<![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart? - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart? - Jezebel Comments]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> I've spent the last few days breaking up with the love of my life -- so basically any song is making me cry.

But the one I won't even let myself listen to yet is "Pink Cashmere" by Prince.

Also--an ex boyfriend told me that whenever he heard "Little Red Corvette", he thought of me. I thought it was because I was such a big Prince fan. Then I realized it was because he thought/knew I was kind of a slut. So it sometimes makes me cry -- and sometimes makes me miss my crazy days!

Embracethepink

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @jenndavo: "don't fool yourself in thinking you're more than a man, cuz you'll probably end. up. dead."

right on.

athieno

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> I know I missed the party but I just want to THANK YOU for alerting me to the fact that there's a book called Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now! I am such a Smiths obsessive I must not only buy every book ABOUT them, but every book with a Smiths song as its title. (But no, that song does not make me cry - if anything, I associate it with miserable jobs). I Know It's Over is another story - I don't think I've listened to that in over 15 years! (Thank god for CDs and skipping over tracks)

magic1

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Now that I've downloaded handfuls of amazing new tracks and submitted the very weak (yet total guilty pleasure) of "The Scientist," allow me to add:

1. Adelaide - Old 97s
2. Suicide Medicine - Rocky Votolato
3. A Comet Appears - The Shins
4. Boats & Birds - Gregory and the Hawl

Gonna go hug the boyfriend now, sob.

megankills

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @HelloTitty: omg, i totally forgot about that one. .that video premiered the same dy my long term college bf broke up with me. i laid on the couch for a week watching that. oof.

washionfore

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> "Linger," by the Cranberries. Tearing up just thinking about it. Ah, unrequited love...

CapricornOne

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @Cam/ron:Oh darling, be still my beating heart........Slante

BeachLover

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @Southern_Gent:
"Wild Horses" fucking kills me, but I feel rather passionately that it MUST be the Rolling Stones version. No other really comes as close, although the Sundays cover is... nice.

youwantedahero

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @lukfarang: i bet someone's pointed this out, but jeff buckley did NOT write "hallelujah", leonard cohen did. i'm with you on the rufus version being the best. no one belts it out like that man.

youwantedahero

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> My best friend and I were both dumped by our boyfriends a few weeks before the end of our second year of college. We spent that entire summer of 1996 listening to Mazzy Star's first two albums and feeling sorry for ourselves. I still can't listen to 'Halah', which seemed to sum up exactly how I was feeling at the time, without feeling a pang of retrospective self-pity...

Stellanova

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @TruculentandUnreliable: oh my gosh, i am listening to "Twilight" right FUCKING NOW. that is so fucking weird.

youwantedahero

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Speaking of Decemberists... two of their best doomed love songs are "The Engine Driver", and my ever-beloved "Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect"...

Chorus:
And try one, and try two,
Guess it always comes down to,
Allright, it's okay,
Guess it's better to turn this way...

wednesdayam

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Lonely's the Only Company...Maxwell
This Woman's Work...Maxwell (no disrespect to Mz Bush)
Bang Bang...…Nancy Sinatra
Vanishing...Mariah Carey
Fallen...Sarah MachLachlan
Didn't Cha Know ... Erykah Badu
i'm gonna go listen to them on continuous loop now. just cuz.

Iconocleft

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @tragicallyunhip: much agreed on the red wine and dylan!
"Ain't it hard when you discover that
He really wasn't where it's at
After he took from you everything he could steal..."

red451

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @BeachLover420: Speaking of Irish darlings, you reminded me of the Pogues's classic heartbreaker (at least in the first part) "The Fairytale of New York."

Cam/ron

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> back on the chain gang by the pretenders. "i found a picture of you... those were the happiest days of my life... in the wretched life of a lonely heart". gets ya right in the guts, that one.

red451

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> ev'ry roooooooooose has its thorn

abagofsand

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @meaghan2k: Ah my Irish loving darlings, please don't forget "Have I Told You Lately" - the Van Morrison version..

And Raglan Road........mmmmmmmmmmm

BeachLover

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> I can't ... read 773 comments, but I'll chime in to say Damien Rice and Fiona Apple have had me on the floor, in tears, drunk and calling friends and crying.
"He's been pretty much yellow/
and I've been kind of blue/
but all I can see is red, red, red/
now what am I gonna do?"

lonewolfer

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Beth Orton - Wish I never saw the sun

Toad the Wet Sprocket - Crowing

No Doubt - Don't Speak

Patty Loveless & George Jones - You don't seem to miss me

Rosie Thomas - Wedding Day

violetskies

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @StaytheNight: Oh...Cowgirl and a
breakup..major sympathy and hugs.

Since the first time I heard Cowgirl it has put me in a trance. My absolute favorite Neil right now is an acoustic duet with Dave Matthews of Cortez the Killer, from one Neil's Bridge Street Benefits. Hard to find other than on i-tunes. Absolutely brilliant.

Keep well.

BeachLover

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @Beigebaby:
OMG yes, I love good woman. And her cover of He Was a Friend of Mine (Bob Dylan) is great too.

shogun

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> MARVIN GAYE....too many to mention, but tops on my list is "If I Should Die Tonight"

Oh, If I should die tonight
Oh baby, though it be far before my time
I won't die blue, sugar yeah
'Cause I've known you

Oooh, oh, how many eyes
Have seen their dream
Oh, how many arms
Have felt their dream
How many hearts, baby...
Have felt their world stand still

Millions never, they never never
And millions never will baby
They never will

If I should die tonight love
Darlin', though it be far before my time
I won't die blue
'Cause I've known you

MARVIN's "Lets Get It On" is one of the best albums....EVER

BeachLover

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @DaeSu: Just the Neecie lyrics made me cry. Thanks for the memories!!! Love love love her

BeachLover

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> THE WAY WE WERE..........tears every time I hear it...and let's not even start on the tears at the end of the movie!!!!!

BeachLover

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Oooh. Carole King - "So Far Away"

angelicola

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @Moe: Moe, awesome picks of the Dino Jr. and the 'Mats. "Answering Machine" is heartbreaker (but in a funny way) and Dino's "In a Jar" has a certain sadness hidden in the noise. Dino's cover of The Cure's "Just Like Heaven" is the best.

Cam/ron

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> all of richard buckner's "bloomed" album.

yamish

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> oh, and...

Coming Around Again - Carly Simon

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]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> "Lover, You Should Have Come Over" by Jeff Buckley
"Fond Farewell" by Elliott Smith
"The Bed's Too Big Without You" by the Police
"Land-locked Blues" by Bright Eyes
"Cry Me A River" by Justin Timberlake
"Nobody's Fault But My Own" by Beck

Because sometimes you have to marinate in the paralytic misery.

LittleSheepie

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> When my ass gets dumped, I make a mix CD of horrifically depressing music. Because sometimes, you have to let your misery and self-loathing marinate.

"Lover, You Should Have Come Over" by Jeff Buckley is exquisitely sad. Exhibit A: "My kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder." Oh, Jeff, you make my soul hurt. "Too deaf, dumb, and blind to see the damage I've done," indeed.

And it may be a Pavlovian response at this point, but I hear the opening notes to "Fond Farewell" by Elliott Smith and just start crying.

And once the intial paralyzing sadness wears off, "Cry Me A River" by Justin Timberlake gets me back on my feet.

LittleSheepie

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @gluecake: NO! I thought I was the ONLY PERSON IN THE WORLD who cried at "you are my sunshine."

also, I'm really psyched about the tom waits, bob schneider, david wilcox, and allison krauss love in this thread.

my depression's greatest hits list includes a LOT of fiona apple ("paper bag," "never is a promise"), a lot of the cure ("pictures of you," especially), ani difranco's "untouchable face," johnny cash's "hurt," beck's "lost cause," bjork's "hyper-ballad," and david wilcox's "eye of the hurricane."

the most depressing songs of ALL TIME, though, no question, are tom waits' "martha" and stars' "one more night." martha is just so good about getting older, moving on, and regret regret regret. oh jeez.

"operator, number, please: it's been so many years
will she remember my old voice
while I fight the tears?
hello, hello there, is this martha? this is old tom frost,
and I am calling long distance, don't worry 'bout the cost.
it's been forty years or more now
martha please recall,
and meet me out for coffee
where we'll talk about it all.

and

those were the days of roses,
of poetry and prose and
martha all I had was you and all you had was me.
here was no tomorrow.
we packed away our sorrow
and we saved it for a rainy day."

PeachesDelux

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Only in Dreams - Weezer
If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot
Don't Speak - No Doubt
The Chain - Fleetwood Mac
Dollskin - Toadies
How to Disappear Completely - Radiohead
In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel

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]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> I know it's been mentioned a few times, but Dreaming with a Broken Heart and Slow Dancing In A Burning Room by John Mayer slayed me after my last break up. Also, the unreleased song In Your Atmosphere and Split Screen Sadness. I don't care what you say about his personality, the man can write poignant songs.

Also, Konstantine was all I listened to for a month after my first breakup.

Cattivella

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> "All I want to Know" and "Stray with Me" by Magnetic Feilds, on the Pieces of April ST. The first one will make you cry while you sing it, and the second will make you bravely grimace while you wipe up your tears.

carolynmain

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Emmy the Great is amazing. Canopies & Grapes has lyrics like "I wish I'd never woke up/ I feel worse/ Than when S Club 7 broke up" and "Later on me and a bottle will hook up to have some fun/ Then I'll call your house at twelve to let you know that I'm drunk".

DOWNLOAD IT. I cannot stress how amazing this song is.

yourfacemymace

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> I get along without you, very well.
Of course I do.
Except when soft rains fall, and drips on leaves then I recall,
the thrill of being sheltered in your arms.
Of course I do
but I get along without you very well

Billie Holiday's good, but I prefer the Diana Krall version, myself

That_little_attention_whore

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> The Replacements' "Unsatisfied" all the way. Hey, Paul Westerberg, you wanna be my Valentine?

shunguy007

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @judgingnora: I love Love Will Tear Us Apart. Though sometimes when I listen to it, it hits too close to home.

The HZA

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> OH! Ordinary World by Duran Duran.

That song is a heart shatterer.

The HZA

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division. Ugh. So sad. That or "Get Gone" by Fiona Apple. Love hurts the worst when you can't get away.

judgingnora

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Porcelain by Moby. It just kills me.
Fix Me Now by Garbage. It reminds me of my younger self and my teen angst bullshit that never quite had a body count.
With or Without You by U2. I sob like no other over that one.
Half Day Closing by Portishead.
Exchange by Massive Attack. Such a stunning instrumental that I adore but it still breaks my heart.

The HZA

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Julie Roberts "I Can't Get Over You" "Rain On A Tin Roof" "If You Had Called Yesterday" and "Break Down Here"
A Fine Frenzy "Almost Lover"
Brooks and Dunn "The Long Goodbye"
Del Amitri "Always The Last To Know"
Fleetwood Mac "Dreams"
Whitney Houston "I Have Nothing"
Something Corporate "Konstantine"

and the cheesier ones:
Bon Jovi "Thank You For Loving Me"
Go West "King of Wishful Thinking"
John Waite "I Ain't Missing You At All"
Tamara Walker "Didn't We Love"
Roxette "Must Have Been Love"

Reading this thread was a bad idea...

sequined

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> The only song that consistently makes me tear up isn't a break up song, it's Eric Clapton's Tears in Heaven. I don't even have kids, but the thought of losing a child... I just can't imagine anything worse.

Anna

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Ok. I had to chime in on this. "Hold On Magnolia."
...no one has to be that strong.
but if you're stubborn like me...
chokes me up just thinking about it.

whatsthisnow

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> most of the hold on love cd by azure ray makes me cry.
broken social scene's anthems for a seventeen year old girl makes me feel like everyone i know is breaking up with me.

the mountain goats - woke up new is also incredibly sob-worthy...

yikesalways

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Metalheart by Cat Power. I cry Every. Damn. Time.
Anything Robert Johnson breaks my heart. There's so much pain in so much beauty.

nohana

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @BiscuitDoughJones:

Me too.....

fluffy_alligator

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> HOW DID I FORGET DEATH CAB TITLE & REGISTRATION I DON'T EVEN PARTICULARLY LIKE DEATHCAB BUT HOLY CHRIST THAT SONG. That song.

And "End Of The Road" is huuuuuge.

And Jeff Buckley seemed almost too obvious.

It seems as though we all love Fiona Apple. I'm glad. And Against All Odds in its many iterations.

When I'm done weeping I go to a warm place and listen to Dinosaur Jr.'s You're Living All Over Me plus early Mats i.e. "You Lose" and "God Damn Job." Oh my lord, no one cares. I need a goddamn job.

Moe

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> I would have to go with "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division, because every time I listen to it (which is more often than one might think thanks to my shuffle function's odd affinity for playing it right after "Walking on Sunshine" or similar), I realize that even if I do find love, I am doomed to a lifetime of Dark Wave-caliber heart torture. Yeesh.

EasyEVG

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @PeachBeach: shit! i totally forgot about my girl Lauryn!! "Ex-Factor" "I Used to Love Him"...but especially "Tell Him". that album is a masterpiece.

ok, peace out foreals!

catalina

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @AmyFrances: "this is not about love/cause I am not in love/ but I miss that stupid ache"

"conversation" "carey" "cactus tree" by joni mitchell

"alone" by heart

and the entire "Back to Black" album...I bought it the day after he got on a plane back to Venezuela (um, a year a go tomorrow, to be exact) and never did an album seem so apppropriate and descriptive of what I was going through at the time. i love it to death, but it is still bittersweet to listen to. "Tears Dry on Their Own" is our entire relationship, pretty much.

oh god. on that note, I'm going out to be with the people I love and who love me!! enough self-pity! happy valentine's day Jezebelle's!!

catalina

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @fulanita:
The Dolly Parton version is much better because it's sparse, and a bit less Glen Ballard-y.

gorillavsmarykate

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Have to say, Jenny Lewis "Melt Your Heart": "When you're sleeping with someone who doesn't get you/You're gonna hate yourself in the morning." Also The Nields, "In the Hush Before the Heartache." O! Unrequited love.

KetchupFiend

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Hmm. 743 comments! i ♥ Jezebel

I will concur with Where Does The Good Go by Tegan and Sarah
Landslide by either F.Mac or Billy Corgan.
Don't Let Me Down by The Beatles
Ex Factor by Lauryn Hill was my default highschool lamentation
Bizarre Love Triangle by Frente is crushingly beautiful
I Can't Be With You by The Cranberries
Hey by The Pixies exudes that evokes that hopeful/ hopeless thing perfectly for me.
For the Spanish speakers, No by Shakira is incredible.

And, seriously, if you want to really hit bottom I Envy The Wind from Lucinda Williams "Essence" album.

And in conclusion, hello, Tori Amos: Silent All These Years

So you found a girl that thinks really deep thoughts/ What's so amazing about really deep thoughts/ boy you best pray that I bleed real soon/ how's that thought for ya?

and of course, Tear in Your Hand:

All the world just stopped now/ So you say you don't wanna stay together anymore/ Let me take a deep breath, babe/ If you need me, me and Neil'll be/ Hangin' out with the Dream King...You don't know the power that you have

That last line about Neil refers to Neil Gaiman but in my head it refers to my sock monkey that my boyfriend and I together named Neil. Yikes!

PeachBeach

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @catalina: Oh, that song gives me chills. Especially the "I'll follow you down" line. Good call.

blackbirdfly

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> moe, you're a great writer! i am in a lovely relationship but when i do listen to the smiths, i'm thinking, SHOULD i be suffering somehow?!

chile

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> "The Other Woman" Nina Simone (cause i was the other woman)

"Does He Love You?" Rilo Kiley (see above)

Anything sung by Pavarotti, and the entire three tenors album, becuase my dad was always singing opera and old italian folk tunes around the house when I was little, and those are the memories of him that stand out

catalina

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Oh man... I forgot about Rainer Maria, some of the best wallowing music ever. "Broken Radio" and "Atlantic" are so, so sad.

LBB

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Fleetwood Mac, "Silver Spring"

And don't say that she's pretty
And did you say that she loved you
Baby I don't want to know

And can you tell me was it worth it
Baby I don't want to know

Time cast a spell on you
But you won't forget me
I know I could have loved you
But you would not let me

I follow you down 'till the sound
Of my voice will haunt you
(Give me just a chance)
You'll never get away from the sound
Of the woman who loves you
(Was I just a fool)

catalina

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> "Winter" by Tori Amos, b/c it reminds me of my dad.
"Time to Say Goodbye" w/Andrea Bocelli, b/c my mom loved him and we played it at her funeral.
"Heart of the Matter" by Don Henley, b/c it reminds me of an excruciating breakup, and DH is right about life.

vixenatrix

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Don't Take the Girl by Tim McGraw will make me sob everytime!

katgrrl71

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @Enthusiasm...Curbed: oh god! both of them...
i first heard "first day of my life" when I was still in the rush of falling in love and it was so damn appropriate, and now when I hear it (and he's thousands of miles away, with someone else)it just kills me.

and "paper bag" pretty much sums up the whole relationship.

anyone remember "Sad Songs" by Billy Ocean? kills me.

"Last Day of Our Acquaintance," Sinead O'Connor

"Dia de enero" Shakira

catalina

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @MurphysLaw: omg yes! also, motion city soundtrack's hold me down:
You're the echoes of my everything,
You're the emptiness the whole world sings at night.
You're the laziness of afternoon,
You're the reason why I burst and why I bloom.
You're the leaky sink of sentiment,
You're the failed attempts I never could forget.
You're the metaphors I can't create to comprehend this curse that I call love...
How will I break the news to you?

screammylungzout

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> I am out of control, but I lurve this thread.

"Oh Well", "Parting Gift" by Fiona Apple.
"China", "Crazy", "Mother", "Silent All These Years", "Your Cloud" by Tori Amos. Really ANYTHING by these women.
"Title and Registration" by Deathcab. Their music falls into what I refer to as the "wrist my slits" genre.

I cou

alexysstylor

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @klutzyk: i too am a huge joss stone fan. nice.

confusedforahotsecond loves me some Renegade

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @dosido: How did I forget that song??? It is sososo beautiful it gives me the chills. "Be my friend, hold me, wrap me up, unfold me. I am small and needy..."

alexysstylor

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @vivresavie17: Tiny Vessels? That song gives me goosebumps everytime I hear it. How are you doing now? I ask b/c I'm in somewhat of the same situation.

alexysstylor

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> "I Will Follow You into the Dark" by Death Cab for Cutie. Also check out the video with the rabbits -- it makes me cry every time I watch it.

irina253

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Want something sad? Something that will make you cry even harder? He Stopped Loving Her Today by George Jones. I mean wow. take a bath with a toaster. I think it's responsible for my cousin's stupid decisions leading to a DUI.

iamlesliegirl

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @Southern_Gent: i was just coming back to post that "tear stained eye" is another breakup mix tape must.

and "judas my heart" by belly.
and someone msut've said "hallelujah" by jeff buckley.
and like 3/4 of the songs by the cowboy junkies.
OH and "coal to diamonds" by the gossip.
and "careless whisper" the wham! version.

these always get me.
sad songs are the best.

yamish

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> "Full of Grace" by Sarah MacLachlan because Buffy HAD to kill Angel. "Iris" by Goo Goo Dolls because it's such damn pretty instrumentation and composition and Rzeznik's chin. "Good Morning Heartache," the Ella Fitzgerald version because pitch and key lived in the woman's skin.

Parasol

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @BadenBaden:
totes that as well as "Hey Jupiter (The Dakota version)" - the loneliness in that song is devestating.

Brittany Bellgardt

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Decemberists, Crane Wife 2 and 3.

vivresavie17

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> "Beloved Wife" by Natalie Merchant will make you BAWL.

musiczagat

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @alexysstylor: OMG. After college I picked up and moved halfway across the country where I didn't know anyone and began my first year of teaching in a rough, depressing urban school. I was truly, helplessly unsuccessful for the first time in my life, felt like everything in my life was out of my control, and all my dearest friends were 7 states away. I had no idea what I was doing with my life. My old friends didn't understand why my job was so hard, my family hadn't approved of my decision in the first place, and all my new friends in Philly were similarly depressed. I wasn't meeting anyone and was terribly, terribly lonely. I chose to deal with my problems through a tasty combination of alcohol and denial. Then one shitty day in January one of my best straight-dude friends IMed me with "Happy Birthday, go listen to this song," which, incidentally, was that one. Did I CRYYYYYYY.

vivresavie17

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Bright Eyes, "June on the West Coast" or "One foot in front of the other"--shit, anything by Bright Eyes--yep, totes emo like that.

Moley

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> what a great idea for a post!

new alicia keys totally breaks my heart-"Lesson Learned"

"He broke
my heart
and now it's raining.
Just don't rub it in.
I'm at
your door
I feel so crazy bout it.......

.....His tears, your eyes,
30 seconds to apologize,
You give it one more chance,
Just like the time before,
but he already knows
you'd give 100 more
Until that night in bed,
you wake up in a sweat
You're racing to the door,
can't take it any more.
I was burned, but I called it a lesson learned."

KDubbs

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> cat power has already been mentioned, so why not add another one to the list? empty shell. this song pretty much says it all.

"all that is left is an empty shell
of my heart that is crushed
i don't never wanna see
what my mind has seen
when you loved me
every night, every night alone with you
every night alone now

when she sits on your lap
try to pretend to laugh
when she does stupid things
just like i used to do
do no hate her
don't you even try
for to leave her is to love her
the same as you and i
I love you
and i miss you too
i really do love you
and i really miss you too

but i don't know you
and i don't need you
and i don't want you anymore

every night, every night alone with you
every night alone now"

and for those of you that know the greatness that is julieta venegas... "andar conmigo." or as my mom says "that julieta sounds like she doesn't have luck with the menses." so pretty much any song of hers i guess...

one more: ciega, sordomuda by shakira.

calitexican

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Might I add - Elliot Smith and many Aimee Mann songs can bring me to tears :(

musiczagat

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Oh fun!
Mix one part Mazzy Star + Fiona Apple + Kristin Hersh + Tori Amos + Sarah McLachlan and you have a sad sad love cocktail.

musiczagat

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> the complete bob dylan collection and a bottle, no magnum of red wine. it's the only way to make it through a break up

alloutofnice

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @Southern_Gent: Also Ani Difranco makes me weep often. I have every CD, including live recordings and the official bootlegs. It makes it difficult to find other duplicate songs in iTunes since there are about 100 dupes of Ani (different versions though!)

Southern_Gent

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @lalaland13: I love Futures!! "23" is so heartbreaking: "You'll sit alone forever if you wait for the right time. What are you hoping for? I'm here, I'm now, I'm ready."

alexysstylor

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Also this:


+ Watch video

">Sia - "Breathe Me"

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ to Jezebel!

♥ dosido ☮

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Ani Difranco's "School Night"

What of the mother who's house is in flames,
And both of her children are in their beds crying,
She loves them both with the whole of her heart,
But she knows she can only carry one at a time.
She's choking on the smoke of unthinkable choices,
And she's haunted by the voices of so many desires.
She's bent over from the business of begging forgivness
And frantically running around putting out fires.

alphafemale

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> the microphones "lantern" ohhh my god it makes me cry

nikaoh

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> daniel johnston "some things last forever"

nikaoh

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @rmkbklyn: Oh wow Kristy McColl is so good. Her version of New England, also don't come cowboying with me sonny james. Is sad and funny at the same time.

alrightnow

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @meaghan2k: ohhhh Old alkaline trio is the BEST.Everytime I hear RADIO i want to be driving in my car in my hometown smoking cigarettes and singing with my bff at the top of my lungs.

thereisalight

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Oooo...I'm gonna try this new feature..


+ Watch video

">Tori Amos - "Putting the Damage On".

THAT IS A TASTY KALEIDESCOPE OF DANDY.

♥ dosido ☮

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @rsr26: "Love Ridden" absolutely tears me apart.

And "Tiny Vessels" by Deathcab for Cutie: "This is the moment that you know, that you told her that you loved her but you don't. You touch her skin, and then you think, 'she is beautiful, but she doesn't mean a thing to me'.

alexysstylor

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> "Who Will Take Your Dreams Away" by Marianne Faithfull. "Follow Me" (Ghost in the Shell) Kimiko Itoh. "Windmills of Your Mind" by Dusty Springfield. "Tomorrow is My Turn", "Ballad of Hollis Brown", etc. actually, anything Nina Simone has ever sung. And finally, "Mary" by the Scissor Sisters.

I have the tastes of a 60-year old.

Dalinae

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Morphine's "In Spite of Me." On every mix tape you make for everybody who has even the slightest chance of breaking your heart.

marmite

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> I bought Shoot out the Lights by Richard and Linda Thompson two Valentines Days ago and it was the best shitty breakup therapy album I've ever bought. The story (or myth) behind the album is what makes it so good. They apparently were divorcing in the middle of recording it...you can hear the pain and anguish on both sides...which makes it fucked up that they're singing back up for one another on songs that are obviously about their fucked up relationship. Choice heartbreak album.

noneandonly

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Getting all blue has no place in the world without country music.

You have got to have "A Good Year For the Roses" on that bitch. George Jones original, please.

Smackdown

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> "Falling Slowly" kills me.

Also, ever since seeing "Love, Actually" that version of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now." I heard it the other day in a store and almost started bawling...always a proud moment...

lederhosen

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @dosido: You say you packed your things and divided what was mine/you're off to the mountaintop/I say her skinny legs could use sun/but now I'm wishin for my best impression of my best Angie Dickinson

God, I have never cried so hard in my entire life.

zizzlepop

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Son Volt - Tear Stained Eye
Big Star - Thirteen
Dance With My Father - Luther (I know, but it is sad dammit!)
Wild Horses - The Sundays or The Rolling Stones

Most Mazzy Star stuff

Southern_Gent

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Ani DiFranco's "Done Wrong"

I guess that makes me the jerk with the heartache here to sign you about how I've been Done Wrong.

Also, don't really love country but Dwight Yockum's "Ain't that Lonely Yet" is awesome!

smallcritic

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> I am so showing my age . . . "I'll Be Over You" by Toto. Reminds me of my first "real" love, my junior year of high school. Even after graduation, whenever I'd hear the first line, "Some people live their dreams" I'd crank up the radio and think of Kevin. Years later, when I was married and that song came on the radio, I'd crank it up, with my then husband, and think of Kevin. "As soon as forever is through, I'll be over you." I'm not sure if it was regret that we broke up, or that I really missed him. Either way, I'm over him now. ;-)

MargoKey

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @xay: is that the "Earl had to die" song about the abused lady killing her husband? My friend sang that as karaoke at her bachelorette party.

sumac

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Ok 700 comments later, somehow missed this post till now, and dammit breakup music is why Amy Winehouse exists. No one will see this but I'm saying it anyway.

lisas

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> The Wrens - "She Sends Kisses"

I also appreciate the happy-tear inducing song "Inside of Love" by Nada Surf.

FoxintheSnow

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Stevie Wonder's "Lately", though gorgeous, makes me cry most every time I hear it (thanks cheating ass ex!) or it's covers, also "Joan" by Butch Walker.... on the more personal and inexplicable side, "Purple Rain makes me want to bawl in a corner rather than wave my lighter with the rest of the herd of purple fanboys and girls at a standard Prince concert.

littlemissmonochrome

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Almost 700 entries!!! I'm so behind...

I have to second "Green Eyes" by Erykah Badu. Priceless breakup vignette.

I have to add:
"Now You're Gone (More Than I Can Feel)" Floetry and Sebastian Rogers

dcnative

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> One more oldies but goody....

Sometimes When We Touch - Dan Hill

You ask me if I love you
And I choke on my reply
I'd rather hurt you honestly
Than mislead you with a lie
And who am I to judge you
On what you say or do?
I'm only just beginning to see the real you

And sometimes when we touch
The honesty's too much
And I have to close my eyes and hide
I wanna hold you til I die
Til we both break down and cry
I wanna hold you till the fear in me subsides

Romance and all its strategy
Leaves me battling with my pride
But through the insecurity
Some tenderness survives
I'm just another writer
Still trapped within my truth
A hesitant prize fighter
Still trapped within my youth

And sometimes when we touch
The honesty's too much
And I have to close my eyes and hide
I wanna hold you til I die
Til we both break down and cry
I wanna hold you till the fear in me subsides

At times I'd like to break you
And drive you to your knees
At times I'd like to break through
And hold you endlessly

At times I understand you
And I know how hard you've tried
I've watched while love commands you
And I've watched love pass you by

At times I think we're drifters
Still searching for a friend
A brother or a sister
But then the passion flares again

And sometimes when we touch
The honesty's too much
And I have to close my eyes and hide
I wanna hold you til I die
Til we both break down and cry
I wanna hold you till the fear in me subsides

Pays to have brother and sisters that are 10 to 15 yrs older.

Alara

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> prayer to god from shellac.

but i have always been the type of girl who, during breakups, is most likely to punch out windows, throw a table off the backporch, and get angry drunk.

southernbitch

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Eagles....

"Wasted Time"

Well baby, there you stand
With your little head, down in your hand
Oh, my God, you can't believe it's happening
again
Your baby's gone, and you're all alone
and it looks like the end.

And you're back out on the street.
And you're tryin' to remember.
How will you start it over?
You don't know what became.
You don't care much for a stranger's touch,
But you can't hold your man.

You never thought you'd be alone this far
down the line
And I know what's been on your mind
You're afraid it's all been wasted time

The autumn leaves have got you thinking
about the first time that you fell
You didn't love the boy too much, no, no
you just loved the boy to well, Farewell
So you live from day to day, and you dream
about tomorrow, oh.
And the hours go by like minutes
and the shadows come to stay
So you take a little something to
make them go away
And I could have done so many things, baby
If I could only stop my mind from wondrin' what
I left behind and from worrying 'bout this wasted time

Ooh, another love has come and gone
Ooh, and the years keep rushing on
I remember what you told me before you went out on your own:
"Sometimes to keep it together, we got to leave it alone."
So you can get on with your search, baby, and I can
get on with mine
And maybe someday we will find , that it wasn't really
wasted time
Mm,hm
Oh hoo, ooh, ohh,
Ooh,ooh, mm

Saw Don Henley perform it at Chateau Ste. Michelle winery outside Seattle with a gentle misty rain falling and everyone was standing and singing along. I will never forget that night nor the song.

Alara

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> And Sufjan Stevens "Casimir Pulaski Day"

vivresavie17

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> "I almost forgot" by Matthew Sweet.

"Did you say you loved me?
I almost forgot. . .

Whenever you win you know I'm wishing you'd lose."

ivorytusk

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Oh sheesh...and Bell X1 "In Every Sunflower" and LCD Soundsystem "Someone Great" and anything, anything Damien Rice. I went through a bad breakup last spring and spent the rest of the summer and fall dealing with it, so I'm pretty well-versed in these kinds of songs. :(

vivresavie17

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> "Drive on to Me" by Elliott (the band, not the man.)

"Into the Dark" by The Juliana Theory

"As the Footsteps Die Out Forever" by Catch 22. About a mama getting cancer.

meaghan2k

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> What Sarah Said by Death Cab for Cutie

'Cause there's no comfort in the waiting room
Just nervous pacers bracing for bad news
And then the nurse comes round & everyone will lift their heads
But I'm thinking of what Sarah said:
That "love is watching someone die."

So who's gonna watch you die?

missdelite

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Thought a little more, add to add to my Janet Jackson "Again":
Shine Your Light - Robbie Robertson
Traveling Soldier - Dixie Chicks
Desperado - The Eagles (personal reasons)
Concrete Angel - Martina McBride
Angel - Sarah McLachlan
Several Mariah Carey songs (Against All Odds, Butterfuly, etc.)

ArmCandy

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @Leiakat: Jolene - YES!

dearheart

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> OH GOD! Ditto every Ryan Adams song! That man is the king of heartbreak.

vivresavie17

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @PoisonPixie: Cascada does a supercheese dance cover of "What Hurts The Most" and I will admit I bought it off itunes. There, I said it!

Jayne

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> I'm so pissed that I came so late to this game and now have zero energy for combing 672 comments! Hopefully "The Trapeze Swinger" by Iron & Wine hasn't been mentioned yet. I think the consensus on that song's lyrics is: boy meets girl, boy grows up with girl, boy and girl fall in love, boy screws over girl, boy does stupid shit, boy dies, boy reminisces on his youthful past with said girl while stuck in limbo because they won't let him into heaven, where the love of his life is. The part where he sings, "I heard from someone you're still pretty" gets me every time.

Ditto every Fiona song, ever, particularly "Not About Love" and "Oh Well."

I'm also a fan of The National's "Slow Show" and its closing lines. I want someone to feel that way about me! :(

vivresavie17

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Maxwell's cover of "This Woman's Work"
Feist's "Let it Die" and "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" by Beck

Uh oh, here come the waterworks

VeryGood

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> "Tiny Vessels" by Death Cab, it captures disillusionment after the initial headiness of new love perfectly:

this is the moment that you know
that you told you loved her but you don't.
you touch her skin and then you think
that she is beautiful but she don't mean a thing to me.
yeah, she is beautiful but she don't mean a thing to me.

...

all I see are dark grey clouds
in the distance moving closer with every hour
so when you ask "was something wrong?"
that I think "you're damn right there is but we can't talk about it now.
no, we can't talk about it now."

so one last touch and then you'll go
and we'll pretend that it meant something so much more
but it was vile, and it was cheap
and you are beautiful but you don't mean a thing to me
yeah you are beautiful but you don't mean a thing to me

zellerz

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Call it cheesy if you must, but "You Don't Bring Me Flowers Anymore."

I remember when you couldn't wait to love me
Used to hate to leave me
Now after loving me late at night

When it's good for you, babe
And you're feeling all right

Well, you just roll over and turn out the light...
And you don't bring me flowers anymore

The souring of a once-mighty love -- cuts me to the quick.

DaeSu

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @blackbirdfly: This would only be an experiment in things that could have been, and you can go ahead and get married and it'll probably never happen again. Yeah, I'm a sucker for that Rhett.

bitsy boozer

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Your Ex-Lover is Dead - The Stars

"It's nothing but time and a face that you lose
I chose to feel it and you couldn't choose
I'll write you a postcard
I'll send you the news
From a house down the road from real love...
Live through this, and you won't look back..."

and...
Say Yes- Elliott Smith

mcrah84

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @Jayne: I know, after all these years, I still can't watch him on Unplugged without crying my heart out. It still kills me.

NolitaLolita

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> I'm so late to this but "How to Disappear Completely" by Radiohead (even if it isnt so romantical sad) and too many Johnny Cash songs to name....

ndngrl

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> After the wallow part of the breakup I like to listen to "Positively 4th Street" by Dylan, "Some Kinda Nerve" by Melissa Ferrick and "Little Bit Lonesome" by Kasey Chambers. Just throwin' those out there.

MissMollyKate

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Tom Waits/ "Who are you":bone machine

How do your pistol and your Bible and your
Sleeping pills go?
Are you still jumping out of windows in expensive clothes?

Well I fell in love
With your sailor's mouth and your wounded eyes
You better get down on the floor
Don't you know this is war
Tell me who are you this time?

dchan

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Don't know if this one's been mentioned, but since college 'Cold Milk Bottle' by the Mountain Goats has been my go to heartbreak song:

Rainbows shown on the glass, dew drops gathered on the grass.
And the yellow sun came into view.
Another goddamn message from you.
Well despite your best efforts, I feel alright.
Against my better judgement, I'd feel alright.
Despite your ediments of violence, I'd feel alright.
Despite the force of your fury, I'd feel al-alright.
You're mean to me. Why must you be mean to me?
You shouldn't forget, you see, what you mean to me."

capitaljive

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @wolf biter: At the show I went to, he saw this little kid waiting in the autograph line and waved him and his parents forward ahead of the rest of us because it was probably "past [his] bedtime", or some such. *So* sweet. And, yes, beautiful... he has the most striking eyes.

LBB

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Tori Amos - Beauty Queen/Horses. "And you would, if I would, but you never would."

Jayne

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Call me Canadian, but anything by Jann Arden. I ugly cried all the way through her concert. 'Unloved' hurts me badly.

janez26

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @sumac: At first glance, I read that as "Goodbye Earl". Which works as a breakup song too.

xay

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @Lampbane: yes! for me it's "phone call"

bigtittycommittee

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> If anyone gets this far...Tori Amos, "Putting the Damage On" absolutely kills me. Go to you tube now and love it. So does "Hey, Jupiter". Just about everything she does with just her and the piano unhinges me. *cry* I LOVE THIS THREAD.

♥ dosido ☮

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @bloodredrosev: Man! Forgot about Black!

Again, Cup of Coffee:

I smoke your brand of cigarettes
And pray that you might give me a call
I lie around in bed all day just staring at the walls
Hanging round bars at night wishing I had never been born
And give myself to anyone who wants to take me home

So no of course we can't be friends
Not while I still feel like this
I guess I always knew the score
This is where our story ends

Jayne

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Goodbye by Steve Earle

sumac

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @ shiningstar: YES. That album made me cry for so many different reasons.

"Let it Die" - Feist. I'm pretty sure I gently mocked its earnestness until my most recent break-up. As soon that happened, it was on immediate, non-stop repeat.

"End of the Road" - Boyz II Men. I sing along and choke up every time.

macho strut

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> "Black", by Pearl Jam:

"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star
In somebody else's sky, but why, why, why
Can't it be, can't it be mine"

bloodredrosev

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> "Strings That Tie to You" by Jon Brion from the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind soundtrack. Never mind that the movie makes the cry, the song just reminds me of all the streets I can't even walk down without being reminded of my last relationship.

Lampbane

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> And also "Not About Love" by Fiona Apple.

crunkjuice

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @ericablue: Bright Eyes, Lover I Don't Have to Love. "I want a girl who's too sad to give a fuck." And I don't even like Bright Eyes!

Jayne

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @blackbirdfly: I'm an only child. I have a very active interior life.

@littlebluebug: Yeah, he's done that when I've seen him. My co-worker saw him about a month ago and she told me he did two sets, a bunch of new 97's stuff, and between sets, he went out to the lobby, signed autographs, and picked up a little girl who was waiting to get his autograph and swung her around in a big bear hug. Also, he is beautiful. PERFECTEST MAN EVAR.

wolf biter

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @FattyCatty: me too! and 'midnight' from 'upstairs at eric's' also. i loved yaz.

crawdaddy

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Also (God I can't stay away from this one) I think "Human Racing" by St. Vincent is the one with a line that goes, "You're not the first to break my heart." Inject a little bit of sass in there with all this weepy shat. Okay I'm done!

sanibelly

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @ruth_less: Oh yeah, Coldplay's "The Scientist" gets me, because around the time the song was on the radio a lot, I just graduated college and moved a couple hudred miles from everyone I knew. So I was doing a lot of "I'm so lonely" sobbing on the couch and that song was ALWAYS fucking on.

Jayne

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> johnny taylor: somebody's sleeping in my bed, lenny williams: cause i love you, syreeta wright: i can't give back the love i feel for you, and of course, the entire patsy cline catalogue.

bigtittycommittee

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> i always go for the angry songs after a heartbreak.

one of the best angry breakup songs is wayne/jayne county's '(if you don't want to fuck me baby) fuck off!' which is self-explanatory. buy/download it! it will make you happy even when you're heartbroken.

for the introspective, wallow in pain post-breakup days, the entire cd of 'blood on the tracks' by bob dylan. tears will flow.

crawdaddy

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @ruth_less: ANYTHING by Wilco.

gobblegirl

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @AbbyNormal: Thanks for going with the Rose Royce original, not the overwrought Mary J. cover.

DaeSu

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Rebekah Del Rio, Llorando (from Muhalland Dr.) Cover of Roy Orbison's Crying
Jolie Holland - Roll my Blues or the slightly more upbeat Littlest Birds
Blind Melon - Mouthful of Cavities
Ryan Adams - Oh My Sweet Carolina (which is not really a love song but still makes me cry)
Simon and Garfunkel - April Come She Will

ericablue

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @Ipomoea: Oh god, I forgot about Exit Music! I heard the reason it sounds so spooky is because the vocals were recorded in an empty church.

"We hope that you choke."

@NolitaLolita: That one part of Where Did You Sleep Last Night, on the last "SHIVER!" physically hurts to listen to.

Also, DMB's #41 back when I had an unrequited love thing for a close friend of mine who was really into them. Lame, I know.

Jayne

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> The entire album "Logic Will Break Your Heart" by the Stills.

gobblegirl

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> bittersweet symphony by the verve, damn you cruel intentions...

chasingliacrazy

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Ah! Reference to Sufjan Stevens reminds me of "The Dress Looks Nice On You." That's another great one.

Also, it's from an album I otherwise have no use for, but R.E.M.'s "E-Bow the Letter." Which, by non-chance, I am listening to right now.

And! Wilco's "Muzzle of Bees," for which I gained all new depression-appreciation when it was used in the "Friday Night Lights" season-two premiere. Idiocy of Tyra-Landry plot aside.

ruth_less

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @wolf biter: That is a fine, fine dream. Right now I am hating myself *so* much for not even trying to go see him play in a teeny-tiny venue two days ago even though I just saw him last Friday. I have never before in my life been all squealy-fangirl over a musician, but Rhett brings out my inner teenybopper. [My copy of The Believer is signed "To [LBB], I [heart] 4-eyed girls!!!". It is my favorite thing of all time EVER.]

FYI, he sang both parts of "Fireflies" by himself the other night -- kind of hamming up the "guy" and "girl" parts. It was so dorky and cute.

LBB

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> I know many of you hate him, but before I broke up with my last boyfriend, John Mayer's "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room" killed me every time. Also, Joni Mitchell "Both Sides Now".

citizenkitty

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Bright Eyes - You Will. You? Will. You? Will…..

ericablue

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Holy crap. Moe seriously knew what she was doing on this one. Pageviews must be through the roof. I guess I'm going to throw in the entirety of Bon Iver's "For Emma Forever Ago." It just came out, but seriously guys - go listen and cry.

inapartydress

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> Damn, I went out for a job assignment and look what I missed out on! My favorite heartbreakers are the Velvet Underground's "After Hours" (a song so simple and innocent it's a tear-jerker), Joy Division's "Atmosphere," John Coltrane's "In a Sentimental Mood" and Miles Davis's "Sanctuary."

Cam/ron

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @MsDirector@littlebluebug: Ahhh!! I heard "Meet Me" in a movie and lost my shit. She's actually pretty great!

And how about "Colors and the Kids" from Cat Power? Holy shit, that woman.

sanibelly

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> "Fool That I Am" sung by Etta James. I remember this playing in the background early in my relationship with my ex and thinking to myself that things with him could only end badly. I was SO right.

Roundygirl

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> "Against the Odds". Phil Collins or The Postal Service; the version doesn't matter.

blistering_bette

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @littlebluebug: Totally. "Reason Why" just kills me. And yay for your screenname!

MsDirector

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @littlebluebug: I know.

@wolf biter: OMG, you do that too?

blackbirdfly

]]> <![CDATA[Which Songs Never Fail To Break Your Heart?]]> @meaghan2k: YES on Alison Krauss. Plus "That Kind of Love" has the bonus of reminding me of the big multiple-breakup scene from that one episode of Buffy, so it destroys me even more.

@CueSanibelly: Yay another Rachel Yamagata fan!!! Sweet Jesus I love that woman. She's so awesome. Fo