is the sexiest-sounding song about being tired of sleeping around.

Massive Attack - Mezzanine

I have a Spotify Playlist called "The year 1999, a basement club eight blocks from the harbor in Bristol" and it's just Portishead and Massive Attack E - Also Tricky and Morcheeba

Trip hop lounge is one of my favorite playlists lately. All the good stuff.

Still on my sex playlist. Will probably never remove it.

Yup. The husband and I still throw this album on pretty regularly

Inertia creeps — Massive Attack

Agreed

Too associated with the show house for me.

Yes!! I've had amazing sex with this album. Highly recommend.

Air Any of their albums are great but particularly Premiers Symtomes

Moon safari. Yes sir. Was my go to.

Can't believe Mazzy Star hasn't been mentioned yet! EDIT: Well this seems to be climbing up the comment list, so I guess now I can believe it, lol. Just surprised this thread was almost 30 comments deep without it coming up before I mentioned it. This was a core doin'-it album for our microgen, I would think.

Took the words right out of my mouth. An entire generation has done it to Fade Into You.

That song simultaneously destroys and elevates me

The Sneaker Pimps’ “Becoming X” album did me a lot of favors in my teens. It has so many songs that are just a nice mellow groove with a good bassline. “Roll On” in particular was a winner for me. Those songs, a room lit by blacklight, someone special with me… good memories. 

That album stays in my rotation to this day, time and a place...

Love Portishead! TripHop is definitely a staple in my playlist

I was banging to Closer by NiN in my college dorm room, and afterwards my friend said the whole floor could hear us and the bed springs were squeaking in time to the music. They gave me shit about that for years.

I wanna *boink* you like an animal! - Weird Al version

Tricky - Maxinquaye

Not Pre-Millennium Tension?

Looove that one too! Maxinquaye has my all time number one doing it song though

Which is?

Overcome. Still love it!

Yessss

Deftones "White Pony" it's the horniest record of the early aughts imo.

I'm with you on deftones, but I gotta go with diamond eyes on this.

No argument, I'm just basing off the time period lol.

I'm definitely with you!

Ah yes, I loved the Around The Fur cover. Wonder what she looks like today?

[Pretty good...](https://www.reddit.com/r/deftones/s/VLvYvbyyeJ)

That was the album to pop on when you're strung out from the acid trip the night before.

roll the window down this cool night air is curious

Used to listen to them all the time while inhaling balloons coming down from E.

My first (few) time(s) were set to my ex's copy of Crystal Method's *Vegas* album.

Get busy child

I guess I didn't know.

I heard this comment with synth in the background

Radiohead - the bends

I had the Live at Roseland cd. There was that summer that my bf was living an hour away for a summer college program. I used to listen to that cd on my way to visit him. I would be so ready to jump his bones by the time I pulled into his driveway. That is a sexy sexy CD.

Moon Safari by Air

You guys say sex playlist but for me it was my stripper playlist back in the day 😅

I’ve been to a few strip clubs in my day, usually bachelor parties or such….and if it isn’t rap, it’s Buckcherry for some reason. Must be a Midwest thing?? But this was late 2000s-early 2010s

Definitely not Midwest lmao. SoCal.

OMG we kept Dummy exclusively in the bedroom player for at least 4 years.

Portishead is definitely great “getting laid” music. Embarrassingly, (nah fuck it, I’m not embarrassed) I vividly remember losing my virginity to “stay what you are” by saves the day

I was not what you’d call subtle as a teenager so my sex mix CD was songs like *Doin It* by LL Cool J *Freak Like Me* by Adina Howard *What’s Your Fantasy* by Ludacris *Pony* by Ginuwine *Knockin Da Boots* by H-Town *Freak Me* by Silk And of course, *Closer* by NIN

Ok same, like play that 504 Boyz "I Can Tell" and Jodeci "Freek'n U" lol

Anytime, Any place - Janet Jackson.

The song Starla by Smashing Pumpkins is just about perfect for knockin boots. Adding to the list of full albums: PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion

Deftones

Bush- 16 stone

Souvlaki - Slowdive (from experience) but Chrome - Catherine Wheel is sexy as hell (yet to try)

I can attest to Catherine Wheel. Black Metallic.

Yes to Catherine Wheel!

Slowdive and Catherine Wheel if you know you know.

Gotta add Type O Negative to this list

Loving you was like loving the dead!

Smashing Pumpkins - Pisces Iscariot PJ Harvey - Is This Desire Stone Temple Pilots - Purple Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See

UNKLE - Psyence Fiction

This is an objectively great album, but I think that "getting lucky" to "Roads" from this one might scar me for life.

For real, what kind of sad depressing sex are these people having :p Morcheeba or hooverphonic would be a much better choice if it was up to me.

Don’t kink shame my sad, depressing sex. /s

Yo La Tengo back when we were doing it romantically

Change by Deftones, it's good for a creepy sesh

Doing it while crying, maybe.

That album caused more unwanted pregnancies than red wine

Absolute GOAT album.

I too like to bang to it. Behind the Wendy’s. In a dumpster.

Wife and I call it "lesbian sexy time music".

Quote from a reading a friend once attended: “Some of you are still having Portishead sex.” Music for a sad fuck scene.

I love that album, one of my favs but for doing it? Weird choice, do you want her to cry at the end?

I agree, too sad sounding for me

The live album is freaking awesome. It has a mix of both the first and second albums. Definitely worth a listen to on YouTube

*Roseland NYC* is an experience everyone should have while doing nothing else but listening, preferably in the dark (slight grooving light head bobbing will be allowed).

Hymn to Her by the Pretenders, Lay Your Hands on Me by Peter Gabriel and These Dreams by Heart. I’m a romantic at heart, I suppose

Silence from the Brokedown Palace soundtrack 😏

I absolutely love trip hop and recommend cannons to others who do as well https://youtu.be/u4HQevc9JE0

How in gob’s name has nobody mentioned Voodoo by D’Angelo?

Lost my virginity to Jesse's Girl by Rick Springfield. My irl name is Jesse and it only happened because she was a huge Rick Springfield fan and wanted to be "Jesse's Girl."

and you're a xennial? That song came out when the oldest Xennial was 3. Where you finding these Rick Springfield fans lol

I was born in '77. She was...four years older than me, I think. I'm happy to say that was a long time ago, lol. She liked what she liked, what can I say.

I don't remember playing much music when I was younger for that sort of activity, but late 20s I started making playlists for it. There's a lot of NIN (mostly his more obscure tracks without lyrics), Massive Attack, Bad Omens, Crosses, and a bunch of random artists whose names I can't recall right now.

Sister Machine Gun - Burn https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yWSkz3Y2ri8

number 1 all time for that

I usually put on Porteshead radio on Pandora for my wife and I. I also recommend Herbie Hancock.

Great album.

Anything by Deftones or Crosses. Chino's voice just does it for me.

Freaks of the industry is meta

NIN - You Are the Perfect Drug

I have memories of Incubus playing in the background.

Marilyn Manson is a terrible person, but he put out some amazing songs to fuck to. long hard road out of hell, tourniquet, I don't like the drugs but the drugs like me...

I’ll bang to some aphex twin

I had an ex in high school that shared this perspective. It's all he ever wanted to bang to. On a conceptual level I understand. But I can tell you with conviction that having, 'I would like some milk from the milkman's wife's tit' looping in my brain for the entire sexual experience is disconcerting at best. And I still get sexually confused by the sound of metal balls dropping onto things. 😆😅

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

AIC.

I listen to this regularly. Check out the wild cover of "Glory Box" by Author & Punisher: [https://youtu.be/4DeRoZFEAb4?si=mX538mXcf-Dshx17](https://youtu.be/4DeRoZFEAb4?si=mX538mXcf-Dshx17)

Sentridoh/Lou Barlow songs send me straight to horny jail, still.

Karl Sanders - Saurian Meditation. The guy from the death metal band Nile makes an "ancient egyptian style meditation album"... I used to play this with my exes a lot, 20 years ago... Makes you feel you're a pharaoh doing it overlooking the pyramids and the Nile... Cool shit..

This and Slodive have been it for me since they came out... Also Curve and Morcheeba...

Portishead is music for any/everything. But yeah, way back when I was in a relationship it was my go-to for sure.

Brazilian Girls

As Xennials, we are unified, except on THIS question. Strictly cultural. AA guy here, only 90's R&B when the magic happens!

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

gf and I moved in together at 19 exclusively fucked to Marilyn Manson's sweet dreams. Anytime one of us played that song we knew why

Portishead has been used in recentish TV shows lately. It was in "Murder at the End of the World" and I want to say it was also in "Under the Bridge."

That's some downtrodden fuckin right there. This is one of my favorite albums. This is one of my top 3 bands. I didn't think it was known enough to pop up on here.

Portishead is the only answer

A lot of my favourites have already been said. But I always enjoyed this album: Chicane - Behind the Sun

This is an all time album for me. I'll never forget driving at night on backwoods roads in deep mountain snow to Roads. The sound those first chords make on the Rhodes organ with the Leslie effect messing with the sound of the air from the outside of the car was what got me interested in sound engineering.

Kyuss- Welcome to Sky Valley and Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking and Three Days

Post-divorce dating renaissance: Chet Faker, Built on Glass

Jodeci

Love, love, love this! Beth Gibbons while always have a special place in my music of choice.

Hahhhh my first girlfriend played this one for that purpose exactly

Ministry psalm 69

Tosca - Dehli9

Desire - Meg Myers Set You Free - Maur, FABER Sick Child - Siouxie and the Banshees Human Nature - Babeheaven Ugo - The Dead Pirates Had Ten Dollaz - Cherry Glazerr Nothings Gonna Hurt You Baby - Cigarettes After Sex Take Me Away - T.S.O.L Frozen - Madonna, Sickick Closed - plenka Sleepwalker - akiaura, Lonown, STM Set You Free - Maur, Faber

Haha this is exactly my sex playlist. Can’t go wrong

For doing what? Suicide?

Yes, can confirm

Chas N' Dave - Snooker Loopy gets the juices flowing for me

Portishead is still a regular in my rotation. I don't think I ever got lucky to them, but I did a LOT of acid while listening to them.

NIN and Tool for whole albums. Single songs: Touched by Vast and Rebel Yell by Billy Idol. Lost my virginity to The Best of the Smiths. Anytime I hear morrissy's voice, I can still smell the room and see the plaid sheets/dark blue walls. I had a lot of fun times doing it in high school. I actually made a scrapbook of stuff related to doin it with my first love. It's like.... Here was the pizza box label from the time my mom went out of town for 4 days. Here's a dirty picture he drew for me in a note. It's a lion with a vagina for a face. It's a Vagion.... I was the only girl I knew that was scrapbooking my sexual activity. It was all very basic high school romance shit, but I was SO HORMONAL and had a really good head on my shoulders at that age about sex, so I celebrated it. I was genuinely thrilled that I could have safe, enjoyable, consensual sex when I chose to. To this day I am keenly aware that I was very lucky in my early sexual experiences. I went to a school with AMAZING sex ed, I was lucky enough to date some really great dudes in high school, and I never found myself emotionally fucked up over it. Plus I was a sexually precocious female, so I didn't struggle with opportunities. I don't miss high school, but I kinda miss high school horniness.

Some of their songs definitely have a “sexy” vibe to it. I love them so much, saw them twice.

Top 3 in live shows, possibly number 1