# What were you THINKING? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 228
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4840 "2025-04-23T03:13:49Z")
Careful. You’re displaying a desire to start crap about me. Why? Because you need to get a better pasttime. Maybe catch a ballgame, go to a movie for adults. Grown up adults. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4841 "2025-04-23T03:15:51Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > go to a movie for adults. Grown up adults. I thought you were super against pornography? ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4842 "2025-04-23T04:17:03Z")
Mmmmmmm, pornography. From the pornography store. I’ll be right back… ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4843 "2025-04-23T04:31:44Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > It’s like rain on your wedding day It is 06:30 where I live. I did not need this brain worm infecting me at this time of day. How can I stop THINKING? (I don’t even like Alannis Morrisette, and can’t name any other song she has done, but she achieved the pop music highest annoyance level with that track, it is an earworm par excellance.) ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4844 "2025-04-23T04:54:22Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > I don’t even like Alannis Morrisette, and can’t name any other song she has done Alanis wrote one of the greatest breakup songs ever. > 🎶 And every time I scratch my nails > Down someone else’s back, I hope you feel it > Now can you feel it? 🎶 If nothing else, maybe it will replace one earworm with another. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/NPcyTyilmYY/maxresdefault.jpg "Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know (Official 4K Music Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPcyTyilmYY) ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4845 "2025-04-23T05:48:49Z")
People might want to take their own advice. So..earworms. How about Come on Eileen…🎶 ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4846 "2025-04-23T05:57:29Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > Alanis wrote one of the greatest breakup songs ever. Ok. I recognise that one. But at the risk of making this a Café Society thread, THIS is the greatest breakup song ever: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/EmF3Ze3nKYc/hqdefault.jpg "Violent Femmes FAT") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmF3Ze3nKYc) ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4847 "2025-04-23T13:48:10Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > Alanis wrote one of the greatest breakup songs ever. > > > 🎶 And every time I scratch my nails > > Down someone else’s back, I hope you feel it > > Now can you feel it? 🎶 Agreed. My favorite part of the song: > 🎶 Does she know how you told > Me you’d hold me until you died? > 'Til you died, _ **but you’re still alive!** _ 🎶 This one, on the other hand… > [@scudsucker](#): > > Ok. I recognise that one. But at the risk of making this a Café Society thread, THIS is the greatest breakup song ever: The basic message of the song is “I hope you gained sufficient weight to lower your standards enough to want to take me back”. Not exactly a sick burn track 😁 ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4848 "2025-04-23T13:55:03Z")
> [@solost](#): > > to lower your standards enough This is why. This is why it is an all-time great romantic break-up track. The Violent Femmes are often sharply ironic. I mean, Country Death Song is a lament by by a mam who loved his daughter, but murdered her. In twangy banjo-style country) (They did not use a banjo, it is all guitar) It has a close second in Ween’s “I’m Holding You” … though tastes may differ. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5YyBZXSUGe8/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AG-AoAC8AGKAgwIABABGFUgZShVMA8=&rs=AOn4CLAt6tZ_wc3P7Mh5pNanD_AJv6glAA "Ween - I'm Holding You") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YyBZXSUGe8) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4849 "2025-04-23T13:55:56Z")
Firstly, the best breakup song is this one: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/yWhpk-8QLFQ/maxresdefault.jpg ""Weird Al" Yankovic - One More Minute (Official Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWhpk-8QLFQ) Secondly this sentiment: > [@solost](#): > > Agreed. My favorite part of the song: > > > 🎶 Does she know how you told > > Me you’d hold me until you died? > > 'Til you died, _ **but you’re still alive!** _ 🎶 was done better by Willie Nelson in “Funny How Time Slips Away”: > [@](#): > > How’s your new love? > I hope that he’s doing fine? > I heard you told him > That you’d love him 'til the end of time > > Now that’s the same thing that you told me > It seems like just the other day > Gee, ain’t it funny how time slips away? Not so much a “break-up” song as a “you’re going to regret breaking up with me” song. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/D7iM_GGtIaI/maxresdefault.jpg "Willie Nelson - Funny How Time Slips Away (Official Audio)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7iM_GGtIaI) ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4850 "2025-04-23T14:02:24Z")
> [@scudsucker](#): > > This is why. This is why it is an all-time great romamtic break-up track. > > The Violent Femmes are often sharply ironic. Sure, it’s very much on brand for the Femmes, and their eponymous album got me through some ‘Freshman in college’ angst, so I very much appreciate their irony. I just like my breakup songs to _ **sting** _. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4851 "2025-04-23T14:05:20Z")
> [@solost](#): > > I just like my breakup songs to _ **sting** _. Then you must love “Idiot Wind”. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4852 "2025-04-23T14:08:18Z")
I always thought Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright had one of the all-time great slams. > Goodbye’s too good a word, babe > So I’ll just say, “Fare thee well” > I ain’t a-saying you treated me unkind > You could’ve done better but I don’t mind > You just kinda wasted my precious time > But don’t think twice, it’s all right ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4853 "2025-04-23T14:09:10Z")
Yep, I concur, Dylan is great in breakup songs. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4854 "2025-04-23T14:19:30Z")
What, no love for Achy Breaky Heart as the best breakup song? > But don’t tell my heart, my achy breaky heart > I just don’t think he’d understand > And if you tell my heart, my achy breaky heart > He might blow up and kill this man (But seriously, I had the album Jagged Little Pill on continuous play in my car for like a year.) ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4855 "2025-04-23T14:20:15Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > > [@solost](#): > > > > I just like my breakup songs to _ **sting** _. > > Then you must love “Idiot Wind”. Oh yeah. Speaking of ‘Freshman in college’ angst, I owned ‘Blood on the Tracks’ but didn’t really _ **get it** _ at first. Then as a Freshman, the first real love of my life broke up with me. I ended up playing BotT so often the needle practically wore through the vinyl. Should we start a ‘best breakup song’ thread? It’s not as if this thread hasn’t meandered all over the place in the past, so I don’t know if hijacking is _that_ much of a concern, but it might make a good topic on its own. I looked into it, and we’ve done ‘breakup song’ threads in 2000, 2002, and 2014, so fairly often, but not too recently. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4856 "2025-04-23T14:21:39Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Should we start a ‘best breakup song’ thread? Good idea, I’m all for it. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4857 "2025-04-23T14:22:38Z")
Cool. Got a couple things to do right now, so I’ll get to it later today unless someone beats me to it (be my guest)… ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4858 "2025-04-23T14:43:17Z")
> [@solost](#): > > unless someone beats me to it (be my guest)… [Done.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-up-its-easy-to-do/1017401) ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4859 "2025-04-23T17:14:46Z")
> [@solost](#): > > I just like my breakup songs to _ **sting** _. Then I present “You’re Breakin’ My Heart” by Harry Nilsson _You’re breakin’ my heart_ _You’re tearin’ it apart_ _So fuck you_ _All I wanna do_ _Is have a good time_ _Now I’m blue_ It did not get a lot of radio play. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=227) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532.md?page=229)