There are 50 ways to make a break up mix. They can be sad or sappy or angsty or optimistic or empowering, or they can be tailored depending on whether you’re the dumper or the dumped. At the question-asker’s request, I’ve designed to this playlist to incorporate the full spectrum of break up emotions, including but not limited to ‘life is over‘ to ‘I deserved better’ to ‘who?‘
Breaking Up is Hard to Do
Crying – Roy Orbison & k.d. lang
You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go – Madeleine Peyroux [Bob Dylan cover]
Ex-Factor – Lauryn Hill
Breathe – Melissa Etheridge
Hang Me Up To Dry – Cold War Kids
Where Does The Good Go – Tegan & Sara
Heartbreaker – Pat Benetar
Jimmy Dean – Hunter Valentine
Maps – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
F.O.D – Green Day
Limp – Fiona Apple
Untouchable Face – Ani DiFranco
I Want To Break Free – Queen
Holiday – Hilary Duff
Not In Love – Crystal Castles ft. Robert Smith
Shut Up & Let Me Go – The Ting Tings
Tell Everybody That You Know – Kanye West ft. Lil’ Wayne
There You Go – P!nk
Whatsername – Green Day
You can stream the entire playlist here.
Add your favorite break up songs in the comments below.
Have a playlist request? Send it to me via Formspring and someone on the team will make it for you.
It’s totally break up season. Here’s my favs:
Happy Ending Mika 4:33
Joyful Sign Girlyman 2:42
Time To Move On Tom Petty 3:17
Some Kind of Nerve Melissa Ferrick 3:07
You Oughta Know Alanis Morissette 4:09
Unsteady Things Alix Olson 5:00
You’re The One Paul Simon 4:28
Done Wrong Ani DiFranco 6:32
Cynical Chris Pureka 5:03
Don’t Think Twice Bob Dylan 3:42
Everybody’s Fool Evanescence 3:16
Stay or Leave Dave Matthews 4:03
Gravel Ani DiFranco 3:32
As Cool As I Am Dar Williams 3:38
You Went Away Tegan & Sara 2:00
Twisted Roads Ellis 3:31
Amazing Grace Ani DiFranco 7:09
It’s Too Late Carole King 3:54
Break-up Song Melissa Ferrick 4:13
Hide and Seek Imogen Heap 4:18
OMG YES HAPPY ENDING. it’s been four years but i can still get all worked up when that song comes on.
Wait a second, this is missing Adele’s someone like you
adele bears so much relevance to this entire post. i will personally admit to belting out “melt my heart to stone” about ten minutes after i broke up with my boyfriend of three years. i was in a park. there were concerned parents nearby. it was like the climax to every meg ryan movie ever made.
So it was like this?
Meg Ryan’s climaxes are always relevant to real life.
AHHH YES I WAS HOPING SOMEONE WOULD THINK OF THIS. except maybe less when harry met sally and more sleepless in seattle. and he was sort of like the dead wife. which makes me tom hanks. but that means i eventually marry meg ryan, so this metaphor isn’t hopeless, after all!
i love this so much
Clean and Sober – Anya Marina
Cup of Coffee – Garbage
Lonely in New York – Sophie Milman
cup of coffee…totally forgot about that song.
Oh my heart </3
Absolute YES! to Cup of Coffee
I think UR a contra- Vampire weekend
Mumford & sons – Sigh no more (THE ENTIRE ALBUM) particularly after the storm, sigh no more, & little lion man…
turning tables- adele
delicate- damien rice
right here- girlyman
i’m soo into feelings through music.
My most recent girlfriend had a dream that she called me during a Mumford and Sons concert during “Little Lion Man” and that I didn’t pick up. Burn.
…Slash she had that dream after I called her from a Kaki King show during the song “Sunnyside.” Bigger burn, I think, and the epitome of everything.
“Yeah I fucked up good and well and you put me through fucking hell but good luck finding someone who can love you better than I.”
out of the wilderness- the be good tanyas
how can you mend a broken heart- al green
the beauty of the rain- dar williams
lately- david gray
my heart- k’s choice
i’m sure i’ll think of more later. but srrsly. break up season or something like that, eh?
I love this list. I own almost every song on it.
Other favorites include “Impossible” by Shontelle, “lesson learned” by Alicia Keys and “breakin up” by Rilo Kiley. Highly recommend those for when its time to go.
Yesss. Rilo Kiley’s “Breakin Up” is perfect post-break-up.
That album was awful, but that song is ahhhmazing.
walk on by – cake
srsly, does maps ever get old? no.
Have you played maps on rockband? I know that sounds a little ridiculous but it is the most cathartic thing ever.
I second Walk On By.
oh mannnn. listening to music post-breakup… healing but also facilitating of The Crazy in so many ways. don’t listen to The National after a breakup unless you want to sit in your room and cry forever. (i’m thinking of many songs, but the chorus in ‘Sorrow’ is beautiful: “Don’t leave my hyper heart alone on the water // Cover me in rag and bone sympathy // ’cause I don’t wanna get over you // I don’t wanna get over you”)
i was and will be all over this shit. but i’m more in the “finally stopped being crazy and am moving on with my life” phase. :D
also big hugs to everyone.
I have definitely been that person sitting in my room and crying forever to break up mixes composed almost entirely of The National songs. “About Today” has been an official part of my relational mourning periods since at least 2006.
Good for you on making it to the “moving on” point. High fives and new dates for you!
“ABOUT TODAY.” YESSS. That’s the one to sob to. Always an essential.
I love The National so much. Glad I’m not alone! :D When my gf and I broke up, the first thing my brother said was, “Delete your texts, delete email, and don’t listen to the national.” … ha.
And thank you! :P Sometimes I catch myself moving backwards and have to steer back on course, but it’s less frequent now. If only I could get those new dates. XD
PATTY GRIFFIN. Must include Patty Griffin! Basically anything her voice has ever graced, but most especially:
Rain
Icicles
Stolen Car (cover)
Useless Desires
When It Don’t Come Easy
OH GOD SO GOOD. So much sobbing. So good.
Useless Desires. FOR REAL.
Konstantine – Something Corporate
Jude Law And A Semester Abroad – Brand New
Screaming Infidelities – Dashboard Confessional
Fuck You – Cee-Lo Green
Monkey Wrench – Foo Fighters
SoCo and Dashboard, be still my heart !
you guys, i’ve been making my own breakup playlist over the past year! sharing all the feelings:
no need to argue – the cranberries
we might as well be strangers – keane
hunter – dido
get gone – fiona apple
your woman – white town
single girls – laura jansen
granted, i’ve finally moved past the misery of the immediate post-breakup and onto crushing on someone else, so i need a completely different playlist at the moment. BUT THIS IS GOOD, TOO.
I have so, so many. But just a few off the top of my head are:
More Adventurous – Rilo Kiley
Almost any Sara Bareilles song (but especially Gravity, Basket Case, Hold My Heart, Breathe Again)
Almost anything off Adele’s 21
Ever After Happily – Jay Brannan (gay break up anthem)
Long Long Time – Linda Ronstadt
Fuck Was I – Jenny Owen Youngs
Dashboard Confessional (for the especially angsty 15 year old in all of us)
Also, fantastic break up songs en español:
Mediocre – Ximena Sariñana
Mientes – Camila
Antes de las Seis – Shakira
Lo Que Más – Shakira
Fuck was I = YES
Honestly I just listen to a hell of a lot of Joy Division, the Cure & the Smiths whilst sitting in my room in the dark. Which of course is super healthy. And then I emerge several months later.
I do this too.
The entire Bodytalk Pt. 3 by Robyn but most especially Call Your Girlfriend, Dancing on My Own, and Love Kills. I think the album was motivated by her breakup with her boyfriend of like 10 years. Its completely amazing.
Oh my god, Robyn is so ideal for post break up music. Body Talk has such a delicious bittersweet vibe to most of the tracks that is really unique in pop musc. Indestructible in particular is great for pulling out of a slump. Plus, she’s stellar live!
OMG YES to Robyn. Especially ‘Love Kills’, but also ‘With Every Heartbeat’ and ‘Be Mine’.
*The Sour and the Sweet – Forgive Durden
*When It Hurts Soo Bad – Lauren Hill
*Over You – Acceptance
*I Want What’s Bad For Me – City Lights
*This Conversation is Over – Acceptance
*Dueces (and the remix) – Chris Brown & Tyga (Drake, Kanye, TI, Rick Ross, Andre 3000) …I prefer the remix, but both will do.
*Cant Be Friends – Trey Songz
*Rise Above This – Seether
And while i’m sure there’s more, i’m too lazy to go through ye old iTunes.
How has no one mentioned the Field Mice yet?
-The “it looks like things aren’t working” stage:
‘Let’s Kiss and Make Up’ http://bit.ly/hBQf46
‘You’re Kidding Aren’t You?’ http://bit.ly/93rKPd
-The “oh shit, we’re actually breaking up” stage:
‘End of the Affair’ http://bit.ly/gAwnZ3
‘So said Kay’ http://bit.ly/kAOfm
-The “I miss her so much it hurts, what have I done?” stage:
‘Fabulous Friend’ http://bit.ly/ofrQ1
‘I Can See Myself Alone Forever’ http://bit.ly/aGjw8
‘Emma’s House’ http://bit.ly/5NGrS
Trust me ladies, twee was made for this <3
For when you just want to cry and cry and cry and cry and cry:
Almost Lover by A Fine Frenzy
Porcelain Doll- Megan McCauley
Cold Cold Heart- Norah Jones
A Fine Frenzy…mhmmm
NORAH JONES…. YE-AH ladyface.
Both of her first two albums are my crying cds.
Also, Bonnie Raitt, Billie Holiday.
Effffff- How did I forget Billie Holiday? Or Ella Fitzgerald?
Definitely those two as well.
Ooh, Maps. Always Maps. I was in a super-awesome-fun-time break up cycle from about September through…uhh…two weeks ago? I don’t recommend the experience, but I can recommend some more songs:
Gardenhead/Leave Me Alone – Neutral Milk Hotel
One More Hour – Sleater-Kinney (I listened to this song so many times. It has all the feelings in the land.)
Run the Heart – Sleigh Bells
About Today – The National
Walkin’ After Midnight – Patsy Cline
Landed – Ben Folds
Where Did You Sleep Last Night? – Nirvana cover
Leeds United – Amanda Palmer
Touch Up – Mother Mother
Polar Opposites – Modest Mouse
Dreams – Fleetwood Mac
Modern Romance – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Paper Bag – Fiona Apple
Knife – Grizzly Bear
Pullin’ Pullin’ – Shelley Short
Acid Tongue – Jenny Lewis
Goodbye – Best Coast
Know Better Learn Faster (the entire album) – Thao & The Get Down Stay Down
Just about everything she’s ever sung – Janis Joplin
“OH you’ve got the darrrkest eyes”…. cue heart breaking.
For wallowing:
So it goes – Billy Joel
For empowering, I’m-so-over-this:
Higher – the Saturdays
Since U been gone – Kelly Clarkson
F**k you – Cee Lo Green
Driving North, Shipwreck, and every other song by Chris Pureka really… but those in particular are very relevant.
And I second Patty Griffin.
Burning Bridges. Ohmygod. That song was on repeat through practically the entirety of my last breakup.
Sarah Harmer – New Loneliness
Stars – Your Ex-Lover is Dead
Stars – One More Night
Julie Doiron – Blue
Julie Doiron – Heavy Snow
MSTRKRFT – Heartbreaker
The Stills – Still in Love
Gentleman Reg – How We Exit
Bright Eyes – It’s Cool, Can we still be friends
Bright Eyes – Haligh, Haligh, a lie, haligh
and just for fun….
Paul Simon – 50 ways to leave your lover
definitely second ‘it’s cool, we can still be friends’… in fact, almost any bright eyes song is a good break up/be depressed song.
Autostraddle is the only website for whom I would listen to a Hilary Duff song.
Lover, You Should’ve Come Over – Jeff Buckley (x1000000)
Somebody’s Crying – Chris Isaa
Only You – Yaz
Space Age Love Song – A Flock of Seagulls
Woke Up New – The Mountain Goats
Burning Fields – Teen Cthulhu
Forever F–ked – Logical Nonsense
Neon Moon – Brooks and Dunn
Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down – Merle Haggard
A Perfect Sonnet – Bright Eyes
The End of the World – Skeeter Davis
Wow, I could just go on and on.
*Isaak
Also, I forgot One More Try by George Michael.
The End of the World ala Skeeter Davis = yes.
crystal i love you and i’m listening the shit out of this
For when you’re just done – with the relationship or drama around a break up. OK, and maybe still a little bitter.
Let Me Hold It Open – Cowboy Mouth http://amzn.to/hWiGwL “I’ve taken more than I’m gonna take / You’ve broken more than you’re gonna break / So if you want to make this mistake / Then let me hold it open for you”
Don’t Wanna Talk – Brendan Benson http://amzn.to/hIeFgu “Don’t wanna talk now, don’t wanna know why / You say you’re lonely, well, baby, so am I / Don’t wanna hear about it, don’t want you coming round / You wanna make me weak, you wanna beat me down”
I Believe – Chris Isaak http://bit.ly/fCwEfw “I believe that you and I just lost our way / And I believe in a beautiful day / I still believe in a beautiful day / / But not for me and not for you / I know you tried, and I tried, too / Sometimes all our dreams just don’t come true”
Songs For When You Are Still Hanging on by a thread
Patience- Guns and Roses
Before it Breaks- Brandi Carlile
Songs For When its Over
Where I Stood- Missy Higgins
I Can’t Make You Love Me- Bette Midler
I Will- Brandi Carlile
ahhh where i stood has gotten me through so many rough nights. yes.
noah and the whale – blue skies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul7XLD_AZu8
the swell season – the verb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajkU5AnmdGk
Sorry I Am – Ani DiFranco
Skinny Love – Bon Iver
Heart of Glass – Blondie
Lighthouse – Chris O’Brien
It’s Not My Fault (It’s My Fault) – Discovery
Ghost Town – First Aid Kit
Heartbreaker – Girls
Remember – Lali Puna
Elephants As Big As Whales – PlayRadioPlay!
Gonna Get Along Without You Now – She&Him
Just The Same But Brand New – St. Vincent
The Strangers – St. Vincent
Oh My God – St. Vincent
Don’t Confess – Tegan and Sara
Skeleton – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Lighthouse- Chris O’brien is a must.
Sorry I Am is one of those songs that some days I just can’t bare to listen to… but it’s an amazing song
Don’t Think Twice – Bob Dylan
Crystal I don’t think I’ve told you yet how much I love these! Here are some of my favorites:
+the early november: i want to hear you sad
+ingrid michaelson: sort of
+the killers: mr. brightside
+kate nash: merry happy
+third eye blind: blinded
+cat power: good woman
+william fitzsimmons: i don’t feel it anymore
+damien rice: rootless tree
+counting crows: holiday in spain
+patrick wolf: the libertine
<3 Ingrid!
Just wanted to share a few (that aren't already on the list – jesus I'm predictable…)from my recently formed breakup/no fucks to give playlist:
When You're Around – Motion City Soundtrack
Gives You Hell – All American Rejects
Our Hearts are Wrong – Jessica Lea Mayfield
Not Ready to Make Nice – Dixie Chicks
Tears Dry on Their Own – Amy Winehouse
Rumour Has It – Adele
Miss You – Schuyler Fisk
love long distance by gossip was on repeat for almost my entire semester abroad.
I have so many feeling re: Not In Love ft Robert Smith. Like. Shit. I can’t even. So thank you for reading my heart and including that.
The #1 Song I Have The Most Feelings About That You Did Not Include would be “High and Dry” by motherfucking Radiohead.
“All your insides fall to pieces, you just sit there wishing you could still make love…best thing that you ever had has gone away.” (Yes I may have cried to this song 2398787439 times and bought the Amanda F*cking Palmer cover so I could cry twice as much.)
And then lots of The Cure/The Smiths/Radiohead/Death Cab For Cutie/Mumford & Sons in general
this is such a good mix! definitely have some to add though…. What is it with all these “FEELINGS” ?!
3 Rounds and a Sound- Blind Pilot
It’s Okay – Land of Talk (the saddest song I know)
Kiss With a Fist- Florence + The Machine
Fuck Was I – Jenny Owen Youngs
Does This Mean You’re Moving On? – The Airborne Toxic Event
Fuck You! – Cee-Lo Green (crucial)
Gotta Have You – The Weepies
ben folds – brick
t&s – call it off
ben folds-brick….sooo many feelings
Tegan and Sara – The Con (The entire album pretty much)
I get extra mileage playing along to songs on my guitar – feels more self-expressive and involved, or something. Not that I’ve had a breakup/relationship/whatever in awhile…
Surprised I didn’t see Damien Rice – Cannonball anywhere! (or I just missed it?) If you haven’t heard Chelsea Williams’ cover, it’s on youtube.
Tori Amos – A Sorta Fairytale (yeah, this)
The Fray – Heartless (if it was that kind of situation)
Sia – Breathe Me (when I’m feeling vulnerable)
Also this song called “World With Me” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii9LbUTmWPo). Not a breakup song really, but it just calms me and always brings me to the understanding that nothing lasts forever, but that’s okay. And life really is complicated!
oh this playlist…oh the feelings…OH THE FEELINGS OF THIS PLAYLIST.
here are my 2cents:
Agua de Annique – Wonder
Anathema – Electricity
Anathema – A Natural Disaster
Antimatter – The Last Laugh
Blackfield – Where Is My Love?
Blackfield – Miss U
The Cranberries – Daffodil Lament
The Gathering – Saturnine
The Gathering – Alone
Katatonia – Dissolving Bonds
Klimt 1918 – Just An Interlude In Your Life
Lacuna Coil – Purify
Lacuna Coil – The Last Goodbye
a couple in italiano that i adore:
Giusy Ferreri – Stai Fermo Lì
Mina – Non Credere
…but if i’m being honest – the winner of my playlist is THIS >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkHOVJINRD8 (heyyyyy)
woaaaah – not quite sure how i managed to forget no-man on this list. but there’s this one song that is almost too much…almost: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpzOu4FsX4k&playnext=1&list=PL6B9DDE6047C4C6BA
OH MY GOD I CAN’T BELIEVE I FORGOT THE BEAUTIFUL ONES BY PRINCE
“Clean Break” – Jenny Owens Young
“Call It Off” – Tegan and Sara
“She Sends Kisses” – The Wrens
“Dancing On My Own” – Robyn
“She’s Got You” – Patsy Cline
http://commusiceration.tumblr.com/
A few to add:
50 ways to leave your lover – Paul Simon
Don’t Speak – No Doubt
Ex-Girlfriend – No Doubt
I Don’t Care Anymore – Phil Collins / Genesis
In the Air of the Night – Phil Collins / Genesis
In my Life – Beatles
Vincent – Don McClean
Tonight’s the Heartache’s on Me – Dixie Chicks
forgot:
Gives you Hell – American Rejects
‘good woman’ by cat power
‘make war’ bright eyes
all the tegan and sara songs
all the bon iver
‘bird stealing bread’ by iron & wine
90% of my itunes
1. Tegan and Sara – Call It Off
2. Tegan and Sara – Call It Off
3. Tegan and Sara – Call It Off
4. Tegan and Sara – Call It Off
5. Tegan and Sara – Call It Off
6. Tegan and Sara – Call It Off
7. Tegan and Sara – Call It Off
8. Tegan and Sara – Call It Off
etc
RT
LDO. #truth
Melissa Ferrick’s I Still Love You, on a loop.
For the mournful, still-moping phase:
Nina Simone – Ne Me Quitte Pas
Chris Pureka – Burning Bridges
Les Nubians – Amour à mort
Ben Harper – Walk Away
Lauryn Hill – Ex-factor
Stars – One More Night
Lucero – Nights Like These
Pine Hill Haints – The Whiskey Broke My Fall
Billie Holiday – Good Morning Heartache
For the upbeat, I-don’t-need-you-anyway phase:
The Streets – Dry Your Eyes
Nelly Furtado – All Good Things (Come to an End)
Justin Timberlake – What Comes Around
Incubus – Nice To Know You *don’t judge*
Basement Jaxx – Good Luck
Norah Jones – Don’t Miss You At All
Aretha Franklin – I Will Survive
Nina Simone – Feeling Good
I feel like these song titles narrate the story of my most recent breakup.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpVLLq7KQyE
IMPORTANT
I don’t bother separating out the different kinds of break-up songs because my emotions swing so wildly from one minute to the next (especially right after), it’s all relevent!
Neptune – SJ Tucker
Shouganai Yume Oibito – Morning Musume.
Syabondama – Morning Musume.
All of Me – Ai Kago
Untouchable Face – Ani DiFranco
Adam and Eve – Ani DiFranco
Sorry I Am – Ani DiFranco
I Love Myself Today – Bif Naked
Mine – Bonnie McKee
Thunder – Bonnie McKee
Sensitive Subject Matter – Bonnie McKee
I Can’t Make You Love Me – Bonnie Raitt
Making Circles – Christian Kane
Jar of Hearts – Christina Perry
Too Fast For Love – The Donnas
Shadowboxer – Fiona Apple
You Look So Fine – Garbage
Stupid Girl – Garbage
Special – Garbage
Redundant – Green Day
One of These Days – Imani Coppola
I Let You Go – Iona Leigh
Over You – Jasmin Tabatabai
Lie to Me – Johnny Lang
Crying – kd lang (prefereably the Live By Request version)
Nicest Thing – Kate Nash
My Beautiful – Lennon
Smile – Lily Allen
Love Me Dead – Ludo
She’s My Alcatraz – The Mr. T Experience
Love is Dead – The Mr. T Experience
New Girlfriend – The Mr. T Experience
Self-Esteem – The Offspring
For What It’s Worth – Placebo
Without You I’m Nothing – Placebo
Every You Every Me – Placebo
Fall Back Down – Rancid
You Don’t Own Me – Rasputina
Gravity – Sara Bareilles
I Don’t Wanna Be Friends – Screeching Weasel
Don’t Get My Hopes Up – SJ Tucker
Fell On Black Days – Soundgarden
Loves Me Not – Tatu
You Went Away – Tegan & Sara
Love this playlist…also glad you included Tatu :)
Also, do any of you lovely musically-inclined peeps use last.fm? You set up a profile and it imports the listens in your library (itunes/ipod) and charts what you listen to most and gives you recommendations, then shows you your musical compatibility with other users. My favorite thing it does is give you information on artists when you are listening, helps you clean up your tags etc etc etc. It also streams a radio customized by the music you listen to (I think this function now costs dollas but everything else is free and it does a lot). Anyways, it’s like facebook for music. So yeah. Pretty rad.
Add me stef_bot
xo!
Saddest songs!
Hands down-Dashboard Confessional
A Perfect Sonnet-Bright Eyes
Carry Me Ohio-Sun Kil Moon
Heartbeats-José González
Your Song-Ellie Goulding
I’ve Been Eating (For You)-Bright Eyes
Title and Registration-Death Cab for Cutie
Almost Lover-A Fine Frenzy
Falling Out of Love (With You)-The 6ths
Someone Like You-Adele
To Be Alone With You-Sufjan Stevens
Love Is A Losing Game (Original Demo)-Amy Winehouse
Sad Eyes-Bat For Lashes
Maps-Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Hide Your Tears-Dylan Thomas Band
Leaving You Behind (Feat. Lykke Li)-Amanda Blank
Mad World-Gary Jules
Where is My Love-Cat Power
Needle In The Hay-Elliott Smith
Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want This Time-The Smiths
Let It Die-Feist
Last Goodbye-Jeff Buckley
Ex-Factor-Lauryn Hill
Love Will Tear Us Apart-Worm Is Green
What It Is-Amy Winehouse
(Hopefully it actually posts this time)
Sad songs!
Hands down-Dashboard Confessional
A Perfect Sonnet-Bright Eyes
Carry Me Ohio-Sun Kil Moon
Heartbeats-José González
Your Song-Ellie Goulding
I’ve Been Eating (For You)-Bright Eyes
Title and Registration-Death Cab for Cutie
Almost Lover-A Fine Frenzy
Falling Out of Love (With You)-The 6ths
Someone Like You-Adele
To Be Alone With You-Sufjan Stevens
Love Is A Losing Game (Original Demo)-Amy Winehouse
Sad Eyes-Bat For Lashes
Maps-Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Hide Your Tears-Dylan Thomas Band
Leaving You Behind (Feat. Lykke Li)-Amanda Blank
Mad World-Gary Jules
Where is My Love-Cat Power
Needle In The Hay-Elliott Smith
Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want This Time-The Smiths
Let It Die-Feist
Last Goodbye-Jeff Buckley
Ex-Factor-Lauryn Hill
Love Will Tear Us Apart-Worm Is Green
What It Is-Amy Winehouse
This is what I listened to when my relationship with the first (and only) person I have ever been in love with ended last year –
– The Cure – The End of the World
– Depeche Mode – Never Let Me Down Again
– Billie Holiday – Lady Sings the Blues / Stormy Weather
– Nina Simone – Lilac Wine
– Joni Mitchell – A Case of You
– Sia – Death By Chocolate
– Tegan & Sarah ft. Tiesto – Feel It In My Bones
– K.D. Lang – Season of Hollow Soul
– Bryan Ferry – These Foolish Things (I can’t believe I just admitted that, even on the internet)
– Lykke Li – Until We Bleed
– Bjork – Immature & 5 Years
– the xx – Shelter
In other news, I still can’t quite believe I’ll ever fall in love again. Sigh.
+
– Joan Baez ft. Bob Dylan – Love Is Just a Four Letter Word
– Robyn – Love Kills
– Bob Dylan – Sarah
ALL k.d.lang.
But the ultimate album for all facets of a break-up is Last Night On Earth by Noah & The Whale.
You will cry buckets, but the music makes you feel better.
Also Simple Things by Joshua Radin. Or at least most of it.
And You Forgot It In People by Broken Social Scene.
And the soundtrack to Submarine by Alex Turner.
+ Most Tegan & Sara, Lykke Li, Will Young and the xx’s album.
And on another note, I am pro as hell at wailing out ‘Someone Like You’ by Adele.
Sharon Van Etten.
May I congradulate all of you on your excellent choices in music. I have already spent a significant amount of time on this page listening to the mixture of awesome old songs/fabulous new songs. I may have to mark this page as a favorite simply to listen to every playlist that has been thrown out.
While I could spent hours alone constructing a playlist of my own, I will simply leave you all with…
John Mayer – Slow Dancing In A Burning Room *excitement*
Def some:
The Ocean – Tegan and Sara
Let’s Stay Together – Al Green
Make You Feel My Love – Adele
Love Your Memory – Miranda Lambert
Strange and Beautiful – Aqualung
Stay or Leave – Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds
Let It Be Me – Ray LaMontagne
Blowers Daughter – Damian Rice
Home to Me – Josh Kelley
Cross My Mind – Jill Scott
So What – Ani Difranco
Sometime Around Midnight – Airborne Toxic Event
I Just Dont Think I’ll Ever Get Over You – Colin Hay
Arms of a Woman – Amos Lee
:(
Oooo…. So many amazing songs already, I don’t think these have been mentioned yet…
Kaki King- Everything Has An End, Even Sadness
The BoatPeople- Bulletproof (I love this cover!!)
Okay, so. I am simultaneously miserable and glad that this exists.
–The entire album of Junior by Kaki King. PERFECT. As stated in a previous comment, I called my ex- during “Sunnyside” because I am a dreadful human being.
–The entire XX album takes me from beginning to end of my most recent relationship, and I’m not sure whether or not that merits happiness or vomit.
I HAVE TRAWLED THE OCEANS OF THIS POST AND NO ONE HAS MENTIONED CAKE’S COVER OF “I WILL SURVIVE.” This cannot stand. I think I listened to that song 50 times in the 3 weeks after I was dumped last time.
Break up songs are good for the soul. You will survive. <3
Agreed on everything… Sunnyside sometimes hurts to listen to…. But I love the song… And Kaki King… If you are reading, I love you too….
I finally joined this site after months of lurking just to post in this thread cause I have many feelings, and sometimes these feelings just need to be let out.
Bookends-Simon & Garfunkel
Sorrow-The National
First Days of Spring-Noah and the Whale
Sigh No More-Mumford & Sons
Roads-Portishead
I’ll Be Seeing You-Billie Holiday
Slow Show-The National
Coffee & Cigarettes-Michelle Featherstone
Black-Pearl Jam
Only(Richard X Remix)-Nine Inch Nails
Falling-Florence & the Machine
The Greatest-Cat Power
Standing in the Way of Control(Soulwax Nite Version Mix)-Gossip
Paint the Silence-South
Cry Me a River-Julie London
I’m Sorry, But I’m Beginning to Hate Your Face-Eagle Seagull
Chinese Translation-M. Ward
In Every Sunflower-Bell X1
Blue Skies-Noah and the Whale
After the Storm-Mumford & Sons
5 Years Time-Noah and the Whale
A Safe Place-Animal Hospital
They’re a mix of different post-break up feelings. Songs to cry to, to mourn to, to get angry to, to get shitfaced to, and to inspire you, and to move on.
Speaking of inspiring can the next playlist be about new love, first date or something along those lines? :D
This new Sara Quin/Doveman cover of Alicia Keys’ “Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart” is officially on my breakup playlist.
http://vimeo.com/23012987
GAH. Rip my heart out.
Um I’m coming into this conversation way late but anything by the Magnetic Fields. ANYTHINGGGG. I’m going to try to sleep this off.
That damn Fine Frenzy song. ‘Almost Lover’ Sheesh..kills me
It’s gotta be, Cee Lo Green – Fuck you
What a tune!
∆ Some Devil by Dave Mathews – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhbzoltxZms
∆ Colorblind by Counting Crows – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0s7ycdUcHk
∆ ANYTHING by Will Bevan .. http://youtu.be/x4B0yj15FPw or http://youtu.be/j5yP-lfj_wU
∆ Flying Lotus http://youtu.be/RXwOsYZhbGY
∆ Beneficial herbs by Kasbian
∆ Into dust Mazzy Starr
∆ Another world or Hope there’s someone – antony and the johnsons
∆ Just another Pete Yorn
∆ Hands Clean – Alanis