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All we ask from you is a tune we can play at an unspecified time next week.
This week’s theme: Break-up songs.
in the aftermath of a protracted split, what song soothes your soul, balms your heart and puts you back on your feet in ‘no time’.
To enter, complete this sentence:
‘At the close of a relationship,, to make sense of it all, I usually reach for______________________________owing to its____________________________’
Lines MUST close at 9.45pm
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ok ok I’ll type de long ting
at the close of a relationship I usually reach for M People, Moving on up due to its flamboyant F you I’m outa here to greener pastures fooooool
At the close of a relationship, to make sense of it all, I usually reach for vodka owing to its memory numbing effects.
sure nothing makes sense
that’s the beauty of it all
that’s why I ommited that part
logic has no place in love or lust
Song for the Dumped – Ben Folds Five.
This choice may seem slightly on the nose but the line about the black t-shirt will hit home to many.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVk_e31dnlE
…At the close of a relationship, to make sense of it all, I usually reach for Song for the Dumped by Ben Folds Five owing to its blah blah blah
noisy noisy busy song
but I hope he gets his T back
At the close of a relationship,, to make sense of it all, I usually reach for ‘You To Me Are Everything’ by the Real Thing owing to its proof that to her, I was only a clown.
I have a feeling this won’t be a happy thread
PS I have a theory Irish wemon are a bit tough on the lads since I moved back,
but the lads are also a little not assertive enough
?
thoughts ?
definitely different to Paris, flirting, dating all that,
I’d give you my insight but things may have moved on a little since the late 80’s
Actually, I hope it is a happy thread, or at least a hopeful one :) What I was trying to get across was not being pathetic, but actually that I do not regret the relationships.I have a beautiful daughter because of one of those, and I can never regret that.
When my marriage broke up, one of my best friends put together a mix tape (ok, on CD, but the same principle) with songs that ran the gamut from pain of heartache (The Thrill Has Gone – BB King) through a few others (like American Woman -my ex was from the States) to eventual hope for recovery (interestingly, the theme from Greatest American Hero)
It helped me also look at what I did to cause the breakup, and learn. And so, hopeful of a better next relationship, helped by my learning about myself and what I bring there,
So this begs the question: what song at the start of the relationship?
now that’s a nice comment and question
I’m gonna have a think because it’s hard to narrow it down
you have that heady cocktail of hope and joy…
with that lingering worry in the back of your mind – “hope she doesn’t turn out be a psycho when I get bored and start avoiding her”
oh BB, I feel your pain
@Brother Barnabas: that’s called ‘Being a teenager’. Its a given :)
https://youtu.be/5IaNaQHjIRE
That’s an easy one
https://youtu.be/7OZGafJHudA
“I have a beautiful daughter because of one of those…”
what a lovely comment
Agreed. A lovely comment all in all.
Thank you all for the kind comments.
Lovely sentiment, Slightly Bemused. The beginning of a relationship is butterflies, fire, and passion, Damien Rice’s The Blower’s Daughter embodies these feelings superbly.
Inhttps://youtu.be/5YXVMCHG-Nk
Good choice.
Ah here.. here’s a song for ya –
https://youtu.be/UCIHDgYWwvQ
Kate Bush – You’re the one
“It’s alright I’ll come ’round when you’re not in,
And I’ll pick up all my things,
Everything I have bought with you,
But that’s alright too,
It’s just everything I do,
We did together,
And there’s a little piece of you,
In whatever,
I’ve got everything I need,
I’ve got petrol in the car,
I’ve got some money with me,
There’s just one problem,
You’re the only one I want……
https://youtu.be/phdNthaWfl8
Bring a tear to a glass eye
lovely
ye big softie
The album Set Yourself on Fire by Stars.
At the close of a relationship,, to make sense of it all, I usually reach for Yes by McAlmont & Butler owing to its defiance, its not-giving-a-fupp and a production that Phil Spector himself would’ve probably considered a smidgin OTT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POIIGYt5RlE
+ 100%
an’ting by Laura Brannigan
At the close of a relationship, to make sense of it all, I usually reach for They’re coming to take me away by Napoleon XIV because it’s completely bonkers and makes me smile.
Or, if it’s been an amicable breakup then Days by the kinks because it’s a rather lovely appreciation of time spent with that person.
There are amicable break ups?
Billie Holiday – You’ve changed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir2eBab1KDE
You’ve changed
That sparkle in your eyes is gone
Your smile is just a careless yawn
You’re breaking my heart
You’ve changed
You’ve changed
Your kisses now are so blase
You’re bored with me in every way
I can’t understand
You’ve changed
You’ve forgotten the words, I love you
Each memory that we’ve shared
You ignore every star above you
I can’t realize you’ve ever cared
you’re killing me now
Softly? With his song?
surprised nobody’s mentioned Achy Breaky Heart
it’s my go-to
Imagine he’s not even the most irritating one in his family….
admit it: it’s a toe tapper
ah hear
he might go up and kill his friiiiiend
thanks for worst earworm to hum on dart ever
Say It Right – Nelly Furtado.
You know what you did, J…
(Value Added Pain: bought an iPod along with the album the song was on and it was stolen a week later from my bag in the YMCA on Aungier St.)
yonks ago i interviewed here. i had a massive crush on her afterwards, even though she was horrendously rude to me.
Quit yer moaning, needledick.
winner
eh? does this mean…?
Yes. It does.
I’ll trim my pubes
Estupendo!
At the close of a relationship,, to make sense of it all, I usually reach for Serge Gainsbourg singing Je suis venu te dire que je m’en vais owing to its brutal realism (sob)
Je suis venu te dire que je m’en vais
Et tes larmes n’y pourront rien changer
Comme dit si bien Verlaine au vent mauvais
Je suis venu te dire que je m’en vais
Tu te souviens des jours anciens et tu pleures
Tu suffoques, tu blêmis à présent qu’a sonné l’heure
Des adieux à jamais… et feckin cetera (sob)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLCj3XpBEQ0
Le temps est un grand maître, dit-on. Le malheur est qui’il tue ses élèves. -Hector Berlioz
Oh, if we are going multi-lingual, how about Apres Toi?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka89ORFu_Tc
:)
Or a suitably overblown duet with Francoise Hardy and Alain Delon
https://youtu.be/v1NwcUuvLXo
bisses bisse a vous deux
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-a3UiSOjjA
Enjoy :)
I usually reach for Lover, You Should have come over by Jeff Buckley as it hits precisely the right notes, literally and figuratively.
“Too young to hold on
And too old to just break free and run
Sometimes a man gets carried away,
When he feels like he should be having his fun
Much too blind to see the damage he’s done
Sometimes a man must awake to find that, really,
He has no one”
too true, too true
I’m gonna end up hugging this whole thread
steer clear of Harry – springs a stiffy at first embrace
“Harry” can’t keep his mickey in his pants is the problem
there was a Happy and a Harry ?
Was
:( hope you are ok
it’s not like she kept her gee pristine this whole time so don’t pity her too much
are you sharing the Avatar in the divorce ?
I hope yous are both doing ok
I, for one, am totally confused by this. Whose gee and mickey? Harry/Happy? Whut?
Anyway, hope everyone’s happier now.
‘At the close of a relationship,, to make sense of it all, I usually reach for Minami Deutsch,Bitter Moon owing to its tripped-out vocals by Kyotara Miula”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICgy-Tti7cU’
The Cure, A Letter to Elise. I cried for hours one night drinking whisky and listening to that on repeat. Good times..
When love breaks down prefab sprout. On the nose but spot on. A Lovely navelle-gazey feel sorry for your self but it’s probably their fault tone
Great choice :)
If I was picking a Prefab Sprout song I’d say “we let the stars go”…
“There was a boy I used to be,
I guess that he was cold,
If she came to buy him now,
How cheaply he’d be sold”
I like to do a Chandler Bing and listen to Endless Love by Diana Ross and Lionel Ritchie.
Obv this is hypothetical as I’ve never been dumped, being far too adorbs.
Obvs.
Its not a song but it is a beautiful poem by Leonard Cohen the poet:
For Anne.
With Annie gone,
whose eyes to compare
with the morning sun?
Not that I did compare,
But I do compare
Now that she’s gone.
Damien Rice, Cannonball
https://youtu.be/R8n2KAHNRVU
‘At the close of a relationship, to make sense of it all, I usually reach for Motown music owing to beautiful yet simple lyrics’
As I walk this land of broken dreams,
I have visions of many things.
But happiness is just an illusion,
Filled with sadness and confusion.
What becomes of the broken hearted
Who had love that’s now departed?
I know I’ve got to find
Some kind of peace of mind
Maybe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vf3ZE7CLg0
Tracks of my Tears – Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZTsYYHCYGY
That’s a real Vietnam war movie song.
Nobody mentioned the big O – it’s over
Your baby doesn’t love you any more
Golden days before they end
Whisper secrets to the wind
Your baby won’t be near you any more
Tender nights before they fly
Send falling stars that seem to cry
Your baby doesn’t want you any more
It’s over
It breaks your heart in two, to know she’s been untrue
But oh what will you do? then she said to you
There’s someone new we’re through we’re through
It’s over it’s over it’s over
At the close of a relationship, to make sense of it all, I usually reach for the saturday boy by billy bragg for the lines
In the end it took me a dictionary
To find out the meaning of ‘unrequited’
While she was giving herself for free
At a party to which i was never invited
The party in her PANTS
The late Grant McLennan of the Go-Betweens was pretty reliable in such matters. Exhibit A: Stones For You
“I can almost touch the stars
Shining wild and bright
I could hold a comet’s tail
Like a brilliant kite
Through the back fence by the river
Over stones to you
Simple, yes, but never easy
Over stones for you
I could chase the sunset down;
Beat it to its rest
I could steal the highest clouds
And wrap them around your breasts
Through the back fence by the river
Over stones to you
Simple, yes, but never easy
Over stones for you
Tonight the constellations whirl;
The moon hangs just above
All these things don’t mean a thing
Because you doubt our love
Through the back fence by the river
Over stones to you
Simple, yes, but never easy
Over stones for you”
Make room too for Elvis Costello’s magisterial cover of the old George Jones C/W classic, A Good Year for the Roses.
Sample lyric:
“I can hardly bear the sight of lipstick on the cigarettes there in the ashtray
Lyin’ cold the way you left ’em, but at least your lips caressed them while
You packed
Or the lip-print on a half-filled cup of coffee that you poured and didn’t drink
But at least you thought you wanted it, that’s so much more than I can say
For me”
At the close of a relationship, to make sense of it all, I usually reach for Ding Dong the Witch is Dead from The Wizard of Oz owing to its ability to feed my bitterness!
What a fool believes – Michael McDonald.
St. Paul and the Broken Bones-“Broken bones and pocket change”
If I was to be dumped now, this is what I would listen to. So it’s a -“break glass in case of emergency” back up oh jesus maybe now I’ve jinxed it don’t leave me I’m all on my own -kinda song.
If you know what I mean.
The Wagoner’s Lad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qm3xAb7Iwk
Which reminds me of this old ditty:
Single Girl, Married Girl by the Carter family [1]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcRIeIQOd14
Not an overt a breakup song, but the foundation is there.
—
[1] – Sung by Sara Carter[2]
[2] – A woman.[3]
[3] – Read [2] as Roger Moore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiWeqVYYI1c
Is One by U2 too obvious?
same for Nothing compares to you
I Want You Back by the Jackson 5
Love will tear us apart.
Crying by Roy Orbison.
Idiot Wind, the internet tells me, is a breakup song.
Oh yeah, the entire Blood on the Tracks album.