I Miss the GTD Playlist

While trying to write my first sex scene in a long time I was trying to get myself in the mood by playing music. Now I have over 18,000 songs and setting up a playlist to get me in the mood is kind of easy.

Those songs take me back.

But again if you listen to the songs nowadays you don’t get the same thing. It’s like a full dinner without the appetizer.Remember those mixtapes that you used to put together? Or the quiet storm?It was soft and sensual that got people in the mood.Back when my father was a young man, listening to any of these songs meant that was going to Get The Draws (hereby known as GTD).

I’ll Be There The Jackson 5
Let’s Stay Together – Al Green
Let’s Get It On – Marvin Gaye
First Time Ever I Saw Your Face – Roberta Flack
Love To Love You Baby – Donna Summer
Three Times A Lady – The Commodores
Slow Jam – Midnight Star
Let’s Get It On – Marvin Gaye
Lady – The Whispers
Turn Off The Lights – Teddy Pendergrass
How Can Yo Mend A Broken Heart – Al Green
As We Lay – Shirley Murdock
We Both Deserve Each Other’s Love – L.T.D.
Cry Together – The O’Jays
Never Let You Down – Maze
Sail On – Commodores
You Are Everything – The Stylistics
You Are My Lady – Freddie Jackson
I’ve Got Love On My Mind – Natalie Cole
I’ve Got So Much To Give – Barry White

Nice list huh … If I was to put of every song from my father’s era, this blog entry would take up so much bandwidth my internet service provider would thing I’m posting the damn things to share.

And I haven’t even mentioned the stuff from the Isley Brothers. Before the band broke up (and Ron turned into a dirty old man and a tax cheat), they were consistent in putting out a GTD banger every year.

Some of the hits include “Summer Breeze”, “For The Love Of You, Pts. 1 & 2”, “Voyage to Atlantis”, “Grove With You”, “Choosey Lover”,

“Footsteps in the Dark” and my favorite (and the one that I know that I’m going make the future Mrs. Dawg pregnant by), “Between the Sheets.”

Yes, the GTD song was a staple of many of a household. Your boy did the same and thanks to MP3s I was able to work not one but two lists depending if I knew it was a Pre-GTD night or a for sure GTD night.

Sadly enough now, I can’t even tell you a list of songs to get busy with. I mean sure we get a couple of nice ones like “Bed” from J Holiday and “Last Time” by Trey Songz but these aren’t songs that I think that Rappers are going to sample or my children are still going to use to get their wives pregnant.

Now its all about GTD in the literal sense. When singers used to tell women how much they loved them, now it’s about literally getting ass on wax.

I mean now we are putting our sexual fantasies on records.

But I didn’t start this post to bash the current state of R&B, I want to praise the GTD song list.

Everyone needs one … its just too bad that we can only pull songs from the past rather than the present.