Your terrible go-to heartbreak song

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Glenn Tiptonby Sun Kil Moon. This song makes me angry at life then bawl up and cry/scream.

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Just talked to a friend going thru a break up and thought of this thread…

  1. If you could read my mind… Gordon Lightfoot… sums up my first marriage… ( I don’t know where we went wrong… but the feelings gone… and we just can’t get it back… ) what a line… damn…

  2. We just disagree Dave Mason… after the recriminations die down… and the pain subsides.

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I never even liked the song, but for monhs after my first wife dumped me, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Tell Me on a Sunday” had me bawling uncontrollably.

It didn’t even matter that I HATED some of the rhymes (did chimpanzees HAVE to be part of the lyrics?).

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Awesome choice. I love Nico. She’s not for everyone, though.

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Hurt by NiN (and/or Dwight Yoakam’s discography, but that’s more than one song)

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Only sent, never received. Helps me, if not the recipient. Works for all ailments.

U2, Walk On

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Heh. Imo win this one: I Will Always Love You. Either Whitney or Dolly.

Gah. I can’t believe I admitted this.

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On the basis of re-reading the qualifier “terrible”, I rescind Walk On by U2, and submit instead

Marianne Faithfull, Why’d Ya Do It?

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You’re talking terrible and no one’s mentioned Gilbert O’Sullivan’s “Alone Again, naturally”?

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For me it will always be Black Star by Radiohead.

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A quick pause for our Daily Moment of Pedantry: These Days is best known as a Nico tune, but it’s actually a cover. The original is by Jackson Browne.

It doesn’t really fit the spirit of the thread, but every discussion of breakup songs must include One More Minute by Weird Al.

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Chad and Jeremy’s A Summer Song.

Enya’s Flora’s Secret.

Skeeter Davis’s End of the World.

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Matchbox 20-Time to Come Home.

Just the first part, over and over

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From a fairly new band, “Cold Hearted” by Zac Brown Band. The words and harmonies really get to me.

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Ooh, nicely done. fist bump

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I thought about the Grease soundtrack “the Worst thing I could do” but Stockard Canning is awesome. So “Hopelessly devoted to you” would have to be it.

Or “Do you Really want to Hurt me” because despite my infatuation with that band back in the day, it really really doesn’t hold up.

But we need another thread for Good songs for bad break ups!

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Here is the companion thread.

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Champagne High–Sister Hazel.

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Fine, honest, kill any reputation I ever had answer here.

All cried out, by Allure.