Somewhere I know I read that "music is sex..."

 

Those who can show their LOVE are very creative...how else can you show such an emotion without being creative? We all know it is an emotion, and difficult to show.

We are animals and SEX is a huge part of the animal kingdom...right next to food.

 

I like the LCD of human experience......I mean I don't think I want to experience SEX thru a Vulcan mind-meld .....that ain't right..

 

 

When apeman boned (sorry) apewoman....he pounded on stones and rocks to show his satisfaction and maybe it was his way of showing appreciation to apewomen by playing her a soothing ROCK song..hmm...works for me!!

But I digress...everything is about sex to some degree because sex is integral in human life. In the grand scale of "How related is XXXXX to sex," I'd say rock n' roll would be "quite a bit." 

 

I guess music can be about sex lyrically or about sex in terms of part of the mating riitual!  And that can be prog or not prog.

 

Hopefully your luck will improve.

 

And for teenagers/adolescents multiply that by some random number larger than 1 depending on whether a member of the opposite sex is within sight or simply within thinking-distance.

If it ain't broke...don't fix it!!

 

Rock and Roll = Sex

 

 

Yikes!!!

 

Or wait...Pneumatic drills...could work...to each his own.

 

An interesting historical note:  in the '40's, country bands were not allowed to play with drummers at the Grand Ole Opry, until Bob Wills was allowed to do so, provided the drummer played  behind a curtain, where he could not be seen.  That's pure fear, my friends, fear of what would happen if people were allowed to hear bands with a full rhythm section.  Which is why all those early blues and rocks artists jumped on the drum thing with a vengeance.  They knew sex when they heard it.

 

 

 

I remember a blues song or two about eating pork and beans and plenty of chickens.

 

The original concepts were divided into 2 parts. The lyrics from blues masters and original rock n' roll artists made references to sex. The showmanship of entertaining a wild and drunk crowd, such as dance moves, playing the guitar behind your back (years before Hendrix), and dressing to look attractive and sexy. The lyrics were about sex but, it was more of an honest concept regarding life because many of the blues masters were subjected to slavery. The idea of having some good ole' fashion fun between men and women was very deprived to blues and rock and roll people by the slave drivers. This was a way for them to release the tension. Many of the lyrics that make reference to sex are written in puzzles during this time period. If you take notice, much of it has to do with voodoo and mojo. They were just writing about their environment.

It was the stadium rock era that commercially mixed sex with rock and roll or just rock music that was most offensive to me. More than the Elvis thing, it persuaded generations of people to connect sex with rock music as a whole. As a child you study an instrument and then when you hit the age of 18, you might be asked to dress a certain way or wear your hair in a style that you find revolting. You might think.....Well, all I know is that I've been studying an instrument for years and now I'm dressing up in circus clothes? What does this have to do with all my dedication? Nothing. It's the entertainment business. It's one thing to come out of a life of slavery and abuse and write about sexual desire but, for 70's bands to copy that, dress in jeans and loose shirts, and have your picture on the front of Circus magazine is cornball and stupied. And it's all quite planned that way by the industry. There is humour to it as well. Canned Heat would often sing about how a guy was too ugly or nerdy for sex and that cracked me up! The most insulting aspect to this is how society gets the wrong impression about rock musicians. Many blues songs that were later transformed into rock n roll progressions were lyrically about misfortune and death. The rock band FREE had some songs like this that I didn't mind so much. However, the sexual content reached more people than the artistic side of things. During the early 70's Todd Rundgren, Spooky Tooth and even the rock band Heart would write songs that relayed an odd experience of their's or a strange and different subject matter in general. They were forced to dress sexy but, for rock bands had more depth with their lyrical expression then maybe people like Ted Nugent or Foghat which turned my stomach even more due to the extreme difference in their identity.    

 

Same with the line "I eat more chicken any man ever seen" from Back Door Man, and I'd also say that back door has nothing to do with a house

 

I think your saying something a bit pretentous about subject matter.

 

In my mind, a piece of art's level of quality, and it's level of sophistication, (which let's remember are two COMPLETELY different things) is not about its subject matter but rather how you approach the subject matter.

 

Just because a work of art was inspired by sex doesn't mean it's bad. Sure it inspires a lot of pretty basic stuff, but it has just as much potential for inspiring works of genuis as anything else.