We're wrapping up our list with a two-part Top Ten, featuring, obviously, the Legendary Sam Cooke.
We'll have a list of your favorties tomorrow, along with the Final Five... for now, here are another five sexy albums you must keep in the ol' disc changer...
[If you missed anything, start here, with the Top 20.]
10. Hotel Child – The Flying Neutrinos
This album by then-unknown street performers hit #4 on Amazon during the late nineties swing revival. Only problem was, the album came out at the end of that fad... and has been difficult to find since. Much has been made of the cover, which features lead singer Ingrid Lucia taking a bubble bath. Try not to stare as you listen to lines like “I want to make violent love/to you by the moon above...” or anything from the John Phillips tune "Love Is Coming Back."
9. The White Album – The Beatles
Remember when your parents would play this and then switch it off right when it got to the sounds of John Lennon (and Yoko Ono?) having sex at the end of “Revolution 1”? What about “Why Don't We Do It In The Road”? Find these cuts, plus the hilariously-non-sexy “Back in the USSR,” sweet “Dear Prudence,” good ol' “Sexy Sadie,” and, um, “Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey.” (Yes, that's a real song.)
8. Kristofferson – Kris Kristofferson
The sexiest man in country music rounded up all the stray songs he wrote for Janis and Jerry Lee and Johnny and piled them up here. “For The Good Times,” “Me and Bobby McGee” (actually about his friend's female secretary), and so on until you bow down and grovel. “Help Me Make It Through the Night?” With pleasure.
7. Portrait of A Legend – Sam Cooke
The sexiest singer of all-time (take that, Frank) on the best collection of his (brief) life's work. You forgot how many great pop songs were his until you're dancing with your baby to them...
6. To Bring You My Love – PJ Harvey
You could make the case for Rid of Me and Is This Desire?, which are almost as sexy. But for newcomers, the way PJ growls out the opening cut on her 1995 tour-de-fucking-force is the best example of why yet another androgynous dark-haired solo artist has beguiled millions of people for over 15 years. This photo of Polly Jean don't hurt either.
Previously:
The Top 20-11, The Top 21-30, The Top 31-40, The Top 41-50 Sexiest Albums You Must Own.