Best Break Up Songs

[areyoubeingserved]

Help me through a tough time, and give me your best break up songs. I'm going through three at the moment on repeat... add some more.

The Microphones - Headless Horseman
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Beck - Lost Cause (I can't listen to all of Sea Change just yet - in part because was just listening to it with her on the weekend - but this is the best from it)

[Lynn Minmei]

The Way We Were- Barbara Streisand

Probably won't help much.

[Indiana Sev]

A couple of my favorites...

- Nothing Compares 2 U ~ Sinead O'Connor

- Without You ~ Nilsson

[Annie Hall]

Radio - Alkaline Trio
No More I Love You's - Annie Lennox
For No One - The Beatles
Dysentary Gary - Blink 182
The First Cut is the Deepest - CAT STEVENS (none of this Sheryl Crowe shite)
Leaving Town - Dexter Freebish
Southern Belle - Elliot Smith
Hurt - Johnny Cash (not a breakup song by nature, but, still damned effective)
Vicious - Lou Reed
You Know You're Right -Nirvana
Creep - Radiohead
Stephanie Says - The Velvet Underground
Without You - Harry Nilsson
Song for the Dumped - Ben Folds (gets out some hostility, I must say...)

[docholiday_13]

Cute Without The 'E' by Taking Back Sunday
Post Script by Finch
Jaked on Green Beers by Alkaline Trio

[flowrchild]

Originally posted by areyoubeingserved
Help me through a tough time, and give me your best break up songs. I'm going through three at the moment on repeat... add some more.


If you're going through a tough time, I kind of recommend anything BUT depressing break-up songs. I recommend fun upbeat joyous tunes. And watch lots of comedies.

[Annie Hall]

Originally posted by flowrchild
If you're going through a tough time, I kind of recommend anything BUT depressing break-up songs. I recommend fun upbeat joyous tunes. And watch lots of comedies.

Good idea, but, in my experience of general depression, sometimes depressing songs make you feel better in a twisted sort of way. The very last thing I want to hear when I'm down is T. Rex type stuff.

But, man, definitely watch comedies...they do help.

[bowieee]

One~ Harry Nilsson
Another night in~ The Tindersticks
Let her go into the darkness~ Jonathan Richman
Heaven knows I'm miserable now~ The Smiths
The Dark is Rising~ Mercury Rev
2:45 am~ Elliot Smith

and the entire Berlin Album by Lou Reed. (Warning do not listen to this unless your willing to be thrown head first into the deepest depression possible)

[BorderEevilIII]

Greg Khin-The Break Up Song (They Dont Write Em) -(may NOT be suitable to this topic but HEY doesn't hurt to try) ;)

Mariah Carey-If It's Over

Al Jarreau & Melissa Manchester-The Music of Goodbye "Theme from Out Of Africa"

[SteveSzyk]

Tricky's Poems off his Nearly God album is an amazing song with great lyrics about an ended relationship. As is Fiona Apple's incredible Love Ridden.

[one_crow_sorrow]

Pearl Jam - Black

[Shakamaker]

Originally posted by Annie Hall
Good idea, but, in my experience of general depression, sometimes depressing songs make you feel better in a twisted sort of way. The very last thing I want to hear when I'm down is T. Rex type stuff.

Amen. It's all part of the healing process. If you keep trying to take your mind off it, then you're not allowing yourself to heal. Let it get you down, and use your soul to get you through. No better feeling than truly getting over someone, regaining control, and looking for a new lover, baby!

To The End - Blur
This Is A Low - Blur
Who Knows Where The Time Goes - Nina Simone (real tester, this one!)
She's Gone - Hall & Oates

then, Sail On - The Commodores

Good luck, areyoubeingserved!

[Dead Halloween]

Any Weird Al Yankovic songs. :D

[BadCoverVersion]

If you fancy being a bit weepy, try...

Such a Small Love - Scott Walker
TV Movie - Pulp
Juanita - Gram Parsons
Ne Me Quitte Pas (If You Go Away) - Jacques Brel
The Last Goodbye - Jeff Buckley
The Unforgettable Fire - U2
The Sun Aint Gonna Shine Anymore - The Walker Brothers
I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself - The White Stripes

If you fancy something a little more lighthearted...

Ciao! - Lush Feat. Jarvis Cocker.
I'll Never Fall in Love Again - Elvis Costello
Better Off Without a Wife - Tom Waits

[areyoubeingserved]

Originally posted by flowrchild
If you're going through a tough time, I kind of recommend anything BUT depressing break-up songs. I recommend fun upbeat joyous tunes. And watch lots of comedies.

No it was a mutual break up, so I'm trying to create an atmosphere that suggests otherwise. But I did watch a comedy, and felt worse off for it... it had... Chevy... Chase...

Pavement's Here is pretty good I think... "everythings ending here"

[Raymond Babbit]

REM- So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)
Moody Blues- Go Now
Beatles- Yesterday
Barenaked Ladies- Leave

[free]

Goodnight - Adalayda

[bowieee]

Originally posted by BadCoverVersion
If you fancy being a bit weepy, try...


Better Off Without a Wife - Tom Waits

Cheers *Raises Glass* to this selection.

A Mighty fine pick.

[electriclite]

I shall give you my picks, but you must promise to hide all the sharp objects in your house. 'kay?



Pete Yorn - EZ

The Smiths - Well I Wonder

Blind Melon - Soul One

The Breeders - Do You Love Me Now?

Lucinda Williams - Are You Down?

Pearl Jam - Black

Police - Bed's Too Big Without You

Radiohead - Bullet Proof........ (I Wish I Was)

Red Hot Chili Peppers - I Could've Lied

The Cure - Burn

Shea Seger - I Love You Too Much

X - Come Back To Me

U2 - Faraway (So, Close) (Its pretty melancholy)




And the cherry on the Prozac sprinkled cake of misery:


Rufus Wainwright - One Man Guy




I'd rent yourself LOADS OF DUMB GROSS OUT COMEDIES if you're even gonna consider listening to all the titles suggested on this thread.

[moviemuffin]

Depends on how the breakup goes and what kind of relationship it was. A few come to mind.

Real Gut Wrencher:
Take Another Little Piece of My Heart by Janis Joplin
Bye Bye Baby by Janis Joplin
Is it Over Yet by Wynona
I Don't Know How to Let You Go by Sarah McLachlan

Fuck Off You Were An Asshole Anyway:
Already Gone by the Eagles
Blues This Morning by Indigenous
I Haven't Got Time for the Pain by Carly Simon
I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor
She Fucking Hates Me by Puddle of Mud

Over But Nobody's Fault, Really:
Could We Start Again, Please from the JC Superstar Soundtrack
Me and Bobby McGee by Kris Kristofferson (who wrote it for Janis and can't sing for shit but I love him anyway)
Rhythm of the Blues by Mary Chapin Carpenter

[moviemuffin]

Just for the guys:

When my baby-angel-darlin-who-I'll-never-ever-leave and I broke up a million years ago his neighbor (and one of our closest friends) actually took away his Bill Withers CD and hid it to keep him from playing Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone on repeat for hours on end.

Yep... once you've had the muffin you can never go back.

:p

[quoth_the_raven]

lol, break songs should be funny. help you forget the lying cheating bitch who broke you in two. yes, i have experience.so nyah

i recommend

My Girlfriends Dead- The Vandals
I wish i was queer so i could get chicks- The Bloodhound Gang

[TheDeadWalk]

Ride On - Ac/Dc

Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd

You oughta know - Alanis Morrissette

Rocket Man - Elton John (Not really break-up, but it's got that "leaving" sense to it)

[hail]

Nazareth- Love Hurts

# 1 of all time

[jackson13]

Love Stinks - J. Geils Band
Bitch - Sevendust
You dont really love me anymore - 'Weird' Al (I think thats the name of the song)


Thats all I can think of off the top of my head. Sorry bub. :(

[Quiver]

Originally posted by hail
Nazareth- Love Hurts

# 1 of all time

Amen to that, friend. I downed many a bottle of brew to that song following one of my tougher times. I still cant hear that song without thinking of that time of my life

(But it's all good now!)