# Your terrible go-to heartbreak song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 29, 2012, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310 "2012-04-29T09:27:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![catnoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@catnoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catnoe)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/81 "2012-12-09T17:41:43Z")
A lot of great and terrible songs put forth but I can’t believe no one has mentioned ‘I Want to Know What Love is’ by Foreigner! The girl I was sharing a house with bought the cassette or 45 when this showed up on MTV. Neither of us was doing well in the ‘love’ department’. Her having an affair with a married man and me liking the guy I was in a relationship with but not in love. (A pattern I would follow till I met my now husband.) We put that song on the stereo and postioned the speakers just so and we sat on the floor where the sounds crossed and sang our hearts (and lungs) out playing that song over and over. Second 'Total Eclipse of the Hear’t and add ‘Holding out for a Hero’. ‘Take a Look at Me Now’ by Phil Collins. ‘At This Moment’ by Billy Vera and the Beaters. ‘Hello’ by Lionel Ritchie. (Have I shown my age yet?) Any of George Jones heartbreak songs but those are good songs not terrible. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/82 "2012-12-09T18:09:12Z")
Anything by Bright Eyes is good wallowing music, “Something Vague” being the best. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/83 "2012-12-09T19:33:49Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > Fine, honest, kill any reputation I ever had answer here. > > All cried out, by Allure. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Oh man. I love it. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/84 "2012-12-11T00:34:13Z")
“Solitary Man” by Neil Diamond. It’s not actually a bad song, but it’s what I’ve got. And I figure enough people automatically dislike anything he did that it’s not too far off target. ---
**Author:** ![jacobdouglas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8c91f0/32.png) [@jacobdouglas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacobdouglas)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/85 "2012-12-19T04:36:50Z")
Ray lamontagne - are we really through? Radiohead - Now that you’ve found it it’s gone Staind - Epiphany Jeff Buckley - She was heartache from the moment that you met her Not actual song titles - just key phrases. Go listen. Prepare to be sad. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/86 "2012-12-19T05:33:01Z")
Just reading this thread recalls that first heartache, the ending of my first love. It was 33 years ago and my chest still feels a twinge of that heartache. Funny how music can do that. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/87 "2012-12-19T10:31:06Z")
I don’t personally think of it as a terrible song, but I figure most of you probably would, so I’m going to go with: Don Henley - The Heart of the Matter ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310/88 "2012-12-19T13:33:37Z")
R.E.M.'s “Losing My Religion”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-terrible-go-to-heartbreak-song/620310.md?page=4)