I broke up with my girlfriend of a good while an hour ago, I'm really bummin', so help me out...

Give me your all time feel good/break up songs.

I don't know if I'm going to be in the mood for something like Bright Eyes or if I'm going to want something like Boy Least Likely To, so give me some depressing and some happy tracks.

Oh, and The Long Blondes is currently making me happy. Probably because half the songs are about dead/dying/non-existent relationships.

Shoot.

That is sad news my brother with the 0 in his name. There are plenty of songs I can think of, but if you have Weezer's Pinkerton you could pop that in and listen to it all the way through. Besides being a masterpiece it is a great album about a guy who gets betrayed by women. Or you can just pop in Beck's Sea Change and just cry out your eyes. Besides being the best album of 2002, it is also arguably the best album by a man going through heartache of all time. I don't know your exact situation but here are some great sad and happy songs I love:

--R.E.M. - "Everybody Hurts" (Poignant, great lyrics, even better music)
--Jackson 5 - "Never Can Say Goodbye," "I'll Be There"
--The Beatles - "Help!" or for happy check out "Rocky Raccoon." A great song with Paul at his most playful best. This might be my most favorite song by them.
--Beck - "Lonesome Tears"
--Nine Inch Nails - "Something I Can Never Have"
--Drive-By Truckers - "Goddamn Lonely Love"
--Fleetwood Mac - "Go Your Own Way"
--Incubus - "I Miss You"
--Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Maps"
--John Lennon - "Love"
--Of Montreal - "The Past is a Grotesque Animal"
--Radiohead - "True Love Waits," "How to Disappear Completely," "Motion Picture Soundtrack," "Fake Plastic Trees"
--Antony and the Johnsons - "Hope There's Someone"
--U2 - "With or Without You"
--The Bee Gees - "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart"
--Tom Waits - "If I Have to Go"
--Bob Dylan - "To Make You Feel My Love"
--The Beach Boys - "God Only Knows" (Who knows if this is a break up song, or a love song, but it is one of my top five songs of all time. Featured in an episode of the classic show, "The Wonder Years," when Winnie tells Kevin she doesn't want to be with him, the song fit nicely.)

Ryan Adams' Heartbreaker. "Come Pick Me Up" and "Call me on your way back home" are just sick with heartache. Perfect break up album.

The other obvious answer is Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks. The all-time whammy of a break up album.

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Originally posted by Hophead:
The other obvious answer is Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks. The all-time whammy of a break up album.

There ya go.

Plus almost any Bonnie 'Prince' Billy track is a mixture of sad & happy.

Sorry to hear about this, dude. Hopefully, these songs can help you through.


Beck - "Lost Cause", "Guess I'm Doing Fine," "Already Dead"

J. Tillman - Everything

Songs: Ohia - "Didn't It Rain," "Just Be Simple," "Hold On Magnolia," "Goodnight Lover"

Magnolia Electric Co - "I Cannot Have Seen the Light"

Jason Molina - "Long Desert Train," "No Moon on the Water"

Elephant Micah - "Dream Feedback," "Mercy On Us," "The Greatest Claim"

Winterpills - "Looking Down"

Beta Band - "When I'm Gone"

Eels - "It's A Motherfucker," "Somebody Loves You"

Damien Jurado - "Curbside," "Tonight I Will Retire"

Red House Painters - "Katy Song," "Song For A Blue Guitar"

Wind-Up Bird - "Sorry"

Grandaddy - "Underneath the Weeping Willow"

Ryan Adams - "In My Time of Need"

Yo La Tengo - "Tears Are In Your Eyes"

Joni Mitchell - "Blue"

M83 - "Gone"

Gordon Lightfoot - "I'm Not Supposed To Care," "Spanish Moss"

Ben Folds Five - "Evaporated"

Elliott Smith - "I Didn't Understand," "Oh Well Okay," "I Better Be Quiet Now"

Mountain Goats - "Warm Lonely Planet"

Magnetic Fields - "When You're Old and Lonely"

I'm going to buck tradition and say that the last thing you need is a bunch of sad bastard music.

My only choice:

Ween's "You Fucked Up".

Learn it. Love it. Live it.

I'm with you, eric. Go angry.
I recommend "Head Like a Hole," by NIN and "Submission" by the Sex Pistols.

Of Montreal's newest is a great breakup album. Can't go wrong with Dylan's Blood on the Tracks either.

I'd just listen to all of The Undertones, the Vibrators' Pure Mania, the Ramones' Rocket to Russia and Dave Edmunds' Repeat When Necessary. Whatever emotions thet make you feel, you will feel better (one way or the other).

So far I've been doin' NIN->Blood On the Tracks (one of my all-time faves)-> Antony & the Johnsons-> Pinkerton (I'd never checked it out before but it's definately good)-> The Field (this "Sublime album was really soothing while I took a bath.. I liked it, and it may be topping Gui Boratto)-> DFA1979-> Long Blondes.

I'm hoping that once I'm done with this it'll turn into an all-time break up songs thread (I'm trying to not be selfish here haha)

Good song to get pissed off too:

You make me feel like a whore-Everclear

Is more fitting if the girl breaks up with you, but still a good break up song.

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Originally posted by Besttasteinmusicever:
Good song to get pissed off too:

You make me feel like a whore-Everclear

True dat. If I were listening to Everclear I'd be pretty thoroughly pissed.

I think A grand don't come for free by the streets would be a great one to listen to all the way through. I love following his story and reaching the climax with him, his realisations and lessons learned.

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True dat. If I were listening to Everclear I'd be pretty thoroughly pissed.

Actually their Sparkle And Fade record is pretty decent. Pretty well everything they did before and after wasn't all that great, but for that one record they did well for themselves.

I'd also have to agree that Blood on The Tracks is the ultimate break-up album, especially "Idiot Wind". Of course we're talking about a decade long marriage with children involved, so the weight of it is much more immense than most break-up material.

I'd throw in The Replacements' "Answering Machine" and "Unsatisfied", especially the later. Westerberg's got a quality in his voice that seems very sincere when he slows things done.

I was debating whether to post this suggestion or not, but you should at least get a laugh out of it:
Ben Folds cover of Bitches Ain't Shit

Considering you'll be back together in like .5 weeks, it's kind of a moot point, but Of Montreal's newest is the most up-to-date album based on the eternal fuck-up that we call 'love'.

Haha. Good call.

Modest Mouse - Broke

"Broke up and I'm relieved somehow/It's the end of the discussions that just go 'round and 'round/And 'round and 'round and 'round and 'round/And 'round and 'round and shouldn't have been anyway/No way, no way that's right that's right."

I just went through this -- my suggestions
Anything by Elliot Smith (not the name of an album, just absolutely anything he's done)
Sea Change by Beck
Blood on the Tracks -- Dylan
Undertow --Tool
Downward Spiral -- NIN