Give Me Your Best

Carly Simon's Torch album is my go-to.

Long, Long Time - Linda Ronstadt

My mom played this all the time during her divorce from dad. Still brings a lump to my throat.

Do you want depressing All By Myself type songs or empowering I Will Survive type songs?

Thanks

River by Joni Mitchell

All of This and Nothing, the Psychedelic Furs

How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, Al Green

Bye bye - Randy Crawford

I Can’t Make You Love Me, Bonnie Raitt

Phyllis Hyman "Living All Alone"

This is a real wrist-slitter...

Silver Springs- Fleetwood Mac

R7) Psych Furs reminded me of this. Borderline break up song.

Breakin' Up - Rilo Kiley

"Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" - Eric Carmen (with an assist from Sergei Rachmaninoff)

Amateur - Aimee Mann

"I Get Along without You Very Well" - Carly Simon

I’ve got a few because I had a rough breakup last year. Made a whole playlist. 2 actually lol

Scandal - Goodbye to You

……..

r18, let's see the playlists!

Neil Sedaka.

Bonnie Raitt, "I can't make you love me if you don't", I can't make the heart feel something it won't"...OMG!

Meatloaf..."2 outta 3 ain't bad".. I love you; I need you, but there ain't no way I'm ever gonna Love you...But don't feel bad, cause 2 outta 3 ain't bad!!

Only Time Will Tell, Etta James

Ugly Kid Joe - I Hate Everything About You

Ugly Kid Joe lead singer was SOOOO damn hot.

Miracle of miracles, look what the night dragged in.

I’ll share them!

It’s pretty personal but I don’t care anymore haha! It was super therapeutic. His favorite film is “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”.

I built on it for a while like a diary and it’s crazy cause it starts off kind of angry and then by the end, my mind set started to be more peaceful.

“Thirty Three” by the Smashing Pumpkins means so much to me. Last year I was 33 and I left a relationship and a job after 11 years and that song touched me more than it ever had. And “deep in thought I forgive everyone as the cluttered streets greet me once again”.

I’m being corny but yeah.

If you want a little more of a “fuck you…”

r28, I want a whole lot of 'fuck you'.

r27, thank you.

Would he go down on you in a theatre?

"All I Could Do Was Cry" - Etta James

I’ll share the other one.

This was probably the first 2 weeks I found out he cheated with his crazy ex-girlfriend. I felt like I wrote the songs myself. This playlist is fucking messy but that’s how I felt and every song attacks him. It tells the whole story, you can literally find out what happened track by track lol. I’m really proud of it, it felt like I recorded an album Hahahaha! Again, it was therapeutic for me. He betrayed me with his emo junkie ex.

“Rock Star” is about him being a poser, “Ask Him For Adderall” is LITERAL! Literally! She was giving him adderall, that’s how I started to become suspicious he always had it on him. He loved Halsey and I turned the song around on him. The crazy ex was a junkie. There’s a lot of his favorite punk bands and my responses to them.

And like I said he loved “Eternal Sunshine” so there’s a lot of songs that reference it.

He was always chasing the “manic pixie girl”, Clementine in the movie being an example and I always said those girls aren’t real, they were written by men and that’s what the cover of the playlist represents. He never understood it.

The end of the playlist is his favorite bands covering one of my favorite artist (Yoko Ono) he hated. Lol.

“Ugly People with Fancy Hairdos” is him x2000000. I felt like I wrote that song about him. Attacks his boredom, his poser behavior, his bisexuality, his anger, etc.

Thank you, r32, I have a feeling I'm going to enjoy vicariously going through your break-up much more than I am my own.

Rise - Gabrielle

R33 Thank you! I’m glad I could share them and I’m glad I made them and never deleted them (as I thought about doing it) and they can help somebody else!

Corinne Bailey Rae "Til It Happens To You"

Ya want the "Fuck you?"

Song for the Dumped, Ben Folds Five

I'm Gonna Be Strong - Juice Newton

R32 Thanks for sharing these!

P.S. - Let's don't type "lol" if we're out of high school, dear.

I Will Love Again - Lara Fabian

Burt Bacharach/Elvis Costello "This House Is Empty Now"

Are You Happy Now? - Richard Shindell

Skeeter Davis ~ The End of The World

Labelle "Isn't It A Shame"

Play this one really loud after you've finished packing and you're just doing your final pass to make sure you got everything that's yours.

What I'd Say - Earl Thomas Conley

Walking On Broken Glass and No More I Love Yous, Annie Lennox

I'll Come Back As Another Woman - Tanya Tucker

Todd Rundgren - The Last Ride

Are there any songs about the other person being a coward?

Too Late - Little Walter

Some Days Are Diamonds - John Denver

Believe, Cher

Hell of a voice, too.

Who Will You Run To - Heart

Her man left her for Bill

Madonna has a song for every occasion.

Somebody that I Used to Know

Didn't It Hurt To Hurt Me - Exposé

If your heart isn't in it - Atlantic Starr

Ne me quitte pas — sung by Edith Piaf

Jennifer Hudson - And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going

In my mind, this is the irrefutable classic.

Underrated Bowie masterpiece

From Babs:

And Olivia:

Shirley Bassey - Excuse Me

Closing Time - Leonard Cohen

r32, I think my favorite is Mickey Yr A Fuck Up.

Almost Doesn't Count.

R2 Long, Long Time isn't a breakup song. It's about a love that never was. She's pining for the guy who won't love her back.

"I can't say you hurt me when you never let me near

And I never drew one response from you

All the while you fell all over girls you never knew

'Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine

And I think it's gonna hurt me for a long long time."

Someone played "Long Long Time" at me as he was breaking up with me, r71. You have your breakup music, I'll have mine.

What *is* yours, btw? Or are you just posting to cunt at me?

r2

R72 So the person who played "Long, Long Time" when he was breaking up with you didn't know it was a song about unrequited love?

Sounds like you dodged a bullet by avoiding having to spend a long, long time with somebody who doesn't understand what song lyrics mean.

Say Something. Such a sad song.

R74 That song just kills me every time I hear it. I think it's one of Christina's best vocals, too. She avoids her usual riffing and trilling up and down the scale and just sings. Her voice blends beautifully with the other guy's.