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Yo guys, can I get some of your best breakup music? If there's already a thread for this, I'm sorry. Right now I'm pretty much only listening to this nonstop.
Post by nicthedick85 on Sept 24, 2012 12:35:11 GMT -5
Someone with just as bad luck as me this happened to me this weekend also. I tend to go to gangsta rap with any lyrics along the lines of "fuk b*tches, get money" or "bit*hes aint Sh*t but ho's and tricks"... I only feel this way about one particular female.
Someone with just as bad luck as me this happened to me this weekend also. I tend to go to gangsta rap with any lyrics along the lines of "fuk b*tches, get money" or "bit*hes aint Sh*t but ho's and tricks"... I only feel this way about one particular female.
I feel ya, top reason I got into Curren$y - more like corn and business but totally with you
Ah, never fun, Jackson - best wishes for a quick recovery. Well, it's been a really long time since I've been in a breakup, though I had quite a few in the late 80s, so most of my breakup music would be pretty old. However, I was pretty much drunk-on-wine and get emo after a breakup so my music was skewed, yet timeless:
etc...
The beauty of this approach for me was that after a few days, I was forced to ask myself what kind of man I was, and after looking at what I was listening to and why I was listening to it - answered myself, not much of one then, right? It was very motivational in getting off the couch.
Sorry to hear this, Jackson. I went through the same sh*t last year, and music is basically all that kept me from becoming a shell of a human being that just survived on brown liquors and anger (which is what happened, but music kept me from killing someone, I think).
Basically, I did what Juggs said to do. Listened to melancholy sh*t for a couple of weeks, then one day I woke up on a Saturday, went for a run, and 5 minutes in I was raging to Mastadon, Death Grips, and any other insane angry workout music. I finished my run feeling better than I had felt in weeks, and went out to the bar on a mission to get laid.
...that didn't happen, but the thought was there, and that's what counts.
Anyway, feel better dude, happens to all of us, and you're in college which is easily the best place on earth to break up with someone at.
Post by chicojuarz on Sept 24, 2012 15:38:46 GMT -5
That one has a very personal reason so it might not be the best breakup music for another person.
Set this one on repeat.
And like Flanzo said, take in a couple of weeks of this and then go for a run or to the gym throw on some Stooges or something and it'll wake you right up and out of the house.
Post by Yo Soy JBoy on Sept 24, 2012 16:47:32 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about the many folks going through breakups.
I had something strange happen last week. Short version: met a girl at a festival earlier this year, hit it off, kept talking after the fest, she invited me to make the 2000 mile trip to visit, I did, it was awesome... and then 2 days after I got back, she decided to quit talking to me, apparently (this was never stated, but 3 unanswered texts over a week period is pretty much my limit).
She's younger and in a very different life place than me, and it was clearly a low probability thing anyway, but it sorta sucks.
Anyway, this album has been playing for me a lot. Not sure it's breakup music, but it seems to be making me happier.
Oh, and this probably doesn't qualify either, but I've been listening to it as well...
please bleed, so i know you are real. so i know you can feel, the damage you've done. oh who have i become? to myself i am numb, i am numb, i am numb. (basically live on mars disc 2 on repeat)
i'm the next act waiting in the wings, i'm an animal trapped in your hot car, i am all the days that you chose to ignore. you are all i need, you're all i need.
leave me out with the waste, this is not what I do. it's the wrong kind of place, to be thinking of you.
and also, there always seems to be an artist associated with each relationship i have, so i usually play that shit a lot and then get pissed that i will always think of that craphole while i'm listening to that band. boooooooo
after that instead of listening to sad music, i listen to dancey break-up music like this and feel happier:
i've got some news for you, fembots have feelings too. you split my heart in two, now what you gonna do?
Good call on Damien Rice & Radiohead, EAP! Those are my go-to guys when I need a good soul-cleansing cry. For moments like those when your heart is tattered and bruised, you just can't go wrong w/those pensive English guys. They are so accustomed to gloomy weather that their music is so damn therapeutic for me.
My other audio therapists are: Peter Gabriel, Glen Hansard/The Frames, Jeff Buckley, Leonard Cohen, Elliott Smith, and - to a lesser extent - The Decemberists.
When you want to sulk, pour yourself some wine and listen to Damien Rice's "Cheers Darlin":
When you want to cry, listen to Peter Gabriel's album Us. It was written during his divorce; it's full of heartbreak that makes you feel better after one listen.
The song "I Love to Be Loved" has perfect breakup lyrics:
And in this moment, I need to be needed With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted 'Cause I love to be loved
And in this moment, I need to be needed When my self-esteem is sinking, I like to be liked In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted 'Cause I love to be loved
Let it pass let it go let it leave From the deepest place I grieve
Though it takes all the strength in me And all the world can see I'm losing such a central part of me I can let go of it
The same goes for "Washing of the Water" - another great one for when you feel like you're drowning in a sea of emotions:
I feel like I'm sinking down Thought that I could get along But here in this water My feet won't touch the ground I need something to turn myself around
Letting go, it's so hard The way it's hurting now To get this love untied So tough to stay with thing 'Cause if I follow through I face what I denied I get those hooks out of me And I take out the hooks that I sunk deep in your side Kill that fear of emptiness, loneliness I hide
His song "I Grieve" is another gut-wrencher:
I grieve for you; you leave me it's so hard to move on; still loving what's gone
When you're ready to move onto the "I'm pissed at you for doing this to me" phase, fire up Glen Hansard/Swell Season. Dude knows a thing or two about heartache & this song really captures his emotional rage about being dumped:
If you like prog rock, try this one from Porcupine Tree:
She changes every time you look By summer it was all gone - now she's moved on She called you every other day So savour it it's all gone - now she's moved on
So for a while everything seemed new Did we connect? Or was it all just biding time for you?
OK, now when you're ready to put on your proverbial boxing gloves & you feel your fighting spirit returning, Fitz & the Tantrums will give you the boost you need. Their EP "Songs for a Breakup" is good stuff, but the full-length "Pickin' Up the Pieces" has plenty of great tunes that give the finger to whoever done you wrong.
Lyrics from the title track:
Felt like the stars fell down before us In a dream of you and me then a storm came outta nowhere Turned my peace to misery.
Oh, and in that same style, Mayer Hawthorne's "The Walk" also works:
So long, you did me wrong Yeah you can walk your long legs baby right out of my life
Sorry to hear you're having to endure this. It sucks, it's not easy, but it gets easier with time. Just take care of yourself and remember: you're not alone. Music is the perfect therapist. Hang in there!