i want to wallow in emotion for a few weeks and i need some good break up songs for a few playlists in my ipod. they don't have to be angry or sad necessarily, just really good songs about ending relationships (for instance, peter bjorn and john have a great break up song called "let's call it off" which is upbeat and fun).

post some suggestions, all genres welcome! thanks!

prince - do yourself a favor
prince - dark
prince - 17 days
prince - something in the water (does not compute)
prince - a million days
prince - anotherloverholenyohead
prince - somebody's somebody
prince - when u were mine
prince - nothing compares 2 u
prince - love
prince - gotta broken heart again
prince - it's gonna be lonely


hope that kinda helps...?

i'm on a prince kick today...
and he has FAR more than that where it comes to breakups...
[Edited 3/22/08 10:01am]

One of the definitive songs on the subject...





...After The Love Is Gone by one of the greatest modern R&B groups, EW&F

So nice, had to do it twice. (performances from 1981 & 1990)



For a while to love was all we could do
We were young and we knew
In our eyes we're alive
Deep inside we knew our love was true
For a while we paid no mind to the past
We knew love would last every night
Somethin' right would invite me to begin the dance

Somethin' happened along the way
What used to be happy was sad
Somethin' happened along the way
And yesterday was all we had

And oh after the love is gone
How could you lead me on
And not let me stay around
After the love is gone
What used to be right is wrong
Can love that's lost be found

For a while to love each other was all
We would ever need
Love was strong for so long
Never knew that was wrong (oh baby)
Wasn't it right we tried to find what we had
Till sadness was all we shared (we were scared)
This affair would lead our love into
Somethin' happened along the way
And yesterday was all we had
And yesterday was all we had

And oh after the love is gone
How could you lead me on
And not let me stay around
After the love is gone
What used to be right is wrong
Can love that's lost be found

For a while to love was all we could do
We were young and we knew
In our eyes we're alive
Deep inside we knew our love was true
For a while we paid no mind to the past
We knew love would last every night
Somethin' right would invite me to begin the dance

Somethin' happened along the way
What used to be happy was sad
Somethin' happened along the way
And yesterday was all we had
And yesterday was all we had

And oh after the love is gone
How could you lead me on
And not let me stay around
After the love is gone
What used to be right is wrong
Can love that's lost be found

...Remember R&B?


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Tribal Disorder

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Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
Barbara Streisand & Donna Summer - No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)
The Manhattans - Kiss And Say Goodbye
Mariah Carey - If It's Over
Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
Marvin Gaye's album "Here My Dear"

You could go with the typical, and put on Jagged Little Pill

Alanis annoys me, but I won't deny that was a great album in its time

Fleetwood Mac's Storms is my favourite breakup song of all time.

I think these might fit some of your particulars...

Clint Black, "A Better Man"
Prince, "Leaving for New York"
Fergie, "Big Girls Don't Cry"
[Edited 3/22/08 13:58pm]

"Heaven"//Tweet
is a good song to
help during a breakup

MiMi's version of "Against All Odds"
is a good one too...

to get it all out

My personal favorite is by a group called Puddle of Mudd. Now I must warn you, this song is not your typical break up song...but it helps....it's called..."She Fuckin Hates Me"....The mood and the music just rocks...

BECK's Sea Change.

"Come undone" duran duran
"China" Tori Amos - as if you don't know that one, lol
"Ex Factor" Lauryn Hill
"Who I am" Brandy
"I Want You" Common
"The Difficult Kind" sheryl crow
"I Need Love" LL Cool J
"Green Eyes" erykah badu
"im the only one" melissa etheridge - 7th grade - a girl named kristen, damn...
"come back to me" janet
"I know" dionne farris (!) - that song helped me to no ends in 9th grade
"THE BEAT GOES ON" the whispers - my current jam about 'someone' who i was digging who did NOT feel the same way...

badujunkie said:

U make that madonna hatred seem like a sport!

orgnote me some tips

Three albums I would recommend are
Bitter - Me'shell Ndegeocello
Older - George Michael
Sea Change - Beck

There's some serious shit on those things...
[Edited 3/22/08 16:36pm]

You mean like, hey here's a mixtape called.. "I wanna break up with you"

thanks for the tips. i'm putting together my playlists and some of these have been great!

Cinnie said:

no. i mean like, "hey, we've been together for over 6 years and suddenly, literally over night, we're not anymore."

sassybritches said:

You two? I'm so sorry luv ~ the kindness and patience (presurgery) you and he showed me during the Tori shows was so sweet ~ the tears are falling for both of you. n

Trouble- Lizz Wright

Trouble in the air
I don't want it
But I´ve to breathe
It´s coming through the door
Behind the shadows that surround me when I sleep
Somehow I know
that I can´t pray this away
I´ll keep my head down and get up on this train
This train
Ooo ...

I´m gonna ride this pain like a wave
Lord, make me over I don´t wann e afraid
And when my time is come and gone
I don´t wanna be the one who can´t let go

What if I get lost
I call out to you and you don´t save me?
The water comes too close
I don´t have the time to give
what you gave to me?
Well, as long as my name don´t change, I´ll be the same
I loved you more than time
Forever can´t take that away
Ooo ...
Can´t take that away

Just let me ride this pain like a wave
Lord, make me over I don't wanna be afraid
And when my time is come and gone
I don´t wanna be the one who can´t let go

Yeah, yeah, yeah

There is a river
Running by the train
It ain´t troubled
It´s just laying there, wading in the wind
Wading in the wind
Wading in the wind


Just let me ride this pain like a wave
Lord, make me over I don't wanna be afraid
And when my time is come and gone
I don´t wanna be the one who can´t let go

Let me ride this pain like a wave
Make me over I don't wanna be afraid
And when my time is come and gone
I don´t wanna be the one who can´t let go
Yeah, yeah
I´ll move on
Yeah, yeah
Ride
Yeah, yeah
Ooo, yeah ...

An obvious one...



...It's Over by Roy Orbison


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? When she says to you
There's someone new We're through We're through
It's over It's over It's over

All the rainbows in the sky
Start to weep, then say goodbye
You won't be seeing rainbows any more
Setting suns before they fall, Echo to you that's all that's all
But you'll see lonely sunsets after all

It's over, it's over, it's over

It's over



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Tribal Disorder

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Jesse Johnson-Do yourself a favor
If you see me baby just walk on by now
don't say nothin do yourself a favor
You might as well pack your bags and get the hell
on down the road cuz i'm doing fine

"You'll See" by Madonna

phunkdaddy said:

i think the prince version is better (which is the song i was referring to i my post)


edit: no, i'm not a crazy prince fan/fam/stalker, truth is i have yet to hear jesse johnson's version
[Edited 3/22/08 21:02pm]

gordonroque said:

"take a bow". i guess it's about Sean Penn

Prince- I Hate U

sammij said:

I have yet to hear prince's version. I don't even know if it's on a
prince album or a b side. Check out jesse's version on the shockadelica
album.

sassybritches said:

i'm sorry.

Unbreak My Heart - Toni Braxton
[Edited 3/22/08 21:56pm]

This sounds like a job for I Want You!

If you're still pining away: "I Want You"
If you think you'll meet again: "Since I Had You"
If this is just one in a long line of breakups: "All the Way Around"

Bonus: If it really is over: "Just to Keep You Satisfied"

To Cry About - Mary Margaret O'hara.

if you leave me can i come too? - mental as anything.