3 Spicy Classic Rock Songs That Are Best Played in the Privacy of Your Own Home

Classic rock songs are good about getting a message out. The genre is often loud, in your face and its songs often fill up a room. So, when a lead singer wants to make an idea clear to an audience, they usually pull it off with skill and volume. Sometimes that’s a great thing—something we can all celebrate together in public. Other times the messages are maybe best heard in private.

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That’s exactly what we wanted to check out here below. To dive into three classic rock songs that are best heard behind closed doors. Songs that are a little too spicy to belt out amongst a group of strangers. Indeed, these are three classic rock songs that are best heard in the privacy of your own home.

“Pearl Necklace” by ZZ Top from ‘El Loco’ (1981)

Suffice it to say that this song from the Houston, Texas-born blues-rock band ZZ Top is not about jewelry. We could leave it at that, but let’s just dip our toes into a bit more background. Released in 1981 on the trio’s LP, El Loco, the song is about an intimate act in the bedroom between two consenting adults! Full of double entendres, this is assuredly a track you don’t want to play around your, well, pearl-clutching friends and family members.

“Plaster Caster” by KISS from ‘Love Gun’ (1977)

You probably won’t be surprised to hear that this song is on an album called Love Gun, but that’s just the type of humor and style that the face-painted rock band KISS boasted in the 1970s. As for the track itself, it’s about a real person—a woman nicknamed and known as Cynthia Plaster Caster. She was a rock groupie who would make actual plaster casts of famous rock artists, um, members. Such, er, sculptures were done with iconic rockers like Jimi Hendrix. Okay, let’s move on…

“Three Days” by Jane’s Addiction from ‘Ritual De Lo Habitual’ (1990)

The second single from Jane’s Addiction second studio album, this 1990 track was one of three on the LP that were written as an ode to singer Perry Farrell’s late girlfriend Xiola Blue, who died at 18 years old of a heroin overdose in 1987. Indeed, the 10-plus-minute offering is intimate and at times even a bit erotic. But it’s also just a loud, mournful tune about the loss of youthful love. Drugs took the lives of so many artists in the latter half of the 20th century and this lengthy tune displays the dark side of it all.

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