Liz Phair – “Divorce Song” absolutely KILLER tune! Great choice!

Bob Dylan – Ballad in Plain D

Johnny Cash – Train of Love
Bob Dylan – Idiot Wind

“Good F**king Bye” by Matt Skiba, a solo acoustic thing he did as a side project to Alkaline Trio. Equal parts pissed off and depressing as hell, perfectly accurate for a break-up (or the kinds i go through at least….).

Tom Waits-Im Still Here
Bob Dylan-Everything on BOTT

You are missing many, many key cuts.

Most of the Time – Bob Dylan
That’s No Way To Say Goodbye – Leonard Cohen
No Distance Left To Run – Blur
Damage – Yo La Tengo
If You See Her Say Hello – Bob Dylan
I Just Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Over You – Colin Hay
Have a Good Life, Baby – Dusty Springfield
Say Goodbye Good – The Promise Ring
Let it Die – Feist
Long Knives Drawn – Rainer Maria
You Are All I Have – Hayden
Spit On A Stranger – Kathryn Williams (Pavement cover)
Honey & the Moon – Joseph Arthur
You Are All I Have – Hayden
The Grand Canyon – Magnetic Fields
Busby Berkely Dreams – Magnetic Fields

about 5000 other ones in the vault to be posted tomorrow

Bob Dylan – Idiot Wind
Ben Folds Five – Song for the Dumped

Morphine, “Gone For Good”

Garbage
“Cup of Coffee”

Alright, I’ll get it right this time and comment correctly. These are a couple of my favorites in no particular order.

Fleetwood Mac “Go Your Own Way” (for some reason not part of the initial picks)
The Jesus and Mary Chain “The Hardest Walk”
The Byrds “I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better”
AFI “The Leaving Song, Pt.2″
The Beatles “I’m Looking Through You”
Queens of the Stone Age “Go With the Flow”
Beck “The Golden Age”

Put Erykah Badu’s “Green Eyes” on the list. Now.

Also, at least one Fiona Apple song should be included (”Get Gone,” “Paper Bag” and “Love Ridden” are some examples).

Beck: Lost Cause
Damien Rice: Blower’s Daughter
Beck: Lost Cause
Damien Rice: Blower’s Daughter
Dave Matthews: Some Devil
Fionna Apple: Red, Red, Red (but really picked arbitrarily from Extraordinary Machine)

Your Time is Gonna Come!! “this is all I got to say to ya woman.”

Ben Harper – Walk Away
Franz Ferdinand – Walk away

yeah, liz phair is a perfect choice. the words to that song are just heartbreaking.

I would have stayed in your bed for the rest of my life
Just to prove I was right
That it’s harder to be friends than lovers
And you shouldn’t try to mix the two
‘Cause if you do it and you’re still unhappy
Then you know that the problem is you

ween – baby bitch & You f**ked Up

the most egregious ommision from this list is Yesterday by the Beatles some other thoughts

Walk Away-Ben Harper
All Things Must Pass-George Harrison
Motorcycle Drive By-Third Eye Blind
I Got the Blues-The Rolling Stones
Everybodys Got to Learn Sometime-Beck
The Drugs Dont Work-The Verve
and of course…
End of the Road-Boyz II Men

You outta know — Alanis Morissette

Take me Back — Bryan Adams
Heart of the Matter — Don Henley
Losing my Mind — Liza Minnelli

First of all, the fact that you didn’t include “Time Of Your Life (Good Riddance)” by Green Day is a little shocking. Though it might seem a little cheery compared to your choices above, it’s still rather heartbreaking in its optimistic attitude, though the Good Riddance add on the title shows that Billy Joe isn’t all smiles. A classic.

Also:

“I Could Have Lied” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers
“Love Of My Life” by Queen
“She’s Out Of My Life” by Michael Jackson (he broke down and cried at the end of the take!)
“Dreams” by Fleetwood Mac
“Isolation” by John Lennon
“Tea For One” by Led Zeppelin

And good on you all for mentioning “Idiot Wind” by Bob Dylan. My last breakup I played that song for a whole day nonstop.

Green Day-Good Riddance(Time of Your Life)

James – Out To Get You

Leonard Cohen – Chelsea Hotel #2

Elliott Smith – Everything Reminds Me Of Her

Elliott Smith – Twilight

The Cure – Pictures Of You

David Bowie – Letter To Hermione

Gin Blossoms – Hey Jealousy

Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart

Patsy Cline – She’s Got You

Placebo – Without You I’m Nothing

The Smiths – I Know It’s Over

C’MON…..

“Green Eyes”

Ben Harper – Another Lonely Day
Led Zep – Babe I’m Gonna Leave You
Beck – The entire Sea Change Album

im surprised there’s no fleetwood mac there, rumours is one big giant breakup machine.

also

ryan adams-call me on your way back home
U2-with or without you

Song for the Dumped – Ben Folds Five

Janis Joplin – Piece of My Heart

Bob Dylan – It Ain’t Me, Babe

The Cure’s “Elise” Killer tune…

Song For the Dumped -Ben Folds Five
Song for “R” -Chixdiggit! (The chorus is, “Now I met you, let me get on with my life.”)
Go Your Own Way -Fleetwood Mac

And My all time favourite,
Hasn’t Hit Me Yet -Blue Rodeo
“Well you say that you’re leaving/well that comes as no surprise…”

Dylan has a truckload of gold for this, but I think you made the right decision. Great job in including “Divorce Song.” A few other choices…
“Kim” – Eminem (for the real psychotic)
“Love Will Tear Us Apart” – Joy Division
“Brilliant Disguise” – Bruce Springsteen (not a breakup, but it might as well be)
“Go Your Own Way” – Fleetwood Mac (how could you not have something off of ‘Rumours’?!)
“I Am Trying To Break Your Heart” – Wilco
“Abandoned” – Lucinda Williams
“Bullet Proof …I Wish I Was” – Radiohead
“The Darker Days of Me & Him” – PJ Harvey
“4th of of July” – Aimee Mann
“Could Have Been Anyone” – Aimee Mann
“So Cruel” – u2
“One More Hour” – Sleater-Kinney
“Postmortem” – Slayer (just for its pissed-off sound)

One more…
“The One I Love” – R.E.M.
Just because it was one of the most misunderstood songs at the time of its release. I heard so many unintended dedications on the radio during “dedication nights.”

Marillion´s “Kayleigh” and Sugar Mice” Heart breaking songs…

“I don’t Care Anymore”- Phil Collins

“My Life”- Billy Joel

The entire Rumours album by Fleetwood Mac should be on there. Especially the Chain, Go Your Own Way and Dreams

“Salt in My Tears” – Martin Briley
“Love You ’til I Don’t” – Otis Ball
“You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go” – Bob Dylan
“River of Love” – T-Bone Burnett
“Days” – The Kinks

“Heart Shaped Box” – Nirvana

Can’t have a breakup list without Fiona Apple: “Limp”

“Days” by the Kinks
“Can’t Stand Me Now” by the Libertines (and my absolute favorite, “Don’t Think Twice,” is already on the list)

Queen- Somebody to Love
Poison the Well- Parks and What You Meant to Me
The Beatles- For No One
Sinead O’Connor- Nothing Compares to You
The Cure- Pictures of You
The Get-Up Kids- Michele with One L

…and RS Editors– how on earth could you put a Dylan song not off of “Blood on the Tracks” as one of your best breakup songs??? It’s the quintessential breakup album.

U2 – “So Cruel”
Ben Folds Five – “Song for the Dumped”
The Eagles – “Wasted Time”
Bob Dylan – “Don’t think twice, it’s alright”
Weezer – “O Girlfriend”
Sarah Mclachlan – “Do what you have to do”

Pick Up The Phone – The Notwist
Still In Love Song – The Stills
Break Me Gently – Doves
Rebellion (Lies) – Arcade Fire
Heart In A Cage – Strokes
This Heart’s On Fire – Wolf Parade
Insistor – Tapes ‘n Tapes

and of course the entire Sea Change album

how about erykah badu’s song, “tyrone”? if u didn’t realize that song was about her breaking up w/ somebody, then ur name is probably tyrone.

Pearl Jam “Black”

how was this missed??

“I know someday you’ll have a beautiful life / I know you’ll be a star / in somebody else’s sky / so, why, why, why can’t it be, can’t it be mine?”

Ball and Chain-Social Distortion
Red Rain-The White Stripes
Walk Away-Franz Ferdinand
This Love-Maroon 5
If I Fell-The Beatles

“Walking on Sunshine” – Katrina and the Waves

I think its really difficult to make such a short list out of a constantly varying style of writing. Theres the pissed off kind, the broken-hearted kind, the glad-to-see-you-go kind. They all deserve their own list in their own right. But anyways, WHERE IS BECK?

“Romeo and Juliet” – Dire Straits -”you promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin…now you just say, ‘oh romeo, yeah you know, i used to have a scene with him’”

You Ain’t Worth The Salt In My Tears – Martin Briley

The Waitresses “No Guilt”!

(Which, come to think of it, I should have posted as a best 1st song on 1st album too!)

Also, since “No Guilt” includes the line, “Did you know I own some valuable records I’ve learned a lot since you’ve been gone” — I’m feeling that an honorable mention is due to Sam Kinison for his “I want my f%!king records back” diatribe at the end of his first album. Now THAT’S a breakup sentiment!

There are different kinds of breakup songs. The bitter, nasty ones (Dylan’s “Idiot Wind”, for example) or the sad, wistful ones (Dylan’s “If You See Her Say Hello”, for example.)

Some, I’m not even sure about. Is Cohen’s “Hallelujah” a break-up song? I think it is but I’m not sure. How about “To Ramona” by Bob Dylan?

I’d add:

“The Wild Ones” by Suede
“To The End” by Blur
“So Like Candy” by Elvis Costello

Also, I think Mike Ness’s version of “Don’t Think Twice…” is better than Dylan’s.

Brian

Ben Folds – Landed

If you’re going to use an Elvis Costello song on the list, it has to be “I Want You”; seven minutes of bitter rambling from an album (Blood and Chocolate) that Elvis himself describes as his “divorce album”.

Great list…awesome including “Never Talking to You Again”. However! I have to agree w/ a lot of the folks…no Rumours? No “The Chain” or “Go Your Own Way”? These are some of the best out there, methinks.
How about

“Nobody’s Fault But My Own” – Beck
Sooo sad.

or

“Everything Hits at Once” – Spoon
Heartbreaking.
“Everything hits at once/what we needs is just what we wants/I go to sleep and think/that yr next to me”

Pearl Jam’s Black and Come Back, Tool’s Schism, Garbage’s Soldier Through This, and the entire Sea Change album from Beck.

U2-Walk On….I’m pretty sure it’s really about a breakup, but it can certainly be interpreted that way. Come to think about it, no one is ever really sure what the hell Bono is talking about.

Smashing Pumpkins – Bodies (Love is Suicide)

I am putting a song no one put which would be “Land locked blues” By Bright Eyes

To Ramona, Boots of Spanish Leather, and Girl From the North Counrty – Bob Dylan
Come Back – Pearl Jam

You know what’s a great, obscure one? “Roy Orbison Knows” by John Wesley Harding. He even alludes to the mother of all break-up songs, Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice.”:

But I no longer feel like crying, my nervous system’s dying.

I love you I know but I’m anaesthetized. I was foolishly hopeful, now I’ve realized.

It was time to think twice,
You had to go. I hope that you blossom, I hope that you grow.

Write me a postcard, make it some little thing. If you get married, I’ll carry the ring.

If you get married, introduce me to him…

Brian

“the biggest lie”- Elliot Smith
“pale blue eyes”- Lou Reed
“Street Hassle”- Lou Reed
“Idiot Wind”- Bob Dylan

YOU’LL SEE by Madonna
A SORTA FAIRYTALE by Tori Amos
YOU OUGHTA KNOW by Alanis Morissette
I WILL REMEMBER YOU by Sarah McLachlan
WHY by Annie Lennox

“A Day” – Inara George
“When U Were Mine” – Crooked Fingers (Prince cover)
“Pitseleh” – Elliott Smith
“A Little Lost” – Arthur Baker
“Take It With Me” – Tom Waits
“You You You You You” – The 6ths
“Land Locked Blues” – Bright Eyes
“The Golden Age” – Beck
“Love Ridden” – Fiona Apple
“Strings That Tie To You” – Jon Brion
“Levitate” – Idaho
“You Must Build A Fire” – Crooked Fingers
“I Better Be Quiet Now” – Elliott Smith
“The Scientist” – Coldplay
“That’s the Way” – Led Zeppelin
“Play Hurt” – American Analog Set
“Fade Together” – Franz Ferdinand
“Ringing In My Ear” – Adem
“Ruin My Day” – Jon Brion
“I Go To The Barn Because I Like The” – Band of Horses
“Bird Stealing Bread” – Iron & Wine
“Isn’t It A Pity” – George Harrison
“Our Time Has Passed” – Pernice Brothers
“Wake Up Exhausted” – Tegan & Sara
“Got To Get You Off My Mind” – Solomon Burke
“Go” – Sparklehorse & the Flaming Lips (covering Daniel Johnston)
“Which Will” – Nick Drake
“A Summer Long Since Passed” – Virgina Astley
“Will You Please Be There for Me” – Reindeer Section
“Your Ex-Lover Is Dead” – Stars
“I Am Waiting” – The Rolling Stones
“The Trial” – The French Kicks
“I Found A Reason” – Cat Power
“Counting Backwards” – Velvet Teen
“All My Little Words” – The Magnetic Fields
“As You Turn To Go” – The 6ths
“Scared Straight” – Long Winters
“It’s Only Time” – The Magnetic Fields

I can’t believe no one has any Police tunes on here (but kudos for some excellent U2, Erykah Badu choices, among others)
“Can’t Stand Losing You”
“Bed’s Too Big Without You”
(depending on how you read this song:) “Every Breath You Take”
among others…

“I don’t practice Santeria, I ain’t got no crystal ball. Well I had a million dollars but I’d spend it all. If I could find that heyna, and that Sancho that she’s found. Well I’d pop a cap in Sancho and I’d SLAP her DOOOWWWWWNNNN”

Radio – Alkaline Trio

Motorcycle Drive Bye – 3EB was a great call…as is Blinded

“don’t speak” by no doubt
“love takes time” mariah carey
“u oughta know” by alanis morissette
“let him fly” patty griffin
“(F*** YOU)i don’t want u back” by Eamon
“we belong together” by mariah carey
“un-break ny heart” toni braxton
“all cried out” by ??? allure?
“from the bottom of my broken heart” britney spears

A couple good ones that haven’t been mentioned:

“It Makes No Difference” — The Band
“Like The Way I Do” — Melissa Etheridge

However, it’s clear from the responses so far that Bob Dylan deserves his very own top ten break-up songs list, so here’s one shot at it, with a mix of sweet and sour (though naturally more sour than sweet — this is a break-up list, after all).

She’s Your Lover Now
Sugar Baby
Most Likely You’ll Go Your Way (and I’ll Go Mine)
It’s All Over Now Baby Blue
Sara
You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
It Ain’t Me Babe
Idiot Wind
Don’t Think Twice

Ten Years Gone – Led Zeppelin

Not the typical angry breakup song and most likely something you wouldn’t listen to immediately after breaking up. But it is heavy on the nostalgia.

“Changes fill my time, baby, that’s alright with me
In the midst I think of you, and how it used to be”

How can you leave out “I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better” by The Byrds. That’s a definitive breakup song. Also, another Beatles song to add is “You Won’t See Me.” Paul had a couple of good breakup songs on Rubber Soul. And also, I know there’s a Stones song on here, but how about the songs from Between the Buttons: “All Sold Out”, “Ruby Tuesday”, “Yesterday’s Papers”, “Who’s Been Sleeping Here.” That album is probably runner-up to Blood on the Tracks in terms of breakup albums.

I would definitley have to vote for Duran Duran’s “White Lines”. What an absolutley fantastic song. So true, and man, does it make me want to party. Kapping a Chinske in the Darding on a Taco Tuesday!!!!

There’s a lot of good breakup songs, but somehow the one that I like the most is Beck’s Lost Cause.

Who is this Tari Kapchinske girl, I like where her heads at. “White lines” is one of the best songs to forget all your problems…We should meet some time

Bye Bye Baby – Janis Joplin

I like all the ba-ba-ba-B’s

I concur with Mr. Walker. This Tari Kapchinske girl is something else. Sign her up for Sr. Editor of Rolling Stone Magazine. Tari, where do you live?

White Lines by Durand Durand? Tari Kapchinske you are out of your mind. What kind of drugs are being taken on your,
“Taco Tuesdays”

Lost Cause by Beck, thats a good one i think

Del Shannon: Runaway, Hats Off to Larry
Ray Charles: Hit the Road, Jack
Crosby, Stills and Nash: Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, 49 Bye Byes
Dave Mason: We Just Disagree
Creedence: Have You Ever Seen the Rain, Looking for a Reason (Actually these are about the band breaking up, but they’re great)
Steam: Na Na Hey Hey, Kiss Him Goodbye
David Bromberg: I Will Not Be Your Fool
Eagles: Already Gone
Flying Burrito Brothers: Red Hot Burrito #2
Buffalo Springfield: Expecting to Fly, Go and Say Goodbye
Patsy Cline: I Fall to Pieces
Peter and Gordon (written by Del Shannon): I Go to Pieces
Carole King: It’s Too Late
Bonnie Raitt: The Road’s My Home
Muddy Waters (covered by Allman Bros.): Trouble No More
Arthur Crudup/Elvis/Creedence/others: My Baby Left Me

OH YEAH!! AND ALSO THIS BEAUTIFULLY HAUNTING HEART WRENCHING BALLAD CALLED “LOSING YOU” BY AN INDIE ARTIST BY THE NAME OF AM. MIGHT BE HARD TO FIND BUT DEFINITELY WORTH IT. YOU WON’T BE DISAPPOINTED.

New Order – “Let’s Go” The perfect mean breakup song.

I’d have to add U2’s “One,” which is a pretty powerful breakup song. Ironically enough, you’re more likely to hear it played at weddings. Go figure.

Tuesday’s Gone – Lynyrd Skynyrd

I know everyone is picking good and less obvious ones, but I would have thought this would have been mentioned by now. Don’t get down on it just because it has had some movie apperences. It is still a good song.

Yes, Dylan has written quite a few of these. “Idiot Wind” is like battery acid. But there is the escape clause at the end (”WE’RE idiots, babe.”) Kind of like Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy.” Same too with “She’s Your Lover, Now”: “Now you stand here expectin’ me to remember somethin’ you forgot to say?” Has he ever performed that live? Has it ever been released other than on the Bootleg Sessions? Has it ever been released with the fourth verse?

And if you interpret it as directed at a lover, “Positively 4th Street” is absolutely corrosive.

Does anyone think that some of these songs ring more true for one sex than the other? Do men understand the Dylan break-up songs more truly than say, women understand Phair’s “Divorce Song”?

Discuss.

Brian

Apparently not many lesbians are reading this. How can you not list any Melissa Etheridge? Bring Me Some Water, Like The Way I Do, Breakdown… Breakdown was the total collapse of ME and Julie’s relationship. The woman knows heartbreak!!

Good to see Liz getting some love. I’ve never heard a more convincing liar; lyrically infallible, this song encapsulates generations of relationship problems in less time than it takes to eat a belgian waffle.

Personally, for me the only “break-up” song that has carried along the sting is:

“The 2 of Us” by Suede

sample heartbroken lyric:

“Lying in my bed, I think of you
That song goes through my head
the one we both knew
In each line lies another line full of sacred sound
But you’re outside where the companies dream and the money goes round

Lying in my bed.
Watching my mistakes,
I listen to the band they said that it could be the 2 of us”

-Brett Anderson, 1994

sebadoh’s ’soul and fire’
the 6ths ‘falling out of love (with you)’
giant sand’s version of ‘i’m so lonesome i could cry’

and so many more but i gotta eat.

“Let Me Go” by Marvelous 3
“Don’t Call Me Up” by Mick Jagger
“I Wish I Didn’t Miss You Anymore” by Angie Stone
“Most of the Time” by Bob Dylan (sad, hurt, and willing to accept reality. the worst kind of pain)
“Sleep to Dream” by Fiona Apple
“Heard It All Before” by Sunshie Anderson
“Ex-Factor” by Lauryn Hill (If Clef did all that, he IS an a**hole)

And as much as most guys hate to admit we’ve felt this way…

F**k It by Eamon.

However in historical and culturally significant terms, it’s pretty hard to argue against “Love Will Tear Us Apart” by Joy Division.

I’m think Radiohead’s “Thinking About You” is a pretty good one

Smells Like Teen Spirit has been argued to be about Kurt’s break-up with Tobi Vail. Kurt himself has said there is no real meaning to it but if you look into some of the original lyrics in his journals than it is aparent that he was thinking about the break-up when he wrote it.

beatles – hey jude

moby – porcelain

rolling stones – you can’t always get what you want

john lennon – mind games

jack johnson – wrong turn

pretty much any dylan song would help after break up. i think it’s his whiny voice. don’t get me wrong, I love it.

Some tracks I play after break ups that aren’t on the list yet. Different tracks for different types of break ups:
“I’ll Keep it with Mine”-Bob Dylan (for comfort)
“Fake Plastic Trees (acoustic)”-Radiohead
“The Thrill is Gone” B.B King
“A Few Small Bruises”-Maria Mena (a little breathy, but hey..it’s a post-breakup song)
“Build a Bridge”- The Redwalls
“Cryin’”- Aerosmith
“Are you Happy now?”-Michelle Branch
“I Feel Fine”-Riddlin Kids
“Wild Horses”-Rolling Stones

Two more: Tracks of My Tears, and Society’s Child.

george harrison – all things must pass

cursive- making friends and acquaintances

actually anything from domestica

Dylan-”Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright”

Ween-”Baby, Bitch”

the streets ‘dry your eyes’

Just for the record (pun fully intended) George Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass” is a song about death, not breakup.

‘Song for the Dumped’ – Ben Folds Five

“Don’t forget to give me back my black t-shirt!!”

The Waitresses–No Guilt

Definitely definitely definitely worth checking out. A classic.

Two of my favorite bombastic breakup songs: Righteous Brothers, You’ve Lost that Loving Feeling, and Bonnie Tyler, Total Eclipse of the Heart.

Cam, I believe All Things Must Pass uses death as a metaphor for a breakup, or maybe for consolation, but it’s about a breakup: “It seems my love is up and left you without warning.” We’re going to die anyway, so let’s move on.

Does Willie Nelson’s “Ain’t Funny How Time Slips Away” qualify?

Chadillac, I think Funny How Time Slips Away absolutely qualifies. Bye Bye Love is on the RS list and it’s the same deal — obsessing about a lost love. “There goes my baby with someone new.”

Everyone seemed to get all the good ones, here are a few others that pop into mind

Come Pick Me Up – Ryan Adams
Still In Love Song – The Stills
My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend – The Sun
A Lack Of Color – Death Cab
Maybe It’s Just Me – Butch Walker

You guys were right about the best breakup song belonging to Dylan, and “DTTIAR” is one of his great songs. But the “real” best breakup song is “Idiot Wind” from Blood on the Tracks, which happens to be the finest breakup album of all time as well.

Rich Hardesty – I Never Wanna F*ckin’ See You Again

The Beatles – I’m Looking Thru You

Colin Hay – I Just Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Over You
Bob Dylan – You’re a Big Girl Now (Biograph Version)
Jackson Browne – Fountain of Sorrow
The Beatles – For No One
Pearl Jam – Black
Neil Young – Pardon My Heart
Wilco – Reservations

I’ve been listening to way too many of these lately.

* TRENDY *ROCKS!!

LUKAS ROSSI– GREATEST DAY!!!
I WOULD CALL IT SWWWEEET~!!

White Stripes, There’s No Home for You Here.

Liz Phair –Divorce Song
Paul Simon — Train in the Distance

And… how can everybody forget… Poison — Every Rose Has its Torn?????

bright eyes – lua
say yes – elliot smith
jeff buckley – lover, you should’ve come over
wilco – at my window

Paul Simon, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, which is sort of a followup to Willie Dixon’s 29 Ways. A related song — John Hiatt’s The Way We Make a Broken Heart.

Ben Folds Five – Evaporated

For No One – The Beatles
Try Your Eyes – The Streets

My bad, that should say “Dry” Your Eyes

4th of July by Aimee Mann

simply emotionally devastating

“Free Bird” seems to help me convince myself that I’m actually better off alone. “The KKK Took My Baby Away” is supposedly about how one Ramone took another’s (ex-)girlfriend. A sort-of break up song for punk rockers who still can’t take anything seriously – like me.

I’d like to make a comment on all of these lists that RollingStone has been putting up lately.

I find it INCREDIBLY interesting/comforting/reassur ing that a vast majority of the music mentioned here is from the past and not from the present. At least we all have good enough taste to realize that the really good Rock is from a time so long ago…thank god we still have that music to tide us over until the next great popular music revolution arrives. Long live Classic Rock!

the fact that i’ve only seen Pearl Jam’s “black” mentioned three times is a travesty.

Pearl Jam~Black
Michelle Branch~Goodbye to you

Tom Waits – Martha
Marah – Walt Whitman Bridge
Dylan – Tangled Up in Blue
Ryan Adams – New York, New York
Springsteen – Bobbie Jean

I would add:
“You Oughta Know”- Alanis Morissette
“The Golden Age”- Beck
“Song for the Dumped”- Ben Folds Five
“Parting Gift”- Fiona Apple
“Black”- Pearl Jam
“Anodyne”- Uncle Tupelo

Elliott Smith – Somebody that I used to know
Bob Dylan – Sara
Flaming Lips – Fight test
The Eagles – After the thrill is gone
The Minus 5 – I’m not bitter
Bruce Springsteen – One step up
The Beatles – You’ve got to hide your love away

What about “Heard it Through the Grapevine” by Marvin Gaye? Has everyone forgotten that song??

p.s. I love that somebody chose “4th of July” by Aimee Mann. To this day it’s the reason I hate that holiday…

David Gray has break-up songs for grown-ups: “Say Hello, Wave Goodbye” and “The Other Side” (”Do I really have to mention, it was never my intention to hurt you your kid”).
But Fiona Apple’s “Sleep to Dream” is still the greatest.
Oh and “The T-shirt Song” by Ben Folds Five

Surely, this list will never be complete. But I humbly submit:

Prince: “When You Were Mine”

The Artist presents an interesting take on post-relationships.
“I love you more than I did when you were mine.”
Priceless.

Blur – No Distance Left To Run

Let me humbly submit:

Dylan – Lonesome Day Blues
Pearl Jam- Black
Zeppelin- Ten Years Gone
The Clash- Train in Vain- Yes, the Gods of Punk wrote a break-up song, and a great one.

Yo SpideyMizzou,
I know music can be nostalgic, but don’t be so jaded. Radiohead. That’s all.

Ryan Adams – “English Girls Approx”
Ryan Adams – “Dear Chicago”
Journey – “Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’”
Led Zeppelin – “Hey, Hey What can I do?”
Radiohead – “Morning Bell”

You Didn’t Try To Call Me-The Mothers Of Invention

Drank Like A River-Whiskeytown

Chelsea Hotel #2-Leonard Cohen

I Know We Could Be So Happy Baby (If We Wanted To Be)-Jeff Buckley

Waltz #2 (XO)-Elliott Smith

“Guess I’m Doing Fine” by Beck

damn,
I forgot

Something About What Happens When We Talk-Lucinda Williams

&

Most Likely, You’ll Go Your Way And I’ll Go Mine-Dylan

“See You Later” by Heatmiser

Metallica – “Let’s Try Therapy Instead”

Beck ‘Lost Cause’…tired of fightin’.

Here’s some off the top of my head…

Get Gone – Fiona Apple
Can’t Feel The Pain – Brent Bourgeois
Friends In Low Places-Garth Brooks
Used To Know Her-Veruca Salt
Your Ghost – Kristin Hersh
Wish You Were Dead- Scheer
If I Died Tonight You’d Have To Think Of Me- Danielle Brisebois
Monkey Wrench – Foo Fighters
Fight Song – Jucifer
Ain’t It A Shame – The B-52’s
Disturbed – Ilya
Losing You- Sophie Zelmani
Kiss Off – Violent Femmes
Your Dictionary – XTC
Blues Before And After – The smithereens
Writing Notes – Jen Trynin

I bet nobody here has heard this one

Incubus – 11AM

how about SONG FOR THE DUMPED…Ben Folds

Down by the River – Neil Young and Crazy Horse…some what disturbing but i think it qualifies

some more suggestions

Derek and the Dominoes-Why Does Love Have to Be So Sad?
The Allman Brothers-Stormy Monday (more for the mood)
Run For Your Life-The Beatles
Hey, Hey, What Can I Say?- Led Zeppelin
Song For the Dumped- Bens Fold
Dead Flowers- The Rolling Stones
Black Caddilacs- Modest Mouse
Isn’t it a Pity-George Harrison
Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone-Bill Withers
50 Ways To Leave Your Lover- Paul Simon
Lost Cause-Beck

I still think the best is Motorcycle Drive By- by Third Eye Blind, people forget this but thier first cd was pretty solid for mid 90’s top 40

Lucinda Williams – Metal Firecracker

Dude, my SoulSeek’s gonna be pretty busy for the next couple monhs or so going after all this stuff.

AJ, the Layla album has several great breakup/broken-up songs: I Looked Away, Bell Bottom Blues, It’s Too Late (She’s Gone), and Thorn Tree in the Garden.

The Brothers had a few good ones: Whipping Post, You Don’t Love Me, Don’t Keep Me Wondering, Stand Back, Blackhearted Woman come to mind.

Lots of great songs here. If I had to pick just one, I would say the live version of “Backstreets” off the bootlegs of the Bruce Springsteen Darkness On the Edge of Town tour. Live at Winterland 12/15/78 is particularly haunting.

I don’t think anyone’s mentioned these:

“Heartbreak Hotel” Elvis Presley!!!!!
“I Don’t Want to Spoil the Party” –The Beatles
“Act Naturally” –Semisonic
“Jettison” –Eric Hutchinson
“Somebody That I Used to Know” –Elliot Smith
“For No One” –The Beatles
“Hit the Road Jack” –Ray Charles
“If this is it” –Huey Lewis and the News
“Let her Cry” –Hootie and the Blowfish
“I Just Threw Out the Love of My Dreams” –Weezer
“Pink Triangle” –Weezer
“Long December” –Counting Crows
“I Guess That’s Why They Call it the Blues” –Elton John
“Up the Junction” –Squeeze
“I’ll be Watching You” –The Police
“Always Something There to Remind Me” –Naked Eyes
“Too Many People” Paul Mccartney

G Love – Steppin Stone

Lauryn Hill – Ex-factor

Fiona Apple – Limp

dylans got a ton, but how bout “standing in the doorway” off time out of mind. thats got to be one of the saddest songs i’ve ever heard.

I completely agree with those who say that pearl jam’s “black” is an awesome breakup song. you just feel the pain in eddie’s voice when he sings it. “All the love gone bad turned my world to black,
Tattooed all I see, all that I am, all I’ll be…”

When Lizzy sent an email around the RS office asking for suggested break-up songs, I told her that I was kinda embarrassed to be the one to mention the Indigo Girls. But “Fare Thee Well” is definitely the best breakup song OF ALL TIME. So she goes and ignores me and doesn’t even put it on the list. Sheesh! If you haven’t heard it, listen — and you’ll rise to support me. (After you wipe that sad stray tear from your eye, that is.)

Everyone is forgetting Both Hands and You Had Time by Ani Difranco. And it’s absolutely outrageous that Kelly Clarkston made the list. No one will care about that song in twenty years.

Mariah Carey – Someday

I scanned through this list and I can’t believe Lucinda Williams was only mentioned twice. So I’ll say Out of Touch from Essence. There are many others from Lucinda as well…that is just my favorite. Also, I don’t know what you guys think but I’ve always thought of Wilco’s Box Full of Letters as a good break-up song.

Definately
Dyaln´s Blood on the tracks album is a good breakup album….
Ween´s baby bitch and Piss up a Rope…
check ém out you´ll love it

Don’t kill me if I repeat some that are already on here, but from a quick glance of the board these are the songs I think deserve to be mentioned:

U2 – With or Without You (probubly on here by now, but didnt see it)

U2 – Whose Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses

Coldplay – The Scientist (probubly missed it)

Coldplay – The Hardest Part

Coldplay – One I Love

Bob Dylan – I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)

Bob Dylan – Girl from the North Country (hopefully already on here)

Brendan Benson – Cold Hands (Warm Heart)

The Beach Boys – Caroline No

Death Cab – Transatlanticism

Death Cab – Summer Skin

AFI – This Time Imperfect (hidden song from Sing the Sorrow)

The Raconteurs – Call it a Day

The Rolling Stones – Dear Doctor

The Rolling Stones – This Place is Empty

The White Stripes – Theres No Home for You Here

The White Stripes – I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself

The White Stripes – Forever for Her (Is Over for Me)

There you are.

this whole “list of the day” thing is a good idea.

If you don’t consider the fact that doing list suck, and nobody care about those list, this is a good idea

Black

Old 97’s-Wish the Worst

I can’t believe only like 2 people mentioned Green Day’s Good Riddance. Everyone know’s the song, come on, “It’s something unpredictable but in the end is right. I hope you had the time of your life.” It’s pretty tame compared to the others, but it’s still one of the best breakup songs.

Nothing Compares to You by Prince
Bye Bye Bye NSYNC
Sara Bob Dylan
I Used To Love Her Guns and Roses

“Untouchable Face” by Ani DiFranco

I’m particularly vitriolic towards that person insinusting that modern songs/music aren’t good!
Newho, here’s my two cents-
Lauryn Hill “Ex-Factor”
Bob Dylan “Standing in the Doorway”
Kelly Clarkson “Since You Been Gone”
Justin Timberlake “Cry Me A River”
Alanis Morisette “You Oughta Know”
Janet Jackson feat Carly Simon “Son of a Gun”
Aaliyah “The One I Gave My Heart To”
Pink “long Way to Happy”
Ne-Yo “So Sick” (yes, if I had any credibility, i’ve lost it all w/da inclusion of this song! But it’s undeniable how well-crafted&passionate this song is)
and Keyshia Cole “Love”.

By no means am i saying that the above songs are the BEST of the best, i’m just saying that these are good too!

Chili Peppers – No Chump Love Sucker

Jeopardy – Greg Kihn Band

Yeah, “Cry Me a River” is a great one, too. Also “To Love Somebody” by the Bee Gees.

First off, I’m stunned U2’s One only got one mention. Shameful. Other great U2 breakup songs…
-With or Without You (mentioned a few times)
-I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For. (Not just a big themed song)
-Kite (a song about saying goodbye when you don’t want to)
-When I Look At The World (”so I try to be like you/Try to feel it like you do/Hold it up but it’s no use/I can’t see what you see/When I look at the world)
-So Cruel (mention alot thankfully)
-Whose Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses (ditto)
-Crumbs From Your Table
-Beautiful Day (”you thought you’d found a friend/To take you out of this place/Some one you could lend a hand/In return for grace/It’s a beautiful day…” One hell of a bounce back tune)

Other mentions…REM’s Country Feedback and Binky the Doormat…
-Radiohead’s Fake Plastic Trees (I think, anyways)
- From the Beatles….Let It Be.

Ryan Adams – Meadowlake Street

Ben Folds Five – Don’t Change Your Plans

Matt Nathanson – Loud

Fiona Apple – Parting Gift

Audioslave – What You Are

Thom Yorke – The Eraser

Derek & the Dominoes – Bell Bottom Blues

Dave Matthews Band – Grade is Gone

er, graCe is gone

One more… and I’ll probably be killed with sticks for this, but…

Avril Lavigne, “My Happy Ending”

Oh come on, it’s a great song.

Zep – You`re time is gonna come

ooops for got some

The Who – The Song is Over

The Who – I Can See for Miles

The Chain – Fleetwood Mac

Stevie Nicks – Beauty and the Beast

“Whatever Makes You Happy” by Paul Westerberg
“Crying” by Roy Orbison
“Flushed from the Bathroom of Your Heart” by Johnny Cash

Any song in this materpiece called ‘Sea Change’.

Lost Cause, Lonesome Tears.

These Eyes – Guess Who

Hurt – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Ain’t No Use in Cryin’ Rolling Stones

Metal Firecracker – Lucinda Williams

Streets of Baltimore – Gram Parsons

Go Your Own Way – Fleetwood Mac

Turn and Walk Away – The Baby’s

“with or without you” u2

and i don’t care if i get stoned to death…
“every rose has its thorn” poison
“i won’t forget you” poison

Here are some no one has mentioned yet:

“Cry Baby” – Janis Joplin
“the last day of our acquaintance” – Sinead O’Connor
“La Ciegna Just Smiled” – Ryan Adams
“You Got Lucky” – Tom Petty
and possibly
“Where Did You Sleep Last Night” – Nirvana (It may just be a cheatin’ song, but if I read it correctly, as a pre-breakup confrontation, it would certainly lend ammo to the whole “Courtney killed Kurt” conspiracy).

And in answer to rpaq’s post which read:

“this whole ‘list of the day’ thing is a good idea.

If you don’t consider the fact that doing list suck (sic), and nobody care about those list (sic), this is a good idea”

Here’s why this “list thing” is a good idea: Just from reading everyone’s posts today, I have found a good batch of songs that I’ve never heard, but would like to, some by bands I already knew (and liked), but songs I didn’t. So shake them haters off, and keep up the good work. Now I’ve gotta go, ‘cause I’ve got some listening to do.

“Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground”-The White Stripes
“Funeral Song”-Sleater-Kinney
“The Eraser”-Thom Yorke
“Already Dead”-Beck
“High and Dry”-Radiohead
“One”-U2

Empty Chairs – Don McLean

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes – Platters

Runaway – Del Shannon

Ain’t That a Shame – Fats Domino

Since I Don’t Have You – The Skyliners

It Doesn’t Matter Anymore – Buddy Holly & The Crickets

BNL – Break Your Heart
Didn’t know if anyone had mentioned it yet. If not, shame on you.

your all crazy the best break up song is No Doubt’s “Don’t Speak” hands down no others near it

glad to see you go- ramones
here today, gone tomorrow- ramones
i don’t want yoy- ramones
i don’t care -ramones
bye bye bay – ramones

Used To Love Her-GNR
November Rain-GNR
Walking Away-Craig David
Don’t look Back in Anger-Oasis
Tiny Dancer-Elton John

Neil Young- Birds
Harry Nilsson- You’re Breaking My Heart
Genesis- More Fool Me

Promises – Eric Clapton

Alright,

Cavalier Eternal – Against Me!
Miss Misery – Elliot Smith
I’m Wrong About Everything – John Wesley Harding

Anything off Blood on the Tracks
and definitely Most of the Time

Audioslave’s “what you are” is also a good one. “and when you asked for light I, set..myself..on fire, and if i go far away I know, you’ll find another slave.” pretty badass

Rusted Root-Send Me On My Way.

third eye blind – motorcycle drive by

“Limp” by Fiona Apple is far and away the best break-up song ever!

Colin Hay – “I Just Don’t Think I’ll Get Over You”

Amos Lee – Seen It All Before

How about “Train in Vain” by the Clash?

or maybe “Stutter” by Elastica…

In hard times, I used to hear The Smiths’ “Last Night I Dreamed That Somebody Loved Me”. With this song, the break-ups are glorious!!!

And hey before I didn’t want to believe that Beck’s Sea Change were a perfect break up album, and now I can’t choose a single track.

Other songs:
-”I’m so Tired”, The Beatles
-”Go Your Own Way”, Fleetwood mac
-”Ex Factor”, Lauryn Hill
-”One”, U2 (strange break-up song)
-”Love Will tear Us Apart”, Joy Division
-”Nothing Compares 2 U”, Sinead O’Connor
It seems my break ups are like many others…

“Black” is not a break up song. That’s a different kind of loss.
But “Parting Ways” is simple, yet probably the BEST Pearl Jam song for this subject.

Ben Folds Five – Song For The Dumped
Blues Traveler – Alone
The Cure – Pictures of You
Death Cab For Cutie – Title and Registration
R.E.M. – Nightswimming
U2 – All I Want Is You
Violent Femmes – Please Do Not Go
Foo Fighters – I’m On Your Back

“Crown of Love” by the Arcade Fire is an awesome break-up song. Deals with that whole situation of searching for a form of redemption, if not a plea, to what was originally there, even if they never felt it in the first place.

dylan, standing in the doorway–’dont know if i saw you/ if i would kiss you or kill you/ probably wouldnt matter to you anyhow’ =great lyric.

i also like crawling back to you, by tom petty.

lounge act, nirvana (not sure i’d call it a break up song, mostly a jealousy song, but kind of counts).

bell bottom blues, clapton.

Should have put down earlier:

If Sam is right about Radiohead’s “High and Dry” being a breakup song, then it’s on my list (though it’s a bit more than just a breakup).

It’s A Crime I Never Told You About the Diamonds in Your Eyes – Black Heart Procession

Good Woman – Cat Power. Amazed this isn’t there already, even if she’s not a huge artist.

Hey Jealousy – Gin Blossoms (Can’t believe this is only on here once so far)

Parting Ways – Pearl Jam (Beautiful, third person sketch)

Landslide – Smashing Pumpkin’s Version (my preference at least)

Interstate Love Song – Stone Temple Pilots. How has this not been mentioned? One of the defining songs of the 90s and very clearly a breakup song.

Finally, “Black” by Pearl Jam–just to reemphasize it.

black- pearl jam
grown so ugly- black keys

beatles – norwegian wood (THIS BIRD HAS FLOWN)

pearl jam- black
the black keys- grown so ugly
jimi hendrix- red house

Regardless of the true meaning of the song, Pearl Jam’s “Black” is a great break-up song:

“I know someday you’ll have a beautiful life; I know you’ll be a star in somebody else’s sky, but why, why, why, can’t it be mine?

Since a lot of people are stretching the meaning of a breakup song: “shine on you crazy diamond” would have to go on the list

ALl the obvious Dylan is there but what about Dirge from Planet Waves?

“I hate myself for lovin’ you and the weakness that it showed”

Bitterness and self loathing at its best!

Also the 13th Floor Elevators – You’re Gonna Miss Me.

radihead “morning bell”
beck “lost cause” (”sea change”, on the whole, is just a great break up album)
the cure “end of the world”

B L O N D I E ‘ S HEART OF GLASS IS THE BEST BREAK UP SONG EVER.

“ONCE HAD LOVE AND IT WAS A GAS, SOON TURNED OUT TO BE A PAIN IN THE ASS”

“LOST INSIDE THIS ADORABLE ILLUSION, AND I CAN NOT HIDE, I’M THE ONE YOU’RE USING, PLEASE DON’T PUSH ME ASIDE, WE COULD HAVE MADE IT CRUISING…YEAH”

ElMo RoX My WoRlD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I AM THE ONE AND ONLY BoB

Last stanza from Dylan’s “Just Like a Woman”:

“Ain’t it clear…that I just don’t fit / I beleive it’s time for us to quit / And when we meet again / Introduced as ‘friends’ / please don’t let on that you knew me when / I was hungry…and it was your world…”

Painful. His sneering disapproval of the condesending nature of being called “friend,” (and which of us hasn’t had that word flung in our face like a sh*t covered brick?), and the final admission that it was HER world that he was denied…sublime. Writing on any subject is simply never this pure.

i got two, and they are from totally different ends of the spectrum. “I hate everything about you” by three days grace from the heavier alternative side of things. Then “promises, Promises” by naked eyes from the new wave side of things.

Here’s a few I used to listen to during break-ups:

“Say Goodbye” – Theory of a Deadman
“Me & My Girl” – Theory of a Deadman
“Nothing Could Come between Us” – Theory of a Deadman

Ok, well heck, anything on both of Theory’s albums.

“Are You still having Fun” Eagle-Eye Cherry
“Don’t Stay” – Linkin Park
“Everything” – M2M
“The Bitter End” – Placebo
“No Regrets” – Saliva
“Broken” – Seether feat. Amy Lee
“Diseased” – Seether

I’m sure I have a million more in my cd collection. But I’m too lazy to actually look through them all.

Cheers.

now, where’s the list for greatest break up movies?

definitely alanis for “you oughta know”

props to roger tootnoot for the waitresses “no guilt”

“Sluttering (May 4th)” Jawbreaker

4th Time Around – Bob Dylan

I’ll Be Back – The Beatles

The Warmth of the Sun-Brian Wilson
Badge-Clapton with Harrison’s guitar…
So Sad About Us-The WHO
I’m Down-The Beatles
50 Ways to Leave Your Lover-Paul Simon
Nothingman-Pearl Jam(she took the other side)
Yellow Ledbetter-Pearl Jam
So Lonely-The Police

Bud Man | 8/3/2006, 11:17 pm EST

How about “Train in Vain” by the Clash?

I agree.

“River” – Joni Mitchell

“Case of You” – Joni Mitchell
(Constant in the darkness? Where’s that at? If you want me, I’ll be in the bar.)

“Found Out About You” – Gin Blossoms
(”The love I thought I’d won you give for free”)

“One” – U2
(”I can’t be holding on to what you got, when all you got is hurt”)

“Eden is Burning” – John Mellencamp (Jack and Diane didn’t make it)

“Embers of Eden” – Bruce Cockburn
(”And the great unwinding wall between us, copies, exactly, the lines of your face”)

And just for fun, a great song:

“Don’t Go Away Mad (Just Go Away) – Motley Crue

There she goes – by The La’s

“and I just can’t contain this feeling that remains”

NB- Not the sixpence none the richer version!

Also Stone Roses B Side – All accross the sands

Is there a better opening line to a breakup song than:
“Bones of an impressive romance- scattered all accross the sands”

Don’t go away – Oasis

The Cardigans – Communication best breakup song…just give it a listen…GReat Song from a Great Album – Long gone before daylight.

The Cardigans – Communication

I didn’t really know what to call you, you didn’t know me at all
But I was happy to explain.
I never really knew how to move you
So I tried to intrude through the little holes in your veins
And I saw you
But that’s not an invitation
That’s all I get
If this is communication
I disconnect
I’ve seen you, I know you
But I don’t know
How to connect, so I disconnect

Some classics:

Prince, “When Doves Cry”

Blondie, “Just Go Away”

Marvin Gaye, “You Can Leave, But It’s Gonna Cost You” and “When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You” (in fact, take a look at the entire Here, My Dear album)

Stevie Wonder, “Tuesday Heartbreak”

John Lennon, “I’m Losing You”

and the sappiest of all:

Nazareth, “Love Hurts” (come ON people!!)

bob dylan – if you see her, say hello
u2 – so cruel
u2 – whos gonna ride your wild horses

HOW HARD IS IT???

Can’t stand me now by The Libertines.

It’s not your typical breakup song as it’s about a friendship but a breakup’s a breakup and this song captures the emotion of the situation perfectly and it’s such a great tune.

Don´t know if they already got picked. But anyway.

Go Your Own Way – Fleetwood Mac.
Nothing Compares 2U – Sinead O´Connor

The two best break up songs ever.

Days by The Kinks

“Parting Gift” by Fiona Apple.

Truly gorgeous and bittersweet.Shes captured the exact feeling of a break up.

“Somebody That I Used to Know”-Eliot Smith
“Lost Cause”-Beck
“Is Your Love in Vain?”-Bob Dylan
“Idiot Wind” (And most of Blood on the Tracks, for that matter)-Bob Dylan
“And So It Goes”-Billy Joel
“Square One”-Tom Petty

Once again, in no particular order:

Pearl Jam – Parting Ways
Ben Folds Five – Song for the Dumped
No Motiv – Broken and Burned
Expo 86 – Death Cab for Cutie
Blood on the Ground – Incubus
Swallowed – Bush
Happiness is all the Rage – Promise Ring
Burn – Sense Field
Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley (orignally by Leonard Cohen)
Comeback – Foo Fighters
Between the Bars – Elliot Smith

Notes: following albums are clearly “breakup” albums:
One by One – Foo Fighters
Transatlanticism – DCFC
Diagram for Healing – No Motiv

Ben Harper – Please Bleed

Bob Dylan – It’s All Over Now Baby Blue & It Ain’t Me Babe
Blur – To The End & No Distance Left To Run
Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
The Smiths – I Know It’s Over
Jeff Buckley – Last Goodbye

These are all great break up songs

Afghan Wigs – My Curse
theThe – Kingdom of Rain

of the ones listed, dylans is miles ahead

theres alot of songs posted which i dont believe are about break ups at all. theres even more songs by bands i’m not familiar with.But heres my three favorites which no one else seems to have mentioned:

damn it by blink 182
someday by nickelback
what it takes by aerosmith
those, in my opinion are the best.
all three are definately about breakups

The albums “Bows + Arrows” by the Walkmen and “Ten Silver Drops” by the Secret Machines are awesome break-up albums, so you could choose any song.

“Automatic Stop” by the Strokes is my personal favorite

The Cure – Pictures of You

The One I Love: R.E.M.

Well for bad break-ups anyway, I’ve never really felt the need to rain fire down on someone…

I think that Bob Dylan has the market cornered on this one. Don’t Think Twice… is a great choice and A Simple Twist of Fate and Idiot Wind are the best regret/breakup songs.

late career bob dylan often gets overlooked and often rightfully so, however “Most of the Time” absolutely must be mentioned here.

“For No One”

an underappreciated masterpiece by The Beatles

Bob Dylan- Tangled Up In Blue

NOVEMBER RAIN -GNR

I’ve Got Dreams To Remember-Ottis Redding.

Jim Shoe – Foo Fighters ‘One by One’ is not a break up album!!!Their 3rd album ‘Nothing Left To Lose’ was qa break up album!

“Kiss and Say Goodbye”
The Manhattens
“Its gonna hurt me I can’t lie…”

No Regets – tom Ruch
(Check it out on Circle Game – you won’t regret it)

Gordon Lightfoot – That’s What You Get for Loving Me
(Song of the Don Juan A** Hole)

Nice additions:

Cocoon – Jack Johnson
Break Your Heart – Barenaked Ladies
Saty or Leave – Dave Matthews
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye – David Gray

Eat My Dust You Insensitive F*** – Catherine Wheel

Not really a break-up song but has got me through some tough ones!

Mix Tape – Brand New

Love is Blindness – U2 (Song written about Edge’s divorce from his wife)

Sluttering – Jawbreaker

Vapour Trail – Ride

I would say Zep II had some good ones Ramble on,Bring it on Home and Heartbreaker.
Megadeath”In My Hour Of need”
Anthrax “Finally”
Q.O.T.S.A.”Broken Box”. Take that broken pussy else where. Save baby I don’t care…………….AHHH masterpice

Ben Folds Five, “Song for the Dumped”.

How about Matthew Sweet, “I thought I knew you”.

free- alana davis

doughnut song- tori amos

Marvin Gaye – When did I stop loving you, when did you stop loving me

(Or in fact the whole album ‘Here, My Dear’, one of the most bitter and best break-up albums of all time, how can you guys forget this one???)

Anything off Beck’s Sea Change

Wow! I can’t believe how many ppl have posted their lists since I posted mine last nite!
After rummaging thru ma cd collection, after reaching home last nite, i came up w/sum other songs.
Sizzla “Just One Of Those Days” (I live in Jamaica, anyone knows this song by chance?)
Fiona Apple “Parting Apple”
Beck “Guess I’m Doing Fine” (and practically every other song on the morose “Sea Change”!)
N Sync “Gone”
Kelis “Caught Out There” (she captures the angst & emotions of a breakup PERFECTLY in 7 little words- I HATE YOU SO MUCH RIGHT NOW!!!!!)
Whitney Houston “It’s Not Right, But It’s Ok”
Beyonce “Me, Myself and I”
Madonna “The Power of Goodbye” (How did ayobody NOT think of that?!)
Joss Stone “You Had Me”
TLC “Switch”
and last, but certainly not least, Madonna “Take A Bow” which was staring in our dumb faces all along!!
BTW, would anyone consider Loretta Lynn “Mrs Leroy Brown”, fr the “Van Lear Rose” opus, a breakup song?

cry, by the sundays
falling out of love, aqualung

I meant Fiona Apple “Parting Gift”! lol

linger, by the cranberries
last goodbye, jeff buckley
for no one, beatles
pictures of you, the cure
could’ve lied, red hot chili peppers

1. Idiot Wind – Bob Dylan

2. Abandon Love – Bob Dylan

3. She’s Your Lover Now – Bob Dylan

No “USED TO LOVE HER?!?!” GNR? WTF people?

Weezer- The World Has Turned and Left Me Her

Nirvana- About A Girl

Say Hello Wave Goodbye – David Grey

Crawling Back to You – Tom Petty

Come Pick Me Up – Ryan Adams

Stones, It’s All Over Now
Beatles, No Reply
Boz Scaggs, It’s Over
Beau Brummels, Laugh Laugh
Leslie Gore, It’s My Party (and I’ll Cry If I Want To)
Hall and Oates, She’s Gone

“I Keep Mine Hidden” – The Smiths, 1987

This is the very last Smiths song and final word from Morrissey on his failing relationship with guitarist/writing partner/alledged man-crush, Johnny Marr:

“Ooh, I keep mine hidden
The lies are so easy for you
Because you let yours slide
Into public view”

Dylan- If you see her, say hello
Just Like a Woman
Tangled up in Blue

John Lennon- Bless You

Gene McDaniels-Tower of Strength

Hey Carl, Buddy. Good to see you.

Admonishment accepted for my faux pas of yesterday. I duly stand corrected. See, it is possible to exchange respectful and insightful feedback while all around us are going quite mad.

The Who – Legal Matter

Dylan – Idiot Wind (The slower, sadder version on the “Bootleg Series”)

Richard and Linda Thompson – Shoot Out the Lights (Really anything on this album)

Elvis Costello – I Want You

The Police – Every Breath You Take

U2 – With or Without You

..and I know it’s not a great song, but Don Henley – Not Enough Love in the World

Mr. Krinkle – Primus
The Crab Song – Faith No More
Elvis is dead – Living Colour
Anything by Fishbone

The Heart Of The Matter – Don Henley
Every Rose Has Its Thorn – Poison
I’ll Get Even – Megadeth

Jackson Browne – Sky Blue & Black & Take this rain
Counting Crows – Raining in Baltimore

I know Dylan has been mentioned several times here, but ‘Positively 4th Street’ stands out for me. ‘Tangled up in blue’ great too, although a different mood.

Elvis Costello – ‘Alison’.

Surprised not to see THE ’scumbag’ song of all time – ‘You’re No Good’ by Linda Ronstadt.

Robert A.

Blondie Heart of Glass
Blondie Just go away
Blondie sunday girl

Blondie rocks

Cam, no admonishment intended. Different ways of interpreting a song. I had to go back and look at the lyrics to make sure I was interpreting it right.

John R., good catch with Shoot out the Lights. How could I not think of Richard Thompson for this list? How about Mr. Rebound? Or a whole bunch of songs from You? Me? Us? Razor Dance, Dark Hand Over My Heart, Business on You, Am I Wasting My Love on You, The Ghost of You Walks. A whole heartbreak collection in one package.

Ben Harper – Walk Away, Another Lonely Day, Please Bleed

Eels – It’s a Motherf****r

Ray LaMontagne – Jolene

Damien Rice – Cheers Darlin’

The Shins- “New Slang”
The Shins- “Gone for Good” (aka A Call to Apathy)
The Jesus and Mary Chain- “The Hardest Walk”
Beck- “Everybodys Got to Learn Sometime”
Elliott Smith- “Miss Misery”
Joy Division- “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
Wilco- “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart”
Bob Dylan- “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright”
The Stooges- “Search and Destroy” (Ok, not a break up song, but it’s still pretty awesome)

“SEND IN THE CLOWNS” -SINATRA

“GOOD RIDDANCE” GREEN DAY

THESE ARE MUST HAVES!

King of the breakup songs Ryan Adams is not getting nearly enough love on here.

How Do you Keep Love Alive
A Hard Way to Fall
Call Me on Your Way Back Home
Why Do They Leave
Harder Now That It’s Over

Just to name a few

“Opehlia”, “Unfaithful Servant” The Band
“Dead Flowers” Stones
Brokedown Palce” The Dead

Jimi Hendrix – The Wind Cries Mary
The Doors – The End
Ani Difranco – Gravel
The Smiths – I Know It’s Over
Ben Harper – Another Lonely Day
Erykah Badu – Green Eyes
The Misfits – Die, Die, Die My Darling
Led Zeppelin – Tangerine
The Cure – Elise

Oh, and
Bob Marley – One Cup of Coffee

Some more additions (man, this list is getting long)

“Train in Vain” – The Clash
You Outta Know” – Alanis Morrissette (not a fan of the song, but I have to put it on for its impact on popular music)
“Lost Cause” – Beck
“You’re So Vain” – Carly Simon
“Something I Can Never Have” – NIN
“Black” – Pearl Jam
“Chloe Dancer (Crown of Thorns)” – Mother Love Bone
“Gone For Good” – Morphine
and probably something from the queen of modern-day breakups: Mary J. Blige

…And
Dispatch – Out Loud

Didn’t see John Prine in here. how about “Blue Umbrella”

How ’bout the king of heartbreak, Hank Williams:
Move It On Over (also George Thorogood)
You’re Gonna Change or I’m Gonna Leave
Why Don’t You Love Me
Why Should We Try Anymore
Cold Cold Heart
Dear John
I Can’t Help It if I’m Still In Love with You
Your Cheatin’ Heart
and my all-time favorite weeper sung by a male artist, My Son Calls Another Man Daddy

Four more …
“It Don’t Hurt” – Sheryl Crow
“My Favorite Mistake” – Sheryl Crow
“Ex-Factor” – Lauryn Hill
“Space and Time” – The Verve (”we have existence and that’s all we share” … ouch)

Ok, that’s it …promise.

Heartbreak Hotel – Elvis Presley

Marvin Gaye – Just to keep you satisified

“…But if you ever need me, I’ll be by your side
Though the many happy times we had
Can never really outweigh the bad”

The Band – “It Makes No Difference”
These old love letters
Well, I just can’t keep
‘Cause like the gambler says
Read ‘em and weep

Well, I love you so much
It’s all I can do
Just to keep myself from telling you
That I never felt so alone before

Black- Pearl Jam all time best breakup song, it give me goosebumps every single time.

I know someday you’ll have a beautiful life,
I know you’ll be a sun in somebody else’s sky, but why
Why, why can’t it be, why can’t it be mine

i dont know how you can call ‘fake plastic trees’ a break up song.

and i dont know how you can call dylan’s ’she’s your lover now’ one of the greatest songs, when he never even finished it (though it has potential. love the line ‘now we as me to pass the ash tray- cant you reach?’ completely captures bitterness at its finest).

others not yet mentioned i think are jealous guy by john lennon.

love in vain, the rollingstones (bonus points for the ode hunter s thompson gives it in fear and loathing).

hmmm, that should read ‘you ask me’, not ‘we as me’.

Water Wings – Superchunk

“She said with you, there is no use, so why do you try?”

Can’t believe I read the whole frickin list. Maybe that meand I should get a life ? Nah.
Props to the following folks who entertained me with some terrific choices: Carl for Hank Williams catalog, Justin for Send In The Clowns, Robert A for You’re No Good, Nurserock 1 for 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, Nick for Since I Don’t Have You, Darren for Hit the Road Jack, Adrian for Why? (Annie Lennox), B.B.B. for She’s Got You. Two that I didn’t see that deserve inclusion: Jerry Butler (He Will Break Your Heart) and Bonnie Raitt (I Can’t Make You Love Me). Keep ‘em coming.

How about:
I will Survive- Gloria Gaynor
Don’t Speak- No Doubt
Ex- Girlfriend- No Doubt
I Don’t Care Anymore- Phil Collins
Goodnight Goodnight- Hot Hot Heat

I wasn’t too sure about putting Fake Plastic Trees down either but I think I chose it mostly because of these lyrics…
“She looks like the real thing
She tastes like the real thing
My Fake Plastic Love.
But I can’t help the feeling
I could blow through the ceiling
If I just turn and run
And It Wears Me Out, it wears me out
It wears me out, it wears me out.
And if I could be who you wanted
If I could be who you wanted,
All the time, all the time”

How did I not think of Love in Vain?
My favorite verse of It Makes No Difference is: Since you’ve gone/It’s a losing battle/Stampeding cattle/They rattle the wall.

A few I don’t think have been mentioned:
Ray Charles, I Can’t Stop Loving You
Joe Jackson, Is She Really Going Out with Him, which was clearly inspired by Van Morrison, Here Comes the Night.
Everly Brothers, Brand New Heartache.
Also, while we at it, the original of Love Hurts was done by the Everlys, and Gram Parsons, backed by Emmylou Harris, did a classic remake.

Last two songs off of The Streets A Grand Don’t Come For Free, Dry Your Eyes and Empty Cans. Great concept album with these two closing songs about Mike losing his girl and then moving on (and finding his money)

For some reason, no one’s mentioned much Bright Eyes. I saw Lua, but that’s more about cocaine addiction.

The best Bright Eyes breakup song (in my ever-so-humble opinion):

“Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh”

“Take It Easy (Love Nothing)” is also quite good.

Oh, and “Disintigration” by Jimmy Eat World.

Somehow i forgot…

“Babe I’m Gonna Leave You”-Led Zeppelin
“Hate”-Cat Power
“Nobody’s Fault But My Own”-Beck (too many beck songs)
“Blood On Our Hands”-Death From Above 1979
“Weapon”-Matthew Good
“Runnin’ Out Of Fools”-Neko Case
“The Bleeding Heart Show”-The New Pornographers

It’s interesting that so many people list u2’s “one,” meanwhile it’s a song about losing someone to aids. I’m just passing, casual fan and i know this. It’s also interesting to note that when many people here think “break-up” songs they equate it with angry and bitter songs. I usually think of something from Sea Change for example, before i think of something meanspirited. Maybe you people have had some bad luck.

“Ambition”- Doves

and “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight” – The Postal Service

Tony Rich Project – “Nobody Knows It But Me”

The Cure-Pictures of You
Blur-No Distance Left To Run
U2-Kite (OK,its really about Michael Hutchence,but to me it can be read as a seperation/break-up song)
Oasis-Where Did It All Go Wrong?
The Cure-Love Song
Primal Scream-I’m Gonna Cry Myself Blind
Virtually every other song written by Ryan Adams

Tuesday Gone by Lynyrd Skynyrd!

The Clash – Train in vain

Jackson Browne: Love Needs A Heart

“Maybe the hardest thing I’ve ever done was to walk away from you.
Leaving behind the life that we’d begun, I split myself in two.”

the fact that butch walkers best thing you never had is not on here voids the entire thing.

That’s the Way – Led Zeppelin: Possibly the saddest kind of break-up there is. When you shift from the idyllic innocent love of childhood to the pain of being a grown-up in, and out of, love.

Angie – The Rolling Stones: “… there ain’t no woman that comes close to you/ come on baby, dry your eyes…” Damn Mick & Keef.

Black – Pearl Jam: Incredible to see where they’ve taken this live, where McCready just turns it into a haunting, incendiary 7-minute avalanche of emotion.

Drive – The Cars: Who’s gonna’ drive you home, tonight? Who, indeed.

Good Riddance(Time of Your Life)-Green Day

Train in Vain-The Clash

Black-Pearl Jam

Didn’t see Gold Mine Gutted – Bright Eyes, “We were a stroke of luck, we were a gold mine and they gutted us”

Kaiser Chiefs- Everyday I love you less and less

I don’t like you by Stiff Little Fingers

for my money if your picking a dylan song on this list it has to be “Girl From the North Country” off of Nashville Skyline.

yeah about costello…you should have listed “No Action”. as number one.

Jackson Browne – “Late for the Sky” (Looking hard into your eyes, there was nobody I’d ever known)

Elliott Smith – “Waltz #1″ (I wish I’d never seen your face)

Stina Nordenstam – “So This Is Goodbye” (It didn’t hurt you a lot now did it?)

Jeff Buckley – “Forget Her” (Don’t fool yourself: she was heartache from the moment that you met her)

Forgot to mention

Eric Clapton – “Old Love”
Tom Waits – “Ruby’s Arms”
Sheryl Crow – “Crash and Burn”
Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach – “God Give Me Strength”

I’m not a huge Vertical Horizon fan, but “Best I Ever Had” came out as I went through a breakup and it brought me to tears. Good song.

Dave Mason – We Just Disagree always makes me cry.

Meat Loaf — Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad. Also, the last part of Paradise by the Dashboard Light — the funniest dumpoff line: I swore that I would love you to the end of time/So now I’m praying for the end of time.

Ben Folds’ “Give Me My Money Back (You Bitch)”

Holy crap…how did I forget this one?

“Can We Still Be Friends” – Todd Rundgren

Black- Pearl Jam
Tuesdays Gone- Skynryd or Metallica
With or Without you- U2
Ill be alright without you- Journey
November Rain- Guns n Roses

wait, ’since u been gone’ made the list?

mother of god.

“Pink Bullets”- The Shins

Toni Braxton – Breathe Again (how hasn’t this been listed already?)
Lauryn Hill – Ex Factor (my favorite)

pin a rose on me – chuck prophet “you saw a light, isaw a freight train comin’

pin a rose on me – chuck prophet “you saw a light, i saw a freight train comin’ “

Placebo – Without you i’m nothing
The Streets – Dry your Eyes
Kings of Convenience – Leaning against the wall, The Girl From Back then, Losing a battle…
Elbow – lucky with disease

oh I forgot “Je suis venu te dire que je m’en vais” by French legend Serge Gainsbourg

Guns N’ Roses – Back off bitch
AC/DC – Ballbreaker
Metallica – No Remorse
RATM – Bullet in your head

yeah…Here are a few good ones…make me cry…
ben harper-walk away
finch-letters to you
dixie chicks-you were mine
dixie chicks-a cold day in july
the spill canvas-all hail the heartbreaker
rascal flats-what hurts the most
Garth Brooks-the dance
…yeah they arent exactly rock…but i find them to be breakup song perfection…much love…and good luck with the breakup

Oh Jim, The Kids, Sad Song, all from Lou Reed´s Berlim.

Here’s another richard thompson offering: “Keep your distance”. (”Well I played and I got stung, now I’m biting back my tounge, and sweeping out the footprints where I strayed”)

Ok, so here are a few of my favorites:
1. Eamon-I don’t want you back
2. Monica-So gone
3. Pearl Jam-Better Man
4. Theory of a DeadMan-Hello Lonely
5. Hinder- Better then Me
6. Tonic- You wanted more
7. Black Crowes-Seeing things
8. Uncle Sam-I don’t ever want to see you agian
9. Aerosmith-Cryin
10. Dixie Chicks-Fly
11. U2-With or without you
12. Bush-Glycerine
13. Garth Brooks-Learing to live again
14. Rascall Flatts- Moving on
I got more but i wsanna make this list short

Where is every single Supremes #1? For that matter, it looks like only 1 black artist on the list.

Dionne Warwick’s Walk on by

Fabrizio De Andrè – La canzone dell’amor perduto.
The Who – So sad about us.
The Who – I can see for miles.
Lucio Battisti – Prendila così.
Lucio Battisti – Nessun dolore.
Gilbert O’Sullivan – Alone again (naturally)

three days grace-gone forever
my chemical romance- i’m not okay (i promise)
linkin park- from the inside

Agree with choices:

Girl from a north country (Bob Dylan)
One (U 2)
Babe I’m Gonna Leave You (Led Zeppelin)
November rain (Guns N’Roses)
Romeo and Juliet (Dire Straits)

want to add:

Without you (Mariah Carey)
In trance (Scorpions)
Soldier of fortune (Deep Purple)
Wish You Were Here (Blackmore’s Night)
Nothing compares 2 U (Sinnead O’Connor)
Like A Hurricane (Neil Young ….I want to love you but get so blown away….)
Nobody’s Fool (Cinderella)
Yesterday (Beatles)

AND ABOVE ALL, THE GREATEST LOVE LOSING, BREAKUP BALLAD EVER SUNG ON THIS EARTH:

Can’t Stand The Night (Accept):

“Fallin’ tears, a broken heart
Here I sit as time goes by
’cause all I had has gone forever
Can’t stand the night

Oceans filled with tears
And mountains made of pain
And my eyes are sad each time
The night, it comes back again”

The vocal on that one is heartbreaking, mindtaking and nerveshaking – the man really feels the pain and send it to your ears….

Madonna has some good breakup song but the best of them was never released as single: “Till death do us part” is honest and straight. I guess that’s what happens when your marriage is already broken. It hurts saying Madonna sing:
‘I think I interrupt your life/ when you laugh it cuts me just like a knife/ I’m not your frinde, I’m just your little wife’

Nobody has chosen a well known song from ABBA. Maybe you think the group sucks but the lyrics from “The winner takes it all” show how their relationship were a disaster. Give it a chance!

It’s Too Late – Carol King

red rubber ball – cyrkle

ever heard of “with or without you” by that underground irish quartet…u2?!

Oh nice! Very pretty page!

Okay here are some songs i thought of, not all of them are specific breaking up songs…but some are like “i’m gettin over it” Music Thats 4 u 2 decide

——————– ————–

Where’d you go?- fort minor

Goodbye my lover- James blunt

I’m not missing you- Stacie Orrico

Tada- Lil Mo

I Miss you- Aaliyah

4 Minutes- Avant

Separate- Avant Feat. Beyonce

Cry me a River- Justin Timberlake

What goes around comes around-
Justin Timberlake

This is the sound of breakin up-
Paul Mac

I’m Good- Blaque

Girl its over- Jagged Edge

So Sick- NEYO

How you Gonna Act like that?- Tyrese

Stutter- Joe

All I Have- JLO

Thank You- Jamelia

God…I think that list just made me a closet RNB Fan Lol

The Ex – Billy Talent??

The Good Life – Heartbroke

Daughtry – over you
Pink- just like a pill

I am into pop songs so here’s my pick:

I Will Love Again – Lara Fabian

I Never Really Loved You Anyway- The Corrs

and oh, Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time”

Sing with me everybody:

If I could reach the stars
I’d give them all to you
Then you’d LOVE me, LOVE ME,LOOOVE ME
Like you used to do!

Fall to Pieces – Velvet Revolver
Goodbye to you – The Used
The Kill – 30 Seconds to Mars
Take a Bow – The Muse
No It Isn’t – (+44)
Away From Me – Puddle of Mudd
Preluse 12/21 – AFI
Your New Boyfriend Wears Girl Pants – Zebrahead
Only – NIN
Mad World – Gary Jules
Moth – Audioslave

ROCK break-up songs.

This Love by Pantera

96 Tears by ? and the Mysterians

Don’t Want to miss a thing by Aerosmith

What it Takes by Aerosmith

Crazy by Aerosmith

Love Street by The Doors

I can’t see your face in my mind by The Doors

Been Down so long by The Doors

Unhappy Girl by The Doors

The Crystal Ship by The Doors

Im so tired by The Beatles

While my Guitar Gentley Weeps by The Beatles

Still Loving you by The Scorpians

Roxanne by The Police

Burnin for you by Blue Oyster Cult

Is this Love by Whitesnake

I remember you by Skid Row

I want you to Want me by Cheap Trick

Tangerine by Led Zeppelin

Love Bites by Def Leppard

D’yer Mak’er by Led Zeppelin

Can’t you see by Marshell Tucker Band

Somebody to love by Queen

Cry,Cry,Cry by Johnny Cash

Cryin’ by Aerosmith

Dust in the Wind by Kansas

When it’s love by Van Halen

Bringin’ on the Heartbreak by Def Leppard

You give love a bad name by Bon Jovi

Love Hurts by Nazereth

Miss you by The Rolling Stones

Yesterday by The Beatles

Avenged Sevenfold – Almost Easy

Avenged Sevenfold – Dear God

My Chemical Romance – I Dont Love You

My Chemical Romance – Homey This Mirror Aint Big Enough For The Two Of Us

Bon Jovi – Always

Saliva – Always

Paramore – We Are Broken

Seether – Broken

Seether Ft. Amy Lee – I’m Broken

Evanescene – Call Me When Your Sober

Bullet For my Valentine – All These Things I Hate

Bullet For My Valentine – Hearts Burst Into Fire

Go Audio – She Left Me

The Used – Goodbye To You

Modern ROCK songs!!!!

Guns n Roses – Estranged
NIN – Piggy
Derek and the Dominos – Bellbottom Blues
Pearl Jam – black
Led Zeppelin – Ten Years Gone
Cars – Drive
Lynyrd Skynard – Tuesdays gone

In fase one of your new love dissappointment, here are my top 12 sugestions:
12 – Unhappy birthday . the smiths
11 – Hit the road jack . ray charles
10 – hound dog . elvis presley
9- mr. pitiful . ottis redding
8- here comes the flood . peter gabriel
7- 19 th nervous breakdown . rolling stones
6- liar . the sex pistols
5- won´t get fooled again . the who
4- if i only had a brain . wizard of oz OST
3- what’s this shit called love? . pagans
2- you stupid jerk . angry samoans
1- i wanna destroy you . soft boys
1 – baby you’re so repulsive . crime

Jawbreaker’s “Dear You.” The whole album. Forget “Blood On The Tracks” – for sheer, bitter vindictiveness, NOTHING is better than “Fireman” or “Sluttering.” Or the rest of it.

Led Zeppelin:
“All Of My Love”

Paolo Nutini:
“Rewind”

Sia:
“Little Black Sandals”
“Don’t Bring Me Down”
The Girl You Lost To Cocaine”

The Cure:
“Boys Don’t Cry”
“Pictures of You”
“A Letter To Elise”

Olivia Broadfield:
“Lost In You”

Rufus Wainwright:
“Slideshow”

drat
bftc cadf
pemn owme
grew

sad songs surprised some of these werent mentioned

GnR-november rain
poison- every rose has its thorn
faith hill-like we never loved at all
rascal flatts-my wish
98 degrees-the hardest thing
miranda cosgrove-about you now
nelly feat tom mcgraw-over and over again
u2-one-with or without you
boy 2 men-water runs dry
evanescence- my immortal
no doubt- dont speak
phil collins-against all odds
kid rock-picture
sugar ray-when its over

HERES MY MYSPACE LIST-this is the im better without you songs

keith urban-youll think of me~why isnt this one on here
Hootie & the Blowfish-let her cry
Pink- So What
Audioslave-what you are
Three Days Grace-I hate everything about you- Gone Forever
Justin Timberlake-Cry me a River
Blue October-Hate Me
Eamon-Fck it(i dont want you back)
Green Day-good riddance
Apocalyptica-i dont care

theres more i just cant think =)

how come nobody has mentioned Melissa Ethridges’s ‘Stronger Than Me’?

“I don’t know how you can take, invest your heart and then you break it. I don’t know how you can set me free, you must be stronger than me”

the whole song just guts you.

“Wild World” by Cat Stevens…a great break up song.

“Tainted Love” Soft Cell
“Two Divided By Love” The Grass Roots
“Tears On My Pillow” The Imperials
“Breaking Up Is Hard to Do” Neil Sedaka
“I Want You Back” The Jackson 5
“Cara Mia” Jay and the Americans
“Crying” Roy Orbinson
“Fire and Rain” John Denver
“Perhaps Love” John Denver
“Dreaming With a Broken Heart” John Mayer
“Whatever It Takes” Life House
“Two Faces Have I” Lou Christie
“Dream” The Everly Brothers
“No One’s Boy” Marcy Playground
“Last Beautiful Girl” Matchbox Twenty
“Love Is A Battlefield” Pat Benatar
“Cecilia” and “I am a Rock” Simon & Garfunkel
“Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” The Temptations
“Gimme One Reason” Tracy Chapman
“Hopelessly Devoted to You” Grease Soundtrack
“Memory” Cats Soundtrack
“I Will Always Love You” Whitney Houston

EVERYBODY HURTS – R.E.M.

Spiritualized – Broken Heart
Amy Winehouse – Love is a Losing Game
American Music Club – Goodbye
Lenny Kravitz – Thinking of You
Portishead – Glory Box
Mazzy Star – Flowers in December
Tracy Chapman – Baby Can I Hold You Tonight
Jewel – You Were Meant for Me

Puddle of Mud- She fucking hates me

Offspring- Self Esteem

ugh you people know nothing about rnb breakups
-do you… neyo
-4 minutes… avant
-p.s.(i still not over you)… Rhianna
-rehab.. Rhianna
-broken hearted girl…beyonce
-energy… Keri hilson
-no air… jordin sparks
-tattoo…jordin sparks
-where i wanna be… Donnell Jones
-wait for you… Elliott yamin
-say goodbye… Chris brown
-its so hard to say goodbye to yesterday… boy 2 men
-lost without you… robin thicke
-better in time… Leona Lewis
-whatcha say… Jason derulo
-we belong together… mariah Carey
-don’t forget about us… mariah Carey
-you are not alone… Michael Jackson
-part of the list… Ne yo
-My last Chance… Genuwine
-we ride… Rhianna
-Someday… Nickleback

&&& i got more
-through the pain… diddy
-how could you… mario
-break up… mario
-scared of lonely… beyonce
-how do i breathe… mario
-heartless.. kanye
-missing you… trey songz
-t shirt… shantell
-cant stop the rain… jennier hudson
-right now… akon
-if you leave… musiqsoulchild
-be without you… mary j blidge
-dilemma… nelly
-missing you… aaliyah

had to go again
-outta my system… bow wow
-ice box… oarion
-baby dont go… fabulous
-apologize… one republic
-burn… usher
ugghh i have soo many
-u got it bad… usher
-moving mountains… usher
-hate this part… pussy cat dolls
-hating on the club… rhianna
-pulling me back… chiny
imma put more latterr im tired goodnight

um hello… FREEBIRD –lynyrd skynyrd