# Not Your Usual Breakup Songs Needed **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 10, 2012, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-breakup-songs-needed/612367 "2012-02-10T02:19:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-breakup-songs-needed/612367/41 "2012-02-12T21:32:18Z")
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**Author:** ![missinformation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@missinformation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missinformation)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-breakup-songs-needed/612367/42 "2012-02-14T01:22:16Z")
This got me through a rough patch last year …classic country broken heart song Randy Houser - Anything Goes…[Randy Houser - Anything Goes (Closed Captioned) - YouTube](http://youtu.be/E0fZp34pyy8) ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-breakup-songs-needed/612367/43 "2012-02-14T01:37:21Z")
_hugs_ I got nothin’, hon, just sympathy. I’ve been there. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-breakup-songs-needed/612367/44 "2012-02-14T08:56:09Z")
[Crowds](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVDdm3GvdUk)– Bauhaus [Positively 4th Street](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMjJIRZk1K8)– Bob Dylan ---
**Author:** ![bldysabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bldysabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bldysabba)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-breakup-songs-needed/612367/45 "2012-02-14T10:23:21Z")
Check out the entire album “Midnight Organ Fight” by a band called Frightened Rabbit. Scottish indie band with clever, sharp lyrics that combine pain and anger with (some) positive vibes. Enough of a breakup album though, that I heard it in the first week of a new fling, and got so gloomy about relationships that I broke it off 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-breakup-songs-needed/612367/46 "2012-02-15T05:50:39Z")
[“Don’t Forget Me” - Neko Case](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCWhkP6ccZs&feature=related) (cover of Harry Nilsson original) ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-breakup-songs-needed/612367/47 "2012-02-15T09:51:12Z")
[I knew the bride when she used to rock and roll.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn1CXbf2xF8) ---
**Author:** ![Flip\_Pancake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f1d935/32.png) [@Flip\_Pancake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flip_Pancake)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-breakup-songs-needed/612367/48 "2012-02-15T14:53:47Z")
When my gf broke up with me, I found these a great help: [Everything But the Girl](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQcPFSOGdbU) - [The Road](http://www.songlyrics.com/everything-but-the-girl/the-road-lyrics/) [Heather Nova](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqpcAGrL2Zg) - [Let’s Not Talk About Love](http://www.lyricstime.com/heather-nova-lets-not-talk-about-love-lyrics.html) - Sorry for the pretty crap youtube video. It was the only one I could find. [Jane Siberry](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpom_zMjhdc) - [Love is Everything](http://www.lyrics007.com/Jane%20Siberry%20Lyrics/Love%20Is%20Everything%20Lyrics.html) [Fairground Attraction](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgkhcZ4ifT4) - [Moon On the Rain](http://www.metrolyrics.com/moon-on-the-rain-lyrics-fairground-attraction.html) [Ryan Adams’ cover](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzZhtrsbJzs) of [Wonderwall](http://www.lyricsdomain.com/18/ryan_adams/wonderwall.html) [Indigo Girls’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZVsd_RDjJs) cover of Bob Dylan’s [Tangled Up in Blue](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/bob+dylan/tangled+up+in+blue_20021308.html). All the best to you, Ruby. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2012, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-breakup-songs-needed/612367/49 "2012-04-06T13:13:57Z")
[It’s Too Late".](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSep7QJXKlE) ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2012, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-breakup-songs-needed/612367/50 "2012-04-06T13:21:50Z")
[Ain’t Life a Brook](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkLEIvoTE7A) ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2012, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-breakup-songs-needed/612367/51 "2012-04-06T13:25:35Z")
This is your perfect song right here: [Don’t Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9sEBBCIZ54) ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-breakup-songs-needed/612367/52 "2012-04-06T17:32:59Z")
> [@Invisible\_Chimp](#): > > “The Dance” by Garth Brooks This. It’s what I came into the thread to recommend. _And now I’m glad I didn’t know The way it all would end; the way it all would go Our lives are better left to chance I could have missed the pain, but I’d have had to miss the dance_ ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-breakup-songs-needed/612367/53 "2012-04-08T16:38:21Z")
[I want you gone](http://youtu.be/dVVZaZ8yO6o) from Portal 2 and [It’s been a good year for the roses](http://youtu.be/Nyppu4z8h70) ---
**Author:** ![cynyc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@cynyc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cynyc)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-breakup-songs-needed/612367/54 "2012-04-08T18:17:55Z")
**Harry Nillson "You’re Breaking My Heart"** Do I win? ---
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-breakup-songs-needed/612367/55 "2012-04-08T23:17:26Z")
So it’s been two months, I wonder how the best friend thing is going. Any updates? Did she like her mix CD? ---
**Author:** ![phxjcc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@phxjcc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phxjcc)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-breakup-songs-needed/612367/56 "2012-04-10T09:55:55Z")
Harry Nilsson - You’re Breakin’ my Heart [http://www.mp3lyrics.org/h/harry-nilsson/youre-breakin-my-heart/](http://www.mp3lyrics.org/h/harry-nilsson/youre-breakin-my-heart/) ---
**Author:** ![phxjcc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@phxjcc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phxjcc)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-breakup-songs-needed/612367/57 "2012-04-10T09:56:56Z")
> [@cynyc](#): > > **Harry Nillson “You’re Breaking My Heart”** > > Do I win? Bastard! Beat me to it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tullsterx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-breakup-songs-needed/612367/58 "2012-04-10T14:02:33Z")
Stranglehold - Ted Nugent Girls, Girls, Girls - Motley Crue Highway to Hell, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Etc - AC/DC ---
**Author:** ![scott62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@scott62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott62)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-breakup-songs-needed/612367/59 "2012-04-11T13:18:25Z")
A Parting Gesture by The Bluetones. A sweet, kind of langorous sadness. Nice though ---
**Author:** ![Headrush042](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Headrush042](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Headrush042)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-breakup-songs-needed/612367/60 "2012-04-11T14:43:42Z")
The only song you’ll ever need for this situation: [Madredeus - Vem](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwO9lHwQ3R4) [Lyrics translated](http://lyricstranslate.com/en/vem-alem-de-toda-solidao-come-beyond-all-loneliness.html) _So come to me Because I want to comfort you If you don’t, it’s alright You may keep on sailing_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-breakup-songs-needed/612367.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-your-usual-breakup-songs-needed/612367.md?page=4)