Break up songs

[oye terence]

A friend of mine recently had a very bad break up and I told him to listen to these two songs , a lot.I was thinking of other great break up or bitter post relationship songs.

What are some of your favorites?

Pulp - You're a Nightmare



And this is a crappy version, live and without Jarvis.But, all I could find...
Lush - Ciao

 

[Poppy Full]

Re: Break up Songs.

Sticking with the Jarvis theme, oddly enough...

 

[oye terence]

Re: Break up Songs.

Sticking with the Jarvis theme, oddly enough...

Jarvis does seem to have the genre mastered.

 

[Poppy Full]

Re: Break up Songs.

Jarvis does seem to have the genre mastered.

And thank God for that.

 

[mcrickson]

Re: Break up Songs.

I'm a fan of Lush

 

[5am]

Re: Break up Songs.

Hey, energy sucker



...I'm a goddess, not your mother!

 

[tlm130]

Re: Break up Songs.

These two tracks always work for me...

 

[speedfreaks ball]

Re: Break up Songs.

jilted john- jilted john

 

[CharlieFairhead]

I think David Gedge of The Wedding Present has covered just about every element of break ups and betrayal:
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Wedding+Present/_/No?autostart

 

[Oh my god. it's Robby!]

5 off the top of my head:

1. Good Thing I Don't Have Any Feelings - Future Bible Heroes
Merrit speaks of love in ways like no other really

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[tlm130]

Here's a couple more I enjoy listening to when going through a bad break up!

This is actually Sunny & the Sunglows aka The Sunliners

 

[El Manzo]

 

[Oh my god. it's Robby!]

about the power of

so I am at this party a few years ago, and it was what we call up here "a burner party"
so everybody was on acid, or mushrooms, or e or whatever
anyways, for some reason I end up DJing and I am no DJ so I just put on the above Pulp album
soon after I notice this couple(who I personally know) fighting upstairs, I could not hear them but it looked bad
then by the time the album is over, these other people who were at first making out in the jacuzzi, well, they were fighting now too
and some point after that when the music is dead again, my friend Christopher says to me:
"Dude, you should not have put that album on."
its funny now but at the time I was on a lot of acid and booze and so I was like:
omg, i did that, that album did that
crazy, I know, but yeah, nobody has got to convince me that Pulp and break ups go hand in hand...

 

[Qvist]

I do recall Pulp's "Don't you want me anymore?" having a certain poignancy in that situation though I was the one who had walked out. But generally, I don't think there's such a thing as a good break-up song - just good songs you ruin for perpetuity by playing them in a break-up context.

cheers

 

[Neader]

Cut - The Cure

Lyrics cut in 1 minute in.

(If you haven't noticed by now I'm going through a HUGE Cure phase)

Ok why isn't it working for me? I'm doing the youtube tags with this inbetween W1pNzWSO64I

 

[Oh my god. it's Robby!]

Re: Break up Songs.

I'm a fan of Lush

I saw them back in the day I was close enough to touch

Miki but I kept my hands to myself

 

[tlm130]

Cut - The Cure

Lyrics cut in 1 minute in.

(If you haven't noticed by now I'm going through a HUGE Cure phase)

Ok why isn't it working for me? I'm doing the youtube tags with this inbetween W1pNzWSO64I

Here you go... you had to take the W out in the begining

 

[Neader]

It's not working for me

 

[j0wled]

That song by the Greg Kihn band. Worked a treat at school discos when I was a wee nipper. I think I have it on Solid Gold Hits Volume 21 or something. Excellence.

 

[Nats1977]

God I have loads...that probably says more about me that I would like!!!
I'll go with the following -


and...

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but my favourite for sheer wit is probably...



Good thread!