So I am getting a CD burner for my birthday, which is soon. I am also very bitter lately, due to a number of men. I have decided to combine these seemingly unrelated facts into one kickarse mix cd. I ask that you other Dopers suggest breakup/bitter-about-love songs, and/or rate the ones I have compiled. Here is what I have so far:
[ul]*Hey (pixies)
*I want you back (jackson 5)
*piece of my heart (janis joplin)
*regretting what I said…(Christine Lavin) [thanks, RobotArm!]
*train in vain (the Clash)
at least one Bob Dylan song. So many to choose from…any suggestions? (I’m thinking It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue or It Ain’t Me Babe)
*Song for the Dumped (Bens Fold Five)
*at least one Ani Difranco song. So many to choose from…any suggestions? (I’m thinking Gratitude, or You Had Time)
*at least one Cure song. yada yada yada.
*Why Didn’t You Call Me? (Macy Grey)
*Am I Not Pretty Enough (Kasey Chambers)
*Idol (Amanda Ghost)
*Mystery (Indigo Girls)
*Anything But Down (Sheryl Crow)
*Under the Bridge (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
*at least one Amy Mann song. Probably Save Me.
*Everybody Hurts (REM)
*Undone [the sweater song] (Weezer)
*When Doves Cry (Prince)
*With or Without You (U2)
*at least one Violent Femmes song. Probably Kiss Off
*something Tom Waits. I need suggestions!
*something Lenord Cohen ditto
*love will tear us apart (Joy Division)
*you make me feel like a whore (everclear)
*Heart of Glass (Blondie)
*What’s So Funny…(Elvis Costello)
*Trouble (Cat Stevens)
*Joga [State of Emergency] (Bjork)
*something Alanis Morissette (shut up. It’s a break-up tape) All I want? You Outta Know?[/ul]
OK, that’s like 4 CDs there. One idea I liked that I saw on a mix-tape site: divide the tape into stages ie: stages of a breakup. Thoughts? Suggestions?
“Losing A Whole Year” - Third Eye Blind. At least they did one decent song.
“Finishing Touches” - Warren Zevon
“Battle Of Who Could Care Less” - Ben Folds Five
“I Know” - Kim Richey
“Hot Burrito #2” - Flying Burrito Brothers
“At The Crossroads” - Mott The Hoople
“Waterlow” - Mott The Hoople. Good for those wallowing in misery moments
“Razor Dance” - Richard Thompson
“These Days” - Nico
“I’ll Be Damned” - Slobberbone
You’re entirely welcome, sweetheart. I was thinking of Main and Broadway by Cub (you won’t have to look far for it), the simple bitterness of post-modern punk.
Also Doug Engaged by Mel Cooleys.
Since we’re too late for denial and anger, let us know when you get to bargaining and acceptance, I might be able to come up with some songs for those, too.
Vertical Horizon- Shackled (one of the bitterest break-up type songs I’ve ever heard)
Stir- Stop Killing Me
Long Pigs- On and On
The Hippos- Wasting my Life
Beth Orton- Stolen Car/She Cries Your Name
Transister- Dizzy Moon
Monster Magnet- Your Lies Become You
Prime Sth- I’m Stupid
Elliot Smith- Waltz #2 (more bitter about might have beens, though)
Greenwheel- Breathe
the get up kids - mass pike
the cure - a letter to elise
death cab for cutie - photobooth
elliot smith - waltz no2
ryan adams - call me on your way back home
career girls - end credits
the smiths - please please please let me get what i want
saves the day - freakish
dashboard confessional - saints and sailors
Sick of You by Iggy and the Stooges Go Away Girl by The Urinals I Don’t Wanna Walk Around With You by The Ramones
For sad breakup songs: Never Going To See You Again by Conway Savage and Suzie Higgie One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong by Leonard Cohen Where Do We Go But Nowhere by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds I Still Miss Someone by Johnny Cash
The Canadian artist Luba (with her band of the same name) has a couple of bitter break-up songs that I keep coming back to:
“No More Words” from their 1989 album All or Nothing
“Is She Alot Like Me” from her 2000 solo album From the Bitter to the Sweet
(Both albums are fantastic on their own; not released in the USA, but you can order them on-line from HMV)
Jann Arden: “Insensitive” Sass Jordan: “High Road Easy” (from Rats) – angry, aggressive “f*** off” song Sarah McLachlan: “Good Enough”, “Terms” Fleetwood Mac: “In the Back of My Mind” or “Freedom” (Behind The Mask) – and almost anything from Rumours! Heart: “Who Will You Run To?” Cyndi Lauper: “You Don’t Know” BBMak: “Sympathy” (as in “I don’t need yours…”) from their new album Into Your Head Roxette: “You Don’t Understand Me” Madonna: “The Power of Good-bye”
More of the Classics, as I made one of these in 1991:
“Woman Haters Club Theme Songs”
Movin’ Out - Billy Joel
Still Around - Robert Cray
The Weather is Here - Jimmy Buffett
Kicked in the Teeth - AC/DC
Funny How Love Is - FYC
Only Flame in Town - Elvis Costello
Happy Trails - Van Halen
These Foolish Things - Bryan Ferry version
I was Only Telling A Lie - James Taylor
Last Day of Our Acquaintance - Sinead O’Conner
One Less Set oif Footsteps - Jim Croce
Cold Cold Cold/Tripe Face Boogie - Little Feat
Goodbye Cruel World - Pink Floyd
Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits
Good Year for the Roses - Elvis Costello
If You Don’t Know Me By Now - Simply Red
Blue - FYC
50 Ways to Leave Your Lover - Simon and Garfunkel
Who are You - The Who
1 Bourbon, 1 Scotch and 1 Beer - George Thorogood
When the Hangover Strikes - Squeeze
Nobody Home - Pink Floyd
Almost Blue - Elvis Costello
As Hard As It Is - FYC
I Guess I Showed Her - Robert Cray
Empty Spaces - Pink Floyd
It fills up a Maxell XL II 100 tape very well. I don’t need thse any more, you can have them
As it turns out, mine are all pretty girly so they’ll be a perfect fit.
Indigo Girls: Left it Up to Me Alison Krauss + Union Station: Baby, Now That I’ve Found You (it’s actually about breaking up) Beatles: She’s Leaving Home or For No One
my friend gave me a kick-ass breakup tape a few years ago.
may i suggest
james-tomorrow, or, waltzing along
nina simone- ain’t got no (i got life)
otis redding- sad sad song
and always, always
jeff buckley singing leonard cohen’s hallelujah.
Of course, anything I don’t have is going to have to be gnutellaed, which is annoying when you have a dial-up connection. Therefore, songs I have in hand appeal more than others. And for the record, (::coughcoughUncleBillcoughcough: a “woman hating” mix isn’t what this chick needs.
I’m busy gnutellaing what I hadn’t thought of (Last Night…by the Smiths, The Cohen song,) and rooting through my CDs for songs I hadn’t thought of (Beth Orton, Elliot Smith).
OK, maybe I’ll make one “sad, bittersweet” CD and one “screw you, I can live without you” CD.
a “woman hating” mix isn’t what this chick needs.