breakup music

[Sassbox]

I once burned a CD with 15 versions of Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" on it and mailed it to an ex.  In retrospect, he wasn't worth the postage.

Oh, and The Knack's "Can't Put A Price On Love" is pretty sweet, too.

[dragonboy]

I once burned a CD with 15 versions of Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" on it and mailed it to an ex.  In retrospect, he wasn't worth the postage.

Do you have Steve Young's version?!!

I put nothing but this song back-to-back on both sides of a 90minute cassette  ;D  :-[

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShN8UIk5-mw[/media]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShN8UIk5-mw

[el_chode]

I didn't re-read this whole thread, but no breakup music thread is complete without the following:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSiVms4CJcU[/media]
Baby, baby, baby biiiiiitch
Fuck you, you stinkin ass 'ho

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQifocfyOA[/media]
Wilco - Glad It's Over

[Penny Lane]

That's all i've listened to for the past year!! I never saw this thread!  I've pretty much cornered the market on breakup music.

For the last month, it's been Lucinda Williams' new album---about half of the album makes me cry; a lot of wilco's sky blue sky is pretty grim (even though supposedly he wrote it as a gift to his wife lol) Try The Originals album and a GREAT breakup album---Spiritualized "ladies and gentlemen" (pretty much anything from spiritualized)

[el_chode]

That's all i've listened to for the past year!! I never saw this thread!  I've pretty much cornered the market on breakup music.

For the last month, it's been Lucinda Williams' new album---about half of the album makes me cry; a lot of wilco's sky blue sky is pretty grim (even though supposedly he wrote it as a gift to his wife lol) Try The Originals album and a GREAT breakup album---Spiritualized "ladies and gentlemen" (pretty much anything from spiritualized)

If that was Tweedy's album for his wife, that's sad. I mean the song I posted was a b-side off that album that made it to the Heroes soundtrack. It has the goddamn line "I hate you 100% I mean that kindly" and "I want you out of my life until my life ends"

[Love Dogg]

To be clear...is this thread for the heart breaker or the heart breakee?

[Sassbox]

Lucinda Williams' new album

"If Wishes Were Horses"...knife.  through.  heart.  I had a period of about two years where I couldn't listen to Lucinda at all.  The new album had me thinking I might have to revisit that abstinence, but all's well thus far!

[Penny Lane]

That's all i've listened to for the past year!! I never saw this thread!  I've pretty much cornered the market on breakup music.

For the last month, it's been Lucinda Williams' new album---about half of the album makes me cry; a lot of wilco's sky blue sky is pretty grim (even though supposedly he wrote it as a gift to his wife lol) Try The Originals album and a GREAT breakup album---Spiritualized "ladies and gentlemen" (pretty much anything from spiritualized)

If that was Tweedy's album for his wife, that's sad. I mean the song I posted was a b-side off that album that made it to the Heroes soundtrack. It has the goddamn line "I hate you 100% I mean that kindly" and "I want you out of my life until my life ends"

well he said on the documentary that he wrote it for his wife, but took it more to mean that he wrote really pretty melodies more than the lyrics were directed at her. maybe he meant those lyrics towards jay bennett (lol)

[Penny Lane]

Lucinda Williams' new album

"If Wishes Were Horses"...knife.  through.  heart.  I had a period of about two years where I couldn't listen to Lucinda at all.  The new album had me thinking I might have to revisit that abstinence, but all's well thus far!

it is the first lucinda album i've ever heard (yes, i know-i'm late in the game) i am definitely going to keep discovering her. if wishes were horses and the knowing are so haunting. it does feel like someone is stabbing you...

i think break ups effect the heartbreakER as much as the breakEE so i think it's a thread for both :-)

[Sassbox]

She's one of my favorites...check these out, for sure:

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Essence
World Without Tears

I'm still warming up to West, but I also love Live at the Fillmore.

[ALady]

Live at the Fillmore is about ten kinds of greatness.  I've loved Lucinda for a long time now, and that record gave me a completely new appreciation for her.

I'm rarely a heartbreaker or a heartbreakee, but I do love some sad bastard music.  Recommended tracks:

Bettye LaVette - Just Say So
Neko Case - In California
Wilco - Reservations
Blitzen Trapper - Not Your Lover

When you start feeling better, listen to Candi Staton's self-titled disc on repeat   :)

[Taxman]

When you start feeling better, listen to Candi Staton's self-titled disc on repeat   :)

8-)

Also a nice lyric:

And we won't understand your grief
Because time is illusion
As this watery world spins around
This timeless sun
Will dry your eyes
And calm your mind

Marillion - Estonia


And of course the whole of No Other by Gene Clark is some heavy stuff to listen to while in some emotional turmoil.

[mjkoehler]

Pretty much anything from Depech Mode's Violator (except Personal Jesus).

Dated a girl who loved that album (with good reason) and ummm liked to ummm, yeah that, to it. Everytime I listen I have to sigh. Used to listen to it after we split and it made me sad. ahhh college.

[Ghosts_on_TV]

Blur-No distance left to run

Its over
You dont need to tell me
I hope youre with someone who makes you
Feel safe in your sleeping tonight
I wont kill myself, trying to stay in your life
I got no distance left to run

When you see me
Please turn your back and walk away
I dont want to see you
Cos I know the dreams that you keep is wearing me
When your coming down, think of me here
I got no distance left to run

Its over, I knew it would end this way
I hope youre with someone who makes you feel
That this life is the night
And it settles down, stays around
Spends more time with you
I got no distance left to run

[Sunny]

Blur-No distance left to run

Its over
You dont need to tell me
I hope youre with someone who makes you
Feel safe in your sleeping tonight
I wont kill myself, trying to stay in your life
I got no distance left to run

When you see me
Please turn your back and walk away
I dont want to see you
Cos I know the dreams that you keep is wearing me
When your coming down, think of me here
I got no distance left to run

Its over, I knew it would end this way
I hope youre with someone who makes you feel
That this life is the night
And it settles down, stays around
Spends more time with you
I got no distance left to run

That's basically how I felt a couple weeks ago. It's so hard to resist attempting to make things right again.  :(

[el_chode]

That's all i've listened to for the past year!! I never saw this thread!  I've pretty much cornered the market on breakup music.

For the last month, it's been Lucinda Williams' new album---about half of the album makes me cry; a lot of wilco's sky blue sky is pretty grim (even though supposedly he wrote it as a gift to his wife lol) Try The Originals album and a GREAT breakup album---Spiritualized "ladies and gentlemen" (pretty much anything from spiritualized)

If that was Tweedy's album for his wife, that's sad. I mean the song I posted was a b-side off that album that made it to the Heroes soundtrack. It has the goddamn line "I hate you 100% I mean that kindly" and "I want you out of my life until my life ends"

well he said on the documentary that he wrote it for his wife, but took it more to mean that he wrote really pretty melodies more than the lyrics were directed at her. maybe he meant those lyrics towards jay bennett (lol)

there's a documentary on sky blue sky? where have i been? I just love that album because of how it was recorded. however, i digress. time to hit the ol' googles.

On topic: I feel a duty to add the following:

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Dismemberment Plan - What do You Want me to Say?
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vczKuqg7ZGI[/media]
Dismemberment Plan - Come Home

I'd link to some Jets to Brazil, but I don't want to turn the thread emo

[Ghosts_on_TV]

The National~Beautiful Head

You're walking taller than you should
The air is thin around your beautiful head
You're saying things with your mouth to me
That I don't recognize
You're aware of yourself lately

Redefining yourself
Designing yourself
You haven't looked at me forever
Got a diagram of your associations
A strategy
You're weighing your options

What would you trade me for?
You're measuring me lately
And I can tell
And I can tell I'm losing weight
You're measuring me lately
You're dressing me

Do not tell me I've changed
You're just raising your standards
Do not give me away
I am the same
I am the same

Have you found him?
Have you told him everything?
Does he say he feels bad about all this?
You've shown tenderness for me
Tenderness for me
To him

Do not tell me I've changed
You're just raising your standards
Do not give me away
I am the same
I am the same

[Ghostess on TV]

Bright Eyes - Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh

The phone slips from a loose grip
Words were missed then some apology
I didn't want to tell you this
No it's just some guys
She's been hanging out with
Oh I don't know
The past couple of weeks I guess
Thank you and hang up the phone
Let the funeral start
Hear the casket close, let's pin
Split-black ribbon to your overcoat

Well laughter pours from under doors
In this house, I don't
Understand that sound no more
It seems artificial like a T.V. set

Haligh, Haligh, Haligh, Haligh
This weight it must be satisfied
You offer only one reply
You know not what you do

But you tear and tear your hair from roots
From that same head you've twice removed
A lock of hair you said would prove
Our love would never die
Well, ha ha ha!

But I remember everything
The words we spoke on freezing South Street
And all those mornings watching you
Get ready for school

You combed your hair inside that mirror
The one you painted blue and glued with jewelry tears
Something about those bright colors
Will always made you feel better

But now we speak with ruined tongues
And the words we say
Aren't meant for anyone
It's just a mumbled sentence to
A passing acquaintance
But there was once you..

You said you hate my suffering
And you understood
And you'd take care of me
You would always be there
Well where are you now?

Haligh, Haligh, Haligh, Haligh
The plans were never finalized
But left to hang like yarn and twine
Dangling before my eyes

As you tear and tear your hair from roots
That same head you have twice removed
A lock of hair you said would prove
Our love would never die

As I sing and sing of awful things
The pleasure that my sadness brings
And my fingers press onto the strings
You get another clumsy chord

Haligh, Haligh, an awful lie
This weight will now be satisfied
I wanna give you only one reply
I know not who I am

But I talk in the mirror
To the stranger that appears
Our conversations are circles
And always one sided
Nothing is clear

Except we keep coming back
To this meaning that I lack
He says the choices were given
And now we must live them
Or just not live...

But do you want that?

[Ghostess on TV]

Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye

This is our last goodbye
I hate to feel the love between us die
But it's over
Just hear this and then i'll go
You gave me more to live for
More than you'll ever know

This is our last embrace
Must I dream and always see your face
Why can't we overcome this wall
Well, maybe it's just because i didn't know you at all

Kiss me, please kiss me
But kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation
You know it makes me so angry 'cause i know that in time
I'll only make you cry, this is our last goodbye

Did you say "no, this can't happen to me,"
And did you rush to the phone to call
Was there a voice unkind in the back of your mind
Saying maybe you didn't know him at all
You didn't know him at all, oh, you didn't know

Well, the bells out in the church tower chime
Burning clues into this heart of mine
Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and the memories
Offer signs that it's over... it's over

[ALady]

Pretty much all of William Fitzsimmons' The Sparrow and the Crow works, too.