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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Luke Bainbridge

The sex songs we missed ...

The Joy of Sex
If only they'd read our guide, this couple would have made it past second base. Photo: BFI

It's time for the fourth instalment of 1,000 Songs Everyone Must Hear, our week-long series of supplements free with your copy of the Guardian and the Observer.

Which also means that it's time, as Salt-n-Pepa would say, to talk about sex, baby. Forget drugs and rock'n'roll, sex has long been the primal driving force behind most popular music. Impressing the opposite sex has always been a key desire of aspiring musicians and "rocking and rolling" was a eupemism for sex long before it referred to music. From the unreconstructed honesty of Stay With Me to the boastful You Shook Me All Night Long, from those old Empty Bed Blues to Orgasm Addicts, there's clearly a Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On.

But not all of you may feel satisfied, which is why we need you to tell us what's missing. List below the songs you think we should have included – and we'll put the ones with the highest number of recommendations in our final chart: Readers recommend ... Songs we forgot.

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