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.
I thought you were super against pornography?
Mmmmmmm, pornography. From the pornography store. I’ll be right back…
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.)
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.
People might want to take their own advice.
So..earworms. How about Come on Eileen…
Ok. I recognise that one. But at the risk of making this a Café Society thread, THIS is the greatest breakup song ever:
Agreed. My favorite part of the song:
Me you’d hold me until you died?
'Til you died, but you’re still alive!
This one, on the other hand…
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 
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.
Firstly, the best breakup song is this one:
Secondly this sentiment:
was done better by Willie Nelson in “Funny How Time Slips Away”:
Not so much a “break-up” song as a “you’re going to regret breaking up with me” song.
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.
Then you must love “Idiot Wind”.
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
Yep, I concur, Dylan is great in breakup songs.
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.)
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.
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)…
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.