Best break-up songs

[Funky_monks]

In break-up situations, I am unlikely to listen to songs about break-ups per se.

You'd most likely find me listening to 'Streams of Whiskey' by the Pogues.

And then all the rest of of 'Red Roses for Me'.

 

[snackhead]

Stayed in bed all morning just to pass the time
There's something wrong here, there can be no denying
One of us is changing
Or maybe we just stopped trying

And it's too late, baby, now it's too late
Though we really did try to make it
Something inside has died
And I can't hide and I just can't fake it

It used to be so easy living here with you
You were light and breezy and I knew just what to do
Now you look so unhappy and I feel like a fool

And it's too late, baby, now it's too late
Though we really did try to make it
Something inside has died
And I can't hide and I just can't fake it

There'll be good times again for me and you
But we just can't stay together, don't you feel it, too
Still I'm glad for what we had and how I once loved you

But it's too late, baby, now it's too late
Though we really did try to make it
Something inside has died and I can't hide
And I just can't fake it

 

[snackhead]

Julie "groovy dancer" Driscoll -Break it up, if only for the line "I ain't yours and you sure ain't mine"

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=77Ee1FCJ1vg

 

[Meltingpot]

"Soon I Will Be Gone" by Free.

http://www.last.fm/music/Free/_/Soon+I+Will+Be+Gone

Some of the others that have been mentioned are good too.

 

[killer b]

'at last i am free' by chic / robert wyatt

 

[El Jefe]

'at last i am free' by chic / robert wyatt

Such a beautiful cover, the Wyatt version

 

[BlackArab]

"treat her like a prostitute" by Oran 'Juz' Jones

It was by Slick Rick. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qzWuFUxGEP8

The Juice did 'Walking in the Rain' http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8utL-XzOp6g&feature=related

Personally my favourites would be Al Green - 'Tired of being alone' & 'How can you mend a broken heart'. Get drunk, listen and wail along to these two, realise you're being a miserable cunt, get up and move the fuck on. Perfect.

 

[rutabowa]

for proper misery filled sobbing with like snot running down your t shirt this palace brothers song is excellent:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7jf0YdAy_nY

 

[izz]

I can't believe nobodys put in a vote for "Dry your eyes Mate" - perfectly captures that awful moment when your worst suspicions are realised and its even worse than you imagined it would be.


Also Moby's "At least we tried".

 

[Melinda]

Let's Be Us Again- Lonsestar

Let go- Frou Frou

Such Great Heights- Postal Service

Love is a Battlefield- Pat Benatar

Hole In The Head- Sugababes

Apologise- One Republic

 

[Taxamo Welf]

Clearly My Girlfriend's Dead by The Vandals.

OH SHI-

what are you doing hombre?!! NO WONDER SHE FUCKING LEFT YOU!

jesus

fuck

 

[fuzzy felt]

'i want you' by elvis costello is fabulously bitter.

for a more upbeat 'it's been a few months now and i'm getting there vibe' i love the small faces 'get yourself together.'

 

[Weller]

So, say someone was going through something painful, what songs do Urban recommend to calm or excite a troubled soul?

Its a look ahead to the future and how things change with time ... and also a classic fookin tune especially the live 2nd version..

 

[Meltingpot]

Love is a Battlefield- Pat Benatar

Good one, in the same vein; "Love Is A Killer" by Vixen.

 

[stavros]

Girls Aloud - "The Show";

"Shoulda known, shoulda cared,
Shoulda hung around the kitchen in my underwear,
Shoulda made me,
T'woulda saved me."

 

[Dillinger4]

OH SHI-

what are you doing hombre?!! NO WONDER SHE FUCKING LEFT YOU!

jesus

fuck

It is a sad story, she had to leave because she just couldn't live with how awesome my taste in punk bands is.

 

[Vamos666]

Jesus & Mary Chain - Cracking Up.

 

[Psychonaut]

maybe not one of the best break-up songs but one of the better 'answerphone revenge' tracks

Sage Francis - Rewrite

 

[CRI]

SUFFER

I'm gonna suffer for you no longer
I'm gonna suffer for you no more
I'm gonna write you out of my life
and shut the door

You tried to drive a wedge between me and my friends
You pushed me to the edge time and again
I've been living in your shade since I can't remember when
Now I'm bringing this charade to an end

I'm gonna suffer for you no longer
I'm gonna suffer for you no more
I'm gonna write you out of my life
and shut the door

There was subtlety and skill in your manipulative ways
You chipped away my will so you could make me stay
You soothed me with your voice until I obeyed
but I'm making my own choice from today

You used the tongue of love like a boxer uses fists
You contained me like a glove or a creeping cloak of mist
You guaranteed the stars but there always was a twist
Now I see you as you are - Egotist !

I'm gonna suffer for you no longer
I'm gonna suffer for you no more
I'm gonna write you out of my life
and shut the door

I've got a ticket in my hand and I must be moving on
but I want you to understand that from the moment I am gone
I release and let you go - you owe nothing now to me
I'm not angry anymore - I'm free !

I'm gonna suffer for you no longer
I'm gonna suffer for you no more
I'm gonna write you out of my life
and shut the door


The Waterboys

Dublin April 1991

On "Dream Harder"

 

[Melinda]

Fuck You - Eamon

Fuck You Right Back- Frankee

 

[Taxamo Welf]

It is a sad story, she had to leave because she just couldn't live with how awesome my taste in punk bands is.

she left you for an older guy - like, 14?

 

[moose]

No tune suggestions, just best wishes to both of you, RM.

 

[trevhagl]

"You don't know me yet...but you will" by BARSE.

 

[rhod]

"You don't love me anymore" by criminally ignored Canadian songwriter Lynn Miles

I tried to catch your eye.
You would not turn towards me,
An' I felt something start to die.

You leaned against the counter,
Blew some smoke into the air.
Was it you who used to tell me,
That the trick is not to care?

You don't love me anymore.
An' in your heart, you're out the door.
It's getting harder to ignore,
That you don't love me anymore.
That you don't love me anymore.

It's not that I would crumble,
It's just these long drawn out sad goodbyes.
An' I would rather just start walkin',
Have to hear your alibis.

'Cause you don't love me anymore.
An' in your heart, you're out the door.
It's getting harder to ignore,
That you don't love me anymore.
That you don't love me anymore.


Well, heart, it is a rambler;
Tell me who can understand?
'In love' is like a warm wind,
'Cause you can't hold it in your hand.

You don't love me anymore.
An' in your heart, you're out the door.
It's getting harder to ignore,
That you don't love me anymore.
That you don't love me anymore.

 

[trevhagl]

Or what about "Breaking Up is Easy to Do" by BARSE....

"If i knew then what i know now, i'd have you bolted you fucking cow"

CLASS

www.myspace.com/barsefilth

 

[Melinda]

No Air- Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown. (Acapella version)

Tell me how I'm supposed to breathe with no air
Can't live, can't breathe with no air
That's how I feel whenever you ain't there
There's no air, no air
Got me out here in the water so deep
Tell me how you gon' be without me
If you ain't here, I just can't breathe
There's no air, no air

 

[Dillinger4]

she left you for an older guy - like, 14?

It was painful.

 

[Pip]

There's nothing quite like getting pissed and shouting along to this with similarly heartbroken friends.

His girlfriend's response is good for a laugh too.

 

[Pip]

Oh FFS Melinda

 

[twistedAM]

Mr Brightside - The Killers

Or Rapper's Delight by The Sugarhill Gang: "Hotel Motel Holiday inn, If a girl starts messing round, then you take her friend"

(or something to that effect)