Is it me, or is it getting hot in here...? Time to take off a few more clothes.
10. Hawksley Workman - Striptease
This gets in here purely so I don't have to mention the song with the most offensive title in my record collection. (It's by The Bloodhound Gang... but it's not one of their better offerings.)
Anyway, dig Hawksley Workman.
9. Chris De Burgh - Patricia The Stripper
The Lady In Red Man attempts to become Noel Coward. So bad it's good... (perhaps).
See also this entirely different song of the same name by The Wombats which - quite incredibly - manages to be nowhere near as "good" as old crazy eyebrows.
8. The Birthday Party - Nick The Stripper
Nick is a fat little insect, hideous to the eye. I'd save your cash if I were you.
7. Stereophonics - She Takes Her Clothes Off
I know - what sort of crazy fool places the Stereophonics above Nick Cave?
It won't happen again, I promise.
6. Morrissey - Striptease With A Difference
Never officially released (Moz obviously didn't like it very much), this sees the Pope of Mope getting involved in a late night game of Strip Poker, trying his best to lose...
Exchanging a king for your two5. Depeche Mode - Stripped
While you're out of the room
Have a shufty over your shoulder
Well, all the same, it's a shady game
And I want to lose...
Let me see you stripped down to the boneSigh. You always have to take things one step too far, don't you, Dave?
4. Sohodolls - Stripper
Ah, yes, the 21st Century Republica. Take that as a compliment if you wish...
3. Adam Ant - Strip
Do you know what's insane? This single never made the Top 40. (It peaked at #41.) Record buyers of 1983, hang your heads in shame.
When it gets so hot the end of the day2. Jermaine Stewart - We Don't Have To (Take Our Clothes Off To Have A Good Time)
You may find your clothes getting in the way
If a pretty dress hides your true desire
Fold it nice and slow, throw it on the fire
Have a glass of cherry wine on me.
1. Mansun - Stripper Vicar
One of Mansun's finest, though it obviously owes a great debt to The Smiths' Vicar In A Tutu. Video filmed at Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire, I reckon.
And we know him as our vicar
And by night a part-time stripper
And the vicar got suspended
In his stockings and suspenders
And he's making wine from water
While he dresses like his daughter
And we know that he's a rip off
'Cos we've seen him with his kit off
Anyone who suggests Man 2 Man meets Man Parrish loses 274 points immediately.