Songs you listened to over and over when your heart got broke...

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Sting: when we dance

"if he loves you like i loved you"

[EMcWilliams]

Weezer- The Good Life (or for that fact just about anything from Pinkerton)

[Quinn Warren]

Beck- Lost Cause
Will Oldham- Now I See a Darkness

I'm definately a wallower.

The most tearjerking I've found however is:

Carry me Ohio by Sun Kil Moon. A sample:

"what about the sweetness we knew
what about what's good, what's true
from those days

can't count
to all the lovers i've burned through
so why do i still burn for you
i can't say

sorry that
i could never love you back
i could never care enough
in these last days"

[man]

I generally listen to songs that praise the girl for some reason.

"You're My Angel" Fenix Tx (I have a weird thing for this song)
"Romeo and Juliet" Dire Straits is also a good one as others have said.

but on the wallowing side, at the end of the summer I listened to "dry your eyes" by the streets about twenty times in a row as I cried myself to sleep in an emotional drunken haze.

it took me around a month to get over her.

edit: on second thought, the correct answer is actually "bye bye love" by ray charles. seriously, guys, if you listen to this song enough, you'll get over her 20-30% faster.

[vexvelour]

The Postal Service - entire damn thing except that REALLY sad #8 song.

Cake - to make me feel better.

Stabbing Westward - can't get any better breakup music than this.

[marsvolta619]

The winner is Saves The Day - As Your Ghost Takes Flight

The last time that I saw you, August of '99,
I should've had my hammer and a few rusty spikes
to nail you on a wall and use bottles to catch your blood
and display you for the neighbors so they know your time had come.
And I'd drink your blood and feel it dripping down my throat
as it heads for my heart.
And as your body sags and the stench rises in vain,
the people on the street are collecting in dismay.
Before your eyes your head lifts towards the sky
and that's the last thing they'll remember of you.
And I'd drink your blood and feel it dripping down my throat
as it heads for my heart.
You've become a ghost.
You're floating somewhere in between
the waking world and a landscape of dreams.
Well it's nothing but dying.
You've got a grenade stuck in your teeth and you're pulling at the pin.
You're an illusion, just a shadow flickering underneath the sun.
And I'd drink your blood and feel it dripping down my throat
as it heads for my heart.


Reggie and the Full Effect - What the Hell is Contempt, Get Well Soon, What the Hell is Stipulation
Saves The Day - Stay What You Are album and Through Being Cool album

[Los Feliz Slim]

Just remembered another:

Against All Odds - Phil Collins

Eighth grade. Never even dated the girl, but upon finding out she wanted no part of me, it was an all-night festival of this song.

[imported_anacardo]

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Just remembered another:

Against All Odds - Phil Collins

Eighth grade. Never even dated the girl, but upon finding out she wanted no part of me, it was an all-night festival of this song.

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I don't mean to mock your teenage heartbreak, m'man, but the soundtrack to your Parade of Tears is very, very amusing to me. [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

[ChipWrecked]

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There's some seriously bad replies in here.

All of the album Blue by Joni Mitchell seems like a good choice (it just came on my playlist while I was reading the thread)

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Yes, 'River' is probably the single best breakup song of all time.

[surfinillini]

What about LOSING MY RELIGION by REM.

Oh wait, that Brenda's song when Dylan broke up with her...nevermind [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]