Lord knows I have spent a ton of digital ink documenting the trials and trivialities of my adolescent love life. So why the hell should I worry about wasting a little more?
Give the people what they want.
So, as I have said before, when faced with writers block, or laziness, a blogger’s best friend is the “Top Ten” list. It’s a snappy little template that I have turned to time and time again. The only trick is coming up with a topic.
So for lack of a better topic, here are the Top Break Up songs, as lived by me. This is a personal list. These are not the top break up songs of all time, or even good songs. They are just the songs tied to different girls in these stories of mine.
This is in no way a reflection, or an editorial, on the fine upstanding characters of any of these girls. In fact, listening to them now, I’m not sure what, if anything, they have to do with breaking up. These are just the songs that lodged in my brain as I was trying to get these various girls off of my mind, by thinking of them non stop naturally.
To this day, I can’t hear one of these without thinking of each of them. The brain is a funny thing.
Jung, and Freud can do with it what they will…
Marianne – The Boxer – Simon and Garfunkel
Jennifer – Total Eclipse of the Heart – Bonnie Tyler
Kelly – Your wildest dreams – Moody Blues
Lori – There is a Light that Never Goes Out – The Smiths
Marie – She’s Got a New Spell – Billy Bragg
Yellowstone Sue – Losing my Religion – REM
There is no #1. Thank god I finally found Mrs. 20 Prospect and saved my soul from an eternity of suffering. As I have said before, if you are married, you can most likely look back on your life and say that over 90% of all of your relationships ended up with a break up. Figure in that the divorce rate hovers around 50% and you can understand why people drink.
Yeah, yeah.
But imagine how dull life would be without such beautiful agony.
So what are your wonderful little break up songs that always pluck your heart strings?
Holy shit — Total Eclipse of the Heart makes me want to break up with someone! Have you seen the Literal Video Version of that song? Hilarious! Maybe it will uncondition your mind:
I remember one break up where I listened to Van Halen’s Dreams repeatedly. I still love that song though. In fact, today feels like a great day to rock some Van Halen.
Oh god, that is hysterical. How did I never come across that before? I love it!
I am such a huge lover of all things music, I never wanted a guy to ruin a song for me. In an effort to keep this from happening, I would consciously not allow the association of guys with songs. The one exception is the saddest, being a funeral, wherein a particularly young friend had passed away and someone with terrible foresight had decided the friends should be in charge of the music as the casket was carried out. So, now, I am totally reduced to a crying wreck the second this song begins to play. Thankfully, it’s not exactly a classic, but sometimes, at the most random moments, it will come on…..and there I go….
Now that is real heartbreak stuff. My little puppy love heartbreak pales in comparison.
I love that song.
I know it sounds silly, but it makes me think of my dog I lost a year ago (to old age). I really wish she was here.
How did you know that this is the song that Mrs. 20 Prospect and I danced to at our Wedding Reception?
http://oakwoodlife.blogspot.com/2011/02/break-up-songs.html
ol’ Willie goes beyond breakup music. Ole Willie makes me want to drink bourbon, and cry any time I hear it.
I’ve had the memories of break-ups chemically erased from my brain.
But songs that signify the times in my life that I have been alone…PLENTY of those.
But I did date a guy who’s name was Jesse (J-Hole, Douchebag #2) and everytime I showed up to bartend the DJ would play Rick Springfields “Jesse’s Girl” and now my high school crush on Rick is forever RUINED.
GAH!!!!!!!! I hated that song!
Songs about feeling lonely is a hole other post. Man, I’ve got tons of morose songs that would make a person want to climb into a tub of warm water and slit their wrists. I’ve always been one of those people that LOVES to feel miserable, and sorry for themselves. It makes me happy.
Ah, alone and lonely are two different things. I’m rarely lonely with all the split personalities floating about my psyche.
And if you account for that stalker in the bushes outside your window, you’re also rarely alone.
I wanted to write a post about this – the other day, in the car, I managed to get through about 4 songs in a row, all reminding me of exes/break-ups.
Some much worse than others.
But in all honesty, I think the Boyfriend would be weirded out by it. And his family reads my blog (um… yay.). He likes to not know any names or history.
Maybe I can just write a list without names. But that would be pretty boring.
Fuck it, I’ll just privately journal it. (no fun).
That’s a bummer. My in laws, and wife read my blog too, and seem to have accepted the fact that I write posts about my lost teenage loves, so I’m lucky I guess.
(Hi Mrs. 20Prospect, and her family!!!)
If you’d like you can post it here where no one knows who you are. I’ve found that my group of 300 lb serial killers, um… I mean commenters, and pretty accepting.
My new year’s diet now has me down to a very svelte 297, tyvm! I’m becoming quite stealthy. Bwahahaha
What, no Husker Du’s “Never Talking To You Again”?
Sadly, no. I also looked for a song that said “Give me back my God Damned Microwave” but didn’t have any luck with that one either.
Are you serious? “All out of Love” Air Supply did not make the list?
I must have played the entire album over and over in desperate heart wrenching sobs of lost love. 🙂
I must confess, I was never comfortable enough with my sexuality to listen to Air Supply.
And now, on Love 105, a Chicago marathon of sappy music! Let’s start it off with “Hard Habit To Break”
Just let me be the first to say “I’m addicted to you baby”
It is not a secret that I have no good taste in music. So my selections are straight from the late night informercials: Fools Rush In was my Go To song when I needed to croon it out at a karaoke. I can also sing The End of the World and cry at the same time. But that’s about it… (The others are Chinese pop songs…)