The best breakup songs?

dmband0026dmband0026
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
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.
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  • Reply 1 of 45
    superkarate monkeydeathcarsuperkarate monkeydeathcar Posts: 2,407member
    heart of the matter - don henly



    i don't want to be your friend - cyndi lauper
  • Reply 2 of 45
    hassan i sabbahhassan i sabbah Posts: 3,987member
    Firstly, my commiserations.



    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..."
  • Reply 3 of 45
    brbr Posts: 8,395member
    Quote:

    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
  • Reply 4 of 45
    cosmonutcosmonut Posts: 4,872member
    Gloria Jaynor: "I Will Survive"
  • Reply 5 of 45
    discocowdiscocow Posts: 603member
    Kim -Eminem





    ...no wait
  • Reply 6 of 45
    jimdreamworxjimdreamworx Posts: 1,095member
    Love Stinks - J. Geils Band
  • Reply 7 of 45
    timotimo Posts: 353member
    "Poison Arrow" -- ABC



    "Coolsville" -- Laurie Anderson
  • Reply 8 of 45
    rokrok Posts: 3,519member
    kinda surprised no one posted a fairly obvious candidate:



    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")
  • Reply 9 of 45
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    Love Sucks - Die Fantastischen Vier
  • Reply 10 of 45
    pfflampfflam Posts: 5,053member
    Quote:

    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'
  • Reply 11 of 45
    709709 Posts: 2,016member
    'Baby Bitch' - Ween (from the album: Chocolate & Cheese)
  • Reply 12 of 45
    midwintermidwinter Posts: 10,060member
    The entire Peter Gabriel album, "US," which was written out of the grief following his divorce. Especially the song "Washing of the Water":



    Quote:

    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
  • Reply 13 of 45
    midwintermidwinter Posts: 10,060member
    Quote:

    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
  • Reply 14 of 45
    chu_bakkachu_bakka Posts: 1,793member
    Warning Sign-Coldplay



    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.
  • Reply 15 of 45
    chu_bakkachu_bakka Posts: 1,793member
    Unless you were dumped... then of course it's



    I Will Survive- as sung by Aretha...



    It is a bit of a woman's anthem though.
  • Reply 16 of 45
    groveratgroverat Posts: 10,872member
    Bestest break-up song evar! (For that, "I'm better off..." feeling):



    "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
  • Reply 17 of 45
    thuh freakthuh freak Posts: 2,664member
    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.
  • Reply 18 of 45
    mlnjrmlnjr Posts: 230member
    Don't Leave the Light On, Baby - Belle & Sebastian

    I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) - Ella Fitzgerald

    Five Long Years - Eric Clapton
  • Reply 19 of 45
    opuscroakusopuscroakus Posts: 317member
    Depends on the circumstances of the breakup.



    Quote:

    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.
  • Reply 20 of 45
    chu_bakkachu_bakka Posts: 1,793member
    Evil Woman- ELO



    "You're an Evil Woman!" sings the choir.
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