I am in love, what's that song?

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Are there any songs that are tied with an old relationship/girlfriend/boyfriend/fling, you can't stand it anymore? (I really do need to stop listening to the Mats.)

― helen fordsdale, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I will dare, if you will dare.

― helen fordsdale, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Trust" by the Cure. Took me about...oh...six years to finally listen to it again.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

anything off Alanis Morrisettes second album, whatever the hell it was called.

― smythe,mr smythe, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Assuming the relationship I'm in goes bad... I will no longer be able to listen to Air's "10,000 Htz Legend", the soundtrack to Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Isaac Hayes' 'Our Day Will Come', anything by Al Green, Cornelius' "Fantasma", Boards of Canada, and also no Dido although I don't listen to her much as it is.

― Honda, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

love sux shit and is for girls only

― rainy, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

rather than a specific big hitter, there are entire albums and genres that make me think i'd enjoy listening to this more if i was with x as i know they'd like this too, and nobody round here seems to enjoy the same music as me any more >wah<.

― Alan at home, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've met my dream date. I even said I didnt hate Aphex Twin to her, which was easy to do because we agreed on so much other stuff. Now I just have to actually woo her. Or whatever word the kids are using nowadays.

― Ronan, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Far too many! Actual dalliance records include Can I Kick It (tribe Called Quest), Better the Devil You Know by Kylie, Deee-Lite's hit, lots of Gainsbourg, Windmills of Your Mind by Noel 'son of Rex' Harrison, Being Boring by the PSB's, all Marc Almond and Very by PSB's (different guy), Yes by McAlmont and Butler, Who Do You Think You Are by St. Etienne, the first three Divine Comedy albums (yet another guy), Schon von Hinten by Stereo Total and virtually all David Bowie and Scott Walker (all of them). This is not a complete list.

Best 'it's over' records (apart from the one where Morrissey says 'mutha') are by the Pixies, Sparks, and Nirvana's 'Lithium'.

Two of the people I have in mind on this list have their *own* back catalogues, which would be a GIANT pain in the arse if either were actually played on the radio here.

― suzy, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The first time I ever broke up with someone, my evil friend CR came round to the House of Greenfield and tried to cheer me up by playing 'Screamadelica' at me. I've never listened to it since that day 4 years ago.

― DG, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have a hard time listening to Burning Flies and Up A Tree without getting all teary eyed.

― Mr Noodles, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Goblin-Suspiria Soundtrack, Nancy & Lee-"Jackson", The Jets-"He's Got It All Over You", The The-"Uncertain Smile" (oh how mushy).

― Arthur, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Not individual songs but every hearing of 'Dummy' and 'Grace' brings memories swimming back. Not bad or painful memories - anymore - and they don't ruin my listening pleasure, but they're still there.

― DavidM, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

oh jeebus...where to begin...

the whole of superchunk's "foolish" (yeah, yeah...bite me hipsters), which - appropriately since it's the "breakup" album - was the bread and buttah which sustained my 16 yr. old self when the love of my life deserted me in the summer for parts unknown...

("he loved him madly" will forever carry the taint (?) of the few weeks following the death of that same person, seven years later)

likewise with david, i can't listen to chunks of "grace" (the chunks i can stand, anwyays) for much the same reason. ditto: "interstellar space," "deserter's songs" (so much so i had to give it away), "ocean songs," "lorca," "twin infinitives" (don't ask)...

― jess, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Love song, The Cure

― Mike Hanle y, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Waltzing's For Dreamers, Richard Thompson. The only girl I ever hurt.

― Dan, Saturday, 27 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The one that still gets me is the Dandy Warhol's track "Bohemian Like You". Because that was our song, if you know what I mean. And the callous bastards decided to re-release it, just to spite me! The heartless swines. I have to turn off the TV/Radio/Satellite Dish every time it comes on, which seems to be about every thirty seconds at the moment. Get out of my head, you Randy Whoreholes!!

― Trevor, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It also sounds like A1 trying to play the Rolling Stones. I larffed like a dog.

― Tom, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Quite possibly, Jonathan Bluddy David by that Belle & Sebastian. I still love it but there's something so immensely bittersweet about it now that if I allow my mind to wander I could easily end up with tears in my ears. Or eyes. It was just played a lot. I doubt it means anything more to him though. I didn't realise it had done to me.

There's more no doubt. Anna Ng reminds me of Leeds. Apples in Stereo remind me of Sheffield and Nottingham. Songs that remind you so much of happy times when you're miserable are GUTTING.

― Sarah, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That's really GAY of me though. I would like to add PMT into the mix. And also the fact that it's damn well Belle & Sebastian and listening to ANY of their output feels immensely bittersweet to me these days. Too many memories and too much hurt!

CRIKEY it is I who R typing but the words coming out are all strange! Help! Back in the fridge with me!

― Sarah, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

whoops, look out for that ham on the bottom shelf

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I lost the first Placebo album through nasty split-up with it as car music background. And more recently, Ralph McTell soundtracked a harsh mashing. Probably neither a big loss but I was into them at the time. Usually I retreat into early Bruce when nursing a dented heart, sorry everyone who hates Bruce.

― chris, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i can never listen to richard marx again...mind you, i'd be hard pressed to ever find a situation where i'd want to listen to richard marx again.

― Geoff, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I am cold hearted and won't lose good music because of its associations with another person BUT there's loads I can't listen to because it's too intimately connected with my own bad feelings at certain points. So TV Personalities = soundtrack to long solitary walks by the river in tragic adolescence, now unlistenable; it brings back the whole horror. I find as I get old more music transcends this process, though,

― Ellie, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Listening to some parts of (THE HORROR!) the Holy Bible does that to me too. Hooray for me! 4st7 hasn't been listened to for a long time and I shore aint gonna start now.

― Sarah, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Just 'Disco 2000', sometimes. Oh, and the whole of Viva Hate if you count an unrequited (and unexpressed) crush when I was on a school trip aged 15.

― Nick, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually, the whole of Capeman always brings back memories. But they're good ones, and I heart the album anyway.

― Sterling Clover, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I won't listen to Frank Black's "Teenager of the year" album.

― james, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

There's an entire band that I cannot listen to for this reason. What makes it worse is that I have to play with them every fucking gig and nobody fucking gives a shit that this, um, might upset me just a fucking little, oh no, we'll just let her sit in a corner and weep and at the very most we might point and laugh because we are selfish fucking bastards. Grrr.

― emil.y, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh shit, just ignore that, sorry.

― emil.y, Monday, 29 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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