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Thread started 01/04/07 9:20pm

NorthernLad

Nick Hornby on "Do Me, Baby"

Sorry if this has been posted before. Nick Hornby is a great writer ("About a Boy", "High Fidelity", "Fever Pitch", etc...) and a huge music fan.

For his 2003 book "Songbook" he takes 31 of his favorite tracks and writes about them in an incredibly entertaining fashion. If you like music books, I would definitely recommend this one.

One of the songs he chooses to write about it Santana's "Samba Pa Ti", a track that he imagines having sex to. During that section he brings up the problems one might have trying to have sex to other songs, and mentions Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get it On" and Prince's "Do Me, Baby." I thought his comments were pretty interesting and funny and insightful.

from the book:

Prince's "Do Me, Baby," from the "Controversy" album, is one of the most sexually explicit, and genuinely erotic, records ever made, but it's every bit as problematic as "Let's Get it On." For a start, there's a bit after the climax (crashing piano chords, moans, sighs, and so on) when he goes all weird, and starts saying he's "sooo cold," which might well prove to be a distraction unless you, too, have an inappropriately undertogged duvet. And though the next song on the album, "Private Joy", is hardly what you want to hear at an intimate moment, at least it brings the first side of "Controversy" to a close if you have the album on vinyl; if you have the CD, however, you may find yourself in the unhappy position of trying to give and receive carnal pleasure while Prince sings "Ronnie Talk To Russia" - a sentiment that no longer even contains the virtue, arguable in a sexual context anyway, of urgency. What, one wonders, was he thinking of when he sequenced the tracks? Presumably something along the lines of, 'Give them five minutes to get their breath back, and then they'll be wanting to think about impending Armageddon.'"

lol Anyway, I got the book for Christmas and have really been enjoying it, and just wanted to share the bit about Prince. Personally I couldn't imagine having sex to "Do Me, Baby".... I'd probably laugh the whole time, heh.
[Edited 1/4/07 21:24pm]
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Reply #1 posted 01/05/07 2:59am

vivid

I lost my virginity to Do Me Baby when I was 15
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Reply #2 posted 01/05/07 3:15am

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It's a shame Hornby's a Gooner.
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