Breakup Tunes

What songs do you listen to after you've just broken up with someone. It could be to get out the anger, the happiness, the sadness, or just pure raw emotion.

For me:

Sad - Chet Baker, Roy Orbison, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Al Green

Happy - Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Soundtrack, Mutant Disco

Angry - Iggy and the Stooges (Raw Power), Pere Ubu, Johnny Thunders, Neil Young

Usual I'll listen to maybe Mojave 3, some Otis Redding and Bessie Smith. Sometimes spiritualized or Low.

I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself by The White Stripes.

Yep. Or anything by The White Stripes, really.

Sad- the Cure, Sam Cooke, the Dramatics, the Temptations

Happy- James Brown, Buzzcoks, Pixies, Fela Kuti, and alot of Hip Hop

Angry-(early)Face to Face, Scissor Fight, Minor threat

Those are a few. These top five, and desert island threads kill me. I'm too indecisive. I'll look at this thread tomrrow, and have a million more songs/bands. Anyhoo that's it for now.

i used the postal service - give up as mine.

bouncy music w/ depressing lyrics

highly recommended

course for the anger there's converge-jane doe, every time i die - hot damn!, even the new bleeding through

"My Immortal" - Evanescence

Put it on repeat and listen to it over and over and over... it's full of grief, yet so uplifting in a way.

[Edited on Dec 11, 2003 by Sorcha]

I just don't know what to do with myself was originally a Burt Bacarach song. That being said here are my picks

If I'm ending it: The Warlocks - Baby Blue or Jesus and Mary Chain - The Hardest Walk

If it's ending against my will: Joy Division, The Black Hear Procession, Some of the VU or Lou Reeds more depressing shit or the album "The Glow pt.2" by The Microphones.

Oh... how could I forget... Roy Orbison and K.D. Lang doing an acoustic version of "Crying". I can't make it past the first verse without breaking down into sobs. It pulls my heart out of my chest.

I love it.

oh man.
"rocks tonic juice magic" by saves the day is the greatest breakup song ever written. hands down.

Probably anything like The Smiths or The Cure...

Definately "Pictures of you" by The Cure.

"Hope" by the Descendents
"Farewell" by American Nightmare (pretty much anything by AN/Give Up the Ghost)
"In Circles" Sunny Day Real Estate
"I Thought You'd Fall for Me" Mazzy Star
"For Sure" Tiger Trap
"Crowds" Bauhaus

really, there's always this crazy swirl of emotions going on and sometimes i wallow and play the heartbreak hardcore, and sometimes i wanna hear anything but that.

The entire album "Darkest Days" by Stabbing Westward. It's the perfect break up album. It's got every emotion you go through on it. I love it!

George Jones and a bottle of bourbon does just fine.

GDMFSOB - Bad Posture

Bens Fold Five - Brick
is what I listened to after my engagement fell apart. It seemed to work.

Depressed - What Jail Is Like (Afghan Whigs)

Bitter - Radio (Alk3 or Hotwater Music)

Betrayed - Unsuccesfully Coping With The Natural Beauty of Infidelity (Type O Negative)

Optimistic - Hope (Descendents)

I can just put on "Jawbreaker - Dear You" ... no matter how I feel about the break up.... true story

pantera - this love
failure - stuck on you
pearl jam - black
drowning pool - tear away... good for those really fucked up breakups when you feel less empowered
lords of acid - pussy

Angry Johnny and the Killbillys. Almost all of their songs are about heartbreak and murder.

SKA

Time Bomb - Rancid
Latin Goes Ska - Slackers
etc

ska makes you smile

also USE GAFFA/DUCT TAPE as it can fix even a broken heart

Song For The Dumped - ben folds five song for the dumped lyrics

i just don't know what to do with myself - the white stripes

brown eyed blues - ben harper

I usually just put on all of Dylan's really mean songs- Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat, It Ain't Me Babe, etc.- and feel smugly bitter. You know, real productive, feel-good stuff.

Idiot Wind.