Best breakup song

[mac56]

[Magrittes Pipe]

1. "You Fucked Up" by Ween

[Wickerman]

3. Excellent choice

I was going to say You're Gonna Miss Me - 13th Flr Elev. but that is even better.

[Magrittes Pipe]

10. YGMM is a better song by far...

...but there's nothing like screaming along to "You Fucked Up" to get through a particularly rough patch. ;)

[redqueen]

15. Ween's drummer is gonna tour with Eagles of Death Metal!

How cool is that?!

Sorry... going away now.

[Aiptasia]

20. good old claude

new hips and he's ready to take on the world.

[Magrittes Pipe]

24. Huh?

What's with the "sorry... going away now" bit?

Are you being strange?

[redqueen]

33. Am I ever not?

Was sorry for jacking the thread. I'm not that kinda gal. Or at least I try not to be. But I fail. A lot. Oh well.

[Magrittes Pipe]

43. No, no, no. Jacking is to be ENCOURAGED!

:D

[Aiptasia]

18. or Nan

Hi i'm fucking eddie dingle...

[justinsb]

2. I voted for Gloria Gaynor but...

Danke Schoen by Wayne Newton is pretty good too...depending on the circumstances.

[jpgray]

4. "At Last I Am Free" covered by Robert Wyatt

:)

[NuckinFutz]

5. Go Your Own Way...Fleetwood Mac...n/t

[Guaranteed]

8. Yeaaahhhh.

:)

[Aiptasia]

6. Piss up a rope by Ween is much better

[mac56]

7. "Happy Loving Couples" by Joe Jackson

is actually my own choice.

[Guaranteed]

9. One of my ex's "used" "You Oughta Know" by

Alanis Morissette on me.

Ouch.

[Beware the Beast Man]

22. Even more reason to dump her

:evilgrin:

[RUDUing2]

11. I Will Remember You by Sarah MacLachlan

[redqueen]

12. I'm Goin' Down - I like Mary J. Blige's version

Good Year for the Roses... I'm partial to Elvis Costello's rendition.

Almost Blue - more Elvis.

Looking for Someone, Dusk- Genesis (with Peter, when they were good)

Too many great breakup songs to pick just one...

[StopTheMorans]

16. never heard "I'm goin' down"

but it sure doesn't sound like a breakup song to me! :evilgrin:

[redqueen]

27. Why you....

:spank:


Time on my hands
Since you've been away boy
I ain't got no plans (no, no, no, no)
and the sound of the rain against my window pane
Is slowly, is slowly driving me insane, boy

I'm goin' down
I'm goin down
Cause you ain't around baby
My whole world's upside down

Sleep don't come easy
Boy please believe me
Since you've been gone
Everything's going wrong
Why'd you have to say goodbye
Look what you've done to me
I can't stop these tears form falling from my eyes

I don't know what to do
If I ever loose you
I'll be goin' down
I said I'll be goin' down
Ohhh
Please forgive me baby
I'm so sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry
What did I do wrong?
I said
What did I do wrong?
Please forgive my baby
And come home
Goin' down, goin' down, goin' down

[StopTheMorans]

35. i must be obtuse, it still doesn't sound like a breakup song

especially this line Please forgive my baby And come home
Goin' down, goin' down, goin' down". sounds like a very healthy relationship to me ;)

[gollygee]

13. My Immortal by Evenessance

But I voted for I Can't Make You Love Me

[Political_Junkie]

42. Yep, My Immortal, gets my vote.

[ET Awful]

14. You're Breakin' My Heart by Harry Nillson :)

n/t

[redqueen]

17. Hah!

Good one! :D

[ET Awful]

25. Hehehehe

Nilsson had a waya with words didn't he? :) :evilgrin:

[redqueen]

29. That he did

You stepped on my glasses, too!

[ET Awful]

32. You gotta have your way, there's nothing left to say

and nothin' left to do. .. oooooh

[DelawareValleyDem]

19. Red Rubber Ball

That or One More Minute by Weird Al

[mac56]

23. Forgot about "One More Minute"!

LOL

[Guaranteed]

34. Hee hee...yeaahhh...

Good ole "One More Minute"....

"Yes, I'd rather jump naked on a huge pile of thumbtacks
Or stick my nostrils together with crazy glue
I'd rather dive into a swimming pool filled with double-edged razor blades
Than spend one more minute with you

I'd rather rip my heart out of my ribcage with my bare hands
and then throw it on the floor and stomp on it 'till I die
Than spend one more minute with you."

[Magrittes Pipe]

26. Love the "Forever Changes" avatar.

:thumbsup:

[bmbmd]

54. And, for the other oldsters here

what's wrong with "Breaking up is hard to do" by Neil Sedaka? The ultimate, though, goes to George Jones-"He Stopped Loving Her Today".

[Beware the Beast Man]

21. "B****es Ain't Shit" by Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg

[WilliamPitt]

28. Don't Think Twice, It's Alright

It ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you don't know by now
An' it ain't no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It don't matter, anyhow
When your rooster crows at the break of dawn
Look out your window and I'll be gone
You're the reason I'm trav'lin' on
Don't think twice, it's all right

It ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe
That light I never knowed
An' it ain't no use in turnin' on your light, babe
I'm on the dark side of the road
Still I wish there was somethin' you would do or say
To try and make me change my mind and stay
We never did too much talkin' anyway
So don't think twice, it's all right

It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal
Like you never did before
It ain't no use in callin' out my name, gal
I can't hear you any more
I'm a-thinkin' and a-wond'rin' all the way down the road
I once loved a woman, a child I'm told
I give her my heart but she wanted my soul
But don't think twice, it's all right

So long, honey babe
Where I'm bound, I can't tell
But goodbye's too good a word, gal
So I'll just say fare thee well
I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don't think twice, it's all right

[bettyellen]

67. W.P. somebody was looking for you today , my dear...

and i knew I had seen you around. Look for a shout out in the lounge from this afternoon,

[nine23]

30. Peaches "Fuck The Pain Away"

Trust me. It works on a variety of levels.

[redqueen]

36. mmmmmm

LOVE Peaches!

[bettyellen]

66. what's the song they do w/ pink... i love that song!

[ktowntennesseedem]

31. "Get Your Tongue Outta My Mouth Cause I'm Kissin' You Goodbye"

Once a big hit here in Tennessee!

[ET Awful]

37. If you're going to use that one, you also have to use Hoyt Axton's hit

You're the Hangnail of My Life (and I can't bite you off) :)

You're the dead course I put in my frigedaire
You're the flaky specks of dandruff in my hair
You're the tickle in my throat that makes me cough
You're the hangnail in my life
And I can't bite you off

You're the soap suds and pollution in my stream
When I'm sleeping you're the nightmare in my dream
You're the fattening foods that sometimes gives me gout
You're just like my ingrown toe nail
Cause I can't cut you out

You're the sun that gives me sunburn
You're the cinder in my eye
Your voice can make my stomach turn
You're the rain cloud in my sky

You're the dirty ring around my clean bath tub
You're the razor blade that always leaves the nubs
You're the broken handle on my coffee cup
You're a tire that just went flat
And I can't pump you up

You're the sun that gives me sunburn
You're the cinder in my eye
Your voice can make my stomach turn
You're the rain cloud in my sky

You're the cycle seat that made me saddle sore
You're the piece of chalk that scrapes across the board
You're the tickle in my throat that makes me cough
You're the hangnail in my life
And I can't bite you off

Whoa, you're the hangnail in my life
But I can't bite you off

[TNDemo]

57. This is a great one.

I have had a few of those hangnails in my life.

[tuvor]

38. H-A-T-R-E-D by Tonio K.

Well I wish I were as mellow
As, for instance, Jackson Browne
But "fountain of sorrow" my ass, motherfucker
I hope you wind up in the ground

I'm full of H-A-T-R-E-D
I'm bitter and maligned
I'm P-I-S-S-E-D off
I'm angry most of the time
Why don't you G-O T-O H-E double L
You tramp, you philandering bitch
I'm gonna K-I-L-L one of us baby
Give me time and I'll decide on which

[mac56]

39. Man, that's great!

Never heard it, but it's shot to the top of my breakup hit parade.

[tuvor]

41. From Life in the Foodchain

Apparently back in print through Amazon.

Here's a link to the full set of lyrics.

http://www.leoslyrics.com/listlyrics.php?hid=lula8b%2FcJCw%3D

[nine23]

40. Wow, now that's takin' me waaayyyy back.

I can honestly say, I haven't even thought of Tonio K. since university back in the early eighties. He was HUGE because of the Thomas Mann book...jeezus, gettin' old...

[tuvor]

45. I think he's mellowed out and become a Christian.

Not one of those self-righteous types, thankfully. At least that's what I heard in the mid-eighties.

I think he's "best-known" for writing a song that Charlie Sexton covered on his debut album ("Impressed"). Uh, assuming you remember Charlie Sexton.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

44. "Free" by Vast (nt)

[jobycom]

46. Unbreak My Heart-- Toni Braxton, or, I Will Always Love You, by

Dolly Parton. NOT the one by Whitney.

[Coventina]

47. Junior Brown "My Wife Thinks You're Dead"

:D

Some other honorable mentions:

"I've Got a Match"--They Might Be Giants

"Where In The Hell Did You Go With My Toothbrush?" Rev. Horton Heat

"I Can't Hardly Stand It" The Cramps

"99 To Life" Social Distortion

[TNDemo]

48. Cheesy, but "You Are Everything" by the Stylistics.

When I was 15 I cried a river to that song after my boyfriend made the biggest mistake of his life and broke up with me. :)

[mac56]

49. When I was 15, I cried a river

to "I'll Be Around" by the Spinners when a girl dumped me.

Still have a soft spot for that song.

[Laughing Mirror]

50. And then "Break Up to Make Up" by the Stylistics came out

and you learned that to make up after breaking up was a "game for fools," and so you got over it.

[minorl]

51. Time for me to fly - REO Speedwagon

[DS1]

52. Liar - Megadeth

Start trouble spread pain
Piss and venom in your veins
Talk nasty breath fire
smell rotten you're a liar
diseased health hazard
etc etc etc

[kmla]

53. Ummm. The Breakup Song, by The Greg Kihn Band

:)

[mac56]

55. They don't write 'em like that anymore.

No, really, I mean it.

[kmla]

58. You are right. Uh uh uh, uh uh uh uh uh.

:)

[City of Mills]

56. "Your Time is Gonna Come" - Led Zeppelin n/t

[sariku]

59. Everclear "Now That It's Over"

Loved this song. Helped me wipe my ex off my feet.

[nemo137]

60. "For No One" - Beatles

The best breakup song with French Horn, anyway. Or Mr. T Experience "New Girlfriend" or "How'd the date end?"

[Jean Louise Finch]

61. "Song for the Dumped" - Ben Folds Five

"Give me my money back
Give me my money back, you bitch
I want my money back
... and don't forget my black T-shirt"

[Gryffindor_Bookworm]

62. Everything About You, by Ugly Kid Joe.

:evilgrin:

I, hate the rain and sunny weather,
and I, hate beach and mountains too;
(and) I don't like a thing about the city, no, no,
and I, I, I, hate the countryside too!

And I, hate everything about you!
...everything about you!

And I, don't like a thing about your mother,
and I, I hate your daddy's guts too,
And I don't like a thing about your sister, no, no
'cause I I I think sex is overrated too.

And I, get sick when I'm around, I, can't stand to be around,
I, hate everything about you!
Everything about you, everything about you, everything about you!

Some say I've got a bad attitude,
but that don't change the way I feel about you,
and if you think this might be bringing me down,
look again 'cause I ain't wearing no frown!

And I, get sick when I'm around, I, can't stand to be around,
I, hate everything about you!
Everything about you, everything about you, everything about you!

[solinvictus]

63. "Disintegration" by The Cure

[jdonaldball]

64. "I'm So Miserable Without You, It Feels Just Like You're Here"

[RandomKoolzip]

65. Graham Parker: "You've Got To Be Kidding"

Or the first two Elvis Costello albums played at full volume.