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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Jon Dennis

Readers recommend: songs about fetishes

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Shiny boots of leather ... Suggest your favourite fetish songs. Photograph: Getty Images

Phwoar! I love the smell of Readers Recommend in the morning. It's a richly varied world, and let's face it, we take our pleasures where we can. No point in being puritanical about it.

So how have musicians and songwriters reflected their more – shall we say – distinctive and unusual preferences? Often, of course, these may be imagined rather than actual fetishes.

And you might interpret certain songs as revealing fetishes whether or not that was the intention of the writers. Whatever floats your boat.

* Congratulations to RR regular Chris for suggesting this topic.

The toolbox:

* Listen to others' suggestions and add yours to a collaborative Spotify playlist

* Previously on Readers Recommend

* The Marconium (blog containing a wealth of data on RR, including the songs that are "zedded")

* Guide to "donds", "zedded", and other strange words used by some of the RR regulars (courtesy of the Marconium)

* The 'Spill (blog for the RR community)

Please do:

* Post your nominations before midday on Tuesday if you wish them to be considered.

* Write a few lines advocating the merits of your choices.

But please don't:

* Post more than one third of the lyrics of any song.

* Dump lists of nominations. If you must post more than two or three at once, please attempt to justify your choices.

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