Valentine’s Day fast approaches, so The A.V. Club spoke with James Mercer about love and The Shins (via LHB):
The A.V. Club: It seems inevitable that some people have attempted to woo partners by playing “New Slang” and telling them that it will change their lives. How often do you think that actually works?James Mercer: I don’t know. I hope it’s worked quite a bit. One of the members of My Morning Jacket pulled Dave Hernandez, our guitarist, aside and said?and I think he was kind of drunk?”Man, my wife and I, we put on Oh, Inverted World, and we just get down, man.” He was saying that they have sex?that’s one of the records that they like to listen to when they’re getting it on. That was pretty cool.
AVC: Which is, of course, why you made that record.
JM: Exactly. [Laughs.] We were trying to put Barry White out of business. Maybe we’ve got some babies out there that I’m honorary godfather to.
MMJ getting freaky to The Shins. That’s hot. We’ve talked about indie booty music before, but not about the Shins in particular. Ever do it to Mercer’s sweet songs? “Caring Is Sexy,” anybody?
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“He was saying that they have sex?that’s one of the records that they like to listen to when they’re getting it on.” as if he had to explain what dave was talking about. sounds like something michael scott would say.
i love jerking off to oh inverted world, as i think of anna nicole and her storybook life. i’m gonna miss her.
i must admit, i’ve enjoyed a couple of makeout sessions to the shins…
Doing anything sexual with The Shins’ music would just seem awkward.
i’ve gotten busy to broken social scene’s self titled album….. no shins, though
Never to the Shins, but I made out to Sigur Ros once. That was kinda weird…
i’d imagine making out to sigur ros felt pretty epic.
Totally. Epic, and very surreal.
I’ve always just thought of Sigur Ros as just sort of a fallback.
With Sigur Ros, I always imagine that while the music is epic, the lyrics are simply mundane, you know like Jon is singing about taking out the trash and flosing his teeth and washing his armpits and wondering why his cellphone bill is so damn high…
As for booty shaking, I once tried a Sebadoh / Dinosaur Jr. / Mission of Burma mixtape. Lets just say, oooops.
besides, everyone knows its Norah Jones for the booty knocking. indie yuppies, sheesh…
Call me an old fart, but The Doors are still my choice for getting it on. The secret to a good gettin’ freaky mix is that the early part of the mix should be stuff that gets the girl in the mood. After that, it needs to be good background music; not something that’s going to hold your attention over the sex.
To the Shins? I wasn’t expecting that.
Zero 7 has gotten me some really good results.
Just sayin’.
Arcade Fire worked pretty damn well last night.
“Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors” by radiohead
if you can get the rhythm right
I’ve found endlessly satisfying results from “Promise of Love” by the American Analog Set, anything M. Ward puts out.
I’d like to say that “Let’s Stay Together” works like a charm, but, damn, that just makes me feel dumb. I generally listen to ol’ Al at the least sexual of times. Like during my shift at the drycleaner.
the best song to have sex to is….
lets get it on by marvin gaye