Are there any popular songs about lousy sex? Or about a disappointing lover?

[Quantess]

For the life of me, I can't think of one.

[Orrex]

1. By "popular" do you mean commercially successful?

Or simply "of the genre of popular music?"

If the latter, then I humbly submit this somber ballad.

[demmiblue]

2. Lily Allen- Not Fair

[Chan790]

21. That was the first one that came to mind for me.

I don't think there's another song out there that is explicitly about terrible sex as Not Fair and if there was, it was probably also written by Lily Allen.

[PoliticAverse]

3. Please, Please me...

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/beatles/pleasepleaseme.html

[raccoon]

4. How many times in the movies/TV/popular fiction do you hear about lousy sex?

I can remember once, in the movies.

In ROMANTIC COMEDY 1983) when the Dudley Moore and Mary Steenburgen characters finally had sex for the first time.

Honestly, if you went by songs/movies/TV, you'd think that every time any two people had sex, it was the 4th of July for both parties.

In RL, it ain't necessarily so.

[Quantess]

8. This just occurred to me!

I tried to think of something that rocks, with the singer barking about lousy sex, with guitar riffs, or at least a beat you can dance to.

Nada.

There are rock hits about all sorts of scenarios, but none explicitly calling out a boring sex partner. I guess because boring sex doesn't rock.

[Orrex]

12. There are a few...

Liar, Liar
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Forest Gump
Husbands and Wives
Annie Hall
The Score
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Watchmen
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
etc...

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Carole King's "You're So Vain"????

[Orrex]

6. Or Carly Simon's song by the same name?

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. LOl!!!!

More coffee pls.......

[DFW]

7. "Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover" may not be specifically about a disappointing lover

But the title's implications are rather strong!

[antiquie]

9. Gold Dust Woman

Rock on, gold dust woman
Take your silver spoon and dig your grave

Heartless challenge
Pick your path and I'll pray

Wake up in the morning
See your sunrise loves to go down

Lousy lovers pick their prey
But they never cry out loud, cry out

Well, did she make you cry,
Make you break down,
Shatter your illusions of love?
And is it over now?
Do you know how?
Pick up the pieces and go home

Rock on, ancient queen
Follow those who pale in your shadow

Rulers make bad lovers
You better put your kingdom up for sale, up for sale

Well, did she make you cry,
Make you break down,
Shatter your illusions of love?
And is it over now?
Do you know how?
Pick up the pieces and go home

Well, did she make you cry,
Make you break down,
Shatter your illusions of love?
And now tell me is it over now?
Do you know how?
Pick up the pieces and go home
Go home
Go home

Ooh, pale shadow of a woman,
Black widow,
Pale shadow of a dragon,
Dust woman.

Ooh, pale shadow of a woman,
Black widow,
Ooh, pale shadow, she's a dragon,
Gold dust woman

[Quantess]

37. I have heard this song is actually about cocaine.

So, I don't know. Maybe about cocaine addicts who also have unfullfilling sex?

[antiquie]

40. According to Stevie Nicks, maybe both...

When asked about the song in an interview with Courtney Love for Spin in October 1997, Nicks said:

“ You know what, Courtney? I don't really know what "Gold Dust Woman" is about. I know there was cocaine there and that I fancied it gold dust, somehow. I'm going to have to go back to my journals and see if I can pull something out about "Gold Dust Woman". Because I don't really know. It's weird that I'm not quite sure. It can't be all about cocaine. ”

In an interview for VH1's Classic Album series, Nicks offered further insight into the song's meaning:

“ "Gold Dust Woman" was my kind of symbolic look at somebody going through a bad relationship, doing a lot of drugs, and trying to make it. Trying to live. Trying to get through it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Dust_Woman

[mulsh]

10. This was popular back in the day.

the Dead Kennedys "Too Drunk To Fuck"

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[hibbing]

46. hehe

You give me head
It makes it worse
Take out your fuckin' retainer
Put it in your purse

Peace

[panader0]

11. "Making love in the afternoon with Cecilia up in my bedroom.

I got up to wash my face, when I got back to bed someone had taken my place."
'Cecilia" Paul Simon

[antiquie]

14. Not boring, just tired: Life in the Fast Lane

Out every evening, until it was light
He was too tired to make it, she was too tired
to fight about it
(Eagles)

[Tanuki]

15. Satin sheets to lie on, satin pillows to cry on...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=gZutNGdcqH0

..."I've found another man who can give more than you can
Though you've given me everything money can buy
But your money can't hold me tight like he does on a long, long night
No, you didn't keep me satisfied

Satin sheets to lie on, satin pillows to cry on
Still, I'm not happy don't you see
Big long Cadillac, tailor-mades upon my back
Still, I want you to set me free..."
---------------------------------------------------
Also, in the Eagles' "Lying Eyes," is a similar theme of someone who married for money but found herself sexually unfulfilled:
"City girls just seem to find out early
How to open doors with just a smile
A rich old man
And she won't have to worry
She'll dress up all in lace and go in style

Late at night a big old house gets lonely
I guess every form of refuge has its price
And it breaks her heart to think her love is
Only given to a man with hands as cold as ice...."

[Coventina]

16. From the Cure's "Shiver and Shake":

You're just three sick holes
that run like sores
you're a fucking waste


Seems to indicate a lover that's disappointed him.

[dr.strangelove]

17. Short "Short" Man by 20 Fingers/Gillette

It was originally titled Don't Want No Short Dick Man then got a cleaned up re-release for top 40 stations with "Short Short Man" replacing the "d-word" in the title. Its been reduced over time to kind of a gag song, but it was popular in the clubs I bartended and bounced in during the early and mid 90s as a girl-power song to strike back at all the mysogyny and violence against women in music and in rap of the time. Its pretty funny if you listen to it. I can still remember girls flocking to dance and sing it in the mid-90s.

[Tom_Foolery]

18. Just listen to any of Taylor Swift's songs...

She's made millions off of her crappy ex-boyfriends.

[Skittles]

26. from her whiny songs

I can see why she has so many exes

[Tom_Foolery]

31. Ain't that the truth...

[In_The_Wind]

19. Bad Romance

[antiquie]

41. Powerful Women's Suffrage video.

[A HERETIC I AM]

20. I was in love with a girl who was a Quaker

She'd order oatmeal everywhere I'd take her
Although she wasn't fat
I couldn't stand that hat
I was in love with a girl who was a quaker.

I was in love with a girl who was a Mormon
At dinner time her family'd would come swarmin'
She was married to a guy named Earl...
but so were five other girls....
I was in love with a girl who was a Mormon.

Through Buddhists, Catholics, Muslims too
That one weird girl who did Voodoo
Girls who handled snakes, spoke in tongues...
lived in compounds full of guns.....

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Electric Amish;

[Brother Buzz]

22. How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away? - Dan Hicks and his Hot licks

[Arugula Latte]

23. This 80s song "Brand New Lover" popped into my head:

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I want surprises
I want surprises

Your sweet nature darling was too hard to swallow
I've got the solution I'm leaving tomorrow
And now as I stand and stare into your eyes
I see safety there I want surprises

What I really need to do is
Find myself a brand new lover
Somebody real nice to me who
Doesn't notice all the others
What I really need to do is
Find a brand new lover

When you wake up tomorrow you'll be all alone
All the love that we had I have quickly outgrown
I wanted to stay but I just couldn't do it
Couldn't stand there and put you through it

What I really need to do is
Find myself a brand new lover
Somebody real nice to me who
Doesn't notice all the others

What I really need to do is
Find myself a brand new lover
Somebody real nice to me who
Doesn't notice all the others

My other loves will tell you that
I'm nothing but a pleasure-seeker
Everyone's I really must agree

I need to leave you by yourself
And go in search of someone else
To satisfy my curiosity

[Coventina]

24. You Suck - by Consolidated.

I won't print the lyrics here, as they are quite blunt.

But check it out! It's a great song.

[blue neen]

45. Wow.

Well, I can't say that you didn't warn us!

[Coventina]

50. Kinda the ultimate girl power song, huh?

Fond memories of dancing to that in the clubs, back in the day....

Got every woman out there, dancing up a storm!



It was always interesting to see which men would groove to it as well.

[Grey]

25. Peggy Lee, Is that all there is....?

[lame54]

27. Try this...

"Trick Of The Light"

Wide awake in the middle of the night
I wonder how she's feelin'
Is it just a trick of the light
Or is her ceiling peeling?

She's sitting up in bed, shakin' her head
At a copy of "True Confessions"
Ooh, it must seem like a fairy tale
To a woman of her profession

But was I all right? (was I all right?)
Did I take you to the height of ecstasy?
Was I all right? (was I all right?)
Did a shadow of emotion cross your face
Or was it just another trick of the light?

But was I all right? (was I all right?)
Did I take you to the height of ecstasy?
Was I all right? (was I all right?)
Did a shadow of emotion cross your face
Or was it just another trick of the light?

Come on, tell me
What's a nice girl like you doin' in a place like this?
They don't make girls like you no more
And I'd like to get to know you
On closer terms than this
But I guess you've heard it all before

Lady of the night
Won't you steal away with me?
Lady of the night
Won't you steal away with me?

The money's lyin' on the floor, she looks at me
Shakes her head and sighs
Out of time, out the door
Red light shinin' in my eyes

But was I all right? (was I all right?)
Did I take you to the height of ecstasy?
Was I all right? (was I all right?)
Did a shadow of emotion cross your face

All right?
But was I all right?
All right?

[Iggo]

28. Norwegian Wood?

[Quantess]

35. What I heard, is that Norwegian Wood

was John Lennon's admission to infidelity.

[Iggo]

43. I always thought it was trippy he burns her house down at the end.

[LeftOfSelf-Centered]

29. The Supernaturals - "Lazy Lover"

They get extra points for the song being self-deprecating, and not complaining about someone else.

[wyldwolf]

30. The very end of Vanity 6's 'Nasty Girl'

"Hmm! Is that it? Wake me when you're done, I guess you'll be the only one having fun."

[blogslut]

32. Band of Gold

[Quantess]

33. She sure shakes that dress!

That's more like a "aw... our relationship didn't work out" song. Love it, though!

[blogslut]

34. Oh, it's more than that

Somehow, sex was not had on the wedding night and then he split. There's a lot of legend around the meaning of that song.

[Quantess]

36. Hmmm... I better take another listen!

[Populist_Prole]

38. Ramones tune

They have lots of tunes about either being jilted or disappointed. This one's the funniest though;

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[herding cats]

39. The Dead Kennedys have an epic little diddy about being too drunk to perform in bed.

Not what you were really looking for?

Then there's Loretta Lynn's "When the Tingle Becomes a Chill." She didn't hold back.

I've very diverse taste in music, as you can tell.

[kentauros]

47. Here's the video that I also thought of first!

And this, not quite about bad sex, but there likely was none, due to inebriation

[cloudbase]

42. You Know I'm No Good (Amy Winehouse) n/t

[Archae]

44. J. Geils Band, "Love Stinks"

[cemaphonic]

48. Even though it was in the other thread too, NIN "Closer."

Yeah, the arrangement has that great sleazy bass line, but the lyrics aren't the sort of happyfuntime Prince sex song that some people seem to think it is.
Especially if you take it within the context of the other songs on the album, it seems to be about the narrator using sex as a crutch to fill a huge emotional void and avoid dealing with extreme depression.

[Coventina]

51. Agreed

As someone who feels that context and content matters, people who think "Closer" is a great club song drive me crazy.

[Submariner]

49. Sam Kinison: "You F*cking Whore, you left me NSFW

On edit: NSFW

here's the song

http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/You+Fucking+Whore/3YDA4?src=5


This song is a bit rough around the edges, but very touching.

[Brigid]

52. Only every country song ever written.