Thank Flanagan it’s Friday.
It’s that time of the week when the Broadsheet commenters briefly emerge from the dank basement back into the world, blinking at the sunlight, and putting the kettle on as they stick on an oul’ tune. In other words: it’s music competition time.
This week the theme comes courtesy of reader f_lawless who suggests your favourite song with heartbreak as a theme.
Here’s mine.
Reply below to be in with a chance of bagging yourself a €50 Golden Discs voucher redeemable in any Golden Discs store.
The winner will be chosen by my therapist.
Nick says: Good luck.
Lines MUST close on Saturday at 1pm.
Last week’s wonderful one-hit winner here.
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The song that I used to woo miss P back, superb lyrics and just Freddie and Brian on acoustic guitar.
Queen – Love Of My Life
Enjoy!!
Happy Bank Holiday Weekend
Sorry!!
Video attached ,
https://youtu.be/sUJkCXE4sAA
A ridiculous take on heartbreak, for the weekend that’s in it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6YzC7FNC9M
ha I need to watch that again
Bonus points for the wonderful Jon Lovitz?
I Hate You by The Monks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Agrr2qC78
Léo Ferré, Avec le temps… although time doesn’t heal all wounds it can make them easier to wear
https://youtu.be/ZH7dG0qyzyg
Hope your therapist likes soul Nick.
Lay this burden down.
https://youtu.be/nUQH1GiF8Us
Head nodding, finger snapping, shape throwers of the world, give it up for Mary Love.
This IS one of my very favourite tunes.
well I do
Janet, I’ll have that print winner on Tuesday morning if that’s OK.
it’s ok if it’s me ;) :)
Michael Jackson -She’s out of my life-
Probably the most emotionaly draining song out there. The song, as he says in the lyrics, really cuts like a knife. About Diana Ross apparently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtjO1gyBzPg
A slightly more belligerent take on heartbreak
Jilted John
Gordon is a moron
https://youtu.be/ux1ucNLgKgY
Can you feel his pain.
https://youtu.be/jewX6Yj8Bdg
Toni Braxton, Unbreak My Heart. A song drenched to its chorus in pain. Here it is in Spanish for a little extra grief. Oh and a hot guy with his shirt off too. What’s not to like
indeed
One inconceivable day the person who made your world spin is … Somebody that I used to know, Gotye
https://youtu.be/8UVNT4wvIGY
When this was in the charts, Little Slightly and I were listening to it on the trip between her home and her grandparents. She was about 12, but her insight was surprisingly adult. and she was picking out the different viewpoints of each protagonist.
She then banned me from ever singing it in her presence. Dear of my (torn) heart! :-)
Love it.
https://youtu.be/lzC1kKZGxBg
Milva – singing Oblivion (J’oublie)
Lourds, soudain semblent lourds
les draps et velours de ton lit
quand j’oublie jusqu’à notre amour
Lourds, soudain semblent lourds
tes bras qui m’entourent
déjà dans la nuit
Mon bateau part, s’en va quelque part
les gens se séparent,
j’oublie, j’oublie
Tard, autre part dans un bar d’acajou
des violons nous rejouent
notre mélodie, mais j’oublie
Tard, on se sépare dans un joue contre joue
tout devient flou et
j’oublie, j’oublie
Court, le temps semble court
le compte à rebours d’une nuit
quand j’oublie jusqu’à notre amour
Court, le temps semble court
tes doigts qui parcourent
ma ligne de vie.
Sans un regard,
des hommes on s’égare
sur un quai de gare,
j’oublie, j’oublie
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/joublie-oblivion-oblivion.html
:)
It’d bring tears to a glass eye :-)
I think you fancy Janet
Who doesn’t?
there now the day just got sunnier, I do miss the flirting on a sunny terrace
When he brings out his best French …
Ah ha haaaaa Oh ho hooooo
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jLLogLQBxbU
French is a romantic language.
Here’s one they wrote earlier!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D26gsHoknlA
Chance, by the wonderful Big Country from my favourite of their live concerts, at The Barrowlands. Heartache, abandonment, and still a shred of hope. This along with Thirteen Valleys are I think their best on heartbreak, heartache and such matters.
I once had a very bad day in a particular mission. A very new deputy country manager had arrived, and the regular country manager had taken a much needed break. During this period, a situation arose where we became aware of an upcoming offensive of one of the belligerents against another. Nature of our organisation. At times like this we prepare, but quietly, you cannot let it be known that you are aware, but you can be ready to act. And you use soft channels to try to deter any aggression.
The new guy wanted to preposition supplies, which was pretty much a telegraphing of ‘we know what you are thinking’. I got in an argument on this matter. I had been called in, after being out for a few days with a flu. Real flu, not man flu, honestly. So I popped a few Solpadeines and went in. I normally take one at a time, and I took two more fairly shortly after taking my one for the morning, and three meant a massive codeine hit and high. I was bouncing off the ceiling, which is not a great way to conduct a reasoned discussion.
I ended up storming out of the meeting, calling the person a foolish man (slightly more pithy, Irishisms were used) and got in my car and went home. When there, I put on my Big Country CD, and turned it up full volume. I was making a cup of tea while this song was playing, when the doorbell rang. It was our medical director, a good friend and a lovely Welsh lady. She had come to see how I was, as my behaviour was decidedly not my usual manner.
As if the gods were listening, after she asked me, the boys belted into the chorus. I just shrugged, waved in the general direction of the stereo, and offered her a cup of tea.
In the end, my deputy was ordered to preposition the supplies, and as I feared and predicted, it did not go down well with any of the sides of the situation.
In case anyone wants it, here are the boys with Thirteen Valleys, from the same concert. THey actually played this before Chance, which was the next song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnpt2XfuTnQ
I never got my voucher from the best piano song competition. Can someone email me?
Will do. Sorry!
Some woo there undoubtedly
Ditto for me, never received my voucher for this one
https://www.broadsheet.ie/2021/01/27/its-for-you/
same for me. For the future song competion. T’was a Curry voucher, gladly swap it for a Golden Disc one…:)
Nicorigo, I’ll get back to you. Anyone else missing a voucher?
I’m still due 4 (possibly 5) of them, seeing as you asked..
Ah now.
*coughs*
I hope Bodger got permission from his local superintendent to run these raffles …
Your Heart Out (The Fall)
…could be about heartbreak! or a very strange trip…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MkAZb6ebSc
Just before my debs my then girlfriend broke my heart and this was my go to song, I had it on repeat!
One of those songs that you can resonate with.
Still love it!!
Green Day – Good Riddance
https://youtu.be/CnQ8N1KacJc
Enjoy!
With a wonderful and somewhat disturbing video, I think this contribution shows just how raw heartbreak can leave you, and the awkward situations it can engender when you forget yourself and your self control.
Will Young – Leave Right Now
youtube.com/watch?v=WbrSLLv0AlA
Billy Connolly – Tell Laura I Love Her
https://youtu.be/K6BFrVfkz0Q
The Big Yin turns tragedy into comedy in a song of pure heartbreak
Thanks for that
No question in my mind that it’s Lover, You Should’ve Come Over by Jeff Buckley.
Arranged beautifully and a masterpiece in emotive singing. Lost that lad much too young.
https://youtu.be/HxfE6PJmGS8
Fun fact, he was Glen Hansard’s roadie and it was Glen that got him up singing in Sin E following which he got a residency and then onto greatness.
Another fact, Radiohead were recording their second album close by and after hearing him perform that encouraged Thom Yorke to use the full range of his vocals which gave us such memorable songs in The Bends.
Heartbreak takes many forms. Here’s a masterclass in raw, narrative songwriting
Jason Isbell – Elephant
https://youtu.be/ClugMhMbrRg
Absolute classic from an absolute legend. She’s now appearing on Twitter, keeping it very real with some pure sass and frankness that’s amusing as hell. G’wan Dionne. Age is a frame of mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xHQsMYosao
Following my worst break up my x cruely moved directly down the hill to an apartment I could see very well from my balcony, to top it off it was over the bar I worked in and the cheating fupper would walk past at least ten times a day often with whatever flavor of the month he was dazzling, well this song fit the bill nicely, Walk on by, Dionne Warwick,
https://youtu.be/vsGsCvJWEo8
Some corny lyrics (who fixes a toaster or casually makes a soufflé?), but the message is on point. The end of a relationship is not the end of love. Plus that hair….. yowza!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0A7jAVDPJU
here mister we have a similar playlist :)
Kentucky Avenue by Tom Waits
https://youtu.be/GvZK8Wl7RQ8
Ah now there’s a masterpiece, with an unexpeted reveal. It featured, possibly in its entirety, in the final Bachelor’s Walk.
The opening;
“Eddie Grace’s Buick’s got four bullet holes in the side” fools you into thinking that you know where song is going.
An all time favourite of mine since my Salad Days.
The Streets – Dry Your Eyes
This one is pretty sincere and puts a bit of vulnerability on display, which should be commended! Heartbreak is hard!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyHr-4SeILI
oh I’d forgotten these guys, saw them live in Paris, better gig than I expected
My younger brother introduced me to these fellows. While I cannot say I liked all their songs, I was pleasantly surprised how many I did, and I could appreciate the story of the songs whose music did not ring my bells.
Good choice, thanks you
check this for a possible chuckle
https://youtu.be/t3J1fC11CBk
:)
https://youtu.be/nHs2sQOHX-0
also about love
He didn’t even say goodbye
He didn’t take the time to lie
Nancy Sinatra, Bang Bang My baby shot me down
https://youtu.be/qgDrpWWxuto
I will be looking over my shoulder for ladies in yellow jumpsuits now :-)
This was so much more powerful than Cher’s original which was way too poppy. Nancy’s sultry tones, and slowing the chorus down just makes this a wonderful classic
great pick
Here’s Nancy and Lee’s take on a Dolly Parton tearjerker.
Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood – Down From Dover
https://youtu.be/f2wU_ptxn7c
Winner.
Fair dues to Tarantino for his skilful resurgence.
Check out the remix by Audio Bullys.
I’ll just leave this masterpiece here
https://youtu.be/byQIPdHMpjc
You’re welcome :-)
and I miss you…well only when there’s too much chilled wine involved,
https://youtu.be/IAkY5m00rpY
Everything but the girl, Missing
I love this country-folk version of a Motown classic
Mary McCaslin – My World Is Empty Without You Babe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYtzedOtyYY
You don’t get much more heartbreak than being driven completely insane by it. Napoleon XIV They’re coming to take me away.
https://youtu.be/hnzHtm1jhL4
Some time around Midnight by The Airborne Toxic Event. Proper gut wrenching stuff. I reckon there’s few of us who can’t relate. Also, class band name.
https://youtu.be/UYPoMjR6-Ao
The Everly Brothers – Love Hurts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g2RHPCaS6Y
Beautiful!
Mind if I add Crying In The Rain?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RVYmY1EFFI
lovely stuff!
Prefab Sprout – Goodbye Lucille
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V84TSOukdYk
There is only heartbreak song and it’s by Bonnie Raitt. If I can’t make you love has heartfelt timeless vocals by Bonnie and beautiful piano playing by Bruce Hornsby. If this doesn’t bring tears to your eyes nothing will. https://youtu.be/ZTIu4UbkK94
A total masterpiece
ah hear, that’s a tear jerker
Sinead O’Connor’s song was on repeat when my heart was broken once and once only. This song is so evocative of that period and the person, I did go on to love and be loved afterwards but as it goes, nothing compares to you…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-EF60neguk
I love Sinéad’s version, but I can’t help feeling that we’ve been robbed by the early passing of Chris Cornell
https://youtu.be/IuUDRU9-HRk
Go-Betweens – Was There Anything I Could Do
https://youtu.be/-mY4CRzIKag
The Go-Betweens were like an Aussie version of Fleetwood Mac or ABBA. Two couples in the band and all the joy and heartbreak that produces. This song deals with the latter. This was the first band I ever saw live, supporting REM, in RDS Simmonscourt in 1989 on the Green tour. I was very lucky to see them because six months later they were defunct with Grant McLennan (who wrote this song) finishing the band without warning and also finishing his relationship with Amanda Brown (violin in the video)
Love the Go-Betweens and was at that gig too. They played the Trinity Ball sometime in the ‘80s as well. They did reform again as a duo later on and released a couple of great albums using Sleator-Kinney as their backing band. I don’t really rate musicians books but Robert Forster’s memoir, Grant and I, is really well written and is a great read.
It is a great book. I got to see Robert Forster in Whelans a couple of years ago and he played Cattle and Cane; just wow. There is a magnificent live version of Bye Bye Pride from one of their albums in their second incarnation. I think Australia’s best ever group.
Saw him in the same tour in Cork. Wasn’t sure what to expect but he put on a great show. The band came to a messy end as is recounted in a recent book by Tracey Thorn about her friendship with drummer and Forster’s ex, Lindy Morrison.
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19197204.tracey-thorn-lindy-morrison-go-betweens-writing-women-back-story/
I do like that Brisbane named bridge in in the city, the Go-Between, in the band’s honour.
How can you mend a broken heart?
Al Green
Almost worth having the heart ripped from your core to enjoy the misery of wallowing in your own despair. I’m sure the Germans have a fabulous word for it. Many to choose from but this kinda sums up the experience for me, The Districts – 4th and Roebling..
https://youtu.be/gLZ-i2hu6GA
Excuse me…
Are you not still the same f_lawless that suggested the criteria of this competition?
MY comments get deleted…
…wait a moment…
Mi hed asplode!
YOU should be banned, not me!
Stop posting my comments Broadsheet.
It’s too late now. You had your chance.
You should keep blocking them for no reason.
I could’ve made myself an obvious winner.
I just wasn’t bothered.
What’s the point?
Win a voucher for a shop that isn’t open and is 30+ miles away…
Yer cool…
hiya memes
Birds singing in the sycamore tree
Meme a little meme of me(me)
Stop the presses ! Stop the presses !
How this tune didn’t immediately bob to the surface of my consciousness i don’t know but thankfully the mariners of my subconscious rescued this gem and brought it on deck ….
“No sign of love behind the tears” – ah, that moment when your still beating heart slides into the wastepaper basket of hopelessness and you are forlorn !
The Beatles, “For No-one”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELlLIwhvknk
I’d Rather Go Blind by Etta James, live at Montreux 1975, is a blistering cry of overwhelming heartbreak with an unsurpassed rawness and power. Incredible song and performance. https://youtu.be/uZt1xKtPbUQ
She put the AW in RAW.
great choice
I pop away for a bit of shopping, and the list doubles. Wonderful, I shall weep all weekend.
Can I suggest any or indeed pretty much all of Rumours? Fleetwood Mac were in a state of love/hate/hurt/pain during the whole of that album. For me the stand outs would have to be Dreams and Go Your Own Way. One from each side of the break-up of Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham,
If I was pushed, it would have to be Dreams for me, with the ethereal vocals from Nicks bouncing around the corners of my own heart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3ywicffOj4
From the brilliant opening on piano to some of the most memorable lyrics, it’s hard too believe that Agnetha and Björn were in the middle of a break up and she still had too sing this!!
The ultimate break up / heartbreak song,
Janet, look away now!!
ABBA – The Winner Takes It All
https://youtu.be/92cwKCU8Z5c
Enjoy !!
crying for the wrong reason…I didn’t look away fast enough
Some times heartbreak involves a third party…
The Blue Nile – Family Life
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfnr8eYWOig
By the end of this competition there’ll be no walking on sunshine…, and with that in mind here’s one for all the Seymours out there.
Connie Francis – I will wait for you.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OC0YCfgPAKk
Joe Jackson
Breaking us in two
https://youtu.be/g5zHVzj2lf0
Secret heartache. Betrayal begets betrayal. Does he love you? by Rilo Kiley.
https://youtu.be/QWfn2Y7ghWM
I lost my lifelong dear friend Caroline three days ago- my heart is truly broken- Rest in Peace Sweetheart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyMGEq82uL4
PS Broadsheet- pass me by on winning this- just contributing after a few gins.
deepest condolences, take care
Sorry to hear about your loss SOQ…
sorry to hear this very sad news, SOQ.
Many condolences SOQ. Losing a friend is so incredibly difficult. Peace.
Words are insufficient, but all I have. My deepest condolences. I shall light a candle in her memory tomorrow. While I am not greatly religious, it is one rite I have always loved at these times.
Take care of yourself, we are here if you need us.
Never give up Brother.
Never.
I’ve been there too often.
I know how it hurts.
Stay strong.
Sorry for your loss SOQ
sorry for your loss,
for what it’s worth, will light a candle and hold a thought for your friend.
+ 1
Condolences SOQ
The End Of The Affair by Laura Marling. Brilliantly describes when there is just nothing left.
https://youtu.be/N0cTsLfd-to
Heartbreak ain’t just for lovers.
Paddy McAloon eulogizing his father’s death, and looking back at the missed chances to grown their relationship, and acknowledging what he did get from their time together.
Live at the Beeb version here…
https://youtu.be/tEHlQ5uBjnY
I would agree. I planned to post this separately, but I think it fits nicely here. Eric Bogle’s wonderful song about how his heart breaks, and how his mother’s does, though she tries not to show it, as he leaves for Australia.
The wonderful, poignant Leaving of Nancy. I chose his own version, as I think he puts so much different passion to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MpBad7nMAE
Indeed. Some things hurt much more than cars and girls
Zing!
It’s a Heartache – Bonnie Tyler
https://youtu.be/bEOl38y8Nj8
Thanks for playing everyone- where do I (not) collect my prize Bodger?
Prince – Comeback
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LMxTbDaBKLE
Dedicated to Soq.
I’d have to stick Black by Pearl Jam down. Very angsty, perfect for an angsty teenager. But genuinely great song. Especially the live version from Live on Two Legs – McCready’s solo weeps.
Flight of the conchords – I’m not crying
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-pVT_mvvZLo
I’m not crying
It’s just been raining
On my face
And if you think you see some tear tracks down my cheeks
Please please, don’t tell my mates
Smokey Robinson sung it first…
AND much better.
Tracks of my tears.
(Look it up)
It will make you cry.
If you don’t mind me saying…
This is the WORST competition EVER!
You end up miserable if you participate.
I should know.
I was happy earlier on. I”m miserable now, and I’m not even necessarily a Morrissey fan.
Thank you Nick & f_lawless.
Step up your game….
Never mind. Sad songs say so much!
A friend of mine once went through a really bad breakup. She did not want to give him the pleasure of seeing her cry, so her friend put on a song she knew always made her cry. Sure enough it helped, and she got her release.
winner ;)
Thank you!
I love you too.*
*NOT the original boyband.
YOU.
Suspicious Minds –
Who Else ?
https://youtu.be/Y_RCvsiavuM
This Mortal Coil – You and Your Sister
https://youtu.be/gLMqL23GbeI
Imagine Billie Holiday singing on outtake from Astral Weeks…
Karen Dalton – Something On Your Mind
https://youtu.be/CsYHN7eCCtU
Majida El Roumi – Habibi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAb9L8_sY3M
Keep on rocking in your own boat.
And stop trying to drown the rest of us in your shallow pond.
OR…
Stop being so self-reflective and grow up.
Nobody cares.
ALL of these songs are more miserable than the one that was posted before it.
Please stop!
Palace Brothers (aka Will Oldham) – Ohio River Boat Song
https://youtu.be/oqpoLeacy24
Kayliah – Bang bang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vYh3EeVB4U
No coming back from the last round…
Total Eclipse of the Heart – Bonnie Tyler
Jim Steinman, the writer, died a few months ago. RIP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo
It’s a Heartache – Bonnie Tyler
https://youtu.be/bEOl38y8Nj8
Thanks for playing everyone- where do I (not) collect my prize Bodger?
My Wedding Singer video earlier was obviously a joke, here’s the real entry
https://youtu.be/g3ncYwtsQWY
I wish I was that guy doing the backing vocals. In all my years that is probably the most baller guttural tone I’ve ever heard, it almost puts Sam in the corner…
Waylon Jennings, Dreaming My Dreams With You
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hI_OcW9wxGk
Gosh that was amazing Lilly
Thank you
Thank you, other entrants.
Some of your efforts were commendable.
This is ‘Aftermath’ by Tricky
https://youtu.be/25y3cMC9i94
Shut up, close your eyes and listen…
…or keep your eyes open and cry.
It’s up to you.
Ted Hawkins sang of life as he knew it. Born into poverty in Mississippi, his life was pockmarked by addiction, crime and lengthy bouts in prison. He took to busking on Venice Beach, where he was later discovered and on the release of his initial recordings, came to a little prominence in Britain and Ireland, where he performed regularly in the late 1980’s. He was deported from Britain in 1990 but later signed a major deal with Geffen. Tragically, he died before its release.
Ted Hawkins – Sorry You’re Sick
https://youtu.be/jTO-zb6XTzg
And here’s the ever-reliable Donal Dineen’s take on things.
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/sunken-treasure-ted-hawkins-watch-your-step-1.2661971
Before I post this I just want to thank some of the other entrants.
Everyone’s a winner baby, that’s no lie. May all of your chocolate be hot…
Some Small Hope by Virginia Astley & yerman from Japan, the group, not the country.
https://youtu.be/G3Onw0SMtuI
Trust me…
It’s very good.
I’ve always had a soft spot for this song. I think it could fit seamlessly into any Motown 60s classics compilation even though it’s from a different decade, different continent
Billy Ocean – Love Really Hurts Without You (1976)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ys-4krGe6M
“My grandfather died, the son of an Irishman…
… And when he came up from the river of methadone he took his last breath on the Bowery”.
Smog – Bowery
https://youtu.be/XqGPk7xZ8rc
Thank you for the days. Luke Kelly version.
youtube.com/watch?v=h2Jb2Queeuks
no, really!
“not even the government, are gonna stop you now…”
The obvious winner for me
Was written by Erik Satie
He called it a Gymnopedie
Then he numbered it No. 3
Listen, I think you’ll agree.
https://youtu.be/jVLsLT6cvJ4
(Better versions are available, including one by Gary
Numan. No… seriously)
I know you dont believe me…
…check this out…
https://youtu.be/jVLsLT6cvJ4
https//youtube.com/watch?v=h2Jb2Qeeuks
revue et corrigee, faute de frappe…
“up-topped full of vitamins…”
Bonne nuit a toutes et a tous.
I don’t know why,, but I love when this comes on the radio, especially late at night when I can just lie back and wallow in the wonderful voice, and paint this picture in my head
Walker Brothers – No Regrets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceafx0Y3bB0
Tom Jones – (It looks like) I’ll never fall in love again
https://youtu.be/ulyy3kCkVr0
Not only is this a wonderful song but it brings back so many memories for me
Sneaking down the stairs when I was a kid when my folks would have parties after the pub, everyone locked and singing into bottle openers, your aunties oohing and aahing over you, your uncles asking you what you’re gonna be when you grow up and slipping you a pound note, (nobody really carries cash anymore, kids miss out big time!) getting up the next morning and taking sips out of the half drunk glasses of spirits, going into school shattered next morning.
Deadly.
Billie Holiday – You’ve changed
https://youtu.be/ir2eBab1KDE
“You’ve changed
Your kisses now are so blase
You’re bored with me in every way
I can’t understand
You’ve changed”
She had such an incredible voice.
I remember once being somewhere, and there was an Australian film where, after an accident, a man sang exactly like Billie Holiday. Naturally a comedy, but some great songs from the lady herself.
Good to see you again bertie. I have not noted your presence recently and pictured you off sunning on a beach somewhere sipping something horribly alcoholic. Probably with an umbrella in it.
Thanks SB, hope you’re doing okay.
Buddy Holly had a wonderful way of making heartbreak and heartache sound almost fun. He almost hit pathos with the original recording of Peggy Sue Got Married, but the release was his usual light rock fare, and crazily wonderful.
For this entry, though, I am going with It Doesn’t Matter Any More, which showcases the despair and hopelessness of one whose heart is broken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygBo9Fmq5l4
And of course there is the country side of things. While not talking about his own heartbreak, but rather heartache about being separated from his baby, he wants to hear songs about other people’s troubles. Typical country :-)
And in honour of the recently departed man, who our younger posters may know better from Guardians of the Galaxy, and the song Starlord sings into a weird lizard, Hooked on a Feeling, let me offer his ironic Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song. He apparently came up with it while joking with his road crew that most country songs were about loss. You know, the ‘My dog is dead, my truck just left me’ kind.
The great B.J. Thomas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VTicelwAn0
Patsy Cline – I fall to pieces
https://youtu.be/HG-8uZg2uV0
I was all right for a while…
Now I am Crying over you
Roy Orbison, here with KD Lang just after his induction to the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame, and sadly not long before his passing. KD later did a tribute version, which I think is great, but you cannot match the original master
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uNoAp7RNUA
Back in the country direction. Another lighthearted melody for a sad theme, Don Gibson and Sea of Heartbreak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phCX0E8avxs
Pet Shop Boys – Rent
https://youtu.be/7Zoj8OYEmNg
Gloria Jones
Tainted Love
https://youtu.be/OJKe2j9Wjh4
Prince leaves his mark on your heart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikZgBhSMSUM