Your good go-to heartbreak song

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In this thread you were asked for your “Your terrible go-to heartbreak song.” Some people got confused and listed songs that were actually good. This thread is for them.

I’m a survivor of the Great Folk Music Scare of the '60s and have been listening to folk music today. As I was generally in a funk over some girl or another when I got older, I have quite a few songs to go to, including:

Donovan - Catch the Wind" catch the wind Donovan - YouTube

Tim Hardin - “Reason to Believe” "Reason to Believe" Tim Hardin - YouTube

Tom Rush - “Urge for Going” Tom Rush - Urge for Going - YouTube

I’m pretty depressed, so I’ll probably have more soon.

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Janis Joplin - “Ball & Chain” - YouTube
You just want to climb on the stage, hug her, and tell her that everything’s gonna be alright, but she should stay away from the smack.

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“Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want” by The Smiths
“Avenues” by Whiskeytown

or

“About Today” by The National

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Since I was just listening to it:

“The Queen and the Soldier” – Suzanne Vega

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Sing Me to Sleep - also by The Smiths

I mean, if that doesn’t make you cry when you’re already down, I don’t know what will.

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I might’ve lost a job because of The Smiths/Morrissey because I said rather loudly, “For God’s sake, not another,” after SiriusXM started the fourth Smiths/Morrissey song that hour, so they make me sad for a different reason.

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Easy, “Joey” by Concrete Blonde…

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Into the West, from Return of the King.

Family Portrait, by Pink.

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Judy Garland – The Man That Got Away

My god that woman had a voice.

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“Drive” by The Cars

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“Romeo and Juliet” by Dire Straits

I find “Farmhouse” by Phish to be a really sad song, but most of my Phish friends don’t seem to agree.

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“Good Morning Heartache”
“But Not for Me”
“They Can’t Take That Away From Me”
“The Night We Called It a Day”

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“Don’t Take Me Alive” - Steely Dan

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Someday Soon - Suzy Bogguss

I Can’t Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt

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4AM by Our Lady Peace

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As a breakup song? What, you broke up with a bank robber with nothing to lose but her daddy issues?

To remind people what a breakup song is:

Patsy Cline - I Fall To Pieces (AKA The American Suicide Song) Patsy Cline -- I Fall To Pieces - YouTube

Patsy Cline - Crazy - YouTube

Hank Williams - I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry - YouTube

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Mika - “Happy Ending”

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It Makes No Difference-The Band

If you’re really in the mood (drunk) to torture yourself about the one(s) that got away! :smiley:

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Not so much a breakup song as a “what could have been” song. Years Ago by Super Deluxe.

So Far Away by Carole King also fits that bill.

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Volverás, Ricky Martin.

Please don’t mock me! I love Coltrane, Bach, Zappa, and Shankar as much as anyone. But trust me – this is a sophisticated piece of work, harmonically, melodically, lyrically, arrangement-wise, and performance-wise. And Mr. Martin is a co-composer, not just a crooner.