For that moment when the Facebook status is changed for 300+ people to see, and you've already spent a day in the dark listening to angry, lound stuff.
Now I fancy some suggestions of brilliant break-up songs to listen to in order to ease the pain, or wallow in self-pity.
[I save Everybody Hurts for when I'm drunk]
My pick so far (mainly suggested by someone else):
Somebody I Used To Know - Elliott Smith
Anthems For A 17 Year Old Girl - Broken Social Scene
Lover's Spit - Broken Social Scene
Feminine Effects - Of Montreal
Nightime - Big Star
Popular - Nada Surf
Delta - Beulah
13 Months In 6 Minutes - The Wrens
Weather Reports - Bright Eyes
Carry The Zero - Built To Spill
I Don't Want To Get Over You - Magnetic Fields
The Golden Age - Beck
The Warming Sun - Grandaddy
Oh Well - Fiona Apple
Anna's Sweater (Blear Cover) - Two Gallants
How Can You Mend A Broken Heart - Al Green
I Know It's Over - The Smiths
You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go - Bob Dylan
Come Back To Your Man - Songs: Ohia
Hit me
deffo the magnetic fields one
No Distance Left To Run - Blur
this song
is crazily sad, listened to it about 8 times since last night and it has fucked me over! i'd forgotten how low it was, but also how beautiful...
^ so much.
Tanks
by Let's Wrestle
Vampire Weekend - Campus
although it's almost sounds to jolly to be a break up song.
Katy Song by Red House Painters
Boo Hoo
literally just listen to beck's "sea change" in its entirety
but if you want to get specific, then "lost cause" is undoubtedly the way forward - "the golden age" is a great song but lost cause is better for wallowing.
also: red house painters, "void" :'(
Don't Be Upset
Jeffrey Lewis
lost cause
never listen to this if you're sad
oh god, this is depressing.
when i replied to this thread this afternoon, i totally didn't think i might need it later...
also
Ryan Adams - How Do You Keep Love Alive.
you might kill yourself, though.
i did a similar thing the other day
i replied to a thread about songs that move you to tears or something, and i included 'no ones gonna love you' by band of horses, saying if things went wrong with my girlfriend this would be unlistenable, because it was basically 'our song', then here we are a few days later!
this really should be a sticky at the top of the forum
this has been posted more than anything else. even more than 'what music did you lose your virginity to', haterz.
i thought this would be the case
sorry!
just loads of
joy divison
some good songs there already
how beautiful you are... by the Cure
is amazing for this
My Cure
choice would be 'Maybe Someday'.
predictable, but pisses all over anything else
the moon by the microphones.
http://www.myspace.com/elverumandsun , or the version on song islands if you really, really want a good reason to kill yourself.
'Poke'
by Frightened Rabbit.
Or most of their other songs, but that one's the best methinks.
Lush - Ciao!
band of horses
no ones going to love you
:( that should do the trick
dead and lovely
by tom waits for more melodrama
no way on earth could i possibly listen to this right now
it was basically 'our song'.
ouch!
^ oh man...
my heart is actually breaking thinking about that song
The Dark Is Rising
Mercury Rev
did you miss me
by the cooper temple clause
pretty much the entire album of "see this through and leave" is perfect to blast after a break up!
BRAND NEW!
CURSIVE - DOMESTICA
all of it.
or maybe The National - about today
I love that track by The National
and I did listen to it too much after a break-up two years ago.
My current moping is being accompanied by:
The Biggest Lie- Elliott Smith
Requiem For Dying Mothers- Stars of the Lid
I'll be yr bird- M Ward
Strange Form of Life- Bonnie Prince Billy
Pretty much all of Hallways of Always by William Elliott Whitmore and Jenny Hoyston
I Want You by Elvis Costello
You want to be careful with that one, mind. It might push you over the edge.
without permission
by the national of the new virginia ep
You're right!
I listened to that Elvis Costello song in the library today and had to stop revising and just sit there.... It felt unreal how many times he repeats the words 'I want you' during the song, but maybe that was how I was hearing it!
Whenever You Breathe Out, I Breathe In - Modest Mouse
"I didn't go to work for a month
I didn't leave my bed for eight days straight
I haven't hung out with any one, cos if I did I'd have nothing to say"
ouch.
where can this song be found?
I dont have it :(
It's on Building Nothing Out of Something
strangely enough I no longer have a copy. My ex-girlfriend's got it!
double ouch!
The Boatman's Call
All of it.
And also a second for "I Want You". Terrifying song.
...
Ryan Adams - Why do they leave
Dntel - Anywhere, anyone
The Wrens - Hopeless
don't i hold you
wheat
good lord
the lyrics to that 'without permission' song that the national covered are horrible!
"every moment brings me down, when you're not around
but all i'm asking for is come back for just one day
so, where did you go?
and do you now know how to be happy?
see well it's pretty clear when you're not near me i am unhappy"
i can see this being on repeat for a while.....
I found
Biffy's 'Joy. Discovery. Invention' pretty good- mainly for the line "If you want it get it" 'cause it made me realise all my ex could actualllly do is break my heart and thats feck all in the grand scheme of things : )
the wedding present.
'Prayer to God' by Shellac
may be more appropriate for some break ups than others.
the entirety of
"ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space" by spiritualized and
"heartbreaker" by ryan adams
also try - "scary mary" by biffy
Ben Folds Five - Song For The Dumped
Beach Boys - Tears In The Morning, Caroline No
Kings of Convenience - Love is no big truth
Magnetic Fields - I don't really love you anymre
Paul Simon - Graceland
give me my money back, you bitch!
the moon
by the microphones, not the normal version the song islands one http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=182866755
This thread is so unfortunately relevant right now.
I have nothing to add though, as my current soundtrack is silence. I think some fairly upbeat music is in order though...
'Last Goodbye' by Jeff Buckley
It's probably the last song I'd want to hear if I'd just been dumped, so it might be just what you're looking for.
love you should have come over
is a good one too
PARTY HARD
if you listen to this you won't get dumped
The Ice of Boston - Dismemberment Plan
EXCELLENT SONG
strange things will happen by the radio dept.
crushing.
sad, yet i suppose slightly hopefully lyrically.
'today was a pretty day, no disappointments, no expectations of your whereabouts.'
HEY, LOVE DON'TCHA THINK ABOUT ME SOMETIMES?
THINK ABOUT YOU WAY MORE THAN I'D LIKE.
Oh
You'd actually put that already. <3
OH and 'it's rough' by smog
a relentlessly bleak song. not necessarily break-up centred though.
blatantly
Grandaddy - I'm Not Alright!
LISTEN TO IT!...please
literally anything by
ludovico einaudi.
if you want specifics, try the live version of 'eden roc' to get a bit uplifted, and then I Giorni to bring you back down again... or anything off Diveniere.
hot damn! you'll be weeping in no time.
Leonard Cohen - In My Secret Life.
Also, Famous Blue Raincoat, Master Song...
I Want You
by Elvis Costello...
...though I still reckon 'Since You Been Gone' by Rainbow is unbeatable...
i like
the Johnny Cash version of Hurt for moments like this
cop shoot cop,
broken heart, i think i'm in love, all of ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space, really. and martha by tom waits
Bright Eyes....
I've Been Eating For You...
horrid song
ANYTHING
by The Get Up Kids.
Boyz II Men
'End of the road'
or maybe i've just been watching too much OC !! :-)
'Oh L'amour' by Erasure
is good for a little wallow AND a little dance. Everyone's a winner.
except everyone.
Miss Misery
Elliott Smith
oh and It Must Have Been Love - Roxette.
hah
This:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUgLyCp6aKI
#If there aint at least 10 beer cans in your front yard,
If there aint one new good thing in your old car,
If you aint breakin down, just thinkin bout the sound, of somebody mentioning her name...
Then you really never loved her anyway#
You and Me Song by the Wannadies
Ha ha ha... not really.
But, seriously...
Belle and Sebastian: I'm Waking Up to Us
Trash Can Sinatras: Orange Fell
I've no need for these, as it stands. But they're pretty good.
if you really want
to kick yourself in the nuts
try "all else failed" by kind of like spitting.
I second the Spiritualized vote
The acoustic mainlines bootlegs are full of heartbreak songs.
Alkaline Trio's entire back catalogue
.
23 - jimmy eat world
fight song - appleseed cast
Chris Garneau
Not Nice
Song About An Angel - SDRE
None Shall Pass - Aesop Rock
BON IVER - Skinny Love
It worked for me :)
something by
The Mountain Goats - plenty of good material there. Possibly "No Children". God, the lyrics are bleak. Though technically I guess its written pre-breakup rather than post, so maybe doesn't count?
Any choices
for stuff by either Low or Okkervil River? I figure they must have something suitable but I can't decide....
Also
by The Hold Steady or maybe Bruce Springsteen, I feel they would all suit my evolving playlist pretty well right now!
how about...
China White Doll by Captive State?
Now to find me a girlfriend to break up with!
The entire of Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence by Glassjaw
If no one's already said that
By this I mean
You should stay in your angry dark phase for as long as possible.
I'd like to add some more to my own list if I may:
The Concretes - Miss You (Rolling Stones Cover)
Willie Nelson - Permanently Lonely
Spoon - The Ghost Of You Lingers
Elliott Smith - Waltz #1 and I Didn't Understand
The Smiths - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
Bon Iver - Flume
Okkervil River - Another Radio Song
Big Star - Holocaust and What's Going Ahn
Aaaand, massive guilty one here: When You're Gone by Bryan Adams and Mel C! It was on the radio today when I woke up, what can I say....
Any opinion on what the best Joy Division song for break-ups is? I'm stuck
Judge Y'rself - Manic Street Preachers
And then they got back together but it was ment to be their final song.
There she goes...
the la's.