Music to get you back on your feet after heartbreak

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Beware: my heart is on my sleeve. But it's Valentine's Day weekend so whatever.

I went out with this girl for 6 years. We went through a rough patch, she left me, and is now seeing another guy. I'm still in love with her to this day. Thinking about them together this Valentine's Day kills me. Spare me the whole "if she left you when times got tough, it wasn't meant to be" mumbo jumbo for now, please.

I need some music to help me heal. I need the musical equivalent of aloe vera. If you've been there, then you know almost everything is too painful to listen to. Anything remotely sad depresses you; anything remotely happy annoys you. And you know that songs ABOUT heartbreak and loneliness do NOT help. You need something soothing and restorative. Ulrich Schnauss is the closest I've gotten. But there's gotta be more out there....any recommendations?

― Wookie Rookie, Saturday, 12 February 2005 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Listen to Slayer.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 12 February 2005 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Monster Magnet: Powertrip

― shookout (shookout), Saturday, 12 February 2005 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I CAN SEE CLEARLY NOW

(enjoy today, man!)

― peepee (peepee), Saturday, 12 February 2005 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i would have to recommend anything noisy and confused enough to make it impossible to think about anything that would upset you. Comets On Fire, maybe?

― fsharp, Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

the vibracathedral orchestra 'the queen of guess'

― Ian John50n (orion), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Replacements - Let it Be

Lock Thread.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The Specials The Specials

― donut debonair (donut), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

oh nothing puts you back on your feet like "Answering Machine." right.

― paul westerberg, Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

right.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 12 February 2005 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

After being emotionally eviscerated by an old girlfriend (she brought her new boyfriend to the show where I was supposed to win back her heart with my romantic crooning), I heard the Rolling Stones' "Under My Thumb" on the radio. It was the only few minutes I felt good for the rest of the month.

― Heidy- Ho, Saturday, 12 February 2005 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

if we're gonna go for NUTS TO YOU powertrippin' I recommend AC/DC's Powerage

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 12 February 2005 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

under my thumb 100% OTM.

― Ian John50n (orion), Saturday, 12 February 2005 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, you need Nine Inch Nails -- Pretty Hate Machine and you need it now.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 12 February 2005 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can by Merle Haggarrd

I'm gonna break every heart I can
I'd be a find-'em-and-fool-'em man
I'm gonna dedicate my whole life to this one plan
Well if I live and have enough time
I'll get even with all woman-kind
I'm gonna break every heart I can in everyone I find

I'm gonna think of lotta good lies
I'm gonna laugh when a woman cries
I'm gonna have myself a style to recognize
I'm gonna travel all around the world
I'll be a friend to the sweetest girl
I'm gonna break every heart I can
or my name ain't Merle

Well if I ever get around to you
You gonna know about the things I do
They gonna tell about the harm
I've done in the latest News

Cause if I live and have enough time
I'll get even with all woman-kind
I'm gonna break every heart
I can in everyone I find
I'm gonna break every heart I can
I'd be a love-'em-and-leave-'em man
I'm gonna dedicate my whole life to this one plan

Well if I live and have enough time
I'll get even with all woman-kind
I'm gonna break every heart I can
in everyone I find
I'm gonna break every heart I can
in everyone I find

― shookout (shookout), Saturday, 12 February 2005 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Bad Brains - Sailin' On

― autovac (autovac), Sunday, 13 February 2005 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Superchunk, 'Brand New Love.'

― 57 7th (calstars), Sunday, 13 February 2005 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Stone fucking Roses.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 13 February 2005 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Swervedriver - Raise

I tend to drive around in my car a lot when something is getting to me. "Been drivin' for days now Been drivin' to take the pain away"

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Sunday, 13 February 2005 04:59 (twenty-one years ago)

In the car, listening to Son Of Mustang Ford alone, driving really fast will make you feel on top of the world again.

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Sunday, 13 February 2005 05:02 (twenty-one years ago)

disco inferno - the long dance

'now my eyes point ahead/away from the ghosts of the dead'

― jake b. (cerybut), Sunday, 13 February 2005 07:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Another Green World

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Sunday, 13 February 2005 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Marcia Hines "I just don't know what to do with myself"

Arvo Part "Cantus in memorium: Benjamin Britten"

― Jole, Sunday, 13 February 2005 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

That Part one is devastating, but I find it feels cleansing.

― Jole, Sunday, 13 February 2005 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Beethoven, Piano Sonata no. 30

It has sadness in it, no doubt, but I found it to be the only restorative music imaginable after the hardest breakup of my life.

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Sunday, 13 February 2005 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"I Hope You're Happy Now" by Elvis Costello
"Compulsion" by Martin Gore
"When I Burn This Place Down" by Firewater

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 13 February 2005 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

ween - baby bitch (!)

― doom, Sunday, 13 February 2005 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Sparks- "Change"
Waitresses- "No Guilt"

― Brad Baker, Sunday, 13 February 2005 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

The Beta Band - 'Simple Boy' (the chorus)

― Deerninja B4rim4, Plus-Tech Whizz Kid (Barima), Sunday, 13 February 2005 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

notorious b.i.g. -- another

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/n/notorious-b.i.g./101848.html

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 13 February 2005 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Basement Jaxx "Good Luck"

― Steev (Steev), Sunday, 13 February 2005 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I was just listening to the Wedding Present'a Seamonsters today and thought about this thread. I know it's not what you're looking for but I would put down, Dallience.

― buck van smack (Buck Van Smack), Sunday, 13 February 2005 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Cherry Bikini

― tripple_eggs, Monday, 14 February 2005 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks everyone. I got around to downloading the Basement Jaxx and Rolling Stones songs....the Rolling Stones song is beautiful. I also tried to find Beethoven but alas not many people have classical mp3s.

― Wookie Rookie, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Miccio very, very OTM w/ AC/DC.

A friend also recommends Andrew W.K.

In my case, I also just went through a painful break-up last summer and have been awash in memories and catharsis today. Strangely, the new U2, mostly about Bono's Dad, holy war, Bush, Jesus and stable marriage, has helped me cope today.

― Chris O., Tuesday, 15 February 2005 04:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Hope you do alright, Wook. You're on the right track, anyhow -- that is, looking for helpful music rather than wallowing in downer-tunes.

― Heidy- Ho, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I was thinking earlier today that Candi Staton would be great at almost any time. Maybe this is one of those times.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)

"Compulsion" by Martin Gore

OTM!! Gotta move on sometime AND IT'S ABOUT TIME

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 05:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Original Pirate Material, skippnig past "It's Too Late", always works for me.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 06:09 (twenty-one years ago)

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