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Since we're on the theme of romantic movies and songs, I thought I'd ruin it by asking about your break up songs. (I watched VH1's '100 most Awesomely Bad Break up Songs' the other night, so I have a few in my head.)
We all have them. Which songs did you listen to over and over and over and over...which songs did you wish you had written because they perfectly described your broken relationship?
Mine?
Foolish Games by Jewel. I know, give me a break. I was in college in the late 90s. Take a Look at Me Now Phil Collins Always Be My Baby by Maraiah Carey. For those in denial. To Love you More Celine Dion. For the jealous types who are also in denial.
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That whole entire Chicago album that I promised myself I would never listen to again after an unfortunate weekend my sophomore year of college.
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I had an entire mix tape that I had pathetically made full of love songs and break up songs that reminded me of this one guy.
Wait. I did that twice. Two different guys. For some reason I just liked to wallow and wallow and I'd listen to tapes like that over and over again. Yuck.
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I had a tape that was all about being happy to be out of a bad relationship. I would listen to it all the time after getting out of the *really* bad one.
Songs like "I Saw the Sign" and "Victory" (by some 80's alternative band I can't recall.)
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See bev, I guess you're just a more positive person. My tapes were always meant to help me 'think of that person' *barf* and they ended up depressing me. Posts: 6415 | Registered: Jul 2000
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Not specifically a break-up song, but more generally about not being able to get/keep a relationship: Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend by The Mr. T Experience.
He was the worst guy ever, Reviled and despised. But even Hitler had a girlfriend So why can't I? Why can't I?
Oh! And for people asking about your sig.other after a break-up there's The Vandals' My Girlfriend's Dead.
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Narnia, there was no need to wallow over that particular relationship. I ended it, and I never regretted ending it once.
But I also tend to hate myself when I am wallowing, so while I may wallow in some ways, I don't do it musically for some reason. Posts: 7050 | Registered: Feb 2004
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Poor Heart by Phish I Feel Free by Cream Both are very liberating.
Also two excellent breakup albums are Led Zeppelin I (for the "good riddance; women are evil" type of breakup) and "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs" by Derek and the Dominoes (for the wistful "please come back to me" type of breakup). After each of my two most major breakups of my college years I went on a roadtrip, and I just happened to have Zeppelin I on the first trip and Layla on the second. They fit the mood perfectly, and are still on the top of my list for perfect musical choices.
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Untouchable Face by Ani Difranco. Great song by a great song writer that was in my cd player all the time after my last break up and will most likely be played alot through my divorce as well.
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I've never had a breakup. But while a really, really close and important friendship was falling apart, I listened to Guster's "Either Way" quite a bit.
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"Gunning Down Romance" by Savage Garden. Hey, I was born in 88, I have a right to like things like that. But it's true...
I'm gunning down romance It never did a thing for me but heartache and misery ain't nothing but a tragedy
etc., etc., about how love is only a chemical reaction in your brain and stuff like that. For those who are in denial but are masking it with the tough person attitude.
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The Saddest Song I've Got - "There's nothing left to say/said it anyway" Pavement Cracks - "I would have done anything/for happiness to bring"
. . .or Tori Amos. . .
Northern Lad - "I love his secret places/But I can't go anymore" Baker Baker - "Well I ran from him in all kinds of ways/Guess it was his turn this time"
. . .or, for humor and sarcasm, Barenaked Ladies.
Told You So - "I had myself fooled into needing you/Did I fool you, too?" Leave - "How am I supposed to remember you/When you won't let me forget?"
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"Clear to You" - Innocence Mission "You Know What I Mean" - Phil Collins "I Think I'll Disappear Now" - Crash Test Dummies "Taking Over Me" - Evanescence "I Can't Make You Love Me" - Bonnie Raitt "Ghost" - Indigo Girls "Go It Alone" - Beck "Let 'Er Rip" - Dixie Chicks "How Beautiful You Are" - The Cure "I Don't Mind At All" - Bourgeois Tagg
...to name a few.
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Uhm, as far as pissed-off "I'm glad you're gone" kinda break-up songs, I've always been partial to "Overwhelming", "Now That It's Over", and "The New Disease" by Everclear. *grin*
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Just about every song these two guys ever sang:
Dwight Yoakum and Chris Isaak
I swear if either of those two ever have a relationship that works out, then their career will be over.
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"Every Rose Has It's Thorn" is Poison, not GnR.
Obscure Break Up Song Choice: "Tea and Sympathy", Jars of Clay
Weird Al suggestions are greatness, as is "Love Stinks" by the J Geils Band
Jo Dee Messina's "My Give a Damn's Busted" can be very liberating
Keri Noble has several excellent ones for every situation from "I can't believe you have to move away" ("Piece of My Heart"), to "I really regret letting go" ("Dream About You"), to "I'm glad you're gone" ("Let It Rain"), to the only really tender "I'm just not sure I'm ready for a serious commitment" song I know of ("About me")
But my favorite is a little self-serving: I helped write a very good one called "Somehow". When we played it just right live, there would be several seconds of dead silence (the good kind) followed by wild applause. It was cool.
Somehow Lee Caropresi and Jim Scott
I've been thinking 'bout A girl that I once knew She said I was the only one
And I can't figure out What I'm gonna do 'Cause it seems the light is gone
But I will make it through, somehow
I remember when I last saw her face It keeps me hangin' on
But it's so lonely in This cold and weary place I feel I can't go on
But I will make it through, somehow
I've been driving by The place we used to live Feels like holy ground
I've pleaded with the sky Gave all I could give To make her come around
But I will make it through, somehow
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I've always burst into tears whwn I listen to Billy Joel's "And So it Goes." It's absolutely beautiful and absoultely sad. So, good if you're into melancholic break ups.
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Jim-Me, you can't post a whole song on this forum! There's a dude named The Analog Kid that's going to sue us now!
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created a playlist with The Cure, Bright Eyes, and Dashboard Confessional with some additional songs from The Ataris and Jimmy Eat World and then hit the random button. - However, these songs don't exactly make me feel ecstatic about life, so I have to use in moderation.
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I like the: "I've been driving by / the place we used to live" bit. That's nice.
The classic for me is Pearl Jam's Black: "I know someday you'll have a beautiful life / I know you'll be a star / in somebody else's sky / buy why, why, why can't it be mine?"
Also Tool's H: "The snake behind me hisses what my damage could have been / my blood before me begs me open up my heart again."
Ben Folds' Gone: "I know that you went straight to someone else / while I worked through all this s*#%! here by myself."
A Perfect Circle's Passive: "Why can't you turn and face me? / You f@#*ing disappoint me / Passive-aggressive bulls*#%!"
I actually find the first Linkin Park record decent for this purpose. Once after a breakup I found myself living alone in the middle of nowhere, so I learned to scream along to some of the songs on that record. It was very theraputic. I like to listen to angry music after breakups.
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quote:quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I will survive" Good old Aretha Franklin (spelling?) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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