Here are 40 songs, some explicit and some merely suggestive, that detail or imply the act of love . . . or at least the prospect of it. Yes, it’s a quiz devoted to intimations of the beast with two backs . . . Let’s talk about sex, baby.
Answers: here
1 Which US married couple asked each other to ‘Do That to Me One More Time’ in 1979?
2 And who moaned her way through the highly suggestive ‘Love to Love You Baby four years earlier’?
3 Which unlikely sex symbol professed that he ‘Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe’ in 1974?
4 On which single, a cover of a 1975 hit for Labelle, did All Saints wonder – in French – whether we might like to join them in bed?
5 Which French band took a ‘Sexy Boy’ into the UK Top 20 in 1998?
6 Which band were named after a steam-powered dildo in William Burrough’s Naked Lunch?
7 Who went ‘Up the Neck’ on their first album, and sang about ‘The Adultress’ on their second?
8 Who provided the sexy noises and giggling at the end of the Rod Stewart hit ‘Tonight’s the Night’?
9 Who exhorted us to ‘Get Up’ because he felt ‘Like Being a Sex Machine’?
10 ‘Sexcrime’ was a hit for the Eurythmics from which movie starring John Hurt?
11 Who was the object of Jimi Hendrix’s attention on the first track of Are You Experienced?
12 Who sang about ‘Hanky Panky’ in 1990?
13 According to PJ Harvey, what do the whores do ‘While the Hustlers Whore’?
14 Who was Lovesexy in 1988?
15 Who alone could ‘quench this thirst’ for Gregory Isaacs?
16 Who was ‘Sexed Up’ and ‘Tripping’ in the 21st century?
17 Who didn’t have to put out the red light, as far as the Police were concerned?
18 And who referenced the song in a line from their single ‘When the Sun Goes Down’?
19 Where did Dylan want his friend to ‘Lay Lady Lay’?
20 What am I, if ‘I won’t work for nobody but you’?
21 Who sang ‘Don’t Wake the Scarecrow’, a bleak tale of a rural American brothel?
22 Who wanted your sex on the Beverly Hills Cop II soundtrack?
23 What’s the title of US rapper K7’s dirty hit from 1994?
24 ‘Where you from, you sexy thing?’ Who asked the question?
25 ‘The bed is on fire with passionate love, the neighbours complain about the noises above.’ Which band?
26 Who suggested ‘Let’s Get It On’ on his 1973 album of the same name?
27 Where did T-Spoon make out in their 1997 European hit?
28 Who wanted to ‘Rock Your Body’?
29 In This Is Spinal Tap, Nigel Tufnel (played by Christopher Guest) plays the first few chords of a new ballad on the piano and then reveals the title to be – what?
30 Who sang ‘X Offender’, a song about a crush on a policeman?
31 What saucy request did the 1975 make on their second album I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It?
32 And who admitted that ‘I Love a Man in Uniform’?
33 Whose had a hit with ‘Sex on Fire’ in 2008?
34 Who wanted to talk about sex in 1991?
35 What kind of sex did Japan sing about in 1981?
36 Who was a ‘Sexy MF’ in 1992?
37 Who was a ‘Sex Bomb’ with Tom Jones?
38 What was Mel’isa Morgan’s saucy request in 1986, a cover of the Prince original?
39 Who would have us believe that Sheffield is the ‘Sex City’?
40 Before confessing ‘now I need you more than ever’, what improper suggestion did Mick Jagger make in 1967?