Relationship kissoff song thread

[cemaphonic]

Despite being happily married, I do love a good pissy breakup song.

Lucinda Williams alone probably has a dozen great ones:

Post some more!

[WhiteAndNerdy]

1. How about . . .

This song makes me laugh because when it was out, I had a manager at work who complained that it was "so negative." I figured he'd heard the general sentiments a few times himself.

[rug]

5. And to think it started like this.

[rug]

2. Boots of Spanish Leather

I can't think of anything more cold than a love affair being reduced to a pair of shoes.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

6. That was good. I'm not a Dylan fan.

He wasn't mumbling.

[rug]

7. He used to sing with such clarity.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

9. Yeah that is impressive.

I was only familiar with stuff from the mumbling era. He got to where the poetry of the lyrics took over from any melody that might have been present.

Other people sometimes do the definitive versions of his songs - like All Along the Watchtower.

[rug]

10. I think his singing fell off the the cliff after Blood on the Tracks.

Another Side of Bob Dylan is another good and crisp album.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

12. That was the first gold record I ever saw.

Blood On the Tracks, at the Harvard Co-op in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1977.

[rug]

13. Do you mean you saw the gold record itself or that's the first album you remeber that went gold?

Either way, it's a good one.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

33. I saw the gold record itself framed on the wall in the record department of the Harvard Coop.

And on one of the dividers in the classical music record section, under flutes it said "Jean-Pierre Rampal is not the only good flute player"

This was before James Galway was famous.

[rug]

46. Lol, that's a store worth revisiting.

[cemaphonic]

8. Ha, yeah Dylan's written even more of these than Lucinda

I like "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" for frosty apathy (especially juxtaposed with that cheerful fingerpicked guitar accompaniment).

[Manifestor_of_Light]

3. You're Breakin' my Heart -- Harry Nilsson

Never heard this one on the radio. George Harrison and Ringo Starr sang it over his grave after the funeral.

[Efilroft Sul]

49. This is the best one. Everyone should listen.

Great choice!

[begin_within]

4. Here are 5

[cemaphonic]

11. Oh jeez, Boys II Men...

I was in high school when that song came out, and in my school's choir. At every single choir event for a year, there were (multiple) packs of 4-part harmony groups (IOW barbershop - choir nerds are even less cool than band nerds) running around singing that song over and over again to impress girls. I had blocked it out completely from my memory until last summer when the Game of Thrones promotional team put out this great little video:

[adirondacker]

14. Different Drum

[catrose]

47. Lots of goodies from Linda

Faithless Love

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Long Long Time

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[intaglio]

15. Carly Simon, Paul Simon and 2 by Fleetwood Mac

[retread]

16. Thank God and Greyhound

[pipi_k]

17. Oh yeah!

One of my favorites...sing it girlfriend!!!

[pipi_k]

19. Oh, PS...

You want pissy?

Here's pissy...

[Orrex]

18. Untouchable Face by Ani Difranco

I can't get on YouTube from work, but it's a heartwarming little number.

[mopinko]

20. love your pick.

not cranky, but my themesong of late-

[oregonjen]

21. Get your tongue out of my mouth because I'm kissing you goodbye

[hunter]

22. My nomination for the horrific catagory: The Police, Every Breath You Take.

Nothing so scary as a stalker ex.

[LiberalAndProud]

53. Yes, the Very Scary Stalker Song.

[Coventina]

23. Can't believe this hasn't already been posted:

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

24. Here are a couple classics

She smoked my stuff and drank all my wine.

[Bosonic]

25. You may not like it, but it is apposite and upbeat

[Populist_Prole]

26. This one was earworming through my head during one weekend tryst turned sour

She was visiting me one long weekend. Really nice and perky on the phone. A ball-busting, nagging bitch in person...until the morning of the day she was leaving in which she got all apologetic and weepy. This tune really was going through my head.

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[Chan790]

27. Few bands do the kissoff song like "Death Cab for Cutie"

I've used a couple of these, because I'm a dick sometimes. The entire Plans and Narrow Stairs albums are basically long relationship brush-off medleys.

Probably the most brutal of the bunch is Tiny Vessels off their Transatlanticism album though. Few things intentionally inflict pain like a poetic song saying I never loved you. I may have deluded myself to think I loved you...but I never loved you. "You don't mean a thing to me."

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,
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.

I spent two weeks in Silver Lake,
The California sun cascading down my face.
There was a girl with light brown streaks,
And she was beautiful, but she didn't mean a thing to me.
Yeah, she was beautiful, but she didn't mean a thing to me.

I wanted to believe in all the words that I was speaking,
As we moved together in the dark.
And all the friends that I was telling,
All the playful misspellings,
And every bite I gave that left a mark.
Then tiny vessels oozed into your neck and formed the bruises,
That you said you didn't want to fade.
But they did and so did I that day.

All I see are dark gray clouds in the distance moving closer with every hour.
So when you'd ask, "Is something wrong?"
I'd 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 time 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.
Yeah, you are beautiful but you don't mean a thing to me.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

40. Ugh, that sounds more like a scumbag guy using a woman

....I've been in her place. Too many times...."what's wrong? Is something wrong?"
Never saw it coming....my bad, I ignored red flags.

Ha, that sounds like it could be a song itself!

[Chan790]

43. He pretty much concedes by "it was vile" that he's the scumbag.

The album, like most of their albums, is a conceptual album telling a loose story.

In this case the entire album begins and ends on the same note so that it can be played as a continuous unbroken loop. It's a loop of the cycle of failed relationships meant to coincide with the passage of approximately a year. That's why the album begins with the lines "So this is the New Year/and I don't feel any different." It's also why the middle tracks coincide with summer themes and progress into the "fall wedding" narrative of Death of an Interior Decorator and the winter/death/loss themes of We Looked like Giants and A Lack of Color. I'm digressing a bit. So, if there's any consolation, he knows he's a scumbag and it doesn't get any happier for him. It's a bit karmic. It's one of my favorite albums though. I can picture the "stageplay" (for lack of a better word) of it in my head as I listen to it.

Notably, the next track after Tiny Vessels, Transatlanticism, is a song about insurmountable gaps: of time, of distance, of loss, of regret; of new beginnings for everybody except the narrator. So, it sounds like he has regret about it. He "need(s) you so much closer" but "the distance is further than ever before."

The full album can be found on Youtube:

[BlancheSplanchnik]

45. thanks! that was an excellent review!!!

You're good!

How cool that it's a year long story and starts and ends on the same note...very clever.

Ok, sounds like they're worth checking out.

[Kaleva]

28. I can't decide- Scissors Sisters

[Raffi Ella]

29. No, I don't regret a thing. If I did it would be the same.

It's sweet you have no heart, I shoulda known it from the start.

[Action_Patrol]

31. Big hugs

So nice to see another King Khan fan.

[Raffi Ella]

36. Hey~ back at cha!

They're awesome, I saw them this Summer at the 40 Watt!

[sakabatou]

30. I got two

[reflection]

32. Ugly Kid Joe

[cemaphonic]

34. Oh man, how could I forget, with a Tom Waits avatar and everything?

This one's a bit gentler (albiet a bit passive-agressive) than a lot of the others:

[malthaussen]

35. It ain't pissy, but...

It's definitely a breakup song:

-- Mal

[azurnoir]

37. New day-yesterday Jethro Tull

[Doc_Technical]

51. Glenn Cornick, RIP

[Tikki]

38. "Diary"...BREAD

"Baby Runaround"...the GEARS (WARNING...explicit)

"Keep on Lying"....Tame Impala

Tikki

[secondvariety]

39. My fav.

[JCMach1]

41. Violent Femmes- Kiss Off

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[DFW]

42. I'll Probably Feel A Whole Lot Better (When You're Gone)

The Byrds, 1965

[libodem]

44. .

Loudon Wainwright III - Your Mother and I:

[shenmue]

48. 'Unhappy Birthday,' the Smiths

[MH1]

50. Limp Bizkit, Rearranged

(of course!)

... I'd love to be the one to disappoint you when I don't fall down
.. you're no good for me
Thank God its over

Doesn't get much more kiss-off than that!

[pablo_marmol]

52. Back when I was a kid my room-mate

got dumped by his GF. She had started seeing his best friend.

When she told him he started singing the lyrics to The Cars' song "My best friend's girlfriend" 'cause he was in shock and that's all that came to his mind. It really freaked her out -- even years afterward. Of course his ex best friend ended up dumping her, and she tried to crawl back to him. I think you can figure out how the story ended.

[Trailrider1951]

54. How about some Ray Charles?

I just love this one:

[cemaphonic]

55. Oh yeah, good call

[KamaAina]

56. There is only one breakup song

and it is The Breakup Song.