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Confessions of an Audiophile By Amy Merchant
Sta Writer
Audiophile:
When your priorities about enjoying music goes beyond
the norm. Like selling a car to buy a turntable.
I was set to write this month’s column about love
songs. Valentine’s Day inspires more mix “tapes” and
YouTube dedication videos than Twilight. When looking
around to see what were some of the greatest love songs of all time, the unthinkable happened for me. I had a break up. A major
break up. Suddenly I was skipping past “You Are So Beautiful To Me” and racing to the angry songs of unrequited love and heartache.
Screw all those stupid songs! I hate Valentine’s Day! Let’s be angry! These were my new mantras. I decided to look into break
up songs. Angry, sad, morose and vengeful break up songs. The kind you
sing at karaoke when everyone but you, knows you have had one too many.
Yup, those kinds of songs.
So, the following songs, after careful consideration make up the best
break up mix. If you need to tear this article out and put in your journal, there
will be no judgment from me. Just mad props. You never know when you’ll
need this.
The District Sleeps Alone Tonight-The Postal Service. The opening
track off of their EP, singer Ben Gibbard’s (Death Cab for Cutie) voice with
harmonies from Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley) provide the perfect somber mood.
Break up lyric: “I am finally seeing why I was the one worth leaving”
Funhouse-Pink. With one of the most sung about break ups from Carey
Hart, most people would have picked So What or Please Don’t Leave Me,
but I think this song heavy on marital imagery deserves its due. Break up
lyric: “I dance around this empty house, tear us down, throw you out”
Sugar, We’re Going Down-Fall Out Boy. Not the biggest fan of Fall Out
Boy, the first time I heard this song, I said “this is clever song writing. I love the line “Sugar, we’re going down swinging” but let’s face
it the break up lyric is : “I’m just a notch in your bedpost, but you’re just a line in a song”
Love Don’t Love Nobody-The Spinners. With a title like that and with one of the great R&B voices, Phillipe Wynne, at the helm,
you know it’s time to grab your drink and hold your cigarette lighter in the air. Break up lyric: “It takes a fool to learn, Yes sir, That
love don’t love nobody”
You Give Love A Bad Name-Bon Jovi. Ahh, now we come to one of those karaoke songs. Your mascara is smudged, making
you look like a cross between Ke$ha and Courtney Love. A few songs back someone sang “Before He Cheats” and so you did back
to back to back Jaeger-Bombs and became inspired to turn in this ditty. You wake up to an email that says “So and So has tagged
you in a video”. No break up lyric needed.
I Loved You, So What-Ani DiFranco. This is a song that during a break up, can change your attitude. DiFranco displays some of
her best songwriting here. Usually frenetic in her musicianship, she is much more mellow with the realization that the relationship is
over. Break up lyric: (try the whole first chorus) “And who are you now?And who were you then? Like you thought somehow,
You could just pretend, You could figure it all out, The mathematics of regret, So it takes two beers to remember, now,
And five to forget I loved you so. Yeah I loved you, so what”
Tyrone-Erykah Badu. Badu’s tribute to mooching men is, simply put, brilliant. This is the anthem for the fed up woman. Invite
your girlfriends over, have cosmos and sing along. Break up lyric: “You betta call Tyrone...Hold on, but you can’t use my phone”
Ain’t No Sunshine-Bill Withers. The gorgeous , mournful tone of Wither’s voice let’sus know, know, know, know that he is watching
out of the window for her return. The long series of “I know’s”gets desperate at the end, proving that “this house just ain’t a
home”.
Tracks of My Tears-Smokey Robinson and The Miracles. Piercing eyes, a voice of silk and light years ahead of his peers in his
songwriting skills, Smokey paints the image of someone trying to hold it together better than anyone. This classic song has been
covered by almost every genre but the original never disappoints. Break up lyric: “My smile is my make up, I wear since my
break up with you.”
You Oughta Know-Alanis Morissette. The ultimate break up song. Morissette verbalizes what everyone else wants to say. Raw,
visceral and perfect, this song is filled with so many great lines but if I had to choose one break up lyric that I shout while I driving,
I would choose “‘Cause the joke that you laid in the bed That was me and I’m not gonna fade As soon as you close your
eyes, and you know it”
There you go, ten break up songs that will make all the difference...well they did for me. I just walked away from the last Jaeger-
Bomb.
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