Any ideas anyone? I just went through one and I'm lookin for some tunes that would do me good. What are the best breakup songs in everyone's opinion? Thanks.
Secondly, if you've suffered a breakup, don't wallow. Sad songs will only serve to prolong the pain.
Thirdly, you are of course going to wallow, so wallow in style. 'Miss Beverley' by the reggae singer Ijahman Levi makes grown men cry and might be the kind of thing you're after.
Altogether now: "It's not who you love but it's who loves you..."
Any ideas anyone? I just went through one and I'm lookin for some tunes that would do me good. What are the best breakup songs in everyone's opinion? Thanks.
Ramble On as a breakup song? Don't get me wrong...I love that song, but a line like "and in the darkest depths of Mordor / I met a girl so fair / But Gollum and the Evil One / Crept up and slipped away with her" doesn't really work for me as a breakup song.
i was ipod'ing yesterday, and a song came on that i hadn't heard (in its entirety) before. (its a strange phenomenon, as it apparently came off of the dead box set which i listened to religiously when i first got it not too long ago, but anyway...) The song, "The Stranger (Two Souls in Communion)" is a very good blues song. Ron McKernan puts a lot of feeling into it (as he does with all his singing, but this one really struck me). If you listen to the words, it'll probably make u sad, as the narrator/stranger tries to discover whats wrong with himself, in that he can't find his soulmate. But ignore the words, just submit to the penetrating beauty of Pigpen's voice.
The dead have a lot of songs about separation, now that i think about it. Often due to illness and death, like "Rosa Lee McFall", and "Jack-a-Roe". my mind is wondering (like a wild beast in the west), and i can't think of any more of their separation songs, or of any relating to breaking up.
of course, all this song business is nonsense. everyone knows the best cure for the blues is a alcohol. lots and lots of alcohol.
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i don't want to be your friend - cyndi lauper
Secondly, if you've suffered a breakup, don't wallow. Sad songs will only serve to prolong the pain.
Thirdly, you are of course going to wallow, so wallow in style. 'Miss Beverley' by the reggae singer Ijahman Levi makes grown men cry and might be the kind of thing you're after.
Altogether now: "It's not who you love but it's who loves you..."
Originally posted by DMBand0026
Any ideas anyone? I just went through one and I'm lookin for some tunes that would do me good. What are the best breakup songs in everyone's opinion? Thanks.
System of a Down - ATWA
Hey you, see me, pictures crazy
All the world I've seen before me passing by
I've got nothing, to gain, to lose
All the world I've seen before me passing by
You don't care about how I feel
I don't feel it any more
You don't care about how I feel
I don't feel it any more
You don't care about how I feel
I don't feel it any more
You don't care about how I feel
I don't feel it any more
Hey you, are me, not so pretty
All the world I've seen before me passing by
Silent my voice, I've got no choice
All the world I've seen before me passing by
You don't cae about how I feel
I don't feel it any more
You don't care about how I feel
I don't feel it any more
You don't care about how I feel
I don't feel it any more
You don't care about how I feel
I don't feel it any more
I don't see, anymore
I don't hear, anymore
I don't speak, anymore
I don't feel
Hey you, see me, pictures crazy
All the world I've seen before me passing by
I've got nothing, to gain, to lose
All the world I've seen before me passing by
You don't care about how I feel
I don't feel it any more
You don't care about how I feel
I don't feel it any more
You don't care about how I feel
I don't feel it any more
You don't care about how I feel
I don't feel it any more
I don't sleep, anymore
I don't eat, anymore
I don't live, anymore
I don't feel
...no wait
"Coolsville" -- Laurie Anderson
Breakup Song
by Greg Kihn Band
(there is a much more rocked-up, angrier version of it, too, on local rock drummer fred leblanc's recent solo album "here on earth")
Originally posted by BR
System of a Down - ATWA
emblimatic post-Nirvana wallow-in-the-mire-of-adolescent-self-absorption psuedo-angst band
as far as breakup songs: (and i guess more in the above vien but from the 70s?!)
all of Neil Young's album Harvest
Pink Floyd's 'If'
Letting go, it's so hard
The way it's hurting now
To get this love untied
So tough to stay with thing
'Cause if I follow through
I face what I denied
I get those hooks out of me
And I take out the hooks that I sunk deep in your side
Kill that fear of emptiness, loneliness I hide
River, oh river, river running deep
Bring me something that will let me get to sleep
In the washing of the water will you take it all away
Bring me something to take this pain away
Cheers
Scott
Originally posted by tonton
Ramble On - Led Zeppelin
Or maybe some thrash.
Ramble On as a breakup song? Don't get me wrong...I love that song, but a line like "and in the darkest depths of Mordor / I met a girl so fair / But Gollum and the Evil One / Crept up and slipped away with her" doesn't really work for me as a breakup song.
Cheers
Scott
Regret, pain... letting someone slipaway.
It's brutal and fantastic.
A warning sign,
I missed the good part, then I realised,
I started looking and the bubble burst,
I started looking for excuses,
Come on in,
I've gotta tell you what a state I'm in,
I've gotta tell you in my loudest tones,
That I started looking for a warning sign
When the truth is, I miss you,
Yeah the truth is, that I miss you so
A warning sign,
It came back to haunt me, and I realised,
That you were an island and I passed you by,
And you were an island to discover
Come on in,
I've gotta tell you what a state I'm in,
I've gotta tell you in my loudest tones,
That I started looking for a warning sign
When the truth is, I miss you,
Yeah the truth is, that I miss you so
And I'm tired, I should not have let you go,
Oooooooo,
So I crawl back into your open arms,
Yes I crawl back into your open arms,
And I crawl back into your open arms,
Yes I crawl back into your open arms.
I Will Survive- as sung by Aretha...
It is a bit of a woman's anthem though.
"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" - Bob Dylan
i ain't sayin' you treated me unkind/you coulda done better but i don't mind
you just kinda wasted my precious time/don't think twice it's all right
--
For "OMG I'M A SAD EMO BOY! *SHOOT IN HEAD WITH DAD'S GUN*" you need:
"Two Promises" - Sunny Day Real Estate
long days caught in his room/trapped in the gloom of the dying light
his heart pleads through the wounds that he bleeds/
the wounds he never can close
wrong way mind in a haze/never know what he could do
he thinks ' I gaver her my heart she tasted my soul
now she's gone again'/he thinks 'I gave her my heart she tasked my blood/now she's gone again'
why did you leave me here?/how could you lead me down here?
he can't decide where to go then/two promises one imperfect
walls he's building keep on crumbling down/walls are falling try to keep them sound
long days he thinks the time will be soon/pacing his room with his dark thoughts
his heart breaks at the road ge must take/the road that will lead to the end
wrong way he thinks it's right for release/he'll never know peace in his lifetime
he thinks 'I gave her my heart she tasted my soul
now she's gone again'/he thinks 'I gave her my blood she tasted my soul/now she's gone again'
he can't decide where to go then/two promises one imperfect
walls he's building keep on crumbling down
wall's have fallen now there is no sound
The dead have a lot of songs about separation, now that i think about it. Often due to illness and death, like "Rosa Lee McFall", and "Jack-a-Roe". my mind is wondering (like a wild beast in the west), and i can't think of any more of their separation songs, or of any relating to breaking up.
of course, all this song business is nonsense. everyone knows the best cure for the blues is a alcohol. lots and lots of alcohol.
I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) - Ella Fitzgerald
Five Long Years - Eric Clapton
Originally posted by segovius
You don't want anything slushy you need angry and vituperative...
Get The F**k Out - Skid Row
If you are going to pine over her then nothing beats "I Still Love You" from KISS Alive III.
"You're an Evil Woman!" sings the choir.