# Your Good Songs for terrible break ups. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 9, 2012, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-good-songs-for-terrible-break-ups/643472 "2012-12-09T01:32:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-good-songs-for-terrible-break-ups/643472/1 "2012-12-09T01:32:51Z")
Inspired by [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=650018) thread. Too many people are listing good songs… and its making Mean Old Lady cranky. My #1 pick Bell Bottom Blues also well almost anything off Derek and the Dominos Layla album ---
**Author:** ![OtisCampbellWasRight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d78d45/32.png) [@OtisCampbellWasRight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtisCampbellWasRight)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-good-songs-for-terrible-break-ups/643472/2 "2012-12-10T14:27:01Z")
“Try and Love Again” by the Eagles off Hotel California. My wife of 23 years and I just split up. I have played this song dozens of times in the past few months. Still sucks. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-good-songs-for-terrible-break-ups/643472/3 "2012-12-10T19:52:43Z")
“Romeo & Juliet” by Dire Straits. And, oddly enough, “Popsicle” by Talking Heads. Both applied to my last, needlessly failed, relationship. ---
**Author:** ![Apocalypso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Apocalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apocalypso)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-good-songs-for-terrible-break-ups/643472/4 "2012-12-10T20:07:58Z")
**Three Mile Pilot’s** “Another Desert, Another Sea” album was written after two of its members went through really bad breakups. A cousin told me he didn’t like or understand the album until he went through a bad breakup of his own “then it all made sense”, and he listened to it constantly. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2012, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-good-songs-for-terrible-break-ups/643472/5 "2012-12-10T20:11:41Z")
Chad and Jeremy’s _A Summer Song_. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAUNMH_3nRo) Enya’s _Flora’s Secret_. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeFZJ6jiWJ8) Skeeter Davis’s _End of the World_. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2_-biL2ARY) In May of 1975, I fell head over heels in love with a girl I met at a mediaeval tournament. I was a herald, she was a dancer; when our eyes first met for the first time it was **Click!**. During our time together, we would go to an open field on a hill every evening and lay in the long grass, watching the sun set and the stars come out. To make a long story short, it ended badly (I was 20, she was 16); I’ve had lots of girlfriends since, but she is the one I wish I could have married. Thirty-seven years later, I still love her. That’s why the above have special meaning for me. ---
**Author:** ![bldysabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bldysabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bldysabba)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-good-songs-for-terrible-break-ups/643472/6 "2012-12-19T12:26:52Z")
The entire Midnight organ fight album by Frightened Rabbit. Here’s a [sample](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBTuyF1T7zA) ---
**Author:** ![Chicagojeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@Chicagojeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicagojeff)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-good-songs-for-terrible-break-ups/643472/7 "2012-12-19T14:10:37Z")
> [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](#): > > Inspired by [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=650018) thread. Too many people are listing good songs… and its making Mean Old Lady cranky. > > My #1 pick > > Bell Bottom Blues > also well almost anything off Derek and the Dominos Layla album Damn I love the SONG\>\> but they always play “WOnderful Tonight”… ughhh.. Lenny Kravitz.. second album…“It ain’t over till it’s over..”.. and “What the fuck are we saying”… it was the album he did after Lisa Bonet caught him cheating on her and left him.. Lenny poured it out on that album.. me and my dudes thought that she shouldve taken him hack after that album… ---
**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:** [December 19, 2012, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-good-songs-for-terrible-break-ups/643472/8 "2012-12-19T14:35:58Z")
Bad Time - Grand Funk Railroad (Jayhawks cover is good too) [Say You Miss Me](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=329DrBH21mA) - Wilco ---
**Author:** ![brainstall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@brainstall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainstall)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-good-songs-for-terrible-break-ups/643472/9 "2012-12-19T15:19:24Z")
Anything by Patsy Cline. She was the queen of hurtin’ songs. Walking after Midnight is one of my favourites. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-good-songs-for-terrible-break-ups/643472/10 "2012-12-19T17:48:16Z")
> [@OtisCampbellWasRight](#): > > “Try and Love Again” by the Eagles off Hotel California. > > My wife of 23 years and I just split up. I have played this song dozens of times in the past few months. Still sucks. Sorry for your situation. ☹ My choice for an Eagles “get over the breakup” song would be “Wasted Time”. Don Henley’s solo effort “The Heart of the Matter” makes for a good sequel to it, too. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-good-songs-for-terrible-break-ups/643472/11 "2013-01-11T03:27:15Z")
Resurrecting my thread. I got sick and kind of fell off the dope the week before Christmas, and I hadn’t seen ANY replies to this thread. I didn’t mean to ditch it. Every song on here is magnificent. The ones I didn’t know I went and checked out, liked the Frightened Rabit stuff I found on youtube quite a bit. Here’s another one. “Behind Blue Eyes” used to just hit a certain spot right…there… when I went through a breakup. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-good-songs-for-terrible-break-ups/643472/12 "2013-01-11T17:04:49Z")
Randy Newman’s “Just One Smile.” I usually have to go to the Al Kooper [Blood Sweat and Tears](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0dWAmxX_gg) version. Randy’s is better, but I don’t know if he ever recorded it (I saw him do it on TV). ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-good-songs-for-terrible-break-ups/643472/13 "2013-01-11T17:11:38Z")
Husker Du - [Don’t Want To Know If You Are Lonely](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8ucxTFMuNU) or [Never Talking To You Again](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgcZWaLUXLY) Elvis Costello - [I Hope You’re Happy Now](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwGdB4Gj7Js) or “No Action” (can’t find a good Youtube clip for this one) ---
**Author:** ![Yaxche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8dc957/32.png) [@Yaxche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yaxche)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2013, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-good-songs-for-terrible-break-ups/643472/14 "2013-01-11T17:17:16Z")
Oh, probably half the Afghan Whigs catalog… specifically “_Now You Know_”, though. I searched for a YouTube link, didn’t find it out there.