# Your good go-to heartbreak song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 1, 2012, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-good-go-to-heartbreak-song/620480 "2012-05-01T04:23:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-good-go-to-heartbreak-song/620480/21 "2012-05-04T11:36:45Z")
Would you believe I have an entire iTunes playlist of these…largely just as a contingency? My computer’s out of commission at the moment, so I can’t give a full listing. Some big ones, just from memory: [Patsy Cline—You Belong to Me](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4DQd3gemRg) [Patsy Cline—Why Can’t He Be You](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8coZ5OgH1VA) [Un Bel Di, Vedremo—Puccini](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVRhuQWS4tc) [Lila’s theme (Do You Remember Me)—Shelby Flint](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6VLjh5eZBs) [Casey Medley—Mandy Patinkin](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STuvB4Pnmnk) [Song for Ten—Murray Gold](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9T2JKQNKW8) (I still can’t listen to this one, anymore. ☹ ) [Graveside—The Tiger Lillies](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bki48Hs4ZMI) [Love Farewell—John Tams](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KV6Ps4b37Y) [The First of May—Sarah Brightman](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjEwqpyzU1k) ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-good-go-to-heartbreak-song/620480/22 "2012-05-07T02:26:49Z")
“[The Harold Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7YmvdAoCE0)” by Kesha. Here is a [concert version.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2jnbxP3vsk) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-good-go-to-heartbreak-song/620480/23 "2012-05-07T03:17:53Z")
> [@AllShookDown](#): > > [So Far Away](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urt2cy7AqFs) by Carole King also fits that bill. Most of mine are associated with a particular girl. In this case she was a bigger Carole King fan than I, but I made an exception when things didn’t work out. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-good-go-to-heartbreak-song/620480/24 "2012-05-07T03:55:40Z")
Pretty much the entirety of the latter half of Joni Mitchell’s album Blue. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-good-go-to-heartbreak-song/620480/25 "2012-05-07T04:13:21Z")
[The Cruxshadows - Monument](http://youtu.be/mr1WIdvNfm4) (Ignore the video itself, it’s just slideshow of images of the band and their album covers.) ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-good-go-to-heartbreak-song/620480/26 "2012-05-07T04:54:11Z")
[looks like rain](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPW5nZ7G3xsa) :.( tsfr [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-good-go-to-heartbreak-song/620480.md?page=1)