Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By

Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By
Studio album by Lovage
Released	November 6, 2001
Genre	Downtempo, trip hop, lounge, hip hop
Length	56:53
Label	75 Ark Records
Producer	Dan The Automator / AKA Nathaniel Merriweather
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Lovage chronology
Lovage EP (2001) Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By (2001)

Nathaniel Merriweather Presents... Lovage: Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By is the debut and so far only album of Lovage, released in 2001. Produced by Dan The Automator. Lovage is a studio supergroup featuring Dan the Automator producing, Mike Patton and Jennifer Charles on vocals, Kid Koala on the turntables, Brandon Arnovick (as Astacio the Nudist) on guitar, Daniels Spills on keyboards and SweetP on harpsichord & noseflute.

Dan the Automator provides trip hop beats while the vocals mostly consist of Mike Patton and Jennifer Charles engaging in sultry and provocative dialogue. Nevertheless, the overall tone of the album is tongue-in-cheek. The album cover is a homage to Serge Gainsbourg's second album. The song "Sex (I'm A)" was originally written and performed by 1980s new wave band Berlin. The Lovage version differs significantly from the original. The album features many references to Alfred Hitchcock. Most notably the titles of the songs "To Catch a Thief", "Lifeboat", and "Strangers on a Train", which were all named after the movies, and contain re-dubbed excerpts. The album title itself also refers to an album Hitchcock appeared on in 1956 titled Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Music to be Murdered By.

Track listing

No.	Title	Additional Artist(s)	Length
1.	"Ladies Love Chest Rockwell"	Vocals: Prince Paul (as Chest Rockwell, the alias used for Handsome Boy Modeling School)	1:19
2.	"Pit Stop (Take Me Home)"		3:56
3.	"Anger Management (Why Must God Punish Me)"		4:17
4.	"Everyone Has a Summer"	Scratches: Kid Koala	4:16
5.	"To Catch a Thief"		3:17
6.	"Lies and Alibis"		3:16
7.	"Herbs, Good Hygiene & Socks"	Vocals: Afrika Bambaataa	1:55
8.	"Book of the Month"		4:28
9.	"Lifeboat"		4:45
10.	"Strangers on a Train"		4:36
11.	"Lovage (Love That Lovage, Baby)"	Vocals: Damon Albarn (as Sir Damien Thorne VII of the Cockfoster's Clan)	1:04
12.	"Sex (I'm A)" (Berlin cover)		6:19
13.	"Koala's Lament"	Scratches: Kid Koala	3:53
14.	"Tea Time with Maseo"	Vocals: Maseo (as Chármelle Carmel) from De La Soul	1:38
15.	"Stroker Ace"		4:29
16.	"Archie & Veronica"		6:05

Samples

• "Sex (I'm A)"
  • "Kama Sutra" by Can
• "Lifeboat"
  • "In a Broken Dream" by Python Lee Jackson
• "To Catch a Thief"
  • "I Don't See Me in Your Anymore" by The Glass House
• "Anger Management"
  • "Mourir D'Aimer (Morir De Amor)" by Franck Pourcel
• "Koala's Lament"
  • "Bettina" by Bola Sete
• "Ladies Love Chest Rockwell"
  • "Solstice" by Brian Bennett
• "Lovage (Love That Lovage, Baby)"
  • "Love to Love You, Baby" by Donna Summer
• "Lies and Alibis"
  • "Come With Me" by Jeremy Steig
• "Stroker Ace"
  • "Light of Love" by Bonnie Dobson
  • Quotes from the film Some Like it Hot by Marilyn Monroe
• "Everyone has a summer"
  • "Jacarandá" by Luis Bonfá - listen in Who Sampled
  • Quotes from the film Airplane!