Nobody created you a playlist on Valentine's Day? It’s Okay, baby. I got you 12!
The sexiest song known to mankind is at the bottom, baby.
1.Bitch I Love You ( Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears)
Direct as hell and perfect for letting that b….uh… wonderful lady in your life know how you feel.
2. Love me Leave me (Nina Simone)
Great lyrics even better piano solo from the queen of Jazz, Nina Simone
3. My First My Last My Everything (Barry White)
My pants are getting frothy just thinking about this banger. I would’ve picked “Can’t Get Enough of Your Love” , but it would’ve just been for the cowbell, which is a good sex song.
4. Quixoticelixir (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
My favorite band! — This was a bonus track that was supposed to be on Californication however, it did not make the cut. After reading Scar Tissue, I learned Quixoticelixir was meant to be the album's name. This is RHCP at the height of their powers.
5. No One Holds You Closer than The One you Haven’t Met (The Lemon Twigs)
I saw The Lemon Twigs in Detroit at the El Club with my bassist. I had my drum with me and was vibing out. When I heard the opening keyboard I lost my shit and started shoving folks like it was a punk show. After the show I got to meet the D’addario brothers and they remarked, “We were wondering which song was your favorite.” Cool. The synth solo is perfection!
6. Westgate (Amyl and the Sniffers)
“Well I can’t kiss ya and I can’t fuck ya but I can think about you”
7. Nothing’s too good for my Baby- Louis Prima
Louis Prima is freaking slept on, ya’ll don’t even know he was King Louis in Jungle Book. Keeley Smith’s angelic voice mixed with Louis’ warm sexy rasp and world-class musicianship make this song a stone love song.
8. Reach Out (I’ll be there) (The Four Tops)
Motown specialized in love songs from the 60s to the 70s. So why the Four Tops? man…………
9. All This Love (Debarge) AND They’ll Never Be (Switch)
It’s crazy he thought he was better than Michael Jackson, but that’s not up to me to decide. All This Love is one of the greatest love songs of all time. “As the sun has it’s place up in the sky, I love you, I need you”
As for They’ll never be, it features the big brother Bobby Debarge. And shit man they really have the falsetto game on lock. If I was alive back in ’79 me and my foxy mama would have been getting jive at the skatin rink to this… we’d also be divorced by now.
9. I’d rather (Luther Vandross)
Luther Vandross babysat me once, my aunt was a backup singer for him for decades. I love Luther and can tell you exactly where I was when he died. Strong lyricism that nobody other than Luther could have delivered in such a textured sensuality. Luther is the GOAT RnB singer and I’m willing to die on that hill
“I’m here because I found out this one thing is true, that I’m nothing without you, I know better now, and I’ve had a change of heart
“I’d rather have bad times with you,than good times with someone else, I’d rather be beside you in a storm, than safe and warm by myself, I’d rather have hard times together, than to have it easy apart, I’d rather have the one who holds my heart” That’s poetry for yo’ ass
10. Strung Out on You- Johnny Guitar Watson
Johnny Guitar is sangin’ on this one, homie said he went to the Dr. and the doc said he’d never seen something so bad, causing Mr. Guitar to cry out “You you you you you” like a heroin addict needing a fix.
11. Statue of A Fool (David Ruffin)
Again a Motown singer, but what can I say they were cooking in the studio back in the day. David Ruffin was the KING
“Somewhere there should be, for all the world to see, a statue of a fool made of stone, an image of a man, who let love slip through his hands and let it stand there all alone, so build a statue, and Oh build it high, so that all can see, and inscribed, “The Worlds Greatest Fool” and name it after me.”
12. How Deep is Your Love (The Bee Gees)
I love when John Frusciante sings this song at RHCP concerts, that’s how I discovered this song. This is another contender for the greatest love song ever. I played this one at work today and the office lady made me write the song on a sticky note because she was going through something and the song touched her so deeply. I never thought Islanders would be turned on to The Bee Gees but when it comes to good music, it don’t matter.
BONUS:
THE SEXIEST SONG OF ALL TIME IS
Sixty Minute Man- Rufus Thomas
This Song is too good to be ranked. Only a real MAN has enough chutzpah to put this song on and mount his lady. You will feel so primal and so sexy and are all but guaranteed to impregnate your lady, so EXERCISE CAUTION. Sixty Minute Man is a cover, but when Rufus Thomas gets on a song, you know some crazy ass shit is bout to happen. I guarantee after you hear the song you’ll be chanting, “I feel my body, I feel my boodeeehhh”
ANOTHER BONUS
The anti-love song
Psalm of Things to Come… With You My Love Who’s not here yet. The first song I ever recorded and released. This song is near and dear to me, it serves as a time marker. Before I wrote books, before I ever performed, before it all, I lived with Verno Jay and we recorded this song as the world was turning to shit. I remember Sheena loved this song.
