As in, I’m going to commit one if the bar isn’t over soon. But this video relieves my anger (how cute is this?):
I saw her last week and she was fabulous. Now, the 10:
1. Mark Lanegan – Come to Me
2. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Is This Love?
3. Santogold – Your Voice
4. Bob Dylan – Absolutely Sweet Marie
5. Regina Spektor – That Time
6. The Capstan Shafts – Drop Dead Innocuous
7. Jans Lekman – Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo
8. Charles Mingus – Body and Soul
9. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Opium Tea
10. Feist – When I Was a Young Girl
And because I just can’t study any more, I’m going to take a cue from Megan and make it a Meme Friday: Your top 5 best break-up songs. Except I’m doing way more than 5, because I’m bored. And no, I’m not going through a break-up either, as I am happily married to BarBri (and seeing this one guy on the side), but everyone has their rotating list of what they listen to when they’re hurting in the heart, right? So here are mine (leave yours in the comments):
FYI: Many of the videos are fan-made, or whatever I could find on YouTube. But the songs are all accurate.
1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cheated Hearts. I know everyone loves Fever to Tell, and I personally think it’s up there on the list of Best Sex Albums. But I prefer Show Your Bones — it is an excellent break-up album, and also strangely energizing.
2. Ben Harper – The Drugs Don’t Work. I haven’t really listened to Ben Harper since he was all the rage when I was in high school, but if you want to be taken back to your angsty teenage years when heartbreak was really the worst, this is the tune. And yes, I like his version better than The Verve’s.
3. Bonnie Rait – I Can’t Make You Love Me. I think Prince songs are often better as covers than originals, and this is no exception. Prince is just so good at the depressing thing.
4. Jets to Brazil – Sea Anemone. This is on the same album as one of my favorite love songs (Sweet Avenue), so, sucks to be this guy. I’ve never had to move out of my apartment after a break-up, but it sounds like living in a hotel doesn’t help the healing process.
5. Tom Waits – Please Call Me, Baby. There are several Tom songs that could make the list, but this is the one I end up playing on repeat when it’s a red-wine-and-tears night.
6. Elvis Costello – I Want You. Ever get cheated on? This one’s for you.
7. Ani Difranco – Grey. I hesitate to put this one on here because it’s just so stereotypical, but you know, Ani is good. And at least it’s not “Untouchable Face,” right?
8. The Blow – True Affection. Only listen to this one if you aren’t too bitter. It’s that on-good-terms break-up song.
9. Janis Joplin – Piece of My Heart. Because would any break-up-song list be complete without it?
10. Beth Orton – Ooh Child. Another requirement. And Beth Orton’s version is just so much more depressing and haunting than the original — perfect when you don’t actually want to feel like things are going to get easier.
11. Portishead – Sour Times. I think I was in 8th grade when I bought this album, and I used to sit in my room and write in my very angry 8th grade diary while I listened to it. It’s still that good.
12. Spoon – Everything Hits at Once. Because it’s so true.
13. The Cure – Pictures of You. Requisite. And if nothing else, the hair in that video should make you cry.
14. Citizen Cope & Santana – Sideways. This one gets me. I haven’t had an actual breakup in a good long while and studying for the bar has effectively quelled any emotions I ever had — it’s kind of amazing just how soulless it can make you — but when this song comes on, I kind of remember what it was like to have “feelings.”
15. Mariah Carey – Shake it Off. Yeah that’s right. What?